Podcast appearances and mentions of jane mitchell

[Kim Bode / 8ThirtyFour Integrated Communications' spotlight, participant in SBAM's Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship] Chris Holman welcomes back Jane Mitchell, MAS, CEO/Owner Jungle Jane Promotions, Lansing, MI. This is the fifth of five interviews in a series. There were several questions Chris wanted to find out from Jane: ● What makes your business unique? ● What are the biggest things you've learned as a woman business owner? ● What have been some successes/challenges you've faced in your business? ● Speak about being part of the Inaugural Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship Small Business Association of Michigan Foundation Announces Inaugural Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship New Program Addresses Multiple Challenges for Second-Stage, Women-Owned Businesses LANSING, Mich. – The SBAM Foundation (SBAMF), supported by its parent organization, the Small Business Association of Michigan, has launched its Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship (WEF) program and chosen 11 businesses for the first cohort. The eight-month initiative will equip these second-stage, women-owned businesses with resources to overcome diverse challenges and scale their operations. Women-owned businesses are a vital part of Michigan's economy, representing 43.2% of the state's 902,131 small businesses—higher than the national average. Detroit, in particular, was ranked as the top U.S. metropolitan area for growth in women-owned businesses. “The launch of the Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship is an exciting step toward ensuring that second-stage, women-owned businesses receive the targeted support they need to thrive, said Brian Calley, SBAM President & CEO. “This program will provide invaluable resources, from mentorship and business certifications to networking opportunities and access to capital, helping these entrepreneurs overcome the unique challenges they face.” Qualifying businesses have more than one employee in addition to the owner, have been in operation for at least two years, and generate a minimum of $500,000 in annual revenue. Here are the businesses that were selected for the inaugural cohort: ● Eagle Specialties, LLC ● Elderly Instruments ● Fido & Stitch ● Groovy Donuts ● Jungle Jane Promotions ● Marshall Holding ● Neuco Furniture & Upholstery ● Pioneer Machine and Technology, Inc ● The Betty Brigade ● Winsome Travel Design ● Wolverine Pickleball Recent data underscores the need for the support provided by this new program. Only 10% of women business owners report securing a small business loan, and women-owned businesses receive just 2.2% of all venture capital funding in the U.S. Operationally, 59% struggle with hiring and retaining qualified staff, while 80% face difficulties dealing with increased costs. "Women-owned businesses in Michigan confront a multitude of challenges that hinder their growth potential," said Kim Bode, Program Director. "From financial constraints to operational difficulties, our fellowship is designed to address these issues comprehensively." To address these issues, the Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship offers: ● One-on-one mentorship with established business leaders ● Monthly learning sessions on critical business topics ● Networking opportunities with investors and industry leaders ● Guidance on accessing capital and growth resources ● Support in obtaining relevant business certifications ● Specialized courses on financial management, marketing, and operational efficiency "The Women's Entrepreneurial Fellowship addresses the unique challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in Michigan,” said Amy Rencher, Senior Vice President of Small Business Services at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). “Through its targeted $73 million investment, the Small Business Support Hubs program exemplifies our economic development strategy's commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive business ecosystem across the state.

In Episode 33 of The Classical Circuit, host Ella Lee talks to Jane Mitchell, Creative Director of the Aurora Orchestra (and also their Principal Flautist), about the ensemble's fresh approach to performance. Jane talks about the evolution of the Aurora ‘orchestral theatre' format, which involves the orchestra playing from memory, and their upcoming project 'Carnival', part of their 20th anniversary celebrations this year. She also reflects on their groundbreaking Beethoven 9 at the 2024 Proms, discusses the intention of 'revealing' all the music has to offer, and offers her insights into bringing musicians and management closer together. -------------------Aurora Orchestra:WebsiteFacebookInstagramTikTok-------------------Follow The Classical Circuit on InstagramDid you enjoy this episode? If so, ratings and follows help a lot with visibility, if you have a spare moment... *bats eyelashes*No offence taken if not.--------------------Music: François Couperin - Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les MaillotinsPerformed by Daniel Lebhardt--------------------The Classical Circuit is made by Ella Lee (producer by trade, pianist at heart). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With: Kim Knight, Orla O'Doherty, Jane Mitchell, Simon Pearce Hear the inspiring journeys of four physiotherapists who successfully transitioned into new careers. Each interview delves into their motivations, that moment when they decided to make the move, things they miss and things they don't. In their own way, each of my guests has explored the art of career reinvention and the power of following your passion.

With: Kim Knight, Orla O'Doherty, Jane Mitchell, Simon PearceHear the inspiring journeys of four physiotherapists who successfully transitioned into new careers. Each interview delves into their motivations, that moment when they decided to make the move, things they miss and things they don't.In their own way, each of my guests has explored the art of career reinvention and the power of following your passion. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joturner.substack.com

In Episode 103, Patrick chats to Jane Mitchell about the Aurora Orchestra's latest resource, Discover Beethoven, which uses the Sixth Symphony as a way into orchestral music for young musicians.Hattie Fisk, co-chair of the Music and Drama Education Awards judging panel, gives an overview of the 2025 Awards, and encourages everyone to get voting.And Dr Bushra El-Turk and Dr Joel Bell introduce The Alternative Conservatoire, a new course for young musicians, post-18.Presented and produced by Patrick Johns.https://auroraclassroom.co.ukhttps://musicdramaedawards.comhttps://www.fabermusic.com/freebooksforteachershttps://thealternativeconservatoire.org #CanDoMusic #GetPlaying #SaveOurSubjects© Music Teachers' Association www.musicteachers.org

Chris Holman welcomes Jane Mitchell, MAS, CEO/Owner Jungle Jane Promotions, Lansing, MI. Welcome Jane tell us about your career path? Tell us about your branding business Jungle Jane? What makes your story unique among entrepreneurs? How has your business evolved over three decades? Jane Mitchell - Owner/President I started Jungle Jane Promotions in 1994. I have taken great pride in working with so many people. People ask why would I use you when I can just search the internet? Well when you do that you take the risk that what you think your ordering is what your going to get. When you work with me you deal with me. I stand behind my business ethics. I care about each and every person that I deal with. I am a Master Advertising Specialist (MAS). I'm devoted to both my customers and the industry so I sought out and achieved this certification so that I can be a benefit to you. So what does this mean to you??? Well, I am a Consultant. I consult with businesses and organizations to develop a plan to promote their products and services, recognize their employees, volunteers, and thank their clients or customers with quality logoed merchandise. I will help you use your advertising dollars wisely. I will set down with you and we will discuss what your end goal is. Once we know that, we'll work backward towards a product or program that will fit your needs. It's not a one size fits all option with me. I'm here for you to make sure you're spending your advertising budget in a way that you will get the most out of it. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNX… » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

Tom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include well-known names today, from Clara Schumann to Nina Simone, but also many women like Marianne Martinez who have been eclipsed from previous histories of pianists. Tom and Susan discuss how women went from being the Queens of the piano in domestic settings to being excluded from public performances and conservatoires during the development of the concert piano. Pianist, Lucy Parham, talks to Tom too about the impact that Susan's book has had on her, and she talks about life today for female pianists.The Afghan Youth Orchestra is embarking on its first UK tour - Breaking the Silence. Currently exiled in Portugal, the young musicians live and study, having escaped the Taliban's censorship of music. The orchestra's founder, Dr Ahmad Sarmast and two of his violinists, Sevinch Majidi and Ali Sina Hotak, talk to Tom about their hopes of keeping Afghanistan's situation on the international radar through their music, which fuses traditional and Western instruments into a bold new sound.Tenor Allan Clayton and Aurora Orchestra join forces in a new and highly imaginative theatrical production of Hans Zender's composed interpretation of Schubert's Winterreise. Tom Service finds out more when he visits them in rehearsal. He talks to Allan alongside Aurora's conductor Nicholas Collon and creative director Jane Mitchell about Zender's interpretation of Schubert's original song-cycle.Tom Service also talks to Kerry Andrew, multi-talented composer, singer, performer and writer. Kerry's third novel, We are Together Because, is out now and Tom talks to them about how music infuses their writing. Tom also talks to Kerry about their last album - Hare - Hunter - Moth - Ghost - recorded as You Are Wolf and in which they turn folk songs and myths inside out.

Why not start off Spooky Season 2023 with a classic Porch Of Horrors episode? Join Johnny (Johnny Winjoe) and Jane (Jane Mitchell) as they stitch together a story of marital discord and supernatural woe.Check out Jane's brilliant Substack here:https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/Johnny Winjoe's Porch Of Horrors is a Conversation Happens Production.

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview hereHolly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus TeamLorna Jane Mitchell - Head of Developer Relations at Aiven & Open Source SpecialistDESCRIPTIONAre you a developer ready to embark on your cloud journey but feeling overwhelmed? Fear not! The benefits of the cloud far outweigh the initial struggles. With automation and proper monitoring, you can avoid sky-high bills while elevating your company and user experience to new heights. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from Lorna Jane Mitchell and Holly Cummins as they share their practical war stories from their own cloud migration and operations. Join us and take your development game to the next level!RECOMMENDED BOOKSHolly Cummins & Timothy Ward • Enterprise OSGi in ActionLiz Rice • Container SecurityLiz Rice • Kubernetes SecurityBrendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and RunningJohn Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with KubernetesPini Reznik, Jamie Dobson & Michelle Gienow • Cloud Native TransformationTwitterLinkedInFacebookLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily

Very special guest Jane Mitchell reminisces with Johnny Winjoe about a marital rough patch she experienced a while back.Read Jane's hilarious and insightful comedy writing here:https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/Seriously, read it right now. It's one of the best things.Other Jane and Johnny adventures can be found here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1753079/9502842https://www.buzzsprout.com/544780/4440155

Belinda Adams has such an inspiring story of giving even while going through a hard time. Even though she has just gone through a rough diagnosis and surgery she continues to do for others as much as she can. Thank you Jane Mitchell for introducing me to Belinda. Here are a couple of Belinda's quilts: And she shared a look at her Featherweight collection

Cindy Brown had three great reasons to join Jane Mitchell's quilt class.  It allowed her to meet new people, learn a new skill, and spend time with her daughter.  I'm so thankful that Jane encouraged Cindy to contact me so that we are able to hear Cindy's story. Here are Cindy's quilts that she talked about. Quilt for her Mom. Quilts made for her Dad camper. Thank you so much Jane Mitchell for connecting me with Cindy! If you want to hear Jane's story click here: Jane Mitchell

I love that Jane Mitchell keeps a list of quilts she wants to do on her phone.  I just could picture myself looking through such a list and looking forward to the time that I'll get to make each one.  As she makes each quilt she wants to conquer the pattern or technique and then she's ready to move on to the next quilt. Jane wanted to share the pictures of the quilts she helped to finish for a granddaughter of someone who used to live on the same property that Jane lives on now.

By Adam Turteltaub These are different times. We all know that we are living in them, and that calls for different thinking. But, what does that mean? To help answer that question we spoke with UK-based Jane Mitchell (LinkedIn), an independent consultant who specializes in culture, ethics, values and leadership and Philip Winterburn, Ethics Principal at OneTrust. As they look around at the business world they see that leaders are struggling to understand what the impact of the pandemic has been on the people that work for and with them. Given how much people have been affected by the last few years, there is a clear need to focus on culture, which Jane describes as the “corporate immune system”. It can be either an asset or liability when it comes to both preventing wrongdoing and managing the now significantly more difficult task of recruiting and retaining talent. Meanwhile, outside the organization, attitudes towards purchasing are starting to change. Customers, whether consumers or other businesses, want to know where your goods are made, under what conditions and how the raw material are sourced. If they do not like what they see, they are turning away. So what makes for a healthy organization in this environment? For one, broadening the conversation beyond the numbers and looking at how the organization can be smart, resilient and sustainable. That will be especially true over the next few yeas when a rocky, unpredictable economy is predicted. In terms of leadership, it calls for CEOs who truly understand what is going on, welcome the truth and encourage people to speak up and openly disagree. It also calls on CEOs to recognize that people want to please them and may be painting too rosy a picture. Listen in to hear more about how compliance and ethics teams can thrive and lead during these uncertain times.

