Podcasts about life connection

Paola Ranova, PhD, is a University Professor, author, energy medicine practitioner, and the creator of the Cardinal Method of Life Connection. Born and raised in Brazil, she has always been passionate about human nature, consciousness, and self-development. Her extensive studies and research into various cultures and ancient wisdom led her to develop the Cardinal Method, a multidisciplinary system inspired by Hindu traditions, Western philosophy, Indigenous wisdom, and Family Constellations.In this episode you will hear:Paola's history and early educationPaola's journey with the BodyTalk SystemUnderstanding family constellations and the process of constellatingConnecting with crystalsUnderstanding root cause and resultHow many family constellations are necessary for healing?All things forgivenessWorking on your wounded soul Learn more about The Cardinal Method and Paola Ranova by visiting her website: https://www.paolaranova.comInstagram: paola.ranovaCheck out Paola's books: The Cardinal Method of Life Connection & Your Cardinal Connections

In this week's solo cast, we're delving into the mystical world of past lives and how they shape our present relationships.❤️‍

The Bible talks about the satisfaction of a fruitful life and John 15 shares that the only way for this to happen is through our connection with Jesus, our source. In this message, Pastor Steven Hilton talks about the goodness that comes from a life that abides in Him. Notes & Scriptures for this message are available in the Notes section of the Giving Light App. Visit our website at www.givinglight.org. Download the Giving Light App available for free on iOS and Android.

Today's guest is Pamela Tanner Boll who is an artist, filmmaker, writer and activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Mystic Artists Film Productions, joining us to talk about her current project, a film called To Which We Belong which highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional agriculture and adopting regenerative practices that are improving the health of our soil and sea and saving our planet. Pamela shares with Emma and Mary the misconceptions regarding the climate impact of cattle and the untapped potential of ruminants in climate remediation, the importance of understanding the interconnectedness of every organism on earth, how we as individuals can reduce waste, and ways to foster community in order to better the planet. Join the Lady Farmer Slow Living Challenge! Topics Discussed · Valentine's Day and Waste · Interconnectedness of Life · Connection to the Earth · Documentary Filmmaking · Cattle and Their Effect on Climate Change · Microbes, Fungi, and Bugs · The Effect of Our Actions on the Planet · Policy Changes · Power of Individuals · Sharing Stories of Sustainability · Creativity & The Power of Change · Individualistic Mindset · The Role of Love in Creating a Better World · Fixing Earth, not aiming for Mars · Embracing “Dirty” Aspects of Life · Supporting Non-profit Organizations · Gardens · The Business of Big Agro · Reversing Soil Erosion · Where Our Food Comes From · Seeing the Good · Being Mindful Consumers Episode Resources: · Join the Lady Farmer Slow Living Challenge! · Slow Living Through the Seasons January · Watch Allan Savory's TED Talk “How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change” · The Savory Institute Connect with Pamela Boll: · Website: https://www.mysticartists.com/about · Instagram @pamelatannerb: https://www.instagram.com/pamelatannerb/ · Born into Brothels: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_14_prd · IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2035066/ · To Which We Belong: https://www.towhichwebelong.com/pamela_tanner_boll · Who Does She Think She Is: https://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/pamela_tanner_boll ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Today's guest is Pamela Tanner Boll who is an artist, filmmaker, writer and activist. She is the Founder and CEO of Mystic Artists Film Productions, joining us to talk about her current project, a film called To Which We Belong which highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional agriculture and adopting regenerative practices that are improving the health of our soil and sea and saving our planet. Pamela shares with Emma and Mary the misconceptions regarding the climate impact of cattle and the untapped potential of ruminants in climate remediation, the importance of understanding the interconnectedness of every organism on earth, how we as individuals can reduce waste, and ways to foster community in order to better the planet. Join the Lady Farmer Slow Living Challenge! Topics Discussed · Valentine's Day and Waste · Interconnectedness of Life · Connection to the Earth · Documentary Filmmaking · Cattle and Their Effect on Climate Change · Microbes, Fungi, and Bugs · The Effect of Our Actions on the Planet · Policy Changes · Power of Individuals · Sharing Stories of Sustainability · Creativity & The Power of Change · Individualistic Mindset · The Role of Love in Creating a Better World · Fixing Earth, not aiming for Mars · Embracing “Dirty” Aspects of Life · Supporting Non-profit Organizations · Gardens · The Business of Big Agro · Reversing Soil Erosion · Where Our Food Comes From · Seeing the Good · Being Mindful Consumers Episode Resources: · Join the Lady Farmer Slow Living Challenge! · Slow Living Through the Seasons January · Watch Allan Savory's TED Talk “How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change” · The Savory Institute Connect with Pamela Boll: · Website: https://www.mysticartists.com/about · Instagram @pamelatannerb: https://www.instagram.com/pamelatannerb/ · Born into Brothels: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_14_prd · IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2035066/ · To Which We Belong: https://www.towhichwebelong.com/pamela_tanner_boll · Who Does She Think She Is: https://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/pamela_tanner_boll ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Connection Over Isolation   Series - The Good Life: Life in Abundance   Dr Amber Field   Hebrews 10:21-25   Your walk with God is personal, but not individual. Faith is a community project.   Give to support the ministry of Renaissance Church: https://renaissancenyc.com/give   Keep up with Renaissance by filling out a connection card: https://renaissancenyc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/5/responses/new

