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Lyssa Rome is a speech-language pathologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is on staff at the Aphasia Center of California, where she facilitates groups for people with aphasia and their care partners. She owns an LPAA-focused private practice and specializes in working with people with neurogenic communication disorders. She has worked in acute hospital, skilled nursing, and continuum of care settings. Prior to becoming an SLP, Lyssa was a public radio journalist, editor, and podcast producer. In this episode, Lyssa Rome interviews Liz Hoover about group treatment for aphasia.   Guest info Dr. Liz Hoover is a clinical professor of speech language and hearing sciences and the clinical director of the Aphasia Resource Center at Boston University. She holds board certification from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, or ANCDS, and is an ASHA fellow. She was selected as a 2024 Tavistock Trust for Aphasia Distinguished Scholar, USA and Canada. Liz was a founding member of Aphasia Access and served on the board for several years. She has 30 years of experience working with people with aphasia and other communication disorders across the continuum of care. She's contributed to numerous presentations and publications, and most of her work focuses on the effectiveness of group treatment for individuals with aphasia.   Listener Take-aways In today's episode you will: Describe the evidence supporting aphasia conversation groups as an effective interventions for linguistic and psychosocial outcomes. Differentiate the potential benefits of dyads versus larger groups in relation to client goals. Identify how aphasia severity and group composition can influence treatment outcomes.   Edited transcript Lyssa Rome Welcome to the Aphasia Access Aphasia Conversations Podcast. I'm Lyssa Rome. I'm a speech language pathologist on staff at the Aphasia Center of California and I see clients with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders in my LPAA-focused private practice. I'm also a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. Aphasia Access strives to provide members with information, inspiration and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources.   I'm today's host for an episode that will feature Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, who was selected as a 2024 Tavistock Trust for Aphasia Distinguished Scholar, USA and Canada.   Liz Hoover is a clinical professor of speech language and hearing sciences and the clinical director of the Aphasia Resource Center at Boston University. She holds board certification from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, or ANCDS, and is an ASHA fellow. Liz was a founding member of Aphasia Access and served on the board for several years. She has 30 years of experience working with people with aphasia and other communication disorders across the continuum of care. She's contributed to numerous presentations and publications, and most of her work focuses on the effectiveness of group treatment for individuals with aphasia. Liz, welcome back to the podcast.   So in 2017 you spoke with Ellen Bernstein Ellis about intensive comprehensive aphasia programs or ICAPs and inter professional practice at the Aphasia Resource Center at BU and treatment for verb production using VNest, among other topics. So this time, I thought we could focus on some of your recent research with Gayle DeDe and others on conversation group treatment.   Liz Hoover Sounds good.   Lyssa Rome All right, so my first question is how you became interested in studying group treatment?   Liz Hoover Yeah, I actually have Dr. Jan Avent to thank for my interest in groups. She was my aphasia professor when I was a graduate student doing my masters at Cal State East Bay. As you know, Cal State East Bay is home to the Aphasia Treatment Program. When I was there, it preceded ATP. But I was involved in her cooperative group treatment study, and as a graduate student, I was allowed to facilitate some of her groups in this study, and I was involved in the moderate-to-severe group. She was also incredibly generous at sharing that very early body of work for socially oriented group treatments and exposing us to the work of John Lyons and Audrey Holland. Jan also invited us to go to a conference on group treatment that was run by the Life Link group. It's out of Texas Woman's University, Delaina Walker-Batson and Jean Ford. And it just was a life changing and pivotal experience for me in recognizing how group treatment could not be just an adjunct to individual goals, but actually be the type of treatment that is beneficial for folks with aphasia. So it's been a love my entire career.   Lyssa Rome And now I know you've been studying group treatment in this randomized control trial. This was a collaborative research project, so I'm hoping you can tell us a little bit more about that project. What were your research questions? Tell us a little bit more.   Liz Hoover Yeah, so thank you. I'll just start by acknowledging that the work is funded by two NIDCD grants, and to acknowledge their generosity, and then also acknowledge Dr. Gayle DeDe, who is currently at Temple University. She is a co- main PI in this work, and of course it wouldn't have happened without her. So you know, Gayle and I have known each other for many, many years. She's a former student, doctoral student at Boston University, and by way of background, she and I were interested in working together and interested in trying to build on some evidence for group treatment. I think we drank the Kool Aid early on, as you might say.   And you know, just looking at the literature, there have been two trials on the evidence for this kind of work. And so those of us who are involved in groups, know that it's helpful for people with aphasia, our clients tell us how much they enjoy it, and they vote with their feet, right? In that they come back for more treatments. And aphasia centers have grown dramatically in the last couple of decades in the United States.   So clearly we know they work, but what we don't know is why they work. What are those essential ingredients, and how is that driving the change that we think we see? And from a personal perspective, that's important for me to understand and for us to have explained in the literature, because until we can justify it in the scientific terms, I worry it will forever be a private-pay adjunct that is only accessible to people who can pay for it, or who are lucky enough to be close enough to a center that can get them access—virtual groups aside, and the advent of that—but it's important that I think this intervention is validated to the scientific community in our field.   So we designed this trial. It's a randomized control trial to help build the research evidence for conversation, group treatment, and to also look at the critical components. This was inspired by a paper actually from Nina Simmons Mackie in 2014 and Linda Worrell. They looked at group treatment and showed that there were at least eight first-tier elements that changed the variability or on which we might modify group conversation treatment. And so, you know, if we're all doing things differently, how can we predict the change, and how can we expect outcomes?   Lyssa Rome So I was hoping you could describe this randomized, controlled trial. You know, it was collaborative, and I'm curious about what you and your collaborators had as your research questions.   Liz Hoover So our primary aims of the study were to understand if communication or conversation treatment is associated with changes in measures of communicative ability and psychosocial measures. So that's a general effectiveness question. And then to look in more deeply to see if the group size or the group composition or even the individual profile of the client with aphasia influences the expected outcome.   