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IANR 2523 060725 Line Up4-6pm INTERVIEWSHere's the guest line-up for Sat, June 7, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. We have 6 years of Podcasts and have had thousands of hits.TO SUPPORT THE SHOW, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR FREE PODCAST CHANNEL AND YOU'LL BE NOTIFIED OF NEW UPDATES.4:20 pm The Houston Community College system has 19 campuses spread all over the city and surrounding suburbs, offering a wide variety of courses leading to jobs in manyareas. We are joined today by the president of the beautiful and large Central Campus - the Jewel in the Crown of the HCC system – Dr. Butch Herod, who explains the programs offered there, and especially the wave of the future, Smart Technology.4:50 pm When we last had Rishi Bhutada of the Hindu American Foundation on the show, we went over thecontroversial Bluebonnet Learning lessons that the state is trying to impose on school districts. Now the Texas Legislature has sent a bill for Gov. Abbott's signature that would make it mandatory to have a 16 by 20 poster of the 10commandments prominently displayed in K through 12 classrooms. This is another encroachment on the separation of state and religion, so we asked Rishi to comment on this and what HAF may be doing to counter it.5:20 pm We all can think of many inventions and discoveries that have changed our world, from the wheel to the cell phone. We turned to Ashok Rao, a serial entrepreneur andrestauranteur - he owns Song Kran Thai restaurant in Uptown Park - to research out six compelling inventions and moments in time that have affected the way we live. Two weeks ago, he related the story of the Tulip Bubble and is back again today with the second episode of the fascinating History Talks series – the story of Ethylene.Also stay tuned in for news roundup, views, sports and movie reviews.      TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-NEWS or 6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.comPlease pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 90,000+ hits to track all current stories.And remember to visit our digital archives from over 17 years. Plus, our entire 44 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University.

John Moretta is a seasoned historian with a Ph.D. from Rice University and extensive teaching experience at Central College, Houston Community College, and the University of Houston. Dr. Moretta is back to discuss the Vietnam war and the faces of the administrations that had certain influences in escalating the war. This episode will examine each administration and the purpose of how we got involved in the war in the first place and where it went wrong.

This season on We Go Boldly we will walk through what holds us back from living our best lives and doing all the things we dream about doing. We are focusing on how we can overcome our fear and doubt, be bolstered by faith, take risks, meet opportunity, and imagine unlimited possibilities. Every week we will work through a different aspect of what it means to both pursue our passions and accomplish the mundane; and how these topics help us to reach for our potential and live our boldest, most honest lives.  Our goal this season is to explore what is holding us back, keeping us locked away behind our imagined limitations, and stopping our growth. We coach women to live their version of a bold life and pursue their unique path. This season is all about taking action and living our best lives.  Today we are broadening our own horizons and talking to an incredible guest and new friend to the show. Welcome Orjanel Lewis! Orjanel K. Lewis, Esq. was born and raised in Missouri City, Texas.   Double majoring in Political Science and English, Orjanel graduated summa cum laude in 2008 from Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.  Entering the historic Tuskegee University in the fall of 2004, Orjanel realized that it would behoove her to take advantage of all that the “pride of the swift growing south” had to offer! She participated in several organizations including Student Government Association where she served as Vice President during her Senior year, Texas Club serving as President for two years, President of the Student Senate, and a member of the Spanish Club. Ms. Lewis received several awards while studying at Tuskegee including the President Benjamin F. Payton Distinguished Student Award, Terrance D. Smith Student Leader Award, and Pi Sigma Alpha and Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Societies.Upon graduation from Tuskegee, Orjanel attended and graduated from Tulane University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate and a Certificate of Maritime Law.  Orjanel served as an Associate Attorney for nearly four years at a small boutique firm located in Houston, Texas practicing in various areas of civil litigation including but not limited to consumer, estate, personal injury and business.  Ms. Lewis was previously promoted to Policy Advisor, after serving as in-house counsel in the litigation department, for a consumer debt buyer company, while simultaneously serving as a member of the adjunct faculty of Houston Community College teaching Civil Litigation I and II, Wills and Probate Administration, Law Office Management and Contracts. Orjanel is licensed to practice law in Texas and Alabama. In addition to professional work, Ms. Lewis has tremendous community involvement serving as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Houston Lawyers' Association, Kappa Silhouettes of Houston (President), Burton ES PTO (President), a member of the Fort Bend Independent School District's We Are Hightower Task Force, Gifted and Talented Task Force, Bond Oversight Committee and Academy Design Task Force.  In her spare time, Orjanel enjoys life at home with her husband, Dr. Marcus Lewis, and two kids, Olivia and Marcus Alexander.Let's get to know Orjanel! You follow all the amazing things Orjanel does on twitter @OrjanelLewis. Don't forget to smash that subscribe button, rate and review us! RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW Did you enjoy this episode? We would love to hear your thoughts. Head to Apple Podcasts and then rate, review, and subscribe. This way you will get notified once a new episode goes live.  Did you enjoy this episode? We would love to hear your thoughts and more about your personal development journey. Head to Apple Podcasts and then rate, review, and subscribe. This way you will get notified once a new episode goes live. Don't forget to find us and subscribe on YouTube too. CONNECT WITH RIELLY AND TOVAHInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/goboldlytogether/Website: goboldlyinitiative.com or https://we-go-boldly-podcast.simplecast.com/YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPh8gu_ugJqvvnYiuRSyPQLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/go-boldly-initiativePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wegoboldlyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoBoldlyTogetherPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GoBoldlyTogether/

How to Finance Your Contracts is covered in this podio, along with the following subjects:- Government Contracting Made Simple- Government Supply Chain Opportunities- How to Finance Your Contracts***************************************Financing your contracts, especially in government contracting, can be made simpler with the right approach. One key aspect to consider is exploring government supply chain opportunities, which can open up avenues for financing your contracts and expanding your business. By understanding the intricacies of government contracting and leveraging available resources, you can navigate the process more effectively. I'll be talking with Ervin Hughes Jr. about How to Finance Your Contracts.Ervin Hughes, Jr. has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. Ervin is currently serving as the President of American Credit Assurance, LLC, a minority-owned purchase order finance company. Prior to this, they held the position of Managing Director at Rainstar Capital Group. Ervin also has experience in academia, working as an Adjunct Professor at Houston Community College and a Senior Mentor at the University of Houston-Bauer School of Business. Additionally, they have held executive roles as the Chief Executive Officer at New Covenant Capital Corporation and Covenant Capital Corporation. Ervin has also worked as a Commercial Banker at Central Bank, where they designed and implemented contract finance solutions for small business customers. Ervin is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth Houston.

John Moretta is a seasoned historian with a Ph.D. from Rice University and extensive teaching experience at Central College, Houston Community College, and the University of Houston. Dr. Moretta returns to provide an in-depth analysis of McCarthyism—its origins, its influence on American society at its height, and the ways it continues to resonate in modern times. We delve into the fear-driven environment of the Red Scare, exploring how it shaped public opinion, government policies, and cultural norms during the mid-20th century. Dr. Moretta also discusses the lasting implications of McCarthyism, from its impact on civil liberties to its role in shaping contemporary political rhetoric and attitudes toward dissent.

Send us a textWhat if the key to unlocking student potential lies in transforming traditional teaching methods? We explore this question with the innovator, Lauran Kerr-Heraly, Ph.D., from Houston Community College, who is revolutionizing classrooms through active learning, Project Based Learning (PBL), and gamification. Lauran shares her approaches that bring history to life, illustrating how smaller class sizes at her college provide the perfect environment for creative experimentation. Her techniques, including turning a classroom into an escape room, aim to inspire curiosity and prepare students for real-world challenges by enhancing critical thinking and teamwork.Tune in as we dissect the pivotal role of executive function skills in education and how the pandemic has magnified their importance. We debunk myths about students naturally mastering skills like time management and focus by the time they reach college. Instead, we emphasize the necessity of intentionally teaching these skills through PBL. This episode explains how breaking down tasks and understanding motivation can empower students to conquer academic and professional hurdles.Join us as we champion the power of partnerships and community in education. By gradually reducing the support students need, educators can cultivate a sense of ownership and self-sufficiency in learners. Lauran shares an inspiring success story of a student who thrived through a personalized oral history project, underscoring the transformative impact of individualized education.CONNECT WITH LAURANwww.linkedin.com/in/laurankerrheralywww.instagram.com/altering.coursewww.twitter.com/ProfessorLKH www.alteringcourse.com/freebies JOIN THE ONLINE PBL COMMUNITYhttps://magnifypbl.mykajabi.com/pmocSIGN UP FOR THE MAGNIFY LEARNING NEWSLETTERhttps://www.magnifylearningin.org/newsletter-sign-upSHARE A PBL WIN!www.pblshare.com ORDER THE BOOK PBL SIMPLIFIED (affiliate link)https://amzn.to/3VLsBtGSCHEDULE A PBL TRAINING WITH MAGNIFY LEARNINGhttps://resources.magnifylearningin.org/onsite-workshopsCHECK OUT RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE PODCASTPBL Simplified Podcast LinksFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIARyan's Twitter (X)Ryan's LinkedInRyan's InstagramMagnify Learning Twitter (X)Magnify Learning FacebookMagnify Learning LinkedInMagnify Learning InstagramBOOK A MAGNIFY LEARNING DESIGN DAYS WORKSHOPhttps://www.magnifylearningin.org/design-days-sign-upSome of the links above are affiliate links which means we get a small commission on anything you purchase using that link (at no more cost to

Send us a textWhat if the key to unlocking student potential lies in transforming traditional teaching methods? We explore this question with the innovator, Lauran Kerr-Heraly, Ph.D., from Houston Community College, who is revolutionizing classrooms through active learning, Project Based Learning (PBL), and gamification. Lauran shares her approaches that bring history to life, illustrating how smaller class sizes at her college provide the perfect environment for creative experimentation. Her techniques, including turning a classroom into an escape room, aim to inspire curiosity and prepare students for real-world challenges by enhancing critical thinking and teamwork.Tune in as we dissect the pivotal role of executive function skills in education and how the pandemic has magnified their importance. We debunk myths about students naturally mastering skills like time management and focus by the time they reach college. Instead, we emphasize the necessity of intentionally teaching these skills through PBL. This episode explains how breaking down tasks and understanding motivation can empower students to conquer academic and professional hurdles.Join us as we champion the power of partnerships and community in education. By gradually reducing the support students need, educators can cultivate a sense of ownership and self-sufficiency in learners. Lauran shares an inspiring success story of a student who thrived through a personalized oral history project, underscoring the transformative impact of individualized education.CONNECT WITH LAURANwww.linkedin.com/in/laurankerrheralywww.instagram.com/altering.coursewww.twitter.com/ProfessorLKH www.alteringcourse.com/freebies JOIN THE ONLINE PBL COMMUNITYhttps://magnifypbl.mykajabi.com/pmocSIGN UP FOR THE MAGNIFY LEARNING NEWSLETTERhttps://www.magnifylearningin.org/newsletter-sign-upSHARE A PBL WIN!www.pblshare.com ORDER THE BOOK PBL SIMPLIFIED (affiliate link)https://amzn.to/3VLsBtGSCHEDULE A PBL TRAINING WITH MAGNIFY LEARNINGhttps://resources.magnifylearningin.org/onsite-workshopsCHECK OUT RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE PODCASTPBL Simplified Podcast LinksFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIARyan's Twitter (X)Ryan's LinkedInRyan's InstagramMagnify Learning Twitter (X)Magnify Learning FacebookMagnify Learning LinkedInMagnify Learning InstagramBOOK A MAGNIFY LEARNING DESIGN DAYS WORKSHOPhttps://www.magnifylearningin.org/design-days-sign-upSome of the links above are affiliate links which means we get a small commission on anything you purchase using that link (at no more cost to

