Podcast appearances and mentions of laura hood

This week I sit down with Laura Hood, our Director of Operations at PHAROS Athletic Club. We talk about our journey together, growth, overcoming obstacles and the future. “Not a day goes by when we thank God for Laura“ is something we have been saying for a very long time…here's why!Great podcast for anyone trying to grow a small business, anyone in the fitness industry or anyone that just likes to hear about the PHAROS story so far. Enjoy, like and share as always and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel

As authored by Laura Hood.

As Germany heads towards elections on February 23, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) is polling in second place on 20% of the national vote. The AFD's roots are in nationalistic and racist movements. It continues to take an ultra anti-immigration stance and is calling for "demigration" – effectively the deportation of migrants. In this episode, Rolf Frankenberger, an expert on right-wing extremism at the University of Tübingen in Germany, talks to Laura Hood, senior politics editor at The Conversation, about where the AFD draws its support from and what type of Germany it wants to return to.This episode was Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware with sound design by Michelle Macklem. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available. Sign up for The Conversation Europe's newsletter to get the best from our European scholars in a weekly digest.If you like the show, please consider donating to The Conversation, which is an independent, not-for-profit news organisation.Further reading:What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic' moment?The far-right is rising at a crucial time in Germany, boosted by Elon MuskAfD: how Germany's constitution was designed with the threat of extremism in mind Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Naomi and Alex, with guest Laura Hood from The Conversation, discuss the latest shock elimination in the Tory Reality Soap Opera, Laura's new documentary Know Your Place, about the changing relationship between class and politics, and Labour's stuttering much-announced, but slow-moving, EU reset. If you can afford to help, you can back Quiet Riot on Ko-fi. Alex: “The net result is that there is now not going to be a conversation as to what direction the Conservative Party moves towards. There's just going to be two different flavours of ultra-hard right to choose from.” Laura: “What is the [class] status, for example, of people who work in the gig economy? They are earning some of the lowest wages in our economy. But they are ostensibly self-employed, their own masters. In fact, the algorithm is their boss.” Laura: “2019 was not a ‘class' election. We see it as the working class voter flocking to Boris Johnson, but something far more complicated   Naomi: “We desperately need older voices to champion a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme. The typical response I get is: ‘What about me? Everyone should have freedom of movement.' Please be an ally on this and advocate the case for younger people.” CALLS TO ACTION Subscribe here to The Conversation's newsletter. You can find Laura's podcast Know Your Place here. Dan Evans' A Nation of Shopkeepers is here. Russia's new Escape The Woke visa scheme is here. Grin And Share It good news story on Hempophilia treatments. Join Best for Britain with a tree-planting donation here. Guardian letters on Youth Mobility Schemes are here. Find us on Facebook and Twitter as @quietriotpod or use our Starter Pack on Bluesky. Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com. Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO CONTRIBUTE, PLEASE DO. Click here to back Quiet Riot on Ko-fi. With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou, and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura Hood joins us from Anglia Capital Group (ACG) talks to us about the angel investment network and the Halo Programme.Our guest Mark Merrywest tells us that 84% travellers are influenced by social media and Yond brings together a way to book your holiday and activities all in one place. The programme helped to direct the seed of an idea into something funded and ready to launch.And from the most recent cohort Alex Howard Founder of AAH Software providing clinical research, shares how his company has morphed from services to technology led.We talk about · How the size of opportunities developed in Norwich might not be the same magnitude as some of the #Cambridge #deeptech startups, but there is still applicability and marketability.· Getting guidance on the valuation of a startup· The importance of refining your message to the different audiences · How important pitch practice is and the subsequent constructive discussion post-pitch – is nice feedback ever useful?Produced by Cambridge TV Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is it like to discover a new COVID-19 variant? We hear the inside story from Jinal Bhiman at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases, one of the scientists who first alerted the world to the omicron variant. And Shabir A Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of Witwatersrand, explains what lessons South Africa's experience can offer the rest of the world about future coronavirus variants. We're joined by Ozayr Patel, digital editor for The Conversation based in Johannesburg for this story.And new research finds a person's emotional reaction to music has a lot to do with their cultural background – we speak to George Athanasopoulos, a musicologist at Durham University in the UK. (From 34m15s)Plus, Laura Hood, politics editor for The Conversation based in London, recommends some recent analysis on the political pressures facing the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, over parties held during coronavirus lockdowns. (From 47m10s)The Conversation Weekly is produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode available here.Further reading:The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know so farSouth Africa has changed tack on tackling COVID: why it makes senseHow your culture informs the emotions you feel when listening to musicFour key takeaways from the ‘partygate' investigation into Boris Johnson's Downing StreetBoris Johnson pledges to ‘fix' Downing Street after partygate – but this is a failure of his leadership See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week I sit down with two remarkable women, Operations Manager of PHAROS Athletic Club, Laura Hood, and International Model Brianna Marquez. They have very different lives but are both incredibly busy women who manage to juggle fitness, business, travel, and motherhood. They have also both dealt with and learned to manage expectations, preconceived ideas of “how a woman should look”, “how are women should eat” social bullying, constant judgment, and the general demands that life has thrown at them. They have fought to find THEIR way in fitness and a lifestyle that gives them balance and sanity. This was a fascinating podcast that I know this will hit a chord with so many of you who have had to deal with such pressure and demand. Enjoy! Connect with Brianna, Laura, Piet, Pharos, and The Pharos Mountain LodgeBrianna's InstagramLaura's InstagramInstagramPharos InstagramPharos Mountain Lodge InstagramWebsiteWelcome to the Pharos Fit Podcast. Please make sure you subscribe wherever you are listening to this show and if you loved this show please leave us a 5-star review in the iTunes store. It is the currency of podcasts and it really goes along in helping us grow our show and impart our values for anyone who wants to live every day reaching for their absolute best self.If you are in Los Angeles swing by our gym at 1316 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park.Check out our website here for class times and follow us on Instagram for more fitness-related content See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you write a character who isn't human? When does artistic license veer into incoherent vaguery? WHAT WAITS BEYOND THE VEIL OF DEATH? Find out in my interview with Laura Hood of the Church Boy Chat podcast! She read my novel Ghost Town, and she's got thoughts. Read Ghost Town and more for free at www.authorsdozen.com. To check out Church Boy Chat, head over to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/church-boy-chat/id1501889594 for really rad talks on relationships in a Christian context. 