Authur Jane Mitchell joined Pat on the show this morning to chat about her new novel about a young girl and her mother who flee to Ireland and are placed in Direct Provision 'Run For Your Life'. Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Hey hey hey! Welcome back to this week's Author Interview. In this episode, Jane Mitchell, joins us to talk about her latest novel, Run for Your Life Jane and I chatted about the Direct Provision in Ireland, running writing workshops for refugees, and writing books to highlight issues. Jane was a great guest to have on the show and we are very grateful she was able to join us on the show. ***COMPETITION*** If you want to be in with a chance of winning a copy of Run For Your Life head over to Twitter and follow @BigKidsBookClub. Send us a tweet using the hashtag #Azaricomp and tell us a made-up event at the Olympics you'd win gold in. (UK residents only) The competition closes midnight on 13th April

The Rev. Jane Weston says at Cana, Jesus shows us grace upon grace, and that we have a generous God. We can live our lives with this foundation of God's abundance embedded in our souls.

The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma's November 2021 conference focused on a huge variety of issues that challenge parents and social workers nationwide. Everyone had a chance to explore solutions for their own personal difficulties and challenges and in this episode, we focus on the schools discussions and on the dilemmas faced by Kinship Carers and Special Guardians.  In this edition, Serena Gay talks to Daniel Thrower, CEO of the Wensum Trust and to Sair Penna , Director of Wickselm House.  In the second part of the podcast, she talks to the COECT's Jane Mitchell and to Kinship carer Ian Fogg as well as to attendee, Kay.  Find out why Kay needed to attend and what value she felt she took away.                                                                                                       ***The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoEChildTraumaTelephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

 WOW! It's the first ever team edition of Pop Pop Quiz Quiz with very special guests Caitlin and Jessica from the Special Lady Day podcast!!!20 questions! 2 guests! 1 host! Roughly 2,000 laughs!  Check out Caitlin's story "Peaches" here: https://issuu.com/egumeny/docs/jdp_issue_july2021/s/12993013 Check out Jessica's poetry here: https://jessicalohafer.com/home Check out Jane Mitchell's comedy blog "Yesterday's Horoscope" here: https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/ Check out Kuinka here: https://www.kuinkatheband.com/ The theme to Pop Pop Quiz Quiz can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96SMUqYA1k

On this very special episode of Johnny Winjoe's Porch Of Horrors, the amazing Jane Mitchell and Johnny are driving back from a gig when they find themselves engulfed in a torrential rainstorm. They wisely pull off to a small side road, stop the car, and recall a very scary story.Jane's hilarious comedy Substack, Yesterday's Horoscope, can be found here:https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/Yesterday's Horoscope's Instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/yesterdayshoroscope/

In this episode, Pilar talks to three of the co-authors of the book The Power of Facilitation, which was released this summer of 2021. Our conversation today is a little bit different, as it's an edited recording of the meetup that took place on 7 July 2021, a panel discussion with the authors, with contributions from the other attendees. The three panelists you'll hear from are Martin Gilbraith, who co-authored The Power of Partnership Between Facilitation and Communication with Michael Ambjorn ,  Héctor Villarreal Lozoya who wrote The Power Of Facilitation For Team Development and Chitra Chandrashekar, who contributed with an illustrated summary to some of the chapters. And if you want to download the book, you can find it over at the book's website https://facpower.org/ Asking questions were Mike, Susannah, David Bishop, Jane Mitchell and Penny Pullan, who has recently published a book herself: Making Workshops Work, Creative Collaboration for Our Time. I hope she'll be able to join us soon here on the podcast to talk about her book - indeed, remember that one of the perks of being an IAFEW member is that you can promote your book if you have one, or a special event. Just make sure it gets to us with plenty of time by emailing podcast@iaf-englandwales.org or using the contact form over at facilitationstories.com Pilar kicks off with a question about how the book came about. Hector talks about the fact that it was Kimberly Bain who was the “force of nature” behind the book and that she asked Hector to participate. The group that started was not the same group that ended up writing the book. Martin recalls being stood next to Kimberley at the Ottawa conference in 2018 talking about the book, and how he invited himself to add something he had been working on with Michael Ambjorn about the power of facilitation for communicators. Chitra talks about being introduced in 2018 to the IAF new Delhi circle and discovered that Kimberly was looking for people to illustrate the book and put in an application to do so. Pilar quotes the introduction to the book which is a complication of 10 chapter authors, 4 visual practitioners across 5 continents and 8 time zones. Hector talks about one of the first meetings being about the structure of the book as there needed to be a connection between the chapters. They started with the usual suspects – eg strategic planning and expanded from there. The group looked at who was an expert in what for example several ToP (Technologies of Participation) practitioners, some authors working on big transformation projects and it played to people's strengths. Martin describes that from the beginning the intention was to have a diversity of authors, chapters and visuals. All continents except Africa are represented, and realised that there is a gap or an opportunity for volume 2 in that there is nothing about digital or online facilitation in the book! Pilar quotes from the book “the team has sought to model a facilitative approach the project throughout” and asks what else comes to mind in how you modelled this approach? Hector mentions how hard it is to facilitate facilitators, and that Kimberly kept everyone together. Martin describes how Kimberly was the driving force and how she took a facilitative approach, also the risks of facilitators all trying to be facilitative! He also talks about it being an experience of online facilitation, and the meetings were check ins and social with collaboration online in Basecamp and describes putting the book together as a “Basecamp memory”. Chitra talks about being a witness to a whole part of the process and how she felt she was one of the youngest and least experienced and it was great to learn and observe. Penny Pullan talks about having written books as solo projects as writing books with others and how editing a book with 27 contributors was much more fun. She asks what the process was like? Martin talks about there being 2,3 or 4 phases starting with the submission of an abstract. They agreed that Kimberly would write the introductory and concluding chapter and shared first drafts and gave feedback, then a second draft for feedback followed by several iterations. He talks about not realising how much there was to do and how the process slowed down as people got busy and then picked up again, with final relief when it was finished. Hector says they all had access to each others' work but were each in charge of reviewing specific chapters, and everyone got feedback from the editor and at least 2 colleagues. And that as English was not the first language for many people this feedback was fundamental. They were also able to challenge ideas to make sure they were robust. Mike asks about the design and layout and whether this was done by the team. Chitra then talks about the development of the layout and the joint design and an open and inclusive environment. Martin added what a joy it was to discover the additional skills within the team on things like typesetting. Pilar asks about content: Martin talks about the idea for his chapter coming from a conversation with Michael when they were both chairs of the IAF and IABC and how they had started to discuss the interface between communication and facilitation and opportunities to collaborate and learn from each other. So the power of facilitation, communication and partnership which was something they had already been exploring, became the idea for the chapter. He describes how they went about it by interviewing people and the discovery of people who described themselves as hybrid professionals (communicators and facilitators). Martin talks more about what communication professionals do and how this was discussed at an IABC conference he attended and how each profession can add to each other and how he sees the two skill sets as being intertwined. Pilar asks is anyone wanted to add to what Martin has said. Michael says that whatever profession we are in, for example communicators have a lot of facilitator skills and go and talk to people. And a lot of facilitators who are good communicators. Pilar asks Chitra how she approached the visuals and how she captured this in one page: She describes how at first there was a conversation about the 4 visual practitioners aligning themselves on style and what does the book need in terms of stylisation. They were told that it was going to be black and white, and given the dimensions of the book. Everyone wanted the approach to be not as an illustrator but as a graphic facilitator. They were given the time to read it, interpret it and present it as a visual doodle/sketch. Then they shared a first draft with the authors before creating a second draft. Martin and Michael's chapter is all about exchanging stories and the key idea of personifying what communication is and what facilitation is through representative avatars. She shared my learnings in the first draft and Martin loved the idea of the personas and trusted her first impressions. Trust and cross communication is important. Pilar asks how the process was was working with two authors of a chapter and Chitra giving her own interpretation, compared to working as a visual facilitator Chitra responds by saying with a live event you don't have the possibility to go back and erase something that has already been captured but it can be edited afterwards by digitalising it. But in the room there is a great sense of trust, and the need to make sure they use the right language and be mindful of that. But even in a live session there is a chance to have interaction with the facilitator. For this work they had the luxury of time, to allow words to sink in, unlike a live session which is spontaneous. Pilar's next question for Chirtra is when do you decide to use a graphic and when do you use words? She says this is something they do intuitively and explains a bit about where she might use words compared to visuals. Jane asks Martin about his comparison of a communicator facilitating and a facilitator communicating whether they applied the communicators brain in understanding the impact of the book and what you need people to do as a result of reading it? Martin responds by saying that a lot of words didn't make it into the book, and some were added to the appendices. Michael introduced OASIS (communications planning tool) to clarify purpose of the book and what we they wanted people to be inspired to do. The goal was to promote, inspire and enthuse people about facilitation.   Pilar asks Hector how it was working with someone outing his stuff into a different format (working with Chitra) Hector talks about seeing how your own words are interpreted and how every person makes sense of the message in different ways, and has a mental image of the whole chapter. And that 10 different graphic facilitators may do this in different ways. Each chapter has a different style but all with valid interpretations. Martin says that it was an enjoyable process and recalls conversations looking over the drafts and how it was very collaborative and co-creative, and awars that Chitra was able to provide something that he wouldn't be able to provide on his own so he didn't want to interfere too much. He hasn't been involved in a written process like this but has worked with visual practitioners in live sessions and has always marvelled at their extraordinary skill. Pilar looks at some of the other chapters Hector's is about the power of facilitation for team development and asks for a brief summary The subject was recommended by Kimberley and Hector does a lot of team development type work. It took him a long time to get started and find a central idea, which was that facilitation can become part of team work for a group. Sometimes people are not aware that they can evolve as a group to become a team and facilitators accelerate the process of becoming a team.  He describes this in a bit more detail. Pilar asks if anyone else has any comments about the aspiration of showing a group or a team what they can achieve? David talks about the objective of not needing you anymore and that the power of facilitation is getting people into the attitude of facilitation being where the real power lies. Pilar asks about the power of getting people to do things themselves and how this might look. David talks about facilitation being contagious and that it looks easy and how our responsibility as facilitators is sometimes to say this works and give someone the desire to go and learn. Martin talks about Trevor Durnford and Malin Moren's Facilitating change and Transformation chapter when they talk about building capacity in large organisations and how the power of facilitation is much more powerful when it is more broadly dispersed and building capacity for others to facilitators which is the motivation for the book. Pilar says that many groups might be being facilitated but not aware what the person in front of them doing is facilitation. And that there is something around naming what we are doing as facilitators. Martin responds by saying that the vast majority of facilitation is done by people who don't call themselves facilitators and that often they don't realise that it is facilitation. He doesn't want to suggest that everyone becomes professional facilitators or rely on professional facilitators. But the profession can help people understand what it is they are doing and provides a language and a framework. David says that facilitation is a mysterious thing and full of secrets. He recollects a conversation with a magician who said that magicians are not keeping secrets for ourselves but for spectators. Facilitation is the opposite - it is full of secrets that we have to give away and have a duty to give them away. Hector talks about a challenge in that more people are using facilitation in that one technique or framework is used for everything and that there is a richness to facilitation that you need to adapt.  Many people use conversation structures but is not only the process but also the people.   Pilar has another question for Hector – in his chapter he describes how the facilitator becomes a repository of trust and she asks how do you go about earning that trust? Can we hold the trust? Hector says that the relationships in the groups can be stressed and without much trust. He suggests that we are in a position of power and the group gives you authority, then you have to earn it. You are allowing them to trust one another through you and through the process. By holding with the space – we are making a space for people to trust one another. Pilar asks for any further questions: Suzannah asks about version 2 and what topics they'd really like to cover? Martin – online virtual facilitation, something to do with social inclusion and social change (there is a special interest group in both of these things). Chitra –Something around being upfront when collaborating and the working out loud culture and something around how creative collaboration can work across domains and learning to work to each others' strengths. Also understanding about the relationship between visual and a process facilitator works. Hector – change management and facilitating in change management or in political change. Suzannah follows on from Hector's comment about working in the political space and says how she'd want to go into parliament and move around all the chairs! Chitra sums up by saying - The power is within the group.          