The system for coordinating organ donations and transplants in the United States is broken, according to experts who have testified over the course of many years to Congress. In this episode, hear their testimony about what is wrong with the current system and then we'll examine the bill that aims to fix the problems. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources August 3, 2022. Senate Finance Committee. Lenny Bernstein and Todd C. Frankel. August 3, 2022. The Washington Post. February 10, 2020. Senate Finance Committee. The Bill Audio Sources July 20, 2023 Senate Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Health Care Witnesses: LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Molly J. McCarthy, Vice Chair & Region 6 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Matthew Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Raymond J. Lynch, MD, MS, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation Quality and Outcomes, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Donna R. Cryer, JD, Founder and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 30:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): HRSA, the Health Resources Agency, is on track to begin the contract process this fall and we're just going to be working here to complement their effort. 36:30 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): In 2005, I started the investigation of the deadly failures of UNOS, the monopoly tasked with managing the US organ donation system. Since then, more than 200,000 patients have needlessly died on the organ waiting list. There's a reason that I call UNOS the fox guarding the hen house. For nearly two decades, UNOS has concealed serious problems [at] the nation's organ procurement organizations, known as OPOs, instead of working to uncover and correct the corruption. This human tragedy is even more horrific because many of these deaths were preventable. They were the result of [a] corrupt, unaccountable monopoly that operates more like a cartel than a public servant. 44:45 LaQuayia Goldring: As a toddler, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer that took the function of my left kidney. And when I was 17, I went back into complete renal failure and I received a first kidney transplant at that time. Unfortunately, in 2015, I went back into kidney failure. And at that time, I wasn't ready for another transplant, but I didn't have a choice but to go back on dialysis. I've been waiting nine agonizing years for a transplant, dependent upon a dialysis machine five days a week, just to be able to live. I was told that I would receive a kidney transplant within three to five years. But yet I am still waiting. I am undergoing monthly surgeries just to be able to get my dialysis access to work so that I can continue to live until I get a transplant. The UNOS waitlist is not like one to 100, where everybody thinks you get a number. I'm never notified on where I stand on the list or when I will get the call. I have to depend on an algorithm to make the decision of what my fate will be. 47:55 LaQuayia Goldring: Just a few weeks ago, a donor family reached out to me to be a directed kidney donor, meaning they chose me specifically for a kidney transplant. But unfortunately, due to the errors in the UNOS technology, I was listed as inactive and this was a clerical error. And all that they told me was this was a clerical error, and they could not figure out why I was inactive. But when it came down to it, I'm actually active on the transplant list. 51:45 Molly McCarthy: The Federal monopoly contractor managing the organ donation system, UNOS, is an unmitigated failure. And its leadership spends more time attacking critics than it does taking steps to fix the system. I've seen this firsthand in my five years as a patient volunteer with the OPTN and three years ago, I stepped into the role of Vice Chair of the Patient Affairs Committee, or PAC. 53:45 Molly McCarthy: Further, I have been called by a board member telling me to stop focusing on system outage and downtime of the UNOS tech system. He told me that having downtime wasn't a big deal at all, "the donors are dead anyway." That comment speaks volumes to me about the lack of empathy and respect UNOS has for donor families. 55:00 Molly McCarthy: Congress needs to break up the UNOS monopoly by passing 1668, ensuring that HHS uses its authority to replace UNOS as its contractor. 1:00:15 Matt Wadsworth: Break up the OPTN contract and allow for competition. 1:00:40 Matt Wadsworth: I commend this committee for introducing legislation to finally break up this monopoly and I stand ready to work with you in any way possible to ensure that this bill passes. It's the only way this industry will be able to save more patients' lives. 1:02:10 Dr. Raymond Lynch: I want to differentiate between organ donation, which is the altruistic decision of the donor patient and their family, and organ procurement, which is the clinical care provided by OPO staff. This is what turns the gift of donation into the usable organs for transplant. Organ procurement is a clinical specialty. It's the last medical care that many patients will ever receive. It's reimbursed by the federal government and it's administered by OPOs that are each the only provider in the territory to which they hold federal contracts. Right now patient care delivered by OPOs is some of the least visible in American healthcare. I can't tell you how many patients were evaluated by OPO workers in the US in 2022. I can't tell you how many patients were examined, or how many families were given information about donation, or how many times an OPO worker even showed up to a hospital to do this clinical duty. This lack of information about what OPO providers actually do for patients is a root cause of the variability in rates of organ procurement around the country. My research has shown that what we call OPO performance is a measurable restriction on the supply of organs that results in the unnecessary deaths of patients with organ failure. For example, if the lowest performing OPOs from around the country had just reached the national median over a recent seven year period, there would have been 4957 more organ donors, yielding an estimated 11,707 additional organs for transplant. Because many OPOs operate in a low quality data environment and without appropriate oversight, almost 5,000 patients did not get adequate organ procurement care, and nearly 12,000 other patients did not receive life saving transplants. 1:03:55 Dr. Raymond Lynch: OPO clinical work is currently not visible, it's not benchmarkable, and it's not able to be adequately evaluated, analyzed, or compared. However, much of the hidden data about how OPOs provide care to patients is known to one entity and that entity is UNOS. 1:05:20 Dr. Raymond Lynch: We need a new network of highly skilled specialist organizations, each attending to areas of expertise in the management of the OPTN contract. 1:21:15 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): When we look at OPTN, and look at the Securing Organ Procurement Act, the bill would strip the nonprofit requirement for the manager of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which would open the door for profiting from organ procurement and donation. And to me, this is something that I think many people really fear, especially people that are on a waitlist. And so what I would like for you to do is to address that and address those concerns. And why or why not you think the Act has it right. Dr. Raymond Lynch: Thank you, Senator. I think it's unfortunate that people would be afraid of that and it needs to be changed. Many of the patients that you referenced are waitlisted at for-profit hospitals. For-profit is a part of American healthcare. And I can tell you that our not-for-profit entity doesn't work. And there are for-profit hospitals and for-profit transplant centers that do work. So patients don't need to be afraid of that. They do need to be afraid of the status quo. 1:28:30 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Ms. Cryer, do you have any views as to why it's much lower percentage chances for a racial minority to be able to have a transplant? Donna Cryer: Yes. And it really does come down to UNOS not doing its job of overseeing the organ procurement organizations. We know from many studies that black and brown communities donate organs in the same percentage they are the population. So it is not a problem of willingness to donate. It is a problem, as Miss Goldring was starting to discuss, about UNOS not ensuring that OPOs go out into the communities, develop relationships far before that horrible decision is needed to [be] made to donate the organs of a family member. 1:56:45 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): And among the many reforms the legislation would support HRSA's proposal to break up the OPTN monopoly contract into multiple smaller contracts, which would allow some competition and allow the best vendors in the business to manage different parts of the transplant network operation. That means hiring IT experts to do the IT. It means hiring logistics experts to do logistics, and so on. 1:57:15 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): UNOS does not want to lose control, so they're pushing to have the government limit eligibility only to nonprofit vendors that have worked in the past on organ donation, meaning, for instance, that the IT company that is hired to run OPTNs computers systems would have had to have worked on an organ transplant network in the past and be a nonprofit. So Ms. McCarthy, the requirement UNOS wants would seem to make it so that only one organization could apply for the new contract: UNOS. 1:58:35 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Right now, Congress has an opportunity to root out corruption in this system, but if we don't act before the current contract expires we won't have another shot for years. August 3, 2022 Senate Committee on Finance Witnesses: Brian Shepard, CEO, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Diane Brockmeier, RN, President and CEO, Mid-America Transplant Barry Friedman, RN, Executive Director, AdventHealth Transplant Institute Calvin Henry, Region 3 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, Director, Division of Transplantation, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Clips 36:15 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): A 1984 law created the first computerized system to match sick patients with the organs they need. It was named the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Someone needed to manage that system for the whole country, so the government sought to contract an organization to run it. UNOS was the only bidder for that first contract in 1986. The contract has come up for bid seven other times, UNOS has won all seven. Today, the network UNOS overseas is made up of nearly 400 members, including 252 transplant centers, and 57 regional organizations known as Organ Procurement Organizations, or OPOs. Each OPO is a defined geographic service network. Families sitting in a hospital room thinking about donating a loved one's organs does not have a choice of OPOs. 37:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Between 2010 and 2020, more than 1,100 complaints were filed by patients and families, staff, transplant centers, and others. The nature of these complaints runs the gamut. For example, in a number of cases, OPOs had failed to complete critical mandatory tests for matters like blood types, diseases, and infection. Our investigation found one patient died after being transplanted with lungs that a South Carolina OPO marked with the wrong blood type. Similar blood type errors happened elsewhere and patients developed serious illness. Some had to have organs removed after transplant. Another patient was told he would likely die within three years after an OPO in Ohio supplied him with a heart from a donor who had died of a malignant brain tumor. UNOS did not pursue any disciplinary action. In a case from Florida, another patient contracted cancer from transplanted organs and the OPO sat on the evidence for months. In total, our investigation found that between 2008 and 2015, and 249 transplant recipients developed a disease from transplanted organs. More than a quarter of them died. 38:55 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Delivering organs has been another source of life threatening errors. We found 53 such complaints between 2010 and 2020, as well as evidence that this was just the tip of the iceberg. In some cases, couriers missed a flight. In others, the organs were abandoned at airports. Some organs were never picked up. Many of these failures resulted in organs being discarded. 39:20 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): It's reasonable to assume that many more errors are going unreported. Why? Because filing official complaints with UNOS appears to accomplish zero productive oversight or reform. Organ transplant professionals repeatedly told the Finance Committee that the complaint process was, and I quote here, "a black hole." Complaints went in, UNOS went quiet. In interviews with the Committee UNOS leaders have dragged their feet, dodged tough questions, and shifted responsibility onto others. investigations and disciplinary measures rarely amount to much more than a slap on the wrist. Only one time -- just once -- has UNOS recommended that an OPO lose their certification. 55:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must update the archaic technology system at UNOS. As OPOs, we are required to work with UNOS technology DonorNet every day. DonorNet is outdated, difficult to us,e and often slow to function when every minute counts. Manual entry subjects it to error and OPO and Transplant Center staff are not empowered with the right information when time is critical. I did serve in leadership roles on the OPO Committee from 2017 to 2022. Committee members and industry leaders voiced repeated requests to improve DonorNet. The consistent response was UNOS IT did not have the bandwidth to address this work. The limitations of the UNOS technology are delaying and denying transplants to patients that are dying on the waitlist. Poor technology impacts the disturbingly high kidney discard rate in the United States, where one in four kidneys never make it to a patient for transplantation. Critical time is lost due to the inefficiency of DonorNet, wasting time on offers that will not be accepted. Of course an available organ should be offered to the patient in this sequence. However, far too much of the matching, particularly on older donors and organs that are difficult to place, are left to the individual OPOs and transplant centers to find each other despite, rather than facilitated by, UNOS technology. Mid-America Transplant intentionally identifies surgeons who accept kidneys that have been repeatedly turned down many times. These are life saving options for those patients. In May of 2022, one of these patients was number 18,193 on the list. Relying on DonorNet alone, that kidney would never had been placed and the chance to save a life would have been wasted. 55:20 Diane Brockmeier: UNOS lacks urgency and accountability around identifying and remediating this preventable loss of organs, and they are not required to publicly report adverse events when patients are harmed, organs are lost, or the quality of patient care is deemed unsafe. UNOS does not require clinical training, licensure, or certification standards for OPO staff delivering critical patient care. In this environment, who's looking out for the patient? Who's being held accountable for poor patient care? No OPO has ever actually been decertified, regardless of its performance or its safety record. 57:55 Diane Brockmeier: When an OPO goes out of sequence to place an organ that would otherwise be thrown away, UNOS requires an explanation; however, when organs are recovered and discarded, you must remain silent. 58:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must remove conflicts to ensure effective governance. From 2018 to 2020, I served as a board member for the OPTN. Serving on the board of the OPTN automatically assigns membership to the UNOS board. My board experience revealed that at times UNOS actions are not aligned with its fundamental vision of a life saving transplant for everyone in need. How can you fairly represent the country's interest and a contractor's interest at the same time? 58:35 Diane Brockmeier: Board members are often kept in the dark about critical matters and are marginalized, particularly if they express views that differ from UNOS leadership. Preparatory small group calls are conducted prior to board meetings to explore voting intentions, and if the board member was not aligned with the opinion of UNOS leadership, follow up calls are initiated. Fellow board members report feeling pressured to vote in accordance with UNOS leadership. 59:10 Diane Brockmeier: To protect patients, I urge Congress and the administration to separate the OPTN functions into different contracts so that patients can be served by best-in-class vendors, to immediately separate the boards of the OPTN and OPTN contractors, and to ensure that patients are safeguarded through open data from both the OPTN and OPOs. 1:00:45 Barry Friedman: Approximately 23% of kidneys procured from deceased donors are not used and discarded, resulting in preventable deaths 1:00:55 Barry Friedman: Organ transportation is a process left to federally designated Organ Procurement Organizations, OPOs. Currently, they develop their own relationships with couriers, rely on airlines, charter flights, ground transportation, and federal agencies to facilitate transportation. In many cases, organs must connect from one flight to another, leaving airline personnel responsible for transfers. While anyone can track their Amazon or FedEx package, there is currently no consistent way of tracking these life saving organs. 1:01:45 Barry Friedman: Currently there is no requirement for OPOs to use tracking systems. 1:02:20 Barry Friedman: I also believe there's a conflict of interest related to the management of IT functions by UNOS, as the IT tools they offer transplant centers come with additional costs, despite these being essential for the safety and management of organs. 1:02:35 Barry Friedman: UNOS is not effectively screening organ donors so that they can be quickly directed to transplant programs. UNOS asks centers to voluntarily opt out of certain organs via a filtering process. As a result, OPOs waste valuable time making organ offers to centers that will never accept them. Time wasted equates to prolonged cold ischemic time and organs not placed, resulting in lost organ transplant opportunities. 1:03:10 Barry Friedman: Due to the limited expertise that UNOS has in the placement of organs, it would be best if they were no longer responsible for the development of organ placement practices. The UNOS policy making [process] lacks transparency. Currently OPTN board members concurrently serve as the board members of UNOS, which creates a conflict of interest that contributes to this lack of transparency. UNOS committees are formed in a vacuum. There is no call for nominations and no data shared with the transplant community to explain the rationale behind decisions that create policy change. 1:11:35 Dr. Jayme Locke: The most powerful thing to know about this is that every organ represents a life. We can never forget that. Imagine having a medication you need to live being thrown away simply because someone took too long to get it to you. Your life quite literally in a trash can. Organs are no different. They too have shelf lives and they are measured in hours. Discarded organs and transportation errors may sound abstract, but let me make this negligence real for you. In 2014, I received a kidney that arrived frozen, it was an ice cube you could put in your drink. The intended recipient was sensitized, meaning difficult to match. The only thing we could do was tell the waiting patient that due to the lack of transportation safeguard, the kidney had to be thrown in the trash, the final generous act of a donor in Maryland. In 2017, I received a kidney that arrived in a box that appeared to have tire marks on it. The box was squished and the container inside had been ruptured. We were lucky and were able to salvage the kidney for transplant. But why should luck even play a role? 1:12:45 Dr. Jayme Locke: In one week, I received four kidneys from four different OPOs, each with basic errors that led to the need to throw away those life saving organs. One due to a botched kidney biopsy into the kidneys collecting system, another because of a lower pole artery that had been cut during procurement that could have been fixed if someone involved had assessed the kidney for damage and flushed it before packing, but that didn't happen. Two others arrived to me blue, meaning they hadn't been flushed either. 1:13:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Opacity at UNOS means that we have no idea how often basic mistakes happen across the country, nor can we have any confidence that anything is being done to redress such errors so they don't keep happening. 1:13:40 Dr. Jayme Locke: Women who have been pregnant, especially multiple times, are harder to match, contributing to both gender and racial disparities in access to transplant. This is a very real example of how a constrained pool of organs and high discards disproportionately hurt women and women of color, who are more likely to have multiple pregnancies. 1:14:25 Dr. Jayme Locke: Number one, immediately separate the OPTN board from any of the boards of any contractors. Number two, bring in real experts to ensure our patients are served by the best of the best in each field, separating out key functions of the OPTN, including policy, technology, and logistics. And number three, ensure that patients are safer by holding all contractors accountable through public adverse event reporting and immediate redressing of problems. 1:22:00 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): The system doesn't seem to be fair to racial minorities or people living in rural communities. So what are your efforts underway to understand the root causes and help make the system fairer to patients on the waiting list to explain the factors that result in the disparity for minorities in rural populations in the process? And how can the federal government address a problem if we have to be involved in addressing it? Dr. Jayme Locke: One of the most important things that we don't currently do is we don't actually account for disease burden in terms of examining our waiting lists. So we have no way of knowing if we're actually serving the correct people, if the correct people are actually making it to the waiting list. Disease burden is super important because it not only identifies the individuals who are in need of transplantation, but it also speaks to supply. So areas with high rates of end stage kidney disease burden, like the southeastern United States are going to have much lower supply. And those waiting lists predominantly consist of African American or Black individuals. So if you want to make a truly equitable organ system, you have to essentially get more organs to those areas where there are higher disease burdens. I think the other thing is that we have to have more focus on how we approach donor families and make sure that we have cultural competence as a part of our OPOs, and how they approach families to ensure that we're not marginalizing minority families with regard to the organ donation process. 1:30:00 Brian Shepard: The OPTN IT system that UNOS operates has 99.99% uptime. It is a highly reliable system. We are audited annually by HRSA.... Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): My information shows it's had 17 days down since I think 1999. That's not correct? Brian Shepard: In 23 years, yes, sir. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Okay, well, every day there's a loss of life, isn't it? Brian Shepard: That's the total amount of time over the couse of -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): I hope our national event system isn't down 17 days a year. Brian Shepard: The system has never been down for a day. And to my knowledge, and I have not been at UNOS since 1999, there's been maybe one event that was longer than an hour, and that was three hours. But the total amount of time since 1999 -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): So you're satisfied with your technology? You think you have the right technology? You're satisfied with your tracking systems now? You think everything is okay? Brian Shepard: We constantly improve our technology. We're subjected to 3 million attempts a day to hack into the patient database and we successfully repelled them all. So we are never satisfied with our technology, but we do maintain 99.99% uptime. We disagree with the USDS analysis of our systems. 1:37:25 Brian Shepard: If you're asking whether UNOS can prevent an OPO from operating or for being an OPO -- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Well not prevent them, but require them to do something .You don't have the ability to require them...? Brian Shepard: The peer review process has significant persuasive authority, but all the payment authority and all the certification and decertification authority live at CMS. 1:39:00 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Do you think there should be tracking of organs in transit? Brian Shepard: I think that's a very beneficial thing. UNOS provides an optional service that a quarter of OPOs use. Many OPOs also use other commercially available trackers to do that. There is not a single requirement to use a particular system. 1:41:55 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Mr. Shepherd, you are the CEO of UNOS. We have documented these problems and you've received more than 1000 complaints in the last decade alone. So tell me, in the 36 years that UNOS has had the contract to run our national organ system, how many times has UNOS declared its OPO Members, any OPO members, not in good standing. Brian Shepard: Two times, Senator. 1:43:20 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): How many times has UNOS put an OPO on probation? Brian Shepard: I don't know that number off the top of my head, but it's not a large number. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): It's not large, in fact it's three. 1:45:20 Brian Shepard: Approximately 10% of the budget of this contract is taxpayer funded. The rest of that is paid by hospitals when they list patients. 1:49:30 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): Once an OPO is designated not in good standing, Senator Warren referred to this as toothless. It does seem toothless to me. I'll give you an opportunity, Mr. Shepherd, to disabuse me of that notion and indicate for me what penalties or sanctions are actually placed on an OPO when they are designated not in good standing. Brian Shepard: The statute does not give UNOS any authority to offer sanctions like that. The certification, decertification, payment authorities belong entirely to CMS. UNOS's statute doesn't give us the ability -- Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So it is toothless in that sense. Brian Shepard: It is designed to be, by regulation and contract, a quality improvement process, in contrast to the oversight process operated by a federal agency. 1:51:15 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): To what extent is UNOS currently tracking the status of all the organs in transit at any given time? Brian Shepard: UNOS does not coordinate transportation or track organs in transit. We do provide a service that OPOs can use to use GPS trackers. Some of the OPOs use ours and some use other commercially available products. Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So why is it, and how does UNOS plan to optimize organ delivery if you don't have 100% visibility into where they are at any given time? Brian Shepard: I think that the GPS products that we offer and that other people offer are valuable, they do help in the delivery of kidneys. Only kidneys travel unaccompanied, so this is a kidney issue. But I do think that GPS trackers are valuable and I think that's why you've seen more and more OPOs use them. 1:52:50 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd has said twice, with respect to this whole question of the power to decertify an OPO, that CMS has the power to do it. UNOS also has the power to refer an OPO for decertification under the OPTN final rule. That has been done exactly once. So I just wanted it understood with respect to making sure the committee has got what's really going on with respect to decertifying OPOs. 2:00:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Obviously people have described that we have about a 25% kidney discard, so one in four. So if you look at numbers last year, these are rough numbers, but that'd be about 8000 kidneys. And really, I think, in some ways, these are kind of a victim of an entrenched and cumbersome allocation algorithms that are very ordinal, you have to go sort of in order, when data clearly have shown that introduction of multiple simultaneous expiring offers would result in more efficient placement of kidneys and this would decrease our cold ischemia time. 2:00:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: So if you take UNOS's organ center, they have a very rigid system, for example, for finding flights and lack either an ability or interest in thinking outside the box. So, for example, if there are no direct flights from California to Birmingham, Alabama, instead of looking for a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta, understanding that a courier could then pick it up in Atlanta and drive it the two hours, they'll instead put on a flight from SFO to Atlanta and allow it to go to cargo hold overnight, where it literally is rotting, if you will, and we're putting extra time on it. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Just to make sure everybody gets this. You're saying you've seen instances of something being put in cargo hold when it is very likely to rot? Dr. Jayme Locke: That is correct. So if the kidney arrives after 10pm at the Atlanta airport, it goes to cargo hold. We discovered that and made calls to the airlines ourselves and after several calls to the airlines, of course they were mortified, not understanding that that was what was happening and actually had their manager meet our courier and we were able to get the kidney out of cargo hold, but this went on before we figured out what was happening because essentially they fly it in, it sits in cargo hold, it comes out the next morning to catch the next flight. Instead of thinking outside the box: if we just get it to Atlanta, it's drivable to Birmingham. And those hours make a difference. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): That sounds way too logical for what UNOS has been up to. 2:03:05 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Miss Brockmeier, UNOS has developed this organ tracking system. Do you all use it? I'm curious what you think of it. Diane Brockmeier: Thank you for the question, Senator. We did use and participate in the beta pilot through UNOS and made the decision to not move forward using their product, and have sought a commercial alternative. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): And why was that? Diane Brockmeier: Part of the issues were some service related issues, the lack of the interconnectivity that we wanted to be able to facilitate a more expedited visual tracking of where the organ was. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Was the tracking technology low quality? Diane Brockmeier: Yes, sir. 2:11:25 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): All right, let's talk for a moment about the boards that are supposed to be overseeing these, because it looks to me like there's a serious conflict of interest here and I'll send this to Ms. Brockmeier, and perhaps you'd like to get to it as well, Mr. Friedman. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which is the formal title of the organ network that operates under federal contract administered by HHS, and UNOS, which is the contractor that operates the network and controls information about the network, have the same boards of directors, despite efforts by the government to separate them. That means the people who look out for the best interests of UNOS, the multimillion dollar nonprofit, are the same people who look out for the interests of the entire organ transplant network. Sure sounds like a conflict to me. 2:12:55 Diane Brockmeier: I think there should be an independent board. I think the division of the responsibilities of the board and by the inherent way that they're structured, do pose conflicts. It would be like if you had an organization that was a supporting organization, you'd want to hold it accountable for its performance. And the current structure really limits that opportunity. 2:19:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: And if you think about IT, something as simple as having a system where we can more easily put in unacceptable antigens, this was a debate for many years. So for context, we list unacceptable antigens in the system that allows us to better match kidneys so that when someone comes up on the match run, we have a high probability that there'll be a good tissue match. Well, that took forever and we couldn't really get our unacceptable antigens in, so routinely people get offered kidneys that aren't going to be a match, and you have to get through all of those before you can get to the person that they really should go to. Those are simple examples. But if we could really have transparency and accountability around those kinds of things, we could save more lives. 2:23:10 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd told Senator Warren that only 10% of UNOS funds come from taxpayer money and the rest comes from fees paid by transplant centers who add patients to the list. But the fact is, Medicare is the largest payer of the fees, for example, for kidneys. So we're talking about inefficiency, inefficiency that puts patients at risk. And certainly, taxpayer dollars are used to cover some of these practices. May 4, 2021 House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Witnesses: Tonya Ingram, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Dr. Dara Kass, Living Donor and Mother of Transplant Recipient LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Steve Miller, CEO, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Joe Ferreira, President, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Matt Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Dr. Seth Karp, Director, Vanderbilt Transplant Center Donna Cryer, President and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 5:15 Tonya Ingram: The Organ Procurement Organization that serves Los Angeles, where I live, is failing according to the federal government. In fact, it's one of the worst in the country. One analysis showed it only recovered 31% of potential organ donors. Audits in previous years found that LA's OPO has misspent taxpayer dollars on retreats to five star hotels and Rose Bowl tickets. The CEO makes more than $900,000. Even still, the LA OPO has not lost its government contract and it has five more years to go. 30:00 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Unusual among Medicare programs, their costs are 100% reimbursed, even costs unrelated to care. So, extravagant executive compensation and luxury perks may be passed off onto the taxpayer. 46:55 Dr. Seth Karp: We have 10 hours to get a liver from the donor to the recipient, and about one hour to sew it in. For heart, we have about six hours. Time matters. 47:55 Dr. Seth Karp: Last year, I had the opportunity to co-write a viewpoint in one of the journals of the American Medical Association with TJ Patel, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States. In that article, we provided evidence that the metrics used to judge the performance of organ procurement organizations are basically useless. Until the recent OPO Final Rule, performance was self-reported, and OPO employees admitted to having gamed the system. When threatened with decertification, one of the OPOs themselves successfully argued that because the performance data were self reported and unaudited, they failed to meet a reasonable standard and the OPO should not be held accountable. In other words for decades, the metrics supposed to measure performance didn't measure performance, and the results have been disastrous, as you have heard. 49:45 Dr. Seth Karp: Whenever I, and quite frankly most everyone else in the field, gives a talk on transplantation, we usually make two points. The first is that organ transplantation is a miracle of modern medicine. The second is the tragedy that there are not enough organs for everyone who needs one. I no longer use the second point, because I don't believe it. Based on my work, I believe that there are enough organs for patients who require hearts, lungs, and probably livers, and we can make a huge improvement in the number of kidneys available. In addition to improving OPO performance, new technologies already exist to dramatically increase the organ supply. We need a structure to drive rapid improvement in our system. 54:00 Joe Ferreira: One common misconception is that OPOs are solely responsible for the entire donation and transplantation system, when, in fact, OPOs are the intermediary entity and their success is highly dependent on collaborations with hospitals and transplant programs. At the start of the donation process, hospitals are responsible for notifying any OPO in a timely manner when a patient is on a ventilator and meets medical criteria to be an organ donor. Additionally, transplant centers must make the decision whether to accept or decline the organs offered by OPOs. 57:55 Matt Wadsworth: As geographic monopolies, OPOs are not subject to any competitive pressure to provide high service. As the only major program in all of health care 100% reimbursed for all costs, we do not face financial pressures to allocate resources intelligently. 1:02:10 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, I'd like to turn to you. You run the OPO called the Nevada Donor Network. I have your OPO's 2019 financial statement filed with the CMS. It appears that your OPO spent roughly $6 million in 2019 on administrative and general expenses. Interestingly, in 2019, I see your OPO spent approximately $146,000 on travel meetings and seminars alone. And your itemization of Administrative and General has an interesting line item for $576,000 for "ANG". It took me a minute but that means you have an "Administrative and General" subcategory in your "Administrative and General" category. Very vague. Now Mr. Ferreira, I was informed by Mr. Wadsworth, a former executive of yours at the Nevada Donor Network, that your OPO has season tickets to the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights, isn't that correct? Joe Ferreira: That is correct, Mr. Chairman. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And you also have season tickets to the Las Vegas Raiders too, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And according to Mr. Wadsworth and others, your OPO took a board retreat to Napa Valley in 2018. Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And Sonoma in 2019, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, what you're spending on the Raiders, the Golden Knights, Napa Valley and Sonoma have one thing in common: they have nothing to do with recovering organs. 1:10:30 Dr. Seth Karp: In 2019, there were six heart transplants that were performed using donors after circulatory determination of death. And I don't want to get into the technical aspects of that. But in 2019, that number was six. In 2020, that number was 126. This is a new technology. This is a way that we can increase the number of heart transplants done in United States dramatically. And if we think that there were 500 patients in the United States waiting for a heart in 2020, 500 patients that either died or were delisted because they were too sick, and you think in one year, using a technology, we got another 100 transplants, if we could get another 500 transplants out of that technology, we could almost eliminate deaths on the on the heart transplant waiting list. That technology exists. It exists today. But we don't have a mechanism for getting it out to everybody that could use it and it's going to run itself through the system, it's going to take too much time. 1:24:05 Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): You know, I'm a little disappointed that we're discussing race as a factor in organ transplant. We're all one race in my opinion; color makes no difference to me. We're the human race. And to me, the interjection of race into this discussion is very concerning. Discrimination based on race was outlawed almost 60 years ago through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, and I have very little knowledge of medicine. But last year, there was an article that came out in LifeSource and it says, "Does my race and ethnicity matter in organ donation?" And so my question here is for Dr. Karp. In your experience, would you agree that a donor's organs are more likely to be a clinical match for a recipient of the same ethnicity? Could you comment on that? Is that actually a factor, or not? I mean, we're all human beings, we all, you know, have similar bodies. Dr. Seth Karp: Yes. So there definitely are certain HLA types that are more common. That is race-based. So the answer to that question is yes. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. And so if you have more of one particular race, more donations of one particular race, then naturally you would have more actual matches of that particular race. Is that correct? Dr. Seth Karp: That would tend to be the case. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. All right. Okay, that's just a question that I wanted to clear up here. 1:34:20 Donna Cryer: We'd like to see investments in languages that are spoken by the community. Educational resources should be, as required by law, for those with limited English proficiency. They should be in the languages spoken by the community. They should be hiring diverse staff to have those most crucial conversations with families. The data shows, and certainly experience and common sense shows as well, that having people of color approaching families of color results in more donations. Executive Producer Recommended Sources Music by Editing Production Assistance