In this episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast, we bring you the history of Ritalin by Matthew Smith, professor in health history at the University of Strathclyde.Just over 75 years ago, a new stimulant drug with the generic name of methylphenidate was born in the Swiss lab of chemical company Ciba. Like many drugs, its therapeutic purpose was unclear. But these were the days a scientist could take a drug home and test it on their spouse, which is exactly what Ciba scientist Leandro Panizzon did. Panizzon’s wife, Rita, reported that the drug gave her tennis game a real fillip. And so Panizzon originally named the drug Ritaline in his wife’s honour.Over the next three-quarters of a century, Ritalin would go on to wear many hats, including antipsychotic, tonic for worn-out housewives, drug to treat disruptive children, street drug and smart drug.But what does the future hold?You can read the text version of this in depth article here. The audio version is read by Annabel Bligh and edited by Laura Hood. You can read more in depth articles by academic experts on The Conversation.The music in In Depth Out Loud is Night Caves, by Lee Rosevere. A big thanks to the Department of Journalism at City, University of London for letting us use their studios to record. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Stefan Rousseau/PA WireAfter calling an election in the belief that she was on course for a large majority in parliament, Theresa May must now fight for her political life. Far from sweeping the board, her Conservative party has failed to win enough seats to form a government by itself. Meanwhile, despite having been written off as no hopers, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party has made a major comeback. The balance of power now hangs with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, which has ten MPs and has agreed to work with May to support her administration. Where May once promised a strong and stable government, she now finds herself managing an arrangement that is best described as weak and flimsy. It could fall apart at any moment. All this is happening while the clock ticks towards Brexit. May is meant to start negotiations for the UK’s departure within a matter of days – even though it is now far from clear what the UK electorate actually wants from the deal. In this, the final episode of The Conversation’s Election Weekly podcast, politics editor Laura Hood is joined by Tom Quinn, senior lecturer in the department of government at the University of Essex, and Louise Thompson, lecturer in British Politics at the University of Surrey. Election Weekly is a podcast series from The Conversation UK. Music in the show is Chasin’ It, by Jason Shaw. A big thank you to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios. The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

The 2017 election campaign stepped up a gear this week as Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats all published their election manifestos. We saw the Lib Dems promising to legalise cannabis and hold a referendum on the final Brexit deal. Labour made some generous offerings for everyone except the very richest among us. As we discussed in last week’s episode, we already knew a lot about Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto because someone leaked it to the press in advance. But the final document confirmed such plans as raising income tax for the top 5% of earners to fund greater spending on the NHS, reversing a great many of the Conservative’s welfare reforms, and re-nationalising the railways. The Conservatives were the last of the three to publish – and took rather a different approach. Their manifesto was more focused on the philosophy of the party under the leadership of Theresa May than about making promises to woo voters. We were told the country faces “giant” challenges and that the collective good must come before the individual to tackle those problems. That means richer pensioners will lose their fuel allowance and may have to contribute more to the costs of their care. These documents are very important. They set out what each party is proposing to achieve if you vote it into government. This week, we’re delving into their pages to understand what’s on offer. Andrew Scott Crines from the University of Liverpool and Ben Williams from the University of Salford talk to The Converesation’s politics editor Laura Hood about what we’ve learned about current Conservative ideology, whether Labour’s pledges are enough to save it from the jaws of defeat and what the point is of producing a manifesto if you, like the Liberal Democrats, openly admit you aren’t going to win. We’re also looking at what the immediate implications are for the Conservative pledge to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, which means that general elections are only held every five years. With that law out of the way, could we be heading for yet another vote before too long? Music in Election Weekly is Chasin’ It, by Jason Shaw. A big thank you to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios. Ben Williams is a member of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the Higher Education Academy and the Labour Party. Andrew Scott Crines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

