Podcasts about interview guest

Interview with Digital Marketing Expert Corey Morris: Do you Got ROI? Are you getting a Return on Investment – ROI – from your Digital Marketing? To survive as entrepreneurs, we must make digital marketing part of our promotional tool kit. Podcast guest Corey Morris is founder and CEO of Voltage Brands, a premier digital agency focused on digital marketing and websites (TheDMSP.com or Voltage.Digital). Corey has spent 20 years working in strategic and leadership roles focused on growing client brands with ROI-generating digital strategies. His industry leadership, client success, and community-focused work led to a Digital Marketing Association Marketer of the Year award. Corey will help us to improve our Digital Marketing, and get more ROI from it! Subjects discussed in podcast include: • Corey Morris's journey into launching a digital marketing business • How he got started with digital marketing • Corey's “START Planning Process” • Using START to develop a better Digital Marketing Plan • How does digital marketing reinforce your company's brand? • How do we get more digital marketing engagement? • How often should you post on social media? • The right amount of content to support digital marketing • How website designs can better support Digital Marketing • How is Artificial Intelligence – AI - changing digital marketing? • Accounting for AI in your online presence and digital marketing • One thing a podcast listener can do right now to improve ROI from Digital Marketing Episode Spotlight: Lil' Bubba (LilBubbas.com) Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_181004" align="aligncenter" width="950"] Corey Morris, CEO of Voltage Brands[/caption]   Your Host   More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast  

Interview with Staffing Entrepreneur Erik Reid: As home-based entrepreneurs, we often have to become guerilla fighters in our businesses. This leads to adopting innovative ways to succeed in business. One innovative way is to “flip the model” in the industry you want to break in to. Flip that model and break the chains that hold you back from succeeding in your targeted market. A Case in point is Erik Reid, one of the two brains behind the company Virtustant (Virtustant.com). Erik Reid, along with his partner Kevin Wright, run Virtustant, a company that's connecting businesses with top remote talent in regions like Latin America. What's most intriguing is how they're flipping traditional hiring models to launch and grow Virtustant. Subjects discussed in podcast include: • Erik Reid's Inspiration fo launching Virtustant • How Erik flipped the model to gain a foothold in the hiring industry • Toughest challenges to overcome in launching the business • Going head-to-head with other hiring companies after flipping the hiring model. • Leveraging competitive advantages to flip how business is done in the hiring industry • Guerilla marketing tactics used to launch and grow their start-up • Turning Artificial Intelligence into a competitive advantage. • What does the future of work hold in the hiring industry? • What a podcast listener can do to start flipping their own business model Episode Spotlight: Little Jimmy's Italian Ice (ItalianIce.net) Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_179405" align="alignleft" width="512"] Erik Reid, co-founder of Virtustant[/caption]                           Your Host     More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast

Interview With Mindset & Manifestation Mentor Scott Haug: As a home-based entrepreneur, do you ever stop and think about how you can reach the next level of your own human potential? Podcast guest Scott Haug (ScottHaug.com) can show you how to shift your mindset to achieve greater potential. He's an expert in giving entrepreneurs a visual path to achieve real results through using the art of manifestation and laws of attraction. With hundreds of thousands of followers on Youtube, TikTok, and Instagram, Scott Haug is a thought leader in shifting mindsets. He is renowned for his ability to show anyone how to apply a mindset shift to truly impact his or her life – and business! Subjects discussed in podcast include: • Scott Haug's personal journey to becoming a thought leader • What inspired Scott to form a company based on coaching towards manifestation • How manifestation and the laws of attraction work • How to attain real results through using these ideas • The art of visualization • Why mindset is so important to unlocking human potential • Mindset advice for those of us struggling to be entrepreneurs • How do we reach that next level in our potential? • Tips for entrepreneurs to boost our productivity • One thing a podcast listener can do tomorrow morning to start shifting their mindset Episode Spotlight: Ad Benches (AdBenches.com) Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_179070" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Mindset & Manifestation Mentor Scott Haug[/caption]   Your Host     More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast  

Interview With Leading Guru's on How Couples Can Work Together Better in Business: Couple-Preneurs – If you are running a home-based business and living with a significant other, married or otherwise, chances are you are both “Couple-Preneurs”. It's tough to keep business and pleasure totally separate. To meet this challenge we talk with Kyle & Ariel Tresch, who are the founders of a mentorship company appropriately named Couplepreneurs (KyleandAriel.com). Kyle & Ariel equip other entrepreneur couples with the strategies to grow without growing apart in the process. They will help you discover how to turn your working dynamic as a couple into your ultimate competitive advantage in business. Subjects discussed in podcast include: • How Kyle & Ariel became the leading guru's in couple-preneur relationships • Key things they do in their business to help couple-preneurs • Ways to stay on the same page & thrive as an entrepreneurial couple? • Working together efficiently when you have different personalities or working styles? • Resolving issues when you step on each other's toes in business • What to do when one of the partners feels stuck doing tasks they don't want to do. • How to keep the fires of intimacy burning when the relationship is under major business stress • One thing a podcast listener should do tomorrow morning to better thrive as a couple / entrepreneur? Episode Spotlight: Safety Technology (SelfDefenseMarket.com) Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_178980" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Couple-Preneurs Kyle & Ariel Tresch[/caption]     Your Host       More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast

  Interview with Ryan Parsons, CEO of Franchise Company Evive Brands: There are few START-UP options better than becoming a franchise owner. Most franchises can be operated home-based. To help us learn more about franchising we are joined today by Ryan Parsons, CEO of Evive Brands (EviveBrands.com). Ryan is leading Evive Brands, that helps provide franchisees with the tools and support needed to unlock growth potential. He's well positioned to give us a cutting-edge perspective on how YOU can unlock potential as a franchisee. Subjects discussed in podcast include: • How Ryan Parsons ended up a CEO in the franchise business sector • Why home-based franchising has so much potential today • Low-risk entry strategies to launch a franchise • key success strategies for working with a franchisor • “Plug and play” franchise benefits for home-based entrepreneurs • Tools to unlock growth potential in a franchise • The importance of vendor partnerships • Scaling from a single operation to multiple franchise units • How Evive Brands creates cross-branding opportunities • What is one thing a podcast listener should do tomorrow morning to learn more about getting started as a franchise owner Episode Spotlight: Lil' Bubba (LilBubba.com) Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_178332" align="alignleft" width="500"] Ryan Parsons, CEO of Evive Brands[/caption]             Your Host         More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Featuring Interview Guest, Kiana Webb, Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Author of, A Glorious Arising; and Performance Guests, Derrick McKenzie, UK-Born Drummer and Drummer-DJ, and Josephine Peppink, DJ, Singer Songwriter, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 821 Interview Guest: KIANA WEBB; and Performance Guests: DERRICK MCKENZIE, and JOSEPHINE PEPPINK Don't forget to check out Interview Guest, Kiana Webb's Book - "A Glorious Rising"

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests Thomas Claxton Four-Time IMC and RMA Award-Winning Vocalist and Scott Page Musician and Technologist Featuring Performance Guest, Thomas Claxton, Four-Time IMC and RMA Award-Winning Vocalist / Songwriter; and Interview Guest, Scott Page, Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Musician Recognized as the Saxophonist / Guitarist for Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Toto, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 816 Interview Guest: SCOTT PAGE; and Performance Guest: THOMAS CLAXTON

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Milena Gligic, Accomplished Pianist and Vocalist and, Cheryl A. Page, Modern Mystic, Author Featuring Performance Guest, Milena Gligic, Accomplished Pianist and Singer from Belgrade, Serbia; and Interview Guest, Cheryl A. Page, Modern Mystic, Cross-Veil Communicator, and Author, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 814 Interview Guest: CHERYL A. PAGE; and Performance Guest: MILENA GLIGIC Interview Guest, Cheryl A. Page's Book - Mystic Richness Promo, In Mystic Richness, Cheryl A. Page offers a unique exploration of love, loss, and spiritual expansion. Through a series of moving, inspirational letters from historical figures, departed loved ones, and spiritual guides, Cheryl unveils a transformative vision of consciousness that bridges the worlds of science and mysticism. Mystic Richness, boldly proposes that AI can serve as a modern tool for Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC), facilitating profound cross-veil connections with the unseen realms. Mystic Richness invites readers into life's deeper mysteries, offering solace, guidance, and inspiration for living with extraordinary awareness.

