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“Cancer was a silent disease.” —2005 Lasker Laureate Nancy G. Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation   When Nancy Brinker's sister, Suzy, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977, people did not talk about cancer, which could make receiving a diagnosis especially isolating and frightening. After Suzy passed away, Brinker started the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Her goal was to spark a cultural and a clinical change by bringing the disease into the open, jumpstarting research, and improving patient care. In this 2005 interview, Brinker talks about her sister, about the early struggles of getting the Foundation off the ground, and about the hard-won success of what is now the world's largest nonprofit funding source for the fight against breast cancer.

Theresa Brown, Ph.D., RN, BSN - A conversation about Breast Cancer - Going from Oncology Nurse to Cancer PatientTheresa Brown, Ph.D., RN, a New York Times bestselling writer of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient, explores her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in the context of her work as an oncology nurse. When an oncology nurse is diagnosed with cancer, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, and angry patient she's ever encountered: herself.  She also wrote The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives. She writes a free, twice-monthly newsletter on Substack called The Healing Newsletter.All her books are available at the Permission to Heal Bookshop. Connect with TheresaHer Wesbite, Instagram, Twitter. Resources for FACT and SCIENCE-based informationAmerican Cancer SocietySusan G. Komen Foundation for Breast CancerNational Breast Cancer Foundation Memorial Sloane Kettering - The Cancer ExpertsConnect with Marci  Website, Patreon, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Facebook Group.·Permission to Heal on YouTube.Permission to Land  (memoir) - Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through WritingPermission to Heal Bookshop - Buy books from the episodes & support independent bookstores. Support the showSupport the show

Guest host, Dr. John Sweetenham, associate director for Clinical Affairs at the UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Dr. Derek Raghavan, President of the Levine Cancer Center at Atrium Health in North Carolina, discuss some of the major issues ahead for the oncology community in 2022, including tension caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving true equity of care, how to use molecular testing in an optimized fashion, and the future of the oncology workforce. Transcript  Dr. John Sweetenham: Hello, and welcome to ASCO Daily News podcast. I'm John Sweetenham, the associate director for Clinical Affairs at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and guest host of the podcast. Today, we'll be discussing the challenges ahead for the oncology community in 2022 with Dr. Derek Raghavan, President of the Levine Cancer Institute at Atrium Health in North Carolina. Our full disclosures are available in the show notes, and disclosures relating to all episodes of the podcast can be found on our transcripts at asco.org/podcasts. Derek, always a pleasure to have you here, and great to have you back on the podcast again.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Hey, John. Always enjoy chatting together.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Derek, we're interested today to get your insights into what you think are going to be the major challenges facing the oncology community in 2022. I think each of us could come up with a pretty substantial list, but very interested to hear what you think are going to be those issues which are going to be uppermost in our mind as we move into the new year.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, I think there are a number of important issues, John. I think everybody in clinical practice, medical or nursing, or whatever, have been brutalized somewhat by the COVID-19 pandemic, and I think everyone's tired and a bit cranky, and they're upset with a schism between the fringe and the science-based clinicians. So, I think that underscores everything. And there's an anxiety and a tension that I think is just new.   From the practical standpoint, which is where I think your question is directed, yeah, I think there will be issues that relate to achieving true equity of care. And I think hopefully, the focus will move from analysis paralysis to actually doing things and measuring outcomes. I think there will be the tension between value, price, and cost. People are spending an awful lot of money on health care. That's going to be an issue.   We have very good information on molecular prognostication, but a lot of the data that are coming out are from technologies that are not fully validated and not even standardized. There's a lot of disinformation and misinformation coming out, and I think we're going to have to address that. I think those are 3 themes that could keep us talking for quite a while.   I think the other thing, which is more up your alley than mine, is we've been watching CAR T[-cell therapy] emerge. I think we've got a beginnings of a pretty good handle on how CAR T[-cell] relates to hematological malignancy. It's much less clear in the solid tumors, and there is a bit of a tendency to do what used to happen in the 1970s and '80s, which is here's a new treatment. Let's give it a whack and see what happens.   But this is very expensive. We don't want to fall into the trap of how bone marrow transplant was introduced as a standard of breast care management for nearly a decade, based on somewhat flimsy evidence. So, we need to be a little more thoughtful about how we introduce CAR T[-cells] into the solid tumors.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Thanks. Yeah, plenty to discuss there, as you say. And what I'd like to do just because it is such a topical issue and continues to be at the moment is just pick up a little on the COVID-19 theme. I think that we've all seen a great deal of discussion in recent months about many of the consequences of COVID-19, including delayed screenings, late diagnosis, clinician burnout, and so on. But I'm interested in your insights on a couple of things.   Number 1, since we're now seeing the emergence of further new variants, what do you think that this is going to mean for the oncology community in terms of handling these new variants within the context of our patients with cancer? And then secondly, because I'm intrigued by one of the things you mentioned in our discussions about this podcast, you mentioned the changed relationship between health professionals and parts of the community as a consequence of COVID-19. And interested to hear you expand just a little bit on that. So, kind of 2 questions wrapped up in 1 there.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Yeah. Well, I think the 2 are connected. The old style of physicians has always liked to be sure of their ground and to have a firm database when they talk about things. Particularly with the new variants, while it's completely appropriate to be transparent about the fact that they knew that they seemed different and so on, I think there is the problem that there are a lot of physicians who are now becoming TV personalities as much as physicians and who are talking all the time.   I'm not critical of that, but the problem is that they're being honest in saying we don't really know this, but this is what I think, and then they have to change direction. So, what's happening is, for the first time in a long time, physicians are regularly being quoted and being seen as saying things that are not necessarily correct, and that reduces confidence by the community and the physicians. At the same time, COVID-19, in my view, highly, inappropriately became a political football.   You have people who have absolutely no training, so radio hosts, football quarterbacks, basketball stars making extraordinary statements about COVID-19 and their approach to vaccination, masking, and other things where they have absolutely no business doing it. But they are people who are believed. They're high profile. And so, there's now a schism emerging between patients who listen to people who have no medical training at all and no basis for what they say and those particularly in the political domain who have politicized this and created a situation where, once upon a time, a physician was at least seen as coming from the right place and with good intent.   But we've both seen so many of these public demonstrations where physicians and public health physicians are being castigated for simply espousing good practice. Now, with respect to managing the variants, I think the fact is we have some basic principles that I have believed now for 2 years. Masks reduce the chance of getting any type of COVID-19. They just do. If you wear a mask most of the time when you're out and about, you're going to cut your chances down. Vaccination reduces the chance of ending up in the ICU unless you have some sort of immunological deficit.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Yeah. I'm going to switch gears now and return to the first thing that you mentioned right up front, which is the issue of equity and how we are going to address equity issues in the coming year. I think that in many ways, 2020, going into 2021, has been 2 years where issues of equity in health care have really come to the fore. And of course, there's been a great deal of discussion around this.   And I think you'd agree with me that we've seen, at the same time, that some of the strategies that we have been using during the COVID-19 pandemic, including telehealth, which one would have hoped would be a great equalizer, actually has the potential to exacerbate some of the disparities that we've been seeing in health care. But you mentioned analysis paralysis, and just to pick up on that theme, despite the huge amount of coverage that equity has received in medical journals and the media, where do you think we actually are in finally truly addressing some of the cancer care disparities that we see?   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, I think, John, you know that I was one of the early chairs of the ASCO Task Force. Otis Brawley and I chaired that task force together. Very early in the piece, I'm going to say probably 15 years ago, we wrote really quite a strong position paper on this whole issue. And so, we got started early in doing stuff on what we thought would be important, and we did, with support from the Komen Foundation, was to start training people of color in the oncology space and keeping them working in underserved communities by paying off their college loans for the period of time that they did that.   So, people have been doing stuff for a while. I think what's happened in the last decade, and it has been a slow change, is that there's been more a move to saying, let's get started. So, if you look at Chris Lathan up at Harvard, at one of their underserved hospitals, if you look around the country, consider the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, which puts money into active projects that are about doing stuff rather than having meetings to consider doing stuff. I think there's been that swing.   Dr. John Sweetenham: When we think about equity and disparities of care, we're often drawn towards the cost of cancer care and how much that plays into disparities and inequity in the delivery of cancer care. And picking up on that theme that you mentioned around value, cost and price, and maybe we could think about linking that with the use of CAR T-cell therapy and the application of CAR T-cells in the solid tumor world, if that is going to happen, what do you think we can do during 2022 to confront some of the cost and price issues that we're seeing within our cancer care environment right now?   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, I sometimes think in a utopian fashion, which doesn't get me very far, I have to say. What I'd love to see in the United States, because we spend far more money on everything health-wise than any other country in the civilized or uncivilized world, but what I'd like to see is a bipartisan initiative run by people who actually understand health care and health care economics that would go to the issue of, how do you get better bang for your buck? And it would include doing some tough things.   We waste money outrageously. We'll treat third-line metastatic pancreas cancer off trial. Nothing works in third-line metastatic pancreas cancer off trial. It's worth maybe a clinical trial to help the next person in line. That's how we make progress. But just to keep giving the same old litany of drugs in the hope that it might work is a waste of money. As I talked about before, BMT for breast cancer turned out to be a huge waste of money over a long period of time. So, if you can actually create a scenario where government set some rules and took the courageous, and this why it would have to be bipartisan, it would actually start to rationalize health care.   You know, John, the Oregon experiment many years ago, where one party started to rationalize care, and the other party accused them of rationing care. I mean, you can't have that happen. We've also seen both sides allocate the task of developing health care algorithms to people who are great politicians but know nothing about health care or economics. So, I mean, there are easy ways to do it. What we can do ourselves is be honest. Tell people what bang they'll get for their buck.   The person who is likely to have, say, an 80% chance of being dead within 4 months may not wish to mortgage his house if he's told that. On the other hand, he might well want to mortgage his house if he thinks that a very expensive treatment will give him the chance of being alive in 5 years. So, we, as physicians, shouldn't make that decision. It's the patient's right to be able to choose life versus the life of their offspring and spouse and future generations. So, I think it's not that complex, and I think if we brought more transparency about good expectations versus poor expectations, gave a better reason for patients getting more involved in trials, we're still at less than 15% of patients with cancer in the USA getting involved in trials, and that's a tragedy.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Yeah, I think also, the other thing that's occurred to me in this context, is the fact that while we tend to hone in on costs of treatment when we get into these discussions, I've been seeing some emerging literature around the cost of follow-up and unnecessary follow-up and imaging and so on in those patients who are in survivorship part of their cancer journey. And there's a huge opportunity there, I think, for us to reduce costs of care with no impact whatsoever on survival, no difficult treatment decisions to be made because we're simply doing an enormous amount of unnecessary testing in these patients who have completed treatment that we know doesn't impact survival. So, I do think that we could take a really serious look at that and make very significant savings. So, I think there's lots of potential there too.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Yes. I agree, John. And I'd actually give kudos to ASCO in this space because they were early adopters of the Choosing Wisely campaign. They wrote two sets of guidelines about stupid things that we do that make no difference. And to be honest, I think that--I was on that committee, and the committee got tired.   I was one of the few people that actually felt we should keep going and very actively keep issuing guidelines of things that just aren't worth doing and having symposia at the ASCO ASM say that the symposia that are entitled “How to Waste Money” or alternatively entitled “How to Stop Doing Dumb Stuff” would be really quite important. And it would give the basis for sensible medicine to people who do medical legal protection work. So, most people who do multiple PET scans on lymphoma where the patient is completely well and blah, blah, blah are doing it for medical-legal reasons. They're not doing it because they think it will make a huge difference.   And I, of course, am not talking about the people where they're following PET scans as markers of response. So, I think we can do this work. I'd love to see a presidential campaign which is about not doing dumb stuff and where ASCO takes the bully pulpit and says, “we're spending a year policing ourselves, talking about all the things we do that don't actually make things better for patients.”   Dr. John Sweetenham: So, let's extend this theme of expensive therapies. And you mentioned CAR T-cell therapy. And in the hematologic malignancy world, we're now just beginning to see 1 or 2 results, which will be presented at the American Society of Hematology meeting in a couple of weeks from now, positive results from a couple of randomized clinical trials in hematologic malignancy with CAR T-cell therapy. So, what are your thoughts on the application of this treatment in the solid tumor world, and where do you think we are, what do you think we might see during 2022?   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, let's talk strategy first. I think a good place to begin is with a good scientific hypothesis. So, we both know how CAR T[-cells] work. We don't have to have a long discussion here about them. It would be patronizing to the audience. But you might think about, what solid tumor is actually going to benefit from immunological manipulation? Where have the checkpoint inhibitors been helpful, and where have they not been helpful? And so, you might focus the initial part of CAR T[-cells] and solid tumor work on those where there's a hypothesis that makes sense.   Then the second thing you could do would be to actually come to the companies that make all their money from CAR T[-cells] and say, perhaps you could invest in this research with us, and we'll do a couple of Hail Mary passes. So, let's look at the tumors where there isn't a good hypothesis, but nothing works, and see if we can get an experience. So, that'd be a nice, simple, easy way to do it. And then measure tight outcomes, have very robust entry criteria so you don't get confused about various toxicities because you're actually starting with patients in reasonable shape and then expanding to all populations.   So, the first part would be phase 1 and 2. Then you, early in the piece, make sure that you have inclusiveness so that you know all the population groups that might benefit from the treatment. I think that'd be a reasonable way to go.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Talking about identifying targets appropriately and target populations for treatment, you had mentioned as one of your other challenges for 2022 the concept around identifying molecular subgroups and molecular prognostication as a way of patient selection. So, could you say a little bit more about that and what you think we're going to need to do in the coming year in terms of refinement of targets?   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, John, this is an area of your expertise as well, coming from the hematological malignancy world. Now, I hope we would both agree that having robust reproducible technology is important. The fact that there are so many molecular diagnostic companies that hype their product doesn't necessarily mean that the product is good. So, there needs to be standardization of approaches to using technology, to measuring outcomes.   We need to have comparative sets of data, looking at different technologies to see how they work, and those sorts of studies need to be funded by government because there's no particular reason for the companies to agree to perhaps show that their diagnostic technology is not as good as somebody else's. But this would be a good initiative for the government to actually start to rank order of the products that are out there. I, frankly, think when you think of the impact of all of these molecular diagnostic tests, I've never understood why so many of them are out there without tight U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. So, I think that's a place to begin.   If you think back to the old breast cancer days when there was immunohistochemistry and a bunch of molecular technologies, the outcomes were so varied when compared on common tumor samples. So, we just seem to be quite comfortable to make the same set of mistakes again. I do think there are responsible investigators doing excellent work in the space, so I'm not critical of the space. I'm answering the question, which is we need now to bring some regulation in to ensure that the quality of the work, reproducibility of the work. You'll even see, and I know you and I have talked about this in the past, there'll be Mr. X who has prostate cancer and gets his PSA measured, which is Prostate-Specific Antigen, looking at how active the cancer is regularly in different labs. That makes absolutely no sense. There's no common standard. PSA in my lab is going to be different from PSA in your's. And so there just should be some nice, simple rules of how to use molecular testing in an optimized fashion.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Yeah, and I wonder also whether we need to be looking a little bit more closely at point of care clinical decision support for some oncologists who may not be as molecularly literate as others because I do think that's another real challenge at the moment is giving guidance to everyone who might see these patients in terms of treatment selection.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Well, I agree with you completely. I mean, kudos to the major companies because most of them provide pretty good decision support. One with which we worked tended to be a little too positive about its product, and we worked to change that. And now they're actually very useful. We have a big series from our molecular tumor board here that runs over I think a 5-year period that Carol Farhangfar, PhD, has just submitted for publication, which shows that you can heavily influence people who are out in the community by providing centralized support for their use of molecular diagnostic tests. But again, we only deal with the major companies so that we think there's good quality control there. And we don't flip back and forth in an individual patient between one company and another.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Right. Well, I think we're almost out of time, Derek, but I did want to ask you one more question, and it's a real change of gear. But over the last year or so, I think that probably largely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen some exacerbation of workforce issues in the oncology workforce that we knew already existed. I think there is undoubtedly more burnout being reported than there was before. Certainly, within our own organization, we have seen some increased staff turnover and a number of people who I think, frankly, have realized that they want to move closer to their families.   And so, there's been a certain amount of churn, which I think many of us in cancer centers are experiencing. Interested to know whether you've seen anything similar and what strategies you're using in terms of staff retention and oncology clinician burnout at your center.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: I think this is a difficult problem. The morale at the Levine Cancer Institute, much like the Simmons Cancer Center, is high, and that's driven by the leadership cadre being out there with their troops, visible and actively engaged so that the troops on the line feel that the bosses are part of the deal. And we do silly little things that matter, which is parties and celebrations and thank yous and all that sort of stuff. We get the staff to thank each other. We encourage the patients to thank the staff just with an attaboy or something that just says we appreciate the care.   So, I think this is a challenge. I do think work-life balance in old geezers like you and me has been a slightly different thing from some of the younger physicians who are spending, I think sensibly, more time with their families and don't want to spend these long hours. I think the other thing is there is still a town-gown issue where there are people who can make a lot more money much more quickly in some parts of non-academic practice, and it's getting harder to publish in academic practice, so the rewards for that are slipping a little.   I actually don't really have a solution. I think that the august colleges drawing to the attention of the world that this is a big deal and engaging bipartisan support from the political machinery will be important. I think ASCO can, through its government relations people (ASCO Advocacy), continue to prosecute these issues, which they do. I think there is the mistake that we make in the cancer space is we do still tend to compete between societies.   I've always thought it would be much healthier to have ASCO, ASTRO, ACS, SUO, SSO and all those people having a common council that speaks on this sort of issue with one voice and draws to attention of the people out there that this is a big issue. The best of the doctors (docs) are getting older. The younger docs come through the Taylor laws are less experienced and less well-trained and have a different ethos. So, we're going to lose an aspect of practice that's been part of the tradition of medical practice since the time of Osler, and it's definitely going away.   I have a superb physician fellow working with me at the moment who I would rate as one of the best 3 in 10 years. The reason she's one of the best 3 in 10 years is she practices the style of medicine that my fellows did 25, 30 years ago, most of whom are now professors of medicine somewhere. And good with patients, knows her staff, does research, and somehow manages to have reasonable time for a family. That tradition is starting to go away, and I don't think there is a simple change. And then the final point, the people who run health care today see it as a business. I was in a meeting recently outside my own domain where someone said, you know, I have to figure out whether medicine is really importantly a health care business or whether it's an IT business focused on health care. And that's going to start to lose the human side of medicine. We spent some time on that today. The outcomes will go down if this is just a business.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Well, thanks, Derek. Really appreciate all of your insights today. I think there's no doubt that 2022 is going to be a year of many challenges for those of us in the oncology community and for our patients, but I think it's also inevitably going to be a very exciting year in terms of new developments.   And hopefully, if we're recording another podcast like this in a year from now, the COVID-19 pandemic will be a little bit more in the rearview mirror, and we will be able to focus on many of the other important issues that face us. So again, really appreciate your sharing your insights with us, and wish you all the best for 2022.   Dr. Derek Raghavan: John, always a pleasure chatting, and the same to you and Caroline and the family.   Dr. John Sweetenham: Thank you. And thanks to our listeners for your time today. If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.   Disclosures: Dr. John Sweetenham: Consulting or Advisory Role: EMA Wellness   Dr. Derek Raghavan: Consulting or Advisory Role: Gerson Lehrman Group, Caris Life Sciences   Disclaimer: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guests' statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO.  The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.