If this short episode with Judi Miller resonates with you, you'd love the full-length episode on Healing Inherited Trauma from Ancestors, Forgiveness Recipe, Past Life Connections, 90 Seconds Rule, Reflections to Open Your Heart, and Much More (#128). Here are the links. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nyqq4hQNEA0qOy1yb4Xpt?si=_2zjvsZjSeywkEVBozsAIw&nd=1 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/128-judi-miller-healing-inherited-trauma-from-ancestors/id1493888698?i=1000506155505 Show notes: https://nishantgarg.me/2021/01/22/judi-miller/ Podcast survey form: https://forms.gle/dt5BoVNJMSM2oDoc8. If you haven't already filled out the form, please Let me know your "likes", "dislikes", and everything in between so that we can make sure to serve you at the highest level possible. And, for your time, I'd love to buy you a cup of coffee/tea/Kombucha Connect with Nishant: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter

Follow along with message notes at https://www.westsidecommunitychurch.com/notes-resourcesJoin us as Gabe Kolstad brings us a sermon about Two Simple Steps to a Better Life.#betterlife #simplesteps #applicableadvice #advicefromthebible #secrettosuccess #community #importance #significance #sermon #worship #westside #church #2023sermon #churchonline #gabekolstad

Kristen Tomlinson is an experienced grief counselor and advocate for families who choose to honor their loved ones through the gift of life. Kristen is the Director of Grief Support services at Taylor's Gift and the Caring Guide and Kindred Hearts Coordinator for Taylor's Gift Foundation and Youturn Health. She joins Liz on the podcast to talk about her passion for helping donor families move through the complicated grief of losing their loved ones while having the unique opportunity to save someone's life.There are over 100,000 individuals waiting for an organ donation in this country. Having a conversation about organ donation with a loved one not only gives the gift of life to the recipient but can help ease the process of donation. Organ donation creates a mix of emotions from grieving your loved one to gratitude that their organs will save lives.Having gone through this painful process of losing their daughter Taylor in a ski accident, Todd and Tara Storch decided to embark on a mission to provide support tailored to donor families. Their non-profit, Taylor's Gift, was created to make sure that no donor family walks through the donor process alone. Through the Kindred Hearts Program, they provide a personal Caring Guide as well as access to support groups with trained facilitators who have experienced similar pain and trauma. In 2016, Kristen started her donation career at Community Tissue Services in the Donor Referral Center taking incoming referrals and approaching families. She then worked her way up to Supervisor of the department and helped with process improvements and staff support. She also spent time working for Life Connection of Ohio, the OPO servicing Dayton and Toledo, as the first Family Services Coordinator where she was able to help build the program and serve donor families in her hometown. Prior to joining Taylor's Gift Foundation, Kristen was the Donor Center Quality Control Coordinator for Miracles in Sight, the Eye Bank working in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Austin, Texas. Kristen has also served as a Caring Guide and Kindred Hearts Coordinator for Taylor's Gift Foundation and YouTurn Health. Kristen's passion for family support began at the tender age of 17 years old when she sat by the bedside of a dear friend who died of cancer and became a cornea donor. Kristen would drive 60 miles one-way to be with her friend and his family, offering support during such a hard time; This experience was the catalyst that led her to this career path. Most recently, the loss of her beloved grandfather at the height of COVID fueled Kristen's passion to ensure no family should suffer alone. In her free time, Kristen loves to read, write, travel, and spend time with her family and friends. She is married to her best friend, Tory, with whom she shares two beautiful children.https://www.taylorsgift.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-tomlinson/https://www.organdonor.gov/https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/

Let's delve deeper than the traditional realm of dream work, and let's start talking about working with our nightmares. Today I'm joined once again by the wonderful Andrea Morrison of Dream Life Connection, and we're not sugar coating it: even your scariest dreams have a message for you, and it's probably not as sinister as you may think. Make sure you're enrolled in That Witch School to get access to this month's Intuition Strength Training—a guest workshop hosted by Andrea to help you learn to interpret your dreams through your unique intuitive language.Listen to our previous episode for concrete, practical tips and techniques for starting your dream work practice!Follow and connect with Andrea:Instagram: @dreamlifeconnectionWebsite: dreamlifeconnection.com—Subscribe to my email list for the Cosmic Quickie and That Witch Gazette for weekly insight, pictures of our Moonday card readings, and all Neighborhood updates!***********************************************Join me in The Neighborhood:YouTube: That Witch Next DoorInstagram: @thatwitch.nextdoorTikTok: @thatwitch.nextdoorPinterest: @thatwitchdaniContact: thatwitchnextdoor.com/conjurethatwitch

Michael, Adrienne, and Lawrence discuss the powerful relationships with those we are connected with.  We will take your call to answer your questions about past life relationships. Join Michael, Adrienne, and Lawrence as they ascend to the astral planes to consult with Divine Guides to help bring you answers and clarity to your situations. To schedule, a private reading with Lawrence, Adrienne, or Michael contact them directly- their information is below. All information from the hosts and or guests is for entertainment purposes only.  Please consult a professional. Michael Espinoza Certified Pranic Healer, Clairvoyant, Medium www.michaeljespinoza.com Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mjespinoza/   Adrienne Stratton Ravenmessages.com (714) 376-7289 adrienne@ravenmessages.com   Lawrence Birch  Shamanic Practitioner, Herbalist 541-344-7534 givingtree@earthlink.net Facebook: GivingTreeFarmHerb www.givingtreefarm.com

March Madness takes center state in a couple of weeks....but April is Donate Life Month. A special cause to the University of Toledo, and in particular to the Men's Basketball Team. One donor has the power to save the life of up to 8 people through organ donation, and hundreds more through tissue donation. Life Connection of Ohio Director of Community Services Kara Steele gives some details as joins Brent Balbinot on this edition of The Rocket Liftoff Podcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How does the Tree of Life connect us to the Earth Mother, The Universe, the Cosmos, to one another? (My apologies: the background music was way too loud..,..hope you can still get something out of this episode). Click here to check out and subscribe to our blog! --- 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/magick-and-medicine/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/magick-and-medicine/support

What if the root cause of your self-sabotage in this lifetime, is actually from a past life? Journey with Katische as she visits the Akashic Records and discovers the lifetime where she learnt to punish herself. Podcast Overview:Welcome to the Infinite Life Podcast. I'm your host Katische Haberfield. I am an Intuitive Sound Healer and Incarnation Guide and every Monday morning you can tune in on your favourite podcast player to listen to a new episode. This FREE podcast will provide a combination of solo and guest episodes around the theme of the infinite nature of human life. For you are a spiritual being in a human body who has never died, just changed costumes from life to life in order to have experiences that helps their soul grow and expand. This podcast is for you if you wish to make sense of your life, by understanding your past, present and future incarnations. My hope is that this podcast helps you weave together the strands from all lifetimes so that you can make peace with your journey and understand that you are a perfect expression of your soul in this moment, in this incarnation. Get involved with the podcast!I'd love you to be involved in this conversation, as we look at many different perspectives and learn together along the way. It's not a one-way conversation, you can be involved by asking questions and sharing your stories on the podcast voice recorded at https://katische.com/the-infinite-life-podcast/podcast-recorder (https://katische.com/the-infinite-life-podcast/podcast-recorder) o

Have you ever lost someone in your life and wanted to talk to them again? Listen in as we discuss what intuitive work, past lives and climate change.Tracy's life has been anything but “traditional” but what she has learned is how to blend her intuitive gifts with practical business know-how to create a successful business and lifestyle.  Today She is your after-life connection specialist and intuitive. Tracy connects deceased loved ones with friends and family to achieve peace and closure.Besides talking to disincarnate, Tracy is an extremely well-trained intuitive. What does that mean? As one of the CEO's she works with said, “Tracy is the Serena Williams of trusting your gut,” a highly trained and finely maintained intuitive athlete.  Her goal is to let everyone in on a secret they didn't teach you in school; the power of utilizing their intuition (everyone has it) to assist with creating their most inspired, desired, successful business & life.  Tracy is often approached by high-growth companies, that are consistently named on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America. In industries ranging from a healthcare systems; High end med-spa, professionals in the entertainment industry, and the kicker.. psychologist and law enforcement agencies contact her often.  Her desire to assist everyone to tap into their intuition inspired her first book; 7 tips & tricks to enhance your intuition-A practical guide to knowing, loving and trusting your intuition. Which went to #10 bestselling on Amazon.  Tracy's leadership lead her to start Ignite Your Magic 2020. An online event where she hosted 12 experts in metaphysics, ranging from astrology to mediumship to further educate and inspire the public to explore alternative knowledge.  Join the Level Up With Liv Facebook Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/890593678214515Email - olivia@oliviatmcook.comInstagram -https://www.instagram.com/coach_liv/Free 20 Minute Strategy Session - https://calendly.com/oliviatmcookcoaching/strategy-session