In this episode, we sit down with Jessica Snead, Program Coordinator and Lead Instructor at the Houston Community College 911 Dispatch Academy. With nearly a decade of hands-on dispatch experience, Jessica has worked across all emergency service disciplines, rising to a supervisory role and now actively training the next generation of dispatchers. Jessica shares her passion for elevating pre-agency training to better equip dispatchers before they step into their roles. She believes that formal training, which covers the essentials of emergency communications, can alleviate burnout, reduce turnover, and improve preparedness among trainees. Join us as Jessica discusses how her academy is addressing these issues and the positive impact she envisions for both trainees and agencies alike.Learn more about the awesome program at Houston Community College here: Make Sure to Visit our Partners Prepared at Prepard911.comand Xybix Media xybix.com/mediaThank you for listening to Let's Talk Dispatch! Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5 Star Review!Follow Us on Social Media Instagram | Follow Here! Facebook | Follow Here!Youtube | Subscribe Here! Interested in being on an Episode of Let's Talk Dispatch?Sign Up Here | Be My Next Guest!Find additional resources and Dispatch Merch at:Theraspydispatcher.com

Houston Community College is always seeking better ways to serve our students. One tool in that effort is our Quality Enhancement Plan, or QEP. We'll be taking a deep dive into the QEP today! Host: Darin Baskin, Ed.D. Executive Director, Weekend and Honors College, Instructional Services Guests: Jeremy Estrella, MA Director, Quality Enhancement Plan Strategy, Planning, and Institutional Effectiveness Kimberly Koledoye, Ed.D. Program Coordinator, Integrated Reading and Writing Academic Student Success Amanda Guerrero, MBA Director of Instructional Support Tutoring Services Web Links: https://www.hccs.edu/about-hcc/accreditation/quality-enhancement-plan/    #QualityEnhancementPlan #QEP #MyHCCPathway

Houston Community College has created several partnerships with other institutions to make it easier for students to earn bachelor's degrees while starting close to home and saving some money as well. The latest of these partnerships is our Agriculture Academy, with Sam Houston State University. Host: Todd Duplantis Director, HCCTV Guests: Christopher Qualls Program Manager, Agriculture Academy Shyam Nair, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor of Agribusiness Assistant Chair, School of Agricultural Sciences Allyson Holder Graduate Research Assistant SHSU School of Agricultural Sciences Web Links: hccs.edu/campaigns/agricultural-sciences-academy/ shsu.edu/agr #Agriculture #Agribusiness #educationalpartnerships #WeAreHCC #HoustonCommunityCollege #RealWorldEducation

How can a Tesla Model 3 help shape the future of automotive education? Join us as we chat with Hugh Mann from Houston Community College, who brings fascinating insights into their cutting-edge automotive training programs. You will learn about the diverse mix of students, from fresh high school graduates to seasoned hobbyists, and how they're using innovative tools such as a chopped-up Tesla Model 3 to teach electric vehicle technology. Hugh also shares exciting news about the expansion of their diesel program, now offering an associate degree and ongoing training for city technicians. Plus, we share some light-hearted moments discussing our Olympic weekend viewing and even throw in a fun fact about groups of squirrels.Discover the evolution of automotive technology in our deep dive into classic carbureted engines, modern fuel injection systems, and contemporary innovations like Tesla's cutaway models. We also shine a spotlight on the Texas Elite Auto Showcase at NRG, where attendees can interact with HCC faculty and explore various automotive programs. Stay tuned for the latest happenings in Houston's auto scene, featuring Pro-am Auto Accessories and the heartwarming charitable work of God's Garage. As we cover upcoming car events and the noteworthy CarShield settlement for deceptive advertising practices, you won't want to miss the blend of education, community, and industry insights packed into this episode!Be sure to subscribe for more In Wheel Time Car Talk!The Original Lupe' Tortilla RestaurantsLupe Tortilla in Katy, Texas Gulf Coast Auto ShieldPaint protection, tint, and more!ProAm Auto AccessoriesProAm Auto Accessories: "THE" place to go to find exclusive and hard to find parts and accessories!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeartRadio! Just go to iheartradio.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 10a - 12noonCT simulcasting on iHeartRadio, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk podcast can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk

 Michael Ayers - Principal Teacher/Speaker | The ResurrectionMichael D. Ayers is a prominent figure in the field of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences. His extensive educational background includes a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS, and a master's degree in Behavioral Sciences-Sociology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. With over 29 years of experience, Mr. Ayers has been dedicated to fighting Institutional Racism and White Supremacy through his teaching and speaking engagements.Contributions and Programs Mr. Ayers has made significant contributions through programs such as the Black History Bible Study: Discovering Blacks in the Bible, Violence Prevention, and the B.L.A.C. Leadership program for youth. He has also been a sought-after speaker, addressing numerous church and non-profit groups nationwide.Current RoleCurrently residing in Houston, TX, Mr. Ayers serves as an Instructor of Sociology and is the founder and advisor for the Black Life Studies Club for Students at Houston Community College.Philosophy Mr. Ayers' philosophy is rooted in presenting a sound argument for the righteousness of his creator and sharing nothing but truth, as stated in Job 36:3, 4 from the book of truth.Engagement with The Vanguard Resurrection SchoolMr. Ayers is actively involved with The Vanguard Resurrection School, where he shares his expertise and knowledge on topics related to Black history, sociology, and leadership development.Recommended Resources"The Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery" by Dr. Naim Akbar"No more Mr. Nice Guy" by Dr. Robert A Glover"Medical Apartheid" by Harriet WashingtonAny Biology or Sociology textbookThe BibleRecommended MusicGospelOld School R&B and Hip Hop"Help Me" by Tamela MannDarius BrooksKirk FranklinX ClanContact:Email: thevanguardresurrectionschool@yahoo.comProfessional Skills Radar Chart:Based on our findings, Michael Ayers, CM, CPS is...Giant #6: Michael AyersBy Bill Sommers on June 2, 2024"If I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac NewtonMichael Ayers has had a profound impact on education and leadership through his extensive knowledge and contributions to various fields. His collaboration with educational institutions and dedication to promoting equity and kindness have left a lasting impression on those he has worked with.Professor Ayers' BioMichael Ayers is a native of the Riverside Community in Fort Worth, TX, and currently resides in Houston, TX. His educational journey includes earning a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS, and a master's degree in Behavioral Sciences with an emphasis in Sociology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Throughout his career, Mr. Ayers has been actively involved in community organizations and has made significant contributions to education and leadership development.In addition to his teaching role at Houston Community College, Mr. Ayers is dedicated to promoting the Resurrection School, teaching about Blacks in the Bible, and sharing his expertise through lectures and speaking engagements across the country.Contact Information:Email: vresurrectionschool@yahoo.comPhone: +1 832-443-0826Website: yourressurection.com

Motivational consultant, international speaker, and author Ahmard Vital has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. He provides his audiences with the tools needed to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence. After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high-achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies and organizations worldwide. In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to 50 athletic departments and sports camps. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College, and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives.   Find Ahmard at https://ahmardvital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmard-vital-6959464/ https://www.facebook.com/ahmardvital/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrrvUluHZEfyoektk9Q2Gg

Original Air Date: 10/23/2023 The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population have to develop very intricate plans to have any hope of succeeding. This is the story of the latest plan to establish unchecked rule to implement unpopular policies supported only by the far right. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: ‘The endgame of election denial is that we shouldn't have elections': Authoritarianism expert - The ReidOut - Air Date 10-6-23 Donald Trump has ramped up his violent rhetoric in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Fox host has urged the U.S. towards civil war and claimed that voting does not work. Ch. 2: Violent Authoritarianism: How Did This Become the GOP? - Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen - Air Date 11-23-21 Pat Buchanan was ahead of his time. He used the KKK's David Duke to breed a new nativist religious nationalism, based on fear of liberalization. On this show, political science professor Joseph Lowndes sheds light on how the Republican Party got here Ch. 3: Analyzing The Dark Roots Of Modern Conservatism - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 10-15-23 Emma hosts John S. Huntington, professor of history at Houston Community College, to discuss his recent book Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism. Ch. 4: How Often Do YOU Think About the Roman Empire? - Wisecrack - Air Date 10-16-23 The real reason TikTok is crazy for ancient Rome If you're even a little bit online, you know that the men love ancient Rome. This isn't new: The civilization has loomed large in the Western imagination ever since its catastrophic collapse. Ch. 5: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 1 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23 Project 2025 is the terrifying plan set out by conservatives to take over the government. But it's radical, and it doesn't align with what most Americans want. Which is why we have to make sure this plan never happens. Ch. 6: The GOP's "Red Caesar" New Political Order Plan Marches Forward - The Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 10-3-23 A Trump supporter just displayed exactly how stochastic terrorism works. Ch. 7: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 2 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23 Ch. 8: Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News - Tom Nicholas - Air Date 5-13-23 A video about how billionaire-funded right-wing “think tanks” such as the Heritage Foundation, Adam Smith Institute, Manhattan Institute, and Institute of Economic Affairs manipulate the news to spread their propaganda

