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Michael Amos Cody chats to Paul Burke about Avalon Moon, cultural mythology, education and young people, Walnut, North Carolina, the Appalachian mountains, saw mills and repurposing town, outsider/insider. In Avalon Moon, a local man has gone missing and then is soon found dead in a highland meadow, side-by-side with an unknown woman. When another man and woman go missing and a female deputy is found murdered, Gabriel Tanner, editor of Runion's weekly newspaper, and Plumer Reeves, a reclusive local hawkshaw working for the niece of the first dead man, suspect a monster is hunting in their western North Carolina mountains. Two extraordinary young women, the Avalon community's Ariel Anderson and Lonesome Mountain's Livvy Goforth, join Tanner and Reeves to lead the attempt to discover and stop the killer.MICHAEL AMOS CODY was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where his songs were recorded by Glen Campbell, Gary Morris, and others, including himself. He is the author of Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic (McFarland, 2004) and the novel Gabriel's Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017). He is co-editor of The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807, volume three of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (Bucknell UP, 2019). His collection of short stories, A Twilight Reel, was published in May 2021 by Pisgah Press and won the Short Story / Anthology category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. His new novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches American literature before 1900, Native American literature, and mythology in the Department of Literature & Language at East Tennessee State University.Mentions: Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony, Salman Rushdie Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights, Peter James, Mark Billingham, Michael Connelly.recommend: Murderland Caroline Fraser Paul Burke is the editor of Crime Time FM. His first book, Spies on Screen, will be available later this year.Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 20242024 Slaughterfest,  

On this episode of White Coat Radio, we welcome Dr. Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni, who joined East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in July 2025. Prior to joining ETSU, he earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on developing drug delivery systems, with particular emphasis on improving the formulation and biodistribution of nanomedicines for cancer treatment. Full transcription: 00;00;09;20 - 00;00;39;10 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  The very first thing that impressed me with, about ETSU what people and the culture we have here. And I got to join ETSU. And here I am. 00;00;39;13 - 00;01;02;20 Michele Williams Welcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University. Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and student pharmacists. I'm one of your host Dr. Michelle Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. 00;01;02;22 - 00;01;29;04 Stephen Woodward And I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. Today we welcome Dr. Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni, who joined Gatton as an assistant professor in pharmaceutical sciences in July of 2025. Prior to ETSU, he earned his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences and completed post-doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the development of drug delivery systems, with particular emphasis on improving formulation and bio distribution of nanomedicine for cancer treatment. 00;01;29;06 - 00;01;35;05 Stephen Woodward Dr. Rasoulian welcome to White Coat Radio. We're so glad you're here. And would you mind just introduce yourself? 00;01;35;08 - 00;01;55;00 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Oh, thank you so much. I'm very excited and very happy to be here. Thanks for inviting me. My name is. My first name is Morteza. My last name is Rasoulian. People here in the school may see my the long version of my last name, which is indeed. I'm going to take this opportunity to explain why my last name is so. 00;01;55;02 - 00;01;57;21 Michele Williams Thank you for that, by the way. 00;01;57;23 - 00;02;20;11 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So my my last name is Rasoulian. So students can feel free to call me with that last name. The second part of what you see in my last name is actually the city I was born in. So there should be space between the two. But, because it might be confused with a middle name versus a last name, if someone puts a space in between the two. 00;02;20;14 - 00;02;47;01 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  That's why we try to kind of keep the two words together. So Boroujeni is my last name and which is the city I was born in. I got my PhD at University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined Gatton College of Pharmacy in July 2025 as an assistant professor. And I'm very glad to be here. I'll be happy to kind of talk about more more about my background that sounds great. 00;02;47;03 - 00;02;57;24 Michele Williams That does sound great. And we're really, really happy to have you here. And, tell us a little bit about your the career path that led you to Gatton. 00;02;57;26 - 00;03;26;02 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Sure. That's a very good question, because I sometimes think about kind of how I got here and kind of, like, chose this, career and becoming a faculty. It's a long story, but if I'm going to start from the very beginning, I was always very interested in working in healthcare, things like including biotech, but I was I was also very, very good at math. 00;03;26;05 - 00;04;01;18 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So when I wanted to start my undergrad program, I was always thinking I wanted to be an engineer because I've, like, been good at math. But I really loved biology and the application of all those kind of things in biology. So I decided to go for a biomedical engineering program. So that was my undergrad background. And then later, in my kind of experience in at the university, I learned more about drug delivery, which is, one of the fields that biomedical engineers work on and also pharmaceutical scientists. 00;04;01;21 - 00;04;46;29 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  And I kind of like I can say, I fell in love with that, with that field to kind of work on it. And I joined several labs to, to kind of work on different aspects of this. I've worked for Marquette University School of Dentistry for a while before I start my PhD, and there was a biomaterials lab over there that I work and I learned that I want to take my research experience to the next level and start a research based career, which for me in, in that time was either becoming a faculty and have my own research program, or joining a biotech company, like a pharmaceutical company. 00;04;47;02 - 00;05;13;23 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  And for both, a PhD could be the route to kind of get there. So I started applying for it for graduate schools. I joined the University of Wisconsin, and I did my PhD there. It might be very interesting, if you know that before the end of my PhD, like I was, I was I was applying and getting interviewed by pharmaceutical companies, like Merck and Johnson and Johnson. 00;05;13;26 - 00;05;50;26 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  But during the interviews and doing more research, I started to think that is it. What I'm going to do long term, kind of. It was it was very attractive for me because they deal with the end product that at the next step goes to market or, into the clinic and kind of helps patients. But at the same time, you know, as you get to that level of quality control, CMC manufacturing and all those kind of things, you can have less of innovative research and initiating new projects and kind of have that freedom to work on whatever you excites you. 00;05;51;01 - 00;06;19;15 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  And it more like you have to stick to very, serious and well established standards. Right? So then I was like, okay, maybe I'm interested in a research, but maybe more like early stage innovative kind of research. And that's when I decided to join a startup company. So during the last year of my PhD and early days are postdocs I worked with a startup company in San Francisco for a while. 00;06;19;15 - 00;06;49;26 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  I was between like flying between Madison and San Francisco. Oh my. For a long time. And then over there. It was exciting to do this kind of research, because that was at at the interface of kind of introducing a new technology and commercialize that. Right? I'm still very interested in that. But what I also learned is that I like to stand here, but I also want to be able to initiate new ideas to feed into this pipeline. 00;06;50;03 - 00;07;17;14 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So after finishing my postdoc, I learned that a faculty position in, School of Pharmacy can help me do that. That's why I was like, I'm going to apply for faculty positions while also keeping in touch with the startup companies in order to translate my research to, to, to a startup companies and later as a product. So applying for, pharmacy schools to become a faculty. 00;07;17;17 - 00;07;34;21 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  I got familiar with Etsu. I interviewed here the very first thing that impressed me with, about Etsu, where people and the culture we have here. And I got to join Etsu, and here I am. 00;07;34;24 - 00;07;39;14 Stephen Woodward So that's great. We hear that so much about the culture. And the people here are definitely people first. 00;07;39;17 - 00;07;52;26 Michele Williams Yeah, and you fit right in. Yeah, too. Thank you. Yeah, I can remember when when you came for your interview. We we, either went out to once at breakfast or or lunch or dinner, I can't remember. 00;07;52;26 - 00;07;56;08 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  I think it was. Yeah, I think it was dinner. 00;07;56;10 - 00;08;00;17 Michele Williams I think I remember thinking that you would be a good fit. 00;08;00;20 - 00;08;30;29 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, it was great when when I visited here, like, Etsu had all that research infrastructure that I had. I heard about their plans to further develop this. Yeah. I loved the support of the leadership for research and the plans they have to kind of develop this further. And I also thought it also gives me the freedom to kind of work at this interface of focusing on my own research, while also working with startup companies to try to transition that. 00;08;30;29 - 00;08;54;00 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  And actually, right now I work with, the office of, research and sponsor programs. Really, kind of I, I joined their that the trainings and all that resources they have for, for, filing a patent for example, how you can spin out the startup, from the university. You know, Etsu is moving toward that direction. I can contribute to that. 00;08;54;01 - 00;08;55;16 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  That's awesome. Yeah. 00;08;55;18 - 00;09;04;29 Stephen Woodward Well, I could tell you connected well with the students, too, because it will be in retreat. I mean, out of the gate. You were playing volleyball and everything, and and so it was really nice. Got some good pictures of my day. 00;09;05;00 - 00;09;16;25 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. Thank you for that. They they are the best picture salon has ever taken. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, it was the moments, you know, you thought. 00;09;16;27 - 00;09;22;19 Stephen Woodward Yeah well it's great along those lines. And what classes can students expect to see you school. 00;09;22;21 - 00;09;47;26 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  For the current semester and all the spring semesters? I'm going to be teaching in pharmacology to, and I'm going to be covering the oncology part like oncology drugs, because that's also part of my research. We can talk about it more. But yeah, I focus on cancer and treating cancer for my research. And I'm going to be teaching oncology drugs, for pharmacology too. 00;09;47;28 - 00;10;19;03 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  In fall semesters I'm going to be teaching pharmacology. One. And in that course I mainly cover antibiotics. And that longer term plan is also for me to cover to, to instruct, PCA. So yeah, right now, I'm joining Doctor Lugo's classes to kind of see the structure of the course, while also we have another course which is called advanced PCA, and that's for graduate students. 00;10;19;03 - 00;10;29;19 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  That's a three credit course, which I take care of, one extra credit for graduate students. So right now I'm teaching also in advanced PCA for graduate students. 00;10;29;19 - 00;10;30;21 Michele Williams And PCA is for. 00;10;30;28 - 00;10;34;03 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Some other kinetics. Sorry. Yeah I yeah, some of the kinetic. 00;10;34;05 - 00;10;37;17 Michele Williams So there's an advanced PCA strategies that. 00;10;37;17 - 00;10;40;08 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. 00;10;40;10 - 00;10;52;26 Michele Williams So you mentioned your research and I understand that students can work with you definitely research, which is very exciting. So can you give an example of the kind of research that students can do with you? 00;10;52;27 - 00;11;29;07 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Sure. I, I'm, I have just begun, establishing my research programs, my research program. I'm going to have two research programs. One of them and and both of them are going to be about nanomedicine. The first one, which is mainly focused on lipid nanoparticles, which are nanoparticles used for in the formulation of Covid vaccines. They are used to package mRNA or other genetic material for gene delivery application, or of course vaccine application. 00;11;29;07 - 00;11;55;09 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So these nanoparticles are very complicated to design. And the reason for that is that we do not have enough knowledge about how they structure properties, relationship between what we use in making these nanoparticles and what they can do in the body works. Right. So if, for example, we're going to shoot for a certain application, which is let's say producing insulin for diabetes, right? 00;11;55;09 - 00;12;23;12 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So we need to be able to target these nanoparticles with an mRNA for example, in it to their pancreas. Right. So pancreatic tissue but no one knows how you can kind of, decide about formulation components and how you can mix them in order to, kind of control the bio distribution in the body and target them toward pancreatic, pancreatic tissue or any tissue of interest. 00;12;23;15 - 00;12;49;09 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  But we know that there's a correlation between the two. What I'm trying to do in my research is using artificial intelligence AI to establish this structure. Property relationships, because we can have data for formulation and we can have data for the final response, which is, for example, accumulation in a certain tissue or, entering the cell or expressing a certain protein, whatever it is. 00;12;49;10 - 00;13;18;27 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So we're trying to establish AI models for these lipid nanoparticle design and have an AI guided design of lipid nanoparticles. So because this doesn't need that lab work at this point and is more computational, I have already initiated that program. And actually I have some student faculty students already involved in that project. And then the second, like at some point when we use AI to design these lipid nanoparticles, we will try them in real world, like in vet lab. 00;13;18;27 - 00;13;42;01 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So we will formulate what I suggest us to formulate. And then we administer them like we inject them to animals to see whether they work the way they're supposed to work, as AI is guiding us in that direction. So that's one of the research programs. And the longer term goal is this the second research program I'm trying to establish, but it needs an extra, some extra time, to get there. 00;13;42;01 - 00;13;57;22 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Where we can initiate this project is on cancer and nanomedicine, which we use polymeric nanoparticles to encapsulate chemo drugs and change their pharmacokinetic and bio distribution in order to reduce the side effects and increase the efficacy. 00;13;57;28 - 00;14;02;04 Michele Williams So they go straight to the place that they need to treat versus going out into the. 00;14;02;08 - 00;14;03;23 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Exactly. That's the. 00;14;03;25 - 00;14;04;11 Michele Williams Places. 00;14;04;11 - 00;14;30;06 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  That's the goal. Yes. Thinking about oncology drugs and chemo, a lot of them are hydrophobic. And students who have, who have tech, who are taking, pharmacokinetic course or they know that they distribute all over the body. So when this drug, which is super toxic, is all over the body, it kills all the healthy cells as well as is killing cancer cells. 00;14;30;06 - 00;14;52;08 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  It's not it has some selectivity mechanisms associated with it, but it's not super selective to what cancer cells. And that's what why you see these side effects. So for patients who are treated with chemotherapy, what we're trying to do is that to encapsulate this in a nanoparticle, and sometimes we add a targeting ligand on the surface of these nanoparticle. 00;14;52;14 - 00;15;14;21 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  That targeting moiety targeting agent can attach to cancer cells and or cancer tissue more efficiently that it can attach to healthy tissue. So we expect that after injecting, we see more nanoparticles in cancer tissue and no less or no nanoparticle in other tissues. And that way we improve efficacy and we reduce toxicity. 00;15;14;25 - 00;15;23;22 Michele Williams That's amazing. Yeah. So if a student is interested in working with you on your research, what do they need to do? Kind did just. 00;15;23;22 - 00;15;24;19 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Reach out to me. 00;15;24;19 - 00;15;25;23 Michele Williams And they can email. 00;15;25;23 - 00;15;48;02 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Me. Yes, definitely. I'm very open to kind of very direct communication. And that's what we're doing right now. ... And that, that that's what happened. The current students we have in the lab, they reach out, reach out to me directly, and they express interest in my research. I talk to them, in, in several meetings, and I even present my research in the PowerPoints that I have. 00;15;48;02 - 00;16;25;28 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So they have an idea. They know I work on nanomedicine, but they may not be familiar with the details of what I'm doing. So I introduce all those details, first and then if they, still express the interest, I'll share with them several papers to read. And if they continue being interested, then I ask them to sign up for a research elective, for example, if that helps them to also manage their coursework and and credit, for research, and if even if they are interested in to kind of do it beyond just research electives, I'm very open to that and I'll be very happy to work with them. 00;16;26;00 - 00;16;27;16 Michele Williams That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00;16;27;20 - 00;16;33;07 Stephen Woodward What kind of tools in your lab do you use to manipulate these nanoparticles? Yeah. 00;16;33;07 - 00;17;01;20 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So these nanoparticles are made by, by many different ways. But what we try to do to use principles of just mixing different agents, including organic solvent with aqueous, solvent. I can give you an example. You have seen have you ever added oil to water? For sure. You've done what happens? Like if you mix it so like harsh it becomes small. 00;17;01;20 - 00;17;03;08 Michele Williams Droplets little pellets. 00;17;03;08 - 00;17;25;21 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. So let let let's say we do this. We have a polymer which is a piece of plastic but it's biodegradable inside the body. And we dissolve it in a solvent which is hydrophobic, meaning that it doesn't like to mix with water like oil. Right. And we we choose the solvent to be very volatile, meaning that it evaporates very fast. 00;17;25;23 - 00;17;53;11 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  It leaves that whatever you have, like the beach or the glass, container that you have. So if we put the polymer and the drug in that organic solvent oil, and we add it to water and we mix it harsh, and while we're mixing, we allow the organic solvent to leave the container because it's volatile. What happens is that the particles solidify and while they're solidify, they encapsulate the drug in them. 00;17;53;14 - 00;17;58;22 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  And then we separate them. And these nanoparticles now can be used for like injection. 00;17;58;27 - 00;18;01;02 Michele Williams And so they're very, very tiny. 00;18;01;02 - 00;18;29;28 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. They're very tiny nano size like tat. If you let me think about it, how I can, you know, give you an A scale so they 10 to -7m, which is like if you put together 1 million of them, right? 1 million of these particles, it's going to be, ten centimeters or like two, three inches. 00;18;30;00 - 00;18;30;19 Michele Williams Oh, wow. 00;18;30;21 - 00;18;31;17 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So that's. 00;18;31;17 - 00;18;31;29 Michele Williams A little. 00;18;32;06 - 00;18;48;19 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Million of them. Yeah. You put next to each other. So, these nanoparticles should be and that should be the case because when we inject them the blood, if they're large, they lead to very adverse reactions, like the body recognizes them as foreign. 00;18;48;21 - 00;18;52;19 Michele Williams You can't have them in your tissue or in your blood vessels if it's too big. 00;18;52;19 - 00;19;00;07 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yes, yes, it blocks like the capillary. So that's why they should be very small to pass through all these, like. Yeah. The. 00;19;00;07 - 00;19;02;03 Michele Williams Typical plastic journey. Yeah. 00;19;02;05 - 00;19;03;12 Stephen Woodward Yeah. 00;19;03;15 - 00;19;04;16 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Yeah. 00;19;04;19 - 00;19;05;10 Michele Williams That's amazing. 00;19;05;10 - 00;19;12;18 Stephen Woodward Yeah. This has been an incredible conversation. Is there is there anything else you'd like to tell us about your research or anything. 00;19;12;21 - 00;19;39;13 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So the way so let let me like students might have this question that what kind of work and what kind of, what part of the project they can get involved in, right. Yeah. So, currently, because we have initiated the computational part, students might think that, oh, I have no background in AI. For example, I don't know how to program and these kind of things I want to, elaborate on that a little bit. 00;19;39;13 - 00;20;01;12 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  You don't need to have a background in AI or how to build a model or code. We have collaborators for that. So we collaborate a lot with computer scientists from, School of Engineering, both at Etsu and other universities. Well, one, our collaborators are in University of South and California, and they've been very helpful with developing these models. 00;20;01;14 - 00;20;29;25 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  What we need to feed, to their models that they're developing is data. So what the students do currently, for example, as, as, part of the research elective course and the students. So journey is like we collect literally like data from literature. And we dig into different papers and articles published. We learn about the formulation, how they have formulated these lipid nanoparticles, for example, what they have measured. 00;20;29;25 - 00;20;57;18 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  We record all the details and it is called dataset curation. All the AI models that you see out there, they have this process like ChatGPT, all these language models, they have a backbone, like they need training data, they need to be trained on something. And that data sets is a very critical part of it. Actually. People may think that the model itself is the most critical, but many people may release the model. 00;20;57;18 - 00;21;17;27 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  But they may not release the data set that the training data set is very valuable in, kind of helping training an AI model. So one thing that they can get involved in, even before we have our lab established and vet lab work, is getting involved in building these data sets, and we're actively working on that with the students. 00;21;17;27 - 00;21;42;11 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  I see it very, attractive for students because first of all, they can have flexibility. They can work on their computers any time at home. They don't need to be in the lab at this very specific time, which is a problem for, professional degree students. And, you know, especially if you're working with sales animals and these kind of thing, it's not like I'm busy right now. 00;21;42;11 - 00;22;11;22 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  I have a class like you have to take care of it, right? So you cannot postpone kind of feeding animals in animal facility or injection to couple days later. The whole experiment is going to be impacted by that. So but this one is like, oh, I can be flexible. And when I do the work, that's one thing. And the second thing is that as they dig into these papers to extract the data, they read it and they learn a lot. 00;22;11;22 - 00;22;38;27 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  So after participating in this project for putting together this data set, they have already read 100 papers, which is like graduate students and postdocs in that field might not have that knowledge. Right, right. So they develop a solid background in that field, which will help them a lot to understand and also decide whether they want to follow that same career path in their. 00;22;39;00 - 00;22;43;13 Michele Williams That sounds really exciting and like very, very important work. 00;22;43;15 - 00;22;44;26 Stephen Woodward Thank you. Yeah. For a groundbreaking. 00;22;45;03 - 00;22;45;21 Michele Williams Yeah. 00;22;45;24 - 00;22;48;25 Stephen Woodward So thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate. 00;22;48;25 - 00;22;50;00 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  It. Yeah it was. 00;22;50;02 - 00;22;51;06 Michele Williams It was great having you. Yeah. 00;22;51;06 - 00;22;53;00 Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni  Same same. Thank you so much. 00;22;53;02 - 00;23;09;17 Stephen Woodward Thanks for listening to White Coat Radio. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and leave this review to learn more about ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, visit us at ETSU dot edu slash pharmacy or follow us on social media @ETSUpharmacy. We'll see you next time.  