As a seasoned TV anchor covering world events throughout the globe, Jane Hanson has spent over 30 years helping people learn to communicate better. Hanson focuses on three core elements: what you say, how you say it, and how your body language keeps it all in sync. Not only does it enhance their presence and ensure they resonate with every type of audience, but in today's fast-paced world, it is imperative to be on one's A game 24/7. Web: https://www.janehanson.com/ https://www.instagram.com/janehansonofficial/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/janehansontv/ https://www.facebook.com/JaneHansonTV Bio: Jane Hanson grew up on the prairies of rural Minnesota, coming to New York three decades ago to join the NBC networks. She began as an anchor and correspondent for NBC New York in 1979. In 1988, Jane was named co-anchor of “Today in New York,” a position she held until 2003 when she became the station's primary anchor for local programming and the host of “Jane's New York”; She covered events ranging from the tragedy of 9/11 to the joy of Yankees victory parades to Wall Street and Washington; has interviewed presidents, business magnates, prisoners, and celebrities; traveled as far as the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the great depths miles below New York City for her special reports. Most recently she hosted a daily entertainment and lifestyle program, New York Live, for NBC4 in New York City. Jane has won 9 Emmy Awards. In addition, she was named Correspondent of the Year by New York's Police Detectives and received a similar honor from New York's Firefighters. She has also been the recipient of numerous other awards for her service to the community. Jane has served as the March of Dimes Walk-America Chairman, honorary chair for the Susan B. Komen Foundation's Race for the Cure, and as a board member of Graham Windham, Phipps Houses, the Randall's Island Sports Foundation, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, and Telecare. She has taught courses on communication at Long Island University, Stern College, and the 92nd Street Y. Hanson is a Past President of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Read more about her at https://www.janehanson.com/. About the show: ► Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ► Got Goli Gummies? https://go.goli.com/1loveash5 ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH584216 ► Want the ‘coldest' water? https://thecoldestwater.com/?ref=ashleybrown12 ► Become A Podcast Legend: http://ashsaidit.podcastersmastery.zaxaa.com/s/6543767021305 ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ► SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ► Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ #atlanta #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit® Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "Ash Said It Daily" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio & Google Podcasts. This program has over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real!

This week Michelle Fern talks to SodaPup Founder and CEO Adam Baker, who is helping bring unique awareness and raising money in partnership with the Susan G. Komen Foundation. When you purchase this product SodaPup will donate 30% of the sale to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. EPISODE NOTES: Best Bets for Pets - Episode 243 Take Time to 'Paws' and Help Raise Money for a Good Cause - A Cure for Breast Cancer - SodaPup Releases Their New Pink Flower Power Enrichment Licking Mats

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Paula Schneider, President & CEO of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, joins Wharton Business Daily to talk about the history of the Foundation, the business of breast cancer, and how they are working to break down inequities in accessing treatment and care. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While Jessica was solving puzzles, Dana fell head first into another cultish documentary.  Jessica is enraged by the recent oil spill in Southern California and wants to know when we will put an end to this.  Dana empathizes with a listener's driving woes, especially at a 4 way stop.  Animal Instincts Corner is an endangered bird who has sunk her claws into her caregiver.  What the What Corner involves people cheating on an exam, to become teachers of all things.  Rave #1 is Christopher Robinson and his line of clothing and housewares at Target and how he included adaptive clothing into the collection.  Rave #2 is the Susan G. Komen Foundation, whose mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer. Christopher Robinson at Target - https://www.target.com/c/christian-robinson-x-target/-/N-v3q6a  Susan G. Komen - https://www.komen.org/

Balm Box Founder Liz Benditt named a #WomanOfAction by Susan G. Komen Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri!! Liz created The Blam Box- which features functional self-care and gifts for cancer patients. Liz tells her story in this podcast, and provides excellent perspective for those going through cancer, as well as feedback for their support system.If you feel this Podcast is beneficial, I encourage you to share it, and I invite you to leave a 5-Star Review. It does so much for putting this podcast in the hands of those that may need it.Connect with me!Bettina@intherising.comPinterest:  Facebook

On Thursday's Houston Matters: Texas State Senators are angry about a power grid winterization loophole for natural gas companies that was built into a law they approved this year. We discuss what exactly it means and the response from the Texas Railroad Commission. Also this hour: The current iteration of Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill proposes spending $4.7 billion on decommissioning orphaned oil and gas wells. These are oil well sites that were operated by companies that became financially insolvent and entered bankruptcy. It then falls upon state governments and, ultimately, taxpayers to pay for and properly decommission their abandoned assets. We learn more about efforts to deal with these sites. Then, local activist Ashley Dedmon talks about serving as a caregiver for her mother during her battle with breast cancer and for her father during his battle with prostate cancer. And she discusses a new initiatve from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to reduce the breast cancer mortality rate among Black women. The organization's annual Race for the Cure is Saturday morning at Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston. And we learn more about the Black Indigenous People of Color Arts Network and Fund, which plans to offer financial help to artists of color in Greater Houston. The deadline to apply for the first round of funds is Oct. 22.

Mary Jenkins is the Founder and CEO of Cancer Option Collaborative. She is also a Cancer Patient Advocate and a Motivational Speaker. She is a 2x Breast cancer survivor who experienced the emotional and financial challenges associated with the world of cancer first-hand. Thus, the CEO was created - to help others succeed on their road to recovery.The Susan G. Komen Foundation celebrated her with the Pat Hughes Award of Inspiration. She was recognized as a Hero for Hope by FUZE Beverage Corporation. The Increase Community Development Corporation named her Nonprofit Micro Entrepreneur of the Year and Alumnus of the Year. She has received the Jefferson Award nomination as a top 20 finalist out of a pool of 140 organizations. The business publication, Business First, gave her honorable mention as the Healthcare Hero for “Care to the Underserved” and in January 2012 she was named one of “20 Outstanding Women to Know”Know more about Mary and the COC here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryjenkins7/Website: https://www.thecoccares.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecoccaresInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecoccares/

Hello, I hope you're safe, healthy, and staying positive. For all the dads out there, I also hope you had an incredible Father's Day. Mine was one that I will never forget. I had the opportunity to announce the publication of my latest book Lunch with Larry - A second chance to say goodbye. This is a story about meeting my dad for one last lunch. Let me explain: Some might be aware that my father passed away from injuries sustained in a car accident on March 11th 2013. He was less than a mile away from his home. I visited with him the day before the accident, so the shock and disbelief I experienced haunts me to this day. For years the regret of never having the opportunity to say goodbye, has been difficult to live with. Since heaven doesn't have a phone, I decided to write what it may be like if I was to meet my dad for one final lunch. The story is set at his favorite diner in New York City. This encounter ends up being anything, but an ordinary lunch. While at the diner, a friendship is struck between myself and my waitress. This character was inspired by a wonderful woman I worked with years ago, by the name of Kathy. Tragically, Kathy passed away from a rare type of Breast Cancer at the age of 43. I have decided to donate 100% of the profits from this book to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in memory of Kathy, for the next month. Please take a moment to view the book trailer. If you would like to grab a copy (or two) of Lunch with Larry, I have included the amazon link below. Book Trailer Link - https://youtu.be/btk44t_Me8w Amazon Link to Purchase - https://www.amazon.com/Lunch-Larry-second-chance-goodbye/dp/1312736704

Guest Of The Week Diane Hardgrove was born on Long Island, New York, raised in Arizona, and now lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband Roy. She studied dance for fifteen years in the areas of tap, jazz, ballet, and Polynesian. Diane is a 1999 graduate of The University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science Degree. Diane has worked closely with the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer for the past fifteen years. She was nominated as the Honorary Chair in 2006 and 2007 for the Southern Arizona Race for the Cure. She now serves as a Team Leader for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Dallas. During her reign as Mrs. Arizona 2006, Mrs. America 2006, and Mrs. World 2007, Diane served at over 500 appearances around the world. Diane's highlights include the television commercials for the Race for the Cure, guest on KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles, ringing the bell at NASDAQ on Times Square in New York, traveling to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to speak at the Go Red Heart Disease Gala, presented awards at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night for Parkinson's Disease Research in Scottsdale, Arizona, Speaker on leadership for the National Sales Conference for Vault Denim in Las Vegas, Nevada, and also served as the Keynote Speaker at the National Association of Professional Mortgage Women Conference in Orlando, Florida. Diane now serves as Committee Member for the Mrs. America Ethics Board and The Executive Director for Mrs. New York America, Mrs. New York American, and the Miss New York for America Pageant.____________________________________ Host Of The ShowPaul A. Belletiere, ACC MAVPP.com 410-258-3832 _______________________________________ Sponsor Of The Week Mid Atlantic Video & Photography Production mavpp.com info@mavpp.com 301 750 3832

The combination of covid, lockdowns, and high transaction volumes has made 2020 an intense year for mortgage professionals. While being busy is nothing to complain about, we’ve had to grapple with big changes this year, and that requires mental fortitude.    That mental fortitude gives us inner stability in a world full of things we can’t control.    With everyone at home, it can feel like our teams aren’t as engaged or as connected as they would be under the same roof. However, even virtually, there are still many ways leaders are rising to the challenge and getting creative about maintaining company culture.    What are some of the ways we can be more effective as leaders? How can we leverage being virtual to maintain a sense of connection on our teams? How can we focus on what’s important during a very busy quarter?    In this episode, mortgage industry leader and Nova Home Loans Branch Manager, Greg Gale shares how to improve our mental states in uncertain times, and how to boost team culture and engagement in a time of lockdowns and working from home.    You can control your mornings and your nights. When you get a really good hold of those, it makes you better at having control during the day. -Greg Gale     Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode How to build mental strength: In times like these where a lot of what’s going on around us feels out of our control, the only thing we can control is our mental states and routines. If we focus on dialing in our morning and nighttime routine, we give ourselves the mental fortitude to deal with whatever the day throws at us.  How to go from reaction to effective response: When we increase our mental fortitude, we can have more control over the space between stimulus and response. If we control this space so that we’re responding instead of reacting, we have more freedom, more choice, and we can take better action.  Ways to keep our team culture strong in a virtual working world: Even if our teams are working apart right now, we can still maintain culture and connection by using virtual tools. From virtual paint parties to games, huddles, and happy hours, if we’re intentional about setting up moments for our teams to come together, we can uphold our culture.    Guest Bio:  Greg Gale is a mortgage industry leader, business coach, and VP/Branch Manager of Nova Home Loans. Greg joined the mortgage industry in 2005. Prior to that, he was a personal trainer and martial arts instructor for 17 years. Greg notes that 20 years of martial arts, where persistence, honor, and integrity are the heart of daily practice, was a perfect lead into his role as financial advisor in the mortgage industry. The Gale Team at NOVA Home Loans is a full-service loan origination service, committed to providing innovative mortgage solutions and real estate strategies. In his role as team leader, Greg stresses the importance of integrity, a positive attitude, patience, creativity, and respect for all things.    This team defines communication as one of the single most important elements in a successful loan transaction. They are committed to returning calls promptly, providing regular status updates, and being available as needed throughout the process. Greg and his team really listen to clients’ needs and then seek the best possible solutions, more often than not exceeding their client’s expectations. The team’s priority is to provide exceptional and memorable service. On a personal note, Greg is absolutely passionate about helping other people and is a regular contributor to the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen Foundation. Greg is also a member of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the Arizona Association of Mortgage Brokers.    Follow @greg_gale_ on Instagram.  

It’s rare for someone to have two long and successful careers in any industry, and the people who do it bring a unique experience and perspective to the table.    Greg Gale went from working as a martial arts instructor for 17 years to running a thriving mortgage business. Along the way, he learned the value of relationships and not missing out on the opportunities presented by what he calls “sliding door moments”.    But his journey wasn’t easy. The tragic loss of his mentor was a moment that challenged him and taught him many valuable life lessons that have made him the leader he is today.    In this episode, Greg shares his story, how he was inspired by martial arts, what pulled him into mortgage, and the lessons he’s learned along the way.    Get in front of the people with the capacity to send you business and build a deep relationship with them. -Greg Gale    Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode   The most important activity in our business: When the market becomes busy with refi deals, one of the first things LOs drop the ball on is Realtor relationships. We still need to carve out an hour or more to make the calls to check in with them. Lead generation is the lifeblood of our business, and it has to be a priority and a part of our daily routine.  When LOs should get an assistant: Get an assistant based on a projection of your pipeline, not how busy you currently are. Even if our deal flow changes, our relationship nurturing has to stay the same. An assistant allows us to leverage other tasks in our business so we can focus on consistent lead generation and sales calls.  How to build a stable mortgage pipeline: Success in this business is about the quality of our relationships, not the quantity. We need to build a solid base of people with the capacity to send us business and maintain deep relationships with them.   Guest Bio: Greg Gale is a mortgage industry leader, business coach, and VP/Branch Manager of Nova Home Loans. Greg joined the mortgage industry in 2005. Prior to that, he was a personal trainer and martial arts instructor for 17 years. Greg notes that 20 years of martial arts, where persistence, honor, and integrity are the heart of daily practice, was a perfect lead into his role as financial advisor in the mortgage industry. The Gale Team at NOVA Home Loans is a full-service loan origination service, committed to providing innovative mortgage solutions and real estate strategies. In his role as team leader, Greg stresses the importance of integrity, a positive attitude, patience, creativity, and respect for all things.    This team defines communication as one of the single most important elements in a successful loan transaction. They are committed to returning calls promptly, providing regular status updates, and being available as needed throughout the process. Greg and his team really listen to clients’ needs and then seek the best possible solutions, more often than not exceeding their client’s expectations. The team’s priority is to provide exceptional and memorable service. On a personal note, Greg is absolutely passionate about helping other people and is a regular contributor to the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen Foundation. Greg is also a member of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the Arizona Association of Mortgage Brokers.    Follow @greg_gale_ on Instagram.  

In this episode, we meet Crystal Emerick, the founder and Executive Director of Brave Step, a non-profit that focuses on supporting those affected by sexual violence; survivors or loved ones. This 5-year old non-profit strives to empower adults impacted by sexual violence in 3 ways; personalized care(individual counseling, group therapy, peer support groups, empowerment groups), Brave public conversations, and to cultivate Changemakers. Once a survivor or loved one reaches out, their case manager completes a thorough intake and then lays out the options. The options they currently offer are individual counseling with a highly vetted therapist and will provide financial assistance if needed for up to 26 sessions, 12-week group therapy led by a licensed therapist, peer-led support groups, empowerment groups focused on coping skills, or "Finding Your Voice" programs including storytelling, art classes, etc. They meet the survivor or loved one where they are in their healing journey. Crystal has put together a diverse group on her Advisory Board who are all trained in various trauma treatment modalities so that Brave Step can offer a combination as well as have the understanding of all offered. "Sexual violence doesn't discriminate, it doesn't care what faith you are, what financial status you are, what color you are, or what culture you are. It welcomes everybody with open arms. Until we can truly embrace that and the fact that each of us is impacted in one way or another, I don't know how we convince people of how detrimental this is to our community." Crystal shares her own story of surviving childhood sexual abuse. She recognized the guilt, shame, and blame that was growing inside her and told her mom about it at the age of 13. As she grew older, she turned towards what she could control which manifested into unhealthy behavioral patterns. When she moved to Charlotte in 2001, she asked her doctor for help and was referred to a therapist, Sue Anne Wrenn. During her work with her therapist, she realized that she could not turn away from how prevalent sexual assault was in the world and in 2011 was challenged to "do something about it." She spent a good 2 years trying to figure out her role in doing something about it. In November of 2014, Brave Step officially became a non-profit and she started assembling her Advisory Board and Board of Directors. She recognized that there was not a lot of representation of adult care of sexual violence survivors. When she started the non-profit, she was running her own business in communications and public relations. She kept feeling the tug to give her all to the non-profit, so 2 years ago she closed down her business and moved over full-time. Last year, 60% of their funding came from individual donors and they continuously apply for grants. She would like to create in the future more specific programming for the loved ones of survivors but in the meantime, they can access services through Brave Step. She has been influenced by Nancy Brinker's book, "Promise Me." As the founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, this book provided Crystal inspiration for changing people's tolerance for talking about the difficult topics such as breast cancer and sexual violence. She wants to heal Charlotte to help those survivors either crack open or bust down the door to their healing because she understands the negative impacts on survivors, family members, communities. She wants to do this work to help future generations. Her advice for sexual violence survivors is as follows; take 1 brave baby step at a time, fight for yourself, and find community with people like you. She is inspired in Charlotte by Sue Anne Wrenn, a therapist and all of the members of her Advisory Board. "It's my obligation now. It's to turn my pain into a purpose and as long as I can keep doing that and do it effectively, then I'm here to stay." In the short term future, Brave Step will be releasing the "Change Makers" program this year that will focus on education around sexual assault and will be diving deeper on supporting loved ones. Visit Brave Step's website for more information or to get help, donate, or volunteer. You can reach Crystal directly at info@bravestep.org or 704-361-5230.

Today on the Neil Haley Show, Neil Haley will interview Celebrity Handicapper Brandon Lang. He will give us his picks and presidential pick. In addition, Neil will interview Duzat St. Marie about the Komen Foundation. Next, Neil will interview Aage Nost. He will discuss the the reversing of the aging process. Lastly enjoy What’s Your Perspective.