WOW! It's the first ever team edition of Pop Pop Quiz Quiz with very special guests Caitlin and Jessica from the Special Lady Day podcast!!!20 questions! 2 guests! 1 host! Roughly 2,000 laughs!Check out Special Lady Day at these places and wherever you listen to podcasts!https://www.specialladyday.com/https://www.instagram.com/specialladyday/https://twitter.com/lady_podcasthttps://www.facebook.com/specialladydayCheck out Caitlin's story "Peaches" here:https://issuu.com/egumeny/docs/jdp_issue_july2021/s/12993013Check out Jessica's poetry here: https://jessicalohafer.com/homeCheck out Jane Mitchell's comedy blog "Yesterday's Horoscope" here:https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/Check out Kuinka here:https://www.kuinkatheband.com/The theme to Pop Pop Quiz Quiz can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96SMUqYA1k

During the recent IABC World Conference, Brad Whitworth and Mark Schumann led a highly rated interactive session that examined how we use time to positively impact worlds we hope to change, lives we want to touch, and differences we need to make. Brad and Mark reprised much of that session — joined by Alice Brink and Jane Mitchell — as the five of us discussed what we are doing with our time. Here's how Brad and Mark describe the conversation: “We fill our days fighting the realities of time. Maybe it's time to stop the clock, take time to reflect, and recommit to what we contribute to make ours a better world.”Continue Reading → The post Circle of Fellows #72: Time Will Tell appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

During the recent IABC World Conference, Brad Whitworth and Mark Schumann led a highly rated interactive session that examined how we use time to positively impact worlds we hope to change, lives we want to touch, and differences we need to make. Brad and Mark reprised much of that session — joined by Alice Brink and Jane Mitchell — as the five of us discussed what we are doing with our time. Here's how Brad and Mark describe the conversation: “We fill our days fighting the realities of time. Maybe it's time to stop the clock, take time to reflect, and recommit to what we contribute to make ours a better world.”Continue Reading → The post Circle of Fellows #72: Time Will Tell appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

When small children display signs of sexualised behaviour, foster and adoptive parents find it repugnant. As NATP expert Jane Mitchell explains, they are rightly furious with those responsible for the abuse their child must have suffered in an earlier existence.In this episode, Jane sets out an array of simple but effective  strategies that help to reset a child's understanding of what is appropriate behaviour between children and adults.  But she advises learning to differentiate between what is normal childhood curiousity and what is clearly entirely improper knowledge. If it's the latter, parents should alert their supervising social worker and the local authority without delay and find out what therapeutic intervention is available. In the case of older children who were subject to abuse in their early years, they may well be vulnerable to some form of sexual grooming. In all instances, the NHS, the NSPCC and Barnardo's are all good ports of call as is the website Thinkuknow                                                                                                    ***The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoEChildTraumaTelephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

Little else could be more destructive to a family unit than a child who is violent and aggressive towards their adoptive or foster parents. In this week's episode,  our expert guest, Jane Mitchell,  tells us that children can show superhuman strength when their fears are adrenaline-fuelled. The result can be harm to the parents and costly damage to the family home. As Jane explains, this behaviour is a symptom of the child's sense of overwhelm triggered by traumatic memories. They're not conscious of what they're doing and parents need to put into place careful plans and strategies to cope.  There's plenty of good advice here on effective de-escalation  techniques and Jane also refers to two courses* provided by the National Association of Therapeutic Parents (the NATP) as well as to the non-violence resistance courses available through many local authorities in the UK.The vast majority of children who behave this way learn to control their fears with the right kind of therapeutic parenting - and to move forward into a more settled way of life. *Therapeutically De-escalating Violence 6-week Programme and the Introduction to De-escalation and Protective Interventions are available through COECT's  partner agency, the Inspire Training Group                                                                                                            ***COECT, The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoEChildTraumaTelephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

Remember the child in your school class who was the fidgety one? Or the one who always had their hand up but was ignored by the teacher because they made apparently stupid remarks? Or the one that seemed to know exactly what was going on everywhere else but was paying no attention at all to the lesson? You wouldn't have known it at the time, but this could have been a sign of a traumatized child experiencing extreme stress. Making the transition from home to school or from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 can present enormous difficulties for children who have suffered adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).In this episode, senior teacher and adoptive mother Sami Byrne – who's also a Therapeutic Lead for the National Association of Therapeutic Parents (NATP) - helps us understand what they are going through.  She gives preparation and coping strategies to prepare children for all the different stages they have to confront during their school lives. These are tried and tested methods that she has used successfully with her own children and which form part of the document she co-authored with Jane Mitchell entitled The School Transitions Pack available on request from COECT (see below for contact details).Sami also recommends Rosie Jefferies and Sarah Naish's book “William Wobbly and the Very Bad Day”.   Other recommended resources include "Harry and the Dinosaurs Go To School"  and  "Topsy and Tim Start School"                                                                                                           ***COECT, The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoEChildTraumaTelephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

Raising a traumatised child to adulthood is fraught with challenges. But if you get Jane Mitchell's Super Strategies in place from the very start, you'll find them a great support.They form a template that help you face up all the problems that come your way in a consistent, predictable and reliable way that ultimately help your child feel safe. Above all they help your child to learn that they matter to you. We're talking about Super Strategies such as:PausingBeing Playful Showing Acceptance Being CuriousExpressing EmpathyPractising Parental PresenceRelationship RepairYou can find out more about our training, listening circles and support here https://www.naotp.com/The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CoEChildTraumaTelephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

The great Jane Mitchell divulges a deeply disturbing drama full of marital discord and deception on The Porch...Of Horrors.Please subscribe to Jane's amazing and hilarious writing here:https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/This episode is brought to you by buttons; as multifaceted as they are funky.Music composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri.

"These tests are just a snapshot of one day, of one way, of how they're doing on a certain test... The tests did not do what the tests were supposed to do."Featured guest: Jane Mitchell, retired teacherAfter a 40 year career, Jane Mitchell retired as an intervention specialist from Dublin City Schools in 2013. She got her Bachelor's degree in Social Studies and English Education from the University of Illinois in 1973, then pursued her first Master's from the University of Iowa in K-12 Developmental Reading, but since she was already working with so many children with special needs at that point, she went for another Master's in Learning and Emotional Disabilities from the University of Iowa. In the years since, she has earned over a hundred credits from various universities to further her professional development. Mitchell has taught all grades from preschool through college in five different states, almost exclusively serving students with special needs. She spent the last 25 years of her career in Dublin Schools, serving as the testing coordinator at two different elementary schools in that time. She is a proud grandmother to five and mother to three. Two of her daughters are teachers; the third is the host of this podcast.  In this episode:"Twice, I had kids get bloody noses on the tests and once, I had a kid throw up on the test. And when that happens, you have to stop testing because no one is going to be a good job while somebody is cleaning up barf, so the kids all have to take their break at that time while you clean up, but then the teacher, or in my case the testing coordinator because the teachers were so grossed out… would have to wear gloves and rewrite everything into a new test booklet, including all of the mistakes with spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and have it exactly the same—the only thing that's better is the handwriting—and bag [the soiled test] up and mark it as hazardous waste and send it in along with the test that's getting scored." 1:30 - From childhood dreams of becoming a nun to four decades in the public school classroom teaching students with special needs 3:25 - The duties of a testing coordinator and how she got roped into the responsibilities 5:00 - Lost tests, bloody noses, and barf, oh my! 6:20 - Dealing with a pants wetting incident, leaked test prompts, and language barriers 9:20 - Saving the tests from a plumbing disaster 10:45 - The evolution of standardized testing over the years and the move to punitive measures 13:40 - The failure to effectively define achievement in school or to level out the playing field for all children 15:10 - Thoughts on standardized testing during the pandemic 16:30 - Formative vs. summative assessments summed up in a Great British Baking Show explanation (Credit for this metaphor goes to OEA Education Reform Consultant Ellen Adornetto) 17:35 - Trusting educators as professionals to meet their students academic, social, and emotional needs... and voting for the other guy 18:10 - "Why do we pray to Cheez-its?" 19:00 - Trying to teach a previously non-verbal student to stop using a certain word "It was so obvious that whoever came up with the stupid laws about testing had no idea what the tests do. The purpose was supposed to show us where the kids were lacking and needed help and needed more instruction, but you never even got that information until the kids had already gone onto the next grade and that information rarely followed them, other than their scores. The parents would get a score but wouldn't tell them 'he's having difficulty in algebraic thinking' or 'he's having difficulty with using a lot of adjectives in his writing' or whatever. It would never give you that kind of information. It would say proficient, not proficient, advanced; and so you suffered." Connect with us: Email educationmatters@ohea.org with your feedback or ideas for future Education Matters topics Like OEA on Facebook Follow OEA on Twitter Follow OEA on Instagram Get the latest news and statements from OEA here Learn more about where OEA stands on the issues  Keep up to date on the legislation affecting Ohio public schools and educators with OEA's Legislative Watch About us: The Ohio Education Association represents more than 120,000 teachers, faculty members and support professionals who work in Ohio's schools, colleges, and universities to help improve public education and the lives of Ohio's children. OEA members provide professional services to benefit students, schools, and the public in virtually every position needed to run Ohio's schools. Education Matters host Katie Olmsted serves as Media Relations Consultant for the Ohio Education Association. She joined OEA in May, 2020, after a ten-year career as a television reporter, anchor, and producer. Katie comes from a family of educators and is passionate about telling educators' stories and advocating for Ohio's students. She thinks her mom, Jane Mitchell, is the most amazing person in the world. This episode was recorded in March, 2021.

Wowza! Here we go! Fifteen questions! One very special guest (the great Jane Mitchell)! One host (Me)! Also.... a whole lot of fun!!Jane is the transcriber of a truly funny comedy Substack (blog) called Yesterday's Horoscope. Check it out here: https://yesterdayshoroscope.substack.com/Please do take this opportunity to learn more about the Beothuk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDW9M-AjZsThere are six States in Australia along with three Internal Territories.

Accountants are busy meeting the deadline of 31st January for tax returns, but their remit is wider than auditing annual accounts. Jane Mitchell, Business Advisory Director & Rural Specialist for Johnston Carmichael, joins the podcast to discuss the accountant's role as a business advisor. Infusing resilience into a farming business' is vital for long term viability. By meeting her accountant regularly, Anne Macpherson of Blackford Farm, Nairn, has a better handle of her costs and is able to make more informed business decisions.

Jane Mitchell returns to the (virtual) Old Grey Mayors studio to talk about two topics that have been top of mind for Waterloo Region residents in the last few months – daycare and conservation authorities.