What's for dinner?   Did this question fill you with dread, fatigue, or perhaps annoyance? Despite living for however long you've lived, for some reason determining what to eat for dinner always is an uphill battle, when it should be simple in theory.    Nowadays, raising a family is a whole entire job including the work you already do outside of the home. This stress of determining what to eat for dinner -or just planning meals, in general, can bring upon a lot of disruption and anxiety.    In today's episode, I am talking to Jennifer, a mother and professional meal planner, who has dedicated her life to helping people navigate fatigue, meal planning, and bringing peace around mealtime.    During our conversation, Jennifer speaks on why time around the table is an investment you need to make. She shares how she has managed to build this connection with her own family, and how you can do the same at home, questions you can ask to spur meaningful conversation during dinner time, and how to plan a meal from start to finish.    In this episode, we cover: Jennifer shares more about her specialty in meal planning [6:04] The connection between the table and food, why does it matter? [8:23] Jennifer shares how she has created that connection at the dinner table with her family [13:24] What is Table Talk and what does that look like at mealtime? [18:25] How to come up with a meal plan for the week [22:22]   Connect with Jennifer:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifersise/   Website: https://jennifersise.squarespace.com/   Free meal planning & grocery list templates: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60807d9197996ed306f35a3e    Connect with Amber: IG: @coachamberb Website: https://www.coachamberb.com >>> This episode is sponsored by The Momentum Restart, a fail-proof system created by me to keep you accountable to your goals and feeling your best. If you keep hitting that same wall again and again, you don't need a new health program you just need to add a momentum restart.. Learn more at https://www.coachamberb.com/restart 

When we talk about all the interconnections we have with our home, head, and health... Heather and Ashley really mean it!  And with the help of coaches and therapists we have experienced it even more personally this summer and we're happy to share some of our stories with you!   Everything is connected through mindset and we want to teach you some of the best tools we've learned and teach others daily.  Thanks for subscribing so we can share our tools, and those of our guests, every week.  

This a good one Peaches!! We talk about connection, purpose, getting out of your comfort zone, living the life you want to live and how to have the courage to do so. Nidala Barker is a singer song writer, teacher, activist and a truly inspirational kick ass human being. We dive into her journey and how she got to where she is today. SHOW NOTES: Let's Talk, Peaches IG: @letstalk_peaches Website: www.letstalkpeaches.com Nidala Barker IG: @nini.barker Facebook: HERE Website: HERE Listen to Colours of My People EP on Spotify or purchase as a pay starting from $7 on Bandcamp

In this episode of Rebel Spirit Radio, I speak with Stéphane Allix, founder of the Research Institute of Extraordinary Experiences in France and author of "When I Was Someone Else: The Incredible True Story of Past Life Connection." Stéphane discusses his journey from a war correspondent and reporter to researching the science of consciousness. He discusses his book which tells the amazing, true story of an investigation prompted by a waking dream he had while on a spiritual retreat in Peru that would eventually reveal a past life connection with a German soldier. When I Was Someone Else https://www.innertraditions.com/books/when-i-was-someone-else #InnerTraditions Publishing https://bookshop.org/books/when-i-was-someone-else-the-incredible-true-story-of-past-life-connection/9781644110805 https://www.amazon.com/When-Was-Someone-Else-Incredible/dp/1644110806/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=when+I+was+someone+else&qid=1629352050&sr=8-1 https://windbridgeinstitute.com/ Support Rebel Spirit Radio https://paypal.me/rebelspiritradio

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Crystals are relatively new to me. I've known of them for a while but the concept that they bestow energies or frequencies that can enhance states can sound a little bit "woo woo" The recorded use of crystals dates back over 5,000 years. Shamans, Chinese texts on traditional medicine, Ayurvedic text from India and the bible has over 200 references on the healing powers of crystals. Today I speak with @Paola.Ranova who has an amazing story of how she discovered crystals and literally took a u-turn from her highly respectable university professor career to pursue a life using crystals and sharing its universal extraordinary powers. On her website she says: I'm a PhD, writer, energy medicine practitioner and the creator of the Cardinal Method of Life Connection. "Born and raised in Brazil, I became an academic because I've always been passionate about the wonders of human nature, consciousness, self-development and the soul. To fully pursue my passion for human nature, I studied and researched many cultures, ancient wisdom, and contemporary knowledge about who we are as human beings, and what is our purpose" If you are into higher consciousness, energy healing and everything beyond the natural realm then this is for you. This podcast was sponsored by: https://www.redlightrising.co.uk - Discount code:SNIPES5% for 5% off https://wyckednaturals.com/roger-snipes Discount code: SNIPES15 https://www.paolaranova.com Paola referenced this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfhYYrNc84o for The 3 principles of the soul

How do you balance work and home? Should they be separate, or are they the same? Chad and special guest Amy explore this concept and more in today's episode!

Tony talks with author Stephane Allix about his book, "When I Was Someone Else: The Incredible True Story of Past Life Connection." This book details the author’s vivid waking vision of a dying German soldier in World War II and how he discovered the soldier was a real person, including his research into German military archives and meeting the man’s surviving family members; explores synchronicities, reincarnation, and communication across the veil between life and death; and reveals how the author helped the dead soldier find forgiveness and healing. https://www.amazon.com/When-Was-Someo...​Please Subscribe and Share This Show! We appreciate your support!!! www.truthbetoldworldwide.com

One way to improve our work life balance and is to align all areas of our life. We can improve our leadership skills, confidence and mindset by applying life lessons from parenting, personal relationships and volunteer roles. https://lnkd.in/gG5YAWx to join my free work life connection workshop to learn how.

Part A) In Search of the Master Section 1) Meeting Swami Rama - My Gurudev, My Master Chapter 6) My Past Life Connection With Gurudev

Veronica Grant Love & Life Coach whose focus is to help women heal wounds and shift unhealthy patterns in love. IG @veronicaegrant https://veronicagrant.com/ Free Quiz - Whats Blocking You in Love Free Workshop - The 5-Step Strategy To Banish Anxiety and Overwhelm in Your Love Life Join her for - Crappy to Happy is a two week self-study, e-course so you can quickly discover your love blocks and clear them, without having to spend years in therapy. Host of The Love Life Connection Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-life-connection/id1077479098 I first met her when I took her Free Date Yourself Challenge and then joined her Love Action Tribe Facebook Group , also did her Get Over Your Ex Challenge Most people were focused on finding love with a partner, but I was still working on the self love and finding myself part. She was my first business coach and will always remain dear to my heart. Veronica uses Inner Child work with her clients, which can be so valuable at helping them recognize deep seated beliefs and wounds that need to be faced and healed for us to move forward with our grown selves. I have asked her here today to share her wisdom on this topic as it is something a lot of people may have heard of but not really truly understand. Done is better than perfect! --- 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/kristina-welsome/message