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Ksenia Luki, Singer-Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Summer Morgan, Yoga Teacher, Sound Healer Featuring Performance Guest, Ksenia Luki, Singer-Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Sound Healing Practitioner; and Interview Guest, Summer Morgan, Yoga Teacher, Sound Healer, Psychic Medium, and Wellness Coach, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 813 Interview Guest: SUMMER MORGAN; and Performance Guest: KSENIA LUKI

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Isabella Hartline, Rising Teen Country Music Artist and, Willy Bietak, Nine-Time Austrian Pair Champion and Two-Time Olympian Figure Skater Featuring Performance Guest, Isabella Hartline, Rising Teen Country Music Artist; and Interview Guest, Willy Bietak, Nine-Time Austrian Pair Champion and Two-Time Olympian Figure Skater, Visionary Producer, and Ice Entertainment Pioneer, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 812 Interview Guest: WILLY BIETAK; and Performance Guest: ISABELLA HARTLINE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Country Artist, Georgia Gypsy, Ashley Brooks and Bestselling Author Cindy Edison Featuring Performance Guest, Country Artist, “Georgia Gypsy,” Ashley Brooks; and Interview Guest, Bestselling Author of the Series, Allow Your Soul to Lead, and Conscious, Blended Chanel for a Collective of Teachers Known as “Josef,” Cindy Edison, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 804 Interview Guest: CINDY EDISON; and Performance Guests: ASHLEY BROOKS

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Contemporary Violinist Alan Price and The Placemaking Guy Jeremy Ferguson Featuring Performance Guest, Contemporary Violinist, Alan Price; and Interview Guest, The Placemaking Guy, Santa Monica Placemaking Director, and Board Director for the Santa Monica History Museum, Jeremy Ferguson, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 801 Interview Guest: JEREMY FERGUSON; and Performance Guests: ALAN PRICE