A month ahead of polling day, the Labour party is scrambling to manage its message after someone leaked a draft version of its 2017 election manifesto, the day before a final version was to be agreed by the party’s leadership. The draft includes pledges to scrap tuition fees and nationalise part of the energy market. The party also looks to be avoiding taking a hard line on immigration, despite pressure from some of its supporters, and it doesn’t want to leave the European Union without a Brexit deal. In the second episode of the Election Weekly podcast guests Paula Keaveney from Edge Hill University and Stuart McAnulla from the University of Leeds join The Conversation UK’s politics editor Laura Hood to size up the promises and predict which are likely to make it into the final version of the manifesto – as well as pondering who might be behind the leak. Before Labour stole the headlines, the main story of the week seemed a little silly. Here was prime minister Theresa May sitting on a BBC sofa with her husband, talking about household chores (and the fact that there are “boy and girl jobs” in the May household). We learned who takes out the bins and that Mr May likes a nice jacket. But for all its mundanity, this appearance on the One Show was revealing about who the prime minister wants you to think she is – and what she believes. Find out more about why manifestos matter by reading our brief history of these all important documents. And while it looks like the Conservatives are still on course for a major victory in this election, we’ve been hearing about why a very large majority in the House of Commons isn’t always a gift to a government. Election Weekly is a podcast series from The Conversation UK running once a week in the run-up to the UK general election on June 8. Music in the show is Chasin’ It, by Jason Shaw. A big thank you to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios. Paula Keaveney is a member of the Liberal Democrats. Stuart McAnulla does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

A strong and stable leader? Rick Findler/PA Wire/PA ImagesIn a brand new podcast we bring you expert analysis of the 2017 UK general election campaign. We’ll be with you right up until polling day on June 8, helping to cut through the noise to make this snap election as painless as possible. This episode takes a broad look at the parties and the options on the table for voters at this early stage in the campaign. The Conversation’s politics editor, Laura Hood, runs through the important issues of the week with Andy Price, head of politics at Sheffield Hallam University, and Matthew Cole, teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham. Do the Conservatives have the election all wrapped up? Andy and Matt compare the party’s lead in the polls with historical examples and caution against hubris. While the polling continues to look good, we consider whether the PM has taken her “strong and stable leadership” message into the realms of “aggressive and presumptous” in her dealings with Brussels. Tactical voting and the prospect of a progressive alliance of parties opposed to the Conservatives is also up for discussion, with some mixed opinions about whether a pact is possible and how it would be achieved. And how serious was Diane Abbott’s media wobble at the beginning of the week? The Labour front bencher was roundly mocked for fluffing her numbers on the radio, but we hear that voters might not remember the incident for long. Though the same might not necessarily be true for Labour party insiders. Music in Election Weekly is Chasin’ It, by Jason Shaw. A big thank you to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios.

TC PhotoWithCredits On April 18, British prime minister Theresa May walked out onto the steps of 10 Downing Street and surprised the country by announcing a snap general election, to take place in a matter of weeks. Just two years after the last election and less than a year after the EU referendum, British voters are to head to the polls once more. This after May had repeatedly insisted that she would not call a vote before the planned date of 2020. So why the change of heart? Many point to her party’s huge lead in the polls and say it’s political opportunism. The prime minister insists that an election is in the national interest, to give the successful party a firm mandate as it goes into crucial Brexit negotiations. Either way, the unsuspecting electorate has just a few short weeks to get to grips with the decision ahead of them – and many of us are already feeling the strain. Even while most people are still digesting the news that we’re having an election at all, the politicians are already out knocking on doors. Leaflets are flying off the printers, candidates being selected in a hurry and manifestos cobbled together in the wee small hours. You might say it’s a bit of a rush job. That’s why here at The Conversation we have decided to put together a weekly podcast to bring you expert analysis of all the important goings on. Each week, two academic experts will join me, Laura Hood, politics editor at The Conversation UK, to discuss the key election issues. We’ll of course be talking about Brexit, but we also want to get to grips with the kinds of issues you’d normally expect to hear about in an election, like the state of the economy and what each party has to say about immigration, the NHS and schools. We’ll keep you updated on who’s ahead in the polls. And we’ll also cut through the spin of what’s dominating the headlines. If you’re feeling election fatigue already, don’t worry, we’re here to bring you the information you really need ahead of June 8. So tune in every Thursday to Election Weekly for everything you need to know about the general election 2017. Music in Election Weekly is Chasin’ It, by Jason Shaw. A big thank you to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios.