Podcasts about Eldoret

This weekend interview is powered by Lululemon. Are you heading up to the Gold Coast Marathon? Lululemon is bringing together runners, crews, and clubs for one of the biggest weekends on the Australian run calendar. Join them for final race prep, recovery sessions, and post-race celebrations. You can register for the clubhouse here: https://events.bizzabo.com/738043/home This weekend interview is with decorated steeplechaser, middle distance runner and Olympian Youcef Abdi, talking with Brad about how running took him from Algeria to Australia. Recounting his days playing soccer in their village, Youcef talks about what his inspirations for getting into athletics leading him to representing Algeria for the 1500m in the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Sydney. After the event, Youcef explored his options in his life and decided to make the move to Australia to pursue a career in athletics the transition, navigating accommodation, finding employment and visas to ultimately becoming an Australian citizen in 2000. After his citizenship Youcef recalls the infamous Sydney 2000 Olympic Trials 1500m race where Youcef was caught between Craig Mottram and Nick Howarth, the resulting re-run of that race while still pursuing an Olympic qualifying time. Rounding out this part of the interview Youcef shares with Brad his training structure in the early 2000s era, which emphasised on race-pace practice which earned him a Bronze medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Youcef Abdi picks off from last week recounting his bronze medal performance at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in the 1500m in detail. After going through his personal bests, Youcef talks about what led to his transition from the 1500m to Steeplechase after the campaign for the 2004 Athens Olympics, addressing the challenges in combining hurdling with raw speed. Brad asks about training in Eldoret, Kenya at the time of their elections in the lead up to Beijing 2008 Olympics and Youcef then talks about his 6th place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics before retiring after the London 2012 Olympics, giving insight for what he attributes to having a resilient and durable running career. Youcef rounds out this interview sharing what his current life as a Development Officer for Little Athletics and coming full circle returning to soccer. Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com

DJ UV and Mc Menta Live from Baniyas Square Eldoret 7th February 2025 by Capital FM

En Guinée, la transition devait s'achever ce mardi 31 décembre 2024, mais le gouvernement a confirmé, il y a trois semaines, que la date butoir ne serait pas tenue. MediaGuinée rapporte les demandes du CPA, le Collectif des partis pour l'alternance, collectif décrit par le site d'info comme « pacifique contrairement aux Forces Vives de Guinée » et qui donnait une conférence de presse, lundi 30 décembre 2024. Il souhaite une élection présidentielle « d'ici fin juin », « pour que le nouveau président puisse prêter serment en 2026 ».« Alpha Condé attaque le CNRD », titre de son côté Le Djély, qui partage le discours de l'ancien président, dans lequel il dénonce des  « privations de liberté injustifiées », une « militarisation excessive des rues de la capitale » et une « usurpation du pouvoir démocratique ». « Jamais depuis Sekou Touré la Guinée n'a connu une telle vague de répression », regrette de son côté le romancier guinéen Tierno Monénembo au Monde Afrique. Il déplore aussi le « silence assourdissant » de la communauté internationale sur la situation dans son pays, avant de conclure :« les démocrates africains sont bien seuls aujourd'hui  ». Guinée : les journaux commentent l'arrestation de l'opposant Aliou BahPoursuivi pour offense au chef de l'État, l'opposant guinéen Aliou Bah a été interpellé le 26 décembre 2024. Guinéenews publie une photo de ce dernier, sortant d'un « pick-up de la gendarmerie » pour être entendu par le procureur, au tribunal de Conakry. « Après plus d'une heure », raconte le site d'info, l'opposant est emmené en détention « à la prison centrale ». « Aliou Bah en prison » titre Afrique-sur7 qui assure qu'après avoir été entendu par le procureur, « le leader politique affichait un sentiment de sérénité ». Guinée7 publie de son côté le communiqué du MoDeL, le parti d'Aliou Bah, qui affirme que son procès s'ouvre ce mardi 31 décembre 204 et qui appelle à un rassemblement devant le tribunal.Quelles futures relations entre la Cédéao et l'AES ?« Une rupture évitable, des erreurs impardonnables », titre Seneplus à Dakar. Le média sénégalais espère que l'actuel président de la Cédéao, Bola Tinubu, président nigérian, prenne « une initiative exceptionnelle d'apaisement » avec l'Alliance des États du Sahel, la nouvelle organisation sous-régionale. L'édito sous-entend qu'il faudrait supprimer les sanctions contre les trois juntes. « Il ne suffit pas de brandir des sanctions pour imposer la démocratie », sermonne-t-il, car elles « méprise[nt] l'attachement profond des populations à la liberté de circulation, un des piliers de la Cédéao ». Il faut que cette dernière, au contraire, « réaffirme son rôle de médiateur », juge Seneplus, qui appelle « à l'unité et à la réconciliation ». Kenya : manifestations contre la vague d'enlèvements« Gaz lacrymogènes, matraques : les Kényans se déversent dans les rues lors d'un jour de rage », titre The Standard. Depuis plusieurs mois, le pays est troublé par une vague d'enlèvements de jeunes Kényans, qui ont tous le point commun d'avoir critiqué le pouvoir sur les réseaux sociaux. Les manifestations de lundi 30 décembre 2024 ont été violemment réprimées. « L'année se termine comme elle a commencé », poursuit The Standard qui évoque plusieurs mois marqués par « les brutalités policières ». Nation, autre journal kényan, précise qu'« au moins vingt manifestants, dont un sénateur en exercice, un ancien candidat à la présidence et des dizaines de défenseurs des droits humains ont été arrêtés  à "Nairobi, Mombasa et Eldoret ».

En Guinée, la transition devait s'achever ce mardi 31 décembre 2024, mais le gouvernement a confirmé, il y a trois semaines, que la date butoir ne serait pas tenue. MediaGuinée rapporte les demandes du CPA, le Collectif des partis pour l'alternance, collectif décrit par le site d'info comme « pacifique contrairement aux Forces Vives de Guinée » et qui donnait une conférence de presse, lundi 30 décembre 2024. Il souhaite une élection présidentielle « d'ici fin juin », « pour que le nouveau président puisse prêter serment en 2026 ».« Alpha Condé attaque le CNRD », titre de son côté Le Djély, qui partage le discours de l'ancien président, dans lequel il dénonce des  « privations de liberté injustifiées », une « militarisation excessive des rues de la capitale » et une « usurpation du pouvoir démocratique ». « Jamais depuis Sekou Touré la Guinée n'a connu une telle vague de répression », regrette de son côté le romancier guinéen Tierno Monénembo au Monde Afrique. Il déplore aussi le « silence assourdissant » de la communauté internationale sur la situation dans son pays, avant de conclure :« les démocrates africains sont bien seuls aujourd'hui  ». Guinée : les journaux commentent l'arrestation de l'opposant Aliou BahPoursuivi pour offense au chef de l'État, l'opposant guinéen Aliou Bah a été interpellé le 26 décembre 2024. Guinéenews publie une photo de ce dernier, sortant d'un « pick-up de la gendarmerie » pour être entendu par le procureur, au tribunal de Conakry. « Après plus d'une heure », raconte le site d'info, l'opposant est emmené en détention « à la prison centrale ». « Aliou Bah en prison » titre Afrique-sur7 qui assure qu'après avoir été entendu par le procureur, « le leader politique affichait un sentiment de sérénité ». Guinée7 publie de son côté le communiqué du MoDeL, le parti d'Aliou Bah, qui affirme que son procès s'ouvre ce mardi 31 décembre 204 et qui appelle à un rassemblement devant le tribunal.Quelles futures relations entre la Cédéao et l'AES ?« Une rupture évitable, des erreurs impardonnables », titre Seneplus à Dakar. Le média sénégalais espère que l'actuel président de la Cédéao, Bola Tinubu, président nigérian, prenne « une initiative exceptionnelle d'apaisement » avec l'Alliance des États du Sahel, la nouvelle organisation sous-régionale. L'édito sous-entend qu'il faudrait supprimer les sanctions contre les trois juntes. « Il ne suffit pas de brandir des sanctions pour imposer la démocratie », sermonne-t-il, car elles « méprise[nt] l'attachement profond des populations à la liberté de circulation, un des piliers de la Cédéao ». Il faut que cette dernière, au contraire, « réaffirme son rôle de médiateur », juge Seneplus, qui appelle « à l'unité et à la réconciliation ». Kenya : manifestations contre la vague d'enlèvements« Gaz lacrymogènes, matraques : les Kényans se déversent dans les rues lors d'un jour de rage », titre The Standard. Depuis plusieurs mois, le pays est troublé par une vague d'enlèvements de jeunes Kényans, qui ont tous le point commun d'avoir critiqué le pouvoir sur les réseaux sociaux. Les manifestations de lundi 30 décembre 2024 ont été violemment réprimées. « L'année se termine comme elle a commencé », poursuit The Standard qui évoque plusieurs mois marqués par « les brutalités policières ». Nation, autre journal kényan, précise qu'« au moins vingt manifestants, dont un sénateur en exercice, un ancien candidat à la présidence et des dizaines de défenseurs des droits humains ont été arrêtés  à "Nairobi, Mombasa et Eldoret ».

“Especially after 36K, I was telling myself, ‘Even if they speed up, I have to go deep today…' I was telling myself, ‘This is my moment.'” My guest for today's episode is Abdi Nageeye, whose journey in 2024 could only be described as redemption at its finest. The Dutch marathoner and 2021 Olympic silver medalist who just three months ago grappled with his appointment after withdrawing late in the Olympic marathon in Paris, roared back to claim the biggest victory of his career at the TCS New York City Marathon. In a thrilling showdown against one of the strongest fields in race history, Nageeye deployed patience, strategy, and a powerful finishing kick to secure his first World Marathon Major title in 2:07:39 seconds, making history as the first Dutchman and the first European since 1996. To win the New York City Marathon from his self coach training in Eldoret to a race plan honed by years of experience on the course, Abdi turned heartbreak into triumph. We dive into his reflections on Paris, his mental and physical preparation for New York City, and what this victory means for him moving forward. But first, you'll also hear a never before released interview with Abdi from my trip to Kenya in June 2023, where we discussed a bit more of his backstory and upbringing from being born in Somalia to settling in the Netherlands as a refugee and spending time in Syria before finally being adopted by a Dutch family. I initially planned for this to be released last fall, but didn't have a chance to, but I'm now glad it's finally out. It's fun because towards the end of that first interview, I asked him what he wants to accomplish and he finally gets it done. Part one is my interview with him in Kenya and then part two is my interview with him reflecting on New York. Host: Chris Chavez | ⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram Guest: Abdi Nageeye | @abdinageeye on Instagram Time stamps: 2023 Interview live from Eldoret, Kenya: 3:37 - Reflecting on training  5:02 - Why he likes to train in new places, what he enjoys about training in Kenya  9:05 - His backstory + stories from growing up  18:10 - Why he considers Africa to be his home  20:33 - Being embraced by the Netherlands  22:06 - Why shifting to the roads panned out so well for him  25:49 - What he learned from training with athletes like Eliud Kipchoge  28:20 - Future goals for his running career  2024 Interview after winning the NYC Marathon: 34:51 - How training has been going since the NYC Marathon 38:17 - What life has been like since our first interview in 2023 41:00 - Current training setup  43:28 - Paris Olympics marathon experience  47:55 - Thoughts after dropping out of the Olympic marathon  54:44 - NYC Marathon race breakdown  59:03 - The final miles of the race  1:01:03 - Thoughts when Tamirat Tola was closing on him and Evans Chebet 1:02:36 - The point when he knew he was going to win  1:06:13 - Emotions after crossing the finish line  1:08:12 - Looking ahead to future races  1:11:18 - Reflecting on his marathon career so far  SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS WAHOO: KICKR RUN - a new revolutionary treadmill offering the freedom and form of outdoor running at home, from Wahoo Fitness. Run hands-free and focus solely on the joy of running with the innovative RunFree Mode - which adjusts to your stride and pace automatically. For the first time runners can now fully benefit from indoor training apps such as Zwift Run and the Wahoo app for an immersive training experience that delivers unmatched realism and results. Learn more at WahooFitness.com OLIPOP: For the past year, we've redefined Olipop as more than just a healthy drink known for its gut microbiome with a low sugar content and a much better alternative to regular soda. You know there are more than 16 flavors, including classic root beer, cherry cola, and lemon-lime. You know it as The Runner's Soda. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get 25% off your orders by using code CITIUS25 at drinkolipop.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Nem R is a Kenyan rapper and singer from Eldoret known for her deeply personal music, which often explores themes of pain, struggle, and success. Her unique style blends rap with soulful vocals, pushing beyond genre boundaries, and establishing her as a leading figure in Kenya's underground music scene. In her latest project, Area 7, which features over 25 tracks, she collaborates with prominent artists like HR The Messenger, Kitu Sewer, and Brima Maovete, further showcasing her versatility and dedication to her craft. This interview was featured on Season 15, Episode 12 of the Ado Veli Podcast, which is also the 350th episode in total. Get Ado Veli 1st Service tickets here

This past Sunday we lost a legend. Kelvin Kiptum, the fastest marathoner of all-time, and his coach Gervais Hakizimana, died in a car crash outside of Eldoret, Kenya. By the age of 24, Kelvin had established himself as one of the best endurance runners in history. His world record setting 2:00:35 performance at the 2023 Chicago Marathon was simultaneously the best marathon performance in history and a foreshadowing of the brilliance to come. In this tribute episode Tommie Runz, Marcus Brown, Peter Bromka, Lindsey Hein, and Matt Chittim discuss Kelvin's historic performances, his legacy, and the ways in which he inspired all of us and will continue to do so for generations.

Por primera vez desde que empezó la guerra en Gaza, Israel liberó a dos civiles que estaban secuestrados como rehenes de Hamás. Tras una intensa operación de rescate liderada por el ejército israelí el lunes, lograron reunirse con sus familiares. El operativo militar tuvo lugar en Rafah, una ciudad al sur de Gaza que ha sido el cruce fronterizo clave para la entrada de ayuda humanitaria. Además, es el refugio de alrededor de 1.5 millones de palestinos desplazados por el conflicto. Sin embargo, el éxito de esta misión de rescate se vio opacado por el alto costo humano que conllevó. Los intensos bombardeos aéreos y de artillería israelí en Rafah resultaron en la muerte de al menos 100 personas, según cifras de la Sociedad de la Media Luna Roja Palestina, el equivalente a la Cruz Roja local.El resultado del Super Bowl de este domingo está dando muchísimo de qué hablar para la política estadounidense. Desde hace semanas, los integrantes de MAGA, el movimiento de seguidores de Donald Trump, han esparcido una teoría de conspiración relacionada con el partido. Insistían que el resultado ya estaba arreglado para que los Kansas City Chiefs ganaran la final de la NFL y, así, la pareja del momento Taylor Swift y Travis Kelce le diera su apoyo a Joe Biden. Ante esto, Donald Trump acusó a TayTay de ser “una traidora”. Y como Kansas sí le ganó 25-22 a los San Francisco 49ers, Biden aprovechó la ocasión para burlarse de la teoría de conspiración en su cuenta de X.Además…Xóchitl Gálvez, candidata de la oposición a la Presidencia de México, anda de gira artística por España; AMLO aseguró que el Grito de Independencia de este año será su último acto público y político de su vida; las autoridades de Mexicali suspendieron clases debido a una serie de sismos que sacudieron la ciudad; y Kevin Kiptum, el corredor keninano que tenía el récord mundial de maratón, murió en un accidente automovilístico cerca de la ciudad de Eldoret, en Kenia. Y para #ElVasoMedioLleno…Con una determinación inquebrantable, Luisa Yu cumplió su sueño viajero de visitar los 193 países reconocidos por la ONU a sus 79 años.Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en nuestras redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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An exciting update from Eldoret, Kenya. Thank you for your support of the ISA!

The Science Of Reincarnation | 20 May 2023 Eldoret Kenya by S.B. Keshava Swami

"We think of ourselves as people on a journey. So when you get to your first station, that's not the end of the journey. We still have to walk some more distance. That is their mindset and it's my mindset because if I dwell on the past, then we'll end up in that station. We still have many to cover, and I'm happy that they still trust me to cover their distance and be with them." CITIUS MAG is in Kenya. I am coming to you live from Eldoret, where I had the pleasure of being invited to visit and cover some of the behind-the-scenes of how the NN Running Team trains. Coach Patrick Sang is 59 years old and is the man behind all of Kipchoge's success on the track and the roads. He's the runner who Eliud grew up admiring since Sang was a silver medalist in the steeplechase at the 1992 Olympics. He's been coaching for more than half his life and is one of the most knowledgeable men in the sport. While he keeps it traditional and old-school in some of his approaches to training with three hard workouts a week for most of his athletes including Kipchoge, his philosophy is aimed at making his athletes well-rounded. One of his most recent success stories has been Faith Kipyegon cementing herself as the greatest 1500m runner ever by breaking the 1500m world record in 3:49.11 at the Florence Diamond League on June 2 and then surprising herself a week later and breaking the 5000 meter world record in 14:05.20.  What you're about to listen to is my conversation with one of the greatest minds in the sport and someone who wasn't surprised by Faith Kipyegon. He'll share how we got to this point, where we're going and what brings him joy and satisfaction in the sport.  He's 59 years old and the man behind all of Kipchoge's success on the track and the roads. He's the runner, who Eliud grew up admiring since Sang was a silver medalist in the steeplechase at the 1992 Olympics. He's been coaching for more than half his life and is one of the most knowledgeable men in the sport. While he keeps it traditional and old-school in some of his approaches to training with three hard workouts a week for most of his athletes including Kipchoge, his philosophy is aimed at making his athletes well-rounded. One of his most recent success stories has been Faith Kipyegon cementing herself as the greatest 1500m runner ever by breaking the 1500m world record in 3:49.11 at the Florence Diamond League on June 2 and then surprising herself a week later and breaking the 5000 meter world record in 14:05.20.  What you're about to listen to is my conversation with one of the greatest minds in the sport and someone who wasn't surprised by Faith Kipyegon. He'll share how we got to this point, where we're going and what brings him joy and satisfaction in the sport.  Host: Chris Chavez | @Chris_J_Chavez on Instagram Guest: Patrick Sang | @NNRunningTeam on Instagram HOW TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST

In this edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Carol Mabeya, gynecologist Dr. Debbie Matityahu, and Ariela Zweiback of Beyond Fistula. During his sabbatical, Rabbi Yoshi spent two weeks in Eldoret, Kenya working with Beyond Fistula, a non-profit charity that aids women and girls in Africa who have recently undergone surgical repair for fistulas, helping them rebuild their lives through education and vocational skills training. It was a transformative experience for Rabbi Yoshi and his family, including Ariela.Beyond Fistula got its start during Dr. Matityahu's 10-month family trip around the world with her husband and two children in 2010. The Matityahus spent one of those months in Kenya, where they met and worked with Carol's husband, Dr. Hillary Mabeya, the founder and primary surgeon at Gynocare Women's and Fistula Hospital. At that hospital, Dr. Matityahu and her 12-year-old daughter Arielle found a cause.Obstetric fistulas are holes that occur when a woman undergoes a long and obstructed labor during childbirth. Though largely eradicated in the developed world, obstetric fistulas are still a devastating scourge for women in the world's poorest countries. Women laboring in huts in remote villages may push for days—rather than hours—on end with no anesthesia or medical support. The baby's head pinches and necroses the tissue between the vagina and the bladder, and sometimes the vagina and the rectum, destroying that tissue. The tissue erodes off, creating the fistula, which can lead to uncontrolled leakage of urine and feces. Many of the babies do not survive, and the women are left exhausted, incontinent, humiliated, and—all too often—ostracized by their community. "I remember one of the young girls that we operated on had such severe internal damage, that I, as a gynecologist who looks at this anatomy almost every day, could not identify what was left inside the pelvis," Dr. Matityahu said. "Everything had necrosed off. No bladder, no vagina, the colon was hanging open ... It was so devastating that I had no idea what I would have done next."Dr. Matityahu wanted to learn more about that women, and those like her. As she listened to their horrific stories of rape, starvation humiliation, and desperation, she felt like she had to do something. Three of the women she operated on had one desire after surgery: They wanted to go back to school. What started with Dr. Matityahu donating money to fund those three women's education grew into an organization that picks up where surgery leaves off. Not only does Beyond Fistula fight the trauma and stigma facing women who suffer from fistulas, but it provides hope and dignity, along with education, room and board, and vocational training on its property in Kenya. Originally set up with one house and a tailoring program for six young women, Beyond Fistula has evolved. They now offer counseling and courses in tailoring, hairdressing, literacy skills, computer skills, and business for women of all ages—from those in their teens and those who have lived with the fallout from fistulas for 50 years. Through partner Farming God's Way, Beyond Fistula even offers a farm skills training program, whose graduates not only leave with training, but a grant to start their own small farming business.

The availability and quality of cancer care varies in different parts of the globe. Some locations find it difficult to have proper equipment, access to medications or even trained staff on hand. In this ASCO Education podcast we look how a group of doctors are sharing their skills and experience to set up training programs to help improve outcomes for patients with cancer in Kenya. Our guests will explore the creation of a pediatric oncology fellowship program in Kenya (11:48), how a young doctor found herself interested in improving global health (14:30), and discuss lessons learned that are applicable to health care in the United States (21:07).  Speaker Disclosures Dr. David Johnson: Consulting or Advisory Role – Merck, Pfizer, Aileron Therapeutics, Boston University Dr. Patrick Loehrer: Research Funding – Novartis, Lilly Foundation, Taiho Pharmaceutical Dr. Terry Vik: Research Funding Takeda, Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation Dr. Jennifer Morgan: None Resources: Podcast: Oncology, Etc. - Dr. Miriam Mutebi on Improving Cancer Care in Africa Podcast: Oncology, Etc. – Global Cancer Policy Leader Dr. Richard Sullivan (Part 1) Podcast: Oncology, Etc. – Global Cancer Policy Leader Dr. Richard Sullivan Part 2 If you liked this episode, please follow the show. To explore other educational content, including courses, visit education.asco.org. Contact us at education@asco.org. TRANSCRIPT Disclosures for this podcast are listed in the podcast page. Dave Johnson: Welcome, everyone, to a special edition of Oncology, Etc., an oncology educational podcast designed to introduce our listeners to interesting people and topics in and outside the world of Oncology. Today's guest is my co-host, Dr. Pat Loehrer, who is the Joseph and Jackie Cusick Professor of Oncology and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Indiana University, where he serves as the Director of Global Health and Health Equity. Pat is the Director Emeritus of the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center. Pat has many different accomplishments, and I could spend the next hour listing all of those, but I just want to point out, as many of you know, he is the founder of what formerly was known as the Hoosier Oncology Group, one of the prototypes of community-academic partnerships which have been hugely successful over the years.  He's also the founding director of the Academic Model for Providing Access to Healthcare Oncology Program, which has grown rather dramatically over the last 17 years. This includes the establishment of fellowship programs in GYN oncology, pediatric oncology, and medical oncology through the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya. Through its partnership with the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, over 8000 cancer patients a year are seen, and over 120,000 women from western Kenya have been screened for breast and cervical cancer in the past five years. Pat is also the co-PI of the U-54 grant that focuses on longitudinal HPV screening of women in East Africa. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant of the NCI Cancer for Global Health.  So, Pat, welcome. We have with us today two special guests as well that I will ask Pat to introduce to you. Pat Loehrer: Dave, thanks for the very kind introduction. I'm so pleased today to have my colleagues who are working diligently with us in Kenya. The first is Terry Vik, who is Professor of Pediatrics here at Indiana University and at Riley Hospital. He's been the Director of the Fellowship Program and the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Program and Director of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Program. He got his medical degree at Johns Hopkins and did his residency at UCLA and his fellowship at Dana-Farber. And he's been, for the last 10 to 15 years, been one of my co-partners in terms of developing our work in Kenya, focusing on the pediatric population, where he helps spearhead the first pediatric oncology fellowship in the country.  And then joining us also is Dr. Jennifer Morgan. Jenny is a new faculty member with us at Indiana University as an Assistant Professor. She, I think, has 16 state championship medals for track and field in high school. I've never met an athlete like that in the past. She ended up going to Northwestern Medical School. She spent time in Rwanda with Partners in Health, and through that, eventually got interested in oncology, where she completed her fellowship at University of North Carolina and has spent a lot of her time in Malawi doing breast cancer research. I don't know of anyone who has spent as much time at such a young age in global oncology.  Dave Johnson: So Pat, obviously, you and I have talked a lot over the years about your work in Kenya, but our listeners may not know about Eldoret. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about the history of the relationship between your institution and that in Kenya. Pat Loehrer: It's really a remarkable story. About 30 some odd years ago, Joe Mamlin and Bob Einterz, and Charlie Kelly decided they wanted to do a partnership in Global Health. And they looked around the world and looked at Nepal and looked at Mexico, and they fell upon Eldoret, which was in Western Kenya. They had the birth of a brand new medical school there, and this partnership developed. In the midst of this came the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And these gentlemen worked with their colleagues in Kenya to develop one of the most impressive programs in the world focused on population health and dealing with the AIDS pandemic. They called it the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS or AMPATH, and their success has been modeled in many other places. They have many different institutions from North America and Europe that have gone there to serve Western Kenya, which has a catchment area of about 25 million people.  About 15 to 20 years ago, I visited AMPATH, and what they had done with HIV/AIDS was extraordinary. But what we were seeing there in cancer was heartbreaking. It reminded us, Dave, as you remember back in the ‘60s and ‘70s with people coming in with advanced cancers of the head and neck and breast cancers that were untreated. And in addition, we saw these young kids with Burkitt's Lymphomas with huge masses out of their jaws. And seeing that and knowing what was possible, what we saw in the States and what seemed to be impossible in Kenya, spurred me on, as well as a number of other people, to get involved. And so, we have built up this program over the last 15 and 20 years, and I think it's one of the most successful models of global oncology that's in existence.  Dave Johnson: That's awesome. Terry, tell us a little bit about your involvement with the program at Moi University.  Terry Vik: Sure. So, I took an unusual path to get to Eldoret because I started off in work in signal transduction and protein kinases, then morphed into phase I studies of kinase inhibitors that was happening in the early 2000s. But by the end of the decade, Pat was beginning to establish oncology programs in Kenya. And because half the population is children and there were lots of childhood cancers, and many of them can be curable, he mildly twisted my arm to go with him to set up pediatric oncology in Kenya. And through his help and Matt Strother, who is a faculty member on the ground, establishing that, I first went in 2010 just to see how things were running and to see all the things that Pat had recognized as far as things that needed to be done to make Eldoret a center for cancer care.   And so, the last 13 years now, I've been working, going anywhere from one to four times a year to Kenya, mainly helping the Kenyans to develop their medical care system. Not so much seeing patients or taking care of patients, other than talking about best practices and how we do things in the US that can be readily translated to what's going on in Kenya. And so, we've been able to establish a database, keep track of our patients in pediatric oncology, recognize that lots of kids are not coming into care, not being diagnosed. There's a huge gap between numbers who you would expect to have childhood cancer versus the numbers actually coming to the hospital. As the only pediatric treatment center for a catchment area of 25 million, half of whom are under the age of 20, we should be seeing a lot of kids with cancer, but we are probably only seeing 10% of what we would expect.  So, myself, many of my colleagues from Indiana University, as well as colleagues from the Netherlands Princess Maxima Hospital for Pediatric Cancer, we've been partnering for these past 13 years to train Kenyans to recognize cancer, to have treatment protocols that are adapted for the capabilities in Kenya, and now finally starting to show real progress in survival for childhood cancer in Kenya, both in leukemias, lymphomas, and solid tumors, with a fair number of publications in Wilms tumor and Burkitt lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. So, it's been really heartening, I think.  I tell people that the reason I go to Kenya studying signal transduction and protein kinase inhibitors in pediatric cancer, I can maybe save a couple of kids over a career by that kind of work. But going to Kenya to show people how to find and treat kids with leukemia, I'm literally seeing the impact of hundreds of kids who are alive today that wouldn't be alive otherwise. So, that's really been the success of pediatric oncology there. Dave Johnson: Is the spectrum of childhood cancer in Kenya reflective of what we see in the States, or are there some differences? Pat Loehrer: It really is surprisingly similar. I think the only thing that– Well, two things that are more common in Kenya because of the so-called ‘malaria belt' and the association with Burkitt Lymphoma, there's a fair number of kids with Burkitt's Lymphoma there. Although, as mosquito control and malaria control has improved, actually, the numbers of cases of Burkitt's have been dropping, and a lot of cancers were sort of hidden, not recognized as leukemia or not recognized as other lymphomas. Just because if Burkitt's is endemic, then every swelling is Burkitt's. And I think that's been shown by looking at pathology retrospectively to say a lot of what they thought was Burkitt's was maybe not necessarily Burkitt's. And then nasopharyngeal carcinoma with Epstein-Barr virus prevalence also is a little bit more common than I'm used to seeing, but otherwise, the spectrum of cancers are pretty similar. So, it's heartening to know that we've been treating childhood cancers with simple medicines, generic medicines, for 50 years in the US. And so I like to tell people, I just want to get us up to the ‘90s, maybe the 2000s in Kenya, and that will really improve the survival quite a bit. Dave Johnson: You mentioned that there were adjustments that you were making in the therapies. Could you give us some examples of what you're talking about? Terry Vik: The biggest adjustments are that the ability to give blood product support, transfusions of platelets is somewhat limited. So, for instance, our ability to treat acute myeloid leukemia, which is heavily dependent on intensive myelosuppressive chemotherapy, we're not so good at that yet because we don't have the support for blood products. Similarly, the recognition and treatment of infections in patients is somewhat limited. Yet, just the cost of doing blood cultures, getting results, we actually have the antibiotics to treat them, but figuring out that there actually is an infection, and we're just beginning to look at resistance patterns in bacteria in Kenya because I think that's an indiscriminate use of antibiotics. In Kenya, there are a lot of resistant organisms that are being identified, and so figuring out how best to manage those are the two biggest things. But now, in Eldoret, we have two linear accelerators that can give contemporary radiation therapy to kids who need it. We have pediatric surgeons who can resect large abdominal tumors. We have orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons to assist. All those things are in place in the last three to five years. So, really, the ability to support patients through intensive chemotherapy is still one of the last things that we're working diligently on improving. Dave Johnson: So one thing that I've read that you've done is you're involved heavily in the creation of a pediatric oncology fellowship program. If I read it correctly, it's a faculty of one; is that correct? Terry Vik: Well, now that two have just graduated, it's a faculty of three, plus some guest lecturers. So I feel quite good about that.  Dave Johnson: So tell us about that. That must have been quite the challenge. I mean, that's remarkable. Terry Vik: That goes back to one of my longtime colleagues in Kenya, Festus Njuguna, who is Kenyan. He did his medical school training at Moi University and then did pediatric residency there. They call it a registrar program there. And then he was, since 2009, 2010, he's been the primary pediatric oncologist. Although he always felt he did not have the formal training. He'd spent time in the US and in Amsterdam to get some added training for caring for kids. But it was his vision to create this fellowship program. So Jodi Skiles, one of my colleagues who had spent some time in Kenya and myself and he worked on creating the fellowship document that needs to go through the university to get approved. That finally got approved in 2019. And so the first two fellows…I was on a Fulbright Scholar Award to start that fellowship program for a year right in the middle of the pandemic, but we were able to get it started, and I was able to continue to go back and forth to Kenya quite a bit in the last two years to get through all of the training that was laid out in our curriculum. And two fellows, Festus and another long-standing colleague of mine, Gilbert Olbara, both completed the fellowship and then sat for their final exams at the end of last year and graduated in December. So it really was heartwarming for me to see these guys want to build up the workforce capacity from within Kenya, and being able to support them to do that was a good thing. Pat Loehrer: Parenthetically, Dave, we had the first Gynecology Oncology program in the country, too, led by Barry Rosen from Princess Margaret, and they have 14 graduates, and two of them now are department chairs in Kenya. Jenny's spearheading a medical oncology curriculum now so that we have that opened up this year for the first time. Dave Johnson: It's uncommon to find a junior faculty as accomplished as Jenny. Jenny, tell us a little about your background and how you got interested in global health, and your previous work before moving to IU.  Jennifer Morgan: I was an anthropology major at undergrad at Michigan, and I think I really always liked studying other cultures, understanding different points of view. And so I think part of that spirit when you study anthropology, it really sticks with you, and you become a pretty good observer of people and situations, I think, or the goal is that you become good at it. I think my interest in medicine and science, combined with that desire to learn about different cultures really fueled a lot of my interests, even from undergrad and medical school. I really felt strongly that access to health is a human right, and I wanted to work for Partners in Health when I graduated from residency. I had heard a lot about that organization and really believed in the mission around it.   And so I went to work in Butaro in Rwanda, and I really didn't have any plans to do cancer care, but then I just kind of got thrown into cancer care, and I really loved it. It was a task-shifting model that really where you use internists to deliver oncology care under the supervision of oncologists from North America. So, most of them were from Dana-Farber or a variety of different universities. And so it made me feel like this high-resource field of Oncology was feasible, even when resources and health systems are strained. Because I think a lot of people who are interested in Oncology but also kind of this field of global health or working in underserved settings really struggle to find the way that the two fit sometimes because it can feel impossible with the hyper-expensive drugs, the small PFS benefits that drive the field sometimes. And so I think, Butaro for me, and Partners in Health, and DFCI, that whole group of people and the team there, I think, really showed me that it's feasible, it's possible, and that you can cure people of cancer even in small rural settings. And so that drove me to go to fellowship, to work with Satish Gopal and UNC. And because of COVID, my time in Malawi was a bit limited, but I still went and did mainly projects focused on breast cancer care and implementation science, and they just really have a really nice group of people. And I worked with Tamiwe Tomoka, Shakinah Elmore, Matthew Painschab, really just some great people there, and I learned a lot.  And so, when I was looking for a job after fellowship, I really wanted to focus on building health systems. And to me, that was really congruent with the mission of AMPATH, which is the tripartite mission of advancing education and research and clinical care. And I knew from Pat that the fellowship program would be starting off, and I think to me, having been in Rwanda and Malawi and realizing how essential building an oncology workforce is, being a part of helping build a fellowship as part of an academic partnership was really exciting. And then also doing very necessary clinical outcomes research and trying to do trials and trying to bring access to care in many systems that are very resource constrained. So that's kind of how I ended up here.  Pat Loehrer: That's awesome. So tell us a little bit about your breast cancer work. What exactly are you doing at the moment? Jennifer Morgan: In Malawi, during my fellowship, we looked at the outcomes of women with breast cancer and really looking at late-stage presentations and the fact that in Malawi, we were only equipped with surgery, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy, but not radiation. You see a lot of stage four disease, but you also see a lot of stage three disease that you actually have trouble curing because it's so locally advanced, really bulky disease. And so that first study showed us the challenge of trying to cure patients– They may not have metastatic disease, but it can be really hard to locally even treat the disease, especially without radiation. And so that's kind of what we learned.   And then, using an implementation science framework, we were looking at what are the barriers to accessing care. And I think it was really interesting some of the things that we found. In Malawi, that has a high HIV rate, is that the stigma around cancer can be far more powerful than the stigma around HIV. And so, we are seeing a lot of women who are ostracized by their communities when they were diagnosed with cancer. And really, they had been on, many HIV-positive women, on ARVs for a long time living in their communities with no problem, and so HIV had kind of been destigmatized, but we're seeing the stigma of cancer and the idea that kids are as a death sentence was a really prominent theme that we saw in Malawi.  So some of these themes, not all of them, but some of them are very similar in Kenya, and so what I'm helping work on now is there's been this huge effort with AMPATH called the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program, where around 180,000 women have been screened for breast cancer in a decentralized setting which is so important - so in counties and in communities. We're looking at who showed up to this screening and why did women only get breast cancer screening and why did some of them only get cervical, and why did some get what was intended - both. Because I think many people on the continent and then other LMICs are trying to do breast and cervical cancer co-screening to really reduce the mortality of both of those cancers. And the question is, I think: is mammography a viable screening mechanism in this setting or not? That's a real question in Kenya right now. And so we're going to be looking to do some studies around mammography use and training as well.  Dave Johnson: So, I have a question for all three of you. What lessons have you learned in your work in Kenya or Malawi that you've brought back to the States to improve care in the United States? Pat Loehrer: One is that the cost of care is ever present there. And so one of the things that we need to think about here is how can we deliver care more cheaply and more efficiently. It goes against the drug trials that are going on by industry where they want to use therapy for as long as they can and for greater times. And there are a lot of common things like access to care is a big issue there, and it's a big issue in our country. So we have used in IU some community healthcare workers in rural parts of our state as well as in the urban centers so that they can go to people's houses to deliver care.  Terry was involved with a wonderful project. It was a supplement from the NCI, which looked at barriers to care and abandonment of therapy. And just by giving patients and their families a small stipend that would cover for their travel and their food, the abandonment rate went down substantially, and they were able to improve the cure rate of Burkitt's Lymphoma. It's probably about 60% now. And so those are issues that I think we see here in our state, where people can't come to IU because of the cost of parking, that's $20 a visit. The lesson there is that we really need to get down to the patients and to their families and find out what their obstacles are.  Terry Vik: My favorite example, since I deal with kids and parents, is how striking parents are the same worldwide. They all want the best for their child. They all want anything that can be done to potentially cure them, treatment, they do anything they could. And I think the hardest thing, as Pat said, is the financial burden of that care. And the other thing that I bring back to my fellows in the US is that you don't have to do Q4-hour or Q6-hour labs to follow somebody when they start their therapy. Once a day, every 3 days, works quite well also. And just the realization that things can be done with a lot less stress in the US if you only decide to do it. Dave Johnson: Jenny, any thoughts from you on that? Jennifer Morgan: I think for me, decentralized cancer care is so important. Even being back on the oncology wards in Indiana in December, I saw a couple of really advanced patients who were really unfortunate, and they had tried to go through the system of referrals and getting to cancer care. And unfortunately, I think there are disparities in the US health system, just like in Kenya, and maybe on different scales. But cancer care that's accessible is so important, and accessible versus available, I think we a lot of time talk about therapies that may be available, but they're not accessible to patients. And that's really what we see in Kenya, what we see in rural Indiana. There are a number of grants that talk about reciprocal innovation because some of these things that we do in Kenya to minimize burden on the system are things that can be done in rural Indiana as well. And so, partnership on these issues of trying to improve decentralized care is important everywhere.  Pat Loehrer: And again, from the perspective as a medical oncologist, we see patients with late-stage diseases. We could eradicate the number one cause of cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa, cervical cancer, from the face of the earth just by doing prevention. We don't do enough in our country about prevention. The other dimension I guess I wanted to bring up as far as multidisciplinary care - when we think about that in our country, it's radiation therapy, surgery, medical oncology, but one of the lessons learned there is that the fourth pillar is policy. It's really about cancer policy and working with the government, Ministry of Health to affect better insurance cover and better care and to work with a different discipline in terms of primary care, much more strongly than we do in our country.  Dave Johnson: Are you encountering similar levels of vaccine hesitancy in Kenya as you might see in the States, or is that something that's less of an issue? Pat Loehrer: I'll let Terry and Jenny answer that. Terry Vik: I think there is some degree of vaccine hesitancy, and not so much that it's fear of the vaccine, but it's fear of the people pushing the vaccine. If it's coming from the government or if it's coming from outside drug companies or outside physician recommendations, it's less likely to be taken up. And if it's coming from within their own community or if it's their chiefs and their community leaders they respected, then I think there is less vaccine hesitancy certainly in a lot of things we do in pediatrics. So I think there is hesitancy, but it's coming from a different source than what we see in the US.   Jennifer Morgan: I would agree, and I think also COVID has changed the game on vaccine perceptions everywhere, and I don't think Kenya is spared from that either. So it may take a few years to see really what's going on with that.   Pat Loehrer: Jenny and I were at this conference, it's a Cancer Summit in Nairobi a couple of weeks ago, and we saw this little documentary there. And this notion of misinformation, as we've seen in our country, is also common over there. They were interviewing a number of men and women from Northern Kenya about prostate cancer, which is a very serious problem in Kenya. The notion was that even doing PSA screening caused infertility, and so the men and women didn't want their husbands to get screened for prostate cancer because they would become less fertile by doing that. So, again, there are lessons that we– as Jenny mentioned from the top about anthropology, I think we're all connected, we all have different ways of viewing communications in health, but I do think that we can learn from each other substantially. Dave Johnson: I mean, it's remarkable work. How is it funded?  Pat Loehrer: Well, I've been fortunate to be able to work with some friends who are philanthropists. We've had strong support as we've told our story with various different foundations. And we've been very grateful to Pfizer, who are very helpful to us in the early stages of this - Lilly Foundation, Takeda, Celgene. And I think as we basically share our vision of what we're trying to accomplish, we've been very humbled by the support that we have gotten for us. The U54 helps support some of the research. We have D43 we're doing through Brown University. So we plan to increase our research funding as best as we can. But this is active generosity by some wonderful people. We have a $5.5 million cancer and chronic care building in which a large sum of it came from Indiana University and the Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Peter Johnstone helped lead that. There was a Lilly heir that gave us quite a bit of money. An Indian Kenyan named Chandaria also donated money. So it's a matter of presenting the vision and then looking for people that want to invest in this vision.  Well, I just want to say, from my perspective, I am more of a cheerleader than on the field. But Terry, I know you spent a tremendous amount of time on the ground in Kenya, and Jenny, you're living there. I just wanted to say publicly that you guys are my heroes. Dave Johnson: Yeah. I think all of our listeners will be impressed by what they heard today, and we very much appreciate you both taking time to chat with us.  So at this point, I want to thank our listeners of Oncology, Etc., an ASCO Educational Podcast. This is where we'll talk about oncology medicine and beyond. 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"Various places on the globe lack the proper knowledge, infrastructure and workforce to adequately treat cancer. In Africa, one doctor is focusing her efforts to change all that. This ASCO Education podcast spotlights Dr. Miriam Mutebi, the first female breast surgeon in Kenya. One of Dr. Mutebi's goals is to improve women's health and cancer care in Africa and includes attaining her pilot's license to reach remote areas of the continent. Dr. Mutebi reflects on her life growing up in Kenya (1:21) and her inspiration for getting into medicine and pursuing what was at the time a male-dominated specialty (5:07). She also details how cancer care has improved in Kenya in the last decade (12:49) while there are ongoing challenges of working in low-resource settings (23:25). Speaker Disclosures Dr. Miriam Mutebi: None Dr. David Johnson: Consulting or Advisory Role – Merck, Pfizer, Aileron Therapeutics, Boston University Dr. Patrick Loehrer: Research Funding – Novartis, Lilly Foundation, Taiho Pharmaceutical Resources: ASCO Podcast: Oncology, Etc. – Global Cancer Policy Leader Dr. Richard Sullivan (Part 1) ASCO Podcast: Oncology, Etc. – Global Cancer Policy Leader Dr. Richard Sullivan (Part 2) If you liked this episode, please follow the show. To explore other educational content, including courses, visit education.asco.org. Contact us at education@asco.org. TRANSCRIPT Pat Loehrer: Welcome to Oncology, Etc. an ASCO Education Podcast. I'm Pat Loehrer, Director of Global Oncology and Health Equity at Indiana University. Dave Johnson: And I'm Dave Johnson, a medical oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. Pat, we have a terrific guest today that ties in very nicely with your interest in global health. I'd love for you to introduce her. Pat Loehrer: Thanks, Dave. Battling cancer is truly a global effort, both in research and in treatment. However, there are various degrees of quality in these fields, depending on the economic health of a particular region. Our next guest is trying to optimize cancer care in Africa. We're very excited to talk to her. Dr. Miriam Mutebi is one of the most prominent cancer doctors in Africa. Dr. Mutebi is the first female breast surgeon in Kenya, and she's currently assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. She's on the board of directors for the Union of the International Cancer Control. She has trained and studied at top hospitals in New York and South Africa. Dr. Mutebi is so focused on increasing women's health in Africa that she's trained to be an airplane pilot in order to connect with hard-to-reach areas. Disclosures for this podcast are listed on the podcast page. Thank you so much, Dr. Mutebi, for joining us from Kenya. Can you start off by telling us a little bit about what it was like growing up there? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: I grew up in Nairobi, which is a pretty urban setting to grow up in. So, most of my childhood was spent…I think it was probably a much simpler time where, you know, you would play in the street, go off to somebody's house, spend the rest of the day there and come back at the end of the day. But in terms of growing up, I think I was one of those super nerdy kids, for want of a better word. One of the sorts of things that got me interested in reading and learning and challenging myself was actually my dad. Because what would happen was we had to go to school, I would say almost about 30 kilometers bus ride, and my dad would be like, “Well, if you're on the bus for that long, you can as well, you know, carry a book and made it nice and exciting.” So I remember sort of discovering the library at my primary school and going like, “My word!” Because you get access to all these different experiences and worlds. I mean, you're going in and reading, you know, The Chronicles of Narnia, you're reading about Enid Blyton and different experiences, you're reading all these different worlds and getting to, you know, identify to some extent with the core values that exist. It doesn't matter where the books were centered. And so that for me was an almost, I would say, idyllic growing up, because for me it was like, “Yes, books, check; running around, check.” That's, I think, what I remember most about my childhood. Dave Johnson: It sounds like your father was a powerful influence in your youth. Can you tell us more about your father? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: Sure. My dad, how old is he now? He's going to turn 74. One of the things that he always says, “It costs you nothing to be kind.” And so he would generally– Sorry, I'm just going to stop a little bit. I'm getting weepy. Dave Johnson: I'm sorry. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: It's okay, it's okay. Shame. Dave, you pushed the button. Dave Johnson: It's not our intent to push a button. It sounds like your dad's a wonderful person. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: No, it's fine. Pat Loehrer: Both Dave and I have daughters, and we feel the same way. So as weepy as you're getting, I can guarantee you that he's going to feel the same way on the other end. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: No, it's just that he hasn't been well recently, so it's just– Dave Johnson: Oh, I'm sorry. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: Yeah. Okay, cool. Let me see if I can stop getting a little weepy. Yeah. So one of the things that he frequently says is that it costs you nothing to be kind, and I think that's one of the things that he sort of instilled in us that you need to think beyond yourself. You always need to sort of think about what is the other person going through and how can I help to make it better. Now, my dad, he has a really interesting sense of humor. I think it's where I get my cheesy humor from as well. But he always talks about what we call the 11th commandment, which is, don't take yourself too seriously. And so I think that was part of the grounding steps that he sort of helped to instill in us because he was working– I mean, sort of looking back, our parents, I would say, got married at a very young age and had several kids that they were raising. And sort of looking back, you're thinking they were probably just doing the best that they can, right? But I think he did a fairly decent job, I hope. Dave Johnson: So, Miriam, when did your interest in medicine begin, and who was the inspiration for that? Or if there was someone that inspired that? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: At the end of high school, I remember I wanted to do five or, rather, was it six different things. And so I wanted to do medicine, I wanted to write, I wanted to do architecture, I wanted to do law, I even forget what the other things were. There was like two other things on my to-do list. And I think part of the genesis of that was because, as part of the high school training that we go through, we had to do the international sort of baccalaureate, and what that entails is we have to do components of creativity, action, and service. And so at the end, I'm like holding back to father dearest, and I'm like, “Dad, I have six different things I want to do, and I don't really know about.” And he was like, “So why don't you spend a bit of time, sort of just going through each of those, like shadowing these different specialties?” And so we managed to track down his lawyer friend, spent time in the hospital, spent time in the pharmacy, just shadowing the pharmacist. I actually went to work briefly for a publication house. Eventually– Oh, yes, in architecture as well. So then I managed to narrow it down to, “Yes, okay, I want to do medicine, and I want to write.” And so I went back to my dad and said, “Dad, okay, I have two things I want to do.” And my dad was like, “Well, if you do medicine, you can write. But if you write, then you might not necessarily be able to do medicine.” So that's how I sort of wandered into medicine. Although I still say there's still the great African novel waiting to get out. But again, with medicine, I think I'm guilty of what we call ‘end of rotationitis', where at the end of the day, you finish a rotation, and you're like, “I can do this. I can do this.” So I think going through different rotations– I think for me, the drive– Well, the slow narrowing down to surgery was really around, unfortunately, the time when we were doing our rotations, and this was just really at the start of the 2000s in Kenya. And the challenge around that time was we're really just at the tail end of the HIV epidemic, and not everyone had access to antiretrovirals. And it was an incredibly harrowing time, I would say, for the healthcare profession, just because there was still a lot of stigma around HIV. And what was happening was that we would go to the wards and find patients had been abandoned. And there was a general sort of pervasive sense of hopelessness because people didn't have access to the medication, they'd been abandoned, and unfortunately, not much was being done in terms of active management to patients. Whereas then that was like on the 7th floor, and then you would go four floors down to the surgical ward where patients come in, they're bleeding; you take them to OR, they get better, you send them home. And so, for me, the timing was like, “I need to do this. At least I could see where I was making an impact.” And so that's sort of how I wandered into surgery. And I'm sure, as I said, with, of course, the developments now, the experience, of course, for medical rotations, they're entirely different, but that's how I sort of ended up in surgery. But then, how I sort of found myself in breast surgery was actually because– for me, what stood out about my breast rotation was really looking at what we were reading in the textbooks, which was breast cancers, the disease of the sixth and seventh decade and a “poster child” for this is the elderly nun who's never had any children, who's had this prolonged [inaudible]. And I'm sitting there and looking at the clinic, and I'm like, “These patients are in their 30's and 40's. All of these traditionally protected factors, like having multiple children, having breastfed, ticking all the boxes, but they're still coming in with these kinds of cancers.” And so just thinking this is totally different from what the textbook is saying, and somebody needs to get to the bottom of this, and that's how I found myself going in along breast cancer surgery and also research into women's cancers and things. Pat Loehrer: My sense is that Kenya and many African nations were male-dominated. I don't know what it was like for you going to medical school, but particularly in surgery, it tends to be a male-dominated field. What was that like as a woman? In many ways, I think you were breaking some glass ceilings. I'm sure other women are doing similar things, but tell me a little bit about that experience. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: I would say bewildering for both parties. Because we had to do several interviews just in different institutions before getting into a surgical residency, and I remember these senior professors sort of peering down their glasses and looking frankly bewildered and asking the most bizarre of questions, which I don't think anyone would sort of get away with in this day and age. I remember somebody asked me, and this one always stands out in my mind because somebody asked me on the interview route, “So what happens if you get a patient in ICU and you start to cry?” I'm like, “Well, first of all, I'm guessing that I am crying because I'm having a bit of empathy for the patient. And I think that actually probably makes me a better clinician because I am really truly seeing the patient rather than bed X with diagnosis Z. This is like Mary, mother of one, two, three, and whatever.” But it was really bizarre. Then somebody asked me as well, “Okay, so what happens when you're on call, and you have to breastfeed?” And I'm like, “Well, let's see. This is a tough one.” You could tell as well that they were really out of their depth. So,  eventually I settled on the Aga Khan just because, in terms of the faculty and the interviews, I got a sense that they were a little more open to the idea. And that's because I think one of my earlier mentors, Prof. Raja, who is our former chair of surgery, had come in from the Aga Khan in Pakistan. And for him, it wasn't anything unusual to see women in surgery. So, like, “Yeah, come along. We'll train you and stuff.” And he was also pretty inspiring in terms of the decision to get into surgery because, for him, their approach to at least surgical training– and we always tease him and say, we all drunk the Kool-Aid because we kind of came back. Because it wasn't about just training surgeons for surgery's sake, it's about how do we become leaders, how do you impact care in your region. And so it was never about just learning surgery; it's how do you use the tools that you have in order to improve the health of those around you. In the Aga Khan, you're sort of, one would say, in a position of privilege. Just the backstory to those listening who might not know about the Aga Khan, it's a private university hospital. But I mean, as a private center, then, of course, I would say there isn't any difference, one would say, between the Aga Khan and most of the international hospitals anywhere in the world. But it was always sort of driven into us that this is a privilege that you're having. And how do you use this privilege to elevate the communities around you? Pat Loehrer: Let's talk about breast cancer, if you will, in Kenya. You mentioned it that when you first went into it, patients were coming in with advanced disease, they still do. But how has the field of medicine changed in Kenya during your professional lifetime as it pertains to breast cancer? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: While we still have the majority of patients diagnosed with advanced disease, the scenario ten years ago was that patients would get diagnosed with advanced disease and frequently would not complete their care. And if we did a deeper dive into the reasons behind this, we saw a constellation of factors. One being the fact that patients were having to pay out of pocket, resulting in financial toxicity, catastrophic health expenditure. And then the other major barrier was the health system itself. And again, to some extent, that still exists where we know, at least on average in sub-Saharan Africa, patients are going to see 4 to 6 healthcare providers before a definitive diagnosis of their cancer is made, which of course, again, translates into delays in ultimate treatment. Another area that we frequently don't necessarily talk about as much are the social-cultural barriers that exist and, to some extent, are still pervasive in some communities. What we see is, one, there's a lot of use of alternative therapies. There is still quite a bit of stigma around cancers. There is what we call collectivism, where we always say in Africa, ‘our community is our strength'. But sometimes, that sense of community is a double-edged sword because then, if the patient is losing agency, then that becomes a real concern. Because what we find, for instance– I'll give you an example, I'll have a patient come in and discuss, and maybe she has early cancer, and discuss the options of having breast conservation versus a mastectomy. And then you will find maybe she goes home to have a think, and then a couple of days or whatever later, there's a community gathering, and the clan elder is saying, “We have decided.” And I'm like, “Who's we? That's not your breast coming off. Like, what right do you have to decide on patient decision-making?” But you see, as much as we would like to sort of say have the patients have autonomy over the decision-making, it's really a question of equity and access to care. Because even if you're giving the patient autonomy, and she's saying at the end of the day, “Well, they're the ones paying for the treatment so let them decide what it is I'm going to have”, then we haven't really adequately empowered our women. And so those are some of the challenges that existed, I would say, about ten years ago. We're definitely seeing an improvement. One in the patient's ability to pay, and this, I think, has been a concerted effort by the government to come up with a National Health Insurance Fund, which initially wasn't covering cancer care but has definitely helped to ensure that the number of patients who actually complete their care or going through their entire cancer journey are probably more.   I remember when I was doing my internship, there were like truly heartbreaking because, as interns, we would have the medical internists sometimes– and because there weren't that many medical oncologists– prescribe the chemotherapy and as interns, we were the ones who would administer the chemotherapy. And so, you would have a patient come in and it involves– Basically, we give the prescriptions like chemotherapy, but they'll also have to buy their own saline, the IV line, and everything else,,, and then they get the first cycle, and they just disappear. And then those were the times when mobile phones weren't that common. They literally just disappear. But then they come back six months later, and they're like super excited, and they're like, “Doc, we've raised enough money for the next cycle.” And we're like, “Well, it doesn't quite work like that.” So, with the National Hospital Insurance Fund, it's not perfect, but we definitely see more patients going through the entire care continuum, which is gratifying. I'm sort of putting on my  [inadudible] hat as the chair of Kenya Society for Hematology and Oncology, and we've been working closely with the National Cancer Control Program, really to advise the National Hospital Insurance Fund on maybe getting more comprehensive covers. Because what was happening initially was, for instance, they would cover maybe four cycles of chemotherapy. Then the patient has to come up with the remaining four, for instance, and sometimes if they're not able to afford that, then you're sort of giving them the side effects without the therapeutic benefits of some of these. So they are currently in the process of really looking more at treatment plans, and that's also been, at least, a truly– And the fact that they are willing to listen has also at least been a huge stride. And then, of course, in terms of the real efforts, I would say by the National Cancer Control Program to ensure some of the decentralization of cancer services. Initially, we had only one radiotherapy center at the tertiary referral hospital in Nairobi that was having patients traveling from across the country, 400 kilometers or more, coming in. And you come in from a rural area, you come into Kenyatta and somebody tells you have to live there for a month, you have no family, nowhere to stay. People say, “You know what? I don't need to have this stage or rather have this additional treatment.” And so with the deliberate development of or decentralization of the radiotherapy services, we now have at least regional centers in planning and so really looking at how do we bring the services closer to people. And so, we now have, in addition to the tertiary referral centers, we now have two regional centers in Mombasa and in– Pat Loehrer: Eldoret. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: Yes. I think beyond Nairobi, Eldoret, we now have a comprehensive center in Mombasa. Nakuru's just launched a comprehensive center and Garissa as well, so really looking at enhancing our capability to bring these services closer. And there has also been the development of the chemotherapy units across the country that have at least tried to ensure that these services are more readily accessible to populations. And really just underpinning that with the support from the National Hospital Insurance Fund has helped to basically have more patients completing their care. One of the other things that I think deserves particular mention is really the grassroots advocacy that has really tried to increase awareness around cancers. And as a result, we definitely are seeing, as much as we are saying the majority of patients are still diagnosed with advanced disease, we are definitely seeing the entire continuum all the way from screen-detected tumors, early stage I, stage II cancers to more advanced tumors. So with that, it also really shows that there is a continuing consciousness that's really sort of driving these education efforts and awareness in the community. Of course, we definitely do need to do more because we still see that the advocacy's efforts sometimes tend to center largely around urban areas. And also, the question is how do we then sort of percolate that down to more rural areas? It's definitely something that's improved in the last ten years. And then, of course, we've also seen an expansion in the cancer workforce. And that, I think, has also been largely driven by the fact that we're having in-country training for clinical oncology, medical oncology, gyne-oncology, so we're really thinking about how to expand the workforce but– Of course, we are still looking at the patient-to-population ratios, those are still pretty low and we still recognize that there are deficits along the care continuum. But we're now having pharmaco-oncologists, we are having psycho-oncologists, increase in palliative care specialists. So there's definitely been an exponential growth of all the cadres of healthcare providers, whether it's oncology nurses and things. We've had an oncology nursing chapter now that's been developed. We really see the rise of the professional societies like the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology, and there is a lot of crosstalk between the academic institutions that are running the oncology training programs. So it's really a positive move in the right direction, but I think what needs to happen is, as I would say, more deliberate investment in the workforce. Because, again, even as we increase the spectrum of the oncology workforce, there's really a need to carry along the primary care providers because they invariably are the gatekeepers to access. And so unless the primary care providers are empowered and knowledgeable to facilitate early and timely diagnosis and referrals to the appropriate pathways, then it doesn't matter how many people or how much of a workforce you have on top of the pyramid. It just means you're invariably going to be still getting patients diagnosed at later stages. And so there's also been efforts around that to come up with, from healthcare provider courses to educating common signs and symptoms. This is something that the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology has been doing in collaboration with the National Cancer Control Program. There's a deliberate effort to come up with an online platform that are actually able to give real-time information to primary care providers. And so, I would say there are definitely steps in the right direction, but there definitely needs to be more investment in the entire spectrum of care. Dave Johnson: Miriam, what you've done is astonishing. What you've just described is an amazing infrastructure in a relatively short period of time. What you're talking about took us in the United States half a century. You're trying to do that in a matter of five to ten years. You've trained in both Kenya and in the United States. I wonder if you might just take a few moments to compare and contrast those experiences. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: In terms of working in different spaces and sort of working in the US, working in South Africa, working in Kenya, what you realize is perhaps a very different patient profile. Whereas in countries like the US, where you have vibrant screening programs, and you're definitely having a lot more discussions around 4-millimeter, 5-millimeter tumors that you are doing an MRI-guided biopsy for and maybe a lot more screen-detected tumors. Whereas working in settings, especially when you get out of the urban areas, whether it's in Kenya or South Africa, you find that you tend to have a lot more diagnoses of patients coming in with fungating tumors and advanced disease, and so it's really that spectrum. And that's what I'm saying in terms of the current state of flux that we're in. We're now, as clinicians, at least working in Nairobi, you're sort of seeing the entire spectrum and much less and less of the sort of fungating tumors. So I think in terms of the principles, and the good thing is that irrespective of where you are, principles do not change. But I think you sort of have to rapidly innovate and iterate in settings where you may not necessarily have a say, MRI to do an MRI-guided biopsy, but you also sort of look at what makes sense for the patient. Working in lower-resource settings, I think, is actually a good thing because it challenges you to constantly think about value-based care. People talk about value-based care as a concept, but you're doing it on a day-to-day basis, even between different patients in clinic, because you have to think about the cost and you have to think about how do I deliver care that's still of good quality, that's not necessarily going to break the bank. And so these are some of, I think, more challenging or at least questions that we have to think about deliberately. Whereas in the US, if you have insurance, then it's pretty much carte blanche, for want of a better word. Which we did realize, especially with COVID - and I'm sure Pat and Dave you can bear testament to this - these disparities exist globally. And so you'll find that in your patients who have no insurance or are underinsured, they're still coming in with the same, sort of, challenges. I was talking to my colleague at NYU who works at Bellevue. When she was giving me the profile of her patients, it was interesting to see that there wasn't really– and these are patients who don't necessarily have insurance, there really wasn't any difference in the images we are seeing from patient they're seeing and the patients we're seeing. So really it's an opportunity for us to sort of rethink collectively our approach to care and really thinking about how do we provide quality care. Pat Loehrer: I was in Washington this week, and President Biden had a three-day African US summit, and at the end of this, he basically pledged to spend $55 billion in Africa to help relations with them. We also had a discussion about the Moonshot 2.0, in which President Biden wants to end cancer as we know it, with a particular emphasis, I think, and now, in linking with LMICs. Briefly, what would you tell President Biden in terms of what would be very helpful for the United States to help with the cancer problem in sub-Saharan Africa? What would you say in a sentence or two? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: As we say, perhaps have the Moonshot, but stay grounded in the sense that– even before we think about complex molecules, we are still struggling as a continent with the basics of care. And so, investing in health systems and the basics will ultimately give more or improve outcomes rather than sort of focusing on specific molecules. So if we have the basics in place to deliver the basics of care, then that would go a long way toward shifting outcomes. The other bit that does need to happen is, again, with research because there is a paucity of cancer research. We did a recent bibliometric analysis and found that as a continent, we are only contributing to less than 8% of all sort of cancer research globally. And we do know that one, we have, I would say, the breadth of diversity in terms of genetic diversity. We do know that the responses to care and treatments are different. We do know that we do need to think about implementation science and what structures we can put into place, and what strategies. What works in different settings might not necessarily work in ours, and it does need to be backed by evidence. So there are opportunities to expand care and strengthen systems, but really do this in an evidence-based, pragmatic way that ultimately [inaudible] its own outcomes and outputs for the patient. Dave Johnson: Thank you for that, Miriam. Pat Loehrer: Well said. Thank you. Dave Johnson: Great advice. I hope the President is listening. Pat Loehrer: Dr. Mutebi, what was the first book that you remember that you really loved? Dr. Miriam Mutebi: I think it was actually The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was just the whole sort of just stepping into a different world. And then, of course, we all had crushes on Aslan, the lion, but it was more because he was like this sort of guy who would swoop in and was morally just and get to mediate the world. And so I went through the whole series, I just gobbled it down, and I think that's one of the things that really stands out for me as one of the books that I sort of remember early on. Pat Loehrer: It's such a great pleasure today. I'm really excited. We're typically talking about books. And here's a book, Dave, I know that you have not read; it's entitled 101 Things I've Learned in Engineering School. It was an interesting book. As you know, I'm an engineer background, but there were a few quotes in here that I– Dave Johnson: Pat, I live on Purdue Avenue, so I have some engineering background. Pat Loehrer: Oh, that's true. Good for you. So you might like this one, Dave. One of the quotes I have is: "Inventing is a mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need." And another one - do you know the difference between accuracy and precision? They're really different things. And so, the best example that came from the book, which I thought was interesting, was pi, so pi is what? Dave Johnson: Round. Pat Loehrer: Okay, this is going to be painful. Pi is 3.14. Right? So that's accurate. But if you say pi is 3.1415926535, that's accurate and precise. And if you said pi is 3.98, that's just inaccurate and imprecise. As I think about engineering as we move forward, I'm thinking about the Lung Pragmatic trial that has just been announced, where we're trying to do trials a lot more simply in which I think we can be accurate, but perhaps not as precise as we always deem to be important. And I think we're really excited about that and that project. Dave Johnson: Well, that's really all the time we have for today. And we really want to thank you, Miriam, for a wonderful interview. And knowing that you're up very late at home makes it all the more special. We also want to thank our listeners to Oncology, Etc. This is an ASCO educational podcast where Pat and I will talk about just about anything. If you have an idea for a topic or a guest you'd like us to interview, please email us at education@asco.org. Thanks again. Pat, I have an important question for you before we leave. What do you call a snail that's not moving? Pat Loehrer: You got me, man. Dave Johnson: Escarstay. Pat Loehrer: I love it. Miriam, Asante sana. Dr. Miriam Mutebi: Nime Shukuru. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.      

Hendrik ist zurück im Home of Champions in Kenia - genau rechtzeitig, um dem Crosslauf seiner Freundin in Eldoret beizuwohnen. Ein spektakuläres Erlebnis, sowohl für Teilnehmer als auch Zuschauer. Esther berichtet uns hautnah von ihren Erlebnissen und wir geben euch spannende Kenia-Insights! — Einer rennt Einer hinterher ist auf Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Anchor und Google Podcasts für euch verfügbar. Bei Instagram halten wir euch bei @1rennt1hinterher auf dem Rennenden. — Zur 1rennt1hinterher-Spotify-Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kVAZSEIqcLtDEttdsUyin — Zur Ministry of Nutrition Probierbox (20% Rabatt mit unserem Code LAUFEN20): https://mon-sports.com/probierbox — Hendriks aktuell am meisten genutzte Produkte: Power Carb Heat https://mon-sports.com/power-carb?number=POWERCARBHEAT / Reovery Shake Kakao https://mon-sports.com/recovery-shake?number=RECOVERY1000 / Gel40 Matcha und Koffein https://mon-sports.com/gels-40?number=GELS-40-MATCHA-1 / Gel 40 Mango https://mon-sports.com/gels-40?number=GELS-40-MANGO-1 / — Im 3Bears Shop erhaltet ihr mit unserem Rabattcode EINERRENNT15 15% Rabatt auf das gesamte Sortiment - vom klassischen Porridge über Pasta bis zu den leckeren Haferpancakes und Bananebrot. https://3bears.de

Edwin Chiloba was a rising star in Kenya's LGBTQ community. The model and fashion designer was also making a name for himself as an activist. However, last week his body was found dumped in a metal box on the roadside near Eldoret. Investigations into his murder are ongoing. Initially some people feared he may have been killed due to his sexuality, but police say one of the suspects they have arrested was a close friend. Even so, his death has been a worrying and painful time for many in the community. Host: Alan Kasujja (@kasujja) Guest: Chris Muriithi (@makenanjeri) #AfricaDaily

Religion Unplugged Contributor Dr. Robert Carle is in Eldoret, Kenya for this episode, interviewing Pastor John Miaka and Pastor Philip Yego. They are accomplished runners who have competed internationally for Kenya, winning marathons in Madrid, Valencia, the European Indoor Games, the 10k road race. They have since retired from running to focus on their faith and being pastors of Pentecostal churches in Eldoret. Dr. Carle speaks to the pastors on how their running careers have intersected with their faith.

Pastor Ken Shiku serves as a pastor in Eldoret, Kenya. After attending Bible School in the United States, Pastor Ken had plans to remain in the land of prosperity and opportunity, but instead followed the Lord's leading to return to Kenya. He and His wife, Grace, now have an amazing ministry to the impoverished, marginalized, and orphan children of Kenya. We know you will be encouraged by his captivating story. If you would like to support Ken's Ministry, you can give online at myrealchurch.org/give (mark your gift for Ken Shiku). 

Eunice Kamaara is a professor of Religion at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, and International Affiliate of Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis (US). She holds MPhil in Religion, MSc. in International Health Research Ethics, and PhD in African Christian Ethics. Her three-in-one public role involves teaching/training, research, and community service. She trains on Advanced Research Methodology including Research Ethics and Integrity; Transformative Teaching and Learning; Gender Mainstreaming; Higher Education Management; Quality Management; Project Planning and Development including Monitoring and Evaluation; Adolescent Sexual/Reproductive Health; and HIV Prevention and Intervention. She conducts trans/multi-disciplinary and community participatory research on gender, character values, and holistic health, and has over 100 publications.  Eunice is passionate about translating research findings into practical development through policy influence and community uptake. She is President of the Eldoret Based Gender and Development Network (EldoGaDNet), a community participatory self-development agent. She enjoys mentoring adolescents and youth.  She has served on the  board of CWS (Church World Service) for several years and is an observer of the CWS Innovation Hub. Her public role overlaps with her private role as mother, daughter, wife, sister, aunt, neighbor, among others. She is Presbyterian by birth, Roman Catholic by marriage, and Christian by choice. Eunice is a Top 30 WHO Africa health innovator: https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-innovation-challenge-announce-30-finalists-africa-health-forum-cabo-verde    For more info about CWS, please check out this website.    We are also making a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by our podcast guests.   Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.   Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow @mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner. In this episode, I talk to Rayola Osanya from New Jersey.  Rayola went on the mission team to Nairobi, Kenya in the late eighties and from there he went on to plant churches in Eldoret, Kenya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kigali, Rwanda.  He just finished a memoir of his missionary and charity work in Africa entitled: “Go in the Strength You Have:  Looking Beyond Your Weaknesses To See the Difference Your Life Can Make.”  I read the book and talk with Rayola about his experiences in Africa.     Interview     How'd you become a Christian? What prompted you to write a book? What was it like for you to leave New York to return to Kenya? You mention being afraid a lot, having weaknesses, but it seems every time you were called to do something bold, you did it.  Where did that come from?  Talk a little about "Bible Algebra" You planted a church in Eldoret at 22, living in a tin-roofed shed.  Please talk about that What was it like going into Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide there? What are you excited about as you look forward now? What advice would you give to those who want to make this life count?

Pastor Josh shares what God has been doing in Kenya through Calvary Chapel Eldoret & Great Commission Ministries.

Open Door for Everyone | March 2022 Eldoret by S.B. Keshava Swami

During the pandemic businesses shut down and traditional jobs were lost forcing people to rethink how they earn a living. Since then one of the biggest shifts in the economy has been the rise of digital platforms – online market places which sell everything from fruit and veg to TVs and kitchen appliances. In Africa women have found new careers using Facebook and WhatsApp as well as ride-hailing apps like Uber and Bolt. Sam Fenwick meets three women who have found financial independence by starting businesses on these platforms. Josephine Adzogble from Accra in Ghana has a business selling electrical appliances via social media. Ayobami Lawal drives taxis in Lagos, Nigeria. The single mum of four talks about the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated environment. And Sharon Tarit from Eldoret, Kenya sublets properties through AirBnB. She started her business after she was forced to permanently close her shop selling baby clothes during the pandemic. Sam Fenwick is also joined by lead researcher at Caribou Digital, Grace Natabaalo who explains why it's important for women to have financial independence and the impact female workers can have on a country's economy. Presenter / Producer : Sam Fenwick Photo : Josephine Adzogble, Ayobami Lawal, Sharon Tarit; Credit: BBC

The Ultimate Chess Player | March 2022 Eldoret by S.B. Keshava Swami

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Wie viel kann in einer Woche eigentlich passieren?! Von ersten schweren Tagen der Höhenanpassung über einen harten 40km Long Run mit einer der besten Marathonläuferinnen der Welt zur ersten erfolgreichen Tempoeinheit und 215 absolvierten Wochenkilometern. Dann „Knöchel der Nation“, MRT im Krankenhaus in Eldoret und Alternativtraining auf Spinning Bike und Crosstrainer. Philipp hatte sich seinen Einstieg in die Frühjahrsmarathonvorbereitung sicher ein wenig entspannter vorgestellt, aber zumindest gibt das dann eine Menge her für eine neue Podcastfolge. Sein Freund Felix, der ihn für drei Wochen nach Kenia begleitet, kommt natürlich auch zu Wort. Denn auch er muss feststellen, dass 2.400m Höhe im „Home of Champions“ den Körper an Grenzen bringt. Ralf ist derweil in Mainz von wo aus die deutsche Übertragung der Olympischen Winterspiele stattfindet und viele von euch werden ihn sicher schon bei den Eisschnellaufwettbewerben gehört haben. Auch da gab es jüngst einen kleinen Aufreger, der in der neuen Folge natürlich aufgegriffen wird.

His golfing journey is deeply rooted in the family footsteps straight from Eldoret Golf Club. He has just scratched the surface and there is more to come. Listen to my catch up with Kenyan Pro Golfer, Edwin Mudanyi IG - @edumudanyi Twitter - @MudanyiEdwin Facebook - Edwin Mudanyi

Nuestro compañero Alberto Hernández estuvo hace unos días en Kenia entrevistando (entre otros) a Eliud Kipchoge. Pudo conocer de cerca cómo vive y cómo entrena día a día en Eldoret el mejor maratoniano de todos los tiempos. En esta charla nos cuenta la intrahistoria de esa entrevista, que ya se puede leer en la web de Corredor (www.soycorredor.es), y cómo vivió esos momentos al lado de algunos de los mejores atletas africanos del momento y del pasado.Podcast Corredor, con Alberto Hernández y Luis Blanco.

Today we hear from Neena Shah who was born and grew up in Eldoret, Kenya, a town renowned for it awesome runners!   In her youth she was a national badminton champion..  Today Neena is an accountant, lives in London with her family and can't imagine not having running in her life. Neena's running tips - all you need is a pair of shoes and the intention to going for a run. https://fitmindfitbody.co/podcast/ 

In this episode, we discuss the process of designing a university course in Global Health and Sustainable Development, together with Helena Frielingsdorf Lundqvist, a psychiatrist with a PhD in neurobiology who is also a resident in social medicine and the chair of the SLS committee of global health. Five years ago Helena and a small group of global health enthusiasts started lobbying for a course in Global Health and Sustainable Development to be offered to medical students at Linköping University in Sweden and it was launched earlier this year. The course is a collaborative elective course between Linköping and Moi University in Eldoret in Kenya. Interviewers were Lotta Velin and Hedda Ottesson, both junior doctors in Sweden.

In this episode, Nick and Scott speak with Kenyan Olympic Runner, Edward Kemboi. They kick off the conversation with how Edward made his way to the Atlanta Track Club before getting to his journey from Eldoret, Kenya to the University of Iowa and beyond. Edward is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who competes professionally for Atlanta Track Club and Mizuno. His love for running all started back in Kenya as a 6th grader with his sister. While at Iowa State University, he won the 800 meters at the 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and at the 2015 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships. With a 1:44.77 personal best in the 800m and 3:39.02 in the 1500m, this Pro is fast and can help you amp up your speed as well as gain endurance. You can follow Edward on Instagram and find him on the TAGALONG platform. Follow us on INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK For more information about training with professional athletes, please visit www.tagalongwithapro.com or Download the TAGALONG with a Pro app --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tagalongwithapro/support

Your favorite 2 Black Runners are joined by the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion in the Steeplechase, Hillary Bor, who is heading to his second Olympic Games this year. The two ask Bor about his journey from Eldoret, Kenya to America and how joining the U.S. Army led to his professional career. Learn more about the Kenyan-American distance running culture that is built into the NCAA system as well on the pro scene. Watch Hillary Bor this week in Tokyo at the 2020 Olympic Games!!

Ho da pochi giorni finito di leggere “Oltre il confine. Viaggio nel cuore della corsa” di Stefano Pampuro.Stefano è un amico di questo podcast. Infatti, è già stato ospite qua in una splendida chiacchierata, dove abbiamo proprio parlato principalmente della sua esperienza in Africa, dove è nato questo libro.Lo stesso Stefano gentilmente mi ha poi mandato la versione digitale del libro che così ho avuto modo di leggere con calma. Ed eccoci qui, a farne la recensione al termine della lettura.Link Amazon al libro “Oltre il confine, viaggio nel cuore della corsa”: https://amzn.to/2Q8Ft0rL'altro libro di Stefano è "Ogni corsa è un viaggio: Storia di una generazione che ha dominato la maratona": https://amzn.to/3o4yO3IAccount Instagram di Stefano: https://www.instagram.com/run.kenya/Episodio "Oltre il confine con Stefano Pampuro": https://www.spreaker.com/user/lorenzomaggiani/oltre-il-confine-con-stefano-pampuro----------------------Supporta questo progetto tramite un sostegno mensile su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/da0a42In alternativa, puoi fare una donazione "una-tantum".PayPal: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8kR86PePo1Buymeacoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da0a42Seguimi!Canale Telegram: https://t.me/da0a42Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/da0a42/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/da0a42/Profilo Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/37970087Club Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/da0a42Sito: https://da0a42.home.blogOppure contattami!https://da0a42.home.blog/contatti/Il mio microfono, HyperX Quadcast: https://amzn.to/3bs06wC----------------------Music credits: Feeling of Sunlight by Danosongs - https://danosongs.com

Navalayo is co-founder and CEO of Enda Athletic, Inc. She's a graduate of the London School of Economics, and has worked internationally including the U.S., UK, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya where she utilizes her diverse skills as an accountant, a lawyer, risk manager, and in international development. She's from a town near Eldoret, Kenya, that has produced generations of the world's greatest distance runners. Prior to creating Enda, Navalayo started a sports academy in Bungoma, Western Kenya, to provide sports protegees from disadvantaged backgrounds access to much needed professional training without compromising their education. In order to maximize social impact in Kenya through sports, Navalayo teamed up with her co-founder to create Enda Athletic Inc, a made in Kenya running shoe brand that creates jobs, invests in local communities, and spurs economic development through exports. About the host: Fadel Jaoui, an economist, started this podcast to celebrate African entrepreneurial success stories, to hear the originals and changemakers behind them, and to draw lessons to inspire many more stories across the continent. This virtuous cycle is fundamental to pool talent and investments, and ultimately create startup “unicorns” that would benefit Africa's prosperity. Fadel is a strong advocate of entrepreneurial ecosystem building and private sector development as true engines of sustainable economic growth. And he is a firm believer in leveraging innovation and technology to leapfrog development constraints and scale up social and economic impact. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University, as well as degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He started his career in investment banking in London, and has held various positions in International Financial Institutions (views are his own).

Sule Kangangi's Human Chapter, Cycle Through Life, was an absolute honour to host and engage in. I stumbled upon Sule's charity bike ride story (on social media) in December 2020 and this generated a heap of questions for my curious brain. Sule takes us on his remarkable journey from a novice to a professional cyclist (in Eldoret, Kenya). Sule generously shares his personal experience of what inspired him to become a professional cyclist, what this part of his life entails, his first race, the people he has been supported by, his childhood experiences, his phenomenal charity ride, future aspirations, and much more. One of the things I strongly resonated with towards the end of our conversation was Sule's final advice, 'Be true to yourself in whatever you do'. A huge thanks to Sule for sharing his Chapter and to our listeners for engaging in this conversation. Feel free to share it if it resonates with you.

In today's episode, we discuss whether the police is allowed to follow up on a civil debt. What does the law say in this situation? I am a property developer based in Eldoret. A few years ago, I got some people who wanted me to develop a property for them. The agreement was that they pay half of the money and the balance in instalments as I progressed in the construction. They paid 50% of the purchase price, and I began the construction. However, I spent more money than I had anticipated, and was struggling to achieve the next milestone to receive the instalment. I asked if they could pay in advance, but they refused, saying that I needed to first finish what I had promised. I, therefore, got into delays of almost one year looking for money to finish the project to the next milestone. Eventually, I found someone willing to lend me the balance if I could give them the title deed of the property as security. Since I knew I would get money immediately, I met the milestone I agreed to the Shylock's terms. However, when I completed the milestone, the clients refused to pay the balance saying I had taken too long, and they were no longer interested in the project. They asked me to refund their money, but I refused, saying they were the ones who owed me. At the same time, the Shylock was demanding his money, and I started avoiding him. I am worried however that he might have transferred the title deed to his name since he is very well connected at the lands office. Over the past few weeks, the clients have been really threatening me and yesterday they got the DCI to summon me about the case. The DCI said that they would call me every day until I repaid the money. What can I do to stop the police from calling me incessantly? I also don't want to be forced to pay them back since they also did not meet their end of the bargain. Research by Joy Mutimba-Vétil (joy@hklaw.co.ke) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/swalanyeti/message

Our guest this week is Stefanie Kurgatt. Stefanie was born in Eldoret, Kenya but moved to the states at a young age and most of her childhood was spent in Tallahassee, Fl. She attended Georgetown University, where she earned her B.S. in Healthcare Management/Policy and M.S. in Health Systems Administration. She holds a great interest in health disparities, community health, and social determinants of health and strives to increase access to care for the underserved. In her spare time, Stefanie loves to workout, go on runs and bike rides around DC, and cook. She loves being outside and going on different adventures/road trips. Most recently Stefanie embarked on her first backpacking trip and is excited for more outdoor adventures! In this episode, Stefanie talks with Carmen and me about her experiences going on her identity journey as a biracial immigrant and the confidence she has gained learning to accept and love herself for who she is and her desire for others recognize the whole person for who they are and all the goodness they bring to the table.If this is your first time with OTC, check out Season 1 Episode 1: START HERE for more background on the show.Visit www.truecolorscast.com for more show info and join the community on Instagram to continue the conversations!

Episode 17 of the Chi State Pod features Brenda Jepkoech, Chicago State senior runner. Jepkoech grew up in Eldoret, Kenya, moving to America for college in 2017. At first, she attended Union University in Jackson, Tennessee before transferring to Chicago State. On the podcast, Jepkoech discusses her eye-opening transition to America, including the concept of racism being completely new to her. She also delves into her running background, which started at an early age in the running hotbed of Kenya, where running is a way of life. Chi State Pod is hosted and produced by Sam Brief. Music is courtesy of David Brief and Channel J. You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Reading is delivered by Postulant Jackline Matiko and meditation delivered by Sister Maria Edel Mary Queen Magoma (from PRR Sisters Formation House in the diocese of Eldoret, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa). Genesis 1: 1 - 2: 1; Rs psalm 104: 1-2a.5-6.10.12.13-14.24.35c; Genesis 22: 1-18; Matthew 28: 1-10. LIGHT OVERCOMES DARKNESS The theme of our meditation on this Holy Saturday is: Light Overcomes Darkness. We have just passed the Good Friday with its sentiments of loss, mourning and sadness occupying our deepest hearts. This atmosphere makes us feel like being abandoned and hopeless. Jesus Christ our Lord already died and was buried. But today the Church tells us that there is hope and help. Jesus is our light and He is our faithful helper. Today from morning until late afternoon, the quiet and calm moments accompany us to leave behind feelings and thoughts about mourning and loss, then we are led to a joyful light brought by the risen Christ. One illustration can help us pondering this silent Saturday. If we enter a dark room or house, we obviously can not see anything. It is very difficult to find a space to step on. Like blind person, we can only "feel" our situation and existence where we are at the moment. We must be very careful with each step because otherwise we slip and fall, especially because we are not so familiar with the place or location we are. Such is the situation of life in the world where we live if without Jesus our Lord. There are many temptations in darkness. We can just step and fall into temptations. But in God and His mercy we find light for our steps and walks. This light is Jesus, and He dwells in us, in our families, our society and our Church. One light alone is very important and we do have it. While our surroundings are dark, we have and hold that light. We need to remain strong in faith and continue to bring that light without having carried away or bothered by the darkness which might be increasing every time. So even though there is only one and small light, the surroundings are threatened by it. One light that shines will surely make that darkness not anymore perfect. Jesus says, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not fall into darkness." The light of Jesus is not something physical or material like a candle or fire. That light is a spiritual guidance and a path to be stepped on in our journey to the Father. So by following that light, we are truly guided and directed because Jesus Himself is our true light. By this light, we will know how to worship our Father in heaven, we will know how we relate to our neighbors and we will know how to be strong in defending and doing the will of the Father. Meditating on the light of Christ that overcomes the power of darkness really leads us to the celebration of the Easter Vigil, which we will soon celebrate with great solemnity. With all the preparations and our spirit keep burning to meet the risen Christ, we truly welcome the Easter Vigil tonight with great joy. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... Almighty God, protect us always who walk on your path and do Your will under the guidance of Your marvelous light. Glory to the Father... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

Reading is delivered by Postulant Angela Nagila and meditation delivered by Sister Maria Clarenita Kananu Lichoro (from PRR Sisters Formation House, in the diocese of Eldoret, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa). Isaiah 52: 13-53: 12; Rs psalm 31: 2.6.12-13.15-16.17.25; Hebrews 4: 14-16; 5: 7-9; John 18: 1-9: 42. BE A HELPER FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER Our meditation today, Good Friday, has the theme: Be a Helper for Those Who Suffer. According to the Gospel of John, Our Lady stood near the Cross of Jesus (Jn 19: 25-27). But actually she was in the same crowd that followed Jesus on His way to the moment of crucifixion. The mother had once met her Son along the Via Dolorosa (the Passion of the Lord). The mother looked at her Son in silence and sadness, but her heart was full of God's grace. A man who made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Simon of Cyrene, was forced to help carrying the cross of Jesus. He obeyed even though it was not Jesus who requested him to help. Of course Jesus was very grateful to him. Simon represented many people who want to help Jesus in his very tragic moments, but they are afraid of the executioners who punish Jesus so brutal and without mercy. There are those who directly offer their help like Simon, and there are also those whose intentions to help are carried out by others who have opportunity to help, but there are those who intend not to help and just watching Jesus from distance. Veronica is a woman who helped Jesus even though she was not found in any of the four Gospels or other new testament writings. The story of her is found in the apocryphal writings, which are not included in the canonical scriptures that the Church now has. For example, Pilate's story from the 2nd century tells us that a woman named Veronica (Bernice, in Greek) was the same woman who had been healed by Jesus from the hemorrhage illness (Mt 9,20-22). Veronica defended Jesus before the Pilate that Jesus was absolutely innocent. From the fourth or fifth century it had been recorded that Veronica had a piece of cloth with a picture of the Face of Jesus. The three figures who helped Jesus in His via dolorosa were appropriate to illustrate that men and women followers of Christ can be good helpers to their neighbors. This help is classified into two types. The first is a kind of help in the form of corporal acts of love. A corporal act of love is shown in the carrying the heavy cross of the suffering person like what Simon of Cyrene did. We can help to take up all the burden, a half of it, or a small part of it, and those with heavy burden can find it easy to go on in their journey of life. The type of spiritual acts also becomes an important help for those in difficulty and suffering. A presence that gives consolation, an encouragement shown, a sense of compassion expressed, and a moral or sa piritual support provided, all these are acts of love that can bring joy and peace for those who in difficulties. The common way that we do in this style is our sympathy or prayers. Through this, we actually help them to be strong in bearing the burden and be faithful always to the Lord. This help also aims to keep up their spirit and avoid any negative reaction like giving up, anger and losing confidence. Mary and Veronica are exemplary women who have done this to Jesus Christ. We can do the same as they did. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O God of mercy, we beg for forgiveness of our mistakes for not helping others who are in pain and suffering. Hail Mary full of grace ... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

Reading is delivered by postulant Jackline Matiko and meditation delivered by Sister Maria Edel Mary Queen Minchàri Magoma (from PRR Sisters Formation House in the diocese of Eldoret, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa). Isaiah 50: 4-9a; Rs psalm 69: 8-10.21bcd-22.31.33-34; Matthew 26: 14-25. THE CHALLENGES FROM JUDAS ISCARIOT The theme for our meditation today is: The Challenges from Judas Iscariot. Judas was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus who died earlier than the rest eleven, and that was a very shameful death with a very bad reputation. We say this in order to distinguish it with the tragic deaths of almost all the other apostles who in the following decades died tragically as martyrs of the Church. The tragic death of Judas was a very undignified death. This story happened more than 2000 years ago, precisely when the death sentence was handed down to Jesus through an unjust trial under the Judaism law. We recall and celebrate this event especially every year around the holy week season, and we see it as a lesson rich with values to learn from. All of these are the challenges from Judas Iscariot that we need to face and benefit them for our growth of faith in Jesus Christ. The most important challenge from Judas for us today is the love for money or other material richness. A lifestyle that relies only on money, or a life is only measured by material richness of the world, is commonly known as materialism. From this lifestyle arises various other crimes such as theft, corruption, discrimination, violence and war. We, as good followers of Christ, certainly do not want to suffer the same fate as Judas, just because we strive only for money or material things, that will lead us to a final emptiness and undignified death. The challenge of politicizing religion for us is another important element to ponder upon. Both Judas and the other apostles and also the Jewish leaders did have their common political interest. They wanted to have a Messiah, the great political figure for their nation and people. With the help of that Messiah, they imagined to have freedom from the Roman colonials. But they misunderstood and were fooled. Jesus was not for them. In the social life of our country, we are challenged to completely avoid the politicization of religion. There must be no political influence in it, nor should a life of faith impose any political ways to simply divide the community of believers. Another challenge that we can learn from this event is what played by Judas, namely the hypocrisy. The strategy was to hug Jesus, to kiss Him, then to send a message to the executioners and the Jews to arrest Jesus. What a play of hypocrisy can be made by anyone of us here, who deceive friends, families, relatives, neighbors, town, religion, nation and homeland only for a personal gain! Whatever motivation for this act, it is always a very materialistic and worldlyway that one might choose in life. One can intentionally and easily deny who and what is supposed to protect and respect. We must fight and overcome all these challenges in our lives today. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O Jesus Christ, put in us courage and good will that we may avoid the attitudes of Judas in us so that we can live a holy life like You. Glory to the Father... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

Reading is delivered by Postulant Debora Mongina and meditation delivered by Sister Maria Cilinia PRR (from Formation House PRR Sisters in the diocese of Eldoret, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa). Exodus 12: 1-8.11-14; Rs psalm 116: 12-13.15-16bc.17-18; 1Corinthians 11: 23-26; John 13: 1-15. A MEANINGFUL HOLY THURSDAY Our meditation today has the theme: A Meaningful Holy Thursday. Thursday of Holy Week is called the Holy Thursday and the dominant liturgical color is white. Vestments for the ministers and servers, and the decoration are all in white or golden manifestation. This color symbolizes joy and glory. In today's celebration, namely the Last Supper celebration tonight, all our attentions go to that act of Jesus Christ to give us the significance of glory, joy, power and feast. In this celebration there is a ceremony of Jesus washing the feet of His apostles. Through this act, Jesus wants to teach us to serve one another in humility. This is the sign of a great joy. The atmosphere of joy and the triumph of love that we share together as a community of the People of God can be manifested through our mutual services. For this, Jesus says that we must love one another as He first loves us. He teaches us His greatest law written in the Scriptures, namely to love our neighbors. The celebration tonight reminds us of the Eucharist, the great sacrifice of the Holy Mass instituted by Jesus Christ, who sacrificed Himself, for that was the will of His Father . His words and deeds of love are actually the sources of our joy and they are the signs of the presence of God's glory. The Eucharist itself is our joy, as the incarnated Word of God present in His Body and becomes the spiritual food we share together as one Church. Along with the Eucharist, Jesus established the Sacrament of the Priesthood. This is an important joy for the entire Church because this Priesthood aims to perform the Eucharist for the entire members of the Church. The priesthood exercises the power of the Lord who leads the People of God and guides them in the light and truth of the Lord. In this celebration we also remember the critical moments of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, where beads of blood sweat flowing and dripping to bring Him to the glory of the cross which was just close at hand. The atmosphere of Gethsemane was full of trials and death threat that made everything so frightening and dangerous. But like the Lord himself, we must have courage and faith in order to able to endure that trembling situation. Between the Gesthsemane and the Golgotha there ​​is a crucial moment when one experiences how suffering and death are already awaiting to an actual happening. Usually temptation tends to bring us away from that terrifying reality. Jesus himself even says: O Father, let this cup be taken away from me. But we must follow our Master Jesus Christ, who, with all willingness and encouragement, went on to overcome that temptation, and be able to drink the cup of sufferings. This is the real Christian joy. Although almost all of us do not experience the usual Holy Thursday Evening celebration because of the Covid-19 still threathening us, we all as the People of God should still experience spiritually the joy of the Eucharist and the glory of the Priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ in each of us and in our daily lives. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen our faith to continue to believe and be faithful to the Eucharist as a means of our salvation. Hail Mary full of grace... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

Reading is delivered Sr Maria Rosmary Cebet PRR and meditation delivered by Sr Maria Cilinia PRR (they are from the Community of Formation House of PRR Eldoret in the Parish of Holy Spirit Langgas, Diocese of Eldoret, in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa). Isaiah 42: 1-7; Rs Psalm 27: 1.2.3.13-14; John 12: 1-11. ENDLESS LOVE Our meditation today has the theme: Endless Love. What does an endless love mean? When Jesus was dining with his close friends, Mary, known as a sinful woman according to the Gospel of John, did something that only love can do. She took the most valuable treasure she had and used it only for the Lord Jesus Christ. A sincere and genuine love does not depend on calculations or conditions. Mary's love to Jesus was an example of endless love. What she did to Jesus was based on her love and gratitude to Him who bestowed an endless love too on her and her family. God of mercy forgave her, bringing her back from her sinful life of the past. Mary did an act of love that should not be made in public by a Jewish woman. She let her long hair loose in front of Jesus and seen by many present. She washed Jesus's feet with her tears. According to the norms of Judaism tradition, a woman on her wedding day must tie and cover her hair. So what Mary did at that moment was prohibited by law. Meanwhile, a married woman who let hair loose in public to be seen was a very bad sign. Mary's action certainly annoyed everyone around her except the Lord Jesus. But she did not care about the reactions of those people present. She just wanted to express her pure love for the Lord. In humility she bent down to anoint Jesus' feet and wiped them with her long hair. What Mary's did to Jesus actually gives us a message, namely to remind us on how many times have we shown our greatest gratitude and love to God! The perfume oil that she used to anoint Jesus, made the entire house filled with fragrance (Jn 12.3). Those present and the house itself were all made fragrant and comforted the people present in their bodies and souls. Only an endless love can do this act. This is enough to conclude that any woman and man can do the same great acts love to the Lord Jesus Christ like what Mary from Magdala did. It is not impossible for any of us to do such love in any situation and context of life. Jesus Christ always gives us an example to share an endless love. In this holy week we will find ourselves in moments of pondering and meditating His acts of love. Today we are given the image of Jesus the servant of God, who was willing to suffer like a bruised reed or a faded smoldering wick, but He would not be broken or faded away. He will still uphold the law of justice and truth on earth. His love lasts forever on this earth. Jesus will not disappear or finish just by experiencing suffering and dying. He actually goes through all this and continues to live in all of us His followers. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O Lord Jesus Christ, teach and strengthen us to always be able to endure the difficulties and sufferings that confront us, even when we have to sacrifice our lives. Our Father who art in heaven... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

Reading is delivered by Post. Jane Kendi and meditation delivered by Sr Maria Clarenita Kananu Lichoro (they are from the formation house community of PRR Sisters, in the diocese of Eldoret, Nairobi, Kenya - East Africa). Isaiah 49: 1-6; Rs psalm 71: 1-2.3-4a.5-6b.15.17; Matthew 26: 14-25. A GREAT SADNESS Our meditation today has the theme: A Great Sadness. This sentence is enough to represent the feelings we generally have when we experience sadness and disappointment in our lives. As an example, when the outcome of our job, struggle, longing, and hope is merely a failure, we obviously feel very sad. It is simply futile or meaningless. When we desire progress and development, while in reality it is simply a setback or even loss, we also feel so sad. Jesus Christ, even as the Son of God, is a human person like us. In the Passover meal with His apostles just before the death sentence befalling upon him, Jesus' mind and heart were filled with great sadness. He obviously felt that he was on the verge of death, but He seemed not too bothered about it. He had to tell truth of His imminent death to His apostoles and many other people who had been following Him during His public ministries. He already knew long before about His own death and he had revealed it repeatedly. His great sadness was not because he was close to death. He became so sad also not because he would soon leave the flock of His chosen people. There were many people who had sympathized and put their faith in God through the works of Jesus, would surely feel a great loss. But this thing had been told to them in many occasions, so this is not the reason for Jesus' sadness. The sadness of Jesus Christ was great and obvious at that moment of the Last Supper. He was sincere about it to the apostles whom he loved so much. There was one thing to be the reason, namely the moment of saying "goodbye" seemed to be a sign of failure within the community of the first followers of Christ. Two of Jesus' most trusted people,who should had been the pillars of the community, had already shown a sign of setback. They were not in the path of the Lord. Judas Iscariot, as treasurer, would destroy the community. He was full of ambition to satisfy his personal desire with materialistic orientation. Money and riches became his focus in life. His lust eventually brought him to earn only a small amount of money after selling Jesus Christ into the hands of His enemies. This materialistic and worldly attitude would clearly damage and destroy the community of believers and the society as well. Peter, as the first apostle, seemed not wise enough to speak and act. He wanted to react quickly and willed to be a solution-maker according to his own interest, but in fact, his faith and understanding was not deep enough as it should be. Our lives in the family, community, and society must be able to avoid corruption and materialistic attitudes like Judas Iscariot. Unwise attitude in mind and deeds like Peter must also be avoided. We are taught to always follow Christ by renewing ourselves constantly in order to be like Him in the fulfillment of the will of God. Let's pray. In the name of the Father ... O Lord Jesus, may we remain steadfast in our faith in You and be witnesses of Your truth in the midst of this very fragile world. Hail Mary full of grace... In the name of the Father ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/media-la-porta/message

LetaFood the online food delivery service based in Eldoret, Kenya, promoting local and healthy food alternatives to its users. We spoke with Marvin Collins Hosea CEO of Apps:Lab, the software development company with a vision to become the leading solution provider in Africa, about the inspiration behind LetaFood, building an online food delivery platform focused on healthy eating, and the importance of customer support. Check out the full article: https://www.builtinafrica.io/blog-post/marvin-collins-letafood-kenya

Hii leo jaridani Flora Nducha anaanzia nchini Tanzania kumulika harakati za watoto wa kike na elimu, kisha anakukutanisha na wajasiriamali vijana kupitia shirika la maendeleo ya viwanda la Umoja wa Mataifa, UNIDO. Baada ya hapo anakupeleka Vietnam ambako utaalamu umemaliza tabia ya wakulima kuonja maji ili kutambua iwapo yana chumvi nyingi au la kabla ya kumwagilia kwenye mpunga. Makala tunakwenda Nairobi nchini Kenya ambako kijana aliyekuwa sugu mtaani sasa amegeuka mkombozi kwa vijana wengine waliokuwa tishio mitaani na anatamatisha na mashinani kutoka Sudan Kusini, karibu!

Want to help us grow the show? Leave us a Rating and Review!“In life, you have to start your own adventure. You have to be the instigator of your own story.”—Toby TanserSo many times, we focus on the results of a success story. And we miss the “small” but monumental life lessons in the day-to-day experiences.In this episode, Jon and Bryan are captivated by the unexpected exploits of Toby Tanser. He shares multiple accounts of “seemingly insignificant” crossroads he faced. And you’ll learn the unbelievable series of events that eventually led to Shoe4Africa and the realization of Shoe4Africa Children’s Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya.Show Notes(3:07) When a theater is your personal playground…  Toby shares about his early childhood and teen years.(9:43) “It was miserable because now I didn't know where food was coming from...we budgeted ourselves one cheese sandwich a day, and we didn't have money for anything over that.”(12:03) Gaining an understanding of how an immigrant feels…(15:16) From banjos and soccer balls to quitting the cross country team, Toby tries to find his own identity.(21:29) “Everything in my life I've done that’s positive has been by mistake.” Toby recounts all the jobs and random opportunities that allowed him to live his “gypsy” lifestyle.(28:33) A blast from the past—Sebastian Coe and his impact…(33:47) “It’s time to actually change.” Toby began to run.(35:25) Negative influences were all around.(41:30) Police motorbikes, spectators, a big win, and a Nike rep…(48:06) A millionaire’s lifestyle without the money and a move to Sweden.(52:00) An “Irish Leprechaun,” Noel Berkeley strikes a deal for a Swedish wife, and two friends plan to go to Kenya.(59:43) Getting dumped, lost bags, and judging cabbies by their teeth…(1:06:15) How a 40-minute run achieves a lifelong dream of running with Kenyans.(1:13:18) Not being able to sleep turns into producing a bestseller.(1:21:37) “And I'm standing next to a guy who can't even get the pair of shoes, but you know, can run ten times faster than me. So I started to think like maybe my position in life is not to be the runner that I wanted to be. Maybe I can be the person that helps you.”(1:27:03) A picturesque run on the beach almost cost him his life.(1:35:06) “And it was very strange because it felt like somebody was coming with a bullhorn and screaming get up, you're not supposed to end here.”(1:41:58) A wooden bench, a Somali nurse, and no fluorescent lights… Toby’s 1st experience with an African hospital.(1:53:46) Brain surgery 11 days later…(1:59:38) Running with Martha Stewart’s assistant in New York on 9/11…(2:02:30) “And I said, I need to stop doing races, and I need to put time on this shoe program and health program.”(2:05:32) The problem with charities…(2:11:30) Empowerment, education, and health…(2:15:02) “The best gift you can give a nation is healthy citizens.”(2:18:43) 9 out of 10 kids with cancer in East Africa die.(2:23:36) 152 hospital beds can save 500 lives.(2:25:03) What does Go Be More mean to Toby?(2:29:21) “So a hundred dollars donation was what turned into a hospital that's treated over 500,000 children. So don't ever think that anything is, you know, insurmountable. It's standing up, to go be more.”If you liked this episode, check out our interviews with entrepreneur Ron Sarmiento and 5-time Olympian Abdi Abdirahman.And, you can now get these show notes sent directly to your email. Sign up here!Recorded September 7, 2020.References:Shoe4Africa - homepageTrain Hard, Win Easy by Toby Tanser - AmazonMore Fire: How to Run the Kenyan Way by Toby Tanser - AmazonThe Essential Guide to Running the New York City Marathon - AmazonGuest:Toby Tanser - Tanser.org, @shoe4africaHosts:Bryan Green - @sendaibry, Go Be More BlogJon Rankin - @chasejonrankin, Go Be MoreLinks:Go Be More websiteGo Be More YouTube ChannelFeedbackProduction and EditingCreatives Collective Marketing

In this episode, Candace is the “special guest” as she tells Jenny + us all about her new Bible Study: You Belong, Because God is Who He Says He Is. She helps us push past self-doubt, helplessness, and a lack of clarity to a place of belonging! What are we shutting up? That you don’t belong. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary In a Special Game!, Candace + Jenny play “I’m kinda in love with your ____________ today,” about their husbands. It’s like adult Mad Libs that are still acceptable for our single ready to mingle friends! In “We Said What!,” Jenny says she stalked Candace’s new Bible curriculum online and that we want to hear all about it! Candace shares that she wanted to help women who feel spiritually insecure so they can belong authentically whether they come to Bible Study groups for the snacks or to memorize passages of scripture. In Stories from the Village, Kaytie Fiedler, Executive Director of Open Arms International US, tells us she knew she belonged because she found her people. She shares that the kids at Open Arms Village have a sense of belonging because they are seen and known inside a family instead of an institution. Pray and partner with Open Arms through the links below! In “You Said What?!,” A listener calls in and says she should just be herself. Candace says that’s just why she wrote this curriculum, so keep listening! In “He Said What?!,” Candace teaches us through 2 Corinthians 3:18 how we move from glory to glory as we look more and more like Jesus. In “Hey Let’s Pray!,” Candace prays we settle in where we are in our transformation process to a place of belonging. You should pick up the “You Belong” video Bible study in the links below! Shut the Should Up, everybody, we’ll talk to you next season! LINKS to YOU BELONG: Take the Quiz: https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/5d955ed8286e3b0014f6ef4e Buy the YOU BELONG Bible study video and study guide: https://candacepayne.me/youbelong/ OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook For full show notes and to learn more about Candace and Jenny visit https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Until next season, Shut the Should Up everybody!

In this episode, Preston Ulmer, founder of “The Doubters Club”, joins Candace + Jenny to share how Christians and non-Christians can be friends and pursue truth together. He shuts up the belief that doubt is bad because honesty is better. What are we shutting up? That doubt and questions are bad. Newsflash: you can have friendships with people who don’t think like you. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary: Preston shares how “The Doubters Club” models friendship and pursues truth with people who don’t think like them. Candace wants to start a Doubters Club in Ikea! This becomes a challenge that could land you free books from Candace + Jenny and free Doubters Club training! In Bible College, Preston had his own bout with doubt. Candace + Jenny are mind blown when he tells them how good meaning people told him to do crazy things like sleep on the Bible to cure his confusion. Ultimately, a friend who just asked Preston to be honest and voice every uncertainty led him back to faith. Preston tells the process of Impression to Imitation of Jesus that helps Doubters Club Pioneers make authentic friendships with people who think differently than them. Preston shares how unbelief is different from doubting and having questions and explains how certainty is a killer, but doubt: a beautiful sister. Candace breaks out in “Way Maker” and says the song portrays Preston’s message: God is more than we can see is certain. Candace + Jenny agree you should consider starting a Doubters Club (see links below). Preston prays we’ll have the passion of Jesus to equalize and love others with realness regardless of doubts. MENTIONED RESOURCES + LINKS: “The Doubters Club” Website > https://www.thedoubtersclub.com/startyourowndc Follow Preston Ulmer on Instagram > https://instagram.com/ptulmer OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: For full show notes visit > https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Join the conversation in our Facebook Group > https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShutTheShouldUpPodcast/ Shut the should up, everybody!

In this episode, Candace + Jenny continue the conversation, “Befriending Like Jesus” from last week. They give more practicals on how to make and maintain friendships to free us from isolation and cultivate the connections we’re designed for! What are we shutting up? Poor Friendship If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! SHOW SUMMARY: Candace gives more practicals to help us check in on friends and make it a habit. Jenny says she’s not going to a scary movie with Candace. This leads into a hysterical laugh attack over the pronunciation of M. Night Shyamalan’s name. Jenny tells all about a memory made in Kenya at Open Arms Village when Candace saved her from a poisonous frog - with a plunger- in the middle of the night -during a blackout! Candace gives us tips to be a better listener! They rate themselves 1-10 on their skills. In Stories from the Village! Parents Solomon and Sarah share that to keep their teenagers on track, they ask them how they are approaching their opportunities. They share that one on one time helps win their hearts, and inspire us all to be better listeners and love our kids well! In He Said What?!, Candace + Jenny talk about how Jesus made friends until the end- even on the cross. Candace + Jenny are in awe of how Jesus has made us inner circle, intimate friends. In Hey, Let’s Pray!, they pray Jesus will show us how to be the friends we SHOULD be. MENTIONED RESOURCES + LINKS: OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: For full show notes visit: https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Join the conversation in our Facebook Group > https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShutTheShouldUpPodcast/ Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com

In this episode, Candace + Jenny start the conversation: Befriending Like Jesus. In an online world, we can still feel isolated, because we should have friends! It’s not easy to make and keep good friends, so let’s get all the practicals on being proactive pals today. What are we shutting up? Poor friendship. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! SHOW SUMMARY: In We Said What?!, Jenny tells all about her quest for new friends in Florida. Candace + Jenny make a distinction between internet web vs in-real-life friends. In You Said What?!, a caller shares friendship “should have syndrome.” Candace walks us through how she’s proactive in friendships to shut that should up! Candace + Jenny discuss levels of closeness: inner, mid, outer circle friends. Candace frees us all from thinking everyone gets inner circle space in our lives! Candace gives us her super practical friendship check-in chart to help us be the friends we SHOULD be. Candace + Jenny discuss praying for friends and why it’s important. Candace shares how she writes out- even color codes prayers for her people - so she can tell them specifics when she sees them. Candace inspires us to dream for our friends. Jenny shares how one “ledge pusher” friend pushed her to her first professional development conference. Candace + Jenny role-play real accountability in friendship over a box of waffles. Just go with it guys! OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts. For full show notes visit https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com We’re not done shutting this should up yet... tune in next week for more friend talk!

In this episode, Candace + Jenny host Rachel Gallagher. In 2002, Rachel took a leap of faith and started Open Arms International, an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the gospel and the love of a family. Candace + Jenny visited Open Arms Village earlier this year and are so excited to partner with them this season! Rachel shares how the organization was birthed from a realization that life in Christ is all about considering others. That’s why you’re invited to go on mission with us in this life-changing episode. GIVE A GIFT TO OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL TODAY >>> http://bit.ly/open-arms-should SHOW SUMMARY: In Confetti Like Praise!, Candace and Rachel rapid-fire things they’re thankful for in the Village. Spolier alert: the super cute kids are their favorite. In We Said What?!, Rachel shares the realization moment that made her a missionary. Once the words leave Rachel’s mouth, Candace + Jenny can’t believe how God set this episode up. Rachel shares that the biggest resource they equip kids in the Village with, is a solid foundation of Jesus, which helps them weather any storm in life. In “High-Five, It’s Story Time!,” we hear about Jane, a sweet two-year-old, whose conception and entrance into the world was condemned by the culture, but embraced by Open Arms. In “You Said What?!,” Callers who give to Open Arms Village tell how it impacts them to know they're making a difference! Jenny encourages listeners to join them in giving and then call into the show to let us know! In “He Said What?!, Candace reads Philippians 2:3-5, telling us to follow Jesus’ example to consider others above ourselves. Rachel shares the memory verse the kids at the Village know and live out - Jeremiah 29:11. All the kids have a future and a hope far better than how their lives began because of what God is doing through Open Arms. Candace says you should become a Champion of Hope in this moment! She tells listeners about handmade giving incentives (see below), encourages that your little can become a lot, and no gift is too small. In “Hey, Let’s Pray!,” Rachel, Candace, and Jenny all pray and end the show excited about what God will do for the kids at the Village through you! Help Candace + Jenny reach their goal of 100 CHAMPIONS OF HOPE! check out some incentives below) The first 20 donors to give at least $55/monthly receive a hand-crafted Nativity Set! First 20 to give a gift of at least $25 receive Banana Leaf Wall Art! GIVE A GIFT OF HOPE TODAY >>> http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook Thanks for going on mission with us and supporting an organization that considers others. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode or gave a gift to Open Arms, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 today.

In this episode, Candace + Jenny shut up the stuff that keeps us from surrendering like Jesus. They share stories about physical ways they’ve tried to act out their surrendering state while trying not to use Christianize. With lots of buzzes and laughs, they help us sort through what surrendering our daily life to God really looks like. What are we shutting up? Stuff that keeps us from surrendering like Jesus. SHOW NOTES: In this Buzzword Episode!, Candace + Jenny buzz each other for using Christianize words and make each other talk normal! Jenny asks if Candace is making a sandwich with her devotional jam (see link below). Candace gets buzz happy with her “fat thumbs” on Jenny over her heart posture! In “You Should Buy It!,” Candace gets real excited about her beloved make-up case that’s the next best thing to a caboodle! (See link below) Jenny leads us in morning slip and slide surrender: Candace buzzes her and rolls into a laugh attack picturing Jenny ungracefully opening her eyes, getting tangled in the sheets, and falling to the floor. In “He Said What?!,” Jenny shares Mark 14:35, when Jesus fully felt the human weight of his pending death, and yet still surrendered His will to the Father. Candace shares the “even if you don’t” prayer she struggles through to give it all to God no matter what. Jenny walks through a live-action surrender moment of giving God her schedule. She realizes perfectionism is “the actual thing” she needs to give up. Candace points out that God revealed the “root” of what she was wrestling with, and encourages that He'll do that for all of us! In “Hey Let’s Pray!,” Jenny prays for wisdom in knowing how to surrender in specific situations. Candace prays listeners will release it all to Him, fists open and all. MENTIONED RESOURCES + LINKS: My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers > https://amzn.to/2UFipVl Candace's Makeup Case > https://amzn.to/2QINeax OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL (OUR PODCAST PARTNER): Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their website and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Interested in seeing the full show notes or learn how Candace or Jenny can speak at your church or event? Visit https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Shut the should up everybody! P.S. This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you.

In this episode, Candace Payne + Jenny Randle shut up the shoulds surrounding who we’re following. In a social media world, it’s easy to get caught up following people who won’t lead us into freedom. So in this show, we sort through some tough questions to help us follow more like Jesus. What are we shutting up? Following the wrong examples. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! In Confetti Like Praise!, Candace + Jenny rapid-fire their favorite media to follow and we find out they both have some Bieber fever! In Won’t He Do It?!, a listener called in and sends air hugs, Candace admits those are her favorite kind, even before social distancing. In We Said What?, Jenny shares a sweet story about her son following her husband’s mannerisms. Candace tells a tale from childhood when she thought she was following her dad’s Member’s Only Jacket in the 80’s, but ended up sharing popcorn with a strange man instead. In You Said What?!, listeners followed directions perfectly and sang Christmas Carols. Well, mostly. One only “dings” the song, sending Candace into a laugh attack. In He Said What?!, Jenny shows how simple following God can be when we follow God’s example as a dearly loved child, from Ephesians 5:1. Jenny and Candace drop some truth bombs you're going to want to listen for. In Hey Let’s Pray!, Candace + Jenny pray God realigns all of us to follow the Father like Jesus did, Candace sings “amen” and they shut this should up! OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts. Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com Shut the should up everybody!

Carrie Newcomer is an American performer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, author and educator. The Boston Globe described her as a “prairie mystic” and Rolling Stone wrote that she is one who “asks all the right questions.” According to a 2014 PBS “Religion and Ethics” interview, Newcomer is a “conversational, introspective” songwriter who “celebrates and savors the ordinary sacred moments of life and champions interfaith dialogue and progressive spiritualty.” Krista Tippett notes that Carrie is “best known for her story-songs that get at the raw and redemptive edges of human reality.” Newcomer is a committed Quaker and connects her faith, her sense of social justice, and her songwriting. “My songwriting has always had a spiritual current to it. There’s a spiritual current in my life, so there is in my work. Otherwise I’d be censoring something important.”  She has performed around the world for humanitarian efforts and carved out a niche as a folksinger who is also an international emissary for peace and tireless advocate for living a more contemplative life. “I would have to say that my most profound and consistent spiritual practice is songwriting—that idea of sacramental living, of seeing the world as sacrament, seeing life as a sacrament of compassion and forgiveness,” she says. Newcomer has produced 18 solo CDs, eight collaborative CDs, three DVD’s, two LP’s with Stone Soup, and has received numerous awards for her music and related charitable activities. Her most recent album is 2019 The Point of Arrival. She has released two books of poetry & essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays and The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays & Lyric. Her song “I Should’ve Known Better” appeared on Nickel Creek’s Grammy winning gold album “This Side”, and she earned an Emmy for the PBS special “An Evening with Carrie Newcomer.” Newcomer says one of her greatest achievements is writing a song that has become an anthem for social justice activists. She wrote “Room at the Table” after listening to an interview about the importance of folk music to the American civil rights movement. “So, it’s done in call and response: ‘Let our hearts not be hardened to those living on the margin. There is room at the table for everyone.’” She cites Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan, “people creating music and trying to tell story in a poetic way” as influences on her songwriting style. The themes are deep: “There aren’t a lot of black-and-white answers, but… there’s a lot of good questions. I think folks are ready for conversations about questions without being told a pat answer.” She describes her work as “an art form that’s an authentic spiritual relationship that’s pressing in.” She says she has “spent a lifetime trying to describe in language those things we experience that have no words. You do that as a songwriter…Talking about that experience—what is it at the heart of things, right at the center of things. And what is this journey of trying to put into language these things we know, but we have no language for.” Many of the themes in Newcomer’s work come from her friendships and collaborations with activists, authors and religious figures like Parker J. Palmer, Jim Wallis, Scott Russell Sanders and Barbara Kingsolver. She also credits theologians, religious leaders and famous authors as influences. She has done numerous collaborations with authors, academics, philosophers and musicians, including Alison Krauss, Jill Bolte Taylor, Philip Gulley, Rabbi Sandy Sasso. Newcomer explains, “There is simplicity when you don’t know what else to do and then there is simplicity when you can play all sorts of notes and say all sorts of things but you don’t. It’s elegant, myself and all the musicians, it’s a very ego-less kind of playing.” Newcomer has had an ongoing, long-term collaboration with Parker J. Palmer, with whom she has co-written several songs and performed a spoken word/music in live performance, including Healing the Heart of Democracy: A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope, Hard Times, and Human Possibility. Newcomer and Palmer also are actively collaborating on The Growing Edge, a website, podcast, and retreat. Three of Newcomer’s songs are included in Palmer’s newest book. Newcomer has toured the United States, Europe, Africa and India including performances with Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter David Wilcox in shows based on spiritual story. She gives a percentage of her album sales to charitable organizations including the Interfaith Hunger Initiative, American Friends Service Committee, America's Second Harvest, The Center for Courage and Renewal, and Literacy Volunteers of America. “Every album tour I try to partner with a particular social service or justice organization, and I try to choose something that kind of goes along with the themes of that particular album.” In 2009 and 2011 Newcomer traveled to India as a cultural ambassador, including musical performances organized by the U.S. State Department and worked with students of the American Embassy School in New Delhi. In 2011, she released the album, Everything is Everywhere, which featured Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Amaan and Ayaan on traditional Indian instruments. In 2012, Newcomer made a similar trip to Kenya and performed at various locations in rural Chulaimbo, Kenya at the AMPATH HIV center in Eldoret. She says if she’s learned anything on her goodwill tours, it is that kindness will save the world. Not necessarily grand gestures, but simple small acts of compassion that she says are like the country cousin who sings in the kitchen and does the dishes before she’s even asked. Newcomer also speaks and teaches about creativity, vocation, activism, and spirituality at colleges, workshops, conventions, and retreats. She often explores the connection between creativity and the spiritual life. Newcomer’s first theatrical production, Betty’s Diner: The Musical, was performed at a sold out run at Purdue University in 2015 and is now available to interested theaters, universities, and spiritual communities. Newcomer is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the 2019 Shalem Institute’s Contemplative Voices Award. In 2016, Newcomer presented the Goshen College commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change. In 2010, Rich Warren, host of the Midnight Special radio program, selected Carrie Newcomer as one of the 50 most significant singer-songwriters of folk music for the last 50 years. Warren also selected her Geography of Light as one of his favorite CDs for 2008. Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan on May 25, 1958 to James B. Newcomer and Donna Baldoni Newcomer. Her mother was raised Catholic, a first generation American from an Italian family and her father was raised Methodist with a background as Mennonite and Amish. Newcomer grew up Methodist, but her fury with the traditional church’s treatment of women led her to find spiritual community with the Quakers. She began writing songs as a teenager and performing in restaurants, coffeehouses and at benefits and festivals. She began her university studies at Ball State University and then Goshen College. Newcomer spent five months teaching art in an elementary school in San Isidro, Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, she encountered the silent- unprogrammed Quakers in Monteverde. “It felt like home,” she says. She completed her studies at Purdue University and received a B.A. in visual art and education. Newcomer is married to Robert Shannon Meitus, an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer. She has one daughter, Amelia Newcomer Aldred. Carrie lives in the woods of southern Indiana with her family. Join us in conversation with this gifted artist and soulful performer!