Because if you think about group treatment, the size of the group is not an insignificant issue, right? So a small group environment of two people has much more… it still gives you some peer support from the other individual with aphasia, but you have many opportunities for conversational turns and linguistic and communication practice and to drive the saliency of the conversation in a direction that's meaningful and useful and informative.   Whereas in a large group environment of say, six to eight people with aphasia and two clinicians, you might see much more influence in the needed social support and vicarious learning and shared lived experience and so forth, and still have some opportunity for communication and linguistic practice. So there's conflicting hypotheses there about which group environment might be better for one individual over another.   And then there's the question of, well, who's in that group with you? Does that matter? Some of the literature says that if you have somebody with a different profile of aphasia, it can set up a therapeutic benefit of the helper experience, where you can gain purpose by enabling and supporting and being a facilitator of somebody else with aphasia.   But if you're in a group environment where your peers have similar conversation goals as you, maybe your practice turns, and your ability to learn vicariously from their conversation turns is greater. So again, two conflicting theories here about what might be best. So we decided to try and manipulate these group environments and measure outcomes on several different communication measures. We selected measures that were linguistic, functional, and psychosocial.   We collected data over four years. The first two years, we enrolled people with all different kinds of profiles of aphasia. The only inclusion criteria from a communication perspective, as you needed some ability to comprehend at a sentence level, so that you could process what was being said by the other people in the group. And in year one, the treatment was at Boston University and Temple University, which is where Gayle's aphasia center is housed. In year two, we added a community site at the Adler Aphasia Center and Maywood, New Jersey, so we had three sites going.   The treatment conditions were dyad, large group, and then a no treatment group. So this group was tested at the same time, didn't get any other intervention, and then we gave them group treatment once the testing cycle was over. So we call that a historical control or a delayed-treatment control group. And then in years three and four, we aim to enroll people who had homogeneous profiles.   So the first through the third cycle was people with moderate to severe profiles. And then in the final, fourth cycle, it was people with mild profiles with aphasia. This allowed us to collect enough data in enough size to be able to look at overall effectiveness and then effects of heterogeneity or homogeneity in the group, and the influence of the profile of aphasia, as well as the group size.   And across the four years, we aim to enroll 216 participants, and 193 completed the study. So it's the largest of its kind for this particular kind of group treatment that we know of anyway. So this data set has allowed us to look at overall efficacy of conversation group treatment, and then also take a look at a couple of those critical ingredients. Does the size of the group make a difference? And does the composition of your group make a difference?   Lyssa Rome And what did you find?   Liz Hoover Well, we're not quite done with all of our analysis yet, but we found overall that there's a significant treatment effect for just the treatment conditions, not the control group. So whether you were in the dyad or whether you were in a large treatment group, you got better on some of the outcome measures we selected. And the control group not only didn't but on a couple of those measures, their performance actually declined. And so showing significantly that there's a treatment effect. Did you have a question?   Lyssa Rome Yeah, I wanted to interrupt and ask, what were the outcome measures? What outcome measures were you looking at?   Liz Hoover Yeah. So we had about 14 measures in total that aligned with the core outcome set that was established by the ROMA group. So we had as our linguistic measure the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. We had a primary outcome measure, which was a patient reported measure of functional communication, which is the ACOM by Will Hula and colleagues, the Aphasia Communication Outcome measure, we had Audrey Holland and colleagues' objective functional measure, the CADL, and then a series of other psychosocial and patient reported outcome measures, so the wall question from the ALA, the Moss Social Scale, the Communication Confidence Rating Scale in Aphasia by Leora Cherney and Edie Babbitt.   Lyssa Rome Thank you. When I interrupted you to ask about outcome measures. You were telling us about some of the findings so far.   Liz Hoover Yeah, so our primary outcome measures showed significant changes in language for both the treatment conditions and a slightly larger effect for the large group. And then we saw, at a more micro level, the results pointing to a complex interaction, actually, between the group size and the treatment outcome. So we saw changes on more linguistic measures. like the repetition sub scores of the CAT and verb naming from another naming subtest for the dyad group, whereas bigger, more robust changes on the ACOM the CADL and the discourse measure from the CAT for the large group.   And then diving in a little bit more deeply for the composition, these data are actually quite interesting. The papers are in review and preparation at the moment, but it looks like we are seeing significant changes for the moderate-to-severe group on objective functional measures and patient reported functional measures of communication, which is so exciting to see for this particular cohort, whose naming scores were zero, in some cases, on entrance, and we're seeing for the mild group, some changes on auditory comprehension, naming, not surprisingly, and also the ACOM and the CADL. So they're showing the same changes, just with different effect sizes or slightly different ranges. And once again, no change in the control group, and in some cases, on some measures, we're seeing a decline in performance over time.   So it's validating that the intervention is helpful in general. What we found with the homogeneous groups is that in a homogeneous large group environment, those groups seem to do a little better. There's a significant effect over time between the homogeneous and the heterogeneous groups. So thinking about why that might have taken place, we wonder if the shared lived experience of your profile of aphasia, your focus on similar kinds of communication, or linguistic targets within the conversation environment might be helping to offset the limited number of practice trials you get in that larger group environment.   So that's an interesting finding to see these differences in who's in the group with you. Because I think clinically, we tend to assign groups, or sort of schedule groups according to what's convenient for the client, what might be pragmatic for the setting, without really wondering why one group could be important or one group might be preferential. If we think about it, there are conflicting hypotheses as to why a group of your like aphasia severity might have a different outcome, right? That idea that you can help people who have a different profile than you, that you're sharing different kinds of models of communication, versus that perhaps more intense practice effect when you share more specific goals and targets and lived experiences. So it's interesting to think about the group environment from that perspective, I think,   Lyssa Rome And to have also some evidence that clinicians and people at aphasia centers can look to help make decisions about group compositions, I think is incredibly helpful.   