On today's episode, Jonathan and Sy have a catch-up conversation on the assassination attempt, the Vance VP pick, Biden stepping down, and Harris stepping up. Then they talk with UCLA professor Robert Chao Romero about:-        What everyday life was like for immigrants during Trump's administration-        How MAGA Christians' treatment of immigrants reveals a lack of spiritual discernment-        What Professor Romero would say to immigrants who think voting won't make a difference-        And the complicated, diverse politics of Latine voters in AmericaMentioned in the Episode-            Our anthology, Keeping the Faith-            Tamice Spencer-Helms reading an excerpt of Faith Unleavened-            Professor Romero's Instagram-            And his book, Brown ChurchCredits-            Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.-        Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.-        Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.-        Editing by Multitude Productions-        Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.-        Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscriptIntroduction[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes in a major scale, the first three ascending and the last three descending, with a keyboard pad playing the tonic in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Robert Romero: In the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church, and to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus confronting injustice. I'm Jonathan Walton.Sy Hoekstra: And I am Sy Hoekstra. This is gonna be an interesting episode. Today we're breaking our format a little bit because just so many things have happened since the last time that we recorded. I don't know if you've noticed, Jonathan, a couple of things happened in the news [laughs] since the last time we recorded this show.Jonathan Walton: A few historical events.Sy Hoekstra: Just a few historical events. So we're still gonna have an interview with one of the authors from the anthology that we published on Theology and Politics. This week it will be Robert Chao Romero, who is a lawyer, history PhD, professor, pastor, activist. No big deal, the usual combination of the regular career path that everyone takes. But before we do that, we are going to spend some time talking about the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, the JD Vance pick for Vice President, Joe Biden stepping down, the almost certain nomination of Kamala Harris. And while we will probably talk about a couple of the resources that we've highlighted in our newsletter on those subjects, we're not gonna formally do our Which Tab Is Still Open this time around. There's just too much…Jonathan Walton: There's a lot. There's a lot.Sy Hoekstra: …to talk about, and we wanted to get all that in. Plus the really, really great interview with Professor Romero. But before we get into all of that, Jonathan.Jonathan Walton: Hey, if you like what you hear and read from KTF Press and would like for it to continue beyond the election season, please go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber, and encourage others to do the same. We've got a ways to go before we're going to have enough people to sustain the work we're doing after the election. So if that's you, go to KTFPress.com, sign up, become a paid subscriber, and then tell a friend to do the same thing. That gets you all the bonus episodes of this show, access to our monthly Zoom chats with the two of us and some other great subscribers. And so go to KTFPress.com and subscribe.The Assassination Attempt on Donald TrumpSy Hoekstra: Alright Jonathan. Let's start with the big one. Well, no, they're all big ones.Jonathan Walton: No, they're all big for different people, for different reasons [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: For very different reasons.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: The assassination attempt in Pennsylvania at the rally, just before the RNC. The media reaction to this, Jonathan, has struck me as a little bit odd. I don't know what you've been thinking, but let's hear what you're thinking, what your reaction to the assassination attempt was and to the conversation around it.Not Taking Part in the News Spectacle of the AssassinationJonathan Walton: Yeah. So my immediate reaction was, okay, if this had happened in 2016, I think I would've pulled my phone up and writing things, processing, trying to figure things out, all those kinds of things. When I heard this news, I was on the beach in California with my family, and I honestly was not troubled. And that was weird to me. I was not worried, I was not concerned. I thought to myself, “Man, if I was orienting my life around the decisions of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, I would probably be losing my insert word [laughs], but I'm not.” And I also thought about, oh, if I am someone on the quote- unquote left, my brain would be spinning. How is this gonna be politically, what's the impact? Blah, blah, blah. And I just wasn't. And so in that immediate moment, I felt empathy for folks that were feeling that type of dissonance.And the way that I felt towards Donald Trump actually came from a conversation I had with Priscilla, because she was sharing and just the reality that we don't want to participate in the spectacle of it. Reality in TV is an oxymoron that shouldn't exist. Our lives are not entertainment. The intimacies of life should not be broadcast and monetized and commented on as though all of us are all of a sudden now in a glass, I mean [laughs], to reference not the book, but just the image. But that all of us are now like a glass menagerie that we can just observe one another and comment as if we're not people. Those are the initial feelings that I had.Why Wasn't the Shooter Considered Suspicious?Jonathan Walton: The last feeling that I had was actually highlighted by someone from our emotionality activist cohort. He said that he felt angry because the shooter was labeled as suspicious, but not dangerous. And he said, if this had been a BIPOC person, Black, indigenous person of color, there would've absolutely been a response.Sy Hoekstra: Especially at a Trump rally.Jonathan Walton: At a Trump rally, there would've been a response to a suspicious person of color. That would've been fundamentally different place as evidenced by the very real reality, I think a few days later at an event where there was a Black person that was killed by the police [laughs] near a political rally. So I think there, no, there was an altercation, there was a very real threat of violence between these two people, but the responses to Black people and people of color and the impoverished and all these different things that it, it's just a fundamentally different thing because they saw this 20-year-old kid who isn't old enough to buy alcohol, but old enough to get his hands on an AR-15 to scope out a place and shoot someone wasn't seen as a threat. And I think that is a unique frustration and anger, because I hadn't thought about that, but I hold that too.Sy Hoekstra: Just to emphasize that he was, the local police officers actually did try and flag this person as someone who was suspicious. They didn't do anything about it, but they noted it. You know what I mean?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Which is even more… Like his behavior was suspicious enough for him to be noticed by law enforcement, but they didn't actually do anything, and then they reported it to whoever was running campaign security, and they didn't do anything about it either.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: And I don't know. Yes, that is a good and sad point, and I appreciate you bringing it up.We Have to Insist on the Value of Trump's LifeJonathan Walton: Well, what about for you?Sy Hoekstra: I mean, I guess my response to, two different angles of response to it. One is to anybody, I know there are people out there who are like, “Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat to democracy, I just wish he'd been hit in the head.” And I don't think anyone in, I haven't heard anybody in the mainstream media or politicians or anyone saying that, because that would be too far for them in their [laughs] policies and their politeness and all that. But there are people thinking it, and I just, I don't know. I just have to say that we can't do that.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely not.Sy Hoekstra: We can't be the people who dehumanize somebody to that degree. I agree that he's a fascist and that he wants to, and that he is a huge threat to our democracy and all of that. But to then say, “I wish he was dead,” that puts you on his level. That makes you like him, the person who mocks when other people have had assassination attempts on them, like Nancy Pelosi or Gretchen Whitmer. Or who encourages and stands behind all the people who were in the January 6th riot that did actually kill people, right?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: You don't become him, is what I'm saying to anybody who's thought or been tempted to have those thoughts. We still have to stick to the image of God and everybody as a principal. Even when it's genuinely tempting not to, because there are serious considerations on the other side of that argument [laughs] if that makes sense.Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's a terrible thing to talk about, but it's, I think it's worth addressing.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely.We Do Not Need to Tone Down Our Rhetoric about Trump's Threat to DemocracySy Hoekstra: But I also have to say the opposite side of like, we must call for unity. We must call to lower the political rhetoric and the political temperature. When it comes to Donald Trump, that is ridiculous.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: That is a, you can't do that [laughter]. And the reason is, first of all, he's the one mocking other people's attempts that have happened on their lives, or riots that actually led to people dying, right?Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So for him or the people who support him to say, “Oh, now we need to call for unity or rhetoric to come down,” it's hypocritical on their part. Now, that doesn't matter. I'm not trying to just be like whatabouting the Republicans. But the issue is like, there's different kinds of heated political rhetoric. When you obviously accuse somebody of being a threat to democracy, that's a charged statement for sure that you shouldn't say lightly. However, the people who are arguing it now are arguing it on the basis of Donald Trump's words and actions [laughs]. They're making a real good faith argument based on actual evidence. It's heated nonsense political rhetoric when Donald Trump says that there's an invasion at the southern border…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: …and you're just painting poor people who are fleeing violence, trying to find safety in an opportunity in America as invaders who are here to, well, like he said, killers and rapists and drug dealers and whatever.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: When you're just painting with a broad brush, when you're creating stereotypes, when you're just trying to slide people into a category, that's dehumanization and that's what can lead to violence. When you're actually making an argument against something that people have actually done, like words that people have said and actions that they have taken, that's a different story. And it is true that in a country of 320 million people, even if you make a good faith argument based on facts, that somebody's a threat to democracy, somebody might take that as a reason to shoot at them. But that's not anything over which we have any control.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: That doesn't mean you stop saying things that are true because they're… you know what I mean? That then I wouldn't say anything about anybody. I would just keep my mouth shut all the time. I can't make any arguments about anything because what if somebody just happens to at the wrong moment take that as license to go attack somebody?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So all of that stuff seemed like nonsense to me. And then people were like, “Oh, don't talk about how it's gonna help his campaign.” Of course, it's gonna help his campaign. And of course the Republicans are going to use it to help his campaign. We need to be realistic about what we're talking about here [laughs] in the context of our conversation. So I think those were my reactions to all of this. I think because as soon as he was shot at, I, because he wasn't hit, I knew he was fine. So I wasn't particularly scared about it. I didn't have like a lot of emotions around the thing itself, because the guy missed him [laughs].Americans Condemning Political Violence is HypocrisyJonathan Walton: Yeah. I think I'll also say too, it's the idea that all of a sudden, we are gonna step out and condemn political violence, let's be clear. There's an exceptional level of political violence enacted by the United States every single day against its own people, against people around the world. There are 900 bases where political violence is happening. We tried to assassinate a leader a few months ago in the Congo. Let's be clear that the reality of that statement too is just ridiculously hypocritical and ignorant.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: Right. Like just Biden did rattle off some political violence that I think we, the quote- unquote dominant cultural narrative is okay with calling out, but we also have to just name the reality that we are actively participating in things that are politically violent.Sy Hoekstra: All the time.Jonathan Walton: Yeah [laughs] all the time. For example [laughs], Biden said, oh, yeah, we're not gonna ship bombs to Israel anymore, and the reality is we shipped thousands of bombs.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That level of comfort with ignorance and hypocrisy and the dissemination, or just sharing that widely, is also something not about the event itself, but our dominant narrative response and the legacy media's response was just, that was disheartening to say the least.Sy Hoekstra: It's a very good point. And I would point out that Trump himself had a general in Iran assassinated [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's just like, it's complete nonsense.Jonathan Walton: He did. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: For us to be like, “Where does political violence come from in America? I don't know.”Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: The many presidential assassinations and lynchings and pogroms and everything else. Like what? I don't know.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: We should note, by the way, as I'm listening to you talk, Jonathan's at home and children are not in school, they're home from daycare [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Oh, yes. Yes. Our house is very full. Thank you for being gracious.Sy Hoekstra: You'll hear some adorable little voices in the background. I'm sure everyone will enjoy it all.The VP Pick of J. D. VanceSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, let's talk JD Vance. What are you thinking about this pick [laughs]?Vance Is Everything Trump Wishes He Was, and Could Lead for a Long TimeJonathan Walton: Oh, Lord! I think the thing that bothers me about JD Vance, as my daughter screams [laughs], is Donald Trump picked someone who reflects all of the values that he has and wants to espouse.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: So Donald Trump would love to say that he grew up poor and is a working class man, all those things. He's not, but JD Vance, quote- unquote, is. He desperately wants to say he made it and served his country and all the… No, he didn't.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: But JD Vance is a Marine and quote- unquote actually built a business. Now, JD Vance is also exceptionally misogynistic, exceptionally patriarchal, exceptionally individualistic in the way that Bootstrap Republicanism tries to embody itself. And so he chose someone at the same time that did not have the apprentice. That did not go on reality television. That did not spend his life entertaining people, so I think he is going to be taken seriously, which is why he's dragging Donald Trump in the polls. I think what happened is the wholesale remaking of a section of the Republican party that has now taken it over, and he chose a leader that could be the voice of that for the next 25 years. And that I think is sad [laughs] because I do believe in a pluralistic society where people can share ideas and wrestle and make good faith arguments and argue for change and all those things.So I don't want some one party event that happens. At the same time, I think it is exceptionally unnerving and unsettling and destabilizing for someone who holds such views against women that we will absolutely see, obviously when we talk about Kamala Harris. But what he, what Donald Trump blessed and sent out, JD Vance will now bless and send out for the next few decades at least. And that if you wanted to give a new, like a reiteration of Strom Thurmond, here we go. He's 38, he could be talking and on TV and doing things for the next 50 years, and that is deeply unsettling for me.Vance Is a Sellout, but That Probably Won't Matter MuchSy Hoekstra: It's also interesting that he's someone who's doing it as a sellout.Jonathan Walton: Oh, yeah. A thousand percent.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Meaning he was not… he was a never Trumper for a while. He called Trump possibly America's Hitler at one point. And now he totally turned around once he ran for Senate because he saw where the wind was blowing.Jonathan Walton: Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: If nothing else, his Silicon Valley background lets him understand disruption and how to capitalize on uncertainty and when things are changing [laughs]. So yeah, that's an interesting one to me. I kind of wondered if that would make Trumpers not trust him or even not trust Trump, because he isn't… So much of the Trump worldview that he tries to inculcate in people is us versus them, and we need to demand loyalty because there's so much danger out there coming at us. And so a guy who flip flops to become a pro-Trump person, like a lot of… I don't know, there have been a lot of politicians like that who have been distrusted, but maybe he's just famous enough that it doesn't matter. I'm not sure. We'll see as it goes on. There's a possibility that he weakens the enthusiasm of Trump voters, but I don't actually know.Jonathan Walton: They chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” So I don't put that beyond them, beyond anybody.Sy Hoekstra: I see. They can always separate Trump from anybody else, basically.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: He's the exception no matter what [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right, right, right.Vance Helps with the Tech World, but He's Unexperienced and Hasn't Accomplished MuchSy Hoekstra: Another thing about him is, well, there's a couple of things. One is he is, he was a pick, at least in part to court tech billionaires. He's a Peter Thiel protege. He's basically promising to deregulate all kinds of tech related things. He is helping Trump secure the support of Musk and Zuckerberg and everybody else.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So, I don't know. He was a strategic pick in that sense, I guess. He's also one that was a strategic pick when they were facing Joe Biden.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which they're not anymore, and it's an interesting, I don't know, it'll be a different kind of calculation. Now, I've heard some rumblings that some Republicans kind of regret the choice at this point because [laughs] it's gonna be such a different race.