First meetings and moving your adoptive child in to join your family can be among the most important in helping a child, especially a traumatised one, settle well. COECT expert Jane Mitchell knows from personal experience about the pitfalls and gives clear and essential advice in this podcast on how to handle both these important occasions. Her words of wisdom centre around understanding what is going through the mind of the child based on their previous experiences - which might have taught them to be very wary indeed of adults. But parents also need to understand their own mindset and how they might need to take a step back and reduce their expectations.The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma is an umbrella organisation combining resources, research and knowledge from cutting edge experts in the sector – Inspire Training Group, National Association of Therapeutic Parents, Sarah Naish – Keynote Speaker and Author, The Haven – Parenting and Wellbeing Centre and Safer Fostering. Telephone – 01453 519000 Email – info@coect.co.uk Website - www.coect.co.uk

Helene Jewell hosts this episode about the skill of online facilitation and the importance of Facilitation to make your celebrations go with (or without) a pop!   We also have two voices from our virtual coffee meet-ups: Gordon Mullan and Jane Mitchell share their thoughts about online facilitation following the IAF conference in October. And Helene introduces the new England and Wales IAF Board, and thanks the outgoing Chair and Treasurer! Two Twitter handles for the coffee inserts: @gordonmullan and @janemitchcomms Helene’s first guest for this episode is Claire Mays.  Claire has a background in facilitating health promotion and is has recently re-engaged with “the facilitator in her” during lockdown – lots of opportunity that wouldn’t have had if not for the pandemic! Since April – Claire has been part of an online facilitated programme that has engaged over 200 people as part of the Barts NHS Acute Trust shielding online programme. Barts Shielding Community was started to support those members of the Barts NHS Acute Trust who had to shield due to Covid 19 including Claire herself. Claire talks about the core group that helped to determine how to support shielders and reconnected with and updated her own facilitation skills to develop what was to become a lifeline to the many people defined as extremely clinically vulnerable.  They used a liberating structures approach to create an online supportive community, with space for human-to-human connection that brought together, consultants, administrators, nurses, therapists and more. Their shared experience; all people who had to shield due to Covid19 and who worked at Barts. As we approach Christmas, a time of parties and celebration often with colleagues, Claire recognises the importance of creating an online holiday celebration, and the challenges of ensuring that it is inclusive and accessible to everyone who wants to participate, and how key the role of facilitation is in ensuring that this happens!  Member of the Barts Shielding Community have a great experience to look forward to – that will include quizzes, costumes, cookie decorating and more. But they are not naïve to the challenge of working to achieve this online with such a diverse range of people, but feel what they have created with the support of expert facilitators will be an inclusive and memorable experience. Claire is also putting these skills to excellent use elsewhere and is helping to facilitate 2 further Christmas gatherings including an online Christmas menopause café using the ‘spaces for listening’ method. Claire’s Top Tips for people organising celebrations online keep it simple, fun and accessible, have a clear structure because it’s very easy for people to get lost online. Helene’s second guest Andre is the Cofounder of People Storming who specialise in facilitating and coaching organisational development.  Helene first asks Andre about the challenge of organising a 2 day retreat  online that would normally be a real retreat in Colorado involving snowboarding and other physical activities.  Andre talks about the importance of getting to know the team and organisation and how they co-designed a structure for an online retreat including space for people to design their own personal retreat experience, and if that wasn’t challenging enough across a 3 hour timezone!  Andre talks about how they built in structured time, a web platform to ensure an accessible and personalised experience, the range of asynchronous activities; using Mural, pre-recording stories and experiences that other people could walk through, worksheets and activities; that were included, and the importance of recognising that peoples lives were carrying on as normal around them, work, family etc.  Andre outlines some of the challenges and advantages, the biggest challenge being the amount of time and energy the planning took to make the retreat run smoothly and seemingly effortlessly for participants, and the obvious advantage of cost including sending out cocktail kits and materials. One surprising advantage was how the online retreat felt more inclusive due to the active facilitation layer – as opposed to a more traditional retreat. Andre acknowledges that the skill of a good facilitator is to make what they do look effortless, something that is hugely undervalued generally! Online this went to a whole new level of active orchestration with detailed cue sheets and 3-4 times more time invested in planning that meant the time online was more than just hanging out together and was actually more productive than a real world retreat. Andres key learning points;  while there is a cost advantage from a facilitated perspective it’s not a ‘cheap’ option in terms of time. And for this experience to work smoothly they invested in building a website specifically for the retreat to ensure accessibility!   Helene ends by asking Andre what learning he will take from online back to face to face. Andre talks about the challenge of  physical distance making everything less personal, and how finding space to be themselves as facilitators and immersing themselves into the team and their Slack space meant the relationships had formed prior to the event. A challenge to take forward is how to create the sense of being part of the team by the time we start real world events not by the time we finish!  And finally Helene invites Andre to share his Top Tip; the rhythm of what you do is important – keep it moving! Trust your instinct to keep people engaged! Even if it’s 5 minutes of quiet time in the middle of a party! Pace and variation. Oh and did he mention the word party! Lots of space for connection and celebration!  Twitter: @IAFEnglandWales; use #iafpodcast Get in touch via email podcast@iaf-englandwales.org  https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales

Our fifteenth edition of Conversations with our Priests features The Rev. M. Edwin Beckham of Church of the Good Shepherd and The Rev. Jane Mitchell Weston of St. Simon's.

Explains the theory behind therapeutic parenting - ideal if you are looking to develop a deeper understanding of how it works and to improve your skills. This is the go-to guide for practitioners, parents and carers who want to expand their understanding and skills for therapeutic parenting - a deeply nurturing parenting style particularly effective for children who have experienced trauma or adversity. It provides an easy to understand explanation of the latest theory and research in trauma and neuroscience, and explains how these relate to everyday parenting strategies. It provides clarity on complex areas, such as early developmental trauma in children, and insights into key challenges, including managing transitions, sibling relationships, challenging behaviour, the teenage years, and how to find time and space for self-care. With experience, professional expertise, and text features to aid learning throughout, this book is the one-stop shop for everyone wanting to truly understand every aspect of therapeutic parenting and trauma.

Tom Service catches up with viola player Lawrence Power to talk about his filmed series of Lockdown Commissions from major composers, and his imaginatively re-worked West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival in Buckinghamshire. The newly installed Artistic Director of English National Opera, Annilese Miskimmon, revels in the return of live opera with ENO's new drive-in production of La boheme from the car park of Alexandra Palace in North London, and reveals her vision for the company's future. To mark National Alzheimer's Day on Monday, Tom talks to Dr Sylvain Moreno, one of the world’s leading researchers on how music can positively affect the brain, and to front line workers with people suffering from dementia - Camilla Vickers and soprano Francesca Lanza from Health:Pitch, and Rebecca Seymour from Celebrating Age Wiltshire. And Music Matters' Musicians in Our Time series, following leading musicians as they face the challenges of their lives and remake the musical world over the course of the next year, continues with flautist Jane Mitchell of the Aurora Orchestra, recent recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Salomon Prize. Photo Credit: Jessie Rodger