Earlier, you mentioned that one of the goals of this research project has been to identify the active ingredients of group therapy. And I know that you've been part of a working group for the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System, or RTSS. Applying that, how have you tried to identify the active ingredients and what? What do you think it is about these treatments that actually drives change?   Liz Hoover I'll first of all say, this is a work in process. You know, I don't think we've got all of the answers. We're just starting to think about it with the idea, again, that if we clinically decide to make some changes to our group, we're at least doing it with some information behind us, and it's a thoughtful and intentional change, as opposed to a gut reaction or a happenstance change. So Gayle and I have worked on developing this image, or this model. It's in a couple of our papers. We can share the resources for that. But it's about trying to think of the flow of communication, group treatment, and what aspects of the treatment might be influential in the outcomes we see downstream.   I think for group treatment, you can't separate entirely many of the ingredients. Group treatment is multifaceted, it's interconnected, and it's not possible—I would heavily debate that with anybody—I don't think it's possible to sort of truly separate some of these ingredients. But when you alter the composition or the environment in which you do the treatment, I do think we are influencing the relative weight of these ingredients.   So we've been thinking about there being this group dynamics component, which is the supportive environment of the peers in the group with you, that social support, the insider affiliation and shared lived experience, the opportunity to observe and see the success of some of these different communication strategies, so that vicarious learning that takes place as you see somebody else practice. But also, I think, cope in a trajectory of your treatment process.   And then we've got linguistic practice so that turn taking where you're actually trying to communicate verbally using supported communication where you're expanding on your utterances or trying to communicate verbally in a specific way or process particular kinds of linguistic targets. A then communication practice in terms of that multimodal effectiveness of communication.   And these then are linked to these three ingredients, dynamic group dynamics, linguistic practice and communication practice. They each have their own mechanism of action or a treatment theory that explains how they might affect change. So for linguistic practice, it's the amount of practice, but also how you hear it practiced or see it practiced with the other group participant. And the same thing for the various multimodal communication acts. And in thinking about a large group versus the dyad or a small group, you know you've got this conflicting hypothesis or the setup for a competing best group, or benefit in that the large group will influence more broadly in the group dynamics, or more deeply in the group dynamics, in that there's a much bigger opportunity to see the vicarious learning and experience the support and potentially experience the communication practice, given a varied number of participants.   But yet in the dyad, your opportunity for linguistic practice is much, much stronger. And our work has counted this the exponential number of turns you get in a dyad versus a large group. And you know, I think that's why the results we saw with the dyad on those linguistic outcomes were unique to that group environment.   Lyssa Rome It points, I think, to the complexity of decision making around group structure and what's right for which client, maybe even so it sounds like some of that work is still in progress. I'm curious about sort of thinking about what you know so far based on this work, what advice would you have for clinicians who are working in aphasia centers or or helping to sort of think about the structure of group treatments? What should clinicians in those roles keep in mind?   Liz Hoover Yeah, that's a great question, and I'll add the caveat that this may change. My advice for this may change in a year's time, or it might evolve as we learn more. But I think what it means is that the decisions you make should be thoughtful. We're starting to learn more about severity in aphasia and how that influences the outcomes. So I think, what is it that your client wants to get out of the group? If they're interested in more linguistic changes, then perhaps the dyad is a better place to start. If they clearly need, or are voicing the need, for more psychosocial support, then the large, you know, traditional sized and perhaps a homogeneous group is the right place to start. But they're both more effective than no treatment. And so being, there's no wrong answer. It's just understanding your client's needs. Is there a better fit?   And I think that's, that's, that's my wish, that people don't see conversation as something that you do at the beginning to build a rapport, but that it's worthy of being an intervention target. It should be most people's primary goal. I think, right, when we ask, what is it you'd like? “I want to talk more. I want to have a conversation.” Audrey Holland would say it's a moral imperative to to treat the conversation and to listen to folks' stories. So just to think carefully about what it is your client wants to achieve, and if there's an environment in which that might be easier to help them achieve that.   Lyssa Rome It's interesting, as you were saying that I was thinking about what you said earlier on about sort of convincing funders about the value of group treatment, but what you're saying now makes me think that it's all your work is also valuable in convincing speech therapists that referrals to groups or dyads is valuable and and also for people with aphasia and their families that it's worth seeking out.   I'm curious about where in the continuum of care this started for the people who were in your trial. I mean, were these people with chronic aphasia who had had strokes years earlier? Was it a mix? And did that make a difference?   Liz Hoover It was a mix. I think our earliest participant was six months post-onset. Our most chronic participant was 26 years post-onset. So a wide range. We want, obviously, from a study perspective, we needed folks to be outside of the traditional window of spontaneous recovery in stroke-induced aphasia.   But it was important to us to have a treatment dose that was reasonable and applicable to a United States healthcare climate, right? So twice a week for an hour is something that people would get reimbursed for. The overall dose is the minimum that's been shown to be effective in the RELEASE collaborative trial papers. And then, you know, but still, half, less than half the dose that the Elman and Bernstein Ellis study found to be effective. So there may be some wiggle room there to see if, if a larger dose is more effective.   But yeah, I think it's that idea of finding funding, convincing people that this is not just a reasonable treatment approach, but a good approach for many outcomes for people with chronic aphasia. I mean, you know, one of the biggest criticisms we hear from the giants in our field is the frustration with aphasia being treated like it's a quick fix and can be done. But you know, so much of the work shows that people are only just beginning to understand their condition by the time they're discharged from traditional outpatient services. And so there's a need for ongoing treatment indefinitely, I think, as your goals change, as you age, and as your wish to participate in different things changes over a lifetime,   Lyssa Rome Yeah, absolutely. And I think too, when we think about sort of the role of hope, if you know, if there is additional evidence showing that there can be change after that sort of traditional initial period, when we think that change happens the most, that can provide a lot of hope and motivation, I think, to people.   