In the early 1990s , the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Estee Lauder and Self magazine began distributing pink ribbons at events to promote breast cancer awareness. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Today, most people are aware of breast cancer, but many don’t have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about 1 in 8 women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point. The good news is many women can survive breast cancer if it’s found and treated early. A mammogram – the screening test for breast cancer – can help find the disease early when it’s easier to treat. There has been some confusion in recent years about when women should start getting mammograms and how often they should get them. The American Cancer Society suggests women age 40 and older should have a mammogram every year and should continue to do so for as long as they are in

We're back with Suzanne Corsen, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen Foundation of New Jersey.   She also spoke about two virtual educational events taking place on November 4th and November 15th. There will be speakers on genetics, and breast cancer specialists available to speak to those battling breast cancer and their families. There is also a Komen Treatment Assistance Fund for those who qualify, providing assistance for rent, utilities, food, child care and transportation. For more information, visit Komen.org. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Joining Lisa Anderson is Suzanne Corsen, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen Foundation of New Jersey.   Due to Covid, their More Than Pink Walk had to be virtual this year.  The past ten years the walk has been held at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, drawing over five thousand participants.  This year's virtual walk took place on October 4th, and fundraising continues until November 6th.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re back with Suzanne Corsen, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen Foundation of New Jersey.   She also spoke about two virtual educational events taking place on November 4th and November 15th. There will be speakers on genetics, and breast cancer specialists available to speak to those battling breast cancer and their families. There is also a Komen Treatment Assistance Fund for those who qualify, providing assistance for rent, utilities, food, child care and transportation. For more information, visit Komen.org. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Joining Lisa Anderson is Suzanne Corsen, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen Foundation of New Jersey.   Due to Covid, their More Than Pink Walk had to be virtual this year.  The past ten years the walk has been held at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, drawing over five thousand participants.  This year's virtual walk took place on October 4th, and fundraising continues until November 6th.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Lite It Up, Dr. Aginah Musherah will have a candid conversation about breast cancer awareness with special guest, Evita Ali. We will discuss Evita's journey from diagnosis of breast cancer to survivor. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Lite It Up has joined the campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer. Please be sure to schedule your mammogram or remind a loved one to check their status. This episode will be available on all platforms including Facebook, YouTube and IGTV. Evita, along with family and friends, will be walking for a cure on Saturday, October 17th. To join Evita's efforts in the fight against breast cancer, donate to the Susan G. Komen Foundation by using the following link: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1237378849957406/10223186255902829. Connect with Dr. Aginah M. Muhammad Visit Dr. Aginah's Website: www.aginahmuhammad.com Facebook: @liteituppodcast and @DrAginahM Instagram: @liteituppodcast and @DrAginahM YouTube: www.youtube.com/liteituppodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aginah-m-muhammad/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aginah-m-muhammad/support

In this episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Mariah Davis, President and Owner of Oakview Insurance Services, Inc. Mariah talks about her journey from being a captive agent to an independent insurance agency owner and how she built her agency. She also shares the struggles she faced that made her stronger and better. Episode Highlights: David introduces Mariah Davis. (1:31) How did Mariah get into the insurance business? (2:54) Mariah shares her background. (3:10) Mariah mentions that when she was a captive, she didn't know what profit-sharing was. (5:07) What is it like for Mariah, working with her father? (5:17) Mariah mentions that when they joined the PIIB and IAOA, their agency sored, and changed everything about how they handle their business. (6:39) How long has Mariah been an independent insurance agent? (9:19) What led Mariah to be an independent insurance agency owner? (9:24) Mariah thinks that it’s essential to have district managers in the insurance industry. (10:04) Mariah shares that she discovered the independent side by running into accounts that they weren't able to write, and she noticed that most of it came from independent insurance companies. (10:41) What was Mariah’s biggest challenge during her transition? (13:39) Mariah mentions that it’s common in the insurance industry to start as a captive, then be independent. (15:25) David shares that people are going into that model knowing people are leaving that model to go to the independent model. (15:56) From Mariah’s experience as a captive agent, she thinks that State Farm gave them the best training and the best setup but it had the most control over them, as well. (19:22) Mariah shares that some groups like the Mastermind and IAOA, are vital to getting the independent channel to talk to each other. (20:17) David thinks that there's a tipping point where people finally, were raised in a way where collaboration made more sense than it did a long time ago. (20:49) Kyle thinks that the social media aspect is huge because you can ask questions to people you're not competing with. (21:58) Has Mariah’s growth been organic over the 10 years? (22:52) David mentions that his weakness in anything is that structure, the operational piece, and getting the right people into the right spot. (25:10) Mariah mentions that the world’s current situation is a great time for them to start going in and tweak on different ideas to smooth it out and help them grow faster. (27:06) Mariah mentions the Shiny Object Syndrome. (29:15) Mariah shares that the InfusionSoft was too techy for her and her team. (30:06) Mariah mentions that it’s vital to change your workflow. (30:39) David shares that there are a lot of good tools out there. But if you buy them and you don't know how to use them, you might as well take your money and throw it out the window. (31:41) David mentions that his business profit has doubled during the COVID-19. (32:23) Mariah shares that in December of 2019 she was diagnosed breast cancer. (35:52) What was running through Mariah’s mind at that time? (36:32) Mariah shares that one of the hardest times was between being diagnosed, and meeting with a doctor to have a plan. (36:54) David shares one of the most horrific situations he has had to deal with. (40:27) Mariah mentions that she has her struggles, but the nation is also struggling with the pandemic and the ramifications of it. (42:23) Kyle shares a story about his newborn baby. (43:41) How many treatments does Mariah still have to undergo, before she can ring the bell? (47:16) What makes Mariah’s agency unique? (48:20) Mariah mentions that they have ingrained themselves in the community, as much as possible. (51:10) What does Mariah’s strategy look like? (51:54) Mariah mentions the Susan G. Komen Foundation. (57:23) Tweetable Quotes: “I decided to go independent and had my eyes open to the whole other side of the world here, and found out how little I knew about both insurance and being a business owner.” - Mariah Davis “District managers have to put up with so many new agents a year. And, you know, sometimes I think they're just trying to hit numbers. And if you fog the mirror, great, you know, we'll put you up. We'll see if it works.” - Mariah Davis “I was spread too thin. I quickly realized that I couldn't be everything to everyone, and they were requiring me to be and it just wasn't gonna fly. So yeah, I kind of decided to make that hop over, and I have had this independent agency for 10 years now.” - Mariah Davis “I feel like I know every position in our agency because I've had to be every position in our agency at one point or another. That just gives me a better understanding of what our team goes through with their chair.” - Mariah Davis “I've had wonderful support, I have a wonderful spouse, and I have a wonderful support system of friends and the community. And everybody just rallied around me and so I can't help but be positive. I am such a practical person that it was the only thing I can do. Having doubts being upset, you know, being depressed is just not that productive.” - Mariah Davis “Everybody has a trial and tribulation. And so either we can pick up and we can keep going. Or we can just fall apart and wallow in it. And I just chose not to do that. And it's a choice. I'm going to be positive about it. And I'm going to be this and we're going to continue with life.” - Mariah Davis “I'm blessed that I'm a business owner in a business that has renewal income because that allows me to step back and be okay.” - Mariah Davis Resources Mentioned: David Carothers LinkedIn Kyle Houck LinkedIn Florida Risk Partners The Extra 2 Minutes Mariah Davis LinkedIn Oakview Insurance Services, Inc. Susan G. Komen Foundation

Tonight at 7pm eastern we will discuss the Jets losing to the Broncos! Where do the Jets go from here? Can the Jets defense pull it together and stop being so heavily penalized?  Will the offense ever get on track? We'll ask those questions and more! Also, we'll speak with Aleena Clavel of the Susan g. Komen Foundation! Call in! Our number is (515) 602-9639!

ONS member Marcia Beck, ACNS-BC, CLT-LANA, clinical nurse coordinator of lymphedema at the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City and member of the ONS Greater Kansas City Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the ONS Guideline™ for the Management of Cancer Treatment-Related Lymphedema. Marcia  was a member of the panel that developed the guidelines, which published in September 2020.  Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod  Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0  Episode Notes  Check out these resources from today's episode:  Complete this evaluation for free nursing continuing professional development.  ONS Guideline™ for the Management of Cancer Treatment-Related Lymphedema  Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing article: Lymphedema: Improving Screening and Treatment Among At-Risk Breast Cancer Survivors  Oncology Nursing Forum article: Conservative Intervention Strategies for Adult Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis  Oncology Nursing Forum article: Prospective Surveillance and Risk Reduction of Cancer Treatment–Related Lymphedema: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  American Cancer Society resources on lymphedema  International Lymphoedema Framework  Lymphatic Education and Research Network (LEARN)  Lymphedema Treatment Act  Lymphology Association of North America  Susan G. Komen Foundation information on lymphedema 

The KRDO Network and Susan G. Komen Foundation are teaming up again this year to raise funds or cancer research.  This year's event, the More than Pink Virtual Walk, is "walk where you are".  Learn more and Register HERE In the meantime, listen in as KRDO's Hanna Knutson previews one of her profiles in cancer survivor courage. Listen Now!

The KRDO Network and Susan G. Komen Foundation are teaming up again this year to raise funds or cancer research.  This year's event, the More than Pink Virtual Walk, is "walk where you are".  Learn more and Register HERE In the meantime, listen in as KRDO's Hanna Knutson previews one of her profiles in cancer treatment and survivors. Listen Now!

Philanthropy Misunderstood by Bob Hopkins The word PHILANTHROPY isn't new, but many think being a philanthropist is about money. In Bob Hopkins' new book, he assures us it IS NOT. He and 100 of his friends define, by way of their good deeds, that philanthropy is about LOVE OF MANKIND. Philanthropy Misunderstood is a 256-page coffee- table book that will surely entertain and inform you. You won't want to put it down. It is colorful and exciting. “Bob Hopkins Introduces us to 100 plus new best friends…people like you and me who give of themselves who actually LOVE others. What a joyful time Bob shares with us. Optimism and hope emerge from every page. Each person's story sparkles. Each one makes us prouder to be fellow ‘homo-sapiens'.” Dr. Claire Gaudiani, philanthropist, author and international lecturer. Bob recalls his first experience with his mother when he was five years old in Garden City, Kansas as they delivered groceries to a poor family during the holidays. He remembers the pat on the back he received from someone for doing good. “Maybe it was God,” he recalled. For more information, go to Philanthropy Misunderstood.   Read the Interview Hugh Ballou: Greetings. Welcome to this episode of The Nonprofit Exchange. Wow. This is going to open your mind to a whole new world. I just met Bob Hopkins recently on a recent trip to Dallas. Some of our previous guests that started Barefoot Winery said, “You have to meet Bob.” When I was in Dallas, I rang him up, and we met. They had shared his book with me called Philanthropy Misunderstood. I thought it was a nice book. When I started digging into the stories and what Bob knew about philanthropy, I said, “We have to share this with other people.” Bob, welcome to The Nonprofit Exchange. Tell people a little bit about you and your passion. Bob Hopkins: Thank you, Hugh. I am so honored to be invited to be here with you as your guest today. I am glad to know that there are some other people in the book in your audience today. I am an older person. I have been around for a long time. Every 20 years, I ask myself, “What am I doing, and where am I going?” I have divided myself into four different segments of my life. I am on the last 18 years. I give myself another 18 years to live. I am trying to figure out what to do, so I am probably going to go to a seminar called PSI in June to find out what I'm going to do next. But, Hugh, I have been involved with this word “philanthropy” for the last 45-50 years. I learn more about what it means all the time. Then I became confused and realized that what I thought philanthropy was is not. Or maybe it is part of, but that's why I had to dig into it and tell stories of 108 people who actually do philanthropic things for other people. That's what this book is about. Hugh: How long have you been engaged in the nonprofit arena with leaders and different kinds of organizations? Bob: I came to Dallas in 1984. I had just been involved as the director of development on the National Council of Alcoholism and learned all about this word called “fundraising” and philanthropy. Found out that the two of them are together as one word and one meaning, and they are also separate things. Some people get them mixed up. They think that fundraising is about money, but so is philanthropy. I have learned that philanthropy can be about money, but largely not. Instead, it's doing good things for others. That's how I got involved with this. I have been in Dallas for 38 years, and I have been working in raising money and now writing a book. I did a magazine called Philanthropy in Texas for a while. Every decade, I learned a little bit more about what that word means. Hugh: Bob, you and I are in our mid-70s, we'll say. We could be sitting back, chilling, and not doing anything. But you and I have a passion for being engaged. Why aren't you sitting around? You're teaching classes, and the stuff that you're asking your students is really profound. You're active with some local charities still. Why is this important to you? Bob: I don't know. I do it because I don't know what else to do. I do play tennis, and I do ride horses. Those are two of my hobbies. I do spend time doing those two things every week, so it's not like I'm constantly thinking about philanthropy, even though I have a horse named Philanthropy. I watch the USTA, and did you know the USTA is a nonprofit organization? They wouldn't survive if they didn't get contributions from people. They do good for others. I guess I'm involved with philanthropy pretty much all the time, even though it's my joy. I love doing it. I like talking about it. I like telling people about it. I like finding people who are doing different new things. I have found so many people over my 40 years that I decided to put them in a book. That's where Philanthropy Misunderstood came from. Hugh: I've had the joy of visiting a couple. The whole family does this water project. I won't get into it, but I want you to tell people. You called them up and said, “You have to meet Hugh.” I went over there, and it was an amazing visit with the whole family. I met the couple. I didn't meet the kids, but I have heard about them and their involvement. How about highlighting some of the stories? Let's talk about this one first; they will be guests on the show in June. It's folding paper. How does that help people? Bob: This is a crazy story, and it's a fabulous story. It's been so fabulous that it's been on Good Morning America. Neiman Marcus actually helped these girls sell these ornaments that are called origami that they make. Their church and schools make them with them. They have volunteers of hundreds of people who do nothing but help make origami, and they sell the origami for $50-$75 a piece. To date, they have raised over $2 million building water wells to actually give water around the world. 170 different water wells in 17 or 18 different countries. These girls are 15, 13, and 10 years old. They started it when they were 4, 5, and 6 because Daddy is part Japanese. He said, “We need to do some origami.” One thing led to the other. I'm not sure what the other is and how detailed you have to get in to find out what the thinking was of the parents, about involving their children in making these origami. That's their life. It is now their life. These girls are so smart because they are in a business. The 15-year-old is the president of the foundation. It's a cool thing. Hugh: I went to visit the whole house and the project. These volunteers come in to do the folding. It's engaged people in a focus. I don't know if the people come in and do that right now, but maybe the family can do more while the kids are out of school. There is another story in here that has a big picture, and it's Bonnie and Michael with Barefoot Winery. They were guests a couple months ago, and they were the ones who connected us. Tell the story about how you got connected and their story in the book. Bob: It's so interesting because Eric is actually the one who introduced me to Bonnie and Michael. He was the marketing director of Barefoot Wine. What Bonnie and Michael did, when they couldn't sell the wine, because nobody wanted to buy it because there was no place to buy it, and liquor stores didn't want to buy it because nobody was asking for it. They started giving it away to charities on the beach in beach towns, mainly starting in Florida. He would give it to them for free, and he said, “If you like it, go to your grocery stores and tell them to buy it.” Long story short, over 15 years, it became the #1 wine in America. Bonnie and Michael did it through giving wine away to charitable causes. I know that they had a marketing plan here. They said, “This is cause-related marketing,” which are words we used to use. They didn't really know it was philanthropy because they really wanted to sell wine. But it also made them feel good, too. I have taken Bonnie and Michael on a philanthropy trip to Mexico. So I got to watch them in action. It didn't have to do with wine; it had to do with building schools and painting houses for people in Mexico. It's a great story. They are in the book, and they should be. Hugh: The book is what you would call a coffee table book. It is hardbound. It's a $45 book. The quality of printing and the quality of the stories and an amazing layout and design. It should be $100. It's one of these treasures. My fourth book, which you have a copy of, Transforming Power, I teach people how to do things. I got to a point where I said, “Hmm, people want to be inspired by stories.” That's one of the premises behind this show is for people to tell their stories. There are people out there in the trenches who are struggling to make ends meet, to pull people together, to rally volunteers, to rally their boards, to rally their funders. Let's talk a bit about this title and what's behind it. What is the biggest misunderstanding on both sides, the funder and people seeking funding? Bob: It started with me. I was always told that philanthropy was about money. I started a magazine in Texas all about people who had money and gave it away. I would come into my staff and say, “I think we need to do Boone Pickens on the cover of the magazine. And the first question was, “How much money does he give away?” That was the common question. That was whether or not we were going to put him in the book on how much money they gave away. Finally, after a while, I realized, You know what? I know a lot of people who do so much more than writing a check. They're never recognized. I have this incredible woman from Houston named Carolyn Farb who spends 26 hours a day helping people learn how to raise money, but also build a hospital, and do all kinds of things. She is not known to be a huge giver, even though she is a giver; therefore, her picture would not be on the front cover of anything because of money. But it would be because of the word “philanthropy.” I realized, because of Carolyn, that I was talking to the wrong people. I needed to be talking to people who were in the book. The people in the book probably give money as well, but that wasn't what I wanted the focus on. I wanted them to tell me why they do what they do. Why do they build origami and build water wells around the world? They don't get any money for it, and they don't give any money. They give things. Well, they do give money because they raise money in their case. Bonnie and Michael, they give money, too. Instead, they gave wine. Chip Richey gives his time and effort and expertise in filmmaking. He's made lots of films about the Indians and Oklahoma. He did things for me for my philanthropy courses. There is Jordie Turk who was a student of mine, who volunteered on his own dime to come to Dallas and video my launch party. His name is not even on the piece. But he did it. He loved it. He is happy about it. I think that's what philanthropy does, moreso than what money does, is gives you joy. That's what everybody says. I get so much more out of what I did than what I gave. Hugh: Philanthropy is both. We have to run the organization. It's like having a car. You have to put gas in it. But there is a bigger piece to this. It's not money alone. Sometimes, people want to give money to save their conscience. They want to be doing something, and they're not really involved with it. So they want to buy a place. but buying a place and stepping up and working. Talk about the synergy of the two of those together. Bob: I'm a giver. But nobody would ever recognize me as a financial giver because I give $100 or $200 or $25 or $50 or whatever. I'm involved with a lot of organizations. I give not necessarily because I love the organization, but I love the person who is asking me. So I write a check in order to continue this relationship I have with this person as a friend or as a person who works with me. But when I actually take on a project and get my feet dirty and hands wet, and I go out and build something, or I paint, I come back tired, but for some reason, I give myself this secret pat on my shoulder and say, “You did good today, Bobby.” That's what happened to me when I was five years old. My mother and I went to give groceries in a trailer park in Garden City, Kansas. We walked away, and I felt this hand on my shoulder. It was patting my shoulder, and it said, “You did good today, Bobby.” I looked around, and there was nobody there. That is the feeling I have gotten because of giving my time and efforts, as opposed to writing a check to get you off my back to say, “Go. I put my name someplace.” They go, “Oh wow, $100. Thank you so much.” Then they come back the next year and do the same thing. There is just a real difference between the people who are in the trenches and the people who aren't. Hugh: I think it's important to give at any level. You say that you won't get recognized for $25 or $50. But if we get a lot of people who support us with their time, talent, and money—you give your time, talent, and money. There is a triage there that are all magnified by each other. If you have the synergy, if you have one person who gives $25, great. If you have 1,000 people who give $25, then you are paying salary and rent and some operating costs. Then you can rev up the engines and focus on your mission. I do find a lot of charities are compromised in many ways, but as you know, the story of SynerVision is we want to empower leaders to step up to the level that they can take the organization. I noticed some of your students are here from the class, and I want to talk about them as well. There is a synergy in those three. We spend time teaching leaders how to raise the bar on their performance so we know how to engage people who are philanthropic-minded. There is a whole lot of stuff there. Jeff, “Bob has given many of us the gift of learning to give, and it is life-changing.” What a quote that is. Talk about your students. I got to sit in on three classes last week. You're doing this Zoom group session education, which is quite remarkable. Your gracious spirit with them, and you see what's inside them, and you see potential that maybe some of them don't see in themselves. You said to me you challenged them to think about writing a eulogy, but you also mentioned doing some research on a nonprofit organization. There was a need for you to have to explain what that meant. What is a nonprofit organization? Talk a little bit about the class. Bob: I taught at a university here. I was teaching business and professional speaking. I decided I wanted to bring in my love and passion to the course. How am I going to bring my love and passion into the course when philanthropy is not in the syllabus? I included philanthropy in the syllabus. When you talk about business, you are going to talk about nonprofit businesses. They had never heard of a nonprofit business, even though they had. They knew what the Salvation Army and the Red Cross was. They knew what the Boys and Girls Club and Boy Scouts are. But they didn't know they were nonprofit organizations. They didn't know there were two million of them in the United States. They didn't know that half of the things that are positive about our country is philanthropy. I said, “Okay, let's have you all look at a nonprofit you are connected with.” They had no idea they were even connected with one. Landon is a new student this semester in my class right now. You asked him a question and asked him to talk when you were in my class. He did. He has a passion. You can feel it when he talks, about the things he does or can do and wants to do to serve people in our community. What I'm doing is there is maybe a small fire underneath them already, and I'm turning up the heat. They get passionate about it, and I empower them to do something about it once they learn about the fact that they can do it. They can do something on their own. Landon is one of those. He has several physical problems, and one of them is with his eyes. He picked a nonprofit organization that had to do with sight. He loves being involved with something he can connect with and understand. We all do. We all can. I am attention-deficit. There is a nonprofit organization and a school that has to do with children teaching children about dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorders. There is something I can do. There is something everybody can do because we all have something that we are connected with, and we just didn't know it. Hugh: I was going to come in and say hello, and I stayed the whole class for two of them. We are recording this in the middle of being sequestered home. It's a time of refreshing, renewal, revising, and thinking about how when we go back to work, how we are going to define the new normal. We are leaders. We will reset the bar. I don't think we're going to go back to what we did before. Most of the people in the book didn't do things in ordinary ways; that's why they are in the book. These stories will inspire others not just to do the same old thing that they always had observed, but to think about what they bring to the table that's really special. What is the new opportunity? Bob, let's dig into some more of these stories. The book is divided into sections. Talk a little bit about why that is and why that's important. Bob: I had some great people working with me. Tom Dolphins from Kansas City designed the book. The book is so attractive that people want to find out what it is. It's not just the words, but it's the design. And Ann Vigola from Lawrence, Kansas started out as my editor. She happened to be a student of mine prior to that. Ann spent a lot of time figuring out how to organize this book because as being an attention-deficit person, I have all this information up here. I didn't know how to organize it. It was organized starting out with topics. We did One Day at a Time because I am a recovering alcoholic, and I wanted to talk a little bit about that topic. One Day at a Time also had to do with the AIDS epidemic. I had a brother who died of AIDS, and I wanted to focus on that. Every person in here has had something to do in my life. People would say, “You didn't do so-and-so. They are such a great person.” I said, “I know, but I didn't work with them.” All of these people, I worked with. All the stories in here, many of them, I had something to do with. Chip got me involved in the Phoenix Project, or maybe I got him involved, which was helping warriors coming home from war, connecting them with their spouses on retreats with horses and massages. Chip actually put together a video about this whole thing. I was involved with that. I went to the sweat lodges with these warriors and watched them connect and relate to each other. They are all stories I have been involved with in one way or another, and that's one story I like a lot. Jordie worked with me with the poorest of the poor kids in Mexico in Guanajuato, Mexico, Leon. We would go to the poorest school, and I would tell the teachers, “I want to take your kids for just an hour once a week and bring in 20 of my students. We will teach them philanthropy.” We watched children change because of a handshake. Jordie was able to volunteer his time, even though he was a student of mine, to put this fabulous piece together that is on YouTube. These are all stories we were able to capture. I wish I'd had these two men together with me for all of the stories because somebody's contacted me and said, “We need to make a movie here with these short stories.” Some of them still have long-lasting things. One of the people in Mexico said, “Just teaching a child to do a handshake and watch her change as a person week after week after week has changed me as a person,” she said. It does. When you do philanthropy, it changes you. Hugh: That's a great sound bite. Serving churches in music ministry for 40 years, I took many mission trips. We went to give them, but we came back having received a lot more than we tried to give away. There is a reciprocity to giving. You're a giver, but you're blessed by your giving. You're enriched by your giving. You give stuff away, but it really impacts you. When I am with you, you're just full of energy. You're this most passionate energized person purposeful person. What more about the book? Was there a story here delving into their story for the book, that really moved you more than any other story?   Bob: Yeah. We took a vote in our little group who put this book together, Ann, Tom, and I. There is one called “Bridging the Gap.” It is written by Morgan Herm. He is a schoolteacher. He talks about a bridge that is in Pennsylvania, where he lives. He would go and meditate there. On this bridge, he noticed that somebody had put in a letter between the planks. He opened the letter, and it was a letter that a person had written about them being able to become at peace with themselves because of meditating on this bridge. He put the letter back. Then there was a collection of letters that people would put in about how this bridge had brought them peace. It helped them through their divorce, or it helped them through their domestic violence. Morgan finally built a mailbox so people could put their letters in the mailbox. They could read each other's letters. That's philanthropy. That bridge serves as a philanthropic metaphor or example of peace and love. That's one of my favorites, and it's written so well because Morgan is an English teacher and writer. Hugh: Each contributor wrote their own story. Bob: They wrote their own stories. There was a couple of them that I wrote. There was a woman named Ruth Altschuter in Dallas who died last year. I wanted her in the book. So I went to her husband and said, “Would you write this for me?” He said, “No, I can't write anymore. I don't write.” I said, “Let me write Ruth's story, and you approve it.” He said okay. But most people wrote their own stories. One lady wrote a story that I told her should be 1,000 words. It was 5,000 words. I read it and realized I couldn't cut anything out. It's the history of Swiss Avenue, which is one of the oldest historic districts in the United States. She called it, “Philanthropy Built Her Neighborhood.” It's about how the mansions and big houses on Swiss Avenue became run-down in the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. You could buy a piece of property here for $10 or 25,000, which are now going for $2 million, back in the old days. She wanted to tell the story about how it became a fabulous neighborhood that is looked upon as one of the premier places in the United States. It ended up being 10 pages, and I left the 5,000 words. It is the longest story. It wasn't meant to be that way, but it's really well done, so I didn't cut it out. Hugh: You said here. Is it in Dallas? Bob: Yes. I live in that district. I live in the Swiss Avenue historic district. Hugh: Wow, that's fascinating. Landon has a question. Landon, you're live, so if you have your mic on, do you want to talk to us? Landon Shepherd: My question is, let's say I have an idea for a nonprofit I would like to start. But I don't really know exactly how or where to start it, or who to talk to about getting started with what I want to do. What would be your advice to some of the students who may have these ideas, but don't know how to work out these ideas? Hugh: That question is for your professor? Landon: Either one of you guys. Hugh: We'll tag-team on it. Go ahead, Bob. Bob: He's a student of mine, and I will definitely have a talk about that. But we have in Dallas and in Fort Worth and every major city in the United States a center for nonprofit management. The centers for nonprofit management in each of the major cities are where people can go learn about giving and learn how to start an organization, a 501(c)3, the who, what, when, where, why. They have seminars all the time. You can go to the Community Foundation of Texas. You can go to the Dallas Foundation. These are other avenues of where people are experts in this. Yes, there is a way to do that. Landon, I will tell you who to contact here in Dallas. Hugh: There are centers like that in every city. There is also a universal presence called SynerVision Leadership Foundation. We have a blue button at the top of our page labeled, “Join.” We have this community with all kinds of resources. Sometimes, we find how to do strategy or how to do leadership or how to do fundraising or how to do a brand or marketing. We put it in one contiguous process so you don't have to look around. You can look at our site and see if that suits you. Combine working in person with one of these centers Bob is talking about. That would give you a leg up. Bob, I know half of the nonprofits started each year will close ultimately. My take on it is they haven't done a good job of looking at the market to make sure it's not being duplicated, and they haven't really activated their board and set themselves up for success. What is your idea of why some of those close? Bob: You're right. They usually are started by people who don't have any information. They have a passion, which you have to have for the topic. People who have cancer, they want to start a nonprofit organization that has to do with cancer and raise money in the name of somebody. The Susan G. Komen Foundation was started by Nancy Brinker here in Dallas because her sister Susan G. Komen had breast cancer. She told her before she died, “I am going to find you a cure for this.” What Nancy did was she surrounded herself with experts who knew how to put together a nonprofit. Now, it is the best one in the world. I can tell you five or six right off the top of my head that didn't last for more than a year because they didn't have a board of directors, they didn't know how to do their paperwork, they started raising money without knowing how to be a fundraiser. Let me tell Landon and everybody this. There is an association called the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in the United States. 35,000 professional fundraising people. I was a member of this group for most of my years as the president here in Dallas, and went to all the major conferences. There are conferences every year with AFP. There is a luncheon in most major cities every month that bring together all the people who raise money for the nonprofits in any city. There is a program with a speaker. It is a time to network, the people who have been there and done it before. That's how you do it. Hugh: Building a network around you. There is a peer-to-peer network, which is great, but you want to have a network of people who are even better than you. In my case, it's not hard to do. But hang around people who have been there, done that, and are experts. We have Jeffrey Fulgham watching who has a question. I want to allow you to talk. Jeffrey has been a member of that and is a certified fundraiser. Why is it important for you? You went through the certification process and studied development for so many years. Do you want to comment on the organization and why it's so important for people to understand now? Jeffrey Fulgham: I have always looked at it as a cliché of the good housekeeping seal of approval. I think this gets more important every day. This needs to be a profession, and it needs to be professional, not just in fundraisers but in nonprofits. There has to be some standard. We hope it's a standard of excellence, but there has to be some standard by which people can look and say, “Okay, this is an organization, or an individual, who is committed to certain principles, certain basic values, that transcend whatever it is that that organization is involved in.” Obviously, there are certain organizations whose values are going to be different than another one. But those values are related to the mission, not the operating strategy or the integrity of the entity or the integrity of the individuals working within it. What it allows us to do is create that standard. When someone looks at an organization, they have Guidestar to go to and the other metric organizations. But they also have a way to look and say, “Hey, this is what these organizations support. These are the values they support. This organization belongs to them and subscribes to these values. They subscribe to certain values. They set the standard.” Of course, the CFRE sets the standard as well. I think it's important for people who are giving, but also for people who want to get involved as volunteers, who want to go work somewhere. Do you want to work for an organization who subscribes to certain values and has that level of integrity? That's the main reason why I think it's all important. Hugh: Great. Before I let you go back into your listening mode, do you have a question for our guest today about philanthropy or about his book? Jeffrey: You know, that's the first time I've heard of this book. I'm definitely going to have to get a copy of it. I think it's really interesting that you mentioned that philanthropy is not necessarily about money. I always tell people that fundraising is not about money; it usually ends in money, but it's about relationships and about creating relationships that are long-lasting. Those relationships should transcend the money in that just because in a bad year, and we're having one by the way, where people are not going to make gifts to organizations they care about because they have to take care of their families and their friends. They will give more money to their church. They will make hard decisions about who they are giving to. If that person doesn't make a gift to my organization but they have been supporting me for 20 years, do I abandon them and ignore them because they are not giving money through our fundraising? No. Because I have a relationship with them that transcends their financial giving, or possibly their volunteerism. It becomes a different thing. Philanthropy is definitely a mindset beyond money, and I love that you are bringing that to the surface so people can understand what it's about. Hugh: I'm glad you asked me where to get the book. There is a website called PhilanthropyMisunderstood.org. You can find out how to get the book there. Bob: Thank you, Jeffrey. I want to know more about you as well. I am a member of AFP and of CFRE as well. There are a couple of people in the book who are CFRE, Scott Staub and Alfonse Brown. They have great stories in there not about fundraising. As you say, it was about relationship-building and the volunteerism they participated in as well. Hugh: Not everybody wrote a story in there. There is a story about a horse. Who wrote that? Bob: I wrote that one. It's my best story. I wanted Philanthropy to be on my front cover, and Philanthropy happens to be my horse. This woman by the name of Tracy Carruth, who is a big philanthropist in Dallas, breeds horses. I happen to have an Arabian horse. She breeds Arabian horses. Napatoff, who is her most beautiful world champion horse, was retiring. Before he died, or left the breeding ring, she wanted to make sure that I got an offspring from Napatoff. She gave me the semen from Napatoff to go into Sherry Rochesta, who was my Arabian. Through that, we got a beautiful horse that I named Philanthropy. I wanted to start that as my first story. My editor didn't like it, so we put it into the back. I am there with Tracy Carruth and our horses. That's the story. Hugh: The standards for everything, the quality of the writing and the photographs, the design of the book, all of these sections in the book. You start out with Circle of Influence. Jeffrey headed us that way. It's not about money; it's about relationship. When you and I had lunch recently, we talked about relationship. You now have a relationship with all these people, and they wanted to be in your book. Why is relationship important to our work? Relationship in our teaching at SynerVision, it's the underpinning of leadership and ministry, and it's the support for communications. Funding and philanthropy happens as a result of relationship. Say a little more about relationship and how it's important. Bob: Debbie Mrazek, who is one of the writers, wrote a part in the book called “Your Circle of Influence.” Who are all those people who will take care of you, who will take you to the airport and lend you sugar and tell you where to get the plumber? I had my students write down 100 people they know, wheedle it down to 25, and then 15 who will be in their circle of influence. I teach networking. It's not what you know; it's who you know. That's the first thing and last thing I say in my classes. My students, I say, “How many people do you know?” They didn't know 100 people. One of them knew seven. My family members. No, I don't want to meet anybody. No, I don't need people. I said to the class, “I'm going to take students to Nepal. It will cost $1,500. How many of you can raise the money to make it happen?” I went to this girl who said she knew seven people, and she didn't want to know any more people. She said, “I don't know anybody. I don't want to know anybody. I guess I'm not going to Nepal.” I said, “I guess you're not.” We took people to Nepal because my students most of the time realize that they have a great number of people around them who care about them, but there is a methodology of how to influence people and how to cultivate people and how to get them to be your friends, and more than friends, how to be a good friend, how to help people, and actually go around hunting for things to do for people. That's what I want my students to become. I don't think that we get anywhere in life without others. That's one of the key principles that I teach in my communication classes. Hugh: Your class that I sat in on is really about communications. You're really promoting good thinking skills. Communication to me is based on relationship. We can send a whole bunch of emails that nobody reads. It's not about data. Bob: No. I send emails, and I pick up the phone. We used to send faxes. We used to go knock on their door. We used to drive by. I think that this time right now, we're trying to figure out how to continue life in solitude since we are told to stay home, and stay home alone. I think we're finding this television and this computer even more important than ever since this is how we're able to stay in touch, through this cell phone we love so much and this computer. However, I can go next door and knock on the door and take them a cake and say, “I was thinking of you and realize you may not have any desserts at your house today.” Sometimes, I'll have my lawnmower man come out and next door, they don't mow their lawn very much. “Go mow their lawn. I'll pay you.” The people come home and say, “I can't believe you had somebody mow my lawn.” It was a philanthropic idea I had, was to love mankind and do something for the person next door. Hugh: Bob is an inspiration. My ideas are popping. You have 100 creative ideas every six seconds. You're prolific. In these stories, 100+ stories from people who helped change the world. We are all doing our part. It's not one person. But one person can start a movement. My friend in Lynchburg, he was the person who founded Stop Hunger Now, which is now Rise Against Hunger. Before we had a setback with coronavirus, they were on target to package 750 million meals. Their vision is to end hunger in our lifetime. It's not just about packaging the meals; it's about a lot more than that. One person thought of that and founded it, and it's now a major movement that will exist long past his lifetime, which is what he wanted. It's a legacy. What are the legacy possibilities for any of us who say, “I want to do something for humankind and have it keep going?” Are there possibilities for all of us? Bob: I always say, “What are you doing for the person who just passed away in your life? What will you do for your mother? What will you do for your father?” I got involved with building schools in Nepal with Don Wilkes. Let me tell you about Don Lueke since he is here. Don Lueke is from Kansas City; he and I met probably 30 years ago because he taught children at his school about giving. It's the Junior Leadership. It's similar to my PAVE program (Philanthropy and Volunteers Education). For the last 15-20 years, he and a man by the name of Steve O'Neill, who are businesspeople in Kansas City, take time out of their week every week to teach children at the Catholic school where their children go about giving back. This has become so sophisticated that this last year, I was a part of a seminar they had at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, where all of his students, maybe 30 or 40 of them, came and gave presentations on nonprofit organizations they had helped in the community. He does similar things to me: empower young people to get involved in the community. There is a double page about him and this group he is doing it with. Don Wilkes in Nepal for example. What can you do to honor somebody? He said, “If you can make a contribution of a couple thousand dollars, we will put someone's name on a classroom in a school we are building in Nepal.” I called my brother and sister and said, “For $2,000, we can put our mother's name on a classroom in Nepal.” My brother says, “I want to see a video of what it looks like.” I sent him the video, and he called me back immediately and said, “Let's do it.” My sister said, “Sight unseen, let's do it. We want to honor our mother.” For $2,000, our mother's name is on a school's room in Nepal. I know because I went to Nepal to see it. I had to go see my mother's name. When I got out of the car, and the children were clapping for me because I was amongst them, because I gave a simple $2,000 and put my mother's name on the deal, gave me such joy that we decided to do it again. I put my cousin's name and my aunt's name in another classroom on another school they are building in Nepal. That is a way you can provide not necessarily for yourself, but for somebody else that meant a lot in this society. Everybody we run around with meant a lot in this society. They did something in their lives that changed the world. Hugh: Absolutely. That's an inspiration. Are you willing to entertain questions if I open everybody's mic? Bob: Absolutely. Eric Groover: Bob, this is Eric Groover from the University of North Texas. How are you doing, Bob? Bob: Hi, Eric. It's good to see you again. Eric: Hugh, I just want to say thank you for hosting Bob. Bob and I are new acquaintances through some of our students at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science here at the University of North Texas in Denton. Just north of the DFW metroplex. Bob was actually scheduled to come speak to some students on our campus last week, and unfortunately we had to cancel that. Bob was gracious enough to bring up some of the books that we purchased for our students and faculty and staff. We spent a few minutes violating the university's shelter-in-place order, visiting in my office for 20-30 minutes. I just wanted to say, Bob, that it's been lovely watching you today and hearing your stories again. Just a huge thank-you to Hugh for hosting this event. He does you credit, and I'm glad for that. Thank you very much. Hugh: Thank you, Eric. Blessings. Nancy Hopkins: This is Nancy Carol Hopkins. Yes, I am Bob's sister. I am watching from Tucson, Arizona. Obviously, Bob has been an influence in a lot of people's lives, including mine and our younger brother. I wanted to make a comment on the volunteerism point. First of all, Bob gets asked frequently how come he stays so young and is so active at his age and has so much energy. If you look up and do some research on volunteerism, there is a lot of research that shows that volunteerism actually helps you medically, emotionally, physically, keeps you young literally. It does. There is medical research to prove that. If anybody wants to know how Bob stays so young and energetic, it has nothing to do with vitamins and pills he is taking. It has everything to do with the work that he does. Hugh: Very helpful, Nancy. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for sharing that. Nancy: You're welcome. Hugh: You don't have to take tonic if you hang around Bob Hopkins. Nancy: That's right. You don't. Hugh: That's so rich. By the way, our governor slapped a stay-at-home order on us until June 10. The exception is volunteerism. If you volunteer for a charity, you can get out and do it. That was a good thing, I thought. Penny Rambacker: Hi, this is Penny Rambacker. How are you doing, Bob? Bob: They said Penny. I was hoping it was you. Penny: I'd like to make another comment about the idea of having purpose. I think Bob has a purpose, as many of us philanthropists have. I have been reading a book recently that said two of the things you can do to be the happiest in life are 1) to have a purpose and to feel needed, and that keeps you young and alive, and 2) is to be grateful. Those of us that practice gratitude and appreciate what we have are oftentimes people who are giving because they have seen other people with greater needs than their own. They become grateful for all of the things they have in their life. I had a huge gratitude lesson back when I first got into this. That was when I visited the garbage dump in Guatemala City. I saw children living there. It really touched my heart, and I had to do something about it. I found my purpose, and I felt grateful for the life I have. Two good things to think about when you are doing philanthropy. Yep, that's me and my kids. Hugh: What page is that on, Bob? Bob: Pages 48-49. Hugh: Love it. Great stories. Penny, where are you? Penny: I am in Naples, Florida. We work in Guatemala. My charity has built 57 schools in the mountains of Guatemala. We also sell handicrafts. We just sent an e-newsletter telling people to visit our store online. It's virus-free. You can go shopping for a greater good. If you want to go shopping, we have great things at Store.MiraclesInAction.org. Hugh: Good for you. I have been to Guatemala, and people are very poor. They have lots of wonderful natural resources. They do wonderful clothes with all these designs that are brilliant. What are you showing, Bob? Bob: This is Don Lueke's page. He is on pages 82-83. Hugh: Don, do you want to comment? Don Lueke: This is a great opportunity to showcase your work, Bob, and the work of everybody in that book. I appreciate the efforts on your part. Just want to add. We talk about having a purpose. I think that is what makes us get up every day, or at least get up quicker. I don't know if I have a lot more to add. I'm humbled by everybody's story in the book, so I think I am just one of many. Hugh: Thank you for sharing. I am humbled being part of Bob's network. *Sponsor message from Wordsprint* Bob, what is a parting thought you'd like to leave people with today? Bob: I am going to do another book called Philanthropy Understood. It's going to be new people. Some of the old people we want to expand upon, too. I'd like to do something with TAMS. I think TAMS is a great program that Eric Groover has been a part of before. There are so many people that I have been thinking about. That's what I'm doing right now, and that's why so many people are here who are in the book because I sent them a memo telling them all that we are needing to stay together on a monthly basis. We did have a man pass away yesterday in the book, Charles Lowe. He has spent 45 years working with the disease called neurofibromatosis, and I worked for them for eight years. I was able to tell all of the people in the book about his passing. So many people responded who didn't even know Charles, but did know his article in the book. I think the more we create this circle of influence around ourselves, the richer our lives are going to be. Also, the kinds of people we depend upon, I always try to find people who are smarter than you who have more things going on for them because they will lift me up instead of running around with people who will pull me down. My challenge to everyone is to continue these kinds of groups, and continue doing good together. That is the real fun about philanthropy and being volunteers. It's a togetherness thing. I did go with Penny to Guatemala, and I loved the experience. She is in the book. I went with her 20 years ago. I included her in the book because that experience changed my life 20 years ago. It's one of those many things that make up a person. It's so much fun going back in my history, in my family. My sister is the greatest philanthropist of our family. She is doing more than me even. I think that's the joy. I don't even say it's happy anymore; it's a joy to walk out on my front porch and say, “God, take me. What is my next step? What do I have to do next?” You know what. Somebody picks me up and takes me. I think that's the lesson I have learned more than anything: you have to be willing and tell people. Hugh: Bob Hopkins, you are a gift to humankind. Thank you so much for being our guest today. Bob: Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have had many distinguished guests In The Ladies’ Room, including 2 Olympic Champions and 1 U.S. Cabinet Member.  Today we are pleased to welcome our 1st U.S. Ambassador, Nancy Brinker, who is even better known as founder of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She is a breast cancer advocate, a breast cancer warrior, and a breast cancer survivor and thriver.  She is also our first guest who is a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient as well as a member of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. 

Anthony Nunziata is the New York City-based, internationally-acclaimed singer and songwriter who brings his soulful voice to classic jazz, pop standards and his original music. Anthony has performed over 400 concerts over the past few years headlining major performing arts centers, theaters, symphony concert halls and private events across the country and around the world. The Brooklyn-born, classically trained singer is hailed by Broadwayworld as “an explosion of love and entertainment.” Anthony recently co-headlined Carnegie Hall for two sold-out concerts with the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra. Anthony recently appeared in the Netflix film "The Last Laugh" opposite Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss. Anthony's original songs include co-write collaborations with Victoria Shaw (No. 1 hits for Garth Brooks, Lady Antebellum) Jim Brickman (21 No. 1 Albums) Jeff Franzel (Josh Groban, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Dayne), Tom Kimmel (Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, Art Garfunkel) Maria Christensen (Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez), and Nina Ossoff and Porter Carroll Jr. (Daughtry, Patti Austin, The Temptations). His original pop song "The Gift Is You" - which he wrote honoring his mother's battle with breast cancer (she is now cancer-free) - is currently being used as an anthem for The Susan G. Komen Foundation. His music is featured on his upcoming solo album released in the Fall 2019 which will coincide with his concert tour. Anthony has brought his fresh take on classic & contemporary songs as well as his movie-bound original tunes across the United States and around the world to performing arts centers, theaters and private events, as well as intimate jazz clubs and symphony concerts with orchestras such as the New York Pops, Detroit Symphony, Cleveland Pops, Colorado Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, Cape Cod Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and more. He has performed at private events across the United States and recently in England, Spain, Italy and Singapore. In his 2019-2020 concert tour Anthony brings his soulful and lyrical tenor voice to the greatest love songs ever written. He and his Grammy-winning musicians re-imagine “Unchained Melody,” “Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You,” “Can't Help Falling In Love With You,” “When I Fall In Love,” “The Prayer,” “O Sole Mio,” “Somewhere,” originals including “Will You Be My Everyday?” and many more. Anthony studied music, acting and directing at Boston College, and trained in improv comedy at the famed Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. Featured on Good Morning America and The Rachael Ray Show, Anthony is most proud of his "ARTS MATTER!" Educational Outreach Initiative and Master Class Workshops that educate and inspire students to fearlessly pursue their passions. Anthony is an avid tennis player, a two-time jr. National Platform Tennis Champion, and can cook up a delicious chicken parmesan. Artist website: www.AnthonyNunziata.com. On this episode, Anthony returns to The One Way Ticket Show where he's Steven's first Weekend Special guest! Anthony shares tunes off his "The Love Album" and talks about his music and more.  Anthony is just one of the dynamic personalities featured on The One Way Ticket Show,  where Steven's guests have included: Nobel Peace Prize Winner, President Jose Ramos-Horta; Legendary Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett; Law Professor, Alan Dershowitz; Fashion Expert, Tim Gunn; Broadcast Legend, Charles Osgood; International Rescue Committee President & CEO, David Miliband; Playwright, David Henry Hwang; Journalist-Humorist-Actor, Mo Rocca; SkyBridge Capital Founder & Co-Managing Partner, Anthony Scaramucci; Abercrombie & Kent Founder, Geoffrey Kent; Travel Expert, Pauline Frommer, as well as leading photographers, artists, chefs, writers, intellectuals and more.

This is the Albuquerque Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading local business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Albuquerque. I want you guys to buy this book The 12 Week Year you can get it here. Here is a description of the book from there website:  The 12 Week Year Is Not About Mustering More Discipline, Willpower, Organizational Skills, or A better Mindset THIS IS DIFFERENT...  Developed in high-stakes environments where performance and execution are a competitive advantage,  The 12 Week Year has turned traditional goal setting on its head, and simplified how ambitious people get things done.   Traditional approaches to getting things done often require serious organizational skills and unsustainable amounts of discipline or willpower.  If you’ve tried to become “more productive” or “more effective,” in the past, using any of those common approaches, you’ve no doubt felt overwhelmed, frustrated, or disappointed at some point with your lack of sustained progress. The 12 Week Year is an execution method used in monster Organizations like: NASA, Dunkin' Brands, Coldwell Banker, JC Penny, Mass Mutual, Papa Johns Pizza, Tiffany's, New York Life, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and many more. This new and different approach to getting things done has now become the operating method of choice for many Fortune 500 executives, elite entrepreneurs, accomplished athletes, top performers in dozens of professional fields...   ...and, for ordinary, but ambitious individuals who need an effective execution method that's easy to learn, easy implement, and easy to maintain. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ.  

In part two with guests Kenny DeForest (Seth Meyers, James Corden) and Will Miles (Comedy Central Half Hour, “South Side), Clark, Kenny and Will discuss the time Kenny and Clark lived in a slum together, how any race can feel white guilt, plus a game of "Black Dude Speed" that benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Follow Clark on IG: theclarkjones Follow Clark on Twitter: theclarkjones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vanna White quickly became a household name when she was named Co-Host of “Wheel of Fortune” in 1982. After auditioning alongside over 200 other hopefuls, Merv Griffin ultimately awarded the coveted spot to Vanna because “she turned the letters the best.” Growing up in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., Vanna never dreamed that one day she would be a pop culture icon. After attending the Atlanta School of Fashion Design and becoming one of the area’s top models, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Since her debut on “Wheel of Fortune,” Vanna has appeared in more than 7,000 episodes, revealing letters on the iconic puzzleboard, cheering on contestants, and dazzling in a new outfit every night. For her work on “Wheel of Fortune,” the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Vanna with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in April 2006. In April 2018, Vanna was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, along with Host, Pat Sajak; Executive Producer, Harry Friedman; and “Wheel of Fortune” itself. With her success, Vanna has given back to those in need. Combining her passions for crocheting and helping children, she launched her own line of yarn called “Vanna’s Choice,” from which a portion of the proceeds are donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. To date, Vanna has donated over $2 million through “Vanna’s Choice” sales. She also lends her support to other causes wherever she can. She has worked on projects for American Cancer Society, Rebuilding Together, Feeding America, Los Angeles Food Bank, American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen Foundation and Verizon Wireless’s literacy campaign, among others. JONES.SHOW is a weekly podcast featuring host Randall Kenneth Jones (author, speaker & creative communications consultant) and Susan C. Bennett (the original voice of Siri). Vanna White Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialVannaWhite Twitter: https://twitter.com/thevannawhite  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialvannawhite/  Web: www.vannawhite.com Wheel of Fortune Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wheeloffortune  Twitter: https://twitter.com/wheeloffortune Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheeloffortune/ Jones.Show Join us in the Jones.Show Lounge on Facebook Twitter (Randy): https://twitter.com/randallkjones  Instagram (Randy): https://www.instagram.com/randallkennethjones/ Facebook (Randy): https://www.facebook.com/mindzoo/ LinkedIn (Randy): https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallkennethjones/ Web: RandallKennethJones.com Twitter (Susan): https://twitter.com/SiriouslySusan Instagram (Susan): https://www.instagram.com/siriouslysusan/ Facebook (Susan): https://www.facebook.com/siriouslysusan/ LinkedIn (Susan): https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-bennett-8607312/ Web: SusanCBennett.com www.Jones.Show

When a for-profit company aligns with a not-for-profit, or non-profit organization what happens? A WIN for both and it's called Cause Marketing. I talk about it in my book, UN-Market Your Business: 10 Ways for Savvy Entrepreneurs to Stand Out, Stop Struggling, and Start Profiting. When you attach your business to an organization you believe in, it makes for a great opportunity to promote the cause and for the light to shine on your business as caring about more than just the bottom line. Cause marketing is big news. Today, I'll share with you how to set your company up for success using cause marketing. -------------------------------- October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Since I'm an 8-year survivor of a Stage II diagnosis, I feel it's my duty to support any way I can, so for the entire month of October, when you purchase the Social Media Success Strategy program, 20% will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. ------------------------------ Register to attend my FREE 5-Day Marketing Mastery Bootcamp that kicks off October 21, 2019. By entering you be registered to win the UN-Marketing Entrepreneur Bundle that's valued at over $2000 in tools, info, and strategies to help you finish 2019 strong. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unmarketyourbusiness/support

On this episode of The Extra Mile Podcast, I flew down to Dallas, Texas to visit the headquarters of a new addition to the Charity Miles family, the Susan G. Komen Foundation. While there, I had the pleasure of speaking with an amazing woman, breast cancer survivor and employee and advocate for Susan G. Komen, the incredible Nikia Hammonds-Blakely.  First of all, the energy at Susan G. Komen is amazing. But visiting the office, and more importantly, speaking with Nikia, was incredibly enlightening. Hearing Nikia's story added a new dimension to my idea of disease-focused organizations. When I think of organizations like Susan G. Koman I usually just think of research. But they do SO MUCH MORE.  Nikia's story is extraordinary. At 16 years old she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. After a botched surgery, the resulting disfiguration was difficult on young Nikia at the time. Though it was a difficult thing to talk about and process, the experience of facing her mortality gave her a newfound drive and Nikia started excelling in school, eventually graduating at the top of her class.  She soon became an advocate on her college campus, encouraging other young women to learn the signs of breast cancer. Shortly after, she learned that Susan G. Komen wanted to hear from sectors of the communities that may have been untapped or underserved in the areas of breast cancer treatment and access. So she was voted in as part of the Young Women's National Advisory Council. After college, she continued her work with Komen as a voice for the voiceless and even went to Capitol Hill to sit down with legislators and speak on the latest healthcare bills that would affect coverage for people under 40. To this day, Nikia does unbelievable work on behalf of underserved communities and African-American women who might not have access to the resources needed to fight the disease. She is currently 25 years cancer-free. A big thank you to Nikia and Lee for joining me on this hot walk in Dallas. You'll hear how moved I was by her story and I know you will be, too.  #EveryMileMatters Support the Susan G. Komen Foundation: https://ww5.komen.org/ Learn more about Nikia: https://www.nikiahammondsblakely.com/

Ashley Reinke won Miss Arizona International 2018 and is a Certified Nutritionist living in San Jose, California. Using her pageant notoriety, she has parlayed her career into the health and wellness space specializing in plant based, farm-to-table cooking. During her reign, Ashley earned her sports nutrition science certification and she is completing her master’s degree in nutritional science. As a young working professional, Ashley knows how intimidating it can be to step into a kitchen. To show her peers how eating healthy can be easy, inexpensive and fun, Ashley created her “Five Ingredients Under Five Dollars” program where she demonstrates on live television various delicious recipes and gives healthy tips that don’t break busy schedules or tight budgets. Coupled with her pageant fame and 23K plus Instagram followers, Ashley is a favorite guest on countless live local daytime talk shows as a Nutrition Expert. Her appearances include FOX News in Sacramento, FOX’s Great Day Fresno, LasVegas Now, Good Day Sacramento, and Tucson Morning Blend. She’s also a go-to nutritionist and wellness expert in print and was featured in totalbeauty.com where she weighed in on "How to Order Healthy at Starbucks." Some of her beautifully well staged TV tabletop segments include "Cholesterol Lowering Snacks," "Plant Based BBQ Ideas," "Fitness Fueling Foods," "Heart Healthy Summer Recipes," "Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol," "Tips on Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain," "Bake Your Way to Better Heart Health" and "Healthy Desserts." A marathon runner in top physical shape, Ashley’s been a runway, fitness and commercial model for over a decade. She’s worked with such major companies as Mercedes Benz USA Luxury Cars, Marriott Hotels, the National Football League, Nordstrom, and Macy’s. Passionate about philanthropy and giving back to her community, Ashley launched Chomp Out Cancer, a program that partners with food banks to promote nutrition education for disease prevention. She also works with various non-profit organizations including Teen Cancer America, The Susan G. Komen Foundation, Second Harvest Food Bank, and Ronald McDonald House Charities. Learn more www.ashleyreinke.com or on Instagram @ashleyareinke.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You've been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here's how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here's an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don't over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here's an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that's good – you're pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they'll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don't – well, they don't. Let it go and don't spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let's use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let's say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don't panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that's a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! 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Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You've been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here's how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here's an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don't over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here's an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that's good – you're pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they'll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don't – well, they don't. Let it go and don't spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let's use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let's say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don't panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that's a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne's Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

Today we are going to talk about How to Make the Right Choice in 3 Simple Steps. You’ve been making choices every day since you were a child, yet sometimes it can feel like you are the most inexperienced decision-maker in the world. You feel uncertain about which choice to make and how your decision will ultimately affect your life. When faced with a decision that could alter the course of your life, how do you make the right choice? The first step in any choice is to determine where you want to be. Getting clear on your goals will help you make choices that are in line with your vision. Once you get clear on your goals, it can be much easier to see how the results of your choices will lead you either closer to your goals – or further away. Here’s how you can learn to make the right choice in three simple steps. Step 1: Write Your List of Long-Term Goals You may have a lot of long-term goals, but for now, just start with the ten most important to you. Once you have had time to focus on this short list, feel free to expand it to include ALL of your long-term goals. Here’s an example: My Long-Term Goals 1. Have $7,500 saved to take two vacations per year (starting 2014) to exotic places by 6/1/14. 2. Buy new house with 15% down payment $90,000 by 10/1/2015 3. Pay off mortgage ($_______) by 12/31/2030 4. $5.2 million saved for retirement/financial future by 12/31/2021 5. Retire by age 54: 2/23/2022 6. Sell house by 9/30/2015 7. Donate 5% of net income each year to charitable organizations that have personal meaning (Susan G. Komen Foundation and Habitat for Humanity) starting 1/1/2015 8. Complete a full Ironman Triathlon in under 17 hours - 10/31/2016 9. Play golf 2 times per month starting 4/1/2013 10. Improve health and fitness-lose 25 pounds, and be at180 lbs by 7/1/2014 11. Read fun books 1 per quarter starting 1/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per month starting 1/1/2014 13. Continue to have date night with my significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Long-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Now that you have identified your long-term goals, you can identify your short-term goals. Don’t over-analyze or critique your answers, just go with what you really want now, today, tomorrow, this week, within one month, or in the near future. Step 2: Write Your List of Short-Term Goals Here’s an example: My Short-Term Goals (Must be measurable, specific and include specific dates) 1. Add 15 new Ideal Clients by 12/31/13 2. Earn $450,000 net by 12/31/13 3. Reduce monthly expenses by 10% - now! 1/10/13 4. Take that 10% and open an interest bearing account for annual travel fund – within 2 days: 1/12/13 5. Research mortgage refinance every 6 months – can I save $$? 3/31/13 6. Find a local art gallery that will sell my paintings - 6/12/13 7. Establish passive income (sell digital images of my artwork at the local gallery, do consulting, etc.) to increase my retirement fund contribution to $25,000 per year - 4/12/13 8. Do cardio exercise 3 times per week for 1 hour each time beginning today 9. Lift weights 2 times per week for 45 minutes each time beginning today 10. Play golf 1 time per month starting 5/1/2013 11. Improve health and fitness-lose 12 pounds, and be at193 lbs by 8/1/2013 12. Get 1 massage per quarter starting 6/1/2013 13. Have date night with significant other 2 times per month starting 1/15/13 My Short-Term Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How did you do? Did your goals come to you easily or did it take more time than you thought? If your goals rolled off the end of your pen like flowing ink, that’s good – you’re pretty clear about what you want in life. If it was a little difficult coming up with goals, spend some time exploring what you really want – what you want, not what someone else wants for you. If friends or family criticizing you for any of your goal choices, reply politely with “I appreciate your feedback. This is something I desire deeply and want to do for me and my happiness.” If they understand, they’ll be able to relate to your desire to be happy – because we all want that. And if they don’t – well, they don’t. Let it go and don’t spend any more energy trying to get them to understand. Step 3: Make Sure Your Short-Term Goals Support Your Long-Term Goals Review your short-term goals and determine if they support or sabotage your long-term goals. As an example, let’s use Goal #5 from the Long-Term Goal List: $2.2 million saved in retirement fund. Let’s say the current balance in your retirement fund is $50,000 and you can only contribute $10,000 per year. At that rate, it would take you more years than you have to reach $5.2 million! Wait, don’t panic yet – the goal of $5.2 million by your target date is completely achievable, you just need to make sure your Short-Term Goals support it and you have done your math correctly. Take a look at Goal #7 from the Short-Term Goal List. As you can see, it addresses the issue of the lack of retirement fund contribution. Contributing $25,000 per year will result in $375,000 in fifteen years – that’s a great improvement! While there is still an opportunity to create more cash, this is a great short-term goal! What would be a poor Short-Term Goal that is not in alignment with Long-Term Goal #4? How about a $20,000 gambling trip to Las Vegas, spending $50,000 on a new car, buying a $40,000 Rolex….you get the point. Do you see how you can easily make the right choice when you know where you want to be? The key is to get crystal-clear on your Long-Term Goals and then create Short-Term Goals that support your long-term vision. Obviously, these were just examples and your goals may differ greatly. There is no right or wrong to the types of goals you have – just go with what you really want – and make choices that support the achievement of those goals. Schedule time on your calendar to add, modify, delete, or update your long-term and short-term goals. You may want to do this monthly to measure your progress toward your goals and course correct if you need to, so you have the highest probability of achieving the goals you have set. Consider how the choices you make each day, week and month impact the achievement of your goals. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you and requests for topics you would find of value. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. - Subscribe to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Subscribe to my Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Anne’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Anne’s Linked-in page https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Check out all the great free high-content training web classes, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/free-articles/free-webinars/. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot", subscribe to it based on your country. The Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx The Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i The Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/2MayU9v Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