Today I am SO EXCITED to be speaking with Jane Valez-Mitchell. Jane is the founder/editor of JaneUnChained News, a non-profit, social media news network reporting on animal rights, veganism, health and climate change. With more than 70 volunteer contributors around the world, JaneUnChained’s videos are seen by millions. JaneUnChained.com's daily vegan cooking show via facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell features some of the best vegan chefs in the world. This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to Vegan research, businesses, art, and society. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. TRANSCRIPTION*Please note, this is an automated transcription please excuse any typos or errors [00:00:00] In this episode, I speak with social media journalist, activists and prolific author Jane Velez Mitchell. Key points addressed where Jane's endeavors with her nonprofit social media news site, an educational platform called Jane Unchained dot com. We also discussed her documentary titled Countdown to Year Zero and how its narrative uniquely links animal agriculture to climate change and action items one can take to participate in the cessation of the ecological crisis the world is facing. Stay tuned for my fascinating talk with Jane Velez Mitchell. [00:00:43] My name is Patricia Kathleen. And this series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from food and fashion to tech and agriculture, from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas. The dialog captured here is part of our ongoing effort to host transparent and honest rhetoric. For those of you who, like myself, find great value in hearing the expertize and opinions of individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to their ideals. If you're enjoying these podcasts, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as founders and entrepreneurs. Fasting and roundtable topics they can be found on our Web site. Patricia Kathleen Dot, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation. [00:01:40] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I'm your host, Patricia. And today I am elated to be sitting down with Jane Velez Mitchell. Jane is a social media journalist, activist and author. [00:01:49] You can find out more regarding everything that she does, as well as what we speak about today on her Web site. Jane, unchain dot com. That is J and E, you n c h h i n e d dot com. Welcome, Jane. [00:02:03] Thank you for having me, Patricia. [00:02:04] Absolutely. I'm excited to unpack everything that you're doing and have done with your company, your documentary and all of your other endeavors for those of you that are new to the podcast. I will proffer up a bio on Jane to give everyone a good foundation. But prior to doing that, a quick trajectory of the line of inquiry in which this podcast will be based. Today, we will first ask Jane to briefly describe her academic and professional background that brought her to her current day endeavors. Then I want to turn to unpacking. Jane, unchain dot com. It's a news and begin animal rights Web site. I'm going to get into questions of curation, obviously, when it was launched, logistics around the launch partnership, sponsorships, things of that nature. And then I'll turn to unpacking the documentary Countdown to Year Zero, in which she directed all of the endeavors within that. And some of the response that the audiences have had with that will then turn towards our rapid fire questions. These are questions we've taken from you, our audience, who has written in and asked us to ask experts such as Jane about the various endeavors and areas of expertize that she can answer best. [00:03:14] And we'll wrap everything up with advice that Jane has for the future of Vegan warriors, as well as some of her predictions as to where certain industries in the Vegan world are headed. As promised, a quick bio on Jane. Jane Velez Mitchell is the founder and editor of Jane and Jane News, a nonprofit social media news network reporting on animal rights, veganism, health and climate change. With more than 70 volunteer contributors around the world, Jane and Chanes videos are seen by millions. Jane and Jane, dot coms daily Vegan cooking show via Facebook dot com. Jane Velez Mitchell features some of the best Vegan chefs in the world. Jane Unchained has launched a new daily New Day, New Chef, a popular Vegan cooking series streaming on Amazon Prime and public television stations around the nation. She's documentary Countdown to Year Zero now on Amazon Prime. It lays out the animal agriculture's leading role in climate change and how we must transition to plant based culture or face ecological apocalypse. It won best documentary feature at the Studio City Film Festival and Jane won for Best Director documentary feature at the Culver City Film Festival. Jane Unchained has also partnered with software developer artist Wave to create plant based Nabor dot com, which is a beta testing set to become an AP later in 2020. [00:04:41] This AVP, the app, will connect vegan's with the other vegans in their community and encourage the vegan economy. We Jane is has one for Genesis Award commendations for from the Humane Society of the United States for reporting on animal issues. Veggie News named Velez Mitchell. Media Maven of the Year in 2010. For six years, she hosted her own show on HLN. HLN, CNN Headline News, where she ran weekly segments on animal issues. Previously, she was a news anchor and reporter at Cakehole TV in Los Angeles and WCB s TV in New York. Her first documentary, Anita Velez Dancing through Life, won a Graciella to work in Two Thousand and one. She's the author of four books, including two New York Times best sellers, and she is active in the LGBTQ community and lives in Los Angeles with her five rescues for dogs and cats. So, Jane, I am so excited to kind of unpack everything that you're doing currently and really climb through some of your projects, possibly not all of them, because you're too prolific. But before we get to that, I'm hoping you can draw a narrative of your early academic and professional life that led you to launching Jane. And tain't. [00:06:03] Well, I grew up in midtown Manhattan, directly across the street from Carnegie Hall. And my mom was from Puerto Rico, from the island of Vieques, which is part of the Puerto Rican Commonwealth. My dad was Irish American. He was an advertising executive straight out of madmen with the pipe rack in the hat and the whole outfit. And he had a ad agency on Madison Avenue. So he was truly a mad man. And they met my mother was the last of the board bills. They were both born in 1916. And my mother formed a successful  dance troupe when she came to New York from Puerto Rico called Anita Velez Dancers. They danced all around the hotels of the Caribbean, North America. And when she met my dad, because her her agent was my dad's best friend, Charles Conaway, who happened to be Jeff Conaway's dad. The the actor. Anyway, they met. They hit it off. They love to dance. They would stop the show. It was how they put it. When they started dancing, everybody else just formed a circle and watched them dance. And they were married and growing up. I actually thought I was vegetarian because when my mom was a child, she had a pet pig. She thought she had a pet pig. She thought she had a companion the way we have dogs and cats. But it turned out the pig was a food pig and was slaughtered. And my mother fainted when she came home from school and saw the carcass and she shunned meat from that point on. My dad was very meat centric when he met my mother. Corned beef and cabbage, etc.. But he changed. So we were pretty much a Pescatarian household growing up. So I went to various schools in New York. My mom wanted me to be a performer in some way, shape or form. But she was a nice stage mom. She wasn't one of those meanies. And I graduated from Rudolf Steiner, which is small private school, went to New York University, majored in broadcast journalism because I had been on television a couple of times. I'm pretty much the same person I was back then. If you look at my high school yearbook picture, it's all about animal rights and protesting. And so I have been interviewed a couple of times. And even though my initial desire was to be a syndicated columnist, I just switched it out to broadcast journalism. When I was looking at the form and said broadcast journalism, I said, OK, I'll do that. And I graduated from NYU. My first job was in Fort Myers, Florida, as a reporter anchor, a place I still love to this day. And in fact, I've gone back there to protest because a nearby county, Hendry County, Florida, had decided they wanted to become the bio farming capital of the world, which means breeding and accepting monkeys from foreign countries for laboratory experimentation. We didn't put it entirely out of business, but I think their idea of becoming the bio farming capital went out the window because we had protests, court fights, challenges. We went to town and just as a little aside, they called us radical animal rights activists. And the funny part was I was staying with this lovely lady, Madeleine Duran, an old Fort Myers right near the Thomas Edison Summer Home Museum. [00:09:20] She's in her 80s. Whereas tennis shoes and actually wears a little hat with a little orange on it. So when we bought it, brought everybody, the media came out and that the commissioners were saying these were radical animal rights activists and about 40 old ladies in tennis shoes showed up from Fort Myers. I pointed to the to the senior citizens and I said, here are your radical animal rights activists, all in your homeowners from Fort Myers, Florida, who love animals. Anyway, then I went and worked in Minneapolis for a couple of years, and I worked in Philadelphia for a year and a half at WCAU. Then I got a job in New York, which was my hometown, right down the block or up the block from where I grew up. I grew up on fifty seventh and seventh, and the CBS Broadcast Center is fifty seventh between 10th and 11th. So I literally had come back home. [00:10:10] That was my goal. Worked there for eight years. I was exhausted. I was the weekend anchor and a weekday reporter and you just literally go from one crime scene to the next disaster. And after about eight years of that, I was like, I want out. Friend of mine had gotten a job at Cakehole TV, which was owned by the Disney Studios. They had taken it over and they were hiring all the staff at once and they needed an anchor. They suggested me I got the job and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I moved out here to L.A., which was Oh Way is my favorite place. [00:10:42] I had been to L.A. a couple of times prior with my parents once when I was 13. And I remember we had a great time and parents didn't argue with Sunny. I like this place is great. And then I had been also out to L.A. when I was in college to visit my best friend who had moved to L.A. She took me to the beach and honest to God. We sat on the beach at a spot where I look back and I said, I can't believe people get to live on the beach. And guess what? That's exactly just by total accident where I live today. So I always felt like my heart was in L.A. and when I got the job at Cakehole and we were at the Paramount Studios and I had a great parking lot, I had a parking spot on the Paramount Studios, which is. You know, everybody wants a great spot. A parking spot, the Paramount Studios. Honestly, it was it was to this day, I would say the most fun job I've ever had. It was great. You've got you'd walk to work and you'd see people dressed as Star Trek. Captains walking in the other direction. So after about eight years of that excuse me, 12 years, I was 12 years at cow and then they had imagined change. [00:11:52] I was no longer an anchor. I said, OK, I'll just wait out my contract. And basically, after five minutes, a case CBS. Harvey Levin, who is now the head of TMZ, had started a show prior to that called Celebrity Justice. And he was a good friend of mine. We used to go karaoke ing together. [00:12:12] That was our thing when he was a reporter at CBS that I was in a great cake. And so he says, hey, I'm starting to show celebrity justice. You want you, would you? I'm looking for reporters and I can't find any. Or something like that. I said, What about me? You said you'd be interested. Heck, yes. Everybody warned me against it. Like it's a tabloid show. You'll laugh. It'll last 13 weeks. Then you'll never get hired again because you're gonna be tabloid. I said, you know what? Life short. Harvey's the smartest guy I know. If he thinks it's a good idea, I'm going to take a shot. Suffice it to say, it lasted. [00:12:49] About, oh, gosh, three or four years, I guess. Anyway, I ended up covering the Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria, California. It was the biggest global trial of that particular time period right up there with some of the other biggies that we all know. The whole world was there. I was on Larry King Live the night of the arraignment, the night of the verdict. I was on Nancy Grace pretty much every night as the reporter. Then that that show wrapped the trial, wrapped the show wrapped. And I got asked to fill in for Nancy Grace on HLN, which I did for a while. [00:13:27] And then. [00:13:29] What happened was, I believe I was told that Glenn Beck, who was the host of prior to Nancy, stormed off the set or had a hissy fit of some sort and marched out you don't do on TV if you want to come back. They wanted to replace him quickly. They call me up and they said, Would you like a show? I said, yes. I was sitting right here drinking a cup of coffee, wondering what am I gonna do with the rest of my life? I wasn't free, Dad. I was just like, what's next? [00:13:55] I like to let the journey of life take me, take me here, there and everywhere, like Niagara Falls anyway. I said, yes, I'd like a job. They said, OK, we'll call it ISSUES with Jane Velez-Mitchell. I said, great, because I got a lot of issues and I'm a recovering alcoholic. Twenty five years sober. I'm gay. I'm a Vegan. Perhaps the most controversial of all. Not anymore. Anyway, when I got the job, I literally they said, OK, do the show today from L.A. and come to New York. It was Friday this weekend. That's exactly what I did. Once again, the job was two blocks from where I grew up. Fifty seven and seven. This was Columbus Circle. So I moved right back in with my mother, who had a huge rent controlled apartment right across from Carnegie Hall. So I went back to my old bedroom and I was there for seven years, six years on the show. And that was that was great. It was a gift. And what I did when I would ask, see, I started to do animal rights news at Celebrity Justice. Cut me off when you think I've said enough because I could go on all day. [00:15:03] Starting with the issue on HLN, CNN. I thought that that was when you started bringing in the focus on the animal rights. You started at Celebrity Justice. [00:15:13] Oh, yeah, I did start at Celebrity Justice. What happened was I don't know if you've ever seen the show TMZ, but Harvey stands in the front and goes that other than all the producers have to come up with ideas or whatever, it was exactly like that. He got the idea because that's what we used to do. It got ungodly hour of like 7:00 a.m. ET Dale when I lived in Venice. Do the math. It was up early and so we'd have to have a couple of story ideas and he would go, where's the celebrity? Where's the justice? And it was stressful. So all of a sudden I went bingo, because I was an animal rights activist. At that point I was Vegan I thought I go to these great PETA galas. I love Peta. I'm going to call PETA up. They know all the celebrities. I started work with the guy, PETA, and he would get celebrities who would normally run in the other direction from us because I literally chase celebrities down the street with my own little camera and. And the publicist, by the way, this is not an ankle. This is not a police monitoring device. This is my exercise, my arm exercise anyway. Well, when we'd call, the publicist would just click what celebrity? So it was very hard to get celebrities to participate in any way, shape or form. But these celebrities who cared about animal issues were so passionate about their animal issues, they would literally push their publicist aside and talk to me about whatever their passion was. I even interviewed Robert Redford about his passion for saving the whales from the horrors of military sonar. Imagine. Hollywood royalty speaking to moi, who is with a tabloid show. But that's how much he's a great guy. Wow, what a nice person. That's how much these celebrities cared about their animal issues. So I was doing that. That's how we got a couple of Genesis awards. Then when I got the job at CNN Headline News, I said, would you mind if I did a little animal segment once a week, like really innocently because I am innocent. And they said we don't we don't see a problem with that. [00:17:10] Well, maybe this was going to be pet adoptions. I did hardcore animal rights for six years every Friday. And we also introduced some of the of the. But the budding Vegan entrepreneurs like Josh Tetrick, who had just started just Mayo, and we put him on the air and a lot of these people were able to use their segment, take that copy of that segment