Dr. Lauran Kerr-Heraly is an award-winning educator and author. She currently serves as a history professor and Innovation Fellow at Houston Community College. Her innovative teaching includes turning a classroom into an escape room, multidisciplinary projects showcasing personal food histories and environmental justice, and playing with experimental learning spaces. As an executive function coach, she has a holistic approach to school success, which includes a focus on essential skills, executive function, and emotional awareness, using gamification to motivate and engage. Lauran shares a nerdy and adventurous life with her spouse and 10yo in Houston.Key Takeaway:This podcast episode features an engaging conversation with Dr. Lauran Kerr-Heraly, an award-winning educator and history professor at Houston Community College, known for her innovative teaching methods and commitment to holistic student success. Dr. Kerr-Heraly discusses her unique approaches to teaching, such as transforming classrooms into escape rooms and focusing on personal food histories to teach environmental justice. She highlights the importance of a holistic approach to education that encompasses scholastic, social, and emotional skills, underpinned by executive function and emotional awareness. Through examples like her escape room project, Dr. Kerr-Heraly illustrates how innovative, multidisciplinary projects can help students develop essential soft skills, foster empathy, and enhance academic engagement. The conversation touches on the challenges and rewards of implementing innovative teaching methods, the significance of multidisciplinary projects, and the impact of empathy and flexibility in educational leadership. 00:00 Meet Dr. Lauran Kerr-Heraly: Innovator in Education01:13 A Deep Dive into Holistic Education with Lauran03:27 Innovation in Teaching: Bridging Rigor and Empathy10:21 The Power of Multidisciplinary Projects and Innovation24:21 Escape Room in Education: A Case Study of Innovation28:53 Wrapping Up: Insights on Education and InnovationDon't Forget to Review the Show!I appreciate you checking out the episodes. I would mean a lot to me if you took a minute right now to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you listen! It helps the show out a lot!Who am I?I've been an educator in Massachusetts for 23 years.  I'm finishing my 16th year as a building leader.  I'm a teacher centered Principal and passionate about continuous improvement and the idea that success is not a destination, but a process. I'm active on social media, vlog about continuous improvement on a weekly basis, and wrote a book also called SEEing to Lead as a way to help everyone improve education as a whole by promoting my “just cause”: improving the educational experience for as many people as possible by being purposeful, acting with integrity, and building character. SEEing to Lead Extras!Like the content, want to be a guest, or know someone who would? Reach out to me on X (Twitter) at @DrCSJonesHave you taken the time to order and read my latest book! Seeing to Lead is filled with practical resources and personal stories to help you support, engage, and empower those you lead no matter your position!Jimmy Casas said, "If you are a leader who is looking to support, engage and empower your staff, then SEEing to Lead, by Dr. Chris Jones, is a book you will want to pick up and read. Dr. Jones reminds us that building capacity and helping others achieve personal success is the key to elevating your organization and leaving a lasting impact."Get your copy here! Don't forget to leave a rating and review for others. I would appreciate it!Subscribe to My Newsletter! We are all busy, often unsupported, and struggle to stay engaged! Here is a weekly resource that has something to support, engage, and empower you. Not to mention it saves you time by getting to the point! Increase your focus and become a better leader; no matter your position. Check it out here!Get in touch to schedule me for a workshop or presentation!This show is part of the Be Podcast Network. Our podcasts go beyond education as we know it — in any learning environment, formal or informal — and help you be the change you want to see. Learn more about the network and all our shows at https://bepodcast.network We're thrilled to be sponsored by MyFlexLearning, the scheduling platform that helps middle and high schools meet the individual needs of all students. Create and manage time for flex blocks, WIN time, activity periods, RTI, counselor and teacher appointments and much more. And with a built-in accountability tool and reporting features, solve your challenges around getting kids where they need to be and understanding how flex time is spent. Make your flex time work for you. Visit myflexlearning.com/BE to learn more and receive $500 off the first year. 

John Moretta received his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. He is professor of history at Central College, Houston Community College, and teaches at the University of Houston. John joins me again to discuss the counterculture and the hippie movement and how the presidencies of figures like LBJ and Nixon were affected and influenced by the social change of the times. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Lynn LaGrone assumed the role of Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, IA in August of 2020. Undaunted about starting a new role at Hawkeye, Lynn had the additional challenge of tackling the unknowns in the middle of the pandemic. She previously served as District Chair of Humanities, the Ankeny Campus Group Leader for English Composition, and an associate professor of English and literature at Des Moines Area Community College for over six years. In addition to several years of teaching for both Houston Community College and Lonestar Community College in Texas, she was an assistant professor at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, New York, and has experience teaching at Dowling College in New York.  Ms. LaGrone holds an MFA from Southampton College of Long Island University in New York, a bachelor's degree in journalism and broadcast communication from Eastern Michigan University, and an associate degree in liberal studies from C.S. Mott Community College. She completed additional graduate coursework at Colorado State University. Lynn's career in higher education goes to back to 2001 after a dozen years as an award winning broadcast journalist where she worked as a news anchor and reporter for stations in Flint and Grand Rapids, MI, Sacramento, CA and Memphis, TN. With her husband of 30+ years and two adult “kids,” the family moved to Iowa in 2010, after living in Texas, New York, Colorado, Tennessee, Florida, California and Michigan. A self-proclaimed nerd, she likes to read for fun, work jigsaw puzzles, listen to old school hip-hop and R&B and is an avid fan of Wordle.  

Dr. Lindsay Gary (PhD, MFA, MA, MPA) is a professor-scholar, conceptual diasporArtist, Afrocentric entrepreneur, and cultural curator whose mission is to educate, connect, and empower the African Diaspora. She is an adjunct professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston and of History at Houston Community College, in addition to being the Executive Director of The Re-Education Project, the Artistic and Executive Director of Dance Afrikana LLC, and the CEO of Isegun Enterprises LLC. She authored "The New Red Book: A Guide to 50 of Houston's Black Historical and Cultural Sites" and created and directed the documentary film "Who Yo' People?". Lindsay makes her home in Houston, Texas.

It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, President Series #259 YOUR guest is Dr. Frances Villagran-Glover, President, Houston Community College - Southeast YOUR guest co-host is Chike Aguh, Senior Advisor, The Project on Workforce, Harvard University & Former Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor YOUR host is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠ YOUR sponsors are Ellucian Live 2024 & InsightsEDU  What's the impact of AI on students, faculty, & administrators? How does Frances balance empathy & strategy when leading a major institution? What's the evolving role of community colleges today? Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠ ● Join YOUR EdUp community at ⁠⁠⁠The EdUp Experience⁠⁠⁠! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edup/message

We're so close to 2024, but we still have a couple of weeks left so we're recapping the biggest stories of the year in H-Town. From the a new mayor to a heat dome that left us all in a sweat, it was a busy year. Host Raheel Ramzanali is bringing on Pulitzer Prize finalist Evan Mintz and dynamic media personality Antre'chelle Nova to get their picks of the biggest stories of the week and year!  Scarface's Tiny Desk performance  Houston Community College scandal  AJ Armstong's case Beyoncé announced international release  US is pumping a lot of oil 610 and 59 still aren't good Colony Ridge update  Jared Woodfill and Paul Pressler story Looking for more Houston news? Then sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Houston  Follow us on Instagram  Have feedback or a show idea? Let us know! or leave us a voicemail/text us at +1 713-489-6972 with your thoughts, we love hearing from you! Interested in advertising with City Cast? Let's Talk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast features Josh Rangel, founder and CEO of Rangel Renewables, a rapidly growing company providing renewable energy solutions. Josh discusses how he is partnering with community colleges to train new wind technicians to meet surging industry demand, his plans to expand into repowering projects with his crane company King Heavy Lift, the positive impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act, and how he is fostering a family culture and safety focus at his company during a time of unprecedented growth. The hosts also explore the global shortage of qualified wind technicians and what skills are most valuable for new hires to have. Throughout the wide-ranging conversation, Josh shares invaluable insights from the frontlines of the U.S. energy transition. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Joel Saxum: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co host, Joel Saxum, and today, Allen Hall and I have a very special episode in store for you. Joining us on the show is a forerunner in wind energy growth and a leader in the U. S. energy transition, Josh Rangel. He's the founder and CEO of Rangel Renewables, a company that's been growing rapidly, providing renewable energy solutions to the industry. And he's also the visionary behind King Heavy Lift, a key player in the race for a greener tomorrow. But today, he's not just a business builder. He's here to share his invaluable insights into the wind industry, hiring the right technicians, developing their skillsets, fostering an amazing family style company culture and discussing how the IRA bill is driving unprecedented growth in our field. Without further ado, let's get started with this episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. One of the things that we talked about off air was the fact that you're not, Rangel isn't out to steal technicians from that company and this company and that company. What you're really doing is adding to the overall talent pool. Because that's the problem we have as an industry. We have, there's a batch of really good technicians and people within the industry that know what they're doing and can do it. However, We're not going to be able to sustain the growth in what we need to accomplish for our energy transition unless we take brand new green people and train them up and give them opportunities to succeed. So how are you guys attacking that problem? Josh Rangel: By partnering with the community colleges this is my big point that I get all the time. I'm interested, but I just don't know what to do. I don't know where to go. How do I apply? What are the steps? Do I need to go to a school that is requiring me to go for two years? When you get a call and hey, we need 35 individuals in two to four weeks, can you support it? I necessarily can't have somebody go out to a school for two years and then say hey, you know Call me back whenever you're ready to go. And so Streamlining the processes as we identified. Okay. Hey The market is going to continue to grow, not enough, staff that can do the work. Trying to do our best to now working with Aaron to educate those from our social media posts or to go to apply, what the steps are to take. Joel Saxum: Absolutely. And one of the tools that you have to do that is you've got access to some funds too, don't you? Josh Rangel: Yep. So with the Houston Community College,

John Moretta received his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. He is professor of history at Central College, Houston Community College, and teaches at the University of Houston. John is back to discuss his understanding and examination of John F. Kennedy such as his policies on civil rights and the attitude towards the Vietnam war. John begins to share his perspective on the assassination and what can be learned from JFK and his short presidency. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Air Date 10/23/2023 The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population have to develop very intricate plans to have any hope of succeeding. This is the story of the latest plan to establish unchecked rule to implement unpopular policies supported only by the far right. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Clips and Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: ‘The endgame of election denial is that we shouldn't have elections': Authoritarianism expert - The ReidOut - Air Date 10-6-23 Donald Trump has ramped up his violent rhetoric in recent weeks. Meanwhile, a Fox host has urged the U.S. towards civil war and claimed that voting does not work. Ch. 2: Violent Authoritarianism: How Did This Become the GOP? - Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen - Air Date 11-23-21 Pat Buchanan was ahead of his time. He used the KKK's David Duke to breed a new nativist religious nationalism, based on fear of liberalization. On this show, political science professor Joseph Lowndes sheds light on how the Republican Party got here Ch. 3: Analyzing The Dark Roots Of Modern Conservatism - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 10-15-23 Emma hosts John S. Huntington, professor of history at Houston Community College, to discuss his recent book Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism. Ch. 4: How Often Do YOU Think About the Roman Empire? - Wisecrack - Air Date 10-16-23 The real reason TikTok is crazy for ancient Rome If you're even a little bit online, you know that the men love ancient Rome. This isn't new: The civilization has loomed large in the Western imagination ever since its catastrophic collapse. Ch. 5: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 1 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23 Project 2025 is the terrifying plan set out by conservatives to take over the government. But it's radical, and it doesn't align with what most Americans want. Which is why we have to make sure this plan never happens. Ch. 6: The GOP's "Red Caesar" New Political Order Plan Marches Forward - The Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 10-3-23 A Trump supporter just displayed exactly how stochastic terrorism works. Ch. 7: The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country Part 2 - Leeja Miller - Air Date 9-26-23 MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 8: Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News - Tom Nicholas - Air Date 5-13-23 A video about how billionaire-funded right-wing “think tanks” such as the Heritage Foundation, Adam Smith Institute, Manhattan Institute, and Institute of Economic Affairs manipulate the news to spread their propaganda. FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments discussing the Red Caesar movement and our strange allies opposing it MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) SHOW IMAGE: Description: A white marble bust of Julius Caesar in armor and robes wears a red MAGA hat. Credit: Composite design by A. Hoffman. Source images of bust and hat are copyright-free from Pixabay.   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League. Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. His newest book, Now What, was released in January 2023. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston. http://www.ahmardvital.com/

In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League. Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. His newest book, Now What, was released in January 2023. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston. http://www.ahmardvital.com/

Lauran Kerr-Heraly is an award-winning educator and author. She currently serves as a history professor and Innovation Fellow at Houston Community College. Her innovative teaching includes turning a classroom into an escape room, multidisciplinary projects showcasing personal food histories and environmental justice, and playing with experimental learning spaces. As an executive function coach, she works with teens and their parents too. She helps develop a holistic approach to school success, which includes a focus on essential skills, executive function, and emotional awareness. She uses gamification in her coaching to motivate and engage. She shares a nerdy and adventurous life with her husband and 10yo in Houston, where they play a lot of board games (the more complicated, the better).