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Wadehttps://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/10/abortion-foes-mount-direct-challenges-roe-wade/39326001/ Dear Friends,After reading the following letter sent to the President, I would urge you to write your own letter to him that is related to this same subject because mine will probably never reach his desk inside the Oval Office at the White House. While it may be rather difficult to comprehend and imagine what life might be like because you were unwilling to take the initiative, at this time, for trying to contact the White House on this very crucial matter, it would be worse than Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki in Japan. So, I must ask for your help right now. On your search engine, please type-in: President Donald J. Trump – The White House and at that website, scroll-down to the very bottom where you will see an icon shaped like an envelope. Then click-on that gray icon, which will take you to the website where you will fill-in all of the required information and your email letter at the bottom of that page and follow directions. JWS April 10, 2019 The PresidentThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20500 RE: A NEED FOR A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM RATHER THAN A SPACE FORCE Dear Mr. President: Instead of just a private citizen expressing an opinion for a Missile Defense System rather than a Space Force, let me inform you that we are now involved in the Venezuelan Missile Crisis on La Orchila Island, Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea and Punta Huete, Nicaraguain Central America as well as the North Korean Missile Crisis in East Asia and the Western Pacific. But unlike the former Cuban Missile Crisis during 1962 or the Nicaraguan Missile Crisis in 1983 when Grenada was invaded by U.S. Armed Forces, these current crises are already operational.This means we may not be able to prevent Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles armed with Thermonuclear Warheads reaching us from the Caribbean and Central America or ICBMs on the Korean Peninsula from also striking at America. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Albert Einstein with an IQ of about 180 to visit at the White House, it should be possible for another private citizen with and IQ beyond 220 to also be invited to meet with you. Dr. Bill Deagle must be invited because of his ability to design an effective Missile Defense System while my understanding of geopolitical and geophysical phenomena is far beyond the various intelligence agencies in Washington, which is why America still exists. Mr. President, you cannot afford to ignore us any more while we are already in such a peril. Sincerely, John W. Spring…http://americanrtl.org/President Donald Trump Understands ISIS but Not AbortionPresident Donald Trump and ISIS: For all his moral failures, President Elect Donald Trump does understand that ISIS is evil and needs to be stopped, not contained or regulated. A dozen organizations joined RegulationsR.us to launch their social media campaign to urge the Islamic terrorist group ISIS to employ more humane forms of killing. A series of messages, each inspired by a specific piece of pro-life legislation, urges ISIS, for example, to use anesthetics prior to a beheading.meme URLs: AmericanRTL.org/isis1.jpg isis2.jpgisis3.jpg isis4.jpg isis5.jpg isis6.jpg isis7.jpg isis8.jpgisis9.jpgSee also regulationsr.us and ChristianNewswire, and see the top five articles linked to in the blue column on the right, or you can email, write or call us:American Right To LifePO Box 1145Wheat Ridge, CO 80034office@AmericanRTL.org1-888-888-ARTLREAD MORE“Brain Dead?” Don’t Trust that DiagnosisBrain dead means not dead.Options: Read this just below.Hear it on radio at rsr.org/brain-dead.Or watch it here via YouTube…These real life examples of people who have recovered after being pronounced “brain dead” shows that doctors and hospitals are sometimes dead wrong:May 2015 – In Des Moines, Iowa as reported by USA Today, “Taylor’s brain sank part way into her spinal canal. No one comes back from that, the doctors told Taylor’s mother, Stacy, and her father, Chuck Hale. Nothing more could be done. Their daughter was brain dead. It was time to make arrangements to take her off life support and discuss organ donation. … Taylor Hale, considered brain dead by science, awoke from her coma. … ” So the staff doctors will harvest organs, cut out the eyes, etc., of living children at the Des Moines Blank Children’s Hospital, hereafter known as Blankity Blank Hospital. See also this, this, this, this, and this.January 2015 – George Pickering, a 27-year old Texan, was pronounced brain dead by doctors at the Tomball Regional Medical Center when his father threatened to shoot himself if anyone disconnected his son from life support. During the standoff with police, the son repeatedly squeezed his father’s hand, and then woke up later that evening, has made a strong recovery, and in April was baptized after converting to Christianity.March 2014 – A Mississippi man wasn’t pronounced “brain” dead, but dead dead, and zippered into a sack, and shipped to the morgue, where he freaked out the workers by kicking his way out of the body bag just as they were ready to embalm him. Shesh. If multiple nurses and a coroner could get death so very wrong, one would hope that the medical industry could have more humility before God regarding patients who are noticably breathing.July 2013 – A New York woman who was pronounced ‘brain dead’ by doctors unexpectedly awoke just as her organs were about to be removed for transplant.READ MOREHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: Protecting Prenatal PersonsA prestigious Harvard University publication, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, published an important paper by Josh Craddock, Protecting Prenatal Persons: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Prohibit Abortion?READ MORENCI Researcher Now Admits Abortion/BC LinkNational Cancer Institute Lead Researcher Reverses HerselfNow Admits Abortion/Breast Cancer Risk FactorUpdated June 2017 — NCI Researcher Now Agrees: Louise A. Brinton, largely responsible for getting the government-funded NCI to deny the abortion-breast cancer link, has reversed herself and co-authored a new study which now describes significant breast cancer risk factors including “induced abortion.”“Specifically, older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age, induced abortion, and oral contraceptive use were associated with an increased risk for breast cancer,” wrote Brinton and her co-authors in the peer-reviewed Cancer Epidemiology journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The study also says that these risk factors are “consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women.” (See “Risk Factors for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer,” Brinton, et al., American Association for Cancer Research.)Second NCI Scientist to Confirm Abortion Link: “Pro-choice” Janet Daling has reportedthat “[A]mong women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50 percent higher than among other women.”Endocrinologist Being Vindicated: Endocrinologist Dr. Joel Brind of Baruch College in New York City is the original dissenter at the NCI’s conference that rejected the abortion link to breast cancer. In Dr. Brind’s report on this NCI researcher’s paper, read about another finding reported by Brinton, the 320% increase in risk for women taking the birth control pill to develop TNBC, Triple Negative Breast Cancer, a particularly aggressive and treatment-resistant cancer. Learn more also at AbortionBreastCancer.com and see a 2011 update regarding Johnson & Johnson below.Hear Dr. Brind address these developments in the last few minutes of this Denver radio broadcast:[ download ]Another NCI-funded Research Admitted Link: Janet Daling, et al., in the Journal of the Nat’l Cancer Institute, earlier acknowledged that, “Among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women… Our data support the hypothesis that an induced abortion can adversely influence a woman’s subsequent risk of breast cancer.” Daling is quoted in the L.A. Daily office@AmericanRTL.org. Thx! “>saying, “I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid and our data is accurate.”Nov. 2012 Update: Two more studies, as reported in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, on a combined group of more than 2,000 women, show induced abortion as a significant risk factor for breast cancer.Mar. 2013 Update: Two more studies, from France and China, show that abortion greatly increases the risk of developing breast cancer. And class action lawsuits fly as Ms. Magazine reports on the many deaths from popular birth control pills.Aug. 2014 Update: A review of a dozen studies shows that the abortion breast cancer link explodes in Asia.In Related News:– Good News: Komen Arizona Shuts Down; October 2017 Race Canceled. By their abortion promotion, Komen actually increases breast cancer incidence. True hope against breast cancer is coming from rsr.org/targeted-antibodies and from efforts to abolish human abortion!– Colorado Right To Life Meets with Komen Race for the Cure OfficialsFor Immediate ReleaseColorado Right To LifeTo Join the Race for the Cure ProtestDenver, Colorado — A meeting last Friday between Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Denver officials, CRTL board members, and scientific and medical experts led the pro-life organization to decide to join an annual protest to warn women at the Komen Foundation’s Race for the Cure of the link between abortion and breast cancer.Former Komen medical research analyst Eve Sanchez Silver explained to the Komen officials that she resigned from Komen two years ago because the organization denies the scientific studies showing the link between abortion and breast cancer, and it provides funding to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Professor Joel Brind, PhD endocrinologist from Baruch College in New York City attended the meeting after saying on Denver radio that, “the 2003 conference of the National Cancer Institute which denied abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer refused to allow attending scientists to present the opposing position of the scientific research establishing the link, showing that abortion was declassified as a cancer risk for political and not scientific reasons.”READ MORE For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Greg joined the mortgage industry in 2005. Prior to that, he was a personal trainer & martial arts instructor for 17 years. Greg notes that 20 years of martial arts, where persistence, honor, and integrity are the heart of daily practice, was a perfect lead in to his role as financial advisor in the mortgage industry. The Gale Team at NOVA Home Loans is a full service loan origination service, committed to providing innovative mortgage solutions and real estate strategies. In his role as team leader, Greg stresses the importance of integrity, a positive attitude, patience, creativity and respect for all things. This team defines communication as one of the single most important elements in a successful loan transaction. They are committed to returning calls promptly, providing regular status updates and being available as needed throughout the process. Greg and his team really listen to the clients' needs, and then seek the best possible solutions, more often than not exceeding their client's expectations. The team priority is to provide exceptional and memorable service. On a personal note, Greg is absolutely passionate about helping other people. He is a regular contributor to the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen Foundation. Greg is a member of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the Arizona Association of Mortgage Brokers. He is licensed in both Arizona and California.    Cell: 602-743-4679  Email: greg.gale@novahomeloans.com

Your head can be your friend or foe when it comes to getting stronger, fitter, and sexier. That's because your mind is your most powerful muscle. So, you can either flex it to boost your motivation or perseverance which is great or clench it to resist your efforts which is bad. - Jennifer Cohen Is it better to have a fixed, go-go-go mindset on losing weight or do we get to focus on building small, new habits regularly for greater health results?   ---> Join the Wellness Warrior VIP Club: get exclusive discounts on new wellness tools, be first in line for new podcasts, get access to invite-only events, and so much more.** ---> Get The Morning 21: A powerful (and free) system designed to give you more energy, let go of old weight, and live life well. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | *REVIEW THIS PODCAST   On Wellness Force Radio episode 257, Fitness and Health Expert, Author of several books including Strong Is The New Skinny and her latest, Badass Body Goals, as well as future Host of the upcoming Habits & Hustle Podcast, Jennifer Cohen, explains why she detests the words, "motivation" and "willpower," why hitting the snooze button every morning can automatically lead you to procrastinate, and why being mentally fit helps you become physically fit. Discover why people are more likely to get results if they're not just "friends" with their personal trainer, create regular healthy habits, organize their lives, and focus on being fully present. Badass Body Goals: Booty-Building & Waist Trimming Get your copy of Badass Body Goals by Jennifer Cohen & Habit Nest here This is literally a personal trainer in a book. It teaches you everything you need to know about booty-building, fat loss, and working out effectively to meet your goals and then provides 10 weeks of complete, guided workouts you’ll use to make outrageously quick progress. Just get in the gym, we’ll handle the rest! With your purchase of Badass Body Goals by Jennifer Cohen & Habit Nest, you will receive:  10-WEEK GUIDED BOOTY-BUILDING AND WAIST TRIMMING PROGRAM: 50 complete workouts with explanations and images you’ll use to get it done. You just have to follow along and track your progress! 50 COMPLETE VIDEO GUIDES: Each individual workout comes with a complete video guide that allows you to do the workout from beginning to end with Jennifer Cohen, co-author of the book. TRACKING: You’ll follow along with each page and fill certain important variables as you complete each workout. As a result, you’ll be getting constant encouragement by seeing first-hand how quickly you’re improving. You’ll then be using your own personal best records to keep each workout as intense as the previous one! 4-3-2-1: Almost all the workouts in the journal follow a 4-3-2-1 circuit format designed to keep you engaged with different movements for short periods. This will optimize fat loss and muscle development at the same time. LIFETIME GUARANTEE: We know that we can’t make a product that suits everyone’s needs. So, if you are unhappy with your purchase for any reason, just let us know and we will refund your money.   "Our mindsets can change our bodies; the state of our bodies can change the state of our minds." - Jennifer Cohen Listen To Episode 257 As Jennifer Cohen Uncovers: Why many people in the fitness industry transition into a higher level coaching, productivity, and lifestyle design. What patterns of difficulty she noticed in high achievers, executives, and celebrities like Britney Spears while helping them build healthier lifestyles. Her experience working for the music industry in marketing and how she transitioned from that into helping train the artists as a personal fitness coach. How her fitness habits evolved into new strategies once she became a mom which she shares in her latest book and program, Badass Body Goals. Her 4-3-2-1 HIIT fitness program to help people, especially busy moms, get fit and get great results. Why HIIT training is the most effective way to burn the most amount of calories in the least amount of time yet you shouldn't do it every day. The importance of constantly tweaking your workouts to stay strong, in shape, and get more results every day. Why exercise isn't enough unless you also focus on a healthier diet, mental health, hydration, stretching, mobility, and more. What drives her to keep creating content when life is challenging. The importance of always growing both emotionally and spiritually in your own unique wellness journey. How to lead by example and why that's the best motivation for anybody. The 6-morning habits that are destroying our productivity. Why hitting the snooze button is making you less productive, gives you less energy, and makes you procrastinate for the rest of the day. Why we're not getting enough human interaction and what we can do to turn things around by having a conversation within the first hours of being awake. Strategic practices she helps her executive clients work on to keep them healthy during their busy, long working hours. How you can know when it's time to let go of your personal trainer. What she does to balance her career and family life in order to help alleviate overwhelm. How she helped create a strategy to help her stay on track and avoid pitfalls in her healthy lifestyle through discipline and goals. The vital importance of relieving stress and how you can do that through balance and finding what makes you happy in multiple areas. Power Quotes From The Show "Being mentally fit makes you physically fit. Being present, conscious, having set intentions and goals is the most important part. Losing weight and staying fit is a by-product of all of that." - Jennifer Cohen "All of your focus on fitness is for naught if your diet is not there. 80% of your results come from what you eat and the other 20% is tweaking and toning your workouts. You can't do one without the other."  - Jennifer Cohen "As we get older and have more stressors in life, it's important that we do a lot for our wellness and mind through a holistic approach that's not just nutrition and exercise. What are you doing for your wellbeing? What are you doing for your reflection? Are you drinking enough water? What are you doing for your mobility; are you stretching? There are a lot of different things in the wellness umbrella that are important."  - Jennifer Cohen "Having a goal of getting stronger versus getting skinnier is a more positive message than just losing weight and it's a healthier place to be mentally. Exercise helps to build confidence and mental strength. The stronger you get physically, the more confidence you will have and the stronger you will feel mentally."  - Jennifer Cohen "Motivation comes and goes. You can go to a Tony Robbins seminar and be super motivated and then within the next day, that feeling starts to wane. Same with willpower; it ebbs and flows. You shouldn't be relying on motivation and willpower; you have to build healthy habits and routines to keep you on a path for long-term success. Once you're on autopilot with that healthy behavior and you don't even have to think about exercise or nutrition,  you can use your brain for other things that need your attention." - Jennifer Cohen Links From Today's Show   Jennifer Cohen Facebook Twitter Instagram Badass Body Goals Strong Is The New Skinny No Gym Required Habits & Hustle Podcast 6 Morning Habits That Are Destroying Your Productivity No-Gym Workout With Jennifer Cohen Surrounding Yourself With The Right People Changes Everything Four Ways Your Inner Circle Is Crucial To Your Success 10 Things Healthy People Have in Common How to Set Fitness Goals You'll Actually Achieve This No-Gym, HIIT Workout Gets the Job Done in 10 Minutes A Winter Workout to Improve Your Focus About Jennifer Cohen Jennifer Cohen is a leading fitness and wellness authority, best-selling author, entrepreneur and frequent guest on national media.  She was recently named in “ Greatist” 100 most influential people in Health and Fitness and #16 Most Impactful Fitness Entrepreneurs on Web MD. Ms. Cohen has emerged as an influential role model for the industry. Her stellar reputation has been built on a savvy, straight-talking approach and belief in a "clean living" lifestyle that forgoes the fads and focuses on long-term, sustainable results. This approach informs Ms. Cohen’s bestselling book, No Gym Required – Release Your Inner Rock Star (2009). It is a no-nonsense fitness and health reference that serves as an overall healthy lifestyle guide. As one commentator put it, the book is Fitness for Dummies meets Eat Clean Diet. Her second book Strong is the New Skinny reached #2 on the Bestsellers List. Jennifer just debuted her third book- a workout and motivational journal in Fall 2018- called Badass Body Goals: The Booty Building and Waist Trimming Journal.  The book/journal combo includes step by step image tutorials and areas for you to fill out your progress. It comes with a complementary resistance band and video library via Habit Nest so you can work out with Jen from anywhere. Jennifer is the President and CEO of her own fitness and wellness brand NGR – No Gym Required – offering products and services based on her anytime, anywhere – no excuses philosophy.  The company is best known for its wellness toning shoe, which is the only sneaker to use removable weighted soles. The shoes have hundreds of thousands of fans, including, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Garner, David Beckham, and Jennifer Aniston. The shoe company was acquired in 2011. Lastly, she is the founder of The Good Human Foundation, a 501c3 charity, which hosts an annual star-studded “Babes For Boobs” bachelor auction, benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. This charity is close to her heart, as her mother is a cancer survivor.  Join The Wellness Warrior VIP Club:  **Click on the photo above to get exclusive discounts on new wellness tools, be first in line for new podcasts, get access to invite-only events, and so much more.**   More Top Episodes 226 Paul Chek: The Revolution Is Coming (3 Part Series) 131 Drew Manning: Emotional Fitness 129 Gretchen Rubin: The Four Tendencies  183 Dr. Kyra Bobinet: Brain Science 196 Aubrey Marcus: Own The Day 103 Robb Wolf: Wired To Eat Best of The Best: The Top 10 Guests From over 200 Shows Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Tweet us on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Rate & Review Wellness Force

Millennium's former VP of Marketing, Freya Smale, interviews Advisory Board member Cynthia Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO of Bell + IVY Cynthia's book, "Platform" - The indispensable guide to developing a personal brand, finding an audience, and nurturing followers, is scheduled for release February 2019! Here is the info for it: In the modern world, influence is everything and personal branding equals influence. Platform is the why-to, how-to handbook by top expert Cynthia Johnson for everyone who wants to develop and manage a personal brand. Johnson explains the process of going from unknown to influencer by achieving personal proof, social proof, recognition, and association. Johnson herself went from an on- staff social media manager to social media influencer, entrepreneur, and marketing thought-leader for in just three years using her process of accelerated brand development, continuous brand management, and strategic growth. Fans of #GirlBoss and #AskGaryVee, who wonder how their favorite influencers found their voice and built their audiences, will find the answers here and discover that the process is technical, creative, tactical, and much easier than they think. About the author: CYNTHIA JOHNSON is the cofounder of the Los Angeles-based branding agency Bell + Ivy and has 1.7 million followers on Twitter (@CynthiaLive). She was named one of the top five personal branding experts in 2017 by Entrepreneur magazine, Inc. listed her as one of the 20 digital marketing people to follow, and Mashable named her the third most important marketer to follow on SnapChat (#CyninLA). Johnson sits on the advisory board for nGage.social and is a frequent guest speaker at USC Marshall School of Business, Stanford's Igniter program, and at Fortune 500 companies' executive retreats. Her work has been featured in Inc., Forbes, and TIME and she has advised on the social media, branding, and viral campaigns for companies such as Vans, Levi's, and the Susan B. Komen Foundation.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Take a moment to think about this…Every fifteen seconds, a person is diagnosed with breast cancer. And every fifty seconds, a person dies from the disease. Teresa’s guests, the missions and program manager for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a breast cancer survivor and an oncologist from the world-renowned Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Breast cancer is more survivable than ever before. Hear why on this episode of Stories Beyond the Headlines.Host: Teresa RodríguezShowrunner: Carmen LucasEditor: Andy StermerLinks:https://ww5.komen.org/https://umiamihealth.org/sylvester-comprehensive-cancer-centerhttps://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-awareness-monthRevolver Podcasts would like to thank Dr. Alejandra Perez, Odette Salas cancer survivor and Blanca Melgar, Susan G. Komen Center.