on CNN Headline News and go out and pitch their projects. So I felt very blessed. I will always think CNN for allowing me to do that. They were true to their word. They let me do it. They never stopped me. And then after I left, I had a good run and the show wrapped up. And then I moved on to create a nonprofit that focus exclusively on animal rights and veganism. [00:17:59] And is this Jane and Jane dot.com that we're speaking about now? [00:18:04] It is indeed. So this is an interesting platform. [00:18:07] It's done what's, I think, a most latter day survival platforms do. You've got a lot of news and you've got a lot of resources. And I'm wondering, I first want to talk about how you carried it. What is the editing process? Do you have a team of people? How do you decide which news makes it on to Jane Unchained? What do you decide gets featured? How is all of that done? [00:18:31] Well, I'll tell you the genesis of it. As after I wrapped the show and I was in New York, I said, oh, I can go to protest because I was a journalist for my whole life, with the exception of a few years where I wasn't fully employed, but I was still working freelance. You can't really go and participate in protests. So actually, my girlfriend at the time was still a dear friend, Donna said. Yeah. Jane, your unshaved. You can go to protest. You can protest. And I was like, Yeah, Jane, Jane. It just had a ring to it. We laughed about it. I remember were walking down 9th Avenue and we were laughing, get Jada Jade and. So I started going to protests immediately, I noticed there was a missing component, A. It was freezing out at the time. People are rushing to get indoors, so they're not really stopping to study it. B, people are shivering and doing all these incredible things, but they're not documenting what they're doing. Remember, this is too late, 2014, 2015. So really, the idea of documenting everything hadn't become ubiquitous. And so I said, OK, here's my niche, because actually an executive at their old cable channel had said, you're obviously passionate about animals. You need to focus on that exclusively. And I said, OK. Good advice, because I always ask people for advice when I'm about to go on the next leg of my life adventure. And so I said, OK, now I found my niche, that little segment that I did every Friday. I can do it all the time. And I can I. They gave me my social media, which was very nice of them. I started putting it on Facebook. I started putting it on Twitter. And soon enough I realized there's so much happening here that I can't do it alone. And it gradually evolved into a Facebook life, which means you don't have to edit for hours and hours and hours. You can just do what I was always a live reporter or host. And we also then decided to expand it. And now we have 70 contributors around the world going live at all sorts of events, protests, VegFest conferences. And we also now have anchors who do their own shows on Facebook. And so we have animals in the law, which is Krista Krantz, a Vegan super lawyer. She's been voter super lawyer. She's Vegan from birth based in Florida. We have Lisa Carlyn who interviews doctors who are Vegan nutritionists and doctors. We had some of the top doctors. We have Lindsay Baker, who does animal rescue stories. We have Chef Babbette who run stuff I eat here in Inglewood. She's an incredible vegan chef, entrepreneur. I don't want to leave anybody out, but we would be here for an hour listening. Everybody is involved. We've got a great team of people, all of whom are working for free. This is a nonprofit and otherwise known as a money pit. I said people used to ask me before I became an OB. [00:21:27] How are you going to monetize it? I was like, oh, how did they monetize the Underground Railroad? [00:21:33] Then they would just look at me and turn on their heels and walk away because they couldn't handle it in our society. People don't even understand if you're doing something that's not motivated to make money unless it's a nonprofit. I realize that I was like, why does everybody keep asking me for my angle? I don't have I have an angle. Yeah. Save the world from extinction. But apparently that's not good enough. So I decided to make it a nonprofit, and I'm really glad I did. Because people need clarity on what? On what's what it's all about. And also, we have to raise funds to do this. This is not it's certainly cheaper than running one of those other networks, but it's not 100 percent cost zero. There's a lot of costs involved. [00:22:16] Yeah, I think it's interesting. I do think it's some of the areas you've touched upon, too. And there's just such an incredible void. [00:22:24] And speaking to, for instance, the show that you have where she's speaking with Vegan doctors, you know, I've had a ton of guests on. And one of the areas that longstanding vegans will still talk about are, you know, finding a pediatrician or an O'Bagy y and it's comfortable with one being Vegan. You know, there's this and just this. It almost seems on real like a surreal moment of lack of information with professionals that we ascribe to health, such as M.D. when it comes to diet and the Vegan nature of health and things like that, or the health nature of veganism. So. And I think those are crucial points to have and need to be continued on. What is the future of it? What is the future of Jane and Jane? What is the next one to three years, five years look like? [00:23:09] Well, we're constantly pivoting and you never know what's good news or bad news. So, for example, when the quarantine happened and we had all these people all the time going live at Cubes of Truth where they hold up the signs and the monitors showing animal abuse at VegFest at all these things that were not happening. So immediately I said, oh, well, I saw within one week all of our content had dried up because except for lunch break life lunch break, like we do every single day since we started it at the advent of Facebook, like we've never missed a day. I'm talking Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, Election Day. We never miss a day. Kind of like the post office. Ale's sleet. Snow will not stop us from our appointed rounds. And post office isn't that bad. Don't, don't don't knock the post office. We need that post office them to vote. And so that we still have going and we still continue to do. It's going to happen today. Just happened already. It's 130 here. It's twelve, thirty p.m. Pacific every single day on Facebook. Dot com slash. Jane Velez-Mitchell. So where we have almost nine hundred thousand followers so. I thought about it and I thought, well, cable news networks have anchors, right? That's what they have, a slate of anchors who talk. Let's do the same thing. We've got all these great people who are super articulate and talented. So we just reached out and sure enough, we got everybody stream yard, which is a great platform to go live on. And next thing you know well, Jed's a millionaire. You know, everybody was doing their own shows and having a great time doing it. Now, you asked a little bit about curation and editing. We are not investigative journalists. And we do have a code of conduct. Anybody can read it. You can go to Jane and Jane dot com. By the way, please sign up, get our biweekly newsletter. We are not in a position to be investigative journalists because when you're alive, look. Investigative journalism obviously takes months, even years, sometimes many years. So we're more appealing to the consumer. We do not. When you're live, you don't have an opportunity to vent and do all the things, the lawyerly things that would normally be required for an investigative story. So I tell everybody. Don't pretend to be Woodward and Bernstein, OK? We don't need that. What we do need is bringing people to these events and being their eyes and ears. So if there's a pig vigil, for example, which we go to regularly, and they still are happening with social distancing now in downtown L.A., right near downtown L.A., where it's heartbreaking to see these baby pigs six months old going into the slaughterhouse and we go wiv and we bring people there. We're not playing Woodward and Bernstein trying to make allegations of specific against any company. This is happening at slaughterhouses around the world. It's a global tragedy. What we do is try to be the eyes and ears of a consumer who might be about to pick up that package of bacon. And they see that and they go, wow, that that's really horrible. I don't want to be a part of that. I consider myself a kind person. I consider myself a loving person. I'm going to make a different choice. So we really are appealing to consumers more than anybody else. Everything we're talking about is a consumer issue. If consumers stopped eating these products, dead animals and the breast milk of cows and the menstrual period of chickens, in one week, our entire society would transform. We would stop accelerating climate change. If nobody ate animals, we'd stop destroying the rainforest. That means we'd stop destroying the habitat of wild animals. That means we'd stop participating in wildlife extinction. And because animals eat so much more than they produces food. More than 70 percent of the soy produced in America, we'd stop contributing to human world hunger. We'd stop contributing to human diseases like heart disease like that prior to Cauvin, kill one out of every four Americans and is still killing plenty of Americans, except some of them are also dying from Kolbert or and or Koban. So for all these reasons, if we just took the power back with our food choices, we could change the world. So that's why we talk to the consumers. Everything we talk about meat, dairy, pharmaceuticals is a consumer issue. [00:27:58] Yeah, the purse strings hold the power. Right. And some of the change. It kind of leads us into unpacking the documentary Countdown to Year Zero. [00:28:07] I will tell you as a viewer and someone who grew up in the documentary film industry and I was the most moving part for me was maybe 15 minutes in. Then you've got Dr. Salish, Rao Rayle. He said very simply in a way that I think only he can. He said, you don't try to change the corrupt current culture. You build a better one. And you bring people over to it. You know, it was then I am butchering it. That's not a direct quote. But this concept of and I really appreciate people that set up frameworks and this concept of stop not trying to fix the current broken structure, but rather developing a new format in which people can envision belonging and want to belong. Because, you know, if you can get through this life, another quote that someone on your show said, if you can get through this life, you know, living well, eating well and not hurting anyone with the same quality, why wouldn't you? You know, this concept of just constantly perpetuating something because you were born under parents that didn't know better. I mean, all of these weird forms of hereditary nature and things like that being dispelled all at once. And what I like about the documentary is that it has a very distinctly different voice than all of the really mass major heavy hitter ones out there. And I want to get into how you decided that you were going to come at that, because you have things like conspiracy, what the health, all of these, you know, game changers, big ones that came out. But you took a very much a more microscopic view with this documentary. You kind of developed the entire ethos around, you know, the attachment between veganism and the future of our planet. And and I think a lot of other documentaries had that muddled into their narrative. But they really didn't pass it all out as clearly as you did. What made you decide that you were going to take that direct narrative or did it unfold as you were filming? [00:30:11] Well, we didn't really start out to make a documentary. I had made one small documentary before about my mother, Anita Velez, dancing through life because she had thousands of incredible photos of her and her dance troupe back in the heyday and the last days of vaudeville. And there were just all Averitt costumes. [00:30:33] You could you couldn't you couldn't miss a documentary like that up, especially with my mother, who was incredible character and very ahead of her time, she was doing yoga. Ortiz, she was the first hyphenate. She kept her name and added my father's name. She was Anita Velez Mitchell. [00:30:47] And that's why I added my mother's name to my name. I was born Jane Mitchell. But in tribute to her and also to fully express who I am, I use my mom's name as well. And so I wasn't really thinking about making a documentary. What happened was somebody asked me, well, what happened? Was I. Met, talked around. I was at the rowdy girl's sanctuary in Texas at a one of these VegFest and. This guy gets on the stage and it was a big, big grassy area. So not that many people were paying attention and there were all a bunch of food booths back there. And so I was sort of like by myself alone with my live camera getting the next speaker. And what he said just blew my mind. And I said, this is what I've been waiting to hear my whole life. He said very matter of factly, we are going to create a Vegan world and we're gonna do it by twenty, twenty six. You know, you have to have a deadline to get it accomplished. We know why we have to do it. All we need to find out is how we do it. And we I'm a systems analyst and I'm an engineer and we have methodologies for doing that. And that's how we put a man on the moon. And that's how we increased Internet speeds so rapidly. And that's how the Internet went, something when we all got our first computers. Those little weird things that look like spaceships, we didn't know how to use them. And now can we live without this for four minutes without panicking? Rapid social change can and does occur. And so he was actually instrumental in the development of the rapid acceleration of Internet speeds. I hear this guy. I'm going. He's a genius. I don't say that about very many people. I do not have a bumper sticker on the back of my car. This is my two. I will mix's are Mensa members. They are very smart, though. But this guy is a seriously. He's a genius. And so I was just taken with this idea. It's like I remember reading about the women who stop the troubles in Northern Ireland, who some trial was shot on a grassy front yard and some woman came out and said, enough, we are going to end the troubles. And, of course, all the men her. Guess what, they ended up doing it and winning a Nobel Prize. And they had said, you can never achieve something unless you can express what you want. If you can't even express what you want to achieve. How the heck are you going to achieve it? So when he said that flat out, we're gonna create a bigger world, we're gonna do it by twenty, twenty six. I was totally taken with him. So I got involved in his campaign. Climate Healer's Dawg and Vegan World. Twenty, twenty six. And then he sent out an e-mail. It said, I'm going to Costa Rica. I'm going to look at a former cattle ranch that has been reforested and we're gonna show whoever comes along. How reforesting can occur very rapidly, because that's part of what needs to happen when we eliminate animal agriculture that's eliminating most of the farmland. It's only like a fraction that's actually growing food that we eat like vegetables. It's mostly food that's fed to farm animals. So we get to reforest all that foreign land. Then that begins to sequester carbon. That will begin to reduce the temperature back to maybe 200 years ago. And we as a species will survive. Trees sequester carbon, they absorb carbon. That carbon makes the earth harder. The world's harder. So I decided to go down there with my partner at the time, Donna. We said, let's go. Let's hurry up. And then somebody who I work with very closely said, why don't you take? Because I have. I have usually issued 90 percent of stuff, but I do have two good cameras. So once you take a good camera with you and shoot some of it. So, of course, having the attic mind, I can't shoot a little bit. You know, I've got to always shoot everything. So I had my camera in their face the whole time and he was so gracious about it. It's just like nothing ruffles. And I'm shooting the people arriving at the airport and the rioting and everything, he said. Anyway, at the end of it, we actually made a like a new constitution, we created a declaration for the Vegan world and what needs to happen. And there were just, interestingly enough, twelve of us. So it was kind of like this mystical kind of thing, like here we are together and I travel at twelve of us, creating like a constitution for a new world so that the planet can survive. It felt very heavy. And I got all the debating about the Constitution or the declaration. And so when I got back, I was like, what do I do with all this? Then I went to North Carolina to speak at the Hilton Head VegFest. And that was at the time, way before. This is a couple of years, several years ago, where, you know, VegFest, I try to support small VegFest because those are the important ones to Hilton Head. Boy, that's great to have a beachhead at Hilton Head. Right. A beachhead of the organism. So I went down there, lovely people. And this editor and videographer, Jeff Adams, who lives in North Carolina, called me and he said, you know, I really feel like