What does an oral and maxillofacial surgeon actually do? Most people think of wisdom teeth—but that's only a small part of the story. In this episode of Stay Healthy Knoxville, Dr. John-Mark Chesney sits down with Dr. Josh Manuel of Knoxville Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery to explore the broad scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery and how it impacts patients of all ages. Together, they discuss: What an oral and maxillofacial surgeon does beyond wisdom teeth Dental implants and modern advances in oral surgery TMJ disorders and when conservative treatment vs. surgery is appropriate The collaborative role between oral surgeons, dentists, and physical therapists Hospital trauma care, facial injuries, and oral pathology Training the next generation of oral surgeons Common misconceptions about oral surgery and anesthesia Dr. Manuel's best advice for staying healthy Whether you're dealing with jaw pain, considering dental implants, wondering about wisdom teeth, or simply interested in learning more about this unique surgical specialty, this episode provides valuable insights into one of healthcare's most diverse fields. About Dr. Josh Manuel Dr. Josh Manuel joined Knoxville Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in 2019 after completing his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and his undergraduate degree in Microbiology and Business from East Tennessee State University. Dr. Manuel is board certified by both the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. www.knoxoms.com 865-584-6207   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who wants to live a healthier, more active life. Stay Healthy Knoxville is a podcast dedicated to connecting our community with local healthcare experts and providing practical, evidence-informed conversations to help you stay healthy, active, and informed.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Michael Cody about his new Appalachian thriller novel AVALON MOON. Michael was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where his songs were recorded by Glen Campbell, Gary Morris, and others, including himself. He is the author of Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic (McFarland, 2004) and the novel Gabriel's Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017). He is co-editor of The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807, volume three of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (Bucknell UP, 2019). His collection of short stories, A Twilight Reel, was published in May 2021 by Pisgah Press and won the Short Story / Anthology category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. His new novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches American literature before 1900, Native American literature, and mythology in the Department of Literature & Language at East Tennessee State University.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Michael Cody about his new Appalachian thriller AVALON MOON. Michael was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. His prior novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches American literature before 1900, Native American literature, and mythology in the Department of Literature & Language at East Tennessee State University.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Michael Cody about his new Appalachian thriller novel AVALON MOON. Michael was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where his songs were recorded by Glen Campbell, Gary Morris, and others, including himself. He is the author of Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic (McFarland, 2004) and the novel Gabriel's Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017). He is co-editor of The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807, volume three of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (Bucknell UP, 2019). His collection of short stories, A Twilight Reel, was published in May 2021 by Pisgah Press and won the Short Story / Anthology category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. His new novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches American literature before 1900, Native American literature, and mythology in the Department of Literature & Language at East Tennessee State University.

Today's guest, Dr. Chase Mitchell, is an associate professor of media and communications at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches courses in multimedia production and media theory. He's also a recent convert to Catholicism, having entered the Church this past Divine Mercy Sunday. Host Eric Clayton has been talking with Chase for a few months now about the role Ignatian spirituality and media ecology played in his own discernment to become a Catholic. It's a fascinating story—and one he's written about, both for Jesuits.org and the Jesuit Media Lab. On media and its effects on our society, Chase writes: “In an age of total mediation, [that is, our lived experience is fully affected by media] the task is no longer simply to analyze environments but to discern within them — to recognize where Christ is present, where the spirits are at work and where one is being called to respond. Media ecology, in this light, becomes not only a theory of communication, but a pedagogy of attention ordered toward love.” We knew a conversation with Chase on the pod would be a valuable one—and we weren't wrong. If you're interested in reading more of Chase's work, check out the links below. On Chase's journey to Catholicism: https://www.jesuits.org/stories/39-years-364-days-and-gods-merciful-grace-a-spiritual-autobiography/ On Ignatian spirituality and media ecology: https://jesuitmedialab.org/from-environment-to-encounter-toward-an-ignatian-media-ecology/

On this episode of White Coat Radio, we're joined by Dr. Kelly Covert, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. She precepts third- and fourth-year student pharmacists, as well as pharmacy residents, on an adult medicine rotation at Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC). Dr. Covert is the college's PGY2 Residency Program Director. In this episode she discusses a day in the life of her practice site at JCMC, as well as tips for rotations and pursuing a residency.   Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:25:03 Kelly Covert If I have a student who can see a problem and try to to learn how to solve that problem, if they can see a med they're not familiar with and go look it up and tell me what they found versus me having to ask them to do that. I think that's the mark of someone who's going to really excel in their pharmacy career 00:00:55:12 - 00:01:18:12 Michele Williams Welcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University. Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and student pharmacists. I'm one of your host doctor Michelle Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. 00:01:18:15 - 00:01:50:05 Stephen Woodward And I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. Today we welcome Doctor Kelly Covert, associate professor of pharmacy practice, who joined Gatton faculty in 2016. She precepts third and fourth year student pharmacists, as well as pharmacy residents on an adult medicine rotation at Johnson City Medical Center. Doctor covert is a 2014 graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, and completed her pharmacotherapy residency at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2014 to 2016. 00:01:50:07 - 00:01:57:19 Stephen Woodward At Gatton she serves as a PGY2 internal medicine residency program director. Now let's get to our interview. 00:01:57:21 - 00:02:00:01 Michele Williams Welcome to White Coat radio, Dr. Covert. 00:02:00:02 - 00:02:02:13 Kelly Covert Thank you. I'm excited to be here. 00:02:02:15 - 00:02:23:06 Michele Williams So, I'll get us started. You teach a number of courses here, at the college. And you're the course coordinator for the pharmacotherapy two course. Which students take in spring of therapy two year. What makes this course challenging for students, would you say? 00:02:23:09 - 00:02:52:27 Kelly Covert Yeah. I think, a piece of it is the design of the course. So when we redesigned the curriculum, there was a lot of intentionality in trying to kind of meld together. Pathophysiology and pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. And so this course does that to a certain degree. So we do expect students to do some pre-reading with regard to pathologies prior to coming into the course, which often students are less used to having to do. 00:02:52:29 - 00:03:15:25 Kelly Covert And then as the course builds, the disease states that they have learned earlier in the course, if treated incorrectly, end up leading to disease state. They learn later. So everything kind of builds, and we try to be intentional about not forgetting content that they had not only earlier in pharmacotherapy too, but also in therapy. One in the fall semester. 00:03:15:27 - 00:03:19:21 Stephen Woodward Can you tell us about your teaching specialties and what got you interested in those areas? 00:03:19:22 - 00:03:39:15 Kelly Covert Yeah. So when I first came to Gatton, gosh, almost ten years ago, I knew that I would be taking over the then Renal Integrated series and the GI integrated series, which works perfectly for me. In residency, I had a strong interest in solid organ transplant, and where I trained, most of our transplants were kidneys and livers. 00:03:39:22 - 00:04:04:02 Kelly Covert And so I had a strong, just interest in those disease states at baseline, not only the post-transplant stuff, but also all of the disease states that lead you to potentially needing a kidney transplant, or a liver transplant. And so it was an interest area of mine. And then I just got lucky that that's what the college needed, and have been fortunate to keep most of the content that I was kind of given at the very beginning of when I started here. 00:04:04:04 - 00:04:06:02 Kelly Covert Okay. Yeah. 00:04:06:04 - 00:04:09:24 Michele Williams So what do you like best about teaching again? 00:04:09:27 - 00:04:29:15 Kelly Covert Oh, lots of things. Number one, and this is not me saying this because I am a faculty member. I love our faculty members. I consider all of them really close friends of mine. And so I think we have a good group of people who care a lot about teaching students well. But I also like having a smaller cohort of students that it lets us get to know them really well. 00:04:29:18 - 00:04:52:18 Kelly Covert And you get to see people grow and change over time. If I notice, you know, maybe a student, a student seems off or someone who normally makes, you know, a B grades is struggling. I feel like we can recognize that more easily. And then the last thing that I appreciate is, I think in a lot of colleges, it doesn't always feel like everyone's on the same team. 00:04:52:21 - 00:05:12:11 Kelly Covert But especially when we were redesigning the curriculum, it definitely felt like a all hands on deck in a positive way effort. Like, everyone was willing to kind of put pride aside and say, yeah, I'll teach this, or yeah, you're right, that's too many hours for this, this disease state. So I just there's a lot of collegiality that I appreciate. 00:05:12:13 - 00:05:15:02 Michele Williams That's great. Yeah, I agree with you. Cool. 00:05:15:03 - 00:05:17:05 Kelly Covert Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. 00:05:17:07 - 00:05:22:14 Stephen Woodward Well, what tips for success or any advice would you give to our current students. 00:05:22:16 - 00:05:39:29 Kelly Covert Studying more than you think you need to. I, I was actually telling this to a student the other day. I think a lot of times, especially if you are a student who, in high school and undergrad didn't have to study very hard, you may have never really learned how to study, to be honest. That was me as a student. 00:05:40:01 - 00:06:01:11 Kelly Covert I kind of coasted through, and got to pharmacy school. And it's not that our material is harder, in my opinion. Still, to this day, physics is the hardest class I've ever taken by a lot. It's just that there's a higher volume and so if you don't know how to study and then the volume is so much higher, it just sets you up for a really challenging first semester. 00:06:01:14 - 00:06:23:04 Kelly Covert So I always tell students, study for more than you think you need to start earlier than you think. You need to break things down into smaller pieces than you think you might need to. Because the things that might have worked in undergrad when you were taking maybe 1 or 2 math and science courses, and then some fluffier or less intensive courses just probably won't work in pharmacy school. 00:06:23:06 - 00:06:27:03 Kelly Covert And then I always refer them to to Michele. Literally, always. 00:06:27:06 - 00:06:33:10 Michele Williams Thanks for that. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you falling behind. 00:06:33:12 - 00:06:55:09 Kelly Covert It's just impossible to dig out. Yeah. And the challenge is everything builds. So, like, if you have a really rocky first semester, not to say your second semester will be equally as rocky, but if you don't learn things well on the front end, you're just going to be having to work that much harder to relearn something you were supposed to have already known, to then learn the new content for that semester. 00:06:55:11 - 00:06:56:24 Michele Williams Yeah, it does make things a lot harder. 00:06:56:25 - 00:07:00:12 Kelly Covert Yeah, for sure. 00:07:00:15 - 00:07:12:03 Michele Williams So, you oversee the residency teaching and learning program here at Gatton? And you direct the Pgy two internal medicine residency here, too? 00:07:12:07 - 00:07:12:26 Kelly Covert I you do that as well. 00:07:12:27 - 00:07:27:25 Michele Williams Yeah. And you yourself were a resident at the Medical University of South Carolina, right. What advice would you give a student who's interested in pursuing a residency that they might not get from a brochure or. 00:07:27:25 - 00:07:49:07 Kelly Covert Yeah. Yeah. I think the earlier you can identify that you might want to do a residency the better, because it it really will change how you set up the rest of your pharmacy school time. So, for instance, if you knew without a shadow of a doubt that you wanted to go own your own independent pharmacy, you would pick very different electives. 00:07:49:07 - 00:08:10:14 Kelly Covert And if you knew that you wanted to go be an infectious diseases clinical specialist at a hospital. And so I think if you can identify that early, it just helps you set up what you want the rest of your time at Gatton to look like. So it might make pursuing research interests more or less important to you. If you want to pursue residency, it might make you change the way that you rank your rotations. 00:08:10:16 - 00:08:28:29 Kelly Covert It might make you change the electives that you take. Or if you choose to pursue the residency track or not. And so I just think it's always a challenge of students realizing their fourth year they want to do residency, but haven't necessarily set themself up to be a great applicant from the beginning, because there's there's ground that's hard to make up after that point. 00:08:29:06 - 00:08:31:23 Michele Williams That makes sense. That makes sense. 00:08:31:25 - 00:08:46:16 Stephen Woodward So in addition to teaching and overseeing residencies, you also are a practicing pharmacist and preceptor. Could you kind of tell us about what a day in the life of teaching here and going to practice is, like where you practice at what is what is a day in the life of that look. 00:08:46:16 - 00:09:06:26 Kelly Covert Like a day in the life? Sure thing. So I practice over at Johnson City Medical Center. So just across the parking lot from us, which is nice. I can pop back and forth between the college in the hospital. I work with an inpatient family medicine team, so the way I describe it is all of my patients are sick enough to be in the hospital, but not so sick that they're necessarily requiring, the intensive care unit. 00:09:06:28 - 00:09:26:15 Kelly Covert We see a ton of different patients with different disease states and different levels of acuity. So some of our patients are much closer to discharge, and we might be dealing with more kind of chronic disease state management, not quite ambulatory care, but kind of in that vein. And then some of our patients are really quite sick and could be transferred to the unit. 00:09:26:15 - 00:09:52:12 Kelly Covert And so it's a variety. My team is comprised of an attending physician, three family medicine residents myself, a gaggle of medical students and pharmacy students, and sometimes pharmacy residents. And then also occasionally a psychiatry intern. So our team is large, interprofessional. And basically, my role on that team is to make sure all the meds that we're using and patient are appropriate. 00:09:52:12 - 00:10:13:15 Kelly Covert And sometimes that changes day to day, but then also to make sure that when the patient leaves the hospital, the plan that we have in place for them from a meds standpoint is, is feasible, both from a, you know, number of pills per day, cost of meds. If if a patient, doesn't have reliable ways to store their medications, that might change what we do. 00:10:13:17 - 00:10:30:16 Kelly Covert So most of my mornings and early afternoons are spent over at the hospital. We do table rounds as a team where we talk about each of our patients and make medication changes in the medical record. And then we go on walk around, and that's when we go see all of our patients and talk with them, update them on medicine changes. 00:10:30:17 - 00:10:53:22 Kelly Covert That's when me and and or my pharmacy students will do discharge counseling and making sure, again, meds are affordable and available to patients. And then my afternoons are kind of a mixed bag. If I'm teaching, it's almost always in the afternoon at the college, so I may come back over here and teach. If not, then I usually stay at the hospital and my students and I will do topic discussions or journal clubs. 00:10:53:24 - 00:11:00:18 Kelly Covert Just to kind of help. If there is any kind of loose ends we need to tie up, tie those up before we're done for the day. 00:11:00:20 - 00:11:05:04 Stephen Woodward Can you tell us what is a preceptor and what do you like most about preceptor? 00:11:05:06 - 00:11:26:05 Kelly Covert Yeah. So a preceptor, is an overseer of students who are on rotations at your site. The way I view myself is I am a safety net for students, so I encourage them to pretend as if they are a licensed pharmacist. So when you're looking at patients in the morning, if I wasn't here, what medication changes would you recommend? 00:11:26:05 - 00:11:50:29 Kelly Covert What labs would you recommend my team monitor? What would you make sure that you dose adjusted? That sort of thing. But ultimately students are licensed pharmacists. And so a preceptors role is to make sure any recommendations student makes is an appropriate one. Help guide them. If they've never been in the hospital before, help guide them on what a hospital pharmacist does, potentially help them streamline their workflow process. 00:11:50:29 - 00:12:12:22 Kelly Covert So if it's taking a student an hour to work off one patient, you know, helping them gain efficiency. And then another key part of my role is providing feedback. So students get a midpoint in the final evaluation of all of their fourth year rotations. But I also do feedback Friday on my rotation, which is basically just a touch point on how the how the week has gone. 00:12:12:22 - 00:12:35:16 Kelly Covert I have students set goals on the first day of what do you want to get out of this rotation by the end of it? And so we reflect back on those goals. How is that going? So it's it's kind of a safety net overseer, feedback giver, emotional support person occasionally. But what I like about preceptor, I mean, I a lot of times students get to my rotation. 00:12:35:17 - 00:12:59:22 Kelly Covert They haven't ever been in the hospital and they're totally freaked out by it. There's a lot of beeping, there's a lot of noises. It can be scary. And so I really appreciate seeing students go from totally fish out of water to by the end, they're integrated with my family medicine team. I'm fortunate to work with a team that's very pharmacy friendly, and so they're easy to integrate into. 00:12:59:24 - 00:13:16:00 Kelly Covert But just seeing students kind of get their sea legs and figure out how to navigate this process, even if it's not something they want to do when they're in a pharmacy school. So I have many students that want to go into ambulatory care community, but there's still a transitions of care piece that they might get to see on the rotation. 00:13:16:00 - 00:13:18:21 Kelly Covert So just seeing the growth is my favorite part. 00:13:18:23 - 00:13:20:03 Stephen Woodward Thank you. 00:13:20:05 - 00:13:35:12 Michele Williams That sounds great. What advice would you give students who might be on rotation with you. So what kinds of things do you like to see students do? Or what kinds of behaviors are you looking for? 00:13:35:14 - 00:14:04:03 Kelly Covert My number one thing that I think is most important for students on my rotation is to take some ownership of their learning. So rotations are when, you know, the reins come off a little bit and you're out in the wild doing what a pharmacist would do. And so if I have a student who wants to be told every single step in their day to get from beginning to end, that can be challenging because there's not a lot of, autonomy. 00:14:04:03 - 00:14:18:21 Kelly Covert There's not a lot of self-directed learning that happens there. So if I have a student who can see a problem and, and try to to learn how to solve that problem, if they can see a med they're not familiar with and go look it up and tell me what they found versus me having to ask them to do that. 00:14:18:23 - 00:14:45:21 Kelly Covert I think that's the mark of someone who's going to really excel in their pharmacy career, because honestly, like half the things that we teach students in pharmacy school by the time they're 5 or 10 years out, aren't accurate or relevant anymore. Just because meds change and guidelines change and drugs come on and off the market. And so if I have someone who's able to see what they don't know and try to fill that knowledge gap, I think that's my most important quality in a student. 00:14:45:24 - 00:15:05:27 Michele Williams That that makes a lot of sense. And I it, it almost sounds like between you're saying you're a safety net and you're saying, you know, kind of generate some of this stuff within yourself and do it. It almost sounds like you're saying take a take a step forward. Don't don't be a wallflower. 00:15:05:27 - 00:15:06:06 Kelly Covert Yeah. 00:15:06:11 - 00:15:11:21 Michele Williams Jump in there and give it a try. You'll catch them if they're doing something they shouldn't be doing or you'll 00:15:11:21 - 00:15:12:25 Kelly Covert 00:15:12:25 - 00:15:16:20 Michele Williams Guide them. But but to get in there and give it a try and. 00:15:16:20 - 00:15:41:10 Kelly Covert Yeah, I mean, I'll tell students, you know, depending on what their career path looks like, apps are some of the last times that they they will have a safety net. And so kind of take advantage of that and practice at the highest level that you can. That way, you know, you know where your shortfalls are, versus if you are really timid or need to be told every step from A to Z to get through your day. 00:15:41:12 - 00:15:51:17 Kelly Covert I just don't know that you're going to be able to function as independently as a pharmacist when you're done with pharmacy school, and it is your license at the end of each decision that you make. 00:15:51:19 - 00:15:54:10 Michele Williams That makes sense. That makes sense. 00:15:54:12 - 00:16:02:06 Stephen Woodward Well we'll switch gears just a little bit as we head towards the end. But what is something about you that might surprise people. 00:16:02:08 - 00:16:18:22 Kelly Covert I don't I was looking at that question I hadn't had an answer for yet. I admit this, and this is shocking, but I'm a huge sports fan. I love I have season tickets to Etsu basketball. It's one of my favorite things that from the time I got here to Gatton, we bought those tickets and it's been a blast. 00:16:18:23 - 00:16:27:02 Kelly Covert We go to the Southern Conference Championship in Asheville every year. But I feel like most pharmacists are not known for being like sports fans, but I, I'm a. 00:16:27:04 - 00:16:29:08 Michele Williams Sports. 00:16:29:11 - 00:16:30:06 Stephen Woodward Editor, most for the. 00:16:30:06 - 00:16:37:16 Kelly Covert Scene as nerds. That's what I think. Nerds. There you go. No other interests. 00:16:37:18 - 00:16:42:19 Stephen Woodward Well, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. Yeah, we look forward to this coming up. Yeah. 00:16:42:21 - 00:16:44:14 Kelly Covert Awesome. Thanks for inviting me. 00:16:44:16 - 00:17:00:29 Stephen Woodward Thanks for listening to White Coat Radio. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and leave us a review. To learn more about ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. Visit us at etsu.edu/pharmacy or follow us on social media at @ETSUpharmacy. We'll see you next time.  

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Jesse Graves joined us at Lawson McGhee Library for a reading of his work. Jesse Graves is the author of five poetry collections, including Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, Basin Ghosts, Specter Mountain, Merciful Days, the forthcoming A Little Light in the Grave, and a book of prose, Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Philip H. Freund Prize for Creative Writing from Cornell University, as well as two Weatherford Awards in Poetry from Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association. Graves has served as co-editor for several collections of poetry and scholarship, including four volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology and The Complete Poetry of James Agee. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English.Links:Jesse Grave's website"Jesse Graves and the Cosmic Appalachian Boogie," in Salvation SouthSix Poems by Jesse Graves in Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature"Two Stones" in New Verse Review"Above Johnson City" in As the Crow FliesThree poems in Cutleaf

Dr. William Turner and Dr. Ted Olson talk to songwriter, author, and scholar Alice Randall, whose pioneering work in country music garnered her video-of-the-year recognition ("Is There Life out There," Reba McEntire) and acknowledgement as the first black woman to be the co-writer of a number one country song ("XXX's and OOO's," Trisha Yearwood). She is also a New York Times bestselling author (The Wind Done Gone) and serves on the faculty of Vanderbilt University, where she has taught courses on Black country music, coal mining history and culture, and soul food. Randall's most recent book, My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future, is a memoir tracing her experiences in the Nashville music industry and the roots of Black influence on the genre. Its companion album, My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall features her songs performed by artists such as Leyla McCalla, Rhiannon Giddens, and Alice's own daughter, Caroline Randall Williams. Giddens' rendition of Randall's song "Ballad of Sally Anne" received a Grammy nomination in 2025.Dr. William Turner is a longtime African American studies scholar and retired Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies and Regional Ambassador from Berea College. He was also a research assistant to Roots author Alex Haley and co-editor of the groundbreaking Blacks in Appalachia. In 2021, Turner received Western Carolina University's individual Mountain Heritage Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies. His memoir called The Harlan Renaissance, available from West Virginia University Press, was awarded the prestigious Weatherford Award at the 2022 Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Dr. Ted Olson is a music historian and professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of many books, articles, reviews, encyclopedia entries, and oral histories. Olson has produced and compiled a number of documentary albums of traditional Appalachian music, including On Top of Old Smoky and Big Bend Killing, both from Smokies Life. His work has received a number of awards, including nine Grammy nominations. The East Tennessee Historical Society honored Olson with its Ramsey Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2021. 

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of A Touch of Class, Will Griffith sits down with Bray's own Keith Nolan — North of Ireland Champion, back‑to‑back Irish Amateur winner, Walker Cup player, and one of the most accomplished Irish golfers of his generation.Keith reflects on his rise through Irish amateur golf, from winning the 1995 North of Ireland Championship to claiming the Irish Amateur titles in 1996 and 1997, achievements that cemented his place among Ireland's elite. He talks about representing Great Britain & Ireland in the 1997 Walker Cup, his standout collegiate career at East Tennessee State University, and the journey that led to 87 starts on the PGA Tour.Keith also chats about his current roles working with the Champions Tour and his role as caddie to Open Champion Darren Clarke.Topics Covered:Growing up in Bray and early Irish golf influencesWinning the 1995 North of Ireland ChampionshipBack‑to‑back Irish Amateur titles in 1996 & 1997Representing GB&I in the 1997 Walker CupLife at ETSU and transition to the PGA TourMaking 87 PGA Tour startsCaddying for Darren Clarke and life on tour todayIf you love Irish golf history, elite amateur stories, and behind‑the‑scenes insight from the professional game, this episode is one you'll savour.Follow us on Instagram @atocpod and follow our YouTube channel @PARfectlyclassy

On this episode of White Coat Radio, we're joined by two specialty pharmacists making an impact in Tennessee. Dr. Tabitha Sineath ('24), an ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy alumna who earned both her PharmD and MBA through the college's dual degree program, now serves as Lead Pharmacist at Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Nashville, where she is the Clinical Lead for Transplant and Chronic Inflammatory Conditions. She is joined by Dr. Katie Cox, who manages Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Knoxville. Together, they share insights into careers in specialty pharmacy, their work in women's health, and the real-world applications of their training.  Full transcript: Tabitha Sineath Because you take back bits and pieces from every experience, whether that be as a student on rotations to your first job or what you ultimately grow into. It's the bits and pieces that you know as part of your experience that truly kind of define you over time. So don't. My advice to students is don't give up on that and continue to kind of seek those out because you know in your heart where your passion lies, you have to make the pathway. Michele Williams Welcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University. Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode, we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and student pharmacists. I'm one of your hosts, Doctor Michelle Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. Stephen Woodward And I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. Today we welcome Doctor Tabitha Sign at the 2024 alumna from Gatton, who, in addition to earning her PharmD, also completed our dual degree program to earn a master of Business Administration while she was here. That prepared her to now serve as leave pharmacist at the Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a clinical lead for transplant and chronic inflammatory conditions. Stephen Woodward But today, we have not one but two specialty pharmacies joining us. Doctor Katie Cox, who manages Walgreens specialty Pharmacy in Knoxville, also stopped by. Let's hear from them now. Doctor Cox, doctor Sineath welcome to White Coat Radio. Thank you all for coming out today. Katie Cox Thank you for having you. Stephen Woodward Can you start by telling us about your roles at Walgreens and where you work? Katie Cox Yeah. Tabitha Sineath So I am, lead pharmacist at our specialty site in Nashville. And, oversee primarily our transplant in chronic inflammatory condition patients. Stephen Woodward Okay. Katie Cox So I work at Walgreens as well. I manage the, specialty pharmacy structure at Walgreens is a little bit different. I mean, it's the site that's in Knoxville. And, what's called registered manager, local specialty. So I'm over the whole site. I'll own kind of your accreditation and specific accreditation, not just for specialty pharmacies, but it does apply, within the specialty pharmacy field. Katie Cox Then there's an M.O., which is a pharmacy manager, and what we traditionally think of as a pharmacy manager. And then they're all kind of structured differently, which is what I love about specialties. It's like each side is a snowflake. It looks a little bit different. So the Nashville site has care. Teams are a little bit larger site. We are a newer site. Katie Cox I launched our site in 2023. And then we've got five pharmacists now, but we don't have a specific care team, so we kind of all share and own the disease state since we've structured a little bit differently than Nashville. Tabitha Sineath Yeah. And we talk about care teams a little bit. That's just kind of a delineation of what type of disease state we're managing. So in in Nashville, we're a little more bucketed. We have a virology and oncology pharmacist who oversees those patients, neurology, who oversees, like migraine and seizures. And, I oversee chronic inflammatory in our transplant, which includes not only solid organ but stem cell. Tabitha Sineath And we have a unique partnership with Sarah Kane and clinic across the street, as part of the tri star network, to help those patients. And then we have a lot of miscellaneous specialty that kind of filters in, that don't really fit nicely into a bucket. So that's kind of where we all cross-train and help out. Stephen Woodward Okay, cool. Thank you. Michele Williams Yeah, that sounds great. So can can each of you tell us a little bit about what led you to specialty pharmacy? What it is about your your background, your work experiences, those kinds of things. And, Tabitha, if we could start with you, that would be good. Sure. Tabitha Sineath I started out, as a pharmacy technician for Walgreens, many years ago. I'm not going to say save a year, but, a few decades back, and, my path has not been linear in that sense. But I advance kind of to the top of my level as a technician and wanted to go back into pharmacy to get my pharmacy. Tabitha Sineath And always had been that drive in that pull for me. And finally just took the dive. But I think the catalyst for me was more of like a personal experience that led me to specialty. When I was trying to start our family and a lot of family planning, we realized that we would need a lot of additional help. Tabitha Sineath So in terms of, fertility specialty, we had to go through in vitro fertilization. And with that came a lot of specialty medications that, there was not great education around. And these are really expensive medications. And I, I said to myself, you know, there's got to be a better way to handle this for patients. And so that was really my draw to say, you know, this is this is my niche. 00;05;24;09 - 00;05;31;21 Tabitha Sineath This is where my passion lies. And that's really what I want to do. I want to help those patients, and have great outcomes. Michele Williams That's wonderful. Yeah. Katie Cox So, I also have a very nontraditional path towards pharmacy. When I was in undergrad, I studied chemistry and biochemistry, and I did research for the government on, carbon nanotube technology. I went to medical school, and I got, my medical doctorate, and then I had some health issues, and was trying to figure out how to restructure balanced life. Katie Cox For someone who is a high achiever, that can't work less than 120%, and we give you a lot of leeway for the optimal work life balance. I did not know I would have the additional years that I got so thrilled and pharmacy kind of looked like a great career to dovetail my chemistry biochemistry interest, along with what I had learned in medicine. Katie Cox And so, I finished pharmacy school and I went and graduated in 2016, and I started in, management. So I started out as a staff pharmacist, was not there very long and then started managing. I mean, it's 5 or 6 different sites, kind of jokingly say I was like the cleaner where they would send me to a pharmacy that maybe needed to implement better workflow or had some structure issues, or maybe had lost a really good leader and was trying to kind of figure out how to get back to where they were. Katie Cox And so I would kind of get us realigned and going well. And then specialty pharmacy, which I think is a great topic to talk about because I think a lot of times when you think of Walgreens, you don't necessarily think of specialty pharmacy. But it is a huge section of Walgreens. And I even when I started working for Walgreens, I did not know that we had specialty pharmacies. Katie Cox At that time, there was not one in Knoxville on the closest ones were either Nashville or Bristol, Kingsport. And so I took the opportunity to go and shadow at those sites and kind of see what it looked like. And it was a really great niche sort of space and community where you still do a lot of clinical work. Katie Cox And have long term interactions with your patients. I similarly had a fertility journey when my husband, we were trying to have our daughter and so helping patients navigate some of the fertility and understanding how much of the communication gets dropped off between the patient walking out of the physician's office and then coming into the pharmacy or getting the medications, and how probably a lot of the issues with our health care system are kind of this lack of continuity of care or like regular check ins with the same person who knows your history. Katie Cox And so I feel like specialty pharmacy fits so great into that space. And it's kind of under utilized in some capacities for patients both with billing access and then like long term management. And so I always like to include to you, like when I talk to students, they say, well what is specialty pharmacy like? Why is it special? Katie Cox And I kind of always joke, you know, it's it's an interesting and really great question to ask because there's not technically a specific definition of specialty pharmacy. Right. Medicare, Medicaid, our two biggest payers don't actually define specialty pharmacy, which kind of means that it ends up being defined by third party payers in some capacity, by manufacturers and access points and by some capacity, because there's drugs that are limited distribution drug, you can only get certain places. Katie Cox But a really good point like definition would be highly expensive, medications or medications that potentially would have chronic issues or adverse events that could occur because of the conditions that we're managing would make it more difficult to distinguish between like maybe an adverse event versus something that's happening with like multiple comorbidities. So it helps with tracking for data. Katie Cox So we learned in school, you know, about the four phases of studying drugs. And so I'll always talk about specialty pharmacy really fits into that post-marketing phase of study. And so always ask my students like how how did you decide. We tell patients 5% of patients have migraines, right? It probably wasn't the thousand patients we looked at in phase three is probably when it hit the market. Katie Cox And we were looking at phase four. Where do we where does that data come from? Right. And so specialty pharmacies usually provide data points. That go towards far more manufacturers and really also help us as pharmacists or clinicians tell patients about what to expect with the medications. But a lot of that is related to the adverse event reporting that we do. Katie Cox So we do track patients very much long term, talk to them on every refill, track adherence, track side effects, and then report that back so that that data can be used to help, you know, benefit patients in the future. And so it's really helpful. So you're kind of participating in the research around drug habit in specialty pharmacy, whether you recognize it or not, because there's so much data reporting that we do within the pharmacy industry, which is helpful in the long term for us to determine which patients should be optimally on that therapy, especially if it's an orphan drug or an unusual one that's going to have a small patient population using it. Katie Cox How do we get enough data to make that tractable for us to make better decisions in the future, when we're setting up guidelines or taking care of patients? Michele Williams I hadn't realized, although. Yeah. Stephen Woodward What does this what does your sites look like physically? Are they like the Walgreens on the corner, or does it look like something else? Tabitha Sineath Yeah, they're I mean, they're open door. So it's not, closed door pharmacy. We have patients that can come in and fill antibiotics if they want to. But primarily we serve more like a mail order type facility. Okay. Probably 95% of everything that we do goes out the door via Fedex. And that's just our courier that that we use. Tabitha Sineath But everything is communicated with those patients and, basically effectively shipped, so. Okay. But yeah, we have patients that walk in, in Nashville, we are situated very close to Vanderbilt University. So we have a lot of students that, even though there are two community sites that kind of flank us on either side, patients tend to find us either via walking route or some other way, but typically, our sites don't appear like a normal Walgreens, so you may pass it or you may just not even notice it in general, it's kind of very indiscreet. Stephen Woodward Okay. Tabitha Sineath And we don't have the big neon out front. And, you know, we always try to tell patients that are coming in to pick up either because of, you know, a delay. They don't want to wait for overnight delivery. I want to get started on therapy immediately. They're welcome to come in and pick that up, and we'll make those arrangements. Tabitha Sineath But we always for that visit. This is not your run of the mill big box. Stephen Woodward Yeah, I want to yeah. Katie Cox There's two. So there's two flavors of Walgreens specialty pharmacies. There's health systems and then there's community based. So health systems, what it sounds like do you located within the health system, usually inside a hospital. So within Tennessee we have one at Bristol. So the Bristol Regional Medical Center and then we have one in Kingsport. Those are both inside a hospital. Katie Cox Otherwise they're most often close to a campus, except for my site, which was the first or site in the company where a pharmacist flipped a retail site to a specialty site. So most specialty sites are built organically because the the structure inside the building looks different. I started with what was called a Cooper site, which was an ideal Walgreens had, where a lot of the, the, profit is made in the pharmacy. Katie Cox So it was a shrunken front end with a pharmacy and the main portion of it. And so we ended up converting that. So so what did we do? We gutted the front. So when you walk in. So ours is located in the strip mall, you'll notice, a lot of the community, specialty sites are located in the strip mall. Katie Cox And they'll say it'll say Walgreens Specialty pharmacy. But when patients walk in is when they notice a difference. So they might say, oh, Walgreens on the swing in here. And then they walk in and go, where's where's all your stuff, you know, and no, we have no friends. There's nothing. So there's just a counter. And then it's like, oh, I'm sorry, we only have like prescription medications here for you. Katie Cox And we do about the bulk of what we do. We also originally had a drive thru. We would close to that drive thru because, an a hole tell students when you come in and when you go to a normal retail site, where's the hustle and bustle? It's in the fill zone, right? Like if we're filling, we're checking prescriptions. Katie Cox We're counting at the window. When you're in a specialty site, the bulk of what we're seeing, the stress to you is a phone list that you're doing. And so you're going to see way more desks. You're going to see way more people on the phone. There's still patient interactions. It just looks a little bit different. And so anytime someone's been a traditional Walgreens pharmacist and they come to Cross-train in specialty, we kind of joke within the first hour, really high level, community pharmacists will go, oh, I see my skill set does not necessarily apply here because I'm used to the workflow structure being so different. Katie Cox And so it looks a lot different. So I always tell people, if you I hope you really enjoy talking to patients and having longer conversations, because that's kind of what we do here. And spend a good bit of time in doing a consultation with the patients. So before we dispense a drug, we do what's called an initial. Katie Cox And you may be on the phone with a patient for 30, 45 minutes, you know, very extensive discussions around the medications and what it might look like. And like we talked about before, continuity of care. Sometimes we're the first person really having a conversation with the patient about the diagnosis that they may have received. We have just found out I have multiple sclerosis. Katie Cox I've just found out that I've got Parkinson's. I've just found out I have cancer, you know, and now I'm talking to you all trying to navigate the drug aspect of this. And you're telling me very large numbers and lots of side effects, right. And so sometimes we call it kind of like a, we jokingly call it can like the specialty come down like you come in on the phone and then at the end we hope that you feel like, oh, I now understand a little bit of what I'm what I'm about to do and have some ownership in the process, being the patient in this and not feeling like I'm just kind of Katie Cox getting subjected to a lot of information and not knowing how to take like actionable next steps on it. And so example of that would be in specialty, which I think is a little bit different than a retail pharmacy is. We set a goal with the patient for every drug. And so how do we decide that that's the drug's working for you as an effective is it not effective. Katie Cox What does that look like? You know, we might have drugs that are very specific, like, oh, we're going to see a lowering of this lab, but you're not going to feel different versus another drug that might be, hey, this drug only allows you to live to a life of that. Right? So that's a good example I give to my students all the time, is that's a really specific drug that maybe we want a lot of adverse event data on, because while the drug is designed to let you live a little bit longer, unfortunately the condition that you have, most likely you will pass away when you're on this medication. Katie Cox So we want to make sure to tell them exactly specific of what to expect, what, how many days we think we're going to get and set a realistic and like logical goal for the patient. So maybe for a long drug, it might be I want to be able to play on Saturday when my grandkids come over, a lot of our pulmonary drugs, it's, my laundry room is downstairs. Katie Cox I can't do my laundry because I get out of breath. I have to sit down for an hour. So I want to be able to go down and come back up. And so I think it's really helpful in creating conversations for patients to determine, like, how do I decide this is going well, and then how do I use it appropriately to try to get the results that I'm talking to you guys about that are possible. Katie Cox And then even more so, maybe setting realistic expectations, right? Sometimes we feel like, particularly in this day and age, that we might have a cure all with a medication, and being able to set realistic expectations like, hey, this drug is going to help, with your liver, liver fibrosis, but we're also going to have to do like diet and exercise for you to achieve the goals that we're talking about and things like that. Katie Cox So that I feel like they really understand the process and can define what good would look like and how that might be different between different patients. Michele Williams That's very cool. So it's like really, really specific patient counseling relationships, talking about how the medication is really to a very specific degree. Katie Cox And then kind of gauging it based on the individual. Right. Something that we don't always in a lot of health care settings have the time to do. And that's one of the things I like about specialty pharmacy is you kind of have unlimited time. So I always joke to to my students, I'm like, it's like something so fantastic is something so terrifying, right? Katie Cox So somebody might go, oh my gosh, I can sit on the phone as long as I want. That sounds fantastic. And another person might go, oh, it sounds terrible. You know, I don't know where it's going to end. Right. And so it's like we're yeah, figuring out how to optimize it for what you feel like and how you want to be a pharmacist. Katie Cox And and that's one of the beautiful things about specialties. I feel like, like especially at a site like in Nashville, where you've been established for a really long time, you've got a lot of varied pharmacist roles at your site, and you can kind of gauge based on some of these goals and like what makes them happy at work, where you're going to pocket them for how much interaction they have with with patients and counseling versus leading to a team members versus, you know, like compounding or. Katie Cox Right. So you know, it's a beautiful profession because you can decide exactly what makes you happy during the day and then cater the role towards what you would you would want to get out of the day. Tabitha Sineath And there's so much variability even to between our care teams. I mean, I think the skill set for virology and oncology is very different from, say, miscellaneous specialty or somebody who's doing, a cardiac medication. And then we have, you know, non non-sterile, compounding that, we also do and we ship to ten different states. So with our site, we're dealing with patients from Maryland to Ohio to North Carolina. Tabitha Sineath I mean, it just varies all the way down to the south, Louisiana and Mississippi and Georgia. So our patients truly are all over, and really, I think you kind of hit on that. The beauty of what we do is the relationship building, because that in a sense, not only gets patients access, but it gets them engaged not only in their care, but also kind of what that outcome for them looks like. Tabitha Sineath And we can partner that with a lot of resources that we have the time and the functionality to do. And some of that is like the financial aspect because these medications are crazy expensive. Some of our neurology medications are about $100,000. Our, you know, hepatitis C treatment. You're looking at anywhere from 30 to 90,000, depending on which avenue in which vein we go down. Tabitha Sineath So, you know, in terms of like the payor aspect, you have to have great control, which is why access as many times is restricted just as specialty because of payers are going to be investing in that medication for that patient. They want to make sure that their outcomes are positive. So we do a lot of education and a lot of resource, facilitation with those patients to make sure that, you know, my goal is for them to walk out with zero. Tabitha Sineath So there's no out-of-pocket expenses to them. And we have access to grants and different foundations that can also kind of help funnel and provide those resources to make that happen. So when you talk to a patient who, you know, has a make applied prescription, that's $100,000, Tabitha Sineath That financial burden down to zero. I mean, that's that's the difference between, in some cases, life or death for these patients. Wow. Michele Williams So, thinking about our current students here again, what what sort of advice would you give? Student pharmacist who would be interested in going into specialty pharmacy? Tabitha Sineath I always say, if you can shadow get your foot in the door. Certainly work as a technician. Work in the field. That's going to give you the best access. You not only find out, is this really where you want to be? Because that's the most and part, the most important part of it. Nobody wants to, you know, show up day in and day out. Tabitha Sineath If that's not where your passion lies. Yeah. So finding that niche I think early on, is really helpful. But a lot of that begins with the proactive nature of that student. And then you have to step out of your comfort zone and say, this is something I'm interested in. How can I help facilitate that? You should network this around you. Tabitha Sineath Talk to people who are in that field. You know, we all have we all have connections. So it's really kind of navigating who, you know, and, drawing those, those webs together. Katie Cox You know, I get asked this question a lot by my students, and it's evolved over the last decade of me being a pharmacist. So I think when I was a newer pharmacist, I used to give the advice of like find a really good. And it's still not wrong advice. It's just evolved a little bit. I think in the beginning it was fun, a really good mentor and and make sure that you're like, find somebody who you feel like optimized in their career the way that you want to be, and then ask those questions and figure it out. Katie Cox And I think as I've been in the profession and trained a lot of students, I precept for for schools, I've recognized maybe two, just like how I define that for them, because we don't do a fantastic job in grad school, we're very focused on like making sure we enter the profession well, right. We're going to be good professionals. Katie Cox We want to learn what we have. And I kind of joke like we have we're really good at herd mentality, right? Like you're joining the profession of pharmacy, right? We're all joining this together. But self-awareness and like an individualized approach to your career is a trickier thing. And it makes sense because that's how we kind of do education. Katie Cox But I think a different way of saying find a good mentor is doing what you would like to in your career is saying find out, like become more self-aware of what makes you happy. So I always tell students when you're on rotations, and I know, you know, I always ask them their biggest fears to not like great on rotation around, but typically ask the question that I don't know the answer to. Katie Cox Well, let me tell you, you're going to get asked a question that you don't know the answer to. Precept. Every month I've teed you up so that I can teach you with the question. Right? So get over that hurdle and start thinking about what days when you're on rotations, do you leave and think, because we all have a day at work out where you leave and you're like, oh, I picked the right job. Katie Cox I'm so happy. I love what I do. This is a great day. And then equanimity of life, right? There's another day where you leave and you think, oh, oh shit, that's something else. I wish I'd opened that little shop I should have, like, learn how to do interior design. So you like, you know, it's like equanimity, right? It's both of those days. Katie Cox But I think there's if you can track like some trends to that, especially on rotation. That's the idea of rotations, right? The joke at school was always the moment you felt comfortable with where you were going, was the moment you were going to stop going there. Right about week 3 or 4, you start getting comfortable. You love the team you're with and and boom, it's like, oh, 48 hours later, you get to go on and like learn how to like adjust another month. Katie Cox That's a really great life skill to build on. And then recognizing when you're on those rotations, when you love the day or hate the day, what was it? Was it what you did? Was it who you were with? Was it your schedule? Was it the environment? You know, and then figuring out when with self-awareness like what that looks like, which is really hard with how we do grad school. Katie Cox Right? Like I joke, when I have most students, especially when I have a couple of them, I'll say before you make a decision, what do you do? Right? What do you do? You call your friend and you go, hey, I was thinking about doing this. Tabitha, what do you think about me doing this? You think I should do this? Katie Cox You think you should do this rotation? Do you think I should go and do this internship? You think I should take this job, right? We vet it from someone else. But. So I'll give the example. We have five girlfriends that all are pharmacists. We all have different jobs, we all live in different states and we all have different personalities. Katie Cox And so we all, so we have one who works at Kaiser Permanente. She's an inpatient doing it there. I have one who worked in a nonprofit HIV community clinic, that helps patients there. I have, me that means in a specialty pharmacy, I have someone else who manages a retail site. And we all have equal complaints because work is work, right? Katie Cox It's not one or the other, but we all have different personalities. So one of us loves talking to patients all day. Wonderful. One of us is like, no, I'm good on that. I'd like to lead over here in the office and not do that right. And she loves that. Right. And so I think sometimes we lose that in school, a little bit of of utilizing the APIs to learn about ourselves we get so stressed about like especially here at Gatton, like you're good, you're going to pass for that. Katie Cox Like you're going, you're going to be a pharmacist. So focus on being your happiest and best self and then figuring out how to use those APIs to figure out what is your best day look like. And then how do I figure out how to create a career for myself where I have the best day? And so I always tell my students, I'm like, I'm sure anyone can think of that one disgruntled person, right? Katie Cox He's like, well, I can't believe you went to pharmacy school, which I went through here, you know, waste your time. But it's probably not because of pharmacy, right? It's probably because they're not optimized to like, their self-awareness or their happiness. And so figuring that out early on and and then the other thing that I think is a really great piece of advice is careers aren't where they used to be. Katie Cox This is in the 40s and 50s where you picked your job, and that first job is the job you retired from, right? Like, you can move around in your career. And while change is hard for us as humans, I think it's great to be able to explore. So you're just looking for your first job, right? And then figuring out what you use that to leverage to the next. Katie Cox I'm actually my first job as a staff pharmacist, and I became a manager. Then I managed a bigger pharmacy. Then I decided I wanted to do specialty pharmacy. Now I manage a specialty pharmacy, and I'm hoping to launch that into managing more specialty pharmacies over different states. But so what's that next growth moment and like space moment for you and then figuring out how to optimize it for you as an individual. Katie Cox Instead of feeling like you need to fit yourself into the career of pharmacy. Tabitha Sineath I think those breadcrumbs along the way to kind of help like define what that pathway looks like, because you take big bits and pieces from every experience, whether that be as a student on rotations to your first job or what you ultimately grow into. It's the bits and pieces that you know as part of your experience that truly kind of define you over time. Tabitha Sineath So don't. My advice to students is don't give up on that and continue to kind of seek those out because you know in your heart where your passion lies, you have to make the pathway, but you have to be proactive about it. Katie Cox Yeah, I think when I was younger, I thought lifelong learner meant drugs. And now I'm like, no, no, no. It means so much more than that. It's not just the knowledge for like what you're doing in your work, but it's also like lifelong learner about myself, about my profession, about how to interact with patients and engage them and advocate for them and give them agency and what that looks like. Katie Cox And it changes over time as you change, but like recognizing that so that you don't get in there in a rut and think, well, I'm not happy now when I was well, you've evolved, you know, evolve your profession with you and you'll always be happy. Michele Williams That's such great advice. Yeah, that's really good advice. Stephen Woodward We've we really appreciate you all being here. I think that was a great note to end on. But, thank you all and hope to see you again soon. Katie Cox Absolutely. Thank you. Tabitha Sineath All. Thanks. Stephen Woodward Thanks for listening to White Coat Radio. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and leave this review. To learn more about ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, visit us at ETSU.edu slash pharmacy or follow us on social media at ETSUpharmacy. We'll see you next time.  

What does it really take to build a profitable YouTube channel in a niche everyone says is "too small"? In this episode, Cody Moneymaker pulls back the curtain on how his bluegrass guitar channel, just 33,000 subscribers, generates right around $5,000 a month in course sales, with zero paid ads and barely any sponsorships. We get into the exact pivot that changed everything (hint: it wasn't about playing better), why his thumbnails look like a newspaper on purpose, how he plans his entire year around sales seasonality, and the mindset shift that keeps him from burning out. If you've got a small channel and you're wondering if the numbers will ever add up — this one's for you. About Cody: Cody Moneymaker is a bluegrass guitarist and educator based in East Tennessee. A graduate of East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music program, he has performed everywhere from Knoxville to Vietnam. His YouTube channel, Cody M. Music, has over 32,000 subscribers, where he shares lessons and insights into bluegrass guitar, gear, and ups and downs of being a local musician. Connect With Cody: YouTube Channel /// Website   What We Offer Creators Join Creator Communities. A place to gather with other creators every single day. This provides access to Our Private Discord Server, Monthly Mastermind Group, and MORE!  Hire Dusty To Be Your YouTube Coach YouTube Channel Reviews (Audit): Get a 7-10 minute personalized video review of your YouTube channel with honest, actionable feedback for just $50. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter: Each week I document what I'm doing in my business and creative journey, share new things I've discovered, mistakes I've made, and much more! All Tools Mentioned On The Show: The Ultimate Entrepreneurs Resource. This is the spreadsheet where I keep all of the tools mentioned by all the guests on the podcast. Follow The Show: Facebook /// X /// YouTube /// Instagram

Samford women's basketball head coach Matt Wise reflecting on his first year as head coach and the team's remarkable turnaround season. Wise discussed the challenges of starting with a difficult non-conference schedule that included five Power 5 opponents, leading to an early 1-6 conference start. He explained how the team's confidence and belief improved throughout the season, culminating in winning the Southern Conference Tournament Championship as the sixth seed and earning an NCAA tournament berth. The Bulldogs overcame a double-digit deficit in the championship game to advance to the NCAA First Four, finishing the season with an overall record of 16-19.Wise shared insights about roster retention, strategic adjustments including shifting to a tougher defensive lineup, and the importance of maintaining team culture during the tournament run. He emphasized the value of staff alignment and staying true to coaching principles, while noting that the current landscape of college basketball requires constant creation and adaptation due to high roster turnover.Wise has extensive previous coaching experience, including serving as a Graduate Assistant for the University of Florida's men's basketball program, two stints as an Assistant Coach at the University of Wyoming (where he was part of the 2015 Mountain West Tournament title and NCAA berth), an Assistant Coach at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, and an Assistant Coach at East Tennessee State University. He also worked as Director of Video & Creative Content for the University of Alabama's women's basketball team during the 2021-22 season, before serving as Assistant and later Associate Head Coach for Samford University's women's basketball program from 2022 to 2025.

What does it actually mean to abolish abortion — not just restrict it? In this episode of Refining Rhetoric, host Robert Bortins sits down with Classical Conversations graduate and Students for Abolition president Pate Anglin to discuss why a biblical abolitionist framework goes further than the mainstream pro-life movement — and how student chapters across 8 states are taking that fight to college campuses, state capitals, and beyond.  Pate Anglin grew up in a homeschooling household shaped by classical education, faith, and the intentional discipleship of his parents — and he credits that foundation with preparing him for what he encountered at East Tennessee State University. Entering college in 2021 on a full-ride leadership scholarship, Pate quickly found himself navigating pronoun mandates, ideological pressure, and a campus culture hostile to a biblical worldview. Rather than retreating, he leaned in — and what started as a small group of young men praying in a dorm room became Students for Abolition, a rapidly growing network now active on 14 campuses across 7 states and into Canada. In this conversation, Robert and Pate dig into what truly separates the abolitionist position from mainstream pro-life strategy. Pate argues that much of the pro-life movement — though well-intentioned — has unknowingly adopted a humanistic framework, opposing abortion because it "pollutes the water" or "hurts mothers" rather than because it violates God's law. He walks through the abolitionist acronym GATES (Gospel-centered, Aligned through the church, Engaged biblically, Sought immediately) and explains how rooting the argument in Scripture changes everything — including how the law can function as a tool for tutoring society, restraining evil, and even serving as a gateway to the gospel. They also tackle some of the most contested questions in the movement: Should mothers be criminalized? What would an equal protection bill actually look like in practice? Why do so many pro-life organizations oppose abolition legislation? And why does Students for Abolition intentionally place men in leadership roles on the front lines of this cultural battle? Whether you're a CC parent wondering how classical education prepares students for the real world, a student looking to get involved, or a Christian trying to think through the abortion issue with more biblical clarity — this episode will challenge and encourage you. Resources: Pate's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pateanglin/ Pate's X account: https://x.com/pateanglin https://studentsforabolition.org/ This episode of Refining Rhetoric is sponsored by: Classical Conversations' new 2026 Product Line This April, Classical Conversations is launching an exciting portfolio of new products designed to strengthen math fluency, develop critical reasoning skills, and equip families with practical tools for classical, Christian homeschooling. From flashcard resources and reasoning curriculum to hands-on manipulatives and a foundational parent resource, these releases deepen the classical learning journey for families at every level. Visit ClassicalConversations.com/WhatsNew/ to explore the entire April 2026 product collection and start strengthening your family's classical, Christian education today. Don't miss the special CC Bookstore sale from April 7 - 28!

Provost Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle sits down with Dr. Randy Wykoff, founding dean of the ETSU College of Public Health, to reflect on his decades of leadership, teaching, and service. From building Tennessee's first accredited school of public health to preparing students for real-world challenges through hands-on learning and community engagement, Dr. Wykoff shares lessons from a career dedicated to improving health across Appalachia and beyond — just months before his retirement. Find out more:  ETSU College of Public Health: https://www.etsu.edu/cph/?utm_campaign=College-of-Public-Health Podcast transcript:  Dr. Randy Wykoff We believe from the beginning that we had to be world-class. I think it's critical for students to see how what they've learned works in the community. So all of our public health students, environmental health students, health admin students have to do an internship. And that's basically a semester-long opportunity for them to take what they've learned and see, "Oh, wait a minute, this really does work. I really can go out and help this agency do what they're doing." Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Hi, I'm Kimberly McCorkle, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at East Tennessee State University. From the moment I arrived on this campus, I have been inspired by our faculty, their passion for what they do, their belief in the power of higher education, and the way they are transforming the lives of their students. This podcast is dedicated to them, our incredible faculty at ETSU. Hear their stories as they tell us "Why I Teach." In this episode, I speak with Dr. Randy Wykoff, the founding dean of the ETSU College of Public Health and the longest-serving dean of public health in the United States. Under his leadership, the college became the first accredited school of public health in Tennessee and central Appalachia and has tripled its enrollment since 2006. During his tenure, the college has secured more than $50 million in research funding and earned national recognition for teaching, research, and community service. A Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame inductee and recipient of the U.S. Surgeon General's Medallion, Dr. Wykoff has made a lasting impact on public health education, and practice across the region. Earlier this year, he announced his plans to retire at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. So before he retires, I wanted to make sure to feature his wisdom and his insights on "Why I Teach." Enjoy the show. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Dr. Wykoff, welcome to the show. This is a bittersweet episode for me as we're just a few short months from your retirement, which seems like a good time for reflection. You've spent more than two decades leading the College of Public Health. What originally drew you to public health, and what ultimately brought you to ETSU? Dr. Randy Wykoff No, that's a great question. Thank you for having me today. I always tell the students that your career isn't a river. It doesn't always flow in the same direction. So I started out to be a tropical pediatrician. That was my goal. That's what I ... I'd lived in Africa as a kid, and I planned on going back. And so I went to med school, did a pediatric residency, did a residency in preventive medicine and tropical medicine. I got a certificate of knowledge in tropical medicine. I got a master's in public health in tropical medicine. And in order to go to med school, I took out a National Health Service Corps scholarship. And after interviewing at various places, for reasons that I don't quite understand, they sent me to run six county health departments in South Carolina. So two aspects of my career happened at once: one, shifting from medicine to public health, and the other was into a leadership position. So after four years, I left that and went to the FDA, where I spent a decade. I spent some time on Capitol Hill and then went to an international nonprofit. And when it became clear to me that I needed to move on from the nonprofit, I had no academic experience. I had no published research. I had no funding. So I thought, "Why not become a dean of public health?" And I saw the ETSU ad, and I had never been in East Tennessee, other than briefly to travel through it. And my wife said, "Well, if we're going to live in Tennessee, we have to live on a lake." And I said, "There are no lakes in East Tennessee." That's how little I knew about it. So that's what brought me here. I just happened to see a job. I don't know that I was qualified for it, but they gave it to me. So that's it. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle When you look back at the early days of the college, what was your vision for what it could become? Dr. Randy Wykoff Well, when we were accredited, we were the 43rd school in the country. And we were the newest, the smallest, the least well-known, and actually the least respected by at least one metric. And we realized that we had to do something different. We weren't going to be Johns Hopkins South, right? We had to figure out a way that we could be small but world-class. And if you want, I'll talk about the hotel analogy and how that played out. But we believed from the beginning that we had to be world-class, because we had to compete with these other 42 schools. All but one of them was at a large private institution or a state land grant institution. Two things I did that I'm kind of proud of. One was the hotel analogy, which was this idea that schools of public health are like hotels. Your five-star hotel has a gold elevator and doorman and uniform and a Cartier distributor and a Michelin star restaurant – more than you could possibly use in any one hotel stay and at a premium price. But large schools of public health were like that. Then your mid-sized schools of public health are like conference hotels. Good facilities, nice part of town, one nice restaurant. And your small schools of public health are like Motel 6s. They have clean washcloths. They have soap in those little plastic containers. They meet all the minimum accreditation requirements. But no matter how well you run a Motel 6, it's still a Motel 6. So our idea was there's actually three ways you can be small in the hospitality industry and be world-class. One is a bed-and-breakfast, which is about relationships. One is an adventure, like a barefoot cruise or base camp. And the other is a destination, like a safari camp. And we thought, okay, we can be all three of those. We can be one that's really known for how we treat students and how we treat each other, one that allows students to do things they wouldn't do anywhere else, and then promote Appalachia. Don't hide from it, promote it. It makes us unique and different. So that was the one thing. The other thing I did that I think was the only other thing I'm proud of, I've always had this idea that once someone shows you they can do their job, the best thing you can do is let them do whatever else they can do. And you see that you see people just absolutely go well beyond what their job description is if you empower them to do things. And that's worked really well for us, especially as a small school. We had to have people that could step up and do things that we didn't expect. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle That's great. Well, two of the secrets to the success. Dr. Randy Wykoff That's right. That's all there is. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle The College of Public Health has been nationally recognized for its innovative curriculum and teaching. How do you help students connect what they learn in the classroom with real-world health challenges? Dr. Randy Wykoff I think public health is somewhat unique in that while it is an academic field, it's an applied field. And so the students from the beginning know that they're going to learn skills that will be relevant in the workplace. And my personal theory has always been that when I'm teaching, my job is to prepare the students for the career that I had. None of them will have that career. But whatever I've learned on the way is what I should be preparing them for, because anything else is a little bit artificial on my part. I know a theoretical approach, but if I talk about here's how federal advisory committees work, here's how you work with media, the skills that I had to learn along the way. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle What teaching approaches have you found most effective when preparing students to work in communities across Appalachia and beyond? Dr. Randy Wykoff I think it's critical for students to see how what they've learned works in the community. So all of our public health students, environmental health students, health admin students, have to do an internship. And that's basically a semester-long opportunity for them to take what they've learned and see, "Oh, wait a minute. This really does work. I really can go out and help this agency do what they're doing." So that's important. And then what we do at Valleybrook is, again, it's applied skills. When we're teaching students how to make a water filter or a water pump, they're probably thinking initially, "I'm never going to do this in the rest of my life." But the reality is what we're teaching them is the process, the logistics, the ability to take what you've got and get an outcome that you need. And that's really important in public health, especially when you get to disaster response and things like that. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle As someone who's mentored faculty as well as students, and since public health professionals are educators in their own right, what advice do you give educators who want to become effective teachers? Dr. Randy Wykoff That's a great question. I used to look at all the SAIs (course evaluations), and I discovered that there were three things that you always see in a positive SAI and two things that you always see in a negative SAI. The three things are know the material, care about students, enthusiastic. Everybody knows their material. If you don't care about students, you probably shouldn't be in a higher ed. And if you're not enthusiastic, you're not thinking about how cool what you're doing is. On the downside, the two that come out are disorganized and unfair. Usually unfair is, "I didn't get any grades before midterm, and now I have no way to get my grade back up," and then disorganized is what it is. But in the College of Public Health, we have great faculty. We've won the teaching award, I think, five times. It's a real pleasure to watch people take their own natural approach to life and apply it in the classroom. You have people that are very systematic. I don't know if I can mention names, like Patrick Brown with POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning). He's very systematic. We have others who are very hands-on and applied, like Mike Stoots. And we have others that are old-school, that get up and lecture, others who have interactive. But that's less important than knows the material, cares about the student, and is enthusiastic. Anyone who can do those things works out. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle I'll mention that right after we record this podcast, you're headed to your own class that you teach. Dr. Randy Wykoff I am. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Yeah. I'm assuming you use those approaches in the classes that you continue to teach. Dr. Randy Wykoff I do. And what I've tried – I co-teach it with Hadii Mamudu. And what we try to do is he teaches leadership from sort of the academic side. What's the literature show? I try to walk students through, again, the career that I've had. And the whole idea is to teach the application of the skills through doing. So that's my general approach. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle It's great that you continue to teach. Dr. Randy Wykoff Yeah. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Oh, yeah. Dr. Randy Wykoff I mean, you'd be crazy to be at an institution of higher ed and not do it, right? That's the great payback, is dealing with students. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Absolutely. Dr. Randy Wykoff Not that I don't like dealing with everyone else, but students are the high point. They're the highlight. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle That's right. During the COVID-19 pandemic, you helped lead the creation of educational videos and public outreach. In many ways, that was teaching on a community scale. What did that experience teach you about educating the public? Dr. Randy Wykoff I think it reinforced something that is in public health and in a lot of fields. You have to speak the truth. Speak as you know it and recognize when things are unknown or evolving or changing. But with COVID, there was so much information going out. Some of it was accurate. Some of it wasn't. So I just tried to use my updates to say, this is what I believe is true at this point now. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle I think that was the way I first got to know you was through your videos, through COVID. Dr. Randy Wykoff Yes. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Do you want to tell us what the tagline was for those? Dr. Randy Wykoff Well, that was "The Most Interesting Dean." Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle That one. Dr. Randy Wykoff Yeah, that was, again, it was an effort to make the messaging more fun. And what we discovered was that that ad campaign had ended in 2016. And there were a whole lot of students who had no idea what I was doing. And one of the people who works for me was like, "Why are you talking in that funny accent?" But the idea was make it entertaining, get the message out in a way that isn't offensive to people. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Yeah, it drew people in. Dr. Randy Wykoff Yeah. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle And you were the most interesting dean in the world. Dr. Randy Wykoff For a few short weeks. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle As you prepare to retire, what reflections do you have about the impact teaching has had on your own career and life? Dr. Randy Wykoff Oh, it's been, I can't think of a better way to end your career than teaching. You're taking everything that you've learned and you're passing it on to a new generation. It's incredibly rewarding. It gets a little bit awkward because my dad said that when I became Dean, my jokes would be a lot funnier. And it is a little bit awkward that people accord you this status above and beyond what you feel you've earned. And I think teaching does keep you humble a little bit because you're sitting there and every time you're teaching, you're thinking, “What don't I know about this subject? Why am I comfortable talking about this issue?” And the same with the weekly updates. I almost always have to do some research. I can't just spontaneously do them. But it's incredible. It's incredibly rewarding to be a teacher. And it's amazing to be at a place like ETSU that has focused on this community. I talk to other deans at other schools, and many of them have no real deep relationship with their region the way we do. The President says it all the time. We were created in 1911. And we went from education to business to health to the arts. We really touch everything that matters in this region. And in public health, that's what it is. Public health is everything that helps people live healthier, more productive lives. And I wouldn't want to be a dean anywhere else. And especially at a place that values esoteric research over the difference that you make in your community. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Finally, looking back, what do you hope your former students remember the most about learning from you? Dr. Randy Wykoff I hope that they are progressively proud to have come out of ETSU. I think five, 10, 15 years from now, a lot of the hierarchy in higher ed will be falling away as people start really looking at quality and realizing that ETSU really is an exceptional place. I hope they're proud of that. I hope they believe that they were prepared for a meaningful career. And I hope some of them become wealthy benefactors in 40 years. We often say that. We're creating alums for 40 years from now. I'm not opposed to alums giving back right away. It's important that they feel that they got a good education, that prepared them for the workforce, and that they can say with pride, "Hey, I went to ETSU." Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Dr. Wykoff, thank you for joining me and for sharing your reflections on teaching, leadership, and public health. Your commitment to education and service has had a profound impact on ETSU, on your students, and on communities throughout our region and state. We're going to miss you. Dr. Randy Wykoff Well, thank you. I'm glad I'm going to stay around. I'll just have a different relationship with the university. Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle Thanks for listening to "Why I Teach." For more information about Dr. Wykoff, the College of Public Health, or this podcast series, visit the ETSU Provost website at etsu.edu/provost. You can follow me on social media at ETSU Provost. And if you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to like and subscribe to "Why I Teach" wherever you listen to podcasts.    

My guest this week is Ted Olson, professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University.Ted joins me to celebrate the Rich-R-Tone record label and it's offshoot Folk Star. Rich-R-Tone was founded in 1946 by James Hobart Stanton who, in Ted's words, "was probably single-handedly the most important documentarian of Appalachian music."Ted has extensively researched Stanton and the Rich_R-Tone label for a project he co-produced for Bear Family Records - The Rich-R-Tone/Folk Star Story: Appalachia On Record, 1946-1954. Featuring 317 expertly remastered recordings spread over 12 CDs and including a 144-page hardcover book, this set, produced by Ted Olson, Matteo Ringressi, and Richard Weize, features newly researched liner notes and a complete discography. Many of these recordings are incredibly rare and are taken from 78 rpm discs held in private collections.We talk about Stanton's background in jukebox repair and distribution and how that helped shape his vision for the label; why both place and time are so vital in this particular story; the importance of Rich-R-Tone being a label based in Appalachia, rather than being a major label coming to the region just to record local talent and how Stanton played an important role in The Stanley Brothers' career. It's a fascinating story and one I knew very little about before my conversation with Ted, who was a pleasure to chat with as always.During the conversation  we play excerpts of three tracks from the box set. You'll hear (in order):The Stanley Brothers - Molly and TenbrooksWilma Lee Cooper - The Tramp on the StreetThe Caudill Family - Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body DownFor more info on the box set visit Bear Family RecordsTo hear my previous interviews with Ted, check out the two episodes below:The Bristol Sessions and BeyondDoc Watson's 100th Birthday Celebration (featuring Happy Traum, John McEuen from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, T. Michael Coleman, Jack Lawrence, Lindsay Craven of MerleFest and Ted Olson) Support the show===Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!) Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins- Sign up to get updates on new episodes - Free fiddle tune chord sheets- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews- Follow Bluegrass Jam Along for regular updates: Instagram Facebook - Review us on Apple Podcasts

Something big happened in Asheville music in 1925. A two-week recording session was held at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Musicians and groups performed traditional Southern Appalachian music. Afterwards, OKeh Records pressed and released a catalogue of records documenting a sound that many folks outside the region had never heard. The Asheville Sessions were revived in 2025 through a remastering and concert project. We sat down with Dr. Ted Olson, professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, to discuss the significance of the historic sessions.  To learn more about the musical families of North Carolina, visit BlueRidgeMusicNC.com.

Something big happened in Asheville music in 1925. A two-week recording session was held at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Musicians and groups performed traditional Southern Appalachian music. Afterwards, OKeh Records pressed and released a catalogue of records documenting a sound that many folks outside the region had never heard. The Asheville Sessions were revived in 2025 through a remastering and concert project. We sat down with Dr. Ted Olson, professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, to discuss the significance of the historic sessions.  To learn more about the musical families of North Carolina, visit BlueRidgeMusicNC.com.

In this episode of “Why I Teach,” Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), sits down with Dr. Kevin E. O'Donnell, Professor of English and recipient of the 2024 Stephen L. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Appalachian Studies Association. With more than 30 years of experience teaching literature, composition, and environmental writing, Dr. O'Donnell shares insights on storytelling, writing pedagogy, the impact of technology in the classroom, and the power of honesty in writing. He also discusses teaching The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, Appalachian literature such as Serena by Ron Rash, and his upcoming book, The Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests. Find out more: ETSU Common Read: https://www.etsu.edu/provost/common-read.php ETSU Festival of Ideas: https://www.etsu.edu/festival/ ETSU College of Arts and Sciences: https://www.etsu.edu/cas/ Podcast Transcript:  [Music] Dr. Kevin O'Donnell I love John Green's writing for one thing. It's really accessible. His voice draws you in. He starts with these quirky topics. He'll be writing about Super Mario Kart. Within a few pages, he's talking about community and luck versus skill, and these bigger issues. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Hi, I'm Kimberly McCorkle, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at East Tennessee State University. From the moment I arrived on this campus, I have been inspired by our faculty, their passion for what they do, their belief in the power of higher education, and the way they are transforming the lives of their students. This podcast is dedicated to them: Our incredible faculty at ETSU. Hear their stories as they tell us why I teach. In this episode, we will sit down with Dr. Kevin E. O'Donnell, Professor of English and recipient of the 2024 Stephen L. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Appalachian Studies Association. A native of Northeast Ohio, Dr. O'Donnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and has taught at ETSU for more than 30 years. His courses include Advanced Composition, American Literature, Literary Nonfiction, and Environmental Writing. He's the author of numerous publications, including Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, co-authored with Helen Hollingsworth. This year, he looks forward to the release of a new book, co-written with his ETSU colleague, Dr. Scott Honeycutt, titled The Woodlands of the Mind: Rambles Through Campus Forests. Enjoy the show. Dr. O'Donnell, welcome to the show. I start my podcast with the same question for every guest. Take me back to your first day as a faculty member at ETSU, and looking back on that day, what is one piece of advice that you would have given yourself? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Well, it's a great question. I have to think back and see if I can remember 30 years. It's half a lifetime ago, you know. But if I could give myself advice, I would say, young Kevin, trust the process. With writing, it's so challenging. You get papers from the students, especially in the first-year classes on the first day. And they've got all kinds of issues, and the first thing you see are the problems when you read them, and you want to fix everything. But just trust the process. You know, if they've got 15 weeks, if they get four or five good writing experiences, including revision and feedback, and over the course of 15 weeks, you can do a lot. Yeah. Thank you. Reflecting on your 30-plus years in the classroom here, how has your approach to teaching literature and composition changed over the years? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, that's kind of a related question. I don't think my philosophy has changed, but a lot of the technology has changed. I mean, I kind of developed the belief in grad school that you learn to write by having an audience, writing for audiences. But 30 years ago, typically, students would print one copy, and if you were lucky, you could circulate it, do some group work and stuff, but you couldn't publish it. And then with the development of the internet, making easier access to the internet available, I started publishing my students' work on the web, and then they started publishing their own, and you get it out in front of an audience a lot more. And that's great for writing pedagogy. And then multimedia, doing this kind of stuff, like the Whisper Room over in... We were talking about that earlier over in the Innovation Commons. Yeah. I've had my students doing that, so that's part of writing now, I think, is multimedia. You can't just think of it as words on a page. Typically, anything, it's words on a screen, and then the spoken word component, recording. So that's changed how I teach a lot. I'll have my students do an audio piece and then post it on YouTube, say. That's what they did last semester. They must enjoy that. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell The response to it was great. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle   How do you see the connection between storytelling and how we understand our environment, culture, and region? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, storytelling, I mean, it's... You could argue that all understanding is narrative. Like, people understand things in terms of people in places doing things, which is character-setting-plot, you know? So with the Environmental Studies minor, there's a required course that's environmental writing. We get students who are being trained in science, like biologists, who take that minor, and they come in and read some environmental literature, and you've got these science writers using narrative to make sense of the science. So I think it's a crucial component. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Which literary work or author has been especially rewarding for you to teach over the years, and why? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, I love that question. There's been a lot of them. I'm teaching a book this semester, a 2008 novel by Ron Rash called Serena, which is a super well-written, super fun novel, but it takes place in Haywood County, North Carolina, in the 1920s when the Smokies were being logged. So it's set against the backdrop of this huge natural resource extraction story that shaped Appalachia, the logging of the great Appalachian forest. But it's also really dramatic. It's got these tightly written chapters. There's some great villains and some shocking murders, and it's a great book. And Ron Rash is coming to our literary festival in April. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Fantastic. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell So students are reading that novel, and I've taught that four or five times over the years, and it's a great, great book for an environmental writing class. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Is he a regional author? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell He's at Western Carolina. He's down in Cullowhee. He's probably about ready to retire, but he grew up in upstate South Carolina. And yeah, he's a great writer. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle It must be great for students to connect to a book that's about the region. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, and a lot of students didn't know the story that it tells, and people know the area, recognize places where scenes take place. Yeah, so it's great. That's a good one. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Earlier this year, you presented an outstanding lecture to kick off this year's Common Read, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. What about that book resonated with you, and why do you think it was a good fit for ETSU's campus community? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, I think it was a great fit, or it seems to be getting a good response from students. And part of it, for 15 years or more, I was a fan of the Vlogbrothers. They do their YouTube science stuff. And the format is, it's basically the essay format. You've got two, 3,000 words. I love John Green's writing, for one thing. It's really accessible. His voice draws you in. And he starts with these quirky topics. Like he'll be writing about Super Mario Kart. And within a few pages, he's talking about community and luck versus skill and these bigger issues. And so I like that they're inviting, these essays are inviting and they draw you in. They're really accessible. You can read one in 15 minutes. And the five-star review format is kind of fun. Like that, my students want to write those. You give that as a writing assignment. Here's an essay, you're going to make it ostensibly a review of something. That you're going to give five stars. So your job is to evaluate. Students like it. So I think it was a good choice. I'm excited about him. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle That's great, yeah. I know, as you said, a lot of students are excited. They've connected to his work for a long time. Students who've said he taught them what they know about history, for instance. As you know, we are excited to be able to welcome John Green to campus in just a few days to speak at the ETSU Festival of Ideas. From your experience, how does engaging with an author and hearing them talk about their work deepen students' connections to a text compared to just reading it in a classroom? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, I think it's a big deal. It can change your relationship to the text. It sure humanizes it, you know? One thing about reading, even if you're reading for a class, reading seems like a really solitary activity. You go to your quiet space and you're sitting by yourself. But then these students are going to come together and see hundreds of other people who have also connected with the same text and see the author. It just makes it very visceral, the sense of how social reading is, even though it feels solitary in some ways it is, but it's a deeply social act. And I think one of the things I'm excited about is it's fun seeing other people who are excited about writing that you're excited about. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Right, yeah. Feels like you're in a community of readers when you watch an author talk about their work. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Right. Yeah, yeah. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle As I mentioned in the introduction, you have a book coming out this year. Will you please share a preview of The Woodlands of the Mind and a bit about what inspired you and Dr. Honeycutt to write the book? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, thanks for asking about that. So it was really inspired by the ETSU campus. We've got, well, you know about University Woods south of the railroad bypass there. We've got 30 acres of, couple dozen at least ancient oak trees up there. And it's a really special place. And Scott Honeycutt and I, for years we'd been taking our students over there to do classrooms and to do awareness stuff and to do walks. And back in 2018, I think it was before COVID, we wrote a small grant and brought an author to class, author to campus rather, Joan Maloof, who is a biologist from Maryland who's also written some very good books, including one that Scott and I are fans of called "Among the Ancients" where she goes around and visits different old, remnant old growth forests and writes about them, but also writes about regional history and natural history. So we brought her to campus. It turns out she's the founding director of the Old-Growth Forest Network. And long story short, she came to campus, did a public nature walk with people over in the woods and then did a talk in the evening at the old East Tennessee Room and generated a lot of excitement, which led to us forming an ad-hoc committee to see if we can get the University Woods to be part of the Old-Growth Forest Network. As a community forest, Dr. Noland, our awesome president, was very supportive of this. So long story short, later that spring, Joan came back on her own dime for a dedication ceremony we did where Dr. Noland spoke and read a little poem on some other people, and we designated it as a community forest. So that experience, Scott and I to look around and it turns out a lot of universities have often old-growth remnants, which are rare attached to their property, partly because of the history of universities and land use, especially in the East. So we started learning about these places. So we thought, well, no one's written about this. So we've selected 15 places from Rome up to Maine, some small colleges, some bigger schools, like Virginia Tech and Penn State. And we split them up and we went around and wrote, kind of inspired by Joan Maloof, these travel essays with history, natural history, and we package them together and sent our proposal to the University of Georgia Press, and the editor called us back the next day and said she wanted to publish it. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Congratulations. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah, thanks. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Look forward to reading it. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Awesome. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle What books do you have on your to-read pile and do you have any favorite books or authors that you'd recommend for consideration for future common reads at ETSU? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Right. Yeah, my to-read pile is pretty big and half of them I never get to. I own a lot of books I've never read. I'm glad to hear that it makes me feel less guilty. But something about owning them, I hope that maybe I'll soak up. I don't know. And even better if you put them on your bedside table to look at you, yes, yeah. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yes, one I was thinking about that I read recently is Beth Macy who is, she wrote a book called Dopesick that the Hulu miniseries starring Michael Keaton was based on, was pretty much directly from that book. And it's a great book. But more recently in the fall, she came out with a book called Paper Girl. It's sort of a memoir she tells about growing up underprivileged in rural Ohio and then goes back there now and finds a version of herself and to look at how kids don't have the same opportunities, basically, young people. And in the process she's also talking about being a journalist and how people respond or don't respond to journalism and conspiracy theorizing has sort of moved into the vacuum where journalism has moved out of and which sounds all serious, but it's a fun book and it got a lot of attention in the fall. That one, she lives down at Roanoke. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Interesting. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell We should get her up here. That would be a good one. But my dream author would be Elizabeth Kolbert. She's a New Yorker magazine writer who probably about 10 years ago she published a book called The Sixth Extinction which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction which is an amazing book. It's about the planet that is currently undergoing a major extinction event, which is a grim topic. But she writes these essays where she goes around and talks to people and they're really engaging. She's the best science writer I know and she's a best seller. I think there'd be enthusiasm about her. She's got a new book, which is a collection of her New Yorker essays. So Elizabeth Kolbert--I don't know if we could get her. I don't know if she does campus visits but she'd be a good get. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Great suggestions. Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Yeah. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Finally, what impact do you hope you've made on your students? Dr. Kevin O'Donnell Gosh, that's a big one. Been thinking about that a lot now that I'm 30 years into this. I would hope when my students leave my class they understand that good writing is about honesty. Because I think students come in and when they're supposed to do academic writing they feel like they need to adopt this persona that's the voice of authority. And they don't feel confident in that authority. So they put on a role. And that, as much as anything, leads to tangled sentences and unclear writing. But if you can be honest about your relationship to your material and your audience, and in a simple way, not like deep profound, doesn't have to be deep profound honesty, but that's honesty is what good writing is about. That's, I would hope students would leave my class with that understanding. Dr. Kimerly D. McCorkle Dr. O'Donnell, it's been a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you for your thoughtful reflections on teaching, literature, and the Common Read experience. Thank you for the way you engage your students with literature. I'm looking forward to adding your new book to my reading list this year. Thanks for listening to "Why I Teach." For more information about Dr. O'Donnell, the College of Arts and Sciences, or this podcast series, visit the ETSU Provost website at etsu.edu slash Provost. You can follow me on social media at ETSU Provost. And if you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to like and subscribe to "Why I Teach" wherever you listen to podcasts. 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In this episode of The Burros of Berea, I sat down with Brad Robertson, founder of Grace Reach, whose journey from traditional church life through burnout, hyper dispensationalism, and ultimately into fulfilled eschatology is as honest as it is compelling. Brad shares how a lifelong passion for Scripture was nearly buried beneath what he calls “toxic discipleship,” a system that emphasizes spiritual performance over the finished work of Christ. His rediscovery of the gospel of grace radically reshaped not only his theology, but his understanding of discipleship, covenant, and the character of God Himself. This conversation traces how grace, not effort, brought clarity, freedom, and renewal to his faith, and why so many believers have never truly heard the gospel even after years in church.What makes this episode especially powerful to me personally is how Brad connects fulfilled eschatology to real life application. Rather than treating Revelation as a battleground of charts and timelines, he shows how it proclaims the gospel from beginning to end. The New Heaven and New Earth are not distant abstractions, but the present reality of God dwelling with His people, the water of life flowing through the open gates to heal the nations. Brad's vision challenges both futurists and preterists to recover the heart of the message: freedom from law based religion, confidence in Christ's finished work, and a faith that transforms how we love God and others. This is not just a theological discussion. It is an invitation to rediscover joy, assurance, and purpose in Christ today! I hope you'll enjoy this interview as much as I did!If you'd like to watch the video of this interview, hop on over to our Patreon here at this link:https://www.patreon.com/posts/wait-what-full-148355373?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkIf you'd like to learn more about Brad and his ministry please visit:Grace Reachhttps://www.gracereach.org/If you're interested in attending this conference at East Tennessee State University, please click the link below and be sure to register.https://www.gracereach.org/gracereach-conference-1If you'd like to purchase one of Brad's books, you can find them here at this link:https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08746JQSK?ccs_id=47b06134-5168-4493-914b-71443b80611f

Vic Verchereau welcomes Zac Clark, who is General Manager at Lansing Lugnuts. Games have been going in Lansing since they broke ground for the Capital Building in 1872, but 30 years ago, a new game was brought to downtown Lansing... minor league baseball! Business deals and family memories have been made ever since! The Lansing Lugnuts franchise is among the nation's most successful, and 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of baseball on Michigan Avenue. After joining the Lugnuts as Assistant General Manager, Dansville Michigan native, Zac Clark, moved up to General Manager in January 2023. He earned his bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University and his master's degree from East Tennessee State University before entering the baseball world as an intern with the Martinsville Mustangs. As the Lansing Lugnuts General Manager his duties go well beyond baseball with his role in helping people enjoy the ballpark in many creative ways. The 2026 season planning is well under way, and there is a lot to do and enjoy before the first pitch! Come on down to the corner and listen in to Host Vic Verchereau and Zac Clark as they bring in some warmer weather and opportunities to enjoy this Central Michigan gem! This is Michigan Corners... C'mon down! » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a military commander and strategist. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. Craig Sorvillo is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Florida. He specializes in Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He can be reached at craig.sorvillo@gmail.com or on twitter @craig_sorvillo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a military commander and strategist. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. Craig Sorvillo is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Florida. He specializes in Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He can be reached at craig.sorvillo@gmail.com or on twitter @craig_sorvillo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a military commander and strategist. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. Craig Sorvillo is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Florida. He specializes in Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He can be reached at craig.sorvillo@gmail.com or on twitter @craig_sorvillo. 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 his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a military commander and strategist. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. Craig Sorvillo is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Florida. He specializes in Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He can be reached at craig.sorvillo@gmail.com or on twitter @craig_sorvillo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Phil is joined by 99.1 The Sports Animal's Tyler Ivens to talk about the home opener against East Tennessee State University, how healthy the roster is, who Skyler & Phil are & more! #PhilShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's episode of the Be More Today Show features Dr. Damar Bobb. Dr. Damar Bobb is a sports performance coach and doctoral graduate from East Tennessee State University. He has almost 10 years of experience in D1 athletics all around the US. He is currently on a new journey in Sport Performance after leaving his role as Head Sport Performance Coach for Women's Basketball at ETSU. Join our conversation as we discuss the challenges of being the only minority in certain educational spaces, how important it is to always bet on yourself, and why it is never too late to do something great in this world. To contact Dr. Bobb email him at Bobbdk@etsu.edu or follow him on LinkedIn. For more information visit www.bemoretoday.com.

Gareth Laffely is a licensed sound healing practitioner with the Sound Healing Academy. He grew up just north of Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in central Maine. Descended from the Mi'kmaq Native American people, Gareth has a passion for using traditional instruments from his culture to make a positive impact in the lives of those around him. Gareth began his relationship with the Sound Healing Academy in 2021 when he took the Level 1 Sound Healing with Rhythm and Drums program. A year later, he completed his Level 2 training in the 1-2-1 Diploma program. Prior to his training, he spent several years bringing his Native American flutes into hospitals and nursing homes, using music to comfort terminally ill patients and their families. With a deep love for teaching, Gareth has hosted flute and drum workshops across the United States since 2013. He believes music is extremely powerful and can transcend personal limitations. In addition to his experience with integral sound healing, Gareth is also a recording artist and composer. He has released five CDs, including one recorded with George Lucas' symphony at Skywalker Ranch, and his music has been licensed by the Discovery Channel, A&E, History Channel, Travel Channel, and PBS. Gareth also reached #2 on the Billboard Music Charts for New Age. He holds a master's degree in Digital Marketing from East Tennessee State University and is honored to be working as Head of Marketing at the Sound Healing Academy as they change lives around the world. https://www.garethmusic.com/ Laura Turian is an Angelic Reiki Master, Intuitive Tarot Reader, Crystal Healer, Candle Maker, free spirited Aquarius and proud cat mum to Angelo. She is a Digital Marketing Specialist at The Sound Healing Academy, where she combines her creativity and passion to share the transformative power of sound healing with a global audience. Through her sacred business, The Journey To Higher Self, Laura offers energetic healing sessions that help people release what no longer serves them and step into their purpose, joy, and authenticity. Drawing on her skills in Angelic Reiki, Tarot Reading, Crystal Healing, and Integral Sound Healing, she guides others through their multidimensional healing journeys — opening hearts, expanding consciousness, and inspiring people to live their most aligned lives. https://thejourneytohigherself.co.uk/ Sound Healing Academy: https://www.academyofsoundhealing.com/ Natalie Brown, host of Sounds Heal Podcast: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA

Today on Consuming the Craft, I'm joined by Dan Rowe, the head brewer at Yeehaw Brewing Company, who returns for his third appearance. We dive deep into the evolution and expansion of Yeehaw, from its origins a decade ago in Johnson City to its impressive reach across Tennessee, South Carolina, and beyond. Dan walks us through the complexities of scaling up production, adapting to fast-changing markets and regulations, and the behind-the-scenes work of launching high-profile collaborations like the Vols Lager with the University of Tennessee. We also explore how the brewery stays competitive through innovation—ranging from commissioning a state-of-the-art canning line to experimenting with non-alcoholic, CBD, and THC-infused beverages. Dan shares about his new venture into teaching at ETSU, where he's helping mentor the next generation of brewers, and sheds light on Yeehaw's upcoming projects, including a new Myrtle Beach taproom and an expanded presence in Virginia.Dan Rowe is an accomplished brewer with over a decade of experience across several prominent breweries in the Southeast. Now the head brewer at Yeehaw Brewing Company, Dan oversees operations at their bustling Johnson City facility and coordinates distribution throughout the region. His expertise spans from recipe development and quality control to implementing new technology and expanding production capacity. Passionate about education and giving back to the industry, Dan also serves as an instructor at East Tennessee State University, sharing his knowledge with future beverage professionals."It's an ever-changing landscape, and beer's not dead—there's just more options and flavors now than ever before." ~Dan RoweToday on Consuming the Craft:·     Yeehaw Brewing is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is rapidly expanding, recently increasing its distribution footprint into South Carolina, Virginia, and potentially Alabama.·     Coordinating distribution and production across several states involves complicated logistics, especially with the different alcohol laws and paperwork from state to state.·     The brewery recently upgraded to a 12-head rotary canning line, dramatically increasing efficiency and packaging quality, allowing for record-setting production days.·     The Vols Lager, Yeehaw's collaboration with the University of Tennessee, quickly became the company's largest production undertaking, driving big growth and brand recognition.·     Yeehaw is experimenting with low-dose, nano-emulsified THC and CBD seltzers, navigating the tricky regulatory, quality assurance, and consumer education challenges that come with new beverage categories.·     Dan Rowe is playing an active role in brewing education, teaching at ETSU, and facilitating partnerships for student training in real-world brewing and distillation environments.·     New outlets for Yeehaw are on the horizon, including a taproom in Myrtle Beach (partnered with Ole Smoky Moonshine) and a possible additional Tennessee location.·     Maintaining high quality, streamlining recipes, and keeping grocery-friendly beers on shelves are central to Yeehaw's strategy for sustainable growth.Contact Dan Rowe:·     Yeehaw Brewing Company: https://www.yeehawbrewing.com/·     ETSU Brewing & Distillation Studies: https://www.etsu.edu/Resources Mentioned: ·     Yeehaw Brewing Company and its new rotary canning line·     Vols Lager, brewed in partnership with the University of Tennessee·     East Tennessee State University Brewing and Distillation program·     Tennessee Hills Brewstillery·     Laird's Apple Brandy (Distillery Permit #1)·     Tennessee Stud Hard Cider·     Old Smoky Moonshine·     Broadway at the Beach (future Myrtle Beach taproom location)·     McConnell Farms This episode is brought to you by… McConnell Farms - Taste the Way You Remember. Enjoy homemade ciders and ice cream made from only the best produce on the market. Visit the McConnell Farms website to learn more about our seasonal inventory and the delicious creations you can make with our homegrown produce. Consuming the CraftThanks for tuning into this week's Consuming the Craft Podcast episode, brought to you by AB Tech's Craft Beverage Institute of the Southeast. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.Apple Podcasts | GooglePlay  Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help us reach more craft beverage enthusiasts. To learn more about AB Tech and the Craft Beer Institute of the Southeast, visit our website. 

Sign up for the Power and Strength Summit, the best damn strength power conference in 2025!!Register here:https://www.powerandstrengthsummit.com/Dr. Jacob Goodin is an associate professor of kinesiology and Director of Sport Science at Point Loma Nazarene University. He holds a PhD in Sport Physiology from East Tennessee State University, where he studied barbell squatting styles, muscle fascicle architecture, and athlete monitoring techniques.Alongside his academic pursuits, he also competed in track and field and cross country, showcasing his prowess as an endurance athlete (and eventual coach). In this episode, we examine the role of endurance training for strength and power athletes. Follow Jacob: https://www.instagram.com/drjacobgoodin/https://www.drjacobgoodin.com/Follow me and get coaching:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/josh_philwl/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/philosophicalweightlifting/Follow Jessie: https://www.instagram.com/jessiestemo/https://powerandgraceperformance.com/Weightlifting House: code PHILWL for 10% off⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.weightliftinghouse.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Onyx: with code PHILWL for 10% off⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.onyxstraps.com/⁠

On this episode, we are joined by Kimberly Masker, an occupational therapist and certified hand therapy, and Tauni Bird, also an occupational therapist who have been researching and educating others on treating patients in the context of substance use. They share with us what substance use disorder is, the stigma that surrounds these patients, and what we as hand therapists can do to mitigate that stigma and provide harm reduction. Welcome to Hands in Motion, Kim and Tauni.Guest bio: Kimberly Masker, OTD, OTR/L, CHT received her undergraduate degree from ETSU in 1995, her Master's in OT degree from Washington University in 2000, and received her post-professional doctorate in OT from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMUoHP) in 2015. She earned her Certified Hand Therapist (CHT) specialty certification in 2007. She is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program at East Tennessee State University. Kim's clinical practice is as senior therapist at The Hand Center at Bristol Regional Medical Center in Tennessee. Her professional interests have focused on hypermobility, wound care, upper extremity multi-trauma, substance use disorders and stigma, and treatment of musicians. She enjoys writing for various hand therapy related publications and blogs. She serves as a consultant for Axogen on studies such as pain and peripheral nerve injuries. She currently serves as Secretary Treasurer of the Northeast District of the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association. She has volunteered for many years with the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT), is co-editor of the 4th edition of the CHT Test Prep Book and Clinical Reference (2022), and is the current President of ASHT.Tauni Bird, OTD, OTR/L (she/her) is an occupational therapist and hand and upper extremity therapist. She is a member of the American Society of Hand Therapists, American Association for Hand Surgery, and American Occupational Therapy Association. She is interested in harm reduction and health equity. Her work on these topics includes conference presentations, non-research articles, and special grant projects. The views and opinions expressed in the Hands in Motion podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of ASHT. Appearance on the podcast does not imply endorsement of any products, services or viewpoints discussed.

Send us a textCoach Myers is in his first year at Birdville H.S. after 4 seasons as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Bixby Spartans. Before arriving at Bixby, Coach Myers spent 4 years as the S & C Coordinator for Edmond Memorial High School. During this time Coach Myers also served as the Defensive Line Coach for the Football team. Prior to Edmond Memorial, Coach Myers worked as a Graduate Assistant for 2 years at East Tennessee State under Master Strength Coach Al Johnson. Prior to entering the coaching profession, Coach Myers was a 4-year starter on the defensive line at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah (2011-2015). Myers served as theteam captain twice during his final two seasons. Myers also received Honorable Mention All-Conference honors during his senior year. Coach Myers earned a Master's of Science in Kinesiology and Sports Studies at East Tennessee State University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Performance from Weber State University. Coach Myers is Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC) through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA) as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through National Strength Coaches Association (NSCA). Coach Myers is also a Level 2 Sports Performance Coach through USA Weightlifting.https://youtube.com/@platesandpancakes4593https://instagram.com/voodoo4power?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://voodoo4ranch.com/To possibly be a guest or support the show email Voodoo4ranch@gmail.comhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/voodoo4ranch

Executive Director for the Symphony of the Mountains Orchestra, Percussionist, Freelancer, and Educator Cassidy Lester stops by to talk about her work with the Symphony (03:05), her freelancing and teaching and how important performing is to her mental health (16:30), growing up in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee, traveling with family to jam band concerts, getting into percussion, and her unique marching experiences (31:30), attending East Tennessee State University, getting her undergrad and MBA degrees, and how COVID changed her path (51:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of instrument stereotyping, the Pride and Prejudice movie from the mid-2000s, the Fourth Wing books, and great artwork (01:12:05).Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 nonfiction book Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld (01:52:00).Cassidy Lester links:Symphony of the MountainsPrevious Podcast Guests mentioned:Matthew Geiger in 2019Evan Chapman in 2019Andy Bliss in 2023Other Links:David MitchellDiana LoomerMorgan TaoBlue Iron PercussionThe Planets - Gustav HolstDon Felder“The Hero” - Clarice Assad (arr. TCP)“Second Thoughts” - Evan Chapman“Re(new)al” - Viet Cuong“Happy Now” - Blue Iron Community Steel Band“Watercolor Sun” - Ivan TrevinoRhythm & Roots Reunion FestivalThe 1927 Bristol SessionsWidespread Panic live“Esther” - Phish“Cassidy” - The Grateful Dead“Welcome to the Black Parade” - My Chemical RomanceRande SanderbeckPride and Prejudice Original SoundtrackPride and Prejudice trailerEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind trailerIT trailer (1990)Avengers: Endgame trailerThe LEGO Movie trailerThe LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part trailerFahrenheit 451 - Ray BradburyFourth Wing - Rebecca YarrosThis is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. LevitinMusicophilia - Oliver SacksInto the Wild - Jon KrakauerRhinoceros Success - Scott AlexanderHeaven Breaker - Sara WolfTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher PaoliniVampire Diaries: Season 1 trailerRed - John LoganFour Darks in Red - Mark RothkoThe Stranger - Albert CamusLong Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'NeillRaves:Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld - T. J. English

We are joined by physical therapists Saurabh Mehta and Christos Karagiannopoulos, who – along with a team of therapists and surgeons – developed a clinical practice guideline for rehabilitation following distal radius fractures. They share with us how a CPG is developed, how the evidence is synthesized and how they came to their conclusions based on the evidence to provide recommendations for evaluation, interventions and prognosis. Guest Bios: Dr. Karagiannopoulos is a full-time associate professor at DeSales University DPT program with a current line of research on the assessment and management of wrist sensorimotor control impairment. He has earned a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Education, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology from Temple University. His master's in physical therapy was earned from MCP-Hahnemann University (Drexel University) in 1999. Christos has dedicated his 20+ years clinical practice in orthopedic physical therapy and the rehabilitation of the upper extremity as a Certified Hand Therapist. He has dedicated his clinical research line on the wrist sensorimotor control impairment, developing the active wrist joint position sense test and its psychometric properties. Dr. Karagiannopoulos has published his most recent research work in the Journal of Hand Therapy, and he co-authored the most recent 2024 APTA Clinical Practice Guidelines on distal radius fracture rehabilitation in the JOSPT. He has also co-authored the 2020 AAOS Clinical Practice Guidelines for distal radius fracture management. Dr. Karagiannopoulos has lectured at various local, national, and international symposiums. He currently serves on the APTA Academy of Hand & Upper Extremity as a program co-chair and a member of the research committee. He is also a member of the Journal of Hand Therapy editorial board.Dr. Mehta is a board-certified specialist in geriatric physical therapy and the Director of Research for the College of Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University. He has collaborated and published multiple data-based articles and systematic reviews in upper extremity rehabilitation, healthy aging, and improving physical functions in the elderly. Dr. Mehta recently led the efforts to develop ICF-based clinical practice guidelines for the rehabilitation of distal radius fractures. He is the chair of the Aging Research and Geriatric Rehabilitation Networking Group of the American College of Rehabilitation Medicine

An episode that hits hard and stays in bounds!In Episode 125 of The Autistic Culture Podcast, we explore the unexpected overlap between roller derby and autistic identity with guest Carina Taylor — a neurodivergent therapist and seasoned skater. From emotional regulation to alter egos, this episode dives into how the sport offers structure, expression, and community for autistic and neurodivergent individuals alike.Here's what we cover in today's episode: * In this episode, Angela chats with Carina Taylor — a primary therapist at Foundations in Asheville, North Carolina and a roller derby extraordinaire — about the unique connections between roller derby and autism.* We dive into roller derby technique and clear up some common misconceptions (no, it's not choreographed — and no, it's not all about aggression). But it does bring out some big emotions and serious intensity.* Despite its rough-and-tumble reputation, roller derby is a highly organized sport with a detailed rule set and a strong emphasis on strategy and teamwork. It's also one of the most gender-inclusive sports out there, creating space for athletes of all gender identities to participate, compete, and feel represented on the track.* Additionally, roller derby often involves adopting a persona or alter ego — a playful, empowering form of masking that allows skaters to fully step into a character and express parts of themselves that might not surface in everyday life.* Roller derby offers a powerful outlet for emotional expression, allowing skaters to channel complex feelings—like frustration, excitement, and vulnerability—into physical movement and team connection. The structure and creativity of the sport provide a safe, supportive space where emotions aren't just allowed but embraced. For many, especially neurodivergent individuals, it becomes a form of regulation, empowerment, and authentic self-expression both on and off the track.Carina Taylor's BioCarina (she/her) is a primary therapist at Foundations in Asheville, a young adult transition community located in the mountains of North Carolina. Originally from Pennsylvania, Carina completed her Bachelor's in Sociology with minors in Psychology and Social Work at Bridgewater College in Virginia and her Master's in Social Work at East Tennessee State University. As a Primary Therapist at Foundations, she provides therapy that focuses on values exploration, identity development, resilience expansion, and trauma-informed care including EMDR therapy. One of her biggest goals when working with students is to help them normalize what they are experiencing and why they are experiencing it, while moving through their experiences in a more resilient and settled state. In her free time, she enjoys being active, including roller derby!Did you enjoy this episode? We talk about all things roller derby — from the rules and strategy to the emotional intensity it brings out in skaters. We also explore how this high-energy, gender-inclusive sport offers a powerful outlet for neurodivergent and autistic individuals to express themselves, connect with community, and even embrace a bold alter ego. Join the convo with #AutisticCultureCatch!Special thanks to our friends at Shrub Oak International for making this episode happen. Shrub Oak offers a personalized, strength-based education on a serene 127-acre campus. Their transdisciplinary team collaborates to create individualized learning plans that honor each student's passions and needs. Beyond academics, they provide clinical services, life skills development, and a rich array of activities—from art and music to therapeutic horsemanship—all designed to your kid feeling actually happy—not just compliant. If you're searching for a school that truly understands and nurtures autistic students, visit shruboak.org to learn more.Resources:Smokey Mountain Roller Derby - https://www.facebook.com/SmokyMountainRollerGirls/ Foundations Asheville - https://foundationsasheville.comRelated Episodes:Belly Dancing is AutisticFollow us on InstagramFind us on Apple Podcasts and SpotifyLearn more about Matt at Matt Lowry, LPPJoin Matt's Autistic Connections Facebook GroupLearn more about Angela at AngelaKingdon.com Angela's social media: Twitter and TikTokOur Autism-affirming merch shop This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.autisticculturepodcast.com/subscribe

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews author Michael Cody about his new thriller STREETS OF NASHVILLE. Michael Cody was born in the South Carolina Lowcountry and raised in the North Carolina highlands. He spent his twenties writing songs in Nashville and his thirties in school. He's the author of the novel Gabriel's Songbook (Pisgah Press) and short fiction that has appeared in Yemassee, Tampa Review, Still: The Journal, and elsewhere. His short story collection, A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press) won the Short Story / Anthology category of the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University.

In this episode of “Why I Teach,” Dr. Flo Weierbach, a seasoned nurse and professor at East Tennessee State University's College of Nursing, talks with Provost Kimberly D. McCorkle about her journey from providing direct care to teaching the next generation of nurses. With over 40 years of experience, Dr. Weierbach discusses her research on caregiver health, the challenges of rural health care, and the importance of interprofessional education for nurses. She also provides a snapshot of her experience with the Nurse Narratives Initiative.

What did you think of this episode?Boost book sales through Amazon. In this encore episode, Linda Goldfarb and Vincent B. Davis II share what you need to know to increase sales as a multibook author.Linda Goldfarb's industry expert is Vincent B. Davis II. Vincent is an author, entrepreneur, and veteran.  He is a graduate of East Tennessee State University and has served in the United States Army since 2014. He's the author of eight books, four of which have become international bestsellers. When he's not researching or writing his next book, you can find him watching Carolina Panthers football or playing with his rescued mutt, Buddy.The questions Linda and Vincent cover in today's episode are:1. How to optimize your front and back matter.2. Getting beyond Option Paralysis3.  Number one way to sell more books R & R4. The statistical benefit of writing more books.5. Tools outside Amazon to augment Amazon sales.6.  Traffic + Conversion = $$$LINKSVincent B. Davis IIAmazon Strategies for Advanced Writers PDF downloadPickfu.comAsk Vincent about coaching - include YBWL in the subject line and request $100 off.  email vincent@warriorbookmarketing.com Visit Your Best Writing Life website.Join our Facebook group, Your Best Writing LifeYour host - Linda Goldfarb#1 Podcast in the "Top 50+ Must-Have Tools and Resources for Christian Writers in 2024". Awarded the Spark Media 2022 Most Binge-Worthy PodcastAwarded the Spark Media 2023 Fan Favorites Best Solo Podcast

Meet Andi Clements, Professor at East Tennessee State University, Associate Director of Research Design and Implementation at the ETSU Strong BRAIN Institute, and president of Uplift Appalachia, a nonprofit that equips churches to help those with substance use disorder and mental health challenges. And meet Becky Haas, international trauma-informed trainer, ordained minister, and pioneer in creating trauma-informed communities. Her cross-sector work in Northeast Tennessee has been awarded and recognized by SAMHSA, the Obama administration, and other agencies as a model to be followed.A decade ago, Andi and Becky discussed ideas that would create social change in their community. They took steps, did what they could, and today, they've taken change beyond their town, across sectors, and across countries. They credit two things: their faith in Jesus and their friendship. Listen in as Andi and Becky talk about their work and its evolution over the years, their self-care strategies, the importance of relationships, the vitality of prayer, and the necessity of endurance.   Book by Andi: The Trauma-informed ChurchTo connect with Andi: www.upliftappalachia.orgBook by Becky: Your City is Waiting on YouTo connect with Becky: www.beckyhaas.com

What did you think of this episode?Need help with Amazon optimization? Amazon marketing expert Vincent B. Davis II shares what you need to succeed in this encore episode as a Christian writer.Linda Goldfarb's industry expert is Vincent B. Davis II. Vincent is an author, entrepreneur, and veteran. He graduated from East Tennessee State University and has served in the United States Army since 2014. He's the author of eight books, four of which have become international bestsellers. When he's not researching or writing his next book, you can find him watching Carolina Panthers football or playing with his rescued mutt, Buddy. The questions Linda and Vincent cover in today's encore episode are:1.     Why choose to sell exclusively on Amazon? 2.     What are two considerations we must know about Amazon marketing? 3.     What milestones should authors try to hit after launching a book on Amazon?  4.     How do authors engage with Amazon algorithms to sell books? 5.     What types of books typically succeed on Amazon with your marketing tactics? LINKSVincent B. Davis IIAmazon Strategies for Beginning Writers PDF downloadAsk Vincent about coaching - include YBWL in the subject line and request $100 off.Visit Your Best Writing Life website.Join our Facebook group, Your Best Writing LifeYour host - Linda Goldfarb#1 Podcast in the "Top 50+ Must-Have Tools and Resources for Christian Writers in 2024". Awarded the Spark Media 2022 Most Binge-Worthy PodcastAwarded the Spark Media 2023 Fan Favorites Best Solo Podcast

About the Guest:Brenda Mock Brown is the head women's basketball coach at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), entering her third season in this role. Coach Brown has an extensive career in collegiate basketball, having served as both an assistant and head coach at various institutions, including Georgia Tech and UNC Asheville. She boasts a background as a former professional basketball player in France and holds a master's degree in education. Brenda's coaching philosophy is grounded in strong relationship-building and player development, focusing on both athletic and personal growth for her team members.Episode Summary:In this engaging episode of the Johnson City Living podcast, host Colin Johnson welcomes Coach Brenda Mock Brown, the vibrant head coach of the ETSU women's basketball team. As they dive into the world of collegiate women's basketball, Brenda shares insights into her coaching journey, her experience playing professionally in France, and the dynamic changes in college athletics, including the impact of the NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) regulations. Through a mix of humor and heartfelt stories, the discussion explores the challenges and rewards of building a competitive basketball team at ETSU, set against the backdrop of the charming Johnson City community.Coach Brenda delves into her upbringing in Waynesville, NC, and her academic and athletic journey through Wake Forest University, which eventually led her to a fulfilling coaching career. This episode is rich with valuable SEO keywords like "ETSU women's basketball," "NIL regulations," and "college sports culture," encapsulating Brenda's holistic approach to coaching both on and off the court. Listeners are invited to learn more about the unique aspects of the ETSU women's basketball program, including the engaging atmosphere at Brooks Gym and upcoming events and camps designed to foster young athletes' passion for the sport.Key Takeaways:Brenda Mock Brown highlights the significance of developing strong relationships with her players, fostering a supportive and transformative basketball program at ETSU.The podcast discusses the evolving landscape of college athletics with the increasing influence of NIL regulations and the NCAA transfer portal.Brenda emphasizes the importance of community support, inviting residents to attend women's basketball games to experience the excitement and teamwork firsthand.The episode showcases the diverse academic and extracurricular offerings at East Tennessee State University, aiming to attract prospective students and athletes.Insights into Coach Brown's personal journey reveal the importance of adaptability, faith, and perseverance in navigating the complex world of collegiate sports.Notable Quotes:"I believe we can win. I believe in this team." – Brenda Mock Brown"Coaching is about results through relationships." – Brenda Mock Brown"I don't want to be something our student-athletes have to overcome." – Brenda Mock Brown"The Lord's hand was on my life, even when I wasn't asking." – Brenda Mock Brown"It's not the role; it's how you do the role." – Brenda Mock BrownResources:ETSU Athletics: ETSU Athletics Official WebsiteFollow ETSU Women's Basketball on social media for updates, game schedules, and behind-the-scenes content.Don't miss this episode that offers a genuine glimpse into the compelling world of college basketball coaching as Coach Brenda Mock Brown shares her experiences and vision for the future. Tune in for more episodes of the Johnson City Living podcast to discover stories that celebrate the vibrant community of Johnson City.

​ @Notevend2 talks with Jalen Haynes on this week's episode. Jalen Haynes grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he ended up playing high school basketball under legendary coach Darryl Burrows. After graduating high school, Haynes did a post-grad year at @montverdeacademy . The Florida native attended the prep school during Covid-19 when Monteverde had future NBA players, including Jaren Duran and Andrew Nembhard. After a dominant post-grad year, Haynes committed to Virginia Tech. Haynes played one year for the @hokiesports ; during his one year, Virginia Tech won the ACC championship (2021-22). Jalen transferred after his first year at Virginia Tech to East Tennessee State University. Haynes finished his lone year at ETSU as an all-conference player that averaged 14.6 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game. The standout big man entered the transfer portal once more heading into the 2023-24 season. Jalen heard from plenty of Power 5 schools, and ultimately choose @georgemasonuniversity . Haynes redshirted his first year, but is now having a very efficient season playing in the Atlantic-10. George Mason is currently 20-5 (11-1) with Haynes playing a major role averaging north of 12 ppg and 7 rpg. Hear about Haynes journey playing at different schools throughout his career, what the goals are for this year's GMU team are, and what the future of his career looks like. This episode is available wherever you get your podcasts. Make sure to subscribe to the podcasts YouTube channel @Notevend2 for more sports content. Enjoy the episode! Sneak Peek- 00:00-00:17 Alfred/Utica MBB Updates- 00:17-02:23 Intro- 02:23-08:26 Daily Schedule, Personal Tattoos- 08:26-10:54 SC Top 10 Dunk, GMU's Roster/Success, Teams Goal for the 2024-25 Season- 10:54-18:00Growing up in Florida, Post-grad Year @ Monteverde Academy- 18:00-22:40 Year @ ETSU, Staying Ready after Playing @ Virginia Tech, ACC Championship Memories- 22:40-26:36 Redshirting @ GMU, GMU Vs. Duke- 26:36-28:01 Break- 28:01-28:14 Recruitment after ETSU, Transfer Portal, Opinions on Atlantic-10- 28:14-30:55 Coach Tony Skinn, Future for Jalen Haynes- 30:55-33:14 Rapid Fire (Top 3 Fl Teammates, Favorite Rod Wave, Funniest Teammates- 33:14-35:59 Starting 5: Best Players Played With- 35:59-37:41 Only in D3- 37:41-41:53 NEW Empire 8 Segment- 41:53-43:30 Mekhi Beckett (Brockport MBB)- 43:30-48:29 Kristin Suydam (Geneseo WBB)- 48:29-52:57 Damien Call (Utica MBB)- 52:57-58:57 Outro- 58:57-59:34

It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, President Series (Powered By ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠) #338, & brought to YOU by the ⁠⁠InsightsEDU⁠⁠ 2025 conference YOUR guest is Dr. Brian Noland, President, East Tennessee State University YOUR host is ⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio his episode highlights ETSU's mission to serve the Appalachian region & its role as a healthcare education hub. President Noland discusses ETSU's impact as an institution of 14,000 students & 2,600 faculty/staff, emphasizing their focus on first-generation students & healthcare education through their Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, & Nursing. The conversation explores ETSU's response to the opioid crisis, including establishing the Over Mountain Recovery Center & receiving $10 million in grant funding for treatment programs. ETSU stands out with 40% of graduates being first-generation college students & 70% of regional healthcare practitioners being ETSU alumni. The discussion delves into managing rapid-fire challenges in higher education leadership & emphasizes the importance of post-secondary education beyond traditional degrees. Throughout the episode, President Noland shares insights on the evolution of student mental health services & the significant impact of social media on higher education. In the extended subscriber-only conversation, listeners learn about ETSU's innovative partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield - a 2.5-year accelerated computer science degree program with 100% job placement. President Noland discusses the challenges of scaling such partnerships, including faculty shortages in high-demand fields like nursing & computer science, where industry salaries outcompete academic positions. He also shares insights on balancing regional service with finite resources through targeted program development & the importance of P20 education focus in raising educational attainment levels in Appalachia. Listen in to #EdUp Do YOU want to accelerate YOUR professional development? Do YOU want to get exclusive early access to ad-free episodes, extended episodes, bonus episodes, original content, invites to special events, & more? Then ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BECOME AN #EdUp PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER TODAY⁠⁠ - $19.99/month or $199.99/year (Save 17%)! Want YOUR org to cover costs? Email: EdUp@edupexperience.com Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠ ● Join YOUR EdUp community at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The EdUp Experience⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! We make education YOUR business!

**Reupload. Originally Posted 5/15/20**Raise your baton, ready your highlighters and pens, and don't forget to grab that score as Dr. Payne and Eric continue our month long Conducting Bootcamp! Dr. Onsby Rose from Dordt University joins us this week to share his unique perspective as a Composer and a Conductor.Dr. Onsby C. Rose is currently the Director of Instrumental Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Dordt University. In this position, he conducts the premiere instrumental ensemble, the Dordt University Wind Symphony, in addition to conducting the Dordt Campus-Community Band, and guiding all aspects of the Dordt Instrumental Ensembles and Instrumental Music Education programs. He is also the General Manager & Executive Director of the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra and has accepted an appointment as the Principal conductor of the orchestra beginning in the 2020-21 season. Prior to Dr. Rose's arrival in northwest Iowa, he attended the University of South Carolina as a music education major and in 1997 he was accepted as a trombonist for the U.S. Marine Corps fleet bands. During his 11-year Marine Corps career he served as a trombonist and conductor with bands in Albany, GA and New Orleans, LA as well as on staff at the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, VA. He also served for two years as a baritone bugler with "The Commandant's Own" U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps in Washington, D.C. Dr. Rose completed his Bachelor of Music at East Tennessee State University in 2005. In 2007 Onsby was honorably discharged from the USMC. He then freelanced as a trombonist and worked as a railroad freight conductor in the eastern U.S., before returning to music education in 2012 as Director of Bands at Hampton HS and MS in Carter County, TN. In 2016, Dr. Rose completed his Master of Music in conducting at Appalachian State University. Immediately following he completed his in D.M.A. in conducting at The Ohio State University where he studied with Dr. Russel C. Mikkelson. Dr. Rose has studied conducting with Russel C. Mikkelson, John Ross, and Kevin Richardson with additional conducting studies with Jerry Junkin, Kevin Sedatole, Frank Battisti, Charles Peltz, Eugene Corporon, Donald McKinney, and Steven Peterson. Dr. Rose's outside academic pursuits encompass writing and music composition. Having studied with the late Dr. David Maslanka, Dr. Rose's musical compositions have been performed by many of the premiere military bands in Washington D.C., the Wheaton Municipal Band, numerous college and high school bands in the United States, regional orchestras, as well as internationally in Australia, Japan, Guam, and Germany.  Although Onsby views himself primarily as a teacher and conductor, he thanks God for the gift of composition. Onsby and his wife Jessica live in Sioux Center, Iowa with four of their five boys, Timothy, Caleb, Elijah and Colin. Dr. Rose is a member of numerous professional organizations to include the CBDNA, WASBE, NAfME, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. However, he holds closest to his heart the title of United States Marine. (bio courtesy of dordt.edu)Not Your Forte Podcast is a music education podcast that is geared towards helping Music Education students survive and thrive throughout their undergrad as well as prepare to enter the "real world". Not Your Forte is brought to you by Eric Tinkler, a senior in music education at Kansas State and Dr. Phillip Payne, the Undergraduate Music Education advisor at Kansas State. You can listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube and much more!Support the show

Dr. William Turner and Dr. Ted Olson talk to Geonoah Davis and Kelly Thompson, two artists whose hip-hop sounds are expanding traditional ideas about music in Appalachia. Borrowing from a generations-old African American heritage of spoken word expression, rap and hip-hop echo a long narrative tradition of African American cultural survival against all odds. These original historical elements are deeply rooted in the fabric of Appalachia, blending into the backdrop of the region's musical character yet revived and brought forward again by these fresh creative talents with their contemporary styles.Geonoah Davis, known by the artistic name geonovah, was born and raised in Big Stone Gap, VA, in the heart of Appalachia's coal and iron industry. He wasn't the first rapper in his family, and early collaborations with his cousin RKMITCH allowed him to develop his powers of poetry into an artistry for hip-hop lyric and verse. Kelly Thompson, a.k.a Pookie, also hails from Big Stone Gap but spent his early childhood in North Carolina. Friends since middle school, he and Geonoah have made music together for many years—Kelly creating beats and Geonoah writing lyrics. Kelly evolved his talents to include music production, learning from local producers in his area.Dr. William Turner is a long-time African American studies scholar and retired Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies and Regional Ambassador from Berea College. He was also a research assistant to Roots author Alex Haley and co-editor of the groundbreaking Blacks in Appalachia. In 2021, Turner received Western Carolina University's individual Mountain Heritage Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Southern Appalachian studies. His memoir called The Harlan Renaissance, available from West Virginia University Press, was awarded the prestigious Weatherford Award at the 2022 Appalachian Studies Association Conference.Dr. Ted Olson is a music historian and professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of many books, articles, reviews, encyclopedia entries, and oral histories. Olson has produced and compiled a number of documentary albums of traditional Appalachian music including On Top of Old Smoky and Big Bend Killing, both from Smokies Life. His work has received a number of awards, including nine Grammy nominations. The East Tennessee Historical Society honored Olson with its Ramsey Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2021.Music featured includes:1.    “John Henry” performed by Amythyst Kiah and Roy Andrade from GSMA's (now Smokies Life's) album Big Bend Killing2.    “Takin' Me Over” performed by geonovah for the album No Options: Hip-Hop in Appalachia, used courtesy of June Appal Recordings3.    “S&S” performed by geonovah for the album No Options: Hip-Hop in Appalachia, used courtesy of June Appal Recordings4.    “Black Lives Never Mattered” by RKMITCH featuring geonovah, vocals mixed by Pookie 

This episode is brought to you by Bon Charge, One Skin, and Cozy Earth. Sticking to a healthy diet isn't always easy, and it can feel almost impossible when you're just starting out. While some may see this as a sign of weakness, today's guest explains that our bodies simply haven't evolved to keep up with modern lifestyles and the constant availability of ultra-processed foods. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Mike Israetel to discuss how our modern food environment taps into our evolutionary drive to consume and store calories for times of scarcity. Dr. Mike explains why punishing yourself or approaching weight loss with self-hatred is counterproductive and shares a practical guide for sustainable weight loss, no matter your goal. If you're considering semaglutides, he outlines the key factors for a successful experience. Ready to crush your weight loss goals in 2025? Tune in for these expert tips!  Dr. Mike, PhD, is the co-founder and Chief Content Officer of RP Strength (Renaissance Periodization) and the face of its popular YouTube channel. With a doctorate in sports physiology from East Tennessee State University, he is a seasoned expert in fitness and performance. As a former sports nutrition consultant for the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Johnson City, Tennessee, Dr. Mike has shared his expertise at global scientific and performance conferences, including seminars at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid. He has coached countless athletes in nutrition and weight training and continues to push his limits as a competitive bodybuilder and professional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grappler. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Mikel dive into: Why the human body is good at storing fat and why it has been a key part of our survival as a species (00:28) Forgiveness and acceptance of your current body while empowering yourself to make changes (10:06) How to lose stubborn fat in a sustainable way (17:13) A balanced and practical approach to fat loss (32:02) The role of obesogens, calories, and seed oils in weight gain (38:45) Hidden calories in foods and how easily we overeat without realizing it (48:34) Weight loss and appetite-suppressing drugs (57:19) Key cultural and genetic differences in obesity levels between the USA, Japan, and other countries (01:10:33) Are semaglutides appropriate for individuals trying to lose less than 30 pounds (01:26:30) How diet can help reduce addictions (01:34:57) The difference between business meals and fun meals (01:41:30) Also mentioned in this episode: Learn more about Dr. Mike and access free guides from RP Strength here For more on Dr. Israetel, follow him on Instagram, X/Twitter, YouTube, and his Website. This episode is brought to you by Bon Charge, One Skin, and Cozy Earth. Right now, BON CHARGE is offering my community 15% off; just go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use coupon code DHRU to save 15%. Right now, One Skin is offering my community 15% off; just go to oneskin.co and use coupon code DHRU to save 15% and give your skin the scientifically proven, gentle care it deserves.  Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with Dr. Mike Israetel, an exercise physiologist and co-founder of Renaissance Periodization, to break down the science of sustainable fat loss and muscle gain. We explore the essential strategies for transforming your physique without falling for quick fixes or fad diets. From macronutrient distribution to the critical role of resistance training, Dr. Israetel offers practical, science-backed guidance for anyone looking to optimize their health and fitness. From macronutrients to supplements, we cover it all! We dive into: Why fat loss is often misunderstood and overcomplicated The key principles of calorie balance and macronutrient needs Strategies to preserve muscle while losing fat How to tailor your diet and activity level for sustainable results The revolutionary role of GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic If you've ever struggled to make sense of dieting myths or want a clear roadmap to achieving your fitness goals, this episode delivers the tools you need to succeed. Who is Dr. Mike Israetel? Dr. Mike Israetel is a leading expert in exercise physiology and nutrition science. With a PhD in Sport Physiology from East Tennessee State University, he has dedicated his career to teaching evidence-based principles for fitness and nutrition. As the co-founder of Renaissance Periodization, he has helped countless individuals achieve their goals through practical and sustainable methods. Dr. Israetel is also a competitive bodybuilder, author, and sought-after speaker in the fitness industry.

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In this episode of The Jon Gordon Podcast, I'm joined by David Jones who shares an incredible story of resilience and love. When Hurricane Helene hit, David was determined to make it to his daughter's wedding, despite facing impassable roads and challenging conditions. David's journey took all night and involved a 17-mile walk on a narrow, unlit road, using only his cell phone light and a makeshift reflector for safety. His story of overcoming obstacles with vision, goal setting, and perseverance is both inspirational and moving. Join us as we discuss the themes of positivity, persistence, and the powerful role of strong father figures. You'll be inspired by David's dedication and his commitment to both his family and his principles in business.   About David, David is an instructor, consultant, and executive coach with McClaskey Excellence Institute. He has over 35 years of experience in the manufacturing, education, and health care sectors. He is passionate about helping individuals and organizations reach their full potential, particularly through the use of the Baldrige Criteria. Concurrent with his teaching and consulting, David was an engineer and manager with Texas Instruments, Siemens, EPIC Technologies, and Mountain States Health Alliance. His areas of expertise span Management, Leadership, Performance Excellence, Strategic Planning, Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales, ISO 9000, and ISO 13485. In 2007 he co-founded Edamar, Inc., an award-winning educational products company serving the K-12 science classroom with innovative hands-on teaching tools. David has over 25 years of hands-on experience with the Baldrige Framework at the state and national levels as an applicant, examiner, examiner training facilitator, judge, and consultant. He has consulted with numerous state quality award winning organizations and two Malcolm Baldrige Award winning organizations. He has served on multiple local, national, and international boards. He has also been an adjunct instructor in the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University and in the MBA program at Milligan College. He is currently an instructor for the American Society for Quality (ASQ) where he earned certifications as a Certified Quality Engineer (1985-2011) and Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (1995-2011). David holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering (Engineering Management) from the University of Tennessee.   Here are a few additional resources for you… Follow me on Instagram: @JonGordon11 Every week, I send out a free Positive Tip newsletter via email. It's advice for your life, work and team. You can sign up now here and catch up on past newsletters. Join me for my Day of Development! You'll learn proven strategies to develop confidence, improve your leadership and build a connected and committed team. You'll leave with an action plan to supercharge your growth and results. It's time to Create your Positive Advantage. Get details and sign up here. Do you feel called to do more? Would you like to impact more people as a leader, writer, speaker, coach and trainer? Get Jon Gordon Certified if you want to be mentored by me and my team to teach my proven frameworks principles, and programs for businesses, sports, education, healthcare!