Liz Hoover yeah, we're look going to be looking next at predictors of change, so looking at our study entrance scores and trying to identify which participants were the responders versus the non-responders that you know, because group effects are one thing, but it's good to see who seems to benefit the most from these individual types of environments.   And an early finding is that confidence, or what some people in the field, I'm learning now are referring to as actually communication self-efficacy, but that previous exposure to group potentially and that confidence in your communication is inversely correlated with benefits from treatment on other measures. So if you've got a low confidence in your ability to communicate functionally in different environments, you're predicted to be a responder to conversation treatment.   Lyssa Rome Oh, that's really interesting. What else are you looking forward to working on when it comes to this data set or other projects that you have going on?   Liz Hoover Yeah. So as I mentioned, there's a lot of data still for us to dig into, looking at those individual responders or which factors or variables might make an impact. There is the very next on the list, we're also going to be looking very shortly at the dialogic conversation outcomes. So, it's a conversation treatment. How has conversation changed? That's a question we need to answer. So we're looking at that currently, and might look more closely at other measures. And then I think the question of the dose is an interesting one. The question of how individual variables or the saliency of the group may impact change is another potentially interesting question. There are many different directions you can go.   You know, we've got 193 participants in the study, with three separate testing time points, so it's a lot of data to look at still. And I think we want to be sure we understand what we're looking at, and what those active ingredients might be, that we've got the constructs well defined before we start to recruit for another study and to expand on these findings further.   Lyssa Rome When we were meeting earlier, getting ready for this talk, you mentioned to me a really valuable video resource, and I wanted to make sure we take some time to highlight that. Can you tell us a little bit about what you worked on with your colleagues at Boston University?   Liz Hoover Yes, thank you. So I'll tell you a little bit. We have a video education series. Some of you may have heard about this already, but it's up on our website so bu.edu/aphasiacenter, and we'll still share that link as well. And it's a series of short, aphasia-friendly videos that are curated by our community to give advice and share lived experiences from people with aphasia and their care partners.   This project came about right on the heels of the COVID shutdown at our university. I am involved in our diagnostic clinic, and I was seeing folks who had been in acute care through COVID being treated with people who were wearing masks, who had incredibly shortened lengths of stay because people you know rightly, were trying to get them out of a potentially vulnerable environment. And what we were seeing is a newly diagnosed cohort of people with aphasia who were so under-informed about their condition, and Nina that has a famous quote right of the public being woefully uninformed of the aphasia condition and you don't think it can get any worse until It does.   And I thought, gosh, wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to point them to some short education videos that are by people who have lived their same journey or a version of their same journey. So we fundraised and collaborated with a local production company to come up with these videos. And I'll share, Lyssa, we just learned last week that this video series has been awarded the ASHA 2025 Media Outreach Award. So it's an award winning series.   Lyssa Rome Yeah, that's fantastic, and it's so well deserved. They're really beautifully and professionally produced. And I think I really appreciated hearing from so many different people with aphasia about their experiences as the condition is sort of explained more. So thank you for sharing those and we'll put the links in our show notes along with links to the other articles that you've mentioned in this conversation in our show notes. So thanks.   Liz Hoover Yeah, and I'll just put a big shout out to my colleague, Jerry Kaplan, who's the amazing interviewer and facilitator in many of these videos, and the production company, which is Midnight Brunch. But again, the cinematography and the lighting. They're beautifully done. I think I'm very, very happy with them.   Lyssa Rome Yeah, congrats again on the award too. So to wrap up, I'm wondering if there's anything else that you want listeners to take away from this conversation or from the work that you've been doing on conversation treatments.   Liz Hoover I would just say that I would encourage everybody to try group treatment. It's a wonderful option for intervention for people, and to remind everyone of Barbara Shadden and Katie Strong's work, of that embedded storytelling that can come out in conversation, and of the wonderful Audrey Holland's words, of it being a moral imperative to help people tell their story and to converse. It's yeah… You'll drink the Kool Aid if you try it. Let me just put it that way. It's a wonderful intervention that seems to be meaningful for most clients I've ever had the privilege to work with.   Lyssa Rome I agree with that. And meaningful too, I think for clinicians who get to do the work.   Liz Hoover, thank you so much for your work and for coming to talk with us again, for making your second appearance on the podcast. It's been great talking with you.   Liz Hoover Thank you. It's been fun. I appreciate it.   Lyssa Rome And thanks also to our listeners for the references and resources mentioned in today's show. Please see our show notes. They're available on our website, www.aphasiaaccess.org. There, you can also become a member of our organization, browse our growing library of materials and find out about the Aphasia Access Academy. If you have an idea for a future podcast episode, email us at info@aphasia access.org.   Thanks again for your ongoing support of Aphasia Access. For Aphasia Access Conversations. I'm Lyssa Rome.       Resources Walker-Batson, D., Curtis, S., Smith, P., & Ford, J. (1999). An alternative model for the treatment of aphasia: The Lifelink© approach. In R. Elman (Ed.), Group treatment for neurogenic communication disorders: The expert clinician's approach (pp. 67-75). Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann   Hoover, E.L., DeDe, G., Maas, E. (2021). A randomized controlled trial of the effects of group conversation treatment on monologic discourse in aphasia. Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Research doi/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00023 Hoover, E., Szabo, G., Kohen, F., Vitale, S., McCloskey, N., Maas, E., Kularni, V., & DeDe., G. (2025). The benefits of conversation group treatment for individuals with chronic aphasia: Updated evidence from a multisite randomized controlled trial on measures of language and communication. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. DOI: 10.1044/2025_AJSLP-24-00279   Aphasia Resource Center at BU   Living with Aphasia video series Aphasia Access Podcast Episode #15: In Conversation with Liz Hoover

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17 Apr 2025. The Mall of the Emirates is getting a 5 billion dirham facelift. We speak to Khalifa Bin Braik, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Asset Management, about what’s changing—and what it means for jobs and the wider Dubai economy. Meanwhile, Wall Street takes another hit, with Nvidia leading the slide. But US investor Keith Fitz-Gerald says there’s still plenty of upside if you know where to look.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

16 Apr 2025. We look at how the floods reshaped everything from airport infrastructure to data resilience with insights from DXB International airport CEO Paul Griffiths. Plus, Dubizzle Group is making moves, acquiring Property Monitor. We speak to Dubizzle CEO Haider Ali Khan and Property Monitor COO Zhann Johincke on what the deal means for UAE’s property data game.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #131 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring  John Lyons. It was great to talk with my #friend, John! John is a car enthusiast and “town weatherman.” We talked about:Marsha and WHFD (minute 1)John's daughters (minute 2)Podcast sponsors (minute 3)Being the “Local Facebook Meteorologist” (minute 5)Parades (minute 6)John's job with classic cars (minute 7)Newport, RI (minute 10)Wooden Wagon Car (minute 12)Cars: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 14)3 Keys (sponsored by West Hartford Lock) to being a “Weatherman” (minute 20)Dr. Nancy DePalma (minute 24)What makes Ronni a good #friend? (minute 29)Michael Cantor (minute 30)Mayor Sherri Cantor (minute 31)Breaking News! (minute 33)Covid and Politics (minute 36)Being a “Celebrity Server “ at Donut Crazy (minute 40)Rocky from Two Guys and a Lotta Wine (minute 45)The Fix IV (minute 47)Upcoming Podcast Guests (minute 48)Board of Education (minute 50)Parade sponsors (minute 52)Upcoming events (minute 57)ARPA Funding (minute 1.03)Vessel & Affordable  Housing (1.06)John's favorite teacher (minute 1.08)Podcast Sponsors: The Fix IV - www.thefixivtherapy.comWest Hartford Lock - www.westhartfordlock.comKeating Agency Insurance - www.keatingagency.comGoff Law Group - www.gofflawgroup.netParkville Management - www.parkvillemanagement.comLuna Pizza - www.lunapizzawh.com/lunas-menuPeoplesBank - www.bankatpeoples.comFloat 41 - www.float41.comMaximum Beverage - www.maximumbev.com