in North Carolina, I don't have a lot of Vegan friends and I'm feeling kind of alienated. Can I come down to Hilton Head and videotape your speech? Because I was giving a speech there. I said, sure. So we all went out to dinner afterwards and I said, Do you still feeling alienated? And you want to project? And he said, Yeah. I said, OK, I'll put you to work. Come to Vegan world. Twenty, twenty six. I'll buy your plane ticket. You go to Viðga World twenty twenty six in Arizona. Mesa, Arizona. And you film it all. I said because I'm participating in it and it's hard enough for me to do the live videos, much less do love videos and shoot a good video camera and participate. So he flew in and he shot the Vegan World twenty twenty six conference where people came from all around the world to do exactly what Dr. Rao said. We know what we have to do. We just need to know how to do it. We all created questions of what needs to be answered. He didn't call it problems. He called it questions that need to be answered in order to create a Vegan world. So we had all sorts of people there, doctors and lawyers and scientists and cryptocurrency. I mean, it was just like a huge group of maybe 200 people with a lot of varying backgrounds. We all wrote questions on the board. Then we divided it up into maybe a dozen different topics like agriculture, finance, workers, you know, those kinds of things. [00:37:28] And then he creates committees and those committees will create subcommittees. And he explains. This is exactly how they do engineering projects. They create committees and subcommittees. So he's moving full steam ahead on this. Anyway, after that, he shot all that. We had pretty much what we needed for a documentary. Also, I have tons of footage that I shoot constantly and some of the best moments of the documentary or lie videos that are contributors shot Leive one. To me, one of the most emotional moments is when one of our contributors in our book or at Jane and Jane Page fastens Roach happened to see a truck filled with cows driving on the road. And she he pulled over, she pulled over and she just started videotaping these animals and talking to them. It's gut wrenching. It's just it brings tears to my eyes. You couldn't catch that if you decided to hire a crew and go out. And now we're going to look for trucks. No, these moments, the power of why video is that you capture moments that are completely spontaneous, that are not staged in any way, shape or form. The same thing with some of the visual moments. We had moments where we were seeing a pig thirsty drinking water and then turned right to some woman who's crying and talking about people need to see this. These were really emotional moments that were captured alive that we took and we added to the documentary. I mean, I think that considering we did this in one year, pretty much the whole thing. I'm used to doing things quickly. I totally respect people who take years on a project like the game changers. And it's spectacular and it's game changing. But we all have to contribute what we know how to do. I was a day of air a news reporter. I, I just I have to turn things around quickly unless I have a personality change. So we shot it. We edited it. And with one year within a year, it was on Amazon Prime. [00:39:27] Well, I have to say, that is auspicious. Maybe at the very least. And at the very most, it's definitely just it's it's being very latter day. [00:39:37] You know, GenZE is the non filter generation. You can't put a filter, you know, photograph up without having a 20 year old house. And I love that because they speak very much so to the mantra of my heart, you know, with this this desire for a platform for authenticity and honest rhetoric and engagement and transparency. And that, I think was part of the moving part about it, the length. None of it was confined by some of these other magistrates that controls other documentaries, even good ones in the industry. You know, this this it did feel shot by obvious different mediums and end it. You'd have to either plan that or just have it happen. And so I think it's very interesting that they narrowed the narrative, curated itself just by a year's format and and your hustle and bustle to put it together. I love it. I think it's one of the best ones out there. And I like its scope. Again, the imagery that you're talking about, you know, she is actually apologizing to the cows when she reaches through the crate and says goodbye. Those you're right. You just you can't write that. And I think a large problem with some of Dowagiac documentary filmmaking is that it's written, you know, and there is that the hypothesis re needed to head and you didn't do that. And so the narrative really does just write itself with a realistic and honest tenor. And I think that it's it's delivered in immeasurably. So I encourage everyone to get on Amazon Prime. And it's a figure, a prime member. It's free. And if not, it's pennies on the dollar. [00:41:04] So what you're going to gain in education, Jane, we're running out of time, but I'm going to move to our rapid fire questions so that we honor our audience members and talking to you about you in particular. We have some very directed ones for. We've had people we reached out to people on our mailing list and we give them this some trajectory of who's coming on. And so let me give you. OK. So the number one thing that we had I tried to take. So for everyone listening, I hear you. But I'm trying to condense a bunch of your questions into one with a lot of people that wanted me to ask you directly about the KFC and the Burger King, these substitution meat alternatives that these major offenders and problem causers of the industry. Do you support the efforts that they switch because any animal saved is a good idea, or do you think that they are the propagators of the problem and still shouldn't be sponsored? How do you view that? [00:42:00] Well, I think that's an age old problem. But let me say this beyond me. For example, we did an entire tour with Ethan Brown, the CEO and founder. It's right here in El Segundo. He's a vegan. He's making a completely plant based product. And he went public. [00:42:18] So I don't know where the bad guy is there. [00:42:21] I mean, and and as this his not competitor, his associate at another company, Impossible Foods CEO, pointed out, just because it says process doesn't mean it's bad for you. It's much better than dead animals. It doesn't have cholesterol because plants don't contain cholesterol. It doesn't have hormones, antibiotics, all these other things that animals bring with them. Also, it's a completely pure product that's untouched by human hands as it's manufactured, unlike meat, which is produced obviously in concentrated animal feeding operations. And then these animals are slaughtered in slaughterhouses that are riddled with corona virus. And where are the workers who tens of thousands of tested positive are sweating onto the meat? OK. So there's obvious benefits there as far as looking at, for example, beyond meat burger or an impossible burger at a fast food joint. The way I like to look at it and honestly, the first time I've ever been in a Burger King was for the B Army burger, the impossible whopper. That was impossible. I mix them up a little bit, but that they're my two, you know, Burger Biondi and impossible. But these are just boxes. OK, these are corporations are are not people. I mean, they can be led by a very dominant personality, but they're not people. They can't be changed. Who pays the price for the purity of us? For example, suing because a Vegan burger might have been cooked on a grill that had also grilled meat and some vegans did sue. I believe it was Burger King and the suit was thrown out. Who pays the price for that purity? Animals? Yeah. We don't want to be an exclusive club. We want the world to be so Vegan that the word Vegan doesn't even need to exist, that there needs to be a code word for Cardus and that you go into a restaurant and the menu is one or two percent Vegan. Well, I don't engage in magical thinking, just like I don't think the virus is just going to disappear. I don't think we're just going to magically one day wake up and I'll be Vegan. It's a process and we have to open the door. As Jean Bauer says, to accept everybody wherever they are on the journey. Very few of us were born Vegan. I wasn't born Vegan. So it was about learning. That doesn't mean I'm not for confrontation on for peaceful, nonviolent confrontation. In cases where it's necessary. But, guys. [00:45:06] We have to get into the major institutions. If we don't get into the major institutions, we're gonna be marginalized. We can get in there and we can change those institutions. I've gotten calls from people, unnamed executives in major, major food companies who will tell me. Wow. This plant based me is coming here. Send your folks over there. There are people in these organizations that want to help. If we just demonize them and say we're not going to deal with them, they're very powerful. OK. So what we can do is convince them it's in their self-interest to convert to plant based. McDonald's could be a 100 percent Vegan company if it wanted to be. And it should become that because some very powerful companies like Woolworths no longer exist. Do they want to be the walrus? Or do they want to be the veggie girls of the future? So we know that they can convert. [00:46:03] The question is consumers need to prove it to them. That means we need to support those products when they appear in those institutions that we may not love. That's my personal, Ben. OK. [00:46:16] Interesting. Yeah. I wasn't sure you were gonna go that way. I like it in countdown to year zero in the documentary, as well as other tidbits of you on YouTube in places you've kind of had this rhetoric about that I find very integral and fascinating regarding the differences between generations and marketing to them and what the marketing to generations now consisting on social media means that they are no longer beholden to old stereotypes and things like that of marketing enterprises that relay horrible information. [00:46:50] And we had a lot of people write in and ask, what is the best utility for social media and getting the word about veganism out there. Like, what is a good action item for the average person who just wants to help the Vegan cause? [00:47:05] Here's a great action item. Every time you make a Vegan meal, take a pretty photograph of it and post it and post a hashtag. You could post boycott me. Skip meat plant based party. I love Vegan. Whatever you want, whatever you want to post, because there's all those hash tags are all circulating out there. It takes a second. You make your food, you post it. This is the most powerful tool we have. This is a network. What's a network? And that work is a production company with a distribution pipeline to an audience. Everybody who has a phone has a Facebook page and Instagram page, a tick tock page. Look at what Tabitha Brown accomplished with one tick tock video on making carrot bacon, 12 million views. A show now with the Ellen Network. [00:47:57] I mean. [00:47:59] I do. And by the way, I really want to urge people to watch our cooking show on Amazon Prime, New Day, New Chef. It's a new day. You can be a new chef. Please watch it. Write a review. It's very successful. Watch it with people who are not yet Vegan and recommend it to people want to go plant based. We have a lot of fun. Every time we turn on the blender, we dance. [00:48:22] Epic, who who's hosting that? [00:48:25] Me. And we have a lot of celebrity co-hosts. Nice. New Day, New Chef. [00:48:32] On Amazon Prime. They're your best days. No question that we had we had a lot of people right in around this topic as well. And there's a lot of people looking at launching nonprofits, a lot of entrepreneurs that want to get involved in starting a nonprofit based with a Vegan tone or ideology behind it. And we had people ask, what are your top pieces of advice? And beginning off with a nonprofit with a Vegan focus. [00:49:00] Well, realize right off the bat, it's a lot harder than you think. Oh, I am one of these people. I just want to go live. I wouldn't be on camera. I want to go shoot videos. Paperwork. Paperwork. Paperwork. Paperwork. And it's important. You've got to do the paperwork. So create a system. So we have people who help us and thank God. But it's complicated and it requires attention to detail and setting up a system and being organized. So this know that there's that part of it. And I would say do it. I mean, that's really the the only thing that I would say was a little bit once I got into it, like, overwhelming. But I've set up a system and I try to adhere to it and I ask for advice. So we just got a great attorney on our board. So that was wonderful because she can give us a lot of insights into how to do everything her as best as we can and as pay attention to details. But do it, do it and get started and try to figure out how to make it support itself, because there's expenses in just having a nonprofit board of directors insurance and the accounting and all the other things that you might need. So there's it's not free. Let's put it that way. [00:50:29] No. What do you do you think the sponsorship or partnerships are both a collection of both. How would you advise someone head into, like, solving some of that difficult financial aspect? [00:50:41] Well, that is probably the biggest issue. And I know everybody's asking right now for all the many nonprofits. It's a high class problem in the sense that, for example, 30 years ago, there were maybe three farm animal sanctuaries. I mean, there was. Farm Sanctuary. The the the biggie we have animal place that I think was founded in nineteen eighty nine of Woodstock Central. I don't wanna leave anybody out. Indro Local. There's a lot of great sanctuaries, but there were not that many 20 some years ago. Now there are like hundreds if you include myco sanctuaries and all of them need to support themselves. So we've been I've been thinking about when I do work and just associate in whatever manner, whether it's a a rescue of animals or whatever, with nonprofits that are sanctuary based. How can you make yourself self supporting? [00:51:34] You have to think outside the box. You have to be creative. [00:51:37] Let me say that one of the sanctuary started something called goat to meeting. I mean, sanctuaries are hurting now during the pandemic. They rely on people coming to visit. They created a goat to meeting. You can Google go to meeting where people can have a zoom and they invite a farmed animal at a sanctuary to participate. They basically put a camera in front of a farmed animal. It is a success. He had to hire more people. That's what I mean about thinking outside the box. Now, we don't want to turn those sanctuaries into petting zoos now, but there are ways to make it creative. Without that, zoos obviously need to go away. They need to either shut down or turn into sanctuaries. Zoos are designed for the better for the people. Sanctuaries are designed for the benefit of animals. But there is a way to make these sanctuaries intriguing enough, whether it's a theme or a value added in terms of maybe concerts or things like that, that where the animals are perfectly protected, they're not exploited in any way, but that they can support themselves. That's a big challenge. But I think if we think creatively, like go to meeting, it's great. I think those are the kinds of solutions we need to come up with. [00:52:59] Absolutely. I agree. I had that creative thought. I hadn't even gotten into that. But sanctuary in a support is a big one. And you're right, with the pandemic, it's it's a rough situation. Well, Jane, we are out of time today, and I'm depressed because I have a billion more questions. And I went by your book, so I'm going to have to lure you back on in a few months and see if we can unpack some more of your work. [00:53:20] I love it. And by the way, one last thing I'd like to say, I have a cup of coffee every morning and it's brewing good coffee and a percentage of all their profits goes to animal sanctuaries. So right there, when you have your Morning Joe, you can order for brewing. Good. They deliver right to your door. And that's how we're going to keep that Begoña me going. Every single thing we buy is a political, environmental, moral. And, you know, it's a choice that affects our world. So I just picked up the coffee and I thought I'd end with that. [00:53:55] And it's absolutely true. You have a million choices towards veganism and fighting that with them. Consumerism a day. I truly believe it. Thank you so much for your time. And I appreciate all of your candor and your information. [00:54:09] Thank you. It was fun, was a great conversation. Thank you for everyone listening. [00:54:13] We've been speaking with Jane Velez Mitchell. She's a social media journalist, activist and author. You can find out more about everything we've spoken about as well as the documentary. [00:54:23] It is countdown to year zero and find out all the information regarding her news and all of the projects in her endeavors on Jane Unchained dot com. [00:54:34] Thank you so much for giving us your time today. And until we speak again next time, remember to stay safe, eat responsibly and clean and always bet on yourself. Slainte. 