In this episode, Pastor Mark Schilling joins Candace Payne + Jenny Randle to shut up controlling emotions. Pastor Mark is one of Jenny’s local church pastors from NY. He is passionate about giving people practical tools so they can process emotions well. What are we shutting up? Emotions that control us. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary: In A Special Game!, Candace and Pastor Mark can only use one word to express the emotion they feel from all sorts of sounds. In We Said What?!, Pastor Mark shares that there are certain emotions to be processed and certain emotions to be possessed. He says that even fear is a good emotion God gave us to keep us safe- just think of a time a scary dog has chased you, and fear made you run! Candace + Jenny discuss how emotions can be signals from the Holy Spirit, but they can also trip us up. Pastor Mark poses a question to help us sort through it all. Pastor Mark points out how Jesus wept, and gives us permission to feel deeply. He shares that grief experienced with Jesus is healthy and healing. In You Said What?!, Pastor Mark prescribes identifying and voicing to the Lord how you are feeling every morning and tells us to turn self talk into prayer! In Stories From the Village!, Candace + Jenny interview Ian, 17-year-old at Open Arms Village. They play Confetti Like Praise, and Ian gives advice far beyond his years that you’ll want to hear! In Hey, Let’s Pray!, Pastor Mark prays Jesus’ peace that passes understanding over listeners as they process emotions. MENTIONED RESOURCES + LINKS: National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 The Episode with Candace’s Pastor Scott Wilson: https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/shownotes/s1e08-you-should-listen-scott-wilson Redeemer Church https://www.myredeemerchurch.com/ Follow Mark Schilling on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/mark.d.schilling/ OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Check out their links and give a gift today! Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: For full show notes visit https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts or your fav. podcast platform! Shut the should up everybody, see ya next week!

In this episode, Candace + Jenny flush the format and dump all their insecurities on the table for their fellow “should-ers!” They get real transparent in their own process of sorting through this bag of should in hopes that all their listeners will walk confidently in their callings. What are we shutting up? Insecurity. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary: Candace + Jenny share how the show came about and rate how scared they were to meet one another in person for the first time based on a hilarious hairy scale. They tell us about the phone call when they voiced their insecurities surrounding the show and the freedom in their friendship afterwards. Jenny shares that insecurity breeds confusion, shame, and shrinking back. That’s why we have to shut it up! Candace gives us some questions to ask ourselves to walk with security and confidence like Jesus, and she shares her deepest insecurity we’d be surprised to hear. Candace + Jenny share how Open Arms International provides security for the kids in their village in Kenya, and invite you to watch their shenanigans when they tried to do the security team’s job! (link to here > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should). Jenny points out that sometimes insecurity shows us sin we need to repent of, but sometimes it’s a lie keeping us from being all God created us to be. Candace talks about how although Jesus had every reason to be insecure, he took his sorrows to the Father and stayed steadfast in his purpose. They end the show praying insecurity off of listeners and proclaiming they’ve shut this should up! OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: Season Two of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: Use the Hashtag #ShutTheShouldUp + share your shoulds! Visit www.shuttheshouldup.com for full show notes. Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts. Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com

Esther Fleece Allen joins Candace + Jenny in this episode to peel off the labels that limit listeners and put on the names they should be wearing. Esther’s book, Your New Name, helps readers take these labels off. In the show we sort through this bag of should to help us all hear our new God given name in Christ. More than a quarter of a million people viewed Esther Fleece Allen’s story on IAmSecond.com. (Link Below). Through her speaking platform, she has given hope to tens of thousands of people struggling with life’s difficulties, setbacks, and failures. This is a buzzword episode + extra fun because Esther is a Bible scholar who could use so much Christianese if she wanted, but somehow, Candace gets buzzed the most. What are we shutting up? The labels that limit us. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary: In Confetti Like Praise, Esther + Jenny rapid fire their favorite desserts. In We Said What?!, Esther helps us peel off the labels we stick on ourselves by telling us stories of God giving people new names in the Bible. In You Said What?! Jenny reads listeners’ limiting labels that they have put on themselves. Esther reads labels she compiled while writing her book and tells us the first step to hearing our new name is identifying those labels. Candace really wants to hug listeners… later she breaks out in “Glory to Glory” praise song before Jenny buzzes her for Christianese. Esther shoulds herself for not talking more about Jesus’ name in her book, Candace calls her out on it + Jenny buzzes her for using the word “gentile.” In Hey Let’s Pray!, Esther prays Abba will show listeners the labels others have put on them and that He will speak their new name over them. Candace + Jenny end the show sharing that the kids at Open Arms Village in Kenya are given two names: one by their tribe at birth and one to call them up to who they will become. Visit their website (link below) to learn more. ABOUT ESTHER FLEECE ALLEN: Esther Fleece Allen IamSecond Video:https://www.iamsecond.com/seconds/esther-fleece/ Esther’s website: www.estherfleeceallen.com Your New Name Book: https://amzn.to/3c9MrZc OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: This season of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook For full show notes visit www.shuttheshouldup.com. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcast! P.S. This post may contain affiliate links at no cost to you.

In this episode, Candace + Jenny discuss the phrase “You should know better,” especially as it pertains to physical health. How can you know better when you really don’t know? They encourage us to recognize signs and take action… or just take a nap! What are we shutting up? That we should have known better. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! Show Summary: In Should I Buy It? Candace discloses a secret tool for looking fabulous on the go. In “Stories from the Village,” Linda asks listeners to pray for Open arms International (link below) so they can give the kids all they need. In We Said What?!, Candace shares how she wishes “she’d have known better” in a recent health scare. In You Said What?!, A caller says she’s been shoulding herself that “she should have known better.” This sparked Candace to share signs of a heart attack in women. From relationship red flags, gas lights + everything in between, Candace + Jenny rapid-fire things they should know better. In He Said What?! Jenny shares that Jesus knew when he needed a nap and we should too! Candace leads us in a practical way to pray the Psalms. In Hey Let’s Pray!, Jenny prays grace over what we wish we would have known better about. Candace prays wisdom + discernment over the unknowns in our lives. RESOURCES + LINKS: Makeup Mirror > https://amzn.to/2SOku1o OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: This season of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Website > http://bit.ly/open-arms-international Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: Follow Shut the Should Up on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/shuttheshouldup/ For full show notes visit https://www.shuttheshouldup.com/ Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts. Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com P.S. This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you

In this episode, Candace Payne + Jenny Randle sort out how to lead like Jesus. From Jesus calling his first followers, to our followers on social media, to the followers at our feet - we are all leading someone. What are we shutting up? Poor leadership. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave us a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! SHOW SUMMARY: In A Special Game!, Candace tries to tell us how to not make tacos… and who was actually the first man on the moon. In We Said What?!, Candace shares how she learned in Israel that the phrase “follow me” means so much more than we’ve made it in our social media minds. Jenny + Candace break out in an 80’s song about the leaders who gave them the wind beneath their wings. Candace + Jenny tell about a teacher in Kenya who leads by inspiring + invite you to laugh at them trying to learn the language in a video on the Open Arms International Website (see link below). In You Said What?!, Candace + Jenny share your poll results about the best + worst qualities in leaders. They debate which category “starts shenanigans” should go in. Jenny shares from Matthew 20:26-28 that Jesus always led by serving. In Hey, Let’s Pray!, Candace + Jenny ask Jesus to help us lead more like Him. OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: This season of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Watch our exclusive video with us getting schooled > http://bit.ly/open-arms-should Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook You SHOULD get social: Follow Shut the Should Up on Instagram > https://www.instagram.com/shuttheshouldup/ Use the Hashtag #ShutTheShouldUp + share your shoulds! Join the conversation in our Facebook Group > https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShutTheShouldUpPodcast/ Don't forget to give us all the stars + subscribe on apple podcasts. Interested in learning more about Candace Payne, her books and curriculum or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://candacepayne.me/ Interested in learning more about Jenny Randle, her books or have her SPEAK for your church or event? Visit https://jennyrandle.com P.S. This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you

An end to the journey with Kevin for now - I’m off on my own to the Island of Mfangano - crossing the equator on the way!

Rebecca Bender escaped human trafficking and has become a force to be reckoned with. She’s an award-winning social entrepreneur, CEO + Founder of the Rebecca Bender Initiative, a non-profit that works with law enforcement, FBI, Homeland Security and aftercare programs to provide expert testimony, trainings + consultation across the globe. Her memoir, IN PURSUIT OF LOVE recently released and she joins Candace + Jenny today to tell her story and help us shut up the shoulds that keep us from loving more like Jesus. What are we shutting up? How and who we should love. If you found encouragement through listening to this episode and want to share, give us a call and you may be featured on an upcoming episode. Call (315) 308-0163 or leave a review on Apple Podcast to become a part of the show! SHOW SUMMARY: In We Said What? Rebecca shares how her story helps people breakthrough from imprisonment to empowerment. Candace gives us the “here’s the deal” on how we miss out on freedom when we choose not to dive into deep places. Rebecca starts the conversation: How should we handle hyper sexuality in our culture? Rebecca shares how God used another prostitute as his mouthpiece to rescue her. Jenny + Candace are overwhelmed by God’s pursuit of Rebecca + His love for us all. In You Said What? Rebecca answers listener’s questions and encourages parents to get smart about internet safety + tells us The Human Trafficking Hotline (see number below) you can call to help victims. A neighbor’s call to the cops sparked a raid that led to her freedom. She also shares how you should take her Find Your Lane Quiz (linked below) to identify your place in the anti-trafficking movement. In He Said What? Rebecca shares through 1 Corinthians 13 that when she thought she needed more kindness and patience, God taught her she just needed more love. She encourages us that to keep growing in love, our hearts need constant maintenance. In Hey, Let’s Pray! Rebecca prays a powerful prayer over listeners. MENTIONED LINKS OR RESOURCES: Human trafficking hotline > 1-888-373-7888 How to find your lane quiz > https://rebeccabender.org/quiz ABOUT REBECCA BENDER: In Pursuit of Love > https://amzn.to/384NPd4 Web > https://rebeccabender.org/ Instagram > http://instagram.com/imrebeccabender LEARN MORE ABOUT OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL: This season of Shut the Should Up is sponsored by Open Arms International. Open Arms is an organization in Eldoret, Kenya that provides vulnerable children with the hope of the Gospel and the love of a family. Web > http://bit.ly/open-arms-international Instagram > http://bit.ly/open-arms-instagram Facebook > http://bit.ly/open-arms-facebook FOR FULL SHOWNOTES VISIT: WWW.SHUTTHESHOULDUP.COM. Use the Hashtag #ShutTheShouldUp + share your shoulds! P.S. This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you

Some notes on Kenya thus far and some details on the plan going forward! Photo featuring Peggy the cow.

As a NCAA champion in cross-country, Edwin Kurgat knows about the level of discipline required to reach goals. He also applies this same level of discipline to his study habits as an industrial engineering student. Growing up in Eldoret, Kenya, Kurgat played field hockey and also enjoyed fiddling with electronics and other machines. “I knew that one day I wanted to be an engineer,” said Kurgat. “I wanted to see how things are built and how they work.”

General Jan Smuts is making merry in the Cape, trying to stoke uprisings, while Lord Kitchener's been more successful in clearing the Eastern Transvaal, forcing General Louis Botha to shift towards Vryheid and along the border between the Transvaal and Natal. General Christiaan de Wet is active in the Free State, while General Manie Maritz has continued his low level harassment of the British across the Free State and Cape. I haven't spent much time on Maritz mainly because there is not a great deal of documentation about exactly what he got up to on a daily basis – unlike the other generals we've been following for two years. He is also one of the most bigoted, warped and psychotic men who held a weapon during this terrible war who tended to lie quite a bit in his memoirs. During the Anglo-Boer war he was the only Boer General we know about took a great deal of pleasure in killing blacks instead of British. He seemed inclined to shoot all blacks he found. His most heinous act was lining up all 35 men of a Khoi village at the end of the war and shooting them down in cold blood in what became known as the Leliefontein Massacre. I will have more detail about this in later podcasts. Maritz evaded execution at war's end for what were really war crimes. After all, the Australian Breaker Morant the Australian was executed by the British for a similar spree as he went about executing at least a dozen Boers in cold blood. But back to 1902. General Koos de la Rey is also still free, roaming the veld in the far west of the Transvaal and he has been particularly successful around Rustenburg, Mafikeng, Marico, Zeerust and other smaller towns in the region. We will also hear about how Trek Boers ended up founding the Kenyan town of Eldoret. It was established by the Boers in the midst of the farms they created, and known by locals as Sisibo because of the main farm number 64 – or Sisibo in the local language. Sixty more Afrikaner families arrived in 1911, by then it had a post office and was officially named as Eldoret which continued to prosper. Eventually the railway line reached Eldoret in 1924 accelerating growth, then in 1933 electricity arrived along with an airport. By the 1950s the town was literally divided in two along the main street now called Uganda Road, with Afrikaners living in the north of the divide, and English speakers on the South.

113: Youcef Abdi Part 2   Brad has a quiet christmas over in Bateman’s BayJulian clocks his highest mileage post-Doha and banters all the way.Brady keeps his long run in check over in Falls Creek. Andy Buchanan takes out the win in a sub-63 at the Year End half marathon in Tachikawa, Japan Bendigo Advertiser Report New Zealand announce a full, self-funded team for the 2020 World Half Marathon Championships https://www.instagram.com/p/B596V8mBduP/   The boys review 2019 and rate the Australian runners who had a breakout performance, who emerged, who dominated and who to watch for 2020. Moose on the Loose returns and doesn’t care about your positivity. Youcef Abdi picks off from last week recounting his bronze medal performance at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in the 1500m in detail. After going through his personal bests, Youcef talks about what led to his transition from the 1500m to Steeplechase after the campaign for the 2004 Athens Olympics, addressing the challenges in combining hurdling with raw speed. Brad asks about training in Eldoret, Kenya at the time of their elections in the lead up to Beijing 2008 Olympics and Youcef then talks about his 6th place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics before retiring after the London 2012 Olympics, giving insight for what he attributes to having a resilient and durable running career. Youcef rounds out this interview sharing what his current life as a Development Officer for Little Athletics and coming full circle returning to soccer. Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

In this episode we talk about challenges and failures! I've always found that I never look at my failures as failures. Because of how I was brought up I automatically see them as either a lesson or I automatically try again. Not to say that they don't make me feel some type of way when they happen - but what I end up labeling them isn't failure in the traditional sense. on #100AfricanStories Nelly shares her story of leaving the village for Eldoret...then the states and finally coming back home to Kenya to head one of East Africa's premier cosmetic companies. #LegallyClueless

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“There’s not a lot that determination can’t accomplish” - Shayna Fowler, Social Entrepreneur & Founder of Khana Panties * Shayna is a twenty-two-year-old Ohio native. With a degree in Entrepreneurship and Biblical Studies, she is passionate about participating in the sacred reconciliation of all things. Prior to her work with Khana, at the age of 15, Shayna founded a non-profit that held self-esteem and students rights assemblies for 5-12 grade girls. Within the first year of the organization’s existence, 9 girls in Central Ohio were rescued from sex trafficking. At 17, Shayna was named one of Ohio’s 20 Outstanding Women. Upon graduating high school, Shayna spent one year in Eldoret, Kenya. These experiences fostered the idea to develop underwear, as well as a continued pursuit of women's equality. * Show Notes: Link: Yash & Company Website: YashandCo.com Book Recommendations:Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn  *  Sponsor: OctopusOutfitters.com As you all know, its officially spring, and that means it's time to get outside and finally enjoy some good weather. I’m sure some of y’all might have started seeing some hammocks around town and have thought of getting one yourself.  Maybe you've heard of ENO or some of these other companies, but paying over $100 for the hammock AND straps is just ridiculous. That’s why I want to tell you about the best hammock I’ve ever tried. It’s made from Octopus Outfitters, a company that was actually started by a college student at Baylor. They are the real deal. They make hammocks that are sturdier than ENO for HALF the price AND – here’s the kicker-  they come with all the major parts like tree straps already included so you don't have to pay extra. I don't know of any other brands that do that. Octopus is extending listeners a special offer- go to Octopusoutfitters.com and use the code "YASH" to get 15% off your purchase.  

Kyle Crawford, Aaron Young and I talk about regional sustainability plan, bunch of people working together, not initiatives, 6 working groups, water and green infrastructure, biodiversity, materials and recycling, transit oriented development, food access, legitimate economic reasons, business opportunities of biodiversity, why does it matter to me, polar bears, monarchs, I'm not doing enough, cross conversations, environmental regulating, China has cut off the planet, dinosaurs made of styrofoam, Sarah Schlafly, De Nichols, cricket protein, Eldoret, data collecting, PBS Kids, channeling an aardvark, onestl.org and come to the Sustainability Lab (last Tuesday of each month, 3:30pm - 7pm at T-Rex St. Louis.

This Episode features Njeri Kihang'ah Chege, an award winning journalist and Founder of MentorMe Project, a social enterprise that prepares people for the world of work. Njeri is experienced in global media, international relations as well as events management. Previously she worked for the United Nations, Nation Media Group among others. She is the convener of Aspire Conference, an annual meet up that brings together both young entrepreneurs and seasoned influencers for life-changing conversations. In October 2018, Njeri was accorded the honour of addressing a TEDx event in Eldoret, Kenya. Njeri Kihang’ah is also a Groove award-winning gospel singer/songwriter and worship leader having released songs like Shuka Swahili for rain down) and Fill This Place. She is married to TV & Film director/producer Martin Chege and together they raise their son, Jabali. You can reach out to Njeri for more information on her projects through the following channels; LinkedIn/Facebook - Njeri Kihang'ah ChegeTwitter - @NjeriKihangah and @mentormekeInstagram - MrsChege #TedX #Nairobi #1000africanvoices