Episode 165 COVID 19 Survivor Story:Interview Matt Newey  Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Over the past month I’ve listened to a number of podcast hosts hop on and talk about their take regarding COVID 19 and the Coronavirus. I’m almost sick of hearing about it, but one thing I haven’t heard is a real first-hand account of having the virus. So….today that’s what I’m bringing to you. Stay tuned for my interview with Matt Newey, a 23 year old outdoor photographer/video from Centerville, UT. Who, on March 19th, was Utah’s 78th confirmed Covid-19 case.    Matt Newey most likely contracted the virus while on a ski trip to Colorado with four friends.  This is Matt’s Covid-19 story. First - let’s make Matt a real person. Here’s a little about him. Matt is a 23 year old outdoor photographer, videographer and adventurer. From the time Matt got his first Gopro camera at the age of 10 he has been videoing himself ever since doing ski backflips, rock climbing and searching for the perfect landscape photo. In high school shooting one of his many time lapse shots of the Great Salt Lake he realized his mission is to “chase sunsets for a living.” He further realized that this is his passion when he went off at 18 on an 8 day solo trip taking pictures on southern Utah. He’s a skier, a son, a brother, and an all around good kid who survived. Tune into the audio program to hear Matt tell his own story. To find Matt: Instagram: @mattcnewey  https://www.instagram.com/mattcnewey/ (https://www.instagram.com/mattcnewey/) YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Vd7tpRbas48 (https://youtu.be/Vd7tpRbas48) Website:  https://mattcnewey.com/work (https://mattcnewey.com/work) Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/666837390339248/posts/1063467160676267/?vh=e&d=n (https://www.facebook.com/666837390339248/posts/1063467160676267/?vh=e&d=n) Lots of stories are being written right now. People who are getting COVID 19, people who are fighting it on the front lines, people who are terrified and living as such, people who are creating some wonderful family/home time during social distancing and quarantine. Personally I feel like this very odd time for us holds a basket of opportunities. Family time. Time to take stock of our preparedness. Time to focus on home and loved ones. Time to slow down. Time, like Matt has illustrated, where you are on the front lines and you have a story to share in order to help others better understand what is going on. I encourage all of us to turn to love, community, family and sharing to get the most beauty and positive outcome from a time in history that also holds the potential for loss and suffering. Each day write beautiful things into your story. Small and simple things that feel better than fear.  Also - it’s a great time for families to hop on Amazon and buy my book - LIFE - Living Intentional and Fearless Everyday - the 21 LIFE Connection challenges. I’ve gotten lots of reports of families who are doing the challenges together and making the most of their social distancing time while practicing fun life skills together. See you in two weeks on the next episode of the LYS podcast.

Do you find yourself always keeping track of your Instagram likes and followers?   Or does it take you so much time editing or polishing before you put anything out on the internet?   How do you feel about being inundated with noise from promotions or bombarded by edited images and highlight reels?    All this could leave you feeling starved for real-life, legitimate, caring connections.   Today, I talk about how you can make your digital communication more authentic. I also discuss traditional modes you can re-implement in your business so you can satisfy your very real need for connection while still getting the job done.    With the spread of coronavirus, it gives this topic an entirely new meaning.    How can we find and experience real-life connections when we're restricted and now literally quarantined to our screens, working from home all day?   You can't take for granted your authentic relationships. This time teaches us to cherish our time with people in the flesh and to do our best to create more authentic connections online.    In this episode, you will hear: Why you should consider in-person Zoom meetings over messaging on Slack How you’re actually creating your own 9x6 prison cell How to get creative and personal with your touchpoints Other ways to create authentic, meaningful connections   Subscribe and Review Have you subscribed to my podcast? If the answer is no, I’d love for you to subscribe. Diary of a Doer is full of stories of business, some behind the scenes, and freaking amazing guests.   If you’re feeling really generous, I’d love for you to give me a review over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps me out a ton!   If you really enjoyed this episode, we've created a PDF that has all of the key information for you from the episode. Just go to the episode page at https://trivinia.com​ to download it.   Supporting Resources: For more information about remote work and support during this pandemic, check out PriorityVA.com/coronavirus. How Your Story Sets You Free by Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen What the Right EA Can Do For You: Behind the Scenes with our Client Lauren Pawell (Episode 57) Executives and Their Assistants: a behind the scenes look with my EA (Episode 41) Motivation for a Distributed Team: Getting The Best From Your Remote Workers (Episode 22) How to Be Funny & Be an Effective Leader; A Conversation with Bill Stainton (Episode 23) 5 Ways to Avoid Burnout (Episode 05)     *** Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com

Episode 109 I want to give a shoutout to my friend Joe from Orlando Florida. Who's doing intermittent fasting for some time now feels good to know he's in charge and in control of his life. Share with me by email

This is an extra special episode about fifth dimensional healing. In fact, it's so special that I decided to do something I've never done before, which is to release this podcast episode on a Saturday. I couldn't keep it quiet, and I can't wait to share this with you. As you've probably heard if you've been following me lately, I'll be speaking at the Women's Health Matters event coming up on May 25th (You can still get your live or online tickets at TheSoulFrequency.com/HealingEvent), and it was my friend Kimberly Meredith that invited me. I've been lucky enough to be in the same room as Kimberly as she lets her gift shine, and I'm telling you: This is some next-level healing. The energy shift is palpable. Touchable. It's high vibration. DOWNLOAD MIRACLE MEDITATION NOW! Kimberly Meredith is known around the world for her work in psychic surgery and trance channeling. She's a medical intuitive and hands-on healer, and she's spoken all over the world! Her life is devoted to fifth-dimensional healing, and she has removed tumors, restored healing, healed cancer, and given movement to immobility. Dr. Norm Shealy, Founder of the American Holistic Medical Association (and neurosurgeon with over 35 years of experience), performed some testing with Kimberly, and the results were profound. He actually recorded her ability to heal—even through walls! Additionally, Kimberly has been featured in many publication. Those include Thrive Global, New York Daily News, Life magazine, Whole Life Times magazine, as well as the front covers of Awareness magazine, and the Life Connection magazine. In this episode, Kimberly and I have a conversation about energy healing, and our upcoming Women's Health Matters event. Click that play button to hear this episode of the Soul Frequency Podcast. . In This Podcast Episode We Talk About... How Kimberly's car accident catapulted her into a journey of healing other people Channeling messages from the divine through the blinking of Kimberly's eyes! What is trance channeling—and what exactly is fifth dimensional healing Reawakening to your spiritual gifts—what does it feel like? Experiencing kundalini every day, everywhere you go The influence of negative energy on our health . Resources for you: Find out more about Kimberly Meredith's psychic healing work at TheHealingTrilogy.com Join Meredith and me live at Women's Health Matters on May 25th (or watch the live stream) by signing up at TheSoulFrequency.com/HealingEvent. Order The Soul Frequency by Shanna Lee at TheSoulFrequency.com/Book, and get your book bonus gifts at TheSoulFrequencyBook.com. Join The Soul Frequency VIP Tribe on Facebook. LISTEN TO MORE SOUL FREQUENCY SHOWS! Send me your questions and show topic requests to info@thesoulfrequency.com.  Follow me on Facebook and on Instagram. WANT TO SHARE THE SHOW? –  share this show through iTunes and many other podcast directories. WANT TO LEAVE US A REVIEW? – leave us a review in iTunes!  I would love to hear from you!! As always, my hope for you is that you love big and live abundantly! xo

Connection is the next pillar in the Side Hustle Wheel of Life. Building a regular habit around connecting with others is not just good for your business, it's good for you!

In this episode, Orrin looks at the Golden Rule, and how it applies to us as Christians.

Patrick Dougher is the Creator of Strength Based Leadership, a program that aligns you purpose, passion and profession to maximize your impact in your world. He is a National award winning Speaker, Author and Coach. In this final Interview episode with Patrick Dougher, Patrick talks about the last of the four stepping stones to success and activation of your destiny. “No one can offend you without your permission!”

Patrick Dougher is the Creator of Strength Based Leadership, a program that aligns you purpose, passion and profession to maximize your impact in your world. He is a National award winning Speaker, Author and Coach.  Today, Patrick shares a story that created a limiting belief in his life. In order for him to experience true success, this belief had to be confronted by truth.

Patrick Dougher is the Creator of Strength Based Leadership, a program that aligns you purpose, passion and profession to maximize your impact in your world. He is a National award winning Speaker, Author and Coach.  In this episode, Patrick talks about foundation stone two. “Hot button’s sow seeds of self doubt.”

Patrick Dougher is the Creator of Strength Based Leadership, a program that aligns you purpose, passion and profession to maximize your impact in your world. He is a National award winning Speaker, Author and Coach. Patrick introduces us to the first of his four foundation stones that he teaches leaders and people across the United States on how activate their destiny. “What you believe about yourself is all made up and you are the author.”

Award Winning Speaker, TV Host of the popular, “Business Spotlight” and Leadership Coach, Patrick Dougher speaks to Orrin about