Jane Mitchell started her career in public service as a Waterloo Region District School Board from 1990 to 2000. She was then elected to the Region of Waterloo Council representing the City of Waterloo from 2000 to 2018. Jane was also the first women chair of the Grand River Conservation Authority from 2010 to 2015. Jane joins Rob for a chat about how she got into politics, her experiences representing her constituents and the inner-workings of how things got done (and sometimes didn't get done).

In this episode of API Resilience, Lorna Jane Mitchell (senior developer advocate, Vonage) shares her journey as a developer advocate, OpenAPI Initiative contributor, open source enthusiast, and keen blogger, and how her role has been evolving into digital advocacy this year. She also explores the steps you can take to not to go too early into code and add more value to your API experience, and how API teams could benefit from a spec-first attitude. The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix). Intro music: Broke For Free - Night Owl (CC)

As the Chinese Consulate burns papers after its closure, Tom and Jay brave the surge in covid cases by staying safe at home. They are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week. 1.     More compliance guidance from OFAC. Dick Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. 2.     First ComEd fined $200MM in Illinois, then Speaker of Ohio House charged in massive state corruption probes. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance on Illinois. Julie Wernau and Katherine Blunt in WSJ on Ohio. 3.     Was Willie Nelson or Patsy Cline crazy? Bill Steinmann says it’s the FCPA year 2020 in the FCPA Blog. 4.     Mike Volkov goes Old Testament about Amazon OFAC sanctions. In Corruption Crime and Compliance. 5.     From 3 Lines of Defense to the 3 Lines Model as the IIA updates its model. Matt Kelly back with a rare double double for This Week in FCPA in Radical Compliance. 6.     Compliance really is a journey. Mary Shirley in CCI. 7.     How is Covid-19 impacting compliance? Jennifer Sun explores in CCI. 8.     The Ethical Revolution in Business. Philip Winterburn and Jane Mitchell in Converge. 9.     This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by Scott Sullivan, Chief Integrity and Compliance Officer at Newport Mining. In Part 1, we discussed  the need for empathy in a CCO. In Part 2, we looked at reading the tea leaves and staying ahead of the (corp) wolf pack. This week in Part 3, we considered who a CCO needs on their compliance team. 10.  On the Compliance Podcast Network, Tom continues the topic of 3rd party risk management this month.This week saw the following offerings: Monday-the ROI of 3rd party compliance (Linda Justice as guest); Tuesday- 3rd parties as innovation partners (Eric Feldman as guest), Wednesday-3rd party risk expansion; Thursday-termination of 3rd parties; and Friday-distributor compensation. The month of July is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors.  Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here. 11.  Great Upcoming Webinars: K2 Intelligence Fin Webinar with AIBACP: Pandemics to Recession—Finding AML and ABC Synergies in Tough Times, July 30, 2020 at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EST; with JoAnn Taylor and Adam Frey. Registration and Information here. ECI's Best Practice Forum, a Q&A Session with Brian Rabbitt, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division on the FCPA Resource Guide, 2nd edition, Thursday, July 30, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. EDT. Registration and Information here. Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the very first episode of Hittin' The Bricks!; an in depth discussion about Blood and Hail, the new Novelcast by J.D. Bricker. On this episode, host Johnny Winjoe interviews comedian and writer Jane Mitchell.

What is it like to live and work outside the United States? In this episode, Joi and Jane Mitchell tell us about their experiences living abroad in Korea and the UK. We also talk about shifts in careers, national identity, and culture. Dr. Joi Mitchell is Originally from Detroit, Michigan. She received her bachelor's and master's degree from the AUC center. She also holds a Ph.D. from Capella University. Her first career was a psychotherapist specializing in LGBTQ issues. In 2015, she transitioned to work full time as a school counselor for the Department of Defense, where she worked 3 years in South Korea. She currently works at Lakenheath Middle School in the UK. Jane Mitchell is originally from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She is an Army veteran where she was a behavior science specialist. Upon leaving the military, she worked for the United States Postal Service for 18 years. Currently, she is a certified personal trainer in the UK doing in person and online training. You can find her at Fitforlife by Jane on Facebook. Joi and Jane have been together for six years, and have been married for four years.

As the second decade of this century draws to a close Tom Service talks to the composer Steve Reich at his upstate New York home about emotion in music, his love for J.S. Bach and the creative thought process as he writes a new work for the autumn of 2021. With 2020 and a big birthday for Ludwig van Beethoven around the corner, violinist James Ehnes speaks to Tom about how the music of Beethoven continues to surprise. And as we approach the third decade of the new millennium – our 21st century is fresh out of its painful adolescence – Tom hears from composer Gerald Barry, the Director of Music at London's Southbank Centre, Gillian Moore, the vocal and movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener, and the Creative Director of the Aurora Orchestra, Jane Mitchell, for their take on the creative classical music temperature of the third millennium – so far...

Julie is joined by Jane Mitchell, Owner and CEO of Jungle Jane Promotions, to discuss the trends in company branding and how those new trends and be used to marketing their talent, products and services.

How do you ensure you're getting good employees? In this episode, Julie is joined by Jane Mitchell, Owner and CEO of Jungle Jane Promotions, to discuss the topics of talent acquisition and the marketing of that talent and their products and services.

Jane Mitchell is an accredited mindfulness practitioner and teacher and a registered Learning Disability Nurse.Jane helps people to "deepen their awareness of their own experience," and was my guest on today's radio show to describe her work and how mindfulness can help business leaders and social entrepreneurs."Mindfulness is the opposite of autopilot" she says and involves being attentive, present in the current moment, in a non-judgemental way. She describes its benefits in the interview and runs through a simple, short exercise you can do (which I did, in the studio, during the interview).Timings:0 - 5:35 Introduction and updates, including a joint letter from the TUC’s general secretary, Frances O’Grady, and the CBI’s Carolyn Fairbairn, warning that the UK faces a "national emergency" and warning of the danger of a no-deal Brexit; Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and The Outdoor Festival; Phlegm's Mausoleum of the Giants; getting in touch.5:35 Jane Mitchell part 1: Jane's route to becoming a registered mindfulness practitioner.14:55 What is mindfulness? How does mindfulness help people who are running businesses or social enterprises, or self-employed people, and why has there been an increase in interest in mindfulness?28:40 Break. News of a fantastic opportunity for social entrepreneurs, leaders of community enterprises, and other businesses and organisations making a demonstrable impact: The Cambridge Social Innovation Prize.31:29 Jane Mitchell part 2: if listeners are stressed, overwhelmed, on "autopilot," feel pulled from deadline to deadline or have an "inner critic": what techniques can they use to alleviate stress and to find a place of stillness or calm?36:00 Jane runs through the three-minute breathing exercise, live in the studio with me and with listeners - you can take part too.39:00 how did the three-minute breathing exercise make me feel?41:40 how Jane has developed her practice and her programmes - and what her day-to-day week looks like,44:00 what happens if engaging in mindfulness programmes or practices makes participants more aware of challenging or difficult issues - how do they deal with this? Is this a legitimate concern?46:53 what does the accreditation in mindfulness mean? If listeners want to find a teacher, what should they look for, and where can they find teachers meeting guidelines for good practice?48:38 - end how to reach Jane, her events, and wrapping up

Recently I caught up face-to-face with Jane Mitchell while on a trip to London. Jane is the Founder of JL&M and Director at Karian and Box. She's also a faculty member with the Centre for Strategic Communication Excellence.Beginning her career in broadcasting and communication at the BBC in London, Jane has worked on programs like Tomorrow's World, Grange Hill and Blue Peter. She is an independent advisor to organisations, global and local, public and private, with a particular focus on supporting them to develop and embed values and ethics programs and helping them develop healthy and positive corporate cultures through professional communication. Her clients include Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, BP, SERCO, Meggitt, BT, Co-operative Bank, Tesco and Airbus. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).Support the show (https://cropleycomms.com.au/subscribe.html)

Welcome to a Kessler Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Grand Rounds podcast featuring Jane Mitchell, RN, BSN, CRRN, CCM, Spinal Cord Injury and Ventilator Program Coordinator and Cynthia Nead, COTA, Clinical Equipment Coordinator, both from Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, NJ Ms. Mitchell and Ms. Nead presented “The Caregiver Corner: A Stepping Stone to Home”, a program to support caregivers that has recently begun to be implemented at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. Download the presentation slides at https://kesslerfoundation.org/sites/default/files/11OCT18_SCI%20Grand%20Rounds%20Caregiver%20Corner.pdf This presentation was recorded by Nicky Miller, Social Media Specialist at Kessler Foundation and produced/edited by Joan Banks-Smith, Creative Producer for Kessler Foundation on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, Conference Center, West Orange, New Jersey and was hosted by the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System, which is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90SI5026). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  For more information about Kessler Foundation and our researchers, go to KesslerFoundation.org. For podcasts of past SCI Grand Rounds presentations, visit: https://soundcloud.com/kesslerfoundation/sets/sci-grand-rounds Like us on FaceBook, follow us on Instagram, listen to us on Soundcloud, and tweet with us on Twitter!

Ali Meehan chats to Carrie Frais, one of the founders of MumAbroad and Jane Mitchell, Associate Director, of the fabulous MumAbroad.com In our conversation we talk about finding likeminded people and your (local) tribe when you move overseas, the power of networking, and the building the amazing 'trip advisor' for families that is MumAbroad.com Blog: https://www.mumabroadlife.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MumAbroadSpain/ Twitter: @mumabroadSupport the show (https://costawomen.com/help/contact)

18/June/2017: Jane Mitchell speaks from Acts 9.1-19 on Saul’s Conversion

Jane Mitchell's idea started out with an idea on a sticky note. It has since grown into The Reset Foundation, an organization set to buck convention for those incarcerated. The idea is simple, says the Foundation's website, "Instead of serving time in a dehumanizing prison environment, a sentenced young adult lives at Reset Campus, focused entirely on academics, career and healthy living." The goal of The Reset Foundation is to keep these young adults out of an ongoing prison/poverty cycle through a two-year program focused on training, counseling, education and career support.   The United States has a higher incarceration rate than anywhere in the world -- with 2.8 million behind bars. Of these individuals, 68% are re-arrested within only three years. And while Jane has selected a career path that's far from glamorous, she loves her job, lives her faith and has an unmatched enthusiasm for keeping young people out of jail.

12/7/15: Jane Mitchell talks about God's plans for our future

Jane Mitchell and Paul Perry are two of the leaders at The Reset Foundation, a non-profit in the criminal justice space. They join VerityCast to discuss lessons learned and challenges overcome in taking their organization from concept to reality to growth.

This week I have an interview with the lovely Lorna Jane Mitchell who is a PHP developer and advocate as well as a consultant and trainer. She joins me from JAB 2014 where she did a presentation about Open Source Personas. Full show notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep90 Also on this episode is a listener question about hosting and templates as well as the start of the Seblod training course. James gives an overview of what to expect and what is in the first course. Sign up to get access to the four part series as they are released at http://joomlabe.at/seblod

Lorna Jane Mitchell is back to show us some great reasons for upgrading your projects to PHP 5.3 or newer. Drupal 8's minimum version requirement is already up there at 5.4.5 (as of 2015.Feb.02), so we're doing well! Lorna and I have a quick chat about her history and experience, open source versus proprietary software development ("Projects and companies that work in that open source technology space make much better use of tools ... and they are wonderful, free, and well-supported tools!") ... specifics of how and why the PHP "Renaissance" is happening, and Drupal 8 as a PHP meta-project before she gets down to her jam's Drupal Camp presentation. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/171-new-wave-php-lorna-jane-mitchell

I ran into PHP consultant, Lorna Jane Mitchell at DrupalCon/Symfony Live Portland this May. She and I had a great talk about PHP for building secure, modular, high availability applications in the enterprise; where newer versions of PHP (5.3, 5.4, 5.5 ...) are headed; and the business value inherent in open source software. This conversation was the seed for Lorna's Acquia.com guest blog post, "The Future of PHP is ... Here Already", which compliments this podcast perfectly! Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/99-php-taking-care-business-meet-lorna-jane-mitchell