Valerie Singer, GM of Global Education at AWS, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the vast array of cloud computing education programs AWS offers to people of all skill levels and backgrounds. Valerie explains how she manages such a large undertaking, and also sheds light on what AWS is doing to ensure their programs are truly valuable both to learners and to the broader market. Corey and Valerie discuss how generative AI is applicable to education, and Valerie explains how AWS's education programs fit into a K-12 curriculum as well as job seekers looking to up-skill. About ValerieAs General Manager for AWS's Global Education team, Valerie is responsible forleading strategy and initiatives for higher education, K-12, EdTechs, and outcome-based education worldwide. Her Skills to Jobs team enables governments, educationsystems, and collaborating organizations to deliver skills-based pathways to meetthe acute needs of employers around the globe, match skilled job seekers to goodpaying jobs, and advance the adoption of cloud-based technology.In her ten-year tenure at AWS, Valerie has held numerous leadership positions,including driving strategic customer engagement within AWS's Worldwide PublicSector and Industries. Valerie established and led the AWS's public sector globalpartner team, AWS's North American commercial partner team, was the leader forteams managing AWS's largest worldwide partnerships, and incubated AWS'sAerospace & Satellite Business Group. Valerie established AWS's national systemsintegrator program and promoted partner competency development and practiceexpansion to migrate enterprise-class, large-scale workloads to AWS.Valerie currently serves on the board of AFCEA DC where, as the Vice President ofEducation, she oversees a yearly grant of $250,000 in annual STEM scholarships tohigh school students with acute financial need.Prior to joining AWS, Valerie held senior positions at Quest Software, AdobeSystems, Oracle Corporation, BEA Systems, and Cisco Systems. She holds a B.S. inMicrobiology from the University of Maryland and a Master in Public Administrationfrom the George Washington University.Links Referenced: AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ GetIT: https://aws.amazon.com/education/aws-getit/ Spark: https://aws.amazon.com/education/aws-spark/ Future Engineers: https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/ code.org: https://code.org Academy: https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/ Educate: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/ Skill Builder: https://skillbuilder.aws/ Labs: https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-builder-labs/ re/Start: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/ AWS training and certification programs: https://www.aws.training/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. A recurring theme of this show in the, what is it, 500 some-odd episodes since we started doing this many years ago, has been around where does the next generation come from. And ‘next generation' doesn't always mean young folks graduating school or whatnot. It's people transitioning in, it's career changers, it's folks whose existing jobs evolve into embracing the cloud industry a lot more readily than they have in previous years. My guest today arguably knows that better than most. Valerie Singer is the GM of Global Education at AWS. Valerie, thank you for agreeing to suffer my slings and arrows. I appreciate it.Valerie: And thank you for having me, Corey. I'm looking forward to the conversation.Corey: So, let's begin. GM, General Manager is generally a term of art which means you are, to my understanding, the buck-stops-here person for a particular division within AWS. And Global Education sounds like one of those, quite frankly, impossibly large-scoped type of organizations. What do you folks do? Where do you start? Where do you stop?Valerie: So, my organization actually focuses on five key areas, and it really does take a look at the global strategy for Amazon Web Services in higher education, research, our K through 12 community, our community of ed-tech providers, which are software providers that are specifically focused on the education sector, and the last plinth of the Global Education Team is around skills to jobs. And we care about that a lot because as we're talking to education providers about how they can innovate in the cloud, we also want to make sure that they're thinking about the outcomes of their students, and as their students become more digitally skilled, that there is placement for them and opportunities for them with employers so that they can continue to grow in their careers.Corey: Early on, when I was starting out my career, I had an absolutely massive chip on my shoulder when it came to formal education. I was never a great student for many of the same reasons I was never a great employee. And I always found that learning for me took the form of doing something and kicking the tires on it, and I had to care. And doing rote assignments in a ritualized way never really worked out. So, I never fit in in academia. On paper, I still have an eighth-grade education. One of these days, I might get the GED.But I really had problems with degree requirements in jobs. And it's humorous because my first tech job that was a breakthrough was as a network administrator at Chapman University. And that honestly didn't necessarily help improve my opinion of academia for a while, when you're basically the final tier escalation for support desk for a bunch of PhDs who are troubled with some of the things that they're working on because they're very smart in one particular area, but have challenges with broad tech. So, all of which is to say that I've had problems with the way that education historically maps to me personally, and it took a little bit of growth for me to realize that I might not be the common, typical case that represents everyone. So, I've really come around on that. What is the current state of how AWS views educating folks? You talk about working with higher ed; you also talk about K through 12. Where does this, I guess, pipeline start for you folks?Valerie: So, Amazon Web Services offers a host of education programs at the K-12 level where we can start to capture learners and capture their imagination for digital skills and cloud-based learning early on, programs like GetIT and Spark make sure that our learners have a trajectory forward and continue to stay engaged.Amazon Future Engineers also provides experiential learning and data center-based experiences for K through 12 learners, too, so that we can start to gravitate these learners towards skills that they can use later in life and that they'll be able to leverage. That said—and going back to what you said—we want to capture learners where they learn and how they learn. And so, that often happens not in a K through 12 environment and not in a higher education environment. It can happen organically, it can happen through online learning, it can happen through mentoring, and through other types of sponsorship.And so, we want to make sure that our learners have the opportunities to micro-badge, to credential, and to experience learning in the cloud particularly, and also develop digital skills wherever and however they learn, not just in a prescriptive environment like a higher education environment.Corey: During the Great Recession, I found that as a systems administrator—which is what we called ourselves in the style of the time—I was relatively weak when it came to networking. So, I took a class at the local community college where they built the entire curriculum around getting some Cisco certifications by the time that the year ended. And half of that class was awesome. It was effectively networking fundamentals in an approachable, constructive way, and that was great. The other half of the class—at least at the time—felt like it was extraordinarily beholden to, effectively—there's no nice way to say this—Cisco marketing.It envisioned a world where all networking equipment was Cisco-driven, using proprietary Cisco protocols, and it left a bad smell for a number of students in the class. Now, I've talked to an awful lot of folks who have gone through the various AWS educational programs in a variety of different ways and I've yet to hear significant volume of complaint around, “Oh, it's all vendor captured and it just feels like we're being indoctrinated into the cult of AWS.” Which honestly is to your credit. How did you avoid that?Valerie: It's a great question, and how we avoid it is by starting with the skills that are needed for jobs. And so, we actually went back to employers and said, “What are your, you know, biggest and most urgent needs to fill in early-career talent?” And we categorized 12 different job categories, the four that were most predominant were cloud support engineer, software development engineer, cyber analyst, and data analyst. And we took that mapping and developed the skills behind those four different job categories that we know are saleable and that our learners can get employed in, and then made modifications as our employers took a look at what the skills maps needed to be. We then took the skills maps—in one case—into City University of New York and into their computer science department, and mapped those skills back to the curriculum that the computer science teams have been providing to students.And so, what you have is, your half-awesome becomes full-awesome because we're providing them the materials through AWS Academy to be able to proffer the right set of curriculum and right set of training that gets provided to the students, and provides them with the opportunity to then become AWS Certified. But we do it in a way that isn't all marketecture; it's really pragmatic. It's how do I automate a sequence? How do I do things that are really saleable and marketable and really point towards the skills that our employers need? And so, when you have this book-end of employers telling the educational teams what they need in terms of skills, and you have the education teams willing to pull in that curriculum that we provide—that is, by the way, current and it maintains its currency—we have a better throughway for early-career talent to find the jobs that they need, and the guarantee that the employers are getting the skills that they've asked for. And so, you're not getting that half of the beholden that you had in your experience; you're getting a full-on awesome experience for a learner who can then go and excite himself and herself or theirself into a new position and career opportunity.Corey: One thing that caught me a little bit by surprise, and I think this is an industry-wide phenomenon is, whenever folks who are working with educational programs—as you are—talk about, effectively, public education and the grade school system, you refer to it as ‘K through 12.' Well, last year, my eldest daughter started kindergarten and it turns out that when you start asking questions about cloud computing curricula to a kindergarten teacher, they look at you like you are deranged and possibly unsafe. And yeah, it turns out that for almost any reasonable measure, exposing—in my case—a now six-year-old to cloud computing concepts feels like it's close cousins to child abuse. So—Valerie: [laugh].Corey: So far, I'm mostly keeping the kids away from that for now. When does that start? You mentioned middle school a few minutes ago. I'm curious as to—is that the real entry point or are there other ways that you find people starting to engage at earlier and earlier ages?Valerie: We are seeing people engage it earlier and earlier ages with programs like Spark, as I mentioned, which is more of a gamified approach to K through 12 learning around digital skills in the cloud. code.org also has a tremendous body of work that they offer K through 12 learners. That's more modularized and building block-based so that you're not asking a six-year-old to master the art of cloud computing, but you're providing young learners with the foundations to understand how the building blocks of technology sit on top of each other to actually do something meaningful.And so, gears and pulleys and all kinds of different artifacts that learners can play with to understand how the inner workings of a computer program come together, for instance, are really experientially important and foundationally important so that they understand the concepts on which that's built later. So, we can introduce these concepts very early, Corey, and kids really enjoy playing with those models because they can make things happen, right? They can make things turn and they can make things—they can actually, you know, modify behaviors of different programming elements and really have a great experience working in those different programs and environments like code.org and Spark.Corey: There are, of course, always exceptions to this. I remember the, I think, it's the 2019 public sector summit that you folks put on, you had a speaker, Karthick Arun, who at the time was ten years old and have the youngest person to pass the certification test to become a cloud practitioner. I mean, power to him. Obviously, that is the sort of thing that happens when a kid has passion and is excited about a particular direction. I have not inflicted that on my kids.I'm not trying to basically raise whatever the cloud computing sad version is of an Olympian by getting them into whatever it is that I want them to focus on before they have any agency in the matter. But I definitely remember when I was a kid, I was always frustrated by the fact that it felt like there were guardrails keeping me from working with any of these things that I found interesting and wanted to get exposure to. It feels like in many ways the barriers are coming down.Valerie: They are. In that particular example, actually, Andy Jassy interceded because we did have age requirements at that time for taking the exam.Corey: You still do, by the way. It's even to attend summits and whatnot. So, you have to be 18, but at some point, I will be looking into what exceptions have to happen for that because I'm not there to basically sign them up for the bar crawl or have them get exposure to, like, all the marketing stuff, but if they're interested in this, it seems like the sort of thing that should be made more accessible.Valerie: We do bring learners on, you know, into re:Invent and into our summits. We definitely invite our learners in. I mean I think you mentioned, there are a lot of other places our learners are not going to go, like bar crawls, but our learners under the age of 18 can definitely take advantage of the programs that we have on offer. AWS Academy is available to 16 and up.And again, you know, GetIT and Spark and Educate is all available to learners as well. We also have programs like Skill Builder, with an enormous free tier of learning modules that teams can take advantage of as well. And then Labs for subscription and fee-based access. But there's over 500 courses in that free tier currently, and so there's plenty of places for our, you know, early learners to play and to experiment and to learn.Corey: This is a great microcosm of some career advice I recently had caused to revisit, which is, make friends in different parts of the organization you work within and get to know people in other companies who do different things because you can't reason with policy; you can have conversations productively with human beings. And I was basing my entire, “You must be 18 or you're not allowed in, full stop,” based solely on a sign that I saw when I was attending a summit at the entrance: “You must be 18 to enter.” Ah. Clearly, there's no wiggle room here, and no—it's across the board, absolute hard-and-fast rule. Very few things are. This is a perfect example of that. So today, I learned. Thank you.Valerie: Yeah. You're very welcome. We want to make sure that we get the information, we get materials, we get experiences out to as many people as possible. One thing I would also note, and I had the opportunity to spend time in our skill centers, and these are really great places, too, for early learners to get experience and exposure to different models. And so earlier, when we were talking, you held up a DeepRacer car, which is a very, very cool, smaller-scale car that learners can use AI tools to help to drive.And learners can go into the skill centers in Seattle and in the DC area, now in Cape Town and in other places where they're going to be opening, and really have that, like, direct-line experience with AWS technology and see the value of it tangibly, and what happens when you for instance, model to move a car faster or in the right direction or not hitting the side of a wall. So, there's lots of ways that early learners can get exposure in just a few ways and those centers are actually a really great way for learners to just walk in and just have an experience.Corey: Switching gears a little bit, one of my personal favorite hobby horses is to go on Twitter—you know, back when that was more of a thing—and mock companies for saying things that I perceived to be patently ridiculous. I was gentle about it because I think it's a noble cause, but one of the more ridiculous things that I've heard from Amazon was in 2020, you folks announced a plan to help 29 million people around the world grow their tech skills by 2025. And the reason that I thought that was ridiculous is because it sounded like it was such an over-the-top, grandiose vision, I didn't see a way that you could possibly get anywhere even close. But again, I was gentle about this because even if you're half-wrong, it means that you're going to be putting significant energy, resourcing, et cetera, into educating people about how this stuff works to help lowering bar to entry, about lowering gates that get kept. I have to ask, though, now that we are, at the time of this recording, coming up in the second half of 2023, how closely are you tracking to that?Valerie: We're tracking. So, as of October, which is the last time I saw the tracking on this data, we had already provided skills-based learning to 13-and-a-half million learners worldwide and are very much on track to exceed the 2025 goal of 29 million. But I got to tell you, like, there's a couple of things in there that I'm sure you're going to ask as a follow-up, so I'll go ahead and talk about it practically, and that is, what are people doing with the learning? And then how are they using that learning and applying it to get jobs? And so, you know, 29 million is a big number, but what does it mean in terms of what they're doing with that information and what they're doing to apply it?So, we do have on my team an employer engagement team that actually goes out and works with local employers around the world, builds virtual job fairs and on-prem job fairs, sponsors things like DeepRacer League and Cloud Quests and Jam days so that early-career learners can come in and get hands-on and employers can look at what the potential employees are doing so that they can make sure that they have the experience that they actually say they have. And so, since the beginning of this year, we have already now recruited 323 what we call talent shapers, which are the employer community who are actually consuming the talent that we are proffering to them and that we're bringing into these job fairs. We have 35,000 learners who have come through our job fairs since the beginning of the year. And then we also rely—as you know, like, we're very security conscious, so we rely on self-reported data, but we have over 3500 employed early-career talent self-reported job hires. And so, for us, the 29 million is important, but how it then portrays itself into AWS-focused employment—that's not just to AWS; these are by the way those 3500 learners who are employed went to other companies outside of AWS—but we want to make sure that the 29 million actually results in something. It's not just, you know, kind of an academic exercise. And so, that's what we're doing on our site to make sure that employers are actually engaged in this process as well.Corey: I want to bring up a topic that has been top-of-mind in relation to this, where there has been an awful lot of hue and cry about generative AI lately, and to the point where I'm a believer in this. I think it is awesome, I think it is fantastic. And even for me, the hype is getting to be a little over the top. When everyone's talking about it transforming every business and that entire industries seem to be pivoting hard to rebrand themselves with the generative AI brush, it is of some concern. But I'm still excited by the magic inherent to aspects of what this is.It is, on some level—at least the way I see it—a way of solving the cloud education problem that I see, which is that, today if I want to start a company and maybe I just got out of business school, maybe I dropped out of high school, doesn't really matter. If it involves software, as most businesses seem to these days, I would have to do a whole lot of groundwork first. I have to go and take a boot camp class somewhere for six months and learn just enough code to build something horrible enough to get funding so that then I can hire actual professional engineers who will make fun of what I've written behind my back and then tear it all out and replace it. On some level, it really feels like the way to teach people cloud skills is to lower the bar for those cloud skills themselves, to help reduce the you must be at least this smart to ride this amusement park ride style of metering stick.And generative AI seems like it has strong potential for doing some of these things. I've used it that way myself, if we can get past some of the hallucination problems where it's very confident and also wrong—just like, you know, many of the white engineers I've worked with who are of course, men, in the course of my career—it will be even better. But I feel like this is the interface to an awful lot of cloud, if it's done right. How are you folks thinking about generative AI in the context of education, given the that field seems to be changing every day?Valerie: It's an interesting question and I see a lot of forward movement and positive movement in education. I'll give you an example. One company in the Bay Area, Khan Academy is using Khanmigo, which is one of their ChatGPT and generative AI-based products to be able to tutor students in a way that's directive without giving them the answers. And so, you know, when you look at the Bloom's sigma problem, which is if you have an intervention with a student who's kind of on the fence, you can move them one standard deviation to the right by giving them, sort of, community support. You can move them two standard deviations to the right if you give them one-to-one mentoring.And so, the idea is that these interventions through generative AI are actually moving that Bloom's sigma model for students to the right, right? So, you're getting students who might fall through the cracks not falling through the cracks anymore. Groups like Houston Community College are using generative AI to make sure that they are tracking their students in a way that they're going into the classes that they need to go into and they're using the prerequisites so that they can then benefit themselves through the community college system and have the most efficient path towards graduation. There's other models that we're using generative AI for to be able to do better data analysis in educational institutions, not just for outcomes, but also for, you know, funding mechanisms and for ways in which educational institutions [even operationalized 00:21:21]. And so, I think there's a huge power in generative AI that is being used at all levels within education.Now, there's a couple of other things, too, that I think that you touched on, and one is how do we train on generative AI, right? It goes so fast. And how are we doing? So, I'll tell you one thing that I think is super interesting, and that's that generative AI does hold the promise of actually offering us greater diversity, equity, and inclusion of the people who are studying generative AI. And what we're seeing early on is that the distribution in the mix of men and women is far better for studying of generative AI and AI-based learning modules for that particular outcome than we have seen in computer science in the past.And so, that's super encouraging, that we're going to have more people from more diverse backgrounds participating with skills for generative AI. And what that will also mean, of course, is that models will likely be less biased, we'll be able to have better fidelity in generative AI models, and more applicability in different areas when we have more diverse learners with that experience. So, the second piece is, what is AWS doing to make sure that these modules are being integrated into curriculum? And that's something that our training and certification team is launching as we speak, both through our AWS Academy modules, but also through Skill Builder so those can be accessed by people today. So, I'm with you. I think there's more promise than hue and cry and this is going to be a super interesting way that our early-career learners are going to be able to interact with new learning models and new ways of just thinking about how to apply it.Corey: My excitement is almost entirely on the user side of this as opposed to the machine-learning side of it. It feels like an implementation detail from the things that I care about. I asked the magic robot in a box how to do a thing and it tells me, or ideally does it for me. One of the moments in which I felt the dumbest in recent memory has been when I first started down the DeepRacer, “Oh, you just got one. Now, here's how to do it. Step one, open up this console. Good. Nice job. Step two”—and it was, basically get a PhD in machine learning concepts from Berkeley and then come back. Which is a slight exaggeration, but not by much.It feels it is, on some level—it's a daunting field, where there's an awful lot of terms of art being bandied around, there's a lot that needs to be explained in particular ways, and it's very different—at least from my perspective—on virtually any other cloud service offering. And that might very well be a result of my own background. But using the magic thing, like, CodeWhisperer that suggests code that I want to complete is great. Build something like CodeWhisperer, I'm tapping out by the end of that sentence.Valerie: Yeah. I mean, the question in there is, you know, how do we make sure that our learners know how to leverage CodeWhisperer, how to leverage Bedrock, how to leverage SageMaker, and how to leverage Greengrass, right, to build models that I think are going to be really experientially sound but also super innovative? And so, us getting that learning into education early and making sure that learners who are being educated, whether they are currently in jobs and are being re-skilled or they're coming up through traditional or non-traditional educational institutions, have access to all of these services that can help them do innovative things is something that we're really committed to doing. And we've been doing it for a long time. I may think you know that, right?So, Greengrass and SageMaker and all of the AI and ML tools have been around for a long period of time. Bedrock, CodeWhisperer, other services that AWS will continue to launch to support generative AI models, of course, are going to be completely available not just to users, but also for learners who want to re-skill, up-skill, and to skill on generative AI models.Corey: One last area I want to get into is a criticism, or at least an observation I've been making for a while about Kubernetes, but it could easily be extended to cloud in general, which is that, at least today, as things stand—this is starting to change, finally—running Kubernetes in production is challenging and fraught and requires a variety of skills and a fair bit of experience having done this previously. Before the last year or so of weird market behavior, if you had Kubernetes in production experience, you could relatively easily command a couple $100,000 a year in terms of salary. Now, as companies are embracing modern technologies and the rest, I'm wondering how they're approaching the problem of up-leveling their existing staff from two sides. The first is that no matter how much training and how much you wind up giving a lot of those folks, some of them either will not be capable or will not have the desire to learn the new thing. And secondly, once you get those people there, how do you keep them from effectively going down the street with that brand new shiny skill set for, effectively, three times what they were making previously, now that they have those skills that are in wild demand across the board?Because that's simply not sustainable for a huge swath of companies out there for whom they're not technology companies, they just use technology to do the thing that their business does. It feels like everything is becoming very expensive in a personnel perspective if you're not careful. You obviously talk to governments who are famously not known for paying absolute top-of-market figures for basically any sort of talent—for obvious reasons—but also companies for whom the bottom line matters incredibly. How do you square that circle?Valerie: There's a lot in that circle, so I'll talk about a specific, and then I'll talk about what we're also doing to help learners get that experience. So, you talked specifically about Kubernetes, but that could be extracted, as you said, to a lot of other different areas, including cyber, right? So, when we talk about somebody with an expertise in cybersecurity, it's very unlikely that a new learner coming out of university is going to be as appealing to an employer than somebody who has two to three years of experience. And so, how do we close that gap of experience—in either of those two examples—to make sure that learners have an on-ramp to new positions and new career opportunities? So, the first answer I'll give you is with some of our largest systems integrators, one of which is Tata Consulting Services, who is actually using AWS education programs to upskill its employees internally and has upskilled 19,000 of its employees using education programs including AWS Educate, to make sure that their group of consultants has absolutely the latest set of skills.And so, we're seeing that across the board; most of our, if not all of our customers, are looking at training to make sure that they can train not only their internal tech teams and their early-career talent coming in, but they can also train back office to understand what the next generation of technology is going to mean. And so, for instance, one of our largest customers, a telco provider, has asked us to provide modules for their HR teams because without understanding what AI and ML is, what it does, and what how to look for it, they might not be able to then, you know, extract the right sets of talent that they need to bring into the organization. So, we're seeing this training requirement across the business and not just in technical requirements. But you know, bridging that gap with early-career learners, I think is really important too. And so, we are experimenting, especially at places like Miami Dade College and City University of New York with virtual internships so that we can provide early-career learners with experiential learning that then they can bring to employers as proof that they have actually done the thing that they've said that they can demonstrate that they can do.And so, companies like Parker Dewey and Riipen and Forage and virtual internships are offering those experiences online so that our learners have the opportunity to then prove what they say that they can do. So, there's lots of ways that we can go about making sure learners have that broad base of learning and that they can apply it. And I'll tell you one more thing, and that's retention. And we find that when learners approach their employer with an internship or an apprenticeship, that their stickiness with that employer because they understand the culture, they understand the project work, they've been mentored, they've been sponsored, that they're stickiness within those employers it's actually far greater than if they came and went. And so, it's important and incumbent on employers, I think, to build that strong connective tissue with their early-skilled learners—and their upskilled learners—to make sure that the skills don't leave the house, right? And that is all about making sure that the culture aligns with the skills aligns, with the project work, and that it continues to be interesting, whether you're a new learner or you're a re-skilled learner, to stay in-house.Corey: My last question for you—and I understand that this might be fairly loaded—but I can't even come up with a partial list that does it any justice to encapsulate the sheer number of educational programs that you have in flight for a variety of different folks. The details and nuances of these are not something that I store in RAM, so I find that it's very easy to talk about one of these things and wind up bleeding into another. How do you folks keep it all straight? And how should people think about it? Not to say that you are not people. How should people who do not work for AWS? There we go. We are all humans here. Please, go [laugh] ahead.Valerie: It's a good question. So, the way that I break it down—and by the way, you know, AWS is also part of Amazon, so you know, I understand the question. And we have a lot of offerings across Amazon and AWS. AWS education programs specifically, are five. And those five programs, I've mentioned a few today: AWS Academy, AWS Educate, AWS re/Start, GetIT, and Spark are free, no-fee programs that we offer both the community and our education providers to build curriculum to offer digitally, and cloud-based skills curriculum to learners.We have another product that I'm a huge fan of called Skill Builder. And Skill Builder is, as I mentioned before, an online educational platform that anybody can take advantage of the over 500 classes in the free tier. There's learning plans for a lot of different things, and some I think you'd be interested in, like cost optimization and, you know, financial modeling for cloud, and all kinds of other more technically-oriented free courses. And then if learners want to get more experience in a lab environment, or more detailed learning that would lead to, for instance a, you know, certification in solutions architecture, they can use the subscription model, which is very affordable and provides learners an opportunity to work within that platform. So, if I'm breaking it down, it really is, am I being educated and in a way that is more formalized or am I going to go and take these courses when I want them and when I need them, both in the free tier and the subscription tier.So, that's basically the differences between education programs and Skill Builder. But I would say that if people are working with AWS teams, they can also ask teams where is the best place to be able to avail themselves of education curriculum. And we're all passionate about this topic and all of us can point users in the right direction as well.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to go through all the things that you folks are up to these days. If people want to learn more, where should they go?Valerie: So, the first destination, if they want cloud-based learning, is really to take a look at AWS training and certification programs, and so, easily to find on aws.com. I would also point our teams—if they're interested in the tech alliances and how we're formulating the tech alliances—towards a recent announcement between City University of New York, the New York Jobs CEO Council, and the New York Mayor's Office for more details about how we can help teams in the US and outside the US—we also have tech alliances underway in Egypt and Spain and other countries coming on board as well—to really, you know, earmark how government and educational institutions and employers can work together.And then lastly, if employers are listening to this, the one output to all of this is that you pointed out, and that's that our learners need hands-on learning and they need the on-ramp to internships, to apprenticeships, and jobs that really are promotional for, like, career talent. And so, it's incumbent, I think, on all of us to start looking at the next generation of learners, whether they come out of traditional or non-traditional means, and recognize that talent can live in a lot of different places. And we're very happy to help and happy to do that matchup. But I encourage employers to dig deeper there too.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the show notes. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to speak with me about all this. I really appreciate it.Valerie: Thank you, Corey. It's always fun to talk to you.Corey: [laugh]. Valerie Singer, GM of Global Education at AWS. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with a comment telling me exactly which AWS service I should make my six-year-old learn about as my next step in punishing her.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