Charities in the MidWest are hailing a "game changing" funding boost from one of Clare's largest employers. To mark the 35th anniversary of Shannon Aerospace, diaspora of past and present employees are raising funds for vital local services ahead of a reunion event later this month. Shannon Aerospace was established by Lufthansa and Swissair in 1990 and the Aircraft Maintenance Company, which has employed over 3,000 people since then is now owned by Atlantic Aviation. Many of the former employees are now leaders in the aviation industry themseleves and as a way of giving back on their 35th anniversary, they've chosen to support five local charities and have smashed their initial target of €150,000. Organising Committee Chairperson and CEO of Shannon Technical Services Ben Whelan says the reunion is a chance to have fun and give back. John Lyons is PRO of Bunratty Marine Search and Rescue, which is one of beneficiaries and he says it's a gamechanger for their service. Shannon Aviation Museum, Pieta House, Limerick Suicide Watch and Milford Hospice are the other chosen charities. Milford Hospice plans to use the latest funds to upgrade their vehicle fleet and call-ball systems. Fundraising Manager Ann-Marie Hayes says such initiatives have also helped them to significantly improve their satellite hub in Ennis.

ABC's Global Affairs Editor John Lyons joined Philip Clark to outline the latest from the Middle East, as the world watches on. 

09 Jan 2025. We speak to Knight Frank's global data centre head on the back of Hussain Sajwani's multi-billion investment pledge to Donald Trump. Plus, tech funding guru Philip Bahoshy reveals why V-C firms slashed their regional investments last year. And, is Dubai's offplan pipeline finally about to outpace demand? That's one of the questions posed in Espace Real Estate's H2 report... we put it to boss John Lyons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sixmilebridge Mart will be the venue for a charity tractor and truck run over the Christmas period. The Keep'er Lit Christmas Charity Tractor & Truck Run on the 28th of December will aim to raise vital funds for two local causes, Bunratty Search and Rescue and Clare Sports Partnership. To tell us more about it, Alan Morrissey was joined by Shay O'Sullivan from Kilmurry, John Lyons, from Bunratty Search & Rescue and Pat Tierney, of SIDP Sports Disability Inclusion in Sports Clare. Photo (c): Clare FM

From conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine, to the election of Donald Trump and Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour, this year has brought pivotal events, one after the other.  Today, the ABC's global affairs editor John Lyons reflects on how 2024 played out and what 2025 could bring. He's travelled the world to cover the big stories. In this episode, John Lyons shares personal anecdotes from his travels, noting the resilience and common aspirations of people in conflict zones. Featured: John Lyons, ABC global affairs editorKey Topics:Middle East conflictUkraine warDonald Trump re-electionGlobal elections 2024Gaza humanitarian crisisGeopolitical shifts 2025Economic challenges 2025Taylor Swift Eras TourInternational resilienceGlobal affairs analysis

In this episode, we have a good (loyal?) friend of the show back for a second round: John Lyons.Important links* John on LinkedIn* John's new YouTube show ‘Bin Juice' This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letstalkbranding.substack.com

28 Nov 2024. We're looking at US PCE inflation with Ed Bell of Emirates NBD and we talk Turkey-nomics with Carnistore - are they seeing an appetite for big birds this year? Plus, we look at the Talabat IPO increase with marketwatcher Saad Al Chalabi. We also have an extended interview with Abdulla Al Abdouli, Chief Executive Officer, Marjan about the latest developments and investment going into RAK. And, we speak to John Lyons of Espace Real Estate about mortgage rates here in Dubai.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this GE 2024 candidate podcast we talk with Independent (left) Cllr John Lyons, who is running against the odds in Dublin Bay North. John talks about the last few months in his constituency, the Coolock riots and how community building is central to societal progress. We won't lie, we like John. For all our GE2024 coverage including the Leaders Debate reaction podcast please go to patreon.com/tortoiseshack

This is a Wednesday evening update on the US election. Donald Trump is in a strong position as vote counting continues, he's already won some swing states and is ahead in others. ABC global affairs editor John Lyons joins Sam from Washington DC with the latest on the vote count.Featured: John Lyons, ABC global affairs editor