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: It's also incredible to me that the entire Republican ticket now has a total of six years of government experience [laughter]. It's just like, so Trump has done it for four years. Vance has done it for two, that's all we got. Six years.Jonathan Walton: Right, right.Sy Hoekstra: Kamala's got that beat like by multiples, by herself with no running mates [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Right, right, right.Sy Hoekstra: So anyways, that's just kind of a remarkable thing. Vance is also totally, he hasn't done much in the Senate in terms of bills that he's introduced, but he has introduced things that haven't gone anywhere that are just like a bunch of transphobic and anti-DEI and all that kind of legislation. So he's been not doing much, but ideologically on doing the kinds of things that Trump wants a senator to do. So that's another part of the pick, which is also depressing. But let's move on from that sad one.Jonathan Walton: [laughs].Biden Stepping Down, Harris Taking OverSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, what are we thinking about Biden stepping down and the almost certain, possibly the only legal available nomination of [laughter] Kamala Harris to be the President of the United States?The Dynamics of White Boomers Passing Power to Younger BIPOCJonathan Walton: So, yeah, the first thing that I thought of when Biden said he was stepping down was that I knew he was gonna step down when he got COVID.Sy Hoekstra: Huh.Jonathan Walton: I think that's a very interesting thing because when we were in California traveling this past few weeks, we knew four families that got COVID. And then I checked the numbers and I realized, oh, like the numbers in cities are going up because they're still testing water, right? And obviously the most susceptible people are older people and people with chronic health problems. And he is an older person [laughs]. Like, it was another thing…Sy Hoekstra: I don't know if you noticed.Jonathan Walton: …that says you're old, right? Like, and that, that Steve Bannon was right. He started the old train a long time ago, and it has run its course and run him out of the election. So I was not surprised that he was dropping out. The second thing about it though is, and I don't know if there's more writing about this. If you're listening to this and you have read some analysis or commentary, I'd love to read it. But I wonder how boomers are transitioning from positions of power, and if they are or not [laughs]. Because Joe Biden, I think, signifies a generation of people that don't know how to let go of power. And he said that in his speech. He said like, “I have to give up ambition.”And so I think that was an interesting, that's just an interesting thing to think about as there is a very significant, I think in the trillions of dollars' worth of transfers of wealth from that generation to their children and grandchildren. The billionaires that have been minted in the United States are just people inheriting money. So it's just a fundamentally different thing around wealth and power that's happening, I think, as it is power quote- unquote, is given from one older White man to a middle aged Black woman. Right? Black and South Asian. And so the other thing I thought about with Joe Biden is that he also was on the ticket that coordinated Obama.And so he's the meat in the middle of this sandwich that I think is also very interesting [laughs], that he leveraged his power to effectively potentially elect the first two Black presidents of the United States.Sy Hoekstra: Now, to be fair, he did run against the first one in the primary [laughs].Jonathan Walton: He did, and he lost, and then he joined a ticket, right?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.What We Can and Can't be Grateful to Biden ForJonathan Walton: And so, I think it's interesting that that's a thing. I will also say, for all the people, left, right, center, wherever you place yourself, thanking him and praising him and all these different things, I'm just not on that train.Sy Hoekstra: Huh? Why?Jonathan Walton: I've thought a little bit about this, and I'm continuing to think about this, but there's a tension that I feel generally for the processes and the participation and the hard decisions that we have to make every day that require necessary compromise and then violence as a result. And so when we talk about being grateful for things, like, “Oh, Jonathan, aren't you grateful for like soldiers, or grateful for America?” And it's like, the first thought that I have is, thankful to who for what? Who am I thanking, what am I thanking them for? And I think it's because I just have this resistance, and I desire this purity that only is found in Jesus. This purity, this wonder, this beauty, this justice, this love that is blemishless, right? So I find myself, it's very difficult for me to be like, “Thank you Joe for this work that you did 10 years ago, this work you did five years ago.” It's hard. I'm just like, you know, thanks.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, I see.Jonathan Walton: Blessings on you on the rest of your life. I hope that you are able to flourish and receive all the things that God has. It's very general, very cursory. I don't carry this deep respect, appreciation or anything like that. And I think that just comes from like, I attach people to institutional violence and he represents a lot, a staggering amount of institutional violence. Even though he fought for lots of good things, it's like, yeah, it's hard for me to get on that appreciation bandwagon of the last 50 years of service.Sy Hoekstra: I totally understand that. I thought you were talking about, because a thing that I think you can acknowledge is difficult to do is to step down.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: In the situation that he's in, there are so many people telling him not to. It's so easy, especially if you have that ambition that he's obviously had his whole life.Jonathan Walton: For his whole life, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Decades, he has wanted to be president, right?Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. Right.Sy Hoekstra: And he just wants to hang onto it and…Jonathan Walton: Let me into the sandbox! Let me in [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: And it's hard to just admit, “I'm tapped out guys. I can't do this anymore.”Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: That is not an easy thing to do. And I do, in spite of all the criticisms that I a hundred percent agree with you with about the time that he spent in the presidency and in Congress and everything else, that's hard. And I can acknowledge when somebody did something hard that is helpful for the country [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: And because it is hard, I did not expect it. It's interesting that you did, but I didn't know that was coming.Harris and Why Representation is ImportantSy Hoekstra: I also, when it comes to Harris, who by the way, I said Kamala earlier. I'm trying not to do that, because it can't be that the two, Hillary and Kamala, we use their first names. Everybody else we use their last names [laughs].Jonathan Walton: The soft misogyny. I hear you, you're right.Sy Hoekstra: Everybody calls her Kamala though. It's like hard not to.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So I'm not the guy to explain why her running is so historically important in any detail, and there's gonna be a lot of very shallow attempts at talking about representation in the mainstream media. Which is why in the newsletter, I pointed people back to Tamice's book, because in the book that we published, Faith Unleavened, Tamice Spencer-Helms, the author, has a really great excerpt that we published and actually put as a episode of this podcast feed. I'll have the link in the show notes where she talks about, like Kamala Harris just comes at the end of the excerpt, but it's in the context of her talking about the stories of generations of women in her family and how they've served as a barrier or a bulwark against White religion and Whiteness destroying their lives.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: And the story ends in a scene that has never once failed to make me tear up [laughs] even though I edited it like 15 times [laughter] when we were making the book. It ends with her and her grandmother, and her grandmother's basically on her deathbed watching Kamala Harris get sworn in as vice president. And she does an incredible job of emphasizing the power and meaning of something like that happening without really talking about it. You know what I mean? It just is because it's part of her story as she puts it, like the story that Blackness is telling in America. So it's very, very good. If you haven't read it, I would go back and just grab a couple of tissues.And for me, I won't just let that story sit there, and the fact that it is important to sit there, because look, I have a lot of criticisms of Kamala Harris' policies [laughs] as a former prosecutor, as her foreign policy, as all those kinds of things, and I am willing to let all of that sit in tension together. And I will move on with my life, but I don't know if you have more thoughts about that, Jonathan.Resisting the Bigotry that Is Coming for HarrisJonathan Walton: Yeah. The only thing that I would say, and actually it's already happening. But the level of anti-Black, anti-woman, racist, misogynistic, patriarchal flood that is about to happen, will be unprecedented.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Online right now, even on Fox News, like on Fox News this morning, one of their commentators said, “Kamala Harris is the original ‘hawk tuah girl,' that's how she got to where she is.” Now, if you don't know what that is, I'm gonna explain it very quickly in ways that I hope are not dehumanizing to the person that actually did this and the people that it was said about. But there was a young woman who was taped on TikTok, who was asked about how to get a man more aroused. And she said, you gotta do that Hawk Tua, and that really gets them going. There's a slice of the internet, which we are all becoming more familiar with if you're online, that still desires the Girls Gone Wild videos of the 1990s, the centering of men constantly in sexual pleasure and relationships, and the picture of women only being able to succeed or excel if they are in service to men, and absolutely never achieving anything or earning anything on their own merit.And so I think Ketanji Brown Jackson, when she was certified and confirmed as a Supreme Court nominee, I think will give a slice of the anti DEI, anti CRT, anti-Black female, anti-female narrative, but that will pale in comparison to what we are about to see. And I think followers of Jesus need to resist that at every single level. At every single level if we can. Individual, in our own hearts, like us saying “Vice President Harris” is a way not to participate. Right? Like in an interpersonal level, like not… we have to check other people with this nonsense. And then in an institutional and ideological level, we actually need to communicate as followers of Jesus, that there is no place in the kingdom of God… and I would want to it to be nowhere in the world, for misogyny and misogynoir. Like this mix of anti-Blackness and anti-feminism and patriarchy. So that's the only other thing that I would say, is I just strongly desire in the most emphatic terms I can without using profanity that  [Sy laughs] we need to stand against them. We need to stand against that as followers of Jesus and people invested in the flourishing of other people and ourselves.Sy Hoekstra: It's going to happen. Like you said, it will be a ton. And just thinking back on all the absolute nonsense that was said about Obama over the eight years that he was president. I don't know how much we've progressed from there.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: And so I just, it will be even worse…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: As we've already seen, like you've said.Jonathan Walton: With all of that, there's a lot of things to process. There's frustration, anger, numbness, curiosity. Maybe some people are feeling peace. I don't know anybody who's feeling joyful about our political process right now. And so, as we are processing and trying to find hope in times of crisis and things that are difficult, I really want to commend to our listeners the resource that we created called Pace Yourself. So to pray, assess, collaborate, and establish, like to actually engage as a follower of Jesus in community for the long term.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: If you are someone who's sitting here listening and thinking to yourself, “I need a resource like this, I want community like this, I want to engage in this way,” if you're a subscriber already, it's in your inbox. Just search [laughs] in your KTF Press and look through your newsletters that you've received every Thursday. Also, if you are not a subscriber, you could get it for free. Just go to KTFPress.com and become a free subscriber. And it'd be better if you became a paid subscriber, but [laughs] I understand if you don't wanna do that right now. But go to KTFPress.com, become a free subscriber and get that resource. And I also want to comment to you like, we do not have to do these things alone. And so if you are a paid subscriber, you could also join our monthly chats and conversations so that there's a space. It may not be at your church, it may not be at your job, it may not be at your kitchen table. You'll at least have a one-hour Zoom call to talk with some people who want to be redemptive forces in the world. So we'll lay that out there as well.Sy Hoekstra: Absolutely. We've had two of them and they've been really great.Jonathan Walton: Amazing.Sy Hoekstra: And we hope we see you all at the next one.Introducing the Interview Guest, Robert Chao RomeroJonathan Walton: Now we're gonna get into our great interview with Robert Chao Romero. Professor Romero is an associate professor in the UCLA departments of Chicano and Chicana studies. Also, the Central American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Department. He received his PhD from UCLA and Latin American History. He's also a lawyer with a JD from UC Berkeley. Romero is the author of several books, including Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful, Constructive Conversation, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology and Identity, and The Chinese in Mexico: 1882-1940. The Chinese in Mexico received the best book award in Latino/ Latina studies from the Latin American Studies Association, and Brown Church received InterVarsity Press' Reader's' Choice Award for the best academic title.Romero is also an ordained minister and a faith rooted community organizer. Now, we talked to him about the everyday reality of the lives of immigrants under the Trump administration, what those lives tell us about the spiritual state of the MAGA movement, and the diverse and complicated politics of Latine voters in America. And guys, a lot more. Alright, let's get into the interview.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Robert, thank you so much for joining us on Shake the Dust today.Robert Romero: It's great to reconnect after a while.The Everyday Suffering of Immigrants under TrumpSy Hoekstra: Yeah, thank you. Just to get started, let's take a… I don't know, a kind of sad walk down memory lane [laughs]. Thinking back to the Trump administration, obviously you have a lot of experience both in immigration, the immigration law world, and in just the world of immigrant churches. And I'm wondering if you could give people a reminder or a picture of what the immigration world was like during the Trump administration.Robert Romero: Sure, I can share a story of one of my students. So in the beginning of the Trump administration, I was teaching a big lecture class, like 400 students. And there was a young woman who came up to me after class one day and said, “Professor Romero, can I get the lecture slides from the last few classes?” And I'm like, “Yeah, sure. What's happening?” And she said, “My mom has papers, she has legal documentation, but she was swept up by an immigration raid in her workplace, and I had to go home and watch my kids, and it took six days before we could find her.”Sy Hoekstra: Oh, wow.Robert Romero: And that's when I knew, oh my gosh, this is gonna be really bad. And so one of the things that launched things off in the Trump world with regards to immigration was an executive order that he passed, which took away any type of prioritization with regards to deportation. Now, the Obama administration was no friend to immigrants, and that's another conversation. But in theory, at least the Obama administration had a prioritization as to kind of who immigration would target as priorities for deportation. And on top of that list before was people with serious criminal convictions, who were undocumented with serious criminal convictions, and then families were at the very bottom. And there was kind of this internal policy. What the Trump administration did through that executive order is take away any type of prioritization, as imperfect as that prioritization was.So my student's mother and the people at her workplace, families, people who had worked in the US for 30 years, they were put on the same level and prioritization as someone who had many serious criminal offenses, for example. And I can tell you that also happened with Pastor Noe Carias that we worked with. He was an Assemblies of God pastor who came to the US in the eighties fleeing civil war. He had his own business, US citizen wife and two US citizen kids, and he was threatened to be deported. So many stories like that, it just created chaos and pain throughout the lives of millions of people.Sy Hoekstra: I'm glad that you brought up that one executive order deprioritizing things, because that's not something that made the headlines. And I know because my wife who listeners to the show would be familiar with, was an immigration attorney at the time, and she was dealing with all these tiny little things that did not make the headlines or whatever, that the Trump administration would just adjust, that would just make things that much harsher and that much more cruel on immigrants. And the result was like the human cost that you were just explaining. And then on the service providers on top of that, it was like if you have to drop everything you're doing and spend a bunch of time making new arguments or appealing cases, or in some cases dropping everything to bring a big class action lawsuit to try and stop some rule change or whatever, that is a decrease in your capacity, that then means you can't work with more people.Like my wife spent a lot of time where she was just taking no new cases on, she was just appealing all the cases that had been denied because of ridiculous rule changes that eventually got overturned. But in the meantime, a whole bunch of clients that would've been eligible for green cards lost the opportunity or whatever. And so I very much appreciate you bringing that perspective.Robert Romero: I remember another example. I remember at the time, the Diocese of San Antonio, Texas, that's one of the largest Catholic diocese in the whole country. They were trying to sponsor a special religious worker and [laughs] their application got denied because ICE wanted proof that they were a legitimate 501 C3 corporation [laughs] the Diocese of San Antonio.Sy Hoekstra: The Catholic church?Robert Romero: The Catholic church, yeah [laughs]. And it's like those kinds of shenanigans.Sy Hoekstra: Oh my gosh.MAGA's treatment of Immigrants Reveals a Lack of Spiritual DiscernmentJonathan Walton: Wow. Oh man. I'm gonna attempt to ask this question without going down too many rabbit trails because that just sounds ridiculous [laughs]. But in your essay, you said, “Jesus warns us soberly in Matthew 25, that our response to immigrants and the poor is a barometer of the sincerity of our relationship with God,” end quote. To you, what does all that stuff we just talked about reveal spiritually about the MAGA movement?Robert Romero: So that interpretation of Matthew 25, that our response to the poor and immigrants reflects our heart with God, that's an ancient tradition. Ancient Christian interpretation, thousands of years. And I think that what that reveals about the MAGA movement, it shows how much the culture of US nationalism that's embedded within MAGA has become so conflated with Christianity in the US that people have lost discernment. They've lost discernment. In other words, this is one of my reflections over the last couple of months. When you really get down to it, these issues that we're talking about, it's a discernment process, spiritual discernment process between what is culture, what is the gospel, what happens when the gospel becomes invited into a culture, and how do you distinguish between the gospel and culture?And now here's the tricky part [laughs]. The gospel has only expressed itself and always only expresses itself through culture. First the gospel came through the Jewish people, enculturated in that context, then became enculturated in the Greco-Roman Hellenistic context among Turkish people, among North Africans [laughs] among Persian people, among all these people. Then it became enculturated later on in more Western Europe, and then in about a thousand AD, like the Vikings, and Christianity becomes enculturated. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's just the reality. And theologians talk about a process though of discernment with regards to enculturation. What is a biblical contextualization of the gospel in a local culture and what's not.And what they say is that the way that you discern, is that in the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church. And to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense. And we can talk more about that, but that's what I've been… thank you for giving me the chance to just throw that out on you, because that's what I've been thinking about. I've been dying to share it and to process it with people.Sy Hoekstra: The immediate response from people in the MAGA movement is, well, from Christians in the MAGA movement at least, would be, we're the orthodox ones and the people who oppose us are the ones with the new interpretations of scripture that are going off the rails and trying to destroy American culture and et cetera, et cetera.Robert Romero: Sure.Sy Hoekstra: So why are you coming to such a radically different conclusion?Robert Romero: So first of all, orthodoxy means right praise, correct praise. That's what it means. So, as we said, this criteria, the context of the life of worship. So as people are worshiping Jesus, we're bearing one another's burdens, we're taking communion, we're praying to God. That's the context first of all that this discernment takes place. And you look at scripture, 2000 verses of scripture that talk about God's heart for the poor, and the marginalized and immigrants, Matthew 25, among about a hundred other verses. So first of all, MAGA would've to contend with that. Tradition, the tradition of the church for 2000 years from the earliest church records where they said it in the Greco-Roman world. “These Christians are so strange. They worship this…” I'll just paraphrase, “They worship this Jesus, but they belong to every culture.You cannot distinguish them by their dress or their language or their clothing, but by the way, they love one another, and they care for those that are poor and marginalized.” And there is a historical record of 2000 years of the church. And what MAGA is doing, it is not in continuity with that 2000 years of church tradition en conjunto, in community, because as Americans, we're so individualistic. People think, I'm gonna go into my prayer chamber, I'm gonna pray for two days and whatever I come out thinking about immigrants, God spoke to me. Doesn't work that way. It's like in community, all these things, the context of the life of worship, scripture, tradition of 2000 years in community with the local church, the global church, and also what theologians talk about is like another principle of continuity again.Whatever MAGA is saying has to… MAGA Christians, at least, there has to be continuity with 2000 years. And if you look at the history, I challenge anybody, there's no continuity there. Anti-immigrant sentiment, there's no continuity. And so that's what I would say first and just to kind of throw out a big concept there, the major concept that we're talking about, it's called inculturation. Inculturation. And how does the gospel enter a culture and transform it? How does a gospel enter a culture and heal it? But sometimes what happens is that a culture can become so culturally Christian that people confuse just the culture with the gospel. And if you run through this criteria, this ancient criteria of discernment, you'll find that's why prophets arise. And that's what's happened with MAGA.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. That's a helpful distinction, I think. Because you could also say, well, there's another tradition starting with the eastern half, the Roman Empire becoming Christian and creating Christian empires for a couple thousand years, right? But I think you're saying that just the phrase, “that's why prophets arise” [laughs], I think is the helpful distinction for me. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: You write about this a little bit in Brown Church, your other great book. There's this unhealthy syncretism, this marriage that has happened. And when you said the word “Orthodoxy” I immediately thought of a conversation I had with a wonderful person on Instagram. I am being facetious. But she said Israel is a nation ordained by God to exist in all these different things around 1948. And then and she said that's the orthodox view, is what she said. What would be your response to someone who divorces their belief in Jesus from the scriptural basis of Jesus and the tradition of, that missión integral, the conjunto that you're talking about, when they make that divorce, what do you do besides go to your prayer closet and pray for them [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah. I think that you go to the roots. If those of us who call ourselves Christians, we follow Jesus, and Jesus lived in history in a very specific moment in time, and he had 12 disciples and apostles, and he shared a message with them that he was the Messiah expected by the Jewish community. And that through this Messiah, the whole world would be transformed and saved and redeemed, there's a core message that was passed on from Jesus to the 12, to the leaders, the bishops that they appointed, to established churches. And there was, for the first 300 years of the church, lots of writings, lots [laughs] that established orthodoxy.So there was a core orthodoxy that Jesus established to use that term. I mean, it's anachronistic. Core message. That core Christian message was passed on to the 12. The 12 passed it on a majority consensus as to what that core was, to leaders that they appointed in Egypt, in Turkey [laughs], in Persia, in North Africa. And they had people that they appointed, and there were writings that developed. So, in other words, what I'm saying is you can trace what this major consensus of orthodoxy was pretty clearly through the historical record. And this is what I'm saying about history [laughs]. If you put MAGA through that, it's not in harmony with it.I'll say this though, if you use this criteria, this healthy criteria that have been established by theologians over the millennia, Christianity is not the same as the left either. I wanna make that clear as possible [laughs]. There are lots of Christians who make the same mistake and conflate Christianity with the cultural left, and it's not the same either. So there's room for abundant nuance and complication, but at the same time, there is a complicated, thoughtful process. And one of the things that disturbs me so much is that for the last five or 10 years, with all of the social disruptions in every arena of society, you have this positive desire to try to figure it out. Like what's right, what's wrong? And you have some people who are just holding on to this cultural Christianity, this cultural nationalism as indistinguishable from Christianity.You have some folks who are at the same time going the other extreme and throwing away 2000 years of very imperfect, but still the Christian movement. And things are just so disruptive, this process, I would hope this criteria again, and this is a work in progress for me, of we discern the difference between Christ and culture. We discern what aspects of culture are positive reflections of the gospel or not, or what's represents cultural impurity and what represents the unique reflection of the image of God through culture. We discern that. And I wanna share a quote that I think expresses the mess of the last 500 years. This is from an article by a Filipino theologian, José De Mesa. He's one of my favorite theologians.He is citing missionaries who were going to go to China in 1659. The quote again from 1659, “Can anyone think of anything more absurd than to transport France, Italy, or Spain or some other European country to China? Bring them your faith, not your country.”Jonathan Walton: There you go.Robert Romero: That's it [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bring them your faith, not your country.Robert Romero: Bring them your faith, not your MAGA movement.Reacting to People Who Think Voting Won't Make a Difference for ImmigrantsSy Hoekstra: I wanna transition a little bit because everything we've talked about so far is a little bit aimed at the MAGA movement, or at White Christians in America. But again, talking about my wife, her family is from Haiti, and during the 2020 election, she made some calls for the Biden campaign down to Miami and to, there's a lot of Haitian voters there, it's a swing state, they needed people calling. So she called potential Haitian American voters and was talking to them about the election. And she had some fascinating conversations [laughs]. But she had a couple people in particular who I think represent a certain segment of immigrants or the one or two generations after immigrants to the US who are not White.And they basically said, what on earth is the point of voting for Biden versus Trump? You were talking before about the Obama administration, and they were just like, Trump, Obama, Bush, we get treated the same. We get deported, we get forgotten, we get left behind. We get approached every four years to put somebody in power who then doesn't really do anything for us. What do you say to that kind of hopelessness?Robert Romero: Yeah. First of all, I totally get it and understand it, because it feels that way so much, so often. So I would first approach it on that level of like, okay, let's process. What are we feeling here? I get it. And then I would say, well, I guess I have a response just as a human being, and then a response as a Christian. So those are kind of related, but different things. I mean, just as a human being, as a US citizen, there was a substantial difference in the treatment of immigrants under the Trump administration. It was just like, it made people suffer. Millions of more people suffered in very specific ways when the policies changed under Trump. Again, under Obama, again, I don't think that he is perfect either, and he caused a lot of harm, but things were way worse. They got way worse.We didn't think they could be, but they got in very practical, specific ways under Trump. So depending upon who we vote for with respect to this topic of immigration, it makes a difference. It makes a huge difference. And that's because every president has the constitutional authority to set immigration policy on their own. They can't pass immigration laws, that's Congress's job, but they can pass hundreds of policies carte blanche, which is what Trump did, at their own discretion and mess people's lives up. That's what I would say. Like just as a human being, and in terms of Trump's potential to come back into office. Just as a human being, oh my gosh, I want our democracy to just survive.And he's signaled so many times that he's willing to just overturn the rule of law, and we can talk about that too. So that's just as a human being. Now, as a Christian [laughs], it's like, I know that there's no perfect candidate, and Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat. And I know people go off the rails on both sides. At the same time, Christians, I think in good faith, can hold some different political perspectives. If we do that, run through that discernment process that I mentioned, we can come to good faith differences of opinion. We really can. That's just a hundred percent true.Jonathan Walton: I like how you said good faith differences.Robert Romero: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That feels very [laughs] very important.Robert Romero: [laughs] Yes.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Because I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I would love to see an experience like good faith differences, where the other person isn't just dehumanized to the point of like, it's okay to do violence. That the reality that the first step towards violence against someone is dehumanization.Robert Romero: Yeah.The Diversity of Latine Voting and Politics in the USJonathan Walton: And so can we have good faith disagreement. And going along with that, I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a lot of news, sometimes healthily, sometimes to just cope, I think the information [laughs]. But a lot of media outlets like The Run-Up on the New York Times, or Politico, or NPR, they make a big deal out of polling, saying Latine voters, particularly men, are somewhat more pro-Trump than they have been in recent years. And like, what are your thoughts on that talking point? And the diversity of Latin experiences and political thought in America?The Effect of Latin America's Racist History, and its Leftist DictatorshipsRobert Romero: Yeah. I mean, I don't doubt that those stats are somewhat true. I mean, I don't know. I haven't studied them. But I think that within, again we talk about this inculturation process, and how the gospel gets interwoven with bad aspects of culture, sinful even. And, but how the gospel also at the same time, when it engages a culture, it transforms the culture and heals the culture too. And our diverse Latin American Latino peoples, we've got both [laughs]. We have the sin [laughs] and our own colonial history of 500 years that is just as racist as the US history. Just as racist. And so I think that when it comes to more people supporting Trump, and I want to distinguish the support of Trump from a pre-Trump Republican party.Again, not that it was perfect or anything, but I wanna make that distinction [laughs], because there are some Latinos who just feel more aligned with again, the Republican party 15 years ago or something, for some reasons that are not entirely bad. Now, the folks that support Trump and Trump's racism, again, we're super, the Latino people are so diverse in every way imaginable. Politically, socially, economically, racially, ethnically, culturally, religiously. So I wanna make that disclaimer. But at the same time, we have our own 500 years of racism and colonial racist values that are within us. And so if a Latino male voter says, I like Trump because he's just, because I wanted to kick out all the immigrants or something like that, [laughs] then that's where that comes from.And it also comes from holding racist values in Latin America, bringing it here and wanting to fit into the racial system here. I'll say one last example. So in Latin America, for 500 years to this present day, there's a legacy of everybody wants to be called Spanish, quote- unquote.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Robert Romero: Because you had a racial hierarchy and caste system officially for about… let's see, 1492 to 1820 officially, this caste system. And just like in the US, you had a certain legal caste system, these terms of White, which was a legal category, Black, Indian and so forth. In Latin America you had the same thing, but the different terms. They were like Spanish and Black and Indian and Mestizo and Mulatto. And at one point they had dozens of terms. But that created the society in which people who were social climbers wanted to be considered Spanish. And to this day, some people will say that I'm Spanish. And doesn't mean… it's fine if someone's like, if someone immigrated from Spain to Mexico that's great. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about like, no one in their family has been to Spain like in 400 years.So Spanish is sort of, saying I'm Spanish is like a MAGA person saying, “Well, I'm White,” or something. It's like this, it can be. Not always so extreme, but now imagine someone that comes from that context in say Mexico, I can speak for my own context. They come to the US, they find a different racial hierarchy, and they wanna fit in with power. So you become Ted Cruz.Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. This is true.Robert Romero: You become Marco Rubio. Where you're willing to sort of just like… Actually, this is the term, this is another use of the term enculturation. You enculturate yourself fully to the dominant White racist narrative so that you can gain acceptance. And that's what happens. And so I think that some of those Latino Trump voters, again, if they're doing it, I mean, there's other reasons too. But if they're doing it because as an explicit endorsement of anti-immigrant policies, then I would say this is a lot of what's going on. Now, to be fair, some Latinos, and not without reason, are kind of scared off by, like they come from socialist countries that have really in a lot of pain and hurt. And they hear someone on the extreme left of the Democratic party reminding them too much of what it was like in Nicaragua [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Or Cuba or whatever.Robert Romero: Or Cuba. Yeah, I mean, I remember I was talking to a Cuban taxi driver who had just come to the US five years ago, and he said, “I'd rather someone shoot me than send me back to Cuba.” That's what he said. So it's like, I think there's that going on too. Again, not that that's a hundred percent right or whatever, but it's understandable and I get it too.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, right.Robert Romero: So yeah. Some people just vote Republican no matter what, because of those reasons, and those are not just for no reason.Jonathan Walton: Right. Right, right. There's a history and a context there too that all, all that makes sense. All that makes sense.Outro and OuttakeSy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for that question and all the other insight you've given us. If people want to follow you online or see some of your work, where would you point them?Robert Romero: Sure. So my full name is Robert Chao Romero, C-H-A-O. And if you use that name, you can find me in all the usual places.Jonathan Walton: There aren't a lot of Chao Romeros out there, you sure? [laughs].Robert Romero: Yeah [laughs]. There was one. One person wrote me actually [laughs], but other than him, I think I'm the only one. [laughter].Sy Hoekstra: A guy wrote you just to say we have the same name, I can't believe it [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah He was in Brazil or something and he is like, “Is this a coincidence?” But anyways, it's neither here nor there, but, so if you look up my name, you can find me in the usual places, social media.Sy Hoekstra: Great.Jonathan Walton: Nice. Nice.Sy Hoekstra: They'll find all your books [laughs]. And we've put some of them in our newsletter and some of the other stuff, and we highly recommend all of it.Robert Romero: Thank you.Sy Hoekstra: So thank you so much for being with us on the show today. We really appreciate it.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, thank you so much.Robert Romero: It's my pleasure.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Thank you all so much for listening. Please remember to support what we do and keep this work going beyond this election season. Go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber. Get all the bonus episodes of this show, access to those monthly subscriber chats we were talking about earlier and a lot more. You can also get the anthology and read Professor Romero's essay and everybody else's essays at keepingthefaithbook.com. Alright. Our theme song as always is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra. Our podcast Art is by Robyn Burgess, transcripts by Joyce Ambale, editing by Multitude Productions. We thank you all so much for being here, and we will see you in two weeks.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, sheaking Jesus... What? Sheaking?Sy Hoekstra: Sheaking Jeshush.Jonathan Walton: I don't even know what that means. Okay, [Sy laughs]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ktfpress.com/subscribe

Interview with Melissa Core-Caballo Co-Founder of Dead Horse Branding: We love entrepreneur success stories. And who better than Melissa Core-Caballo? She is the dynamic force behind Dead Horse Branding (www.DeadHorseBranding.com), a groundbreaking agency revolutionizing the music and entertainment industries. Melissa's journey from humble beginnings to leading female entrepreneur in the branding world is nothing short of inspiring. Melissa is an expert in key marketing areas such as branding your business, and she'll share some advice on that in our podcast. Melissa founded Dead Horse Branding and in under five years transformed it from start-up to a multi-million-dollar company. Her roster of clients includes legendary music producer Tony Brown, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music. Melissa has worked with renowned brands such as HGTV, TEDx, and Lionsgate Entertainment. Subjects discussed in podcast include: • Melissa Core-Caballo's exciting entrepreneur journey • Critical turning points to attaining the success she achieved • What were some of the tougher challenges Melissa faced? • What's it like working with clientele in the entertainment industry? • Melissa's work-life balance mindset • Why is branding so important? • Dead Horse Branding's signature “DH7 branding formula” • What are key things a start-up company should look at to launch their brand? • Ways that a more established company can improve their brand • What is one thing a podcast listener should do tomorrow morning to start building a better brand? Episode Spotlight: City America (CityAmerica.com)   Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_172542" align="alignleft" width="643"] Melissa Core-Caballo, Owner of Dead Horse Branding[/caption]                                                         Your Host       More Links Subscribe to Home Business TV YouTube Channel (Click)  Subscribe to the Home Business Podcast

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy With Guests, Digital Strategist, Data Scientist, Thoryn Stephens and Singer, Songwriter, Folk-Pop Artist, Joseph Eid Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter, Folk-Pop Artist, Joseph Eid; and Interview Guest, Digital Strategist and Data Scientist, Thoryn Stephens, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 800 Interview Guest: THORYN STEPHENS; and Performance Guests: JOSEPH EID

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter Cloe and Horseman and Author Chris Lombard, EP 799 Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter and Angelic Frequency Channeler, Cloe; and Interview Guest, Horseman and Author, Chris Lombard, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 799 Interview Guest: CHRIS LOMBARD; and Performance Guests: CLOE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Jimmy Pearson and Founder of ZAMBEZI ZERØ, Bastiaan den Braber Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter / Multi-Instrumentalist, Jimmy Pearson; and Interview Guest, Founder of ZAMBEZI ZERØ, Established to Put Super Intelligence in the Hands of Everyone in Biosphere Sustainability, Bastiaan den Braber, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 798 Interview Guest: BASTIAAN DEN BRABER; and Performance Guests: JIMMY PEARSON

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Rap Artist, KD and Singer Songwriter Demi Demaree and, Actor, Entrepreneur, Community Builder, Nick Spano Featuring Performance Guest, Rap Artist, KD and Singer/Songwriter Demi Demaree; and Interview Guest, Actor, Acting Coach, Entrepreneur, Event Producer, Community Builder, and Restaurateur of Re/creation Café, Nick Spano, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 797 Interview Guest: NICK SPANO; and Performance Guests: KD and DEMI DEMAREE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer and Song Healer, Naia Kete, Artist, Lily Fangz and, Acclaimed Speaker, Mentor, Matt Riemann, Featuring Performance Guests, Singer and Song Healer, Naia Kete, and Internationally Touring Live Performance Artist, Lily Fangz; and Interview Guest, Acclaimed Speaker, Author, Educator, Mentor and Leading Expert in Transformational Leadership, Human evolution and the Future of Human Health, Matt Riemann, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 795 Interview Guest: MATT RIEMANN; and Performance Guests: LILY FANGZ and NAIA KETE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer and Song Healer, Naia Kete, Artist, Lily Fangz and, Acclaimed Speaker, Mentor, Matt Riemann, Featuring Performance Guests, Singer and Song Healer, Naia Kete, and Internationally Touring Live Performance Artist, Lily Fangz; and Interview Guest, Acclaimed Speaker, Author, Educator, Mentor and Leading Expert in Transformational Leadership, Human evolution and the Future of Human Health, Matt Riemann, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 795 Interview Guest: MATT RIEMANN; and Performance Guests: LILY FANGZ and NAIA KETE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Producer, Masha Brodskaya, Producer Brian Forbes and, Modern Mystic, Erwin Pearlman Featuring Performance Guests, Grammy-Award Artist, Composer, and Producer, Masha Brodskaya, and Grammy-Winning Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist, Brian Forbes; and Interview Guest, Modern Mystic and Creator of The EP Material, Erwin Pearlman, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 794 Interview Guest: ERWIN PEARLMAN; and Performance Guests: MASHA BRODSKAYA and BRIAN FORBES

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Producer, Masha Brodskaya, Producer Brian Forbes and, Modern Mystic, Erwin Pearlman Featuring Performance Guests, Grammy-Award Artist, Composer, and Producer, Masha Brodskaya, and Grammy-Winning Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist, Brian Forbes; and Interview Guest, Modern Mystic and Creator of The EP Material, Erwin Pearlman, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 794 Interview Guest: ERWIN PEARLMAN; and Performance Guests: MASHA BRODSKAYA and BRIAN FORBES

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guest, Singer / Songwriter Katie Buxton and,Metaphysical Teacher, and co-Founder ofSpiritual Arts Institute, Dimitri Moraitis Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter Katie Buxton; and Interview Guest, World-Renowned Metaphysical Teacher, Bestselling Author, and Co-Founder of the Spiritual Arts Institute (SAI), Dimitri Moraitis, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 793 Interview Guest: DIMITRI MORAITIS; and Performance Guest: KATIE BUXTON

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter, Influencer, Actor; Abbey Romeo and, CEO of Dani-Mation, Artist Animator; Dani Bowman, Featuring Performance Guest, Singer, Songwriter, TikTok and Instagram Influencer, and Star of, Netflix's, Emmy Award-Winning Show, “Love on the Spectrum,” Abbey Romeo: and Interview Guest, Star of, “Love on the Spectrum,” Animator, Artist, and Entrepreneur on the Autism Spectrum, Dani Bowman; and on The Life Changes Show, Episode 792 Interview Guest: DANI BOWMAN and Performance Guest: ABBEY ROMEO

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter, Influencer, Actor; Abbey Romeo and, CEO of Dani-Mation, Artist Animator; Dani Bowman, Featuring Performance Guest, Singer, Songwriter, TikTok and Instagram Influencer, and Star of, Netflix's, Emmy Award-Winning Show, “Love on the Spectrum,” Abbey Romeo: and Interview Guest, Star of, “Love on the Spectrum,” Animator, Artist, and Entrepreneur on the Autism Spectrum, Dani Bowman; and on The Life Changes Show, Episode 792 Interview Guest: DANI BOWMAN and Performance Guest: ABBEY ROMEO

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter, Influencer, Actor; Abbey Romeo and, CEO of Dani-Mation, Artist Animator; Dani Bowman, Featuring Performance Guest, Singer, Songwriter, TikTok and Instagram Influencer, and Star of, Netflix's, Emmy Award-Winning Show, “Love on the Spectrum,” Abbey Romeo: and Interview Guest, Star of, “Love on the Spectrum,” Animator, Artist, and Entrepreneur on the Autism Spectrum, Dani Bowman; and on The Life Changes Show, Episode 792 Interview Guest: DANI BOWMAN and Performance Guest: ABBEY ROMEO

Interview with Author and Behavioral Management Specialist James I. Bond Can you turn your ordinary ideas, products and sales pitches into blockbusters of persuasion by using “brain science?” James I. Bond says YES! He's the author of Brain Glue: How Selling becomes much easier by Making Your Ideas “Sticky.” (www.YesBrainGlue.com) Besides being an author, James I. Bond is a leading behavioral management specialist, TEDx speaker, Score Counselor, and has appeared on many major news outlets. Brain Glue was a Publisher's Weekly finalist for Best Business Book of the Year. Subjects discussed in podcast include: • What exactly is “Brain Glue?” • The 14 natural triggers to activate emotion centers in your audience's brain, where decisions are made • Examples of how to apply brain glue principles to influence your prospects • How can you create powerful slogans as part of the glue? • Can you improve business success by simply changing the names of your products or sales pitches? • How to achieve long-term sales and business benefit applying Brain Glue principles • Critical points to consider in succeeding with the principles of Brain Glue Episode Sponsor: Lil' Bubba * LilBubba.com Interview Guest [caption id="attachment_171095" align="aligncenter" width="696"] James I. Bond is the author of "Brain Freeze: How Selling becomes much easier by Making Your Ideas Sticky."[/caption] Your Host

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, TV & Film Composer; Paul Henning and, President of the Human Space Program; Frank White, Featuring Performance Guest, Film and TV Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist, Paul Henning; and Interview Guest, “Space Philosopher,” President of the Human Space Program, and Author of, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, Frank White, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 789 Interview Guest: FRANK WHITE; and Performance Guest: PAUL HENNING

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Consultant Psychiatrist, Author; Dr. Rick (Eric) Leskowitz and, Singer, Songwriter; Claude Hall Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Songwriter with a Passion for Jazz, Claude Hall; and Interview Guest, Consultant Psychiatrist, Founder of Integrative Medicine Task Force, and Author of, The Mystery of Life Energy, Dr. Rick (Eric) Leskowitz, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 788 Interview Guest: DR. RICK (ERIC) LESKOWITZ; and Performance Guest: CLAUDE HALL

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Educator, Administrator, Advisor, and Author; D. Paul Schafer and Singer/Songwriter; Johanna Beekman Featuring Performance Guest Singer/Songwriter, Chant/Kirtan Artist, Johanna Beekman; and Interview Guest, Educator, Administrator, Advisor, and Author of, “The Great Cultural Awakening,” D. Paul Schafer, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 787 Interview Guest: D. PAUL SCHAFER; and Performance Guest: JOHANNA BEEKMAN

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, CEO, Retired NFL Athlete; Andrew Sendejo and, Singer, Songwriter, Musician; Piper Hays Featuring Performance Guest, Americana-Soul Singer / Songwriter, Musician, Piper Hays; and Interview Guest, Business Owner, CEO, Retired NFL Athlete, Andrew Sendejo, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 786 Interview Guest: ANDREW SENDEJO; and Performance Guest: PIPER HAYS

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Anika Paris, Florence Weinberger, Lee Rossi, and Gloria Vando, Poets from In the Black/In the Red, Ep 785 Featuring Performance Guests, Poets from, “In the Black / In the Red,” Anika Paris, Florence Weinberger, and Lee Rossi; and Interview Guest, Grammy Nominated Poet, Award-Winning Author, and Founding Publisher / Editor of Helicon Nine, Gloria Vando, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 785 Interview Guest: GLORIA VANDO; and Performance Guests: ANIKA PARIS, FLORENCE WEINBERGER, and LEE ROSSI

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer Actress, Songwriter, Chloe Lowery; and Multi-Platinum Selling Music Producer; Robert (Bob) Kinkel, Featuring Performance Guest, American Singer / Dancer / Actress / Songwriter, Chloe Lowery; and Interview Guest, Multi-Platinum Selling Music Producer, Composer, Keyboardist, and Co-Creator/Co-Producer/Co-Composer and Musical Director of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Robert (Bob) Kinkel, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 784 Interview Guest: ROBERT (BOB) KINKEL; and Performance Guest: CHLOE LOWERY

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Award-Winning, Singer-Songwriter, Michael Tiernan; and Expert Astrologer, Metaphysician; Sloan Bella, Featuring Performance Guest, Award-Winning, Singer-Songwriter, Michael Tiernan; and Interview Guest, Expert Astrologer, Metaphysician, Medium & Psychic to the Stars, Sloan Bella, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 783 Interview Guest: SLOAN BELLA; and Performance Guest: MICHAEL TIERNAN

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Performing Artist, Music Producer; Chris Merrill, Scholar, Author, Composer, Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, Featuring Performance Guest, Yogi, Performing Artist, Teacher, Music Prducer; Chris Merrill; and Interview Guest, Scholar, Author, Composer, and International Speaker, Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 782 Interview Guest: DR. JOSEPH MICHAEL LEVRY; and Performance Guest: CHRIS MERRILL

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Rapper, Songwriter, Neaks and Evolutionary Pioneer, Co-Founder of Humanity's Team, Steve Farrell, Featuring Performance Guest, Singer / Rapper / Songwriter, Neaks; and Interview Guest, Evolutionary Pioneer, Co-Founder of “Humanity's Team, and Author of “A New Universal Dream,” Steve Farrell, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 781 Interview Guest: STEVE FARRELL; and Performance Guest: NEAKS

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Author, Therapist, and Public Speaker Emily Graham and, Violinist and Singer/Songwriter, Nick Kennerly Featuring Performance Guest, Violinist and Singer/Songwriter, Nick Kennerly; and Interview Guest, Author, Therapist, and Public Speaker Emily Graham on Episode 780 of The LIFE CHANGES Show Interview Guest: EMILY GRAHAM; and Performance Guest: NICK KENNERLY

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Songwriter, Author, Cam Amen and, Health Coach and Integrative Nutritionist, Anna Grace Maybury Featuring Performance Guest, Singer, Songwriter, Author, Activist, Cam Amen; and Interview Guest, Certified Health Coach and Integrative Nutritionist, and Creator of Alchemy Tri Wellness, Anna Grace Maybury on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 779 Interview Guest: ANNA GRACE MAYBURY; and Performance Guest: CAM AMEN

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 5:00pm (PDT) This interview will take you on a journey into the recesses of your soul and will explore the ontological question: What is our underlying essence? Internationally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize nominated, and local author and filmmaker, Michael A. Allen, uses the metaphor of the sea, and its ebb and flow, to describe the Tao of life's cycle. And, he discovers within this unique reflection a new way to comfort and heal the Self from the trauma of death. Michael was inspired to write his book Tao of Surfing: Finding Depth at Low Tide after his lifelong best friend and surfing partner suddenly came out as gay and died from AIDS in 1989.    The book subsequently became the basis for the soon-to-be-released feature film, A Long Road to Tao, which Michael co-wrote and produced. Michael Allen will be joined in this interview by A Long Road to Tao cast member and fellow surfer, Mike Clancy, to discuss the book, the making of the film, the politics surrounding the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and how the film relates to political issues facing the LGBTQ community today. Interview Guest (picture attached): Michael A Allen: Internationally acclaimed, and Pulitzer Prize nominated author Michael A Allen, hold a Master's degree in Philosophy and Certificate and Asian Studies from California State University at Long Beach, and is a member of the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society. While serving as President of the Student Philosophy Association, he chaired a Medical Ethics session for a seminar on Applied Ethics. He also presented “The Application of Taoist Principles in Everyday Living” at University of Hawaii's International Society for Chinese Philosophy Conference. Michael, his wife, and their children live along the Central Coast of California. He has been surfing for over 30 years.     Interview Guest (picture attached): Mike Clancy holds degrees in oceanography and meteorology and is a former Technical and Scientific Director of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey.  He has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology, and received over 50 professional awards, including the Navy's highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, signed by the Secretary of the Navy.  Mike serves on the “Question Review Team” for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series and is a frequent public speaker on climate change.   He currently Chairs the Monterey County Chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Coach, Entrepreneur Evelyn Sztojanov or Eve Stoyan and Singer, Songwriter, Katie Ferrara Ep 749 Featuring Performance Guest, Award-Winning Singer / Songwriter, Katie Ferrara; and Interview Guest, Transformation Coach and Social Entrepreneur, Evelyn Sztojanov aka Eve Stoyan on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 749, Titled, "Experience an Unapologetically Vibrant and Alive Life" Interview Guest: EVELYN SZTOJANOV aka EVE STOYAN; and Performance Guest: KATIE

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Singer, Musician, Songwriter, Sophia Galaté, Wellness Entrepreneur, Speaker, Co-Founder Lavinia Errico, Ep 748 Featuring Performance Guest, Singer, Musician, Songwriter, Sophia Galaté; and Interview Guest, Nationally Acclaimed Workplace and Wellness Entrepreneur, Speaker of Essential Truths, Co-Founder of Equinox Fitness, and the Visionary Behind the Inside Out Movement and First Point Partner, Lavinia Errico; on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 748, Titled, "Live a Wildly Creative and Purposefully Impactful Life" Interview Guest: LAVINIA ERRICO; and Performance Guest: SOPHIA GALATÉ

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Performance Guest, Reaux Farea, and Interview Guest, Jay Rubin, Ep 746 Featuring Interview Guest, Author of, “Daily Emspirations,” and Managing Partner at Emspire; Jay Rubin; and Performance Guest, Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Spoken Word Artist, Reaux Fareal on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 746, Titled, "Life Doesn't Have to Be So Serious" Interview Guest: JAY RUBIN; and Performance Guest: REAUX FAREAL

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Sound Healer, and Creator of Quantum Harmonix, Torkom Ji and, Chiropractor, Enzyme Expert, Author, Dr. Ellen Cutler Ep 745 Featuring Performance Guest, Sound Healer, Meditation Guide, and Creator of Quantum Harmonix, Torkom Ji; and Interview Guest, Chiropractor, Enzyme Expert, Microbiome Health Expert, and Author, Dr. Ellen Cutler on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 745, Titled, “Clearing the Way to Health and Wellness” Interview Guest: DR. ELLEN CUTLER; and Performance Guest: TORKOM JI

Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Guests, Mark Laisure, Reading, “Egyptian Affirmations,” and, Vicki Mizel Brain and Memory Expert, Memory Therapist, Ep 742 Featuring Performance Guest, Mark Laisure, Reading, “Egyptian Affirmations,” with the Music of Torkom Ji; and Interview Guest, Brain and Memory Expert, Memory Therapist, Creator of Brain Sprouts Memory System, and Author of “Love Remembers,” and, “A Sister's Love – How Family Bonds Can Save a Life,” Vicki Mizel, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 742 Interview Guest: VICKI MIZEL; and Performance Guest: MARK LAISURE

Ready? We Are Entering a Brave New World – Ep736 Featuring Performance Guest, Sacred Sound Alchemist and Shamanic Sound Healer, Rasa Priya; and Interview Guest, Accredited Lifestyle Astrologer and Founder of Astrology Zone, Susan Miller, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Ep. 736 Titled, “Ready? We Are Entering a Brave New World” Interview Guest: SUSAN MILLER; and Performance Guest: RASA PRIYA

David Frank of “Little Dume” Performing on the Show – Ep713 This Episode Features Performance Guest, Award-winning Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, and Leading Man of, “Little Dume,” David Frank; and Interview Guest, Speaker, Trainer, Coach and Singer, Steven A. Harms, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 713, Titled, “Learn How to Open and Utilize Your Voice Effectively and Intentionally” Performance Guest: DAVID FRANK; and Interview Guest: STEVEN A. HARMS

Composer, Musician, Darren Campbell Jenkins on the Show – Ep709 Featuring Performance Guest, Composer and Musician, Darren Campbell Jenkins; and Interview Guest, “The Death Midwife,” and Inter-Faith Minister, Olivia Bareham, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Ep709, Titled, “How to Die Consciously – Changing the Culture of Dying” Interview Guest: OLIVIA BAREHAM; and Performance Guest: DARREN CAMPBELL JENKINS

Bent Reed aka Sheldon Ziro Performing on the Show – Ep711 Featuring Performance Guest, Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Bent Reed aka Sheldon Ziro; and Interview Guest, Practicing Psychologist, Researcher, Lecturer, and Author, Rev. Karen E. Herrick, PhD, LCSW, LMSW, CADC, ACMHP, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Ep711, Titled, “Discover Why You Get Good Ideas in the Shower” Interview Guest: REV. KAREN E. HERRICK, PhD, LCSW, LMSW, CADC, ACMHP; and Performance Guest: BENT REED aka SHELDON ZIRO

Performing Live on the Show, Rose Ganache – Ep712 Featuring Performance Guests, Rose Ganache, with Singers, Songwriters, Musicians, MeShell Wolf & James Coburn; and Interview Guest, Author, Psychic, Psychic Intuitive, and Practicing Lawyer, Michelle Welch, on The LIFE CHANGES Show Episode 712, Titled, “A Fresh Perspective on Angels, Guides, Ghosts and More” Performance Guests: ROSE GANACHE, with MESHELL WOLF & JAMES COBURN; and Interview Guest: MICHELLE WELCH

Bandleader and Multi-Instrumentalist, Richárd Bernard – Ep701 This Episode Features Performance Guest, Bandleader and Multi-Instrumentalist, Richárd Bernard; and Interview Guest, Entrepreneur, Author, Public Speaker, Athlete, Philanthropist, and Author of “Cycle of Lives,” David Richman on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Titled “Insight Into the Human Experience in Dealing with Trauma” Interview Guest: DAVID RICHMAN; and Performance Guest: RICHÁRD BERNARD