In this episode, Lisa and Lauran discuss:The 4 (surprising) categories of executive function skills every student needs for success. Why executive functioning skills are more important than the standard high school education leads you to believe. Tips for how parents and families can set their teen up to learn these skills for a successful transition to college.Tips for creating open avenues of communication with your students to set them up for happiness. Key Takeaways: Students spend a lot of time studying inefficiently. Managing time effectively is critically important.The four S's of executive function skills: scholastic, study, social, and sensibility.As a parent, once your student is in college, your student's information cannot be given to you without signing a FERPA release, and even then it is not your place to be checking in with your student's professors. That is the student's responsibility. The demands on a high school student do not match up with their current executive function skills…and it isn't their fault. Notice what your student is doing well, and help them learn the skills that they may be struggling with.  “The right skills are one of the most important things you can do for them. Because after they get into college, they are kind of on their own, but they still need you. Open warm communication is really important. And then scaffolding as much as possible so that you can set them up to not only be successful, but happy because that's what we want.” – Lauran Kerr-HeralyAbout Lauran Kerr-Heraly: Lauran Kerr-Heraly is an award-winning educator and author who has dedicated her career to transforming lives through education. She is a Professor of History and Innovation Fellow at Houston Community College. She earned her Ph.D. in History and Women's Studies at the University of Houston and her research focuses on Black women medical doctors. She is the winner of the Texas State Historical Association's Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell Award, Houston Community College's Teaching Excellence Award, and NISOD Teaching Excellence Award. Lauran developed her program Altering Course to empower families to achieve success in collegeEpisode References:Executive Function Infographic: https://www.alteringcourse.com/infographic Goal Setting for Students: https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/blog/goal-setting-for-students/ Get Lisa's Free on-demand video: How-to guide for your teen to choose the right major, college, & career...(without painting themselves into a corner, missing crucial deadlines, or risking choices you both regret). https://courses.flourishcoachingco.com/howtoguideyourteen-free-trainingConnect with Lauran:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alteringcourse/ Website: https://www.alteringcourse.com/ Connect with Lisa: Website: https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flourishcoachingco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flourishcoachingco/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flourish-coaching-co