31 Oct 2024. We talk Diwali-nomics with Andrew Naylor from the World Gold Council as global gold demand surges - why are investors flocking to gold while jewellery demand drops? And we checked whats happening on Gold Souq with Chandu Siroya, Managing Director, Siroya Jewellers & Vice Chairman of Dubai Gold & Jewellery Group. Plus, we discuss the stability of property prices and rents in Dubai, as well as the potential impact of a Trump/Harris White House on interest rates with John Lyons, Managing Director of Espace Real Estate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Lebanese capital Beirut is a divided city, where life continues as normal for some, while not so far away Israeli air strikes are reducing buildings to rubble. The sound of Israeli drones is constant as its forces hunt members of Hezbollah. The militant group has been firing missiles into Israel since Hamas terrorists crossed from Gaza into Israel last year. Today, we go to Beirut with the ABC's global affairs editor John Lyons who explains why some Lebanese welcome the weakening of Hezbollah.Featured: John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor Key Topics:Beirut conflictIsraeli air strikesHezbollahLebanese civiliansIsraeli dronesMiddle East warLebanese armyCivilian deathsPolitical divisions in Lebanon

In this episode of Life at Liberty - The Official Podcast of the International Liberty Horse Association, proudly sponsored by Brave Horse CBD, host Dan James from Double Dan Horsemanship sits down with renowned Liberty trainer, Steve Rother. Steve shares his unique journey, which began with wild BLM Mustangs and grew into a deep expertise in Liberty horsemanship. Through guidance from legends like John Lyons, Pat Parelli, and Bill Lawrence, Steve transformed from a mustang handler to one of the world's top Liberty trainers. Listen in as Dan and Steve discuss his evolution as a trainer, the impact of wild horses on his method, and his signature performances, including his famous Guaracha act. Catch Steve Rother live at the 2024 Liberty Festival, October 10th -13th at the Kentucky Horse Park!

19 Sep 2024. As the Fed – and UAE Central Bank – cut rates by half a percent, we find out what that big rate cut means for the UAE and what happens next with investor Keith Fitzgerald live from Seattle. We also look at what it means for Dubai property with John Lyons of Espace Real Estate. Plus, as Naomi Campbell moves into Dubai Hills Business Park, we look at how the office map is shifting with Bayti Real Estate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interesting conversations and filmmaker insights on this episode of BEHIND THE LENS as director ALYSSA RALLO BENNETT joins us going in-depth about her new film THE ARRIVAL, and you'll hear my exclusive interview with producer-turned-director BOB SALERNO discussing his feature directorial debut HERE AFTER. First up is my exclusive interview with longtime producer now turned director, BOB SALERNO, talking about his feature directorial debut with HERE AFTER which stars Connie Britton. Some great perspective from Bob as we dive into the diversity of his prior films as a producer to give depth and context for what he now tackled as a director with HERE AFTER. Digging into "the making of" HERE AFTER, Bob discusses the challenges of a limited budget, shooting in Italy, limitations on work hours, casting in Italy and finding actors to embody the supporting characters, visual grammar and developing a visual tonal bandwidth and working with his cinematographer Bartosz Nalazek, working with editor John Lyons, the film's score with composition and orchestration by Fabrizio Mancinelli, lessons learned even by a seasoned producer once he puts his director's hat on. Then we are joined by director ALYSSA RALLO BENNETT to discuss her new film THE ARRIVAL. Very interesting story with intriguing personalities and plot points that speak to various social themes as we are dropped into several conversations taking place within an upscale bar restaurant. Honing in on each pairing of individuals, we discover the purpose of each in being there and are along for their individual journeys filled with intersecting people and tales. Characters are interesting and engaging thanks to being well developed on the page and brought to life with nuance in the performances. Listen as Alyssa talks about being an "actor's director", casting and rehearsal, and how this script was written by Gary O. Bennett and developed and tailored to specific actors in the story. http://eliasentertainmentnetwork.com

 ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the future process for a ceasefire in the Middle East. 

Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched major attacks against each other on the weekend, raising tensions in the Middle East. Given Hezbollah's ties to Iran, the ongoing war in Gaza and the recent assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, the world remains braced for a much larger conflict. The ABC's global affairs editor John Lyons has toured the region for the Four Corners program, getting rare access inside Iran. Today, he explains Iran's ‘Axis of Resistance' and explores what could happen next. Featured: John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor

Hour 1 - During the first hour of the Jones and Mego show (with John Lyons filling in today) the crew talks Patriots and Red Sox. First, how much Drake Maye do we want to see? How good are we expecting him to be?Then, why does Scheim still think that Brandon Aiyuk will be a Patriot?Finally, Red Sox rotation...Mego: I am at a loss for words to describe the Red Sox rotation. This is not what you want to see. Bello has been borderline fine, everyone is falling off a cliff. Lyons: We have been talking about this for a long time. There were a lot of great pitchers in free agency. Our pitchers have been getting BLASTED. They have always needed more front end starters.

In this episode of “In Stride,” Sinead is joined by top three-day eventer Marcia Kulak. Marcia Kulak is a top three-day event rider and trainer who has successfully competed at some of the world's largest competitions, including Rolex, Burghley, Blenheim, Boekelo, and Fair Hill. Marcia has been shortlisted for two Olympic Games and has had the opportunity to train with numerous experts, including Jack Le Goff, George Morris, Mark Phillips, Anne Kursinski, and Sue Blinks, as well as natural horsemanship masters John Lyons and Louis Wood. Marcia has been on the USEF Eventing Selection Committee and the Active Athletes Committee to choose the 2012 Olympic coach. Marcia's business, Kulak Equestrian, currently operates a top multi-discipline stable based in Wellington, FL. In this episode, Marcia discusses topics related to the evolution and future of eventing in the US, including: • How she's seen the coaching, leadership, and funding for Team USA change over the years. • Her professional riding career and the financial challenges that came with it. • Talent vs. technicality in riders and the influence natural horsemanship had on her training and riding. • The importance of good judgment of a horse's and rider's level of ability for the sake of safety. • The dangers of social media and how it affects the public's opinion of equestrian sports. Join Marcia and Sinead in this exciting conversation about the sport of eventing.

John Lyons is a fractional CMO. This might mean that he's a fraction of a CMO and that he's either very small or only does a fraction of what a CMO usually does. Well, that's what I think when I see the title "Fractional CMO" - Oh, it's a thumb-sized CMO doing 10% of the CMO job. But, in this chat, John puts me straight while also sharing his thoughts on why B2B service-based companies - especially agencies - struggle with marketing. And John gives us a brief mental health update because, last time we spoke on Sweathead, John shared a lot about his battles with a mental health crisis. You can find John here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpaullyons/ You can find details about our upcoming masterclasses and accelerator here: http://www.sweathead.com

Arrests have been made in Coolock, where protesters have clashed with Gardaí after a fire broke out at a site due to be developed to house asylum seekers.Newstalk's Henry McKean has been getting reactions from locals, and Kieran Cuddihy is joined by John Lyons, Independent Councillor for Artane-Whitehall and later, Alan Farrell, Fine Gael TD, Chair of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and Spokesperson for Justice to discuss.

27 Jun 2024. We speak to Gareth El Mettouri of recruitment firm Robert Half about what more job seeking expats means for wages. Plus we get John Lyons to open his books and give us an advance peek into what Q2 has really meant for property deals. And the UAE's Federal Tax Authority is urging all resident eligible commercial entities to register for corporate tax by June 30 to avoid late penalties - Nirav Rajput, Partner, Aurifer Middle East Tax explains. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Independent Councillor, John Lyons who represents Coolock tells us why he's calling for the launch of an affordable housing scheme to be paused

John Lyons, the ABC's Global Affairs Editor, reflects on the Israel-Gaza war, drawing on his background as former Middle East correspondent for The Australian

The international community demanded Israel stay out of Rafah in Gaza's south, where millions of civilians have sought shelter.But Benjamin Netanyahu ignored that, insisting he's pursuing Hamas, and now civilians living in makeshift camps are dying.Today, global affairs editor John Lyons explores what could happen next. Featured: John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor

The international community demanded Israel stay out of Rafah in Gaza's south, where millions of civilians have sought shelter.But Benjamin Netanyahu ignored that, insisting he's pursuing Hamas, and now civilians living in makeshift camps are dying.Today, global affairs editor John Lyons explores what could happen next. Featured: John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor

ABC Global Affairs Editor and former Middle East Correspondent John Lyons joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the latest with the Gaza ceasefire. 

John Lyons has reported on the Middle East for three decades and profoundly knows the conflict and its causes. The ABC's Global Affairs Editor joined Philip Clark to try to make sense of what is happening and why it is so shocking to the rest of the world. 

We speak to Emirates NBD chief economist Khatija Haque about what the Fed might do next. Plus, what that decision to keep rates high could mean for the UAE mortgage market with Espace Real Estate boss John Lyons. And, how to protect your crypto wallet from hackers? We speak to one UAE security firm that's just got a license in Abu Dhabi. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Rosen has arguably one of the most important roles in the ski and snowboard industry: he's a sales rep. Rosen is the link between the brands and the sales floor, and he spends his time on the road, repping the products that fuel our passions. It's not as glamorous as you think…but it sure is fun and lucrative. On the podcast, we talk about coming up in racing, starting with Spyder, product testing, what makes a good rep, how to get a job in the snow-business, and so much more. John Lyons asks the Inappropriate Questions. Mike Rosen Show Notes: 3:00:  How to get a job in snow business, growing up in NY, being Jewish, and the college saga. 10:00:  Ski racing at the University of Northern Colorado, Gary Gay, Spyder, product testing, 20:30:  Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet. Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. 23:30:  Hart and Reusch, learning the business, race services for Nordica, the Nordica glitch, sample costs, the rep/brand relationship, going to K2, and counter-seasonal business. 38:00:  Stanley:  Get 30% off site wide with the code shredthegnar Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there.  40:00:  His influence as a rep, His brands, his territory, his employees, money, and what makes a good rep, selling air, and starting his brand 55:00:  Inappropriate Questions with John Lyons