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Knox Robinson is the Founder of First Run. Knox has spent time training alongside Mo Farah in Ethiopia, Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya and attended the Breaking2 Nike Project in May 2017. We dive into all of these topics with Knox in this podcast espisode. Don’t forget to check out our new book: Eliud Kipchoge – History’s fastest marathoner: An insight into the Kenyan life that shapes legends — — — — — — Podast Transcription (Matt) Thanks very much, Knox Robinson, for joining me today no this Sweat Elite podcast. Knox has a fascinating story, he’s spent some time training with Mo Farah and the Mudane – I think it’s pronounced – group in Ethiopia. (Knox) Mudane, Mudane. (Matt) Mudane? (Knox) Yeah, the president Mudane, yeah. (Matt) Mudane, yeah, got to get that right… Before the London marathon last year, and he spent some time with  Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya, as well, as attended the Monza sub-2 Nike event last year in Italy. So, thanks very much for joining me today, Knox. (Knox) I’m excited to be rapping with you, for sure. (Matt) Cool. I guess we can get started by talking a little bit more about yourself and your background. You were a runner in high school and in college, you attended Wake Forest University and got yourself to, I guess, a decent standard before taking some time away from the sport, but then, you were drawn back, I guess, some ten years later, or thereabouts. I guess it would be good to talk a little bit more about, I guess, what took you away, and then what drew you back, and where you’re at now. (Knox) You know, I think, you know, really, what happened was… It’s tough. I mean, like, legions of runners will tell you how hard it is to make that leap from a, you know, passionate high school runner to walking on a top level program. I mean, Wake Forest University, in the mid to late 90s, when I walked on, was – for a very small school – had an incredibly credential distance program for this moment in time. I mean, when I walked into the locker room my first year, half of the United States junior cross country team was there, in the locker room. So, you know… Like, we had guys in there, you know, beyond all Americans – we had, just, a bunch of dudes who loved getting it cracking, and on the women’s side, there was also great athletes as well. So, it was amazing, and it was a tight knit group. I kind of, on a good day, I was scratching at that 10th man position, but it was also really challenging to kind of keep going and stay inspired when, you know, you’re… You’re just, kind of, like, 18, 19 years old, figuring it out, you’re not there on an athletic scholarship, and, you know, there’s a bunch of other interests exploding around you, and so… It got to the point where it was kind of make or break, and I kind of had a… A couple of, sort of, like, disappointing, kind of, moments on my own accord. And so, I just, you know, stopped running. Now, I’m so deep in it, all this time later, that it’s weird to think that I just made the decision to stop. But that’s what I love about what I’m doing now, is, like, I want to kind of share back with, like, young people, that your own passion for running and your own pursuit – whether the competitive or non-competitive, or performance-based, or just, you know, feeling good about yourself and your body… It doesn’t really have to be dependant on university scholarship and being part of a team. You can do it on a team, you can do it on your own, you can form your own team, you can form your own crew, and I hope to share with the folks that you can, kind of, do it for the course of your life. It’s not just something you’re going to do in your school age years. (Matt) Absolutely. And I think… I don’t want to… I guess, before I go into the quote that I read from you, I did, I guess, discover your content, for the most part I’ve heard the name before, but… On the Rich Roll podcast. And on the Rich Roll podcast, you had a great quote that said ‘Running is act of religion…’ – sorry – ‘…of rebellion.’ And you go on to, sort of, talk about how, you know, nobody wants you to run, you’re supposed to just be a digit, a one of… A one or a zero in the code, and you’re not supposed to get out and think for yourself. And I think that that’s… It’s very, very true. And you can, sort of, go and do this on your own. And, as you just sort of pointed it out, you don’t have to have university scholarship to, sort of, prove that. (Knox) Yeah. I mean, to put it in a… To put it in a better way, less, like, strident way, like a friend of mine once told me: ‘You’re only one… You’re only young once, but you can be immature for the rest of your life.’ So… Definitely… You’re definitely only young once, but you can definitely run wild for a really long time. (Matt) Absolutely. And you, yourself, have ran quite a fast half marathon yourself. (Knox) I just ran 70 minutes. I just ran 70 minutes in a half, and… (Matt) That’s quick. (Knox) At Valencia, earlier this year. (Matt) Alright! Oh, I was there. (Knox) Oh. It was incredible. (Matt) It was very windy that day. (Knox) It was windy! That’s what I’m saying. Everybody can talk junk, you know, talk trash, like, ‘Oh, it was windy…’ It rained tw… It’s only a half, rained twice… (Matt) And… Yes. (Knox) And it was windy cross and in your face, and, you know, I don’t know if you’ve ever raced in Europe, but, like, European dudes don’t play. They’re mean. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) They’re out for blood. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) You know, it’s not like cross country jabbing you in the ribs – these guys are, like… These guys have, like, triangle formations, they’re talking in front of you as they’re running, like, 70 minutes for the half… They’re surgning… It’s definitely very, very competitive in the way that, like, that sort of sports culture in Europe is. And so it’s awesome to just, kind of, like, catch a plane from New York and pop into the race, and, yeah, I popped a big one. I was… That was wild. (Matt) Yeah, and I think… (Knox) So… That was a high watermark for me, for sure. (Matt) Oh, yeah. That’s awesome. And you ran 70 minutes, but I actually didn’t realize it was Valencia, and being there that day, I think most people ran at least 30 seconds to a minute slower than their potential, or their personal best, most people. So… (Knox) I was 70 low, I was 70 low. I would have… (Matt) You’ve got a… Yeah, you’ve got… People want to go here. (Knox) I was thinking… I would have leaned in for 69, but I was finishing up with two younger guys, and they were really struggling, so, like, I didn’t want them to ruin my finish line photo, I didn’t want them to, like, head to the side, so I was, like, ‘You go on ahead, let me just… I’ll give you a little room so I look cute on the finish line.’ (Matt) I’m impressed you were thinking this credibly at the end of a half marathon, well done. (Knox) Look, times are going to come and go, but, like, a good photo… You need to, like, make sure it’s crispy. (Matt) Yeah. It was super windy between, I think, what – 10 and 16 kilometer mark, but… Yeah. That’s awesome. (Knox) Yeah. (Matt) So, I guess, I think what most people listening to this podcast would be super interested in would be about your time spent in Ethiopia, with Mo Farah’s training group, before the London marathon last yeah. And, although I sort of know the backstory about how that came about, and how you were asked to go, and, sort of, what happened there, I think it would be really cool to talk about all of this over the next, sort of, 10 to 15 minutes, because it is quite fascinating how you ended up there. And, sort of, some of the stories, kind of, about that. For example, you know, the story about the… About the coffee, how they went to get some coffee one day and the coffee machine wasn’t working, and just the general culture around there and how… I guess what you went in expecting it would be like, and then what it was actually like. So, it would be really cool for us to chat a little bit about that. (Knox) Yeah. I mean, it was… It was… I don’t want to call it a fluke, but it was just kind of like a hilarious chain of events before the New York City marathon, I was kind of lucky to kind of be one of the last guys accepted into the Sub-Elite field, so I rode out on the Sub-Elite bus to the start line of the New York City marathon, and was in the holding area with the Elite guys, so everybody is in this sort of indoor track area on Staten Island before the race, a couple of hours before the race. Super chill environment, everybody’s running around on the track, men and women, elites and sub-elites, and I was… I had kind of been on a several months’ meditation wave, so I go off to the side, I meditate, I come back, and then, when I come back to the track, I’m not really friends with any, like, the elite runners on the New York City scene, you know? They’re in, like, the rich guy clubs, and they work on Wall Street and all that kind of stuff, and I’m sort of, like… You know, an older black dude with, like, a chipped tooth and, you know, kind hangs out in Brooklyn, so… I was, like, ‘I’m just going to go hang out with, like, the African dudes. (Matt) Which is a good move, which is a great move… (Knox) Like, I’m black, so, I’ll just hang out, and the black guy is, like, ‘Hey, is this, like…This is the black section, let me hang out with the brothers.’ So, I go over there, and I knew Abdi, so at least go over and sit by Abdi, I’m stretching… Meb’s over there, Meb, kind of, like, says ‘What’s up?’ And then, Kamworor’s there, I think Stanley Biwott was there, I knew Wilson Kipsang… (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) From meeting him in Berlin a few weeks… A few months before, when he dropped out. So… I knew some of the guys. I just, like, dropped myself down and hung out, and then Abdi sort of – to, like, make conversation – was, like, ‘Hey, man…’ And I’m thinking about New York, I’m thinking about, like, what I’m going to execute on First Avenue, I’m, like, in my zone, I’m trying to be cool. Not trying to, like, fan out, and, like, take selfies with these guys. And Abdi’s like, ‘Hey, man, why don’t you come out to Ethiopia? I’m going to be there training with Mo again, Mo ready for London.’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah. Cool.’ And I just left it at that. I was, like, ‘Yeah. Cool. I will.’ I said ‘Yeah. Cool.’ So… So, then, I mean, fast forward, I just booked a flight and, like, went out to the camp, which is probably north of  Addis Ababa, in this small little hamlet, this little town called Sululta, where Haile Gebrselassie’s complex is, and then, across the street, of course, is Kenenisa Bekele’s complex, or his old place that some Chinese guys bought. So, yeah, showed up in the middle of the night, they didn’t have a room for me as planned. I went across the street and stayed at Kenny B’s place… Kenny’s old place. That was one of the worst places I’ve ever slept at in my life, and I’ve slept at a lot of tough places… (Matt) This is Kenny Bekele’s accommodation? (Knox) Yeah, but it hadn’t been, like, kept up in a couple of years, because he sold it to, like, some chinese investors, and didn’t maintain it. And now he’s building a new place across the street, and that’s where Mo trains. (Matt) OK. (Knox) So, Mo trains at Kenenisa’s track, which is next door to Haile Gebrselassie’s hotel and track. (Matt) Right. OK. (Knox) So, Mo is staying at Haile’s pace, and training at Kenenisa’s place. (Matt) Big names there. (Knox) It was crazy, no, it was crazy. And then, like, you know… Met… Guys were just driving up… It was just… It was just… It’s a wild town, it’s a wild town, to think that much elite, sort of, talent is, like, in and out as much as… Goat herders are there, and, like, a church is, like, doing ceremonies in the middle of the night, all  night… It was just really a wild scene. Very, very different from the peaceful, sort of, environment that Eliud Kipchoge trains in. But I think Mo Farah really thrives on energy and excitement, for sure. (Matt) Yeah. OK. So that’s how it came about, and I guess you’ve introduced us to, like, how… What it was like coming in to Sululta… (Knox) Yeah. It’s Abdi’s fault. (Matt) Which I’d like to talk a little bit more about… (Knox) We can blame it on Abdi. Abdi’s fault. (Matt) Yeah, OK, so you were staying in this little shack. (Knox) Yeah. (Matt) Across the road from Bekele’s track. (Knox) Yeah. (Matt) I guess, what was the deal then, like…? (Knox) And then I couldn’t do that, so… (Matt) Alright, you changed… (Knox) The next day, then, I moved in… The next day I moved into Haile Gebrselassie’s, sort of, hotel spot. And that was cool. So, I stayed next door to Mo, Abdi, Bashir Abdi, who just got second in the 10,000 for Belgium at the European championships, and then, like, a bunch of young Somali guys, as well, in the camp. (Matt) Awesome. OK, and, I guess, what was it… Yeah, what was it like next to these guys and being able to… I’m assuming, you’ve mentioned in podcasts and to me before we started recording this that you attended some training runs and some training sessions, so it would be really cool to learn a little bit more about what that experience was like. (Knox) Yeah, I mean, I lived… I mean, I lived… Yeah, I don’t want to say I lived with them, because we were in the same room, but I lived next door, you know? Like… And I ran with these guys two or three times a day. I will say that I was in pretty good shape, obviously. A month after that I ran 70 minutes and a half, but… And I had spent some time at altitude… The same altitude, what, 8,000 feet or something like that, 8,000 – 9,000 feet in Mexico the month before, so the altitude wasn’t a big shock, but I will say that these guys, on the easy runs, definitely… It was definitely a bit rough. (Matt) You said it was also dead silent, too, in the… (Knox) Pardon? (Matt) You also said that it was very quiet in the easy runs, in the Rich Roll podcast? (Knox) That’s the thing, yeah, like… You know, you’d expect… And again, when you’re in school, or your hanging out in your little running crew, or even… Honestly, you know, when you go on on your long run, on the weekends, and you’re running, whatever, 20, 22, 23 miles… You’re catching up on the night before, you’re talking about this and that, you’re unloading on the week, all that kind of stuff… Then, on the easy runs, with these guys? They didn’t talk at all. Like, these runs, at a casual pace for these guys, the runs were in complete silence. And that was, like, really unnerving, that the easy runs are quiet. On other hand, the most intense track workouts that I witnessed – and It’s not like I was stepping on the track and running with these guys – but they had such a good vibe… Like, you would have thought these guys were just, like, messing around and, like, in the off season, the way the vibe was, and then, they’re stepping on the track and they’re running, like, 4 minute miles at altitude, like, on the track… And, like, dudes are falling down, you know, Mo is just, like, chewing through his pacers and, you know, the coach is on the bicycle trying to keep up, and… Meanwhile, while this is happening, they’re playing, like, Drake on their Beats Pill, or, you know, Mo is asking people to take pictures of, like, his abs and video on the iPhones, so he can post it later on his Instagram… (Matt) Yeah, he got you his phone and just said… (Knox) And he’s still ripping through reps, like, wildly. Honestly, it’s just crazy. (Matt) That’s awesome. There’s so many things I wanted to dive into there… (Knox) Yeah, yeah… (Matt) I guess, firstly, I’d like to know – before we talk about the track styles – when you were talking about the easy runs and there were, sort of, quiet. They were quiet, but you also said before that they were rough. I mean, what sort of pace are they guys punching up there? And, mind you, before we get into that, I guess the altitude is… What, it’s 2,700 meters, which… Or thereabouts, which is some… What’s that in feet? (Knox) Close to 8,000. So, yeah. Addis Ababa is, you said, 2,700 meters. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Yeah, so, I mean, that’s… That’s just casual running for them, at, like, 2,700 – 2,800 meters. And then, you know, sometimes on the long runs, they might do, like, an uphill long run, or you know, there’s a hill or a mountain right next to the training camp that these guys didn’t do, but a lot of athletes would run right up, and that’s, you know, close to 10,000 feet, so 3,200 meters or something like that. (Matt) Oh. (Knox) That’s… That’s pretty intense. I mean, if you look at… I don’t know what a lot of other places around the world are, but as far as in the United States, even a lot of these training locales in Colorado are much more casual altitude than that. Like, closer… (Matt) Oh, yeah. They’re closer to 2,000 maybe… (Knox) Closer to 64… 6,400 feet or something like that, not to diss any of my friends in Colorado, but… This was not that. This was, like, getting up and eating oatmeal at 8,000 feet, and then, you know, going out and… You know, like I said, I was in shape. I mean, I even went out and ran, like, my little 20-mile Boston marathon training run on my little Boston course before I went. And I was, like, ripping off pace, I was fit. And I went out to Ethiopia, and man… These guys were running, I don’t know… These guys were running quick on their easy runs, you know? Even their jog was just kind of, like… I was having to work. It was embarrassing, because I was in good shape, and they’re looking at me, like, ‘Ehh…’ You know? The only thing that saved me was, like, going out on a, you know, on a long run, and… Because I looked like I was dragging. I was tired, I didn’t look real, obviously I’m not stepping in their workout, so they didn’t know what it was. And when we went out on long runs, 20 milers, or 22 milers, the fact that I was able to do a 20 mile run in two hours, two hours and, you know, one minute with, like, no support, like, minimal fueling and hydration, at 8,000 feet or 9,000 feet, they’re like, ‘Ohh? OK, OK. Oh, OK. OK.’ Because, when it came to just the easy miles, the 7, 8, 9, 10 miles, man that… It was rough. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) But that’s the level… That’s the shape he’s in. I mean, Mo… Mo… Mo… Mo Farah is in shape this year, for sure, as you’ve seen by him… His run at London and then his run at the Great North Run, and then… I mean, I’m excited to see what he’s going to do in Chicago this weekend. (Matt) Yeah, yeah. It will be interesting to see how he goes there and whether or not he takes some more time off his… Off his personal best. But… (Knox) For sure. (Matt) Yeah, now thanks for, sort of, painting that picture about how it… How… What it was like to do the, the… The more aerobic running with them, and I guess it would be cool to touch a little bit more on what the track sessions were like and what it felt like to be there, and… I love the story that you told on the Rich Roll podcast, about how Mo was just, like, ‘Hey, man, can you… Can you get my phone from my bag, and here’s my password, and… Just open it up, take photos…’ (Knox) Right! This is, you know, like… This is not even in the beginning of the workout, this is, like, halfway through the workout, during, like, a… During the recovery. He’s, like, ‘Hey, mate – can you go in my bag and get my phone, the red phone.’ He had, like… He had two iPhone Xs, like… I… I… I’m from New York, I’ve got cool luggage, you know, I work with Nike. I’ve got, like… I’ve got the prototype of the Peg Turbos, I’ve got a couple of pairs of 4%s in the bag… You know. I’m cool. But I didn’t get the iPhone X before it went out. I didn’t want to, like, drop it, I didn’t want to get robbed… Whatever. So, I go out to Ethiopia, Mo’s got two iPhone Xs! I was, like, ‘Oh, man. This guy is embarrassing me, like… ‘ He’s asking me to go in his bag, gives me the passcode, and then, like, wants me to take, like, photos and videos of him as he’s doing his workout, so he can post something to IG later. And then, after I did it, he didn’t even use them. Like, he didn’t even think the photos and the videos are that good. Like, he didn’t, like… I failed. That’s the worst part. (Matt) Oh, no. (Knox) I haven’t… I haven’t told anybody that, but he didn’t any use any of the stuff I took. I was, like… He’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, oh… OK. Yeah, cool. Not bad, yeah.’ I was, like, ‘Oh, come on!’ The angle, I’m laying down on the track trying to do artistic shots as he goes by, yeah… He didn’t really respect my… My… My social media. My social media… My social media technique. He didn’t really respect it, so… It’s OK. (Matt) Awesome. (Knox) But that was incredible, man. Like, just… It just made me think, like, you know, usually I think that an elite has got, like, to approach the most serious sessions with the most seriousness of purpose, or the most serious demeanor. But, you know, you’ve got to choose the demeanor that works for you. And I realised it’s about creating a good environment and creating a good vibe, and having good energy. And then, that’s going to push you to better performances, rather than some real intense situation where, you know, you’re kind of on the wrong side of pressure and… And… And… And, and, and… And Intensity. You know what I mean? (Matt) Absolutely. (Knox) It’s better to create a vibe and then just to, like, have Mo get stoked, and then tear up the track. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Rather than just kind of, like, ‘Can I do it? Oh, I’m going to run and get this impossible workout and then fail!’ Like… The other thing is this guy loves… And this is what I wanted to bring back and also share with people in my group, Black Roses, but also with other folks in the running world at large – like, this guy loves the challenge. Like, you know, you’re used to it. People dread the long run, like, ‘Oh, I’m worried about my long run this weekend. Oh, I can’t believe I have to do this long run this weekend.’ And we always speak about our biggest challenges, I mean, as regular people, like, in negative terms. You know? But Mo would be sitting around at lunch on Tuesday, already excited and chatting about the long run on Sunday. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Like, at one point, he was pitching the coach, he was, like, ‘Oh, Sunday we might go to this other place and run with the Ethiopian group.’ And the coach says, like, ‘No. No, no, no, no, no. No.’ Because, right? Mo’s excited to go to, like, another location for the long run, and do the long run with, like, the Ethiopian national team, and Ethiopian elites. (Matt) Right. That’s really interesting. (Knox) Rather than my ‘hiding at a camp’, or my ‘training is secret’, or whatever. He wanted to go and have the Sunday long run with other guys and the best in the world, like, away from cameras, away from whatever – just for the battle. Like, the light in his eyes that went up, when he was, like, trying to get his coach to let him go run with these guys, and the coach is, like, ‘No. You’re not going to do that. Because, as soon as you guys get out there, you’re going to start going, and then you’re going to start going crazy…’ And Mo’s like, ‘No, no! It’s going to be chill!’ He was actually asking the coach, he was telling him, like, ‘No, it’s going to be fine. It’s just friendly, we’re just going to go and have a good time.’ And the coach is, like, ‘No way.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, this dude not only is, like, it’s Tuesday, and he’s already chomping at the bit for the long run…’ (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) ‘… but also he wants to go and race these other dudes that he’ll outrun, with these other dudes that he races at the olympics and championships, and the marathon.’ (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) He was, like, wanting to do that. For fun. (Matt) Just for fun. That’s awesome. (Knox) Just for the battle. Just for the war. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Like, that was inspiring. So, I’m trying to, like, really come back and, like, change the own culture around my own group that everyone, like, gets excited for the long run on the weekends, and people get excited, you hit them with a workout and then they’re, like, ‘Yeah, let’s do… Yeah! Alright! Yeah!’ You know? I want that excitement. (Matt) It’s… (Knox) Because that’s going to change the vibe and that’s going to change the results. (Matt) Absolutely. It’s a really interesting topic, this, actually. Because  I just spent, I guess, the better part of the decade living in Europe. And, other than Finland, for the most part, and in that country – I know it’s quite similar in other countries in Europe – it was very common for the… For it, sort of, essentially, to be the exact opposite of you just said, in a way that people would train on their own, they wouldn’t want to train with other people because they had a set, programmed, that they wanted to follow, from their coach. And it was almost, like… I was in Helsinki, it was almost like there was quite a lot of good runners around the town, but they were also training on their own. And the idea of getting together and doing something like you’ve just described, like, a whole bunch of guys that are all competing against each other just to, like, punch at a hard tempo around… That was, like, no way would anyone ever come up with that or do that. And it’s just… It’s not even a thought. Like… So it was really quite interesting that that’s how Mo was, sort of… That’s how Mo is. And that’s how he sees it, that’s what he wants to do. And it’s… Yeah. It’s really quite interesting. It’s… And I guess more people could do that. (Knox) I mean, it’s understandable. I mean, I come out of that, and, like, keeping workouts a secret, and training on your own… But it’s, like… And it…(audio skips, 37:29) Plan, and it doesn’t mean that, like, Mo doesn’t follow a schedule. But as, you know, as an elite, there’s only a certain number of workouts left to do. There’s only… I mean, there’s only a certain kind of workout to do. There’s only a certain handful of approaches, you know? (Matt) Absolutely. (Knox) So, what are you really going to do to get that little edge? Especially when we know that edge is .5 seconds or .2 seconds… You know? (Matt) Yeah. Exactly. Right. (Knox) What is that edge? It’s mentality and experience, and, like… I don’t know. Of course, we love that cliche of, like, the loneliness of the long distance runner. We love that. But I love seeing Mo, you know, having a whole training group of friends, and when they weren’t training, they sat around and listened to music, and laughed about a bunch of stuff, and talked about soccer and… you know? Or football, rather. Or whatever. And just, like, had a good time. And then, when it came to really go to that… To the highest heights, it was… (Matt) Game on. (Knox) It was game on. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) It was, you know… It was fascinating. (Matt) Yeah. I really found it interesting, too, that on the Rich Roll podcast, that you spoke about how they didn’t ever know what the training session was ahead of them until they were, like, warmed up in track. (Knox) Right. (Matt) Yeah. And how, you sort of said yourself, all these, you know… Nothing against all the people that have these, sort of, training programs scheduled out for months on end, and so on. But these guys, like, I think you said it well, like, Mo is thinking in his head, it could be one of many things before the training session, and that’s… You were talking about how that could be used as an advantage. (Knox) Yeah, had to step back and think about it, because it’s, like… Like I said, I wasn’t stepping on the track and, like, jumping in his workouts, you know? A couple of times, the guys are like, ‘Are you jumping in on this?’ When I was, like, ‘Come on, man.’ So, guys were cool. Wasn’t like I just, like, you know… But I was on the sidelines, and I was just watching, because it was better to… It was an education. When are you going to get to see one of the best guys in the world at the office, you know? (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Day in and day out. So, it was just fascinating to watch that… That… That particular approach, you know what I mean? (Matt) Absolutely. You also said that you had a lot of people after the trip not so much ask about the workouts, but they were asking about, like, the diet. And the… I think you said it was, like, a peanut butter, like a recipe or something… Something like that. (Knox) Yeah, I mean, it was cool because… Well, yeah. I just think that, like, in these days, we love… I mean, Eliud Kipchoge is so inspiring. His words are so inspiring, his life, his… His… His, just, entire aura is… Is super inspirational and aspirational. And then, Mo’s personality is infectious and what he’s done for the culture, you know… What Abdi’s done, like, all these guys are great personalities, and I like… I like… I like learning about that. I like studying… Studying that. And so, you know, a lot of times, Mo’s coach was really afraid that I was going to, like, leak this or that workout… You know, I Was taking notes or whatever, writing down the workouts… Was worried that I was going to, like, leak a certain kind of workout, and I understand that. It’s intellectual property, and Mo is heading up for London marathon, and Bekele and Kipchoge were entered in the race. So, I understand. It was in… The pressure was on. But, on the other hand, you don’t… No one ever asked me about a workout. People wanted to know what the diet was, people wanted to know about Mo drinking coffee, Ethiopian coffee, which is, of course, like, an incredible coffee experience… People wanted to know about the strength that they have in the camps out there, peanut butter tea and the recipe for peanut butter tea… So, you know, it’s really an interesting moment right now that we’re in, that people want to know not, like, what it is, but how it is. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) You know? (Matt) Yeah. Absolutely. Well, thanks, thanks so much for sharing a good 20 minutes there of, you know, your experiences i Ethiopia. I think it’s a perfect time to sort of transition to your time spent with Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya. (Knox) Yeah. (Matt) So, I’m actually not that… So much familiar with this experience that you had, but you did go to Kenya once, so… (Knox) Mhm. (Matt) And then, you did spend some time in Kaptagat, as did we, around  a year ago now, training alongside him before Berlin. I mean, it was really cool to learn a bit more about how you… About your experience in Kaptagat and training alongside that global NN Running Team. (Knox) Well, yeah. And I, you know… Much respect to the global NN Running Team, and  I definitely wasn’t’, like, training alongside of them, and did… It was much different from the Mo Farah experience. I was there, sort of, independently, and then with… In Kaptagat, I was there as part of a Nike team, you know, working on a project just to, kind of, like, connect with Eliud around that Flyprint innovation, 3D printed shoe that came out earlier in the year for a few elites to race in… So, it was more of just a chance to kind of connect with Eliud off the radar, Geoffrey, Abel… And then, also, like, I had connected with Patrick Sang, who’s a master coach, and just a master human being. And so, having spent time with coach Patrick Sang the year before in Berlin, and then being able to connect with him back in Kaptagat was an experience that brought all his training and coaching philosophies and arguments to life. So, it was more just a sort of an overall, cohesive experience, and a chance to witness that rarified element, and environment of Kenyan distance training, like, first person. (Matt) Yeah. For sure. I guess you’re such a… You’re very good at describing and, I guess, painting a picture, and I think it would be really cool to spend maybe a minute now describing what it’s like in Kaptagat. And coming Eldoret and then what… I guess what the little village is like. (Knox) Yeah, I mean, you’ve seen the visuals, you know it’s just, like, one highway coming into a town, it’s like that through much of East Africa, as so much Chinese investment is helping build roads and like, just, to really kind of ease with the export of natural resources… So there’s, like, a… You know, a main two-lane highway, blacked up highway, but Eliud’s camp, the NN Running camp, or the Global Sports… global Sports Communication, right? GSC camp, where Eliud’s lived for… Since his late teens, or for the past 14 or 15 years, if not more… Was really incredible. People know it’s super simple and austere, cinder block construction. But, at the same time, they also do have solar panels and solar energy that was installed last year, so really kind of looking at a well thought out training environment for the express purpose of, like, pursuing excellence in long distance running. Athletes would go out and, of course, you’ve seen the photos of them tearing up these tracks and these amazing chain groups, star-studded training groups on the track, and then you’ve seen, you know, or heard stories of the long runs where 200 people, 250 people show up for the long run. But back in the camp, it’s really amazing, it’s just the best athletes in the world sitting around on plastic lawn chairs, kind of checking their phones, playing, like, the latest music from, you know, their scene, like, on their phones, doing some dances, and then, you know, sipping tea and just kind of joking and giving each other a tough time. A lot of jokes and revelry, and then, obviously, because it’s a self-sustaining operation, all the athletes in the camp are assigned different duties and… And details. So, on one day, Eliud Kipchoge and Geoffrey Kamworor might be tasked to clean all the trains. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Even if they’re, you know, the best runners in the world, world champions in the half-marathon and, you know, world record holders in the marathon and all that, so… Dudes still have to clean the toilets. It’s super humbling experience. And the other thing is, even though Eliud’s the… An elder in the camp, he doesn’t always, like, set the schedule or set the responsabilites. Sometimes it’s the younger athletes who do the assignment. That’s how, you know, horisontal the structure is. That, like, everybody has a part in everything. So, even the younger athletes have to have not just labour, but also the responsibility when it comes to assigning duties and stuff in the camp. (Matt) That’s really interesting. So, how long did you spend at… There? (Knox) I was there a week. A little over a week. (Matt) And did you manage to get to Iten? (Knox) No, I was just in Eldoret. I was supposed to go and have dinner with Allie Kieffer. Do you know about Allie Kieffer? She is a super exciting runner on the US scene who surprised a bunch of people with a big finish at New York City marathon last year, after kind of working her way into elite status later on, and now she’s really been tearing up the roads over the past year. So, she shoutout Allie Kieffer, and she’s poised for, like, a big New York City marathon coming up in a few weeks. But, anyways, Allie was over there, training at Iten, and I don’t know if she was living with Betsy Saina, but yeah, she was, like, ‘Ah come over for dinner…’ But I really underestimated how hard it is to get from Eldoret to Iten. They’re not that far apart as the crow flies on Google, but… Or even in an Uber. But, the reality of transport between the two places is a little tough, so… I didn’t make it out there. (Matt) OK. Good, well, yeah. Thank you once again for sharing that, stories about that experience. And, I guess, a couple more things would be good to talk about. First one is, you attended the Monza Nike Sub 2… I guess, what was the official name of the race? So, I’m mind blanking, but it was the… (Knox) Well, officially, it wasn’t a race. (Matt) Yeah, the challenge, I guess. Event. (Knox) What was it? It was an experience. (Matt) Experience, yeah. (Knox) It was more, like… (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) Woodstock wasn’t a concert, you know what I mean? Jimi Hendrix said ‘Have you ever been experienced?’ Monza was an experience. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) So, Monza was an attempt to see if… An attempt to break two hours in over 26,2 miles, I suppose. That’s how you would put it cleanly. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) But yeah, it was incredible. I mean, obviously, you know, it was on a Formula 1, a very famous Formula 1 track in Monza, Italy, and along with Eliud Kipchoge, who else did we have there? It was… (Matt) Tadese? (Knox) Zersenay Tadese and… (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) The young Ethiopian guy… (Matt) I don’t remember his name, but he was the one that… Did he drop out or did he run? He was a little bit far back… (Knox) No, everybody finished. (Matt) They all finished. (Knox) Those 3 guys finished, and then they had a team of all star pacers, so even though the pacers were incredible – Bernard Lagat, Chris Derrick, Lopez Lomong… So it was really… Again, to use the word, the phrase ‘star-studded’, it was a super kind of crazy experience to watch this level of execution, just in the pursuit of an ideal. (Matt) Absolutely. And you mentioned how, I guess, how motivating and inspiring the event was, especially towards the end, and you mentioned that you shed a tear towards the end of that race, and I guess I would have been absolutely fascinated… (Knox) Yeah; I mean, at this point, I have to admit, I did get misty eyed. .. (Matt) It was raining, so, you could have caught a hardest… (Knox) Perhaps it was the high dew point, it may have been the dew point from the morning… But there was noticeable fogging in my sunglasses, and there was no reason for me to be wearing sunglasses, because it was cloudy and raining. No, but just to watch Eliud Kipchoge really commit – and I mean that in, like, a bunch of senses of the word, to commit his spirit and his body, and his mind, to this unprecedented task was beautiful to watch for most of it. But then, in the end, it was so excruciating as he was, like, straining, you know? And it’s tough to related this to other people who don’t have kids, but, you know, when you’re watching your kids figure out life, when you’re watching your kids, you know… You and I, we have success and failure perhaps an equal measure. And we’re figuring out for our own, and we don’t ask anybody to feel sorry for us. But to watch your kids try and fail, whether that’s try to ride a bicycle and fall, or, you know, make a team, or, you know, run for student government president, or in the spelling bee, or even just, you know, falling down at the playground and skinning their knee – it’s tough to watch another human being attempt something that they’ve never done before, and to be fearless, and doing that pursued. And that’s what it was like watching Eliud Kipchoge come so close to breaking two hours for 26,2 miles. It was in the heart. And to watch him finish, I… I cried. And then, immediately after he finished, I thought ‘Man, this guy did it because he thought he could do it. (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) And he didn’t believe in any barriers. I mean, Nike marketing aside and, you know, the shoe and the preparation, the science behind it, and then the empirical conditions and the marginal gains… Man, I just missed… I’m finished, and I thought ‘This guy doesn’t believe in limits. This guy doesn’t believe… This guy thought he could do it. And then, in the next instance, I was, like, ‘What’s holding me back from my potential? What’s holding me back from my goals? (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) And yeah, I don’t even mean, like, my running goals. Sure, my running goals are, you know, I could train that much harder, you know… I can go on the wagon that much sooner… You know what I mean? (Matt) Yeah. (Knox) I could kind of, like, scuttle various aspects of my life and commit to something in running. But also, on a life level, what’s keeping me from being a better father and a better partner? And a better friend? And a better son? And a better brother? You know? Like, what’s keeping me from being a better citizen of the United States of America? Like, what’s keeping me from being, like, a writer that I’ve always dreamed of being, you know? Watching Eliud Kipchoge at Monza made me reflect on all the other aspects of my life outside of running. I think that’s part of the power that this man holds for us at this time in our culture. (Matt) That’s perfectly said. Yeah, awesome. Thank you, yeah. I’ll let you go soon. Thank you very much for everything today… (Knox) No, thank you. (Matt) I guess, very quickly, I’d like to just… Maybe we could talk about, just quickly, where people can learn a bit more about Black Roses first run? You have a very… A very cool Instagram account, and the handle is @firstrun. (Knox) @firstrun yeah. @firstrun – that’s, for better or for worse, the only place to find me, unless you want to, like, come to New York and, like, hang out. And then, you know, I’m spinning records with friends at a reggae club, or hanging out in the park. So, come to New York and hang out, but if you can’t do that yet, check me out on Instagram at @firstrun. I’ve never been on Facebook, I don’t have a Facebook account. (Matt) OK. (Knox) And Twitter didn’t work for me, as you can tell from the wordiness and the verbosity of this conversation. Twitter… I never figured out Twitter. So, Instagram is where I’m at. (Matt) Awesome. Thank you very much, once again, Knox. (Knox) Thank you, Matthew and Sweat Elite. I’m super excited to participate in the conversation. I love what you’re doing, shoutout to everybody who’s a part of Sweat Elite, and is a fan of your stuff, because I’m a fan, too, man. For sure. (Matt) Awesome. Thanks so much. (Knox) Thank you.

Hello brothers and sisters welcome to Reaching out Radio International where we are reaching out to be the hands and feet of Jesus sharing the Gospel and message of the cross into the nations. Tonight we are excited to introduce one of our newest ministry team members, Pastor Edward Makari, he will be sharing a message on "God's Divine Election" Pastor Edward is from Eldoret in Africa, married to Christine with two daughters and a son. He gave his life to Jesus in 1993, after he completed high school. He could not continue with studies because his brother who was paying his school fees died in a road accident . God took him on new journey called Edward to start church in 1998 in our rural area in 2005, and he started another one in the slums of Eldoret town, sadly was disrupted during the post election violence of 2007/2008. Apart from teaching the word of God, he preaches in open air meetings and revivals. He works as a care giver to the orphaned children in the orphanage to support his family. The profile picture on his fb account is that of his wife and  three biological children and the eleven orphans he cares for. . When God spoke to him about his call the fist time was the warning I heard. I love God and have the desire to serve him more. Once again I am grateful to God for bringing Evangelist Montell Fields into my life connecting us for His glory! May God expand the radio and TV ministry using us as the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, working in one mind one accord in love and unity all glory unto God!  

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#Ep.1: Welcome to where it all started... the very first episode of RunChatLive, recorded just before a Sunday clinic shift without any planning, using nothing else except a phone...The idea was prompted by my return from a recent trip to Kenya where I had the pleasure of training the staff of a new company set up to provide runners of East Africa with a fantastic, evidence based running hub. Fast forward a year and Run Beyond is in full force in Gigiri, Nairobi, offering Gait Analysis, Running Footwear, Coaching, Strength Training, Physiotherapy and much more.The first few episodes of Runchatlive are just me (Matt Phillips) on a phone, so don't expect much in terms of visual quality! In Episode 8 we start having guests. In this opening episode you will hear me talking about the essential components of a successful Gait Analysis and how we can use it to create a more efficient runner. We look at its benefits in helping runners recover from injury and discuss the potential pitfalls of using it to seek 'perfect' running form or 'prescribing' running shoes.During my time in Kenya, I also had the opportunity of joining the team for a highly enjoyable training session in Karura Forest, under the guidance of legendary Kenyan running coach Jimma'Simba' Beauttah, chief trainer at the IAAF Kip Keino High Performance Training Centre in Eldoret.As coach to elite runners such as Abel Kiprop, Moses Kiptanui and Daniel Komen, Coach 'Simba' has over his thirty years involvement in Kenyan running produced eight World Championship medals, three Olympic medals and two Commonwealth Games medal; a truly inspirational figure with whom I spent many hours chatting and above all listening.And so the mission of Runchatlive began...  to help dispel myth & misconception from the world of running injury and performance. Want to HELP spread the us? If so then please our episodes across social media, especially on Apple Podcasts/iTunes as that really helps us reach new listeners. Thanks in advance and enjoy!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/runchatlive)

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PART OF A 4HR LIVE SET I DID ON 21ST OCTOBER....AT CLUB TIMBA ELDORET FOR VICEROY VICINITIES ...I THINK AROUND 1:30 - 3.00 AM WITH MC JOSE

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Today we're going to be talking with Megan Bereda, a fourth-year student pharmacist at Purdue University College of Pharmacy. She has 4 years of pharmacy technician experience at Vibra Healthcare hospital in Crown Point, Indiana and was a 2016 pharmacy intern at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical care and surgery pharmacy. She is currently finishing her last year of pharmacy school which includes a 6-month track at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a month at Purdue medical center in safety advancement, and ending in Eldoret, Kenya.  Everyone's leadership road is a little different, tell us a little bit about what you are doing now and how you have gotten to where you are. You were part of the student council very early and went through the progression to eventually being the student body president. How would you recommend to someone to get involved and to make connections with such a large group of people? How did you manage to balance sorority life with pharmacy? Explain how you got involved with your summer internships and what those entail? How did you integrate these projects on your CV and how did you get involved with them? How did you go from a P1 to a P2 to a summer internship with John Hopkins? What did you do while you were at John Hopkins? Explain the relationship you had as a pharmacy student with pharmacy technicians. Tell us about your 6-month track at Northwestern and how you got this rotation through Purdue. How do you see yourself leading in the future as a full-time position? Why did you decide to travel to Kenya for a rotation experience? Do you have plans for residency or to go to Midyear? What is the best way to contact you? What is your best daily ritual to keep your life on track? What is the best career advice you have either received or given? What inspires you? Contact: Megan Bereda PharmD Candidate, Class of 2018 Purdue University College of Pharmacy mdbereda@gmail.com Facebook.com/mbereda https://medicinewithmegan.wordpress.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Today we're going to be talking with Megan Bereda, a fourth-year student pharmacist at Purdue University College of Pharmacy. She has 4 years of pharmacy technician experience at Vibra Healthcare hospital in Crown Point, Indiana and was a 2016 pharmacy intern at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical care and surgery pharmacy. She is currently finishing her last year of pharmacy school which includes a 6-month track at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a month at Purdue medical center in safety advancement, and ending in Eldoret, Kenya.  Everyone's leadership road is a little different, tell us a little bit about what you are doing now and how you have gotten to where you are. You were part of the student council very early and went through the progression to eventually being the student body president. How would you recommend to someone to get involved and to make connections with such a large group of people? How did you manage to balance sorority life with pharmacy? Explain how you got involved with your summer internships and what those entail? How did you integrate these projects on your CV and how did you get involved with them? How did you go from a P1 to a P2 to a summer internship with John Hopkins? What did you do while you were at John Hopkins? Explain the relationship you had as a pharmacy student with pharmacy technicians. Tell us about your 6-month track at Northwestern and how you got this rotation through Purdue. How do you see yourself leading in the future as a full-time position? Why did you decide to travel to Kenya for a rotation experience? Do you have plans for residency or to go to Midyear? What is the best way to contact you? What is your best daily ritual to keep your life on track? What is the best career advice you have either received or given? What inspires you? Contact: Megan Bereda PharmD Candidate, Class of 2018 Purdue University College of Pharmacy mdbereda@gmail.com Facebook.com/mbereda https://medicinewithmegan.wordpress.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Today we’re going to be talking with Megan Bereda, a fourth-year student pharmacist at Purdue University College of Pharmacy. She has 4 years of pharmacy technician experience at Vibra Healthcare hospital in Crown Point, Indiana and was a 2016 pharmacy intern at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical care and surgery pharmacy. She is currently finishing her last year of pharmacy school which includes a 6-month track at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a month at Purdue medical center in safety advancement, and ending in Eldoret, Kenya.  Everyone’s leadership road is a little different, tell us a little bit about what you are doing now and how you have gotten to where you are. You were part of the student council very early and went through the progression to eventually being the student body president. How would you recommend to someone to get involved and to make connections with such a large group of pe

Episode 21 Produced by Karen Kaz Lucas Host: Kaz Guest host Mathew Nakitare Kaz and Mathew delve into the controversies surrounding male circumcision in kenya. All the details are available in the many links below. Don't forget to download the episodes and subscribe to us on iTunes. KENYA: Knife-rapists go door-to-door http://circumstitionsnews.blogspot.com/2017/01/kenya-knife-rapists-go-door-to-door.html Does Circumcision Reduce Penis Sensitivity? The Answer Is Not Clear Cut http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-earp/does-circumcision-reduce-_b_9743242.html Anxiety in Eldoret after NGO ‘forcibly' circumcises 30 boys http://www.nation.co.ke/counties/eldoret/Uasin-Gishu-NGO-30-boys-cut/-/1954186/2694018/-/4fqerr/-/index.html Targeted for forced circumcision, men of Kenya's minority tribes flee the knife http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/targeted-for-forced-circumcision-men-of-kenyas-minority-tribes-flee-the-knife/article19987346/ Police deployed to Moi's Bridge to protect Luos, Tesos from forced circumcision http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2014/08/13/police-deployed-to-mois-bridge-to-protect-luos-tesos-from-forced_c986746 Bungoma father of two finally circumcised after evading knife for 12 years http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/18/bungoma-father-of-two-finally-circumcised-after-evading-knife-for-12_c1405911 Bukusu and Tachoni boys face the cut http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/08/02/bukusu-and-tachoni-boys-face-the-cut_c1395682 Museveni tells off Bukusu, Bagisu over archaic circumcision ritual, says it promotes prostitution http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2014/08/20/museveni-tells-off-bukusu-bagisu-over-archaic-circumcision-ritual-says_c991007 HIV-1 border patrols: Langerhans cells control antiviral responses and viral transmission http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fvl.15.79 Caveolin-1 mediated uptake via langerin restricts HIV-1 infection in human Langerhans cells https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301922/ Voices from the African Circumcision Campaign http://www.vmmcproject.org/about-us/mission/ Cultural Bias in the AAP's 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896 RestoringForeskin.org http://www.restoringforeskin.org The Real Reason You're Circumcised - Adam Ruins Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSWbTv3hng

Francais & English J’ai vu une incroyable Visitation à Eldoret; ça va être un Rassemblement record sur la terre. J’ai vu aussi la Venue du MESSIE! Donc, ce sont les signes quand IL dit: «J’enverrai la gloire dans cette maison, la Gloire de cette maison sera plus grande que la Gloire de l’ancienne maison. » Cette gloire appartient au MESSIE! Cette gloire est pour la Venue et le Retour du CHRIST, cette gloire est pour préparer la voie pour la Venue Du SEIGNEUR JESUS, le Roi Triomphant qui nous a donné la victoire à la Croix du Calvaire. Alors puissent ceux qui ont des oreilles écouter les paroles Du SEIGNEUR et préparer la voie de la Venue glorieuse du MESSIE! http://www.repentandpreparetheway.org http://francerepens.org Shalom!

What are the qualities of Salvation, the qualities of a Pastor of the LORD, and the qualities of a Christian?  This spiritually eye opening and life changing teaching from the Mighty Prophet, Dr. David Owuor, details through the scriptures (Acts 17:11) and the Mighty Holy Spirit what is required at this hour for the children of the LORD.   Show me the shepherds and I'll show you the nation! Eze 34:7-13 Exposing iniquity and restoring the children of the LORD from captivity has been jettisoned for false teaching and another gospel in the USA so that the coffers of Baal are full of coin.  And so now, my peoples wound appears incurable, and like it or not, Jeremiah 8:20 comes to pass unless we change course now.   Is the Church in the USA even aware the Joel 2:28 Revival is here, now, and global? The USA is seemingly left out entirely in the most glorious revival ever prophesied to the church, the Mighty Joel 2:28 Revival.  At the Eldoret. Kenya revival meeting of the LORD, 2014, we had a handful of USA pastors that witnessed the miracles of the LORD, but there were millions of Kenyan’s in attendance and many nations such as Brazil, Canada, and Chile sent very senior and sober church leadership. In addition, these nations received a visitation from the Lord, and again not the USA.   More and always free at www.repentandpreparetheway.org, jesusislordradio.info, USA church on Facebook at RepentUSA. Shalom!

What are the qualities of Salvation, the qualities of a Pastor of the LORD, and the qualities of a Christian?  This spiritually eye opening and life changing teachning from the Mighty Prophet, Dr. David Owuor, details through the scriptures (Acts 17:11) and the Mighty Holy Spirit what is required at this hour for the children of the LORD.   Show me the shepherds and I'll show you the nation! Eze 34:7-13 Exposing iniquity and restoring the children of the LORD from captivity has been jettisoned for false teaching and another gospel in the USA so that the coffers of Baal are full of coin.  And so now, my peoples wound appears incurable, and like it or not, Jeremiah 8:20 comes to pass unless we change course now.   Is the Church in the USA even aware the Joel 2:28 Revival is here, now, and global? The USA is seemingly left out entirely in the most glorious revival ever prophesied to the church, the Mighty Joel 2:28 Revival.  At the Eldoret. Kenya revival meeting of the LORD, 2014, we had a handful of USA pastors that witnessed the miracles of the LORD, but there were millions of Kenyan’s in attendance and many nations such as Brazil, Canada, and Chile sent very senior and sober church leadership. In addition, these nations received a visitation from the Lord, and again not the USA.  What’s happened to the former leader of the Lords revival and why is this Joel 2:28 revival so different from Asuza Street, Oklahoma revival, and others?   More and always free at www.repentandpreparetheway.org, jesusislordradio.info, USA church on Facebook at RepentUSA. Shalom!

What are the qualities of Salvation, the qualities of a Pastor of the LORD, and the qualities of a Christian?  This spiritually eye opening and life changing teaching from the Mighty Prophet, Dr. David Owuor, details through the scriptures (Acts 17:11) and the Mighty Holy Spirit what is required at this hour for the children of the LORD.   Show me the shepherds and I'll show you the nation! Eze 34:7-13 Exposing iniquity and restoring the children of the LORD from captivity has been jettisoned for false teaching and another gospel in the USA so that the coffers of Baal are full of coin.  And so now, my peoples wound appears incurable, and like it or not, Jeremiah 8:20 comes to pass unless we change course now.   Is the Church in the USA even aware the Joel 2:28 Revival is here, now, and global? The USA is seemingly left out entirely in the most glorious revival ever prophesied to the church, the Mighty Joel 2:28 Revival.  At the Eldoret. Kenya revival meeting of the LORD, 2014, we had a handful of USA pastors that witnessed the miracles of the LORD, but there were millions of Kenyan’s in attendance and many nations such as Brazil, Canada, and Chile sent very senior and sober church leadership. In addition, these nations received a visitation from the Lord, and again not the USA.   More and always free at www.repentandpreparetheway.org, jesusislordradio.info, USA church on Facebook at RepentUSA. Shalom!  

A powerful, life changing teaching from Prophet Dr. David Owuor that details critical Chrisitian Principles according to the Word of the LORD.  For instance, The USA is seemingly left out entirely in the most glorious revival ever prophesied to the church, the Mighty Joel 2:28 Revival.  At the Eldoret, Kenya revival meeting of the LORD, 2014, we had a handful of USA pastors that witnessed the miracles of the LORD, but there were millions of Kenyan's in attendance and many nations such as Brazil, Canada, and Chile sent very senior, and sober church leadership. In addition, these nations received a visitation from the Lord, but not the USA.  What’s happened to the former leader of the Lord's revival and why is this Joel 2:28 revival so different from Azusa Street, Oklahoma revival, and others?   Lamentations 2:14 Your prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity so as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles. Malachi 3:1 More and always free at www.repentandpreparetheway.org, DVD's for church at www.highwayofholiness.us, on the air at www.jesusislordradio.info, USA facebook page RepentUSA. Be sure to remember to click follow to stay up to date on the global revival of the LORD! Shalom!  

Dr Patrick Loehrer discusses the difficulties faced improving the standard of cancer care across Africa. Cancer in Africa is predominantly caused by viruses and there are high mortalities from easily curable disease such as cervical cancer. Dr Loehrer explains how the work Indiana University carried out in collaboration with Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya has been extended from concentrating solely on HIV/AIDS to promoting oncology education, services and research and sharing professional expertise in order to increase cancer prevention, treatment and palliative care.

Emily Choge is a lecturer in religious studies at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, a Langham Scholar with a Ph.D. from Fuller Seminary, and a contributor to the Africa Bible Commentary. She is an advocate for the needs of refugees displaced by war.

This week's Assignment reports on the post election violence in Kenya which has claimed the lives of up to 900 people. The opposition claim that the poll was rigged and the violence, which began in Western Kenya, has spread to other parts of the country. Pascale Harter travelled to the town of Eldoret in western Kenya to trace the roots of the tribal violence that has pitted neighbour against neighbour.