Welcome to Season 5! On today's episode, Dr. Mshana interviews Ahmard Vital who in 2011, published, "Awaken the Baller Within," which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League.Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success.Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M.He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. His newest book, Now What, was released in January 2023. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston. We welcome Mr. Vital to the show!

John Moretta received his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. He is professor of history at Central College, Houston Community College, and teaches at the University of Houston. John joins me once again to discuss the importance of history and how an understanding of a countries past can best predict a nations future. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Rodrigo Himiob is an Advisor and Managing Director at Generation6, a global family business advisory firm. He also serves as an Advisor to the BCBR Program at Santa Clara University. Prior to this, he served as the VP of Operations and Partner of Houston Anodes, as an Advisory Board Member of the Corrosion Technology Program at Houston Community College, and as the Manager of Corrosion Services at TRC Companies, Inc. Venezuelan-born, Rodrigo is a third-generation business owner whose expertise encompasses executive leadership, operations, project management, and strategic planning. Rodrigo holds a BSc and MSc in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and an MBA in Families and Business from Kennesaw State University.    What You'll Learn ●      When is it time to bring in a non-family member? ●      Navigating the dynamics between family and non-family members. ●      Is there ever complete agreement? ●      Who does the family business advisor work for? ●      Can a family business work without working family members? ●      When to bring in significant others.   Timestamps ·       [03:35] Rodrigo's career path. ·       [05:56] What's most meaningful about this work? ·       [09:18] When there's a miscommunication about the handover. ·       [16:22] When it's okay to bring in a non-family member. ·       [21:03] Family and non-family member dynamics. ·       [26:55] How to overcome animosity. ·       [33:13] Does everyone have to agree to the process? ·       [38:22] A family business with no active family members. ·       [45:24] Involving significant others in the family business.   Memorable Quotes ·       “Whoever you bring in, they should have some level of family business experience.” – Rodrigo Himiob [23:13] ·       “You don't have to have 100% agreement. You can build that agreement.” – Rodrigo Himiob [34:36] ·       “A good family business advisor is going to not work exclusively for whoever brought them in.” – Chris Yonker [36:46] ·       “You want to give your family members the choice to be in the family business.” – Rodrigo Himiob [43:47] ·       “You need to bring your spouses in as quickly as you can.” – Rodrigo Himiob [46:14]     Social Media Rodrigo Himiob. rhimiob@generation6.com.   Websites www.generation6.com.

Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-chestnut5/support

If you are listening to this episode and were born before the turn of the 21st century, then you may be looking at today's youth and wondering the same thing. How in the world can we help this younger generation be their absolute best when they are being raised in unprecedented times (COVID, technology, etc.) Our guest on this episode is not just talking about helping youth, he IS helping youth today and has a great deal of wisdom to share with all of us. Guest Info Motivational consultant, international speaker, and author Ahmard Vital has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. Ahmard provides his audiences with the tools needed to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence.   After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high-achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies, and organizations worldwide. In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League. Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking, or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston. https://www.ahmardvital.com/

John Moretta received his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. He is professor of history at Central College, Houston Community College, and teaches at the University of Houston. John is the author of "The Hippies: A 1960s History" and other various works on history and the political/social change of the times. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

This season on We Go Boldly we will walk through what holds us back from living our best lives and doing all the things we dream about doing. We are focusing on how we can overcome our fear and doubt, be bolstered by faith, take risks, meet opportunity, and imagine unlimited possibilities. Every week we will work through a different aspect of what it means to both pursue our passions and accomplish the mundane; and how these topics help us to reach for our potential and live our boldest, most honest lives. Our goal this season is to explore what is holding us back, keeping us locked away behind our imagined limitations, and stopping our growth. We coach women to live their version of a bold life and pursue their unique path. This season is all about taking action and living our best lives. Today we are broadening our own horizons and talking to an incredible guest and new friend to the show. Welcome Orjanel Lewis!Orjanel K. Lewis, Esq. was born and raised in Missouri City, Texas.   Double majoring in Political Science and English, Orjanel graduated summa cum laude in 2008 from Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.  Entering the historic Tuskegee University in the fall of 2004, Orjanel realized that it would behoove her to take advantage of all that the “pride of the swift growing south” had to offer! She participated in several organizations including Student Government Association where she served as Vice President during her Senior year, Texas Club serving as President for two years, President of the Student Senate, and a member of the Spanish Club. Ms. Lewis received several awards while studying at Tuskegee including the President Benjamin F. Payton Distinguished Student Award, Terrance D. Smith Student Leader Award, and Pi Sigma Alpha and Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Societies.Upon graduation from Tuskegee, Orjanel attended and graduated from Tulane University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate and a Certificate of Maritime Law.  Orjanel served as an Associate Attorney for nearly four years at a small boutique firm located in Houston, Texas practicing in various areas of civil litigation including but not limited to consumer, estate, personal injury and business.  Ms. Lewis was previously promoted to Policy Advisor, after serving as in-house counsel in the litigation department, for a consumer debt buyer company, while simultaneously serving as a member of the adjunct faculty of Houston Community College teaching Civil Litigation I and II, Wills and Probate Administration, Law Office Management and Contracts. Orjanel is licensed to practice law in Texas and Alabama. In addition to professional work, Ms. Lewis has tremendous community involvement serving as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Houston Lawyers' Association, Kappa Silhouettes of Houston (President), Burton ES PTO (President), a member of the Fort Bend Independent School District's We Are Hightower Task Force, Gifted and Talented Task Force, Bond Oversight Committee and Academy Design Task Force.  In her spare time, Orjanel enjoys life at home with her husband, Dr. Marcus Lewis, and two kids, Olivia and Marcus Alexander.Let's get to know Orjanel!You follow all the amazing things Orjanel does on twitter @OrjanelLewis.Don't forget to smash that subscribe button, rate and review us!RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOWDid you enjoy this episode? We would love to hear your thoughts. Head to Apple Podcasts and then rate, review, and subscribe. This way you will get notified once a new episode goes live. CONNECT WITH RIELLY AND TOVAHInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/goboldlytogether/Website: goboldlythepodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Go-Boldly-Together-105942584706928LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/go-boldly-initiativeYouTube: http://bit.ly/boldlyyoutubePinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/GoBoldlyTogether/_saved/Twitter: https://twitter.com/goboldlypodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wegoboldly

Motivational consultant, international speaker, and author Ahmard Vital has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. Ahmard provides his audiences with the tools needed to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence.After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies, and organizations worldwide.In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League.Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, aFox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success.Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M.He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking, or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston.https://www.ahmardvital.com/https://www.facebook.com/ahmardvital/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmard-vital-6959464 https://www.instagram.com/ahmardvital/ https://mobile.twitter.com/ahmardvital https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrrvUluHZEfyoektk9Q2Gg

Motivational consultant, international speaker and author Ahmard Vital has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. Ahmard provides his audiences with the need to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence.After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies and organizations worldwide. He has published three books, including his latest, Now What? 5 Steps to Get Up and Create the Most of Life.Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M.When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston.Head to ahmardvital.com as the main hub of all the services I offer. Use this link (www.booknowwhat.com) for a copy of my newest published book, Now What? 5 Steps to Get Up and Make the Most of Life. Released in January 2023. This is a digital preview copy for the listeners and host. 

Electric Vehicles continue to develop as more and more people get on the EV bandwagon.  New is good, new with warranty is better!  What happens then?  How and who can work on an EV?Our special guest, Hugh Man from Houston Community College Automotive progam is joining us today on In Wheel Time Car Talk! He's here to discuss their innovative EV curriculum, designed to train technicians on safety practices to work on an EV, as well as evaluating, maintaining, and repairing hybrid and electric vehicles.  There will also be an open house for the automotive program on June 10, 2023 that is open to the public.It is all part of the rapidly-growing EV industry.In our feature segment, Jeff Dziekan looks at a journey across America, exploring some of the most iconic roads, like California's Pacific Coast Highway 1 and the legendary Route 66.  All this and more on this episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk!---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeart Radio! Just go to iheart.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on iHeart Radio, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeart Radio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk

Jennifer Guajardo is a multidisciplinary artist whose art reflects an appreciation and love for wildlife. She has studied at Houston Community College, the University of Houston, and American International University and taught art to elementary school aged children for twelve years prior to becoming a full time working artist. Jennifer has exhibited her art and has received many awards. She and her family live in Houston, Texas.

Looking forward to speaking with Ahmard Vital on the Coaching Call season 5 episode 4, he is a Motivational consultant, international speaker, and author Ahmard has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. Ahmard provides his audiences with the tools needed to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence. After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies, and organizations worldwide. In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League. Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking, or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston. If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe and leave a short review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen?  It takes less than 60 seconds and it really helps. All of season 5 will be on Rumble: ⁠⁠⁠https://rumble.com/user/sifurafael⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-call/id1546026323⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please leave a star rating and a review here Follow Coaching Call: Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/coachingcall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: instagram.com/coachingcall Email: maxfitness@optonline.net LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/maxfitness⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@coachingcall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to watch the full interview. To donate go to: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sifuRafael⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ select friends and family, thanks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coachingcall/message

In this episode we explore the creative mind of Jenny Waldo, a Houston based film director, writer and producer. She is also a film professor at Houston Community College. Jenny shares all the juicy advice she would have wanted to hear when she started her career as a film director. She emphasizes how life experience really helps while creating new stories and how enriching it is for her to have produced other people's work and nowadays being part of helping her students to find their voice and understand what goes into filmmaking.Jenny Waldo got her start in the documentary/educational industry of her hometown, Washington, DC. Over the years, Jenny produced various scripted and documentary short films as well as writing and directing her own award-winning scripted projects. Her short film, Acid Test, based on Jenny's own tumble through self-discovery as a 1990's Riot Grrrl, was screened at festivals all over the world in 2022, with great reviews and transformed later into her debut feature film. Jenny also reminds the audience to have in mind that as a filmmaker and writer-director, the goal is to communicate something, a feeling, an idea or a character, and every decision we take has to be based on that. We also talked about the next challenge of distribution, projecting and making the necessary plans to enter the films into festivals and then the whole networking that comes with festivals.Waldo´s producing credits include the indie feature The Preacher's Daughter which sold to Lifetime , and the feature documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing. Her next project in development is also based on a true story: Martha's Mustang.You can find out about future screenings of Acid Test or just the development of it and in which platforms it is being screened, at www.acidtestfilm.comAlso at her professional website www.jennywaldo.com you'll find a tab for Martha's Mustang with updated info. You can follow Jenny Waldo on social media as Jenny Waldo on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.**Visit www.nickymondellini.com/podcast and download the ebook “Learn to handle the NOs of the industry” for free, and subscribe to receive La Pizarra's monthly newsletter with news about new episodes and various resources for the best development of your artistic career*Squadcast is the best platform to record your podcast or virtual meetings with up to nine guests with professional sound quality. You can download your audio files already mastered with Dolby sound.Choose your membership level after trying it free for seven days at: https://squadcast.fm/?ref=lapizarra *Canva Pro has thousands of templates and images to bring your creations to life, now you can use the calendar to plan the posts you want for the entire month, plus all the tools to create any type of project. Try it free for 30 days at: https://partner.com/canva/lapizarra Don't forget to subscribe to La Pizarra to have access to all the episodes, download them and share them on social networks, your comments are well received too!** Visit https://www.nickymondellini.com to learn about the work of actress, host and broadcaster Nicky Mondellini.Nicky Mondellini is an artist of international stature with more than thirty years of artistic career, her voice is heard in commercials on television, radio and digital platforms worldwide. She is the host and producer of La Pizarra with Nicky Mondellini since 2020.Her work as an actress includes more than twelve telenovelas, several classical and contemporary Spanish plays, short and feature films, and the hosting of morning shows in Mexico and the United States, as well as image commercials, and advertising and corporate videos.Follow Nicky on:Instagram @nickymondelliniTwitter @nicky3ch_nickyFacebook https://www.facebook.com/nickymondellinivoiceover LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/nickymondellinivoiceover 

Hi there, Episode 100, woohoo!!! Today I am honored to be arts calling Alvaro Saar Rios and Mabelle Reynoso! Alvaro Saar Rios is a Texican playwright living in Chicago. His plays have been performed in New York City, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee and all over Texas. He has received playwriting commissions from various organizations, including Kennedy Center, Chicago Children's Theatre, First Stage, Houston Grand Opera, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Purple Rose Theatre Company, Houston Community College, Zoological Society of Milwaukee and Omaha's Rose Theater. His award-winning play Luchadora! is published by Dramatic Publishing Inc. Other plays include On The Wings of a Mariposa, Unmuted, Bienvenidos a Milwaukee/Welcome to Milwaukee, and Carmela Full of Wishes. Alvaro holds an MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen from Northwestern University. He is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and Playwright-InResidence at Milwaukee's First Stage. Alvaro is a proud veteran of the US Army and an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. https://www.alvarosaarrios.com Twitter & Instagram: @realCrazyMex Sign up for Alvaro's newsletter, El Chisme here: http://eepurl.com/hKLScn -- Mabelle Reynoso (she/her/ella) is a multidisciplinary storyteller who has devoted her artistic career to building connections in communities through storytelling. Mabelle is a two-time winner of the California Young Playwrights contest ("Santa Does a Mitzvah"; "Dreaming Pancho Villa"). Since 2004, Mabelle has been a teaching artist for the nonprofit arts education organization Playwrights Project. Her own art is largely informed by her work with underserved and marginalized populations, including Spanish-speaking immigrants, expectant teens, foster youth, and justice-involved youth and adults. Mabelle's recent playwriting commissions include Olympia Family Theatre (The Secret Garden, 2022), TuYo Theatre (Mercado de Miedo, 2022), and San Diego Symphony (Noel Noel 2022). She is a recipient of the 2021 ReImagine: New Plays in TYA grant for her play, "¡Lotería: Game On!" sponsored by Write Now, The Kennedy Center, and the Children's Theatre Fund of America. Her play “The Scariest Movie”, co-authored with her 11-year-old son, was published by Dramatic Publishing Inc. in the anthology “I Have a Story” (2021). Her play "The Sunset Tour" was the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) 2022 Playwrights for Change winner and will be published in the forthcoming Best Plays of 2023 by Smith & Krauss. In addition, Mabelle is a member of TuYo Theatre where she leads Pa' Letras, a workshop for emerging Latinx playwrights. She has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University, University of San Diego, and Southwestern College, and has presented at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the National Latinx Writers Gathering, and the William Inge Theatre Festival. Mabelle also co-hosts the podcast Hey Playwright. She has a BFA from New York University, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Education for Social Justice at the University of San Diego. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, TYA/USA, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Mabelle was proudly born in Tijuana, Mexico. Stop what you're doing and go listen to Hey Playwright! Mabelle's incredible podcast with Tori Rice! https://heyplaywright.com/ "Theatre is for all of us." "Theatre is going back to its roots, smaller, portable, effective." Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent: much love, j https://artscalling.com/welcome/

HOW DO SPORTS IMPACT OTHER AREAS OF LIFE? On this episode we are joined by Ahmard Vital. Ahmard is a motivational consultant, international speaker, and author. He is actively facilitating programs that he has developed supporting youth, primarily teens. On this episode we discuss: Awakening the Baller Within Impact of sports and their life applications Questions to ask yourself in difficult times For places to listen, places to connect on social media, to be a guest, collaborate with or sponsor DTE visit: https://linktr.ee/DisruptTheEveryday Ahmard's website: https://ahmardvital.com/ About Ahmard Motivational consultant, international speaker, and author Ahmard Vital has empowered people globally with his inspirational guidance and tips for self-development. Ahmard provides his audiences with the tools needed to achieve personal success, utilize willpower and determination, and develop strategies that will allow people of all ages to achieve personal and professional excellence. After nearly a decade of studying the performance habits of high achieving athletes, Ahmard has developed programs of inspiration and motivation that are beneficial to individuals, professionals, companies, and organizations worldwide. In 2011, Ahmard published Awaken the Baller Within, which was quickly labeled as the “athlete's life manual” by some pundits in sports media. This book was taught in more than a dozen colleges and close to fifty athletic departments and sports camps. As a mental performance coach, Ahmard helped secure more than $6 million dollars in scholarship monies and worked with athletes at the Division I level and the National Football League. Not long after a successful career as a college football recruiting analyst with Scout.com, a Fox Sports affiliate, Ahmard founded That Guy Media Group and expanded his platform to small business and nonprofit organizations where he focused on dream building, goal setting, and a relentless pursuit of the aforementioned. By teaching his audiences to recognize their strengths, and capitalize on the power that everyone harnesses within, individuals can realize previously unimagined levels of personal happiness and success. Ahmard is becoming one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world, working in countries like Zambia and Abu Dhabi (UAE). In the United States, he's inspired professionals at companies like the Boys and Girls Club, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the Salvation Army. His college clients include Prairie View A&M, Houston Community College and West Texas A&M. He published his second book, I Am More Than Enough, in April 2019 to address many of his clients' confidence challenges in their personal and professional lives. When Ahmard is not traveling, speaking, or writing, he works as a humanitarian and teen ministry leader, volunteering his time to inspire youth to envision their futures beyond their challenges and circumstances. He is also an avid reader and fitness coach, teaching cycling classes in North Houston.

Raychell Penns is a wife, mother of four sons, serial entrepreneur, author, podcaster, and strategy coach. Raychell Penns was chosen by Goldman Sachs to be in their 10,000 Small Business Program, where she received a certificate of completion from Houston Community College's 10,000 Small Businesses Program. Raychell Penns is mentioned in a book written by Corrona Jones. Corona wrote about Raychell's journey to success in order to encourage single moms and inspire entrepreneurs. Raychell was honored by a Phi Iota Zeta Chapter at the Finer Womanhood Brunch 2015. Raychell is the creator of the Vision Board MANIFESTION Planner. She believes if you can dream it, you can achieve it with a plan. She strongly believes that with God all things are possible. Connect W/ Raychell: http://www.raychellpenns.com/ Underdawg Talk Merch: Christiandejuan.com Promo code: #underdawgtalk 15% Off

On this episode of "In the Know", ACCT's Andy Laine sits down with career lawyer, Ira Shepard to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in the Houston Community College vs. Wilson case. With very little precedent for cases dealing with the function of a community college board, we'll pinpoint the ruling's significance and how it may affect board member relations moving forward.

In this episode of Career Can Do, Mary Ann Faremouth chats with Timothy Walker, experienced career advisor and Instructor of Computer Networking and Telecommunications at Houston Community College. Timothy's experience in the higher education industry and strong community and social services skills equip him to help people navigate the unique challenges of the new work world. Timothy shares how Houston Community College is doing just that. The tumultuous nature of recent years has left many struggling to keep their heads above water, especially in the global workspace. Almost every industry has undergone changes to their operations. With these changes come new demands - demands which may no longer be satisfied with traditional methods of education. Houston Community College offers a variety of programs to help students prepare for the new work world, including certificates, degrees, and virtual internships. Their professors are highly committed to their students, providing excellent and relevant training, as well as support.  To nurture flexibility and the ability to adapt to future changes, Houston Community College keeps an eye on developments in various industries. This is where traditional education has always been lacking, Timothy comments. Traditional education has historically always lagged behind industry. Resources Faremouth.com

Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced independent educational consultant? MEET OUR GUEST Ibrahim Firat has been an IEC for 17 years. His recent positions include entrepreneurship instructor at Babson College, lead faculty for Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses program, professor at Houston Community College, Head of School for Nexus Futbol Academy, an all boys' independent soccer school for 4th-8th graders, and chief business growth consultant for the Firat Group. Firat holds an MBA and a BA in history from the University of St Thomas (TX) and a Certificate of Entrepreneurship from Babson College. He is a member of IECA, NACAC, TACAC, and IACAC. For eight years, he has authored The Firat Guide for Private High School Admissions and The Firat Guide for Private School Admissions. He also appears regularly on local and national news outlets discussing matters related to education, college admissions, and testing. Firat currently serves as the president of the IECA's board of directors and previously served as its secretary/treasurer, vice chair of College Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. In addition, he served as a board member and VP of the board of directors for the iWrite Literacy Organization. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Firat went through the college application process as an international student when he was 17 years old, and that process inspired the work he is doing now. Firat specializes in college consulting. Find Ibrahim at ibrahim@firateducation.com or on LinkedIn. ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.

Matt is joined by John Huntington, author of Far-Right Vanguard, which chronicles the history of what he calls the "ultraconservative" movement, its national network, its influence on Republican Party politics, and its centrality to America's rightward turn during the second half of the twentieth century.John is a history professor at Houston Community College.Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this bonus episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy

Emma hosts John S. Huntington, professor of history at Houston Community College, to discuss his recent book Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism. First, Emma covers Yesterday's SCOTUS ruling that protects federal law enforcement from civil rights lawsuits, the ACLU challenges Greg Abbott's directive to investigate the parents of trans kids, and the haunting reflections from Miah Cerrillo in the wake of surviving the Uvalde shooting. Professor John S. Huntington then joins as he and Emma unpack the gap in academia that inspired his project, choosing to look all the way back to the outset of the 20th Century for the origins of modern conservatism, rather than starting from Nixon, Reagan, and the birth of neoliberalism, discussing the groundswells of radical conspiracy theorists, white supremacy, and anti-communism that now define the contemporary right. Jumping back to the start of the 1900s, Professor Huntington and Emma contextualize the state of the two-party system as one with both conservatives and liberals on both wings, a form of US politics that is extinct today, leading up until the 1920s which saw a rebirth of the nativism and racism of the previous century with the second coming of the KKK and the release of Birth of a Nation, seeing Klansmen suddenly strewn throughout US society, from corporations to Congress, and building up through the 1930s, setting the groundwork for a coalition against FDR's New Deal democracy made up of businessmen, segregationists, and anti-communism conspirators. Emma and John then dive into the decentralized element of this conservative network, walking through the genuinely fascistic Klan supporters who wanted a renaissance of a white Christian America in contrast with the Jeffersonian Democrats who simply wanted to rescue their party from the commie that was FDR, with anti-communism as an easy rhetorical connection tieing them together against their enemies. After a discussion on the role of the first era of the red scare in setting up this rhetoric, Emma and Prof. Huntington dive deeper into the Jeffersonian Democrats' founder James Reed, as well as figures like J. Evetts Haley, Robert Welsch, and William F. Buckley as the innovators of the conservative movement, from the anti-communism of the early 1900s to the neoliberalism of Nixon and Reagan, funneled through organizations like Buckley's John Birch Society, and working to paint a picture of a “respectable” far-right that is different from the conspiracy kooks, who just happen to share the same policy ideas. This brings them to the era where academics tends to start their study, with the rhetorical shift to dog-whistle politics that occurs with the transition to neoliberalism under Nixon and in the wake of Goldwater's rise, before they wrap up the interview by diving into the state of the two parties today, and discuss why conservatism has had so much more success in ingraining their talking points in political discourse, and pushing their fundamentalist policy as the baseline of acceptability. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon as they cover Senators Lummis and Gillibrand deciding that NOW (in the wake of multiple massive crypto crashes) is the time to endorse Americans putting their retirement savings on the blockchain, Jack Del Rio claims 1/6 to be a “dust-up,” and Emma goes in on the exploitation of college sports. Devin from Alberta calls in to distill the idea of laying claim to right-wing claimed “space” to trigger the conservatives, Jay Z and Dorsey open a bitcoin academy (more similar to Trump University than any educational institution), and Kyle Rittenhouse sees little killers like himself facing backlash all across the US (presumably from Buffalo to Uvalde). Justin from Augusta discusses the Bill of Rights as inherently reactionary, Abby Martin takes on Sec. Blinken as he proclaims his support for Saudi Arabia and Israel at a freedom of the press conference, and Dennis Prager comes out as a baby-hater (those tiny-toed narcissists!) Emma and Matt discuss being called “groomers” by those that support pedophiles, plus, your calls and IMs! 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Last week the Supreme Court handed down two nearly unanimous decisions in cases involving the First Amendment. One was an 8-1 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts in Ramirez v. Collier, in which the Court sided with a death row inmate who claimed he had the right to have the religious leader of his choice touch him and pray audibly for him in the execution chamber. The other opinion was 9-0 in Houston Community College v. Wilson, where the Court held that a legislative censure issued by a community college board did not violate the free speech rights of the respondent, another trustee on the board, in an opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch. First Amendment experts Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School and Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law join host Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the opinions' impact on how we interpret and understand religious freedom and freedom of speech in America. The National Constitution Center relies on support from listeners like you to provide nonpartisan constitutional education to Americans of all ages. Visit www.constitutioncenter.org/we-the-people to donate, and thank you for your crucial support. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.