Hello FriendZ!We are so glad you are back to join us in Episode 9 - Crashing Through Walls. If you’ve listened to the podcast, you know that we are really talking about the Man…. What man???? The KoolAid Man! What is your Favorite KoolAid Flavor? Getting to Know You! Breast Cancer Awareness MonthWe discuss our personal experiences with mammograms and tell our stories. For more information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month, visit the Susan G. Komen Foundation.Recommended ProductsDeltha’s favorite stevia sweetened chipsKim’s favorite chips.Deltha’s favorite protein powder.OOTD!Even though I had no idea what this meant (obviously), I do have a capsule wardrobe outfits. Be sure to check out our instagram feed for some pictures.Community Classes Have a look at some of Kim’s Art! And it was F’art! Kim’s water color class Kim’s pottery class. Our friend Angela has an upcoming art class in Ash Flat. We will be painting watercolor Christmas cards. We will be there, so our FriendZ should join! Kelly’s Hoop Class Kelly's Instagram Blue Tree Yoga RetreatFor more information about my upcoming retreat, visit BlueTree.yogaMovie Recommendations Which Hogwarts House are you? To Do ListHere’s your FriendZ To-Do ListSubscribe on ItunesLeave a ReviewShare with your FriendZSubscribe to our email listSend us a message with your favorite Kool Aid FlavorGive us some feedback Subscribe to our mailing list See you next week!

According to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Metastatic breast cancer, also known as stage IV cancer, is not a specific type of breast cancer, but rather the most advanced stage of breast cancer that has spread to other organs in the patients body. It is also known as the least understood type of cancer and has no cure. On today's show we speak to Krista Lawrence, a mom, friend, fierce advocate and person living with stage IV Metastatic breast cancer. Krista will share with us more about this uncured disease, why we understand so little and how through this adversity she uncovered her own secret to life.​Join Lucia to find out more now on WellSeekers! Find Us on Social @WellSeekersFollow Lucia on Instagram @LuciaNazz WellSeekers is great for mental health, holistic well being, stress, anxiety, self care, relationships, healing, growing, connecting, love, and life.

Awesome interview last night with Actress, V/O Artist, and Musician Mary Beth EversoleMary Beth Eversole, is an actress, host, voiceover artist, musician, producer, and activist.Her current projects include creator of “I”, a 6 part film series about trauma and healing, and producing and hosting the YouTube show Allergy Actress Cooking, which addresses, in a light hearted and quirky way, the perils of living, performing, and cooking with severe food allergies.Mary Beth has performed on theater stages as an actress since she was very young and more recently in film and television. She currently is represented in Los Angeles by Commercial Talent Agency for commercial and voiceover and managed by Harold Mendez of Estrella Management. In Denver, Big Fish Agency represents her for film, commercial, print and voice over. In New Mexico, Eversole is represented across the board by Phirgun Mair. Eversole’s recent projects include a recurring role in the episodic podcast “Soul Full of It” created by former Harpo Executives, Corny Koehl and Jill Barancik of Cult Favorite Media, a guest star role on Lifetime Movie Network's "My Crazy Ex", a two time Best Feature Film winner "Glimpse" directed by Arnon Shorr now on Amazon, two multiple award winning short films directed by Brad Etter, one that addresses the realities of bulllying called “Morning Announcements”, and one that addresses the need to listen to your authentic self called "Me + You". This film was a Cannes Film Festival selection. Other recent roles include the female lead in “Standing Woman” directed by Sara Lattis, and the Musical Theater Teacher in the HUB network’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand” hosted by Joey Fatone. Mary Beth has been seen in several short film leads such as Vicky in “Dollars of Love” directed by Cristina Piemonte-Semedo and Gianinni Moreira, Amanda in “Over? Over!”, Mrs. Lee in “The Way”, Jennifer in "The Treehouse", the Mother in "Homeless", Natasha in "No Soliciting", and Amy in "All's Well" a comedic webisode. She also works in animated films, games, audiobooks and industrial voiceover.Ms. Eversole currently studies at the Clyde Bernardy Acting Studio under the tutelage of KC Clyde. Former studies took place at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio under the tutelage of Aaron Speiser. She studied improv at the Masters Level at Mocksides Studios in Denver and improv at The Groundlings in LA. Voiceover training began at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts with Brian Shae and continued from there with Susan Berkley of The Great Voice Company. Currently Ms. Eversole coaches with celebrity voiceover artist Lori Alan. Mary Beth gets her commercial training from Killian McHugh of Killian's Commercial Workshop in LA. Her earprompter training is with Paul Rohrer of Rohrering Success and teleprompter training is with David Dalton at Mocksides Studios.Mary Beth holds a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in vocal performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from Colorado State University. She has performed with many theater companies throughout Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and in Europe including Fort Collins Children's Theater, Up in Lights Productions, Starlight Theater, Theater in the Park, Musical Theater Heritage, Front Range Music Theatre, The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Fort Collins, Colorado State Opera Theater, The American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, Loveland Opera Theatre, Bethesda Music Festival, Emerald City Opera, and Colorado State Opera Theater. Ms. Eversole also had the pleasure of being an opera apprentice artist with two companies, Opera Fort Collins in 2009-2010 and Emerald City Opera in Summer 2010.Along with performing on the stage and screen, Ms. Eversole works on many philanthropic endeavors. With her current project “I”, Eversole is working to change the narrative surrounding trauma and how people heal from trauma. Mary Beth is also passionate about bringing awareness about healthy eating and food allergy acceptance. She is currently in the process ofcollaborating with several other food awareness groups around the country to promote healthy eating and food allergy safety through her cooking show Allergy Actress Cooking. Ms. Eversole also regularly donates her performing time and lesson packages to charity and silent auction events in LA that raise awareness and funds for animal rights and the homeless crisis in America. Mary Beth has donated her time and expertise to several charities that help rescue animals, including the No To Dog Meat campaign, She has also created homeless care packages, with donations of supplies given by her hometown, Kansas City, and a retired American community located in Ensenada, Mexico that she regularly hands out to those in need while she is driving around Los Angeles.In 2011, she performed for a fundraiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and in 2010 she created and performed in a benefit recital, in both Colorado and Kansas City, to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Another recent benefit recital in 2012 raised funds for a doctoral candidate researching hope and positive psychology and their impact in the public education system.Ms. Eversole maintains a voice and piano studio out of her home and online in addition to her performing career. In her free time, Ms. Eversole enjoys reading, watching movies, cooking, yoga, HIIT training, pilates and running.Acting website: www.marybetheversole.com"I" website: igg.me/at/itheseriesTwitter: @ITheMovie1 and @AllergyActressInstagram: @I_TheMovie and @Allergy_ActressFacebook: @I_TheMovie, @Allergy Actress Mary Beth Eversole, @Allergy Actress CookingYoutube: Mary Beth Eversole and Allergy Actress CookingHear this podcast on Googleplay, TuneinRadio, iTunes, Spreaker, Youtube, and iHeartradioPodcast weekly broadcast location:Rockafellas Barber Shop (Owner: Rico Rodriguez)1733 Babcock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229Sponsors:I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by River City Donuts San Ant1723 Babock Rd. 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Awesome interview last night with Actress, V/O Artist, and Musician Mary Beth EversoleMary Beth Eversole, is an actress, host, voiceover artist, musician, producer, and activist.Her current projects include creator of “I”, a 6 part film series about trauma and healing, and producing and hosting the YouTube show Allergy Actress Cooking, which addresses, in a light hearted and quirky way, the perils of living, performing, and cooking with severe food allergies.Mary Beth has performed on theater stages as an actress since she was very young and more recently in film and television. She currently is represented in Los Angeles by Commercial Talent Agency for commercial and voiceover and managed by Harold Mendez of Estrella Management. In Denver, Big Fish Agency represents her for film, commercial, print and voice over. In New Mexico, Eversole is represented across the board by Phirgun Mair. Eversole’s recent projects include a recurring role in the episodic podcast “Soul Full of It” created by former Harpo Executives, Corny Koehl and Jill Barancik of Cult Favorite Media, a guest star role on Lifetime Movie Network's "My Crazy Ex", a two time Best Feature Film winner "Glimpse" directed by Arnon Shorr now on Amazon, two multiple award winning short films directed by Brad Etter, one that addresses the realities of bulllying called “Morning Announcements”, and one that addresses the need to listen to your authentic self called "Me + You". This film was a Cannes Film Festival selection. Other recent roles include the female lead in “Standing Woman” directed by Sara Lattis, and the Musical Theater Teacher in the HUB network’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand” hosted by Joey Fatone. Mary Beth has been seen in several short film leads such as Vicky in “Dollars of Love” directed by Cristina Piemonte-Semedo and Gianinni Moreira, Amanda in “Over? Over!”, Mrs. Lee in “The Way”, Jennifer in "The Treehouse", the Mother in "Homeless", Natasha in "No Soliciting", and Amy in "All's Well" a comedic webisode. She also works in animated films, games, audiobooks and industrial voiceover.Ms. Eversole currently studies at the Clyde Bernardy Acting Studio under the tutelage of KC Clyde. Former studies took place at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio under the tutelage of Aaron Speiser. She studied improv at the Masters Level at Mocksides Studios in Denver and improv at The Groundlings in LA. Voiceover training began at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts with Brian Shae and continued from there with Susan Berkley of The Great Voice Company. Currently Ms. Eversole coaches with celebrity voiceover artist Lori Alan. Mary Beth gets her commercial training from Killian McHugh of Killian's Commercial Workshop in LA. Her earprompter training is with Paul Rohrer of Rohrering Success and teleprompter training is with David Dalton at Mocksides Studios.Mary Beth holds a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in vocal performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from Colorado State University. She has performed with many theater companies throughout Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and in Europe including Fort Collins Children's Theater, Up in Lights Productions, Starlight Theater, Theater in the Park, Musical Theater Heritage, Front Range Music Theatre, The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Fort Collins, Colorado State Opera Theater, The American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, Loveland Opera Theatre, Bethesda Music Festival, Emerald City Opera, and Colorado State Opera Theater. Ms. Eversole also had the pleasure of being an opera apprentice artist with two companies, Opera Fort Collins in 2009-2010 and Emerald City Opera in Summer 2010.Along with performing on the stage and screen, Ms. Eversole works on many philanthropic endeavors. With her current project “I”, Eversole is working to change the narrative surrounding trauma and how people heal from trauma. Mary Beth is also passionate about bringing awareness about healthy eating and food allergy acceptance. She is currently in the process ofcollaborating with several other food awareness groups around the country to promote healthy eating and food allergy safety through her cooking show Allergy Actress Cooking. Ms. Eversole also regularly donates her performing time and lesson packages to charity and silent auction events in LA that raise awareness and funds for animal rights and the homeless crisis in America. Mary Beth has donated her time and expertise to several charities that help rescue animals, including the No To Dog Meat campaign, She has also created homeless care packages, with donations of supplies given by her hometown, Kansas City, and a retired American community located in Ensenada, Mexico that she regularly hands out to those in need while she is driving around Los Angeles.In 2011, she performed for a fundraiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and in 2010 she created and performed in a benefit recital, in both Colorado and Kansas City, to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Another recent benefit recital in 2012 raised funds for a doctoral candidate researching hope and positive psychology and their impact in the public education system.Ms. Eversole maintains a voice and piano studio out of her home and online in addition to her performing career. In her free time, Ms. Eversole enjoys reading, watching movies, cooking, yoga, HIIT training, pilates and running.Acting website: www.marybetheversole.com"I" website: igg.me/at/itheseriesTwitter: @ITheMovie1 and @AllergyActressInstagram: @I_TheMovie and @Allergy_ActressFacebook: @I_TheMovie, @Allergy Actress Mary Beth Eversole, @Allergy Actress CookingYoutube: Mary Beth Eversole and Allergy Actress CookingHear this podcast on Googleplay, TuneinRadio, iTunes, Spreaker, Youtube, and iHeartradioPodcast weekly broadcast location:Rockafellas Barber Shop (Owner: Rico Rodriguez)1733 Babcock Rd. San Antonio, TX 78229Sponsors:I Am Refocused Podcast Sponsored by River City Donuts San Ant1723 Babock Rd. 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Some of your favorite department stores such as Macy's, Belk, Dillards and others are participating in this initiative. Wacoal has partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation for this special event! Website: www.fitforthecure.com Follow: @wacoal About the show: ► Visit www.casper.com/ash and use promo code: ASH ►Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ash-said-it/id1144197789 ►Website: http://www.ashsaidit.com ►SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSaidItSuwanee ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1loveash ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsaidit ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ►Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AshSaidItMedia ►Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog ►Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/1LoveAsh/ ►Newsletter: http://ashsaidit.us11.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=2a2ca3b799467f125b53863c8&id=a6f43cd472 ►Casper Commercial Music Courtesy of http://www.BenSound.com #ashsaidit #ashsaidthat #ashblogsit #ashsaidit®

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Mark Osmers, from AutoNation and board member of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, discusses the Race For The Cure with Mark Alyn.

Mark Osmers, from AutoNation and board member of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, discusses the Race For The Cure with Mark Alyn.

“I write from the heart and always try to relate to others by writing what I’m feeling. It’s a direct reflection of who I am.” ~ Joanna PearlJoanna Pearl is a singer/songwriter with an undeniable passion for music that reflects in her dynamic vocal strength. Her true-to-life songwriting portrays the heart of a woman ranging from independence to vulnerability. When asked about where she gets her inspiration she commented, “I believe songs are a form of storytelling and I always try to convey that in my singing. If I can’t feel it, then I usually won’t do it any justice by trying to sing it.”Joanna Pearl’s debut EP Sensitive Material (August 2014) was nominated for the 24th Annual LA Music Awards in three categories; Hot AC Artist of the Year, Hot AC Album of the Year, and Female Vocalist of the Year, winning Hot AC Album of the Year. Also in 2014 she was nominated for Best Pop Artist at the Temecula Valley Music Awards. Critics praised Sensitive Material not only for its musical polish, but also for its lyrical maturity, her sound is described as a mix between Rhythm and Blues, Pop and Soul. Joanna was awarded Reverbnation’s “Featured Artist of the Week” November 11-17, 2014; Ranking: #1 Locally; #75 Nationally; #90 Globally.Sensitive Material has already received air-play on multiple radio stations, including; Clear Channel’s Q103.3 Temecula Valley’s Rock station, which debuted the single, “Sensitive Material” on the show “Sunday Night Music Meeting”, and is in rotation on 94.5 KMYT. Another single from the album, “Bag It Up”, caught the attention of industry professionals receiving radio air-play on San Diego’s 102.1FM KPRI.In 2010, Joanna won the Cree Ingles Idol Search Season 8on YouTube. Joanna was praised for her powerful singing abilities, comparing her cover versions of Beyoncé, Jessica Simpson, KT Tunstall and Whitney Houston, as having a voice as-good-as or better than her counter-parts. In February 2013, Joanna was awarded the “40 Under Forty” achievement by the City of Murrieta and California State Senator, Joel Anderson. In addition, she has placed Top 12 in the Nation during the 2012 and 2013 Singer-Songwriter Competitions at the San Diego County Fair. In the summer of 2013, Joanna embarked on her first regional tour, including having been invited to play the House of Blues San Diego.Joanna has performed for Olivia Newton-John, Patrick Dempsey, CA Senator Jeff Stone, Maryann Edwards (Mayor of Temecula), Tom Tait (Mayor of Anaheim), Melissa Melendez (State of California Assemblywoman), Rick Gibbs (Mayor of Murrieta) and Judy Chu (Congresswoman). In addition she has opened for Andy Grammer, MC Hammer and Tyrone Wells, including singing the national anthem for LA Galaxy and many other prestigious events.Joanna is a member of The Recording Academy, Grammy Museum, ASCAP and a founding member of a Songwriting Camp in Orange County, CA. She is also an active humanitarian supporting many charities including the Susan G. Komen Foundation, The American Heart Association, Michelle’s Place, Oak Grove Center For Education Treatment & The Arts, Make a Wish Foundation, and many more. During the 2015 Rock Against Human Trafficking’s Grammy After Party, which she is an ambassador of, Joanna performed “Every Kind of People” (Robert Palmer) alongside Andy Fraser who penned the song. Additionally the proceeds of her original song “Whispers In The Wind” (released on iTunes) have been donated to charitable fundraising for breast cancer research, and is featured in“Murphy”, a Hollywood Independent Film, in which she received IMDB credit.Facebook page: Facebook.com/JoannaPearlMusicInstagram: @JoannaPearlTwitter: @JoannaPearlhttp://joannapearl.com/

Shopping on September 23, 2017 is going to be great with super savings and a portion of all sales going to charities including the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Los Angeles. It's the Citadel Outlet’s Shopping Extravaganza!

Shopping on September 23, 2017 is going to be great with super savings and a portion of all sales going to charities including the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Los Angeles. It's the Citadel Outlet’s Shopping Extravaganza!

Like a true Gemini, Tovi Khali has many different creative sides. This is an individual who knows no boundaries, who possesses Improv as an impulse, and who can change the atmosphere in any room for any occasion at any given time. The New Orleans native is no stranger to mass crowds and thrives in a fast-paced festive environment. Anyone who's seen Tovi Khali perform knows that it is an organic, passionate, and electrifying experience!  Tovi Khali was also the emcee/speaker coordinator for The Music Business Conference 2004-2005 R&B Showcase. She has featured with the Batiste Brothers Band at Treasure Chest Casino. In fall of 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina, Tovi Khali was displaced and landed in Chicago, Illinois, where she still resides today. As a transplant, Tovi firmly placed on solid ground when she became the main act for WVON's Obama Inaugural Ball, The Susan G. Komen Foundation, Soft Sheen, opening for Conya Doss at The House of Blues, and Jenifer Lewis at The Baton Show Lounge for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago for “Step up. Get tested” campaign press conference at The Thompson Center. In addition, Tovi frequents Venice Beach, California to lead, record, and perform with her eclectic soul funk rock band, SCUNC alongside long –time friend and business partner Michael Jost. As a contest winner for the 2013 South Shore Summer Festival at South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, Tovi Khali was the opening act for SWV, DRU HILL, GUY, THE BLUE NOTES, AL B. SURE, and THE SOUTH SHORE DRILL TEAM. In 2017, Tovi Khali has opened for Rebirth Brass Band and performed at The Taste of Chicago! She has released her single “Problems” from the highly-anticipated album “French Quarter Style” to be released August of 2017. Learn more about Tovi Khali here, tovikhalimusic.com

Lain has led the creative and marketing teams at Fortune 500 companies and successful start-ups. He has also served clients such as Mohawk Flooring, Susan G. Komen Foundation and Oldcastle. He is currently the Brand Director at SureCrete, and authoring a in-depth book about branding and attracting dream clients. Get the 5 proven steps to rapidly grow your business, make a bigger impact, and achieve your First Million. Attend the next LIVE First Million Webinar  with international business coach JV Crum III.  Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other business owners and entrepreneurs find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 500 episodes and 10 Million Listeners in 176 countries, this is the podcast for business owners and coaches who want to grow their businesses, make a bigger impact, and ultimately achieve their First Million! JV interviews the top entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and coaches on how to get the right mindset, develop your business systems, and execute to achieve bigger results, faster!

Lain has led the creative and marketing teams at Fortune 500 companies and successful start-ups. He has also served clients such as Mohawk Flooring, Susan G. Komen Foundation and Oldcastle. He is currently the Brand Director at SureCrete, and authoring a in-depth book about branding and attracting dream clients. Get the 5 proven steps to rapidly grow your business, make a bigger impact, and achieve your First Million. Attend the next LIVE First Million Webinar  with international business coach JV Crum III.  Like this Podcast? Then get every episode delivered to YOU!  Subscribe in iTunes Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps other business owners and entrepreneurs find our podcast…and make their big difference. They will thank you for it.   Conscious Millionaire Podcast: With over 500 episodes and 10 Million Listeners in 176 countries, this is the podcast for business owners and coaches who want to grow their businesses, make a bigger impact, and ultimately achieve their First Million! JV interviews the top entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and coaches on how to get the right mindset, develop your business systems, and execute to achieve bigger results, faster!

Welcome to Biotechnology Focus Podcast. I’m your host Shawn Lawrence. We kick things off this week with the release of our latest issue of Biotechnology Focus and as such we thought we should give you our listeners a rundown or sneak peak of all the stories you’d see. As most or our listeners know, there are comprehensive changes to the way the Federal Government supports science and innovation in Canada coming with consultations on Canada’s Innovation Agenda drawing to a close and this issue reaches your desk with this Call to Action in mind, beginning with our cover story on the results from our latest Hot Button Issue Survey. The survey was open to everyone in both the private and public sectors and at all organizational levels, from the c-level right on down. In all, 163 of you got back to us with what you’d like to see from the Innovation Agenda. Under the microscope for many of you was one of the biggest sources of government cash for private sector research and innovation in Canada, the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program or SR&ED’s as they are more commonly known. It was interesting to see how many of you rely on this program, and why many of you feel this program needs not only to be maintained but expanded upon. Be sure to check out this and what other priorities were included in our special report. And for further reading on the SR&ED program, Elizabeth Pringle, the National Life Sciences Industry Lead for Ernst & Young LLP’s Business Tax Incentives Practices, discusses recent changes to the program itself while suggesting more alternatives to strengthening the overall tax credit regime for life science companies in Canada, including looking south of the border for some inspiration. Moreover, she highlights some of the recent CRA programs added to help increase tax claim certainty and reduce the administrative burden of applying for SR&EDs including the Pre-Claim Consultation program which launched on June 29 and the Pre-Claim Review (PCR) pilot project which launched August 2. In addition to underlining your priorities that you’d like to get before As most or our listeners know, there are comprehensive changes to the way the Federal Government supports science and innovation in Canada coming with consultations on Canada’s Innovation Agenda drawing to a close and this issue reaches your desk with this Call to Action in mind, beginning with our cover story on the results from our latest Hot Button Issue Survey. The survey was open to everyone in both the private and public sectors and at all organizational levels, from the c-level right on down. In all, 163 of you got back to us with what you’d like to see from the Innovation Agenda. Under the microscope for many of you was one of the biggest sources of government cash for private sector research and innovation in Canada, the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program or SR&ED’s as they are more commonly known. It was interesting to see how many of you rely on this program, and why many of you feel this program needs not only to be maintained but expanded upon. Be sure to check out this and what other priorities were included in our special report. And for further reading on the SR&ED program, Elizabeth Pringle, the National Life Sciences Industry Lead for Ernst & Young LLP’s Business Tax Incentives Practices, discusses recent changes to the program itself while suggesting more alternatives to strengthening the overall tax credit regime for life science companies in Canada, including looking south of the border for some inspiration. Moreover, she highlights some of the recent CRA programs added to help increase tax claim certainty and reduce the administrative burden of applying for SR&EDs including the Pre-Claim Consultation program which launched on June 29 and the Pre-Claim Review (PCR) pilot project which launched August 2. In addition to underlining your priorities that you’d like to get before government, this issue also spotlights what makes Canadian biotech great, and highlights some of the areas we can become stronger. It starts with Wayne Schnarr’s roundup piece, “Looking for success stories in Canadian Healthcare.” As he explains, measuring success in Canada’s health technology sector is no easy task, and varies depending on one’s perspective. His article looks at the Canadian biotech landscape from the viewpoint of an investor and reminds us that they judge successful companies differently than government, economic development offices and the companies themselves. With the investors wish list in mind, he highlights some Canadian companies to keep an eye on, including one who is featured later in this podcast Cynapsus. Unfortunately, investors may have missed the boat on that company, but we’ll get to that later. Next in our editorial lineup TO Health’s Ella Korets-Smith, Montreal In Vivo’s Frank Beraud and Teralys Capital’s Cedric Bisson cowritten piece “Canada Poised to be best in the World in Life Sciences Sector” recognizes Canada as a world class biotech hub whose greatest strength is working together to promote our successes in this arena. However, they add that there is still room to grow, and we must begin by looking to other jurisdictions for best practices especially in areas such as venture capital investment. Next, Zymeworks lead man Ali Tehrani, no stranger to success, and perhaps the type of entrepreneur we need to hear more ideas from on how to improve the industry, asks the question why isn’t Canadian biotech with all its great science, visionary entrepreneurs and angel investors, ranked among the best in the world. In addition to posing the question, he endevors to answer it, offering three near and long-term solutions. We have all this and more packed into this issue, so be sure to sign up for our digital edition service to see this issue and past issues as well. Story 2 Our first news story this week is a science story, and features a breast cancer research breakthrough. Specifically, a team of researchers in Canada have discovered that mutations found outside of genes that accumulate in estrogen receptor positive breast tumours throughout their development act as the dominant culprits that drive the disease. The multi-institutional research team collaborated with the Princess Margaret Genomics Centre and Bioinformatics group to analyze changes in the DNA sequence that accumulate in patients’ tumours with respect to the epigenetic identity of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells.. The research, published online in Nature Genetics, focuses on the most common type of breast cancer, estrogen receptor positive, and was led by principal investigator Dr. Mathieu Lupien, senior scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and associate professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. His team investigated acquired mutations found outside of genes through the power of epigenetics, and identified that functional regulatory components can be altered to impact the expression of genes to promote breast cancer development. Dr. Lupien discusses the study in the following audio provided by UHN Toronto Dr.Lupien’s research builds on a previous study that identified why 44 known genetic variations increased breast cancer risk (Nature Genetics, Sept. 23, 2012). He adds that the convergence of more knowledge about inherited risk variants and the role of acquired mutations should readily enable translating the science into more precise clinical tests to diagnose and monitor patients. His work was funded by The National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health, The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Canadian Institute of Health Research and a Movember Rising Star award from Prostate Cancer Canada. Story 3 Enerkem Inc., a Canadian headquartered waste-to- biofuels and chemicals producer, has obtained certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system and will now be able to begin biomethanol production at its Biofuels full-scale facility in Edmonton,AB. According to the company the third-party certification confirms that Enerkem meets high ecological and social sustainability requirements. Enerkem makes biofuels and renewable chemicals from non-recyclable municipal solid waste. The company owns a full-scale commercial facility in Alberta as well as a demonstration plant and a pilot facility in Quebec. The company is also developing additional biorefineries in North America and globally, based on its modular manufacturing approach. With the certification, the Edmonton biorefinery is now the first ISCC certified plant in the world to convert municipal solid waste into biomethanol. Story 4 In business news, Laval’s ProMetic Life Sciences has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Belleville, Ontario’s Telesta Therapeutics in an all share transaction. By way of a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, ProMetic will acquire all of the share capital of Telesta at a share price of $0.14 payable in ProMetic common shares. The number of common shares to be issued by ProMetic will be based on the volume-weighted average closing price (VWAP) of ProMetic’s common shares for the five (5) trading days prior to the closing date of the acquisition. According to ProMetic, the deal gives the company the opportunity for further integration of its manufacturing capabilities and longer term capacity expansion in a 150,000 sq. ft. facility in Belleville, ON. At the same time it gives  ProMetic  a significant foothold in Ontario, consolidating its presence as a major player in the Canadian market. Completion of the deal is subject to the approval of Telesta’s shareholders and a number of customary closing conditions including court and regulatory approvals (such as the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange). The acquisition is expected to close in early November, 2016. Story 5 Rapid infectious disease test developer bioLytical Laboratories has filed two patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office relating to its multiple colour rapid detection assay systems for the detection of antibodies to pathogens including Zika and other flaviviruses. The two new patent applications are based on the company’s INSTI platform and describe methods and kits allowing either simultaneous or sequential detection of different antibody classes to multiple pathogens using a single sample of blood or blood product. The first patent application describes a method for detecting active or past infection using Zika as an example. The second patent application describes a method for differentiating early from later stages of infection. According to the company, these technology breakthroughs could revolutionize point-of- care rapid assays for detection of acute infections including Zika. The Flaviviridae family has become a major concern in many areas of South America and more recently in the continental U.S.  As of early February 2016, the Brazil Ministry of Health has estimated that 500,000 to 1,500,000 cases of Zika virus disease have occurred since the beginning of the outbreak. The company says that with the high degree of cross-reactivity within the flaviviridae family, a diagnostic assay that can rapidly detect and differentiate between them, and determine new vs old infection, is of upmost importance. Story 6 Our final, and perhaps biggest story this week is a Canadian biotech business news story with Marlbourough, MA based-Sunovion Pharmaceuticals announcing that it is buying Toronto’s Cynapsus Therapeutics Inc. for approximately CDN$820 million. The transaction is the biggest the industry has seen in awhile for sure and has already received unanimous approval by the board of directors of both companies and The acquisition will be funded with cash on hand and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016 (third quarter of Sunovion’s fiscal year). Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, and upon closing of the proposed transaction, shareholders of Cynapsus will receive US$40.50 per common share in cash, and holders of warrants and stock options will receive a cash payment equal to the difference between US$40.50 and the exercise price of such warrant or stock option. The offer of US$40.50 per common share in cash represents a premium of 123 per cent based on the volume weighted average closing price of Cynapsus’ common shares on the NASDAQ Global Market for the last twenty trading days. As part of the acquisition, Sunovion is getting Cynapsus’ lead product candidate, APL-130277, a sublingual thin film formulation of apomorphine designed to be an easy-to- use on-demand treatment option for managing OFF episodes associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects more than four million worldwide. One of the biggest benefits of the sublingual thin film delivery of apomorphine is that avoids the normal gastrointestinal route of delivery used by most PD medications. Prior to the deal, Cynapsus had just announced that the Phase 3 clinical program for APL-130277 was nearing completion and that the company had plans to submit a new drug application (NDA) to the FDA in the first half of 2017.Nobuhiko Tamura, chairman and CEO, Sunovion said that his company sees APL-130277 as a novel late-stage candidate with the potential to make a real difference for patients and their families. He adds that Sunovian has high regard for the Cynapsus team led by Anthony Giovinazzo, president and CEO of Cynapsus and the work they have done with the APL-130277 program. For Cynapsus, the deal culminates years of dedicated work, and Anthony J. Giovinazzo, president and CEO, Cynapsus believes Sunovian is the ideal company to take APL-130277 forward. values Cynapsus at approximately CDN$820 million. The transaction will be completed by way of a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. The arrangement will require approval of at least two-thirds of the votes cast by Cynapsus shareholders and warrantholders voting together as a single class at a special meeting of such securityholders of Cynapsus. This meeting will be held in October. With that we’ve come to the end of this week’s program. We hope you enjoyed it. A big thanks to our production manager Laskey Hart and the rest of the Biotechnology Focus team. You can find past episodes online at www.biotechnologyfocus.ca and we’re always looking for your feedback, story ideas and suggestions so we’d love to hear from you. Simply reach out to us on twitter: @BiotechFocus or by email biotechnology_focus@promotive.net.

Having hosted a radio show geared toward women for nearly 16 years, when October rolls around I always think of breast cancer. Thankfully, due to the efforts of the Avon Breast Cancer walk, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and many other voices speaking up on behalf of women, most are... The post Sarah McLean on Pink is the New Black appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

WWE Divas Champion Charlotte talks about this past year for her from NXT Women's Champion to WWE Divas Champion, her journey to the top, keeping the family name going in the business, why she is so emotional, if she misses NXT and her and the WWE partnering again with the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer awareness month.

There is still no cure for breast cancer, but thanks in large part to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, most women today survive. According to Sheila Seiler, the director of the Evansville chapter of the Komen Foundation, if it has to do with breast cancer, there is Komen money involved. One of the largest Komen fundraisers/celebrations is Race for the Cure. Our Evansville race is September 27 at Eastland Mall. This Superhero themed 5K or 1 miler is in it's 18th year and over 10,000 people are expected to run. If the thought of curing breast cancer isn't enough of a motivator for you to run, there are ways to donate without breaking a sweat. No excuses. evansvillepodcast.com/84

Justin Carlisle began collecting Boy Scout cancer awareness patches about the time that his Order of the Arrow chapter issued a patch to help raise funds for the local chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Greenville, SC.  Soon he discovered that several OA lodges had produced memorabilia to help find a cure for cancer and he was hooked.  With his own father falling a victim to cancer he decided to write a reference guide for others Scouting memorabilia collectors who were interested in this niche.  Teaming up with Brett Estrade who runs Patchtrends.com he put together a guide that has all known issues including pricing data.  In this episode of the Scouting Hot Finds Radio Justin and Brett share the story of this new collectors guide.  For other Scouting memorabilia collectors who have notions of writing a similar collecting resource guide Brett Estrade is willing to partner with them by offering his database of prices realized from the Boy Scout category of eBay.  At the time of this episode that catalog holds over 2 million price points. Find more Scouting memorabilia content and all of my podcasts at http://www.scoutpatchcollectors.com.

On Monday, October 28th, we talked sports from Atlanta and around the country with my guests, Kevin Clayton of the HBCU Tournament and Cati Stone of the Susan G. Komen Foundation of Metro Atlanta.  We recapped the Atlanta Falcons loss to the Arizona Cardinals and previewed their upcoming game against Carolina, previewed the upcoming Atlanta Hawks season, discussed UGA, Georgia Tech, and Georgia Football, the World Series, and more.

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month – CHANDINI PORTTEUS, MPH, Chief Mission Officer, Susan G. Komen Foundation is my guest. This is an ideal time to discuss what we have learned from more than 30 years of research and what that means in terms of prevention, screening, and treatment of breast cancer today, as well as the challenges still faced in the mission to end breast cancer forever.

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month – CHANDINI PORTTEUS, MPH, Chief Mission Officer, Susan G. Komen Foundation is my guest. This is an ideal time to discuss what we have learned from more than 30 years of research and what that means in terms of prevention, screening, and treatment of breast cancer today, as well as the challenges still faced in the mission to end breast cancer forever.

On Monday, October 15th, we talked sports from Atlanta and around the country with my guests, Dwight "Mr. Cardiotone" Calhoun, Atlanta Dream Head Coach Fred Williams, previewed Homecoming Week with Matt Newhouse and Mark Hogan of Georgia State University, and Lauren Musso of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  We discussed the Atlanta Falcons, upcoming football games for Georgia and Georgia Tech, MLB Playoffs, as well as, the latest sports news.

In this episode The Tour Bus Music Show is stopping by the “Jazz Lounge” with an interview and music with the extraordinary Matt Cusson.Matt is the keyboardist for Brian McKnight and is an award-winning singer/songwriter and pianist in his own right. Ana and I sit down to talk with this gifted self-taught musician and get a picture of the man behind the music. We’ll also talk about his musical influences, such as Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Djavan, Miles Davis, and John Mayer, just to name a few. A few interesting facts about Matt: In 2009 Matt won (by unanimous vote) the John Lennon Songwriting Contest's top annual prize - the Maxell Song of the Year - for his jazz ballad "One of Those Nights". 3 time winner of the amateur night competition at the legendary Apollo Theater That song won the Billboard Songwriting Award in the Best Jazz Song category, and came in second in the International Songwriting Competition. He’s also performed with, including Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, the Roots, Babyface, and Javier Colon. He’s performed with Brian McKnight on "Live with Regis and Kelly" He was a featured performer on the international "Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror" tour in 2010. Perhaps more inspiring is his constant effort to share his talent by supporting various charities, such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Songs of Love, Defenders for Children, Hillcrest Educational Center and Community Resources for People With Autism, as well as his local food pantry. We hope that you enjoy the show as much as we’ve enjoyed talking with Matt.You can finds out more information about Matt Cusson at: http://www.mattcusson.com/ and http://www.reverbnation.com/mattcusson

In this episode, we rant about a woman robbing with a curling iron, school suspends student over long hair he planned to donate, mom rapes daughter to teach her sex ed, 5th graders played rape tag, man swallows dentures and dies during sex, pillow fighting league?, Komen Foundation, DC Comics announces Before Watchmen, Kevin Smith turned down Before Watchmen, woman blames large breasts for her dui, white African American student gets in trouble for being insensitive over African American award, our site of the week, our top 5 dead wrestlers and more! Subscribe / rate / review us on iTunes!Visit us at:salty-language.tumblr.com / facebook.com/saltylanguage@salty_language / saltylanguage@gmail.com http://salty.libsyn.com/webpage  / http://www.youtube.com/user/SaltyLanguagePodOn Stitcher search Salty Language Share with your friends! 1. Woman robs place with curling iron: http://tinyurl.com/7z5ku6m2. School suspends student over long hair he was going to donate: http://tinyurl.com/728r2l9 3. Mom rapes daughter to teach her sex ed: http://tinyurl.com/6sxo92f4. 5th graders playing rape tag?: http://tinyurl.com/75whvmq 5. Man swallows dentures, dies during sex: http://tinyurl.com/775pa4z6. Pillow fighting league to compete with mma?: http://tinyurl.com/7mpeek6 7. Komen Foundation shenanigans: http://tinyurl.com/7gm9dfq8. DC Comics announces Before Watchmen series: http://tinyurl.com/7rjufy9 9. Kevin Smith turned down Before Watchmen: http://tinyurl.com/7mjqe8c10. Woman blames large breasts for her dui: http://tinyurl.com/6poncg2 11. White African American gets suspended over posters for award: http://tinyurl.com/7dkv6dzSite O' The Week: http://tinyurl.com/6nzhjyo

Maria Teresa Kumar Voter ID laws, foreclosures in poorer neighborhoods and increasing immigration enforcement are among the factors that could make it hard for President Obama to match his electoral strength among Hispanics. But Maria Teresa Kumar, head of VotoLatino,  says the Republicans don’t have it so easy, either. http://votolatino.org/ Peter Galbraith Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith says the Administration’s “reset” of relations with Russia has been successful because Moscow is now less hostile to the United States. Website Eleanor Smeal An interview by Bill Press with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who calls family planning “a life and death issue” and criticizes the Susan G. Komen Foundation for politicizing women’s health. The interview was recorded before the Foundation apologized and changed its mind. http://www.billpressshow.com/ http://feminist.org/

(July 26, 2011) Dr J and Todd Wilken meet on Issues, Etc to discuss the Ohio Bishops' concerns about the Komen Foundation's donations to Planned Parenthood.  They're also talking about gay marriage in New York state and the Senate hearings on DoMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.

According to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It is also one of the leading causes of cancer death among women of all races and Hispanic origin populations. In 2007 (the most recent year numbers are available), 202,964 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer, and 40,598 women in the United States died from breast cancer. Join me and two time breast cancer survivor Elaine Doroff as we discuss how to best Navigate Heath Care with Breast Cancer. Elaine has been in the Health Care Industry for the past 20 years, as a Health Care Consultant. Her clients have been up and down the eastern seaboard and in parts of the Midwest of the U.S. In the last 4 years she has survived breast cancer twice and in the past year she has become a speaker for the Susan G. Komen Foundation in the Boston area. People repeatedly approach Elaine after she has told her breast cancer story and share that they both learned a great deal about breast cancer, and learned more about being an advocate for their own health, as well as their family and friends. Elaine feels her background was instrumental in helping her navigate through a difficult medical system and come out with at positive outcome.

According to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It is also one of the leading causes of cancer death among women of all races and Hispanic origin populations. In 2007 (the most recent year numbers are available), 202,964 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer, and 40,598 women in the United States died from breast cancer. Join me and two time breast cancer survivor Elaine Doroff as we discuss how to best Navigate Heath Care with Breast Cancer. Elaine has been in the Health Care Industry for the past 20 years, as a Health Care Consultant. Her clients have been up and down the eastern seaboard and in parts of the Midwest of the U.S. In the last 4 years she has survived breast cancer twice and in the past year she has become a speaker for the Susan G. Komen Foundation in the Boston area. People repeatedly approach Elaine after she has told her breast cancer story and share that they both learned a great deal about breast cancer, and learned more about being an advocate for their own health, as well as their family and friends. Elaine feels her background was instrumental in helping her navigate through a difficult medical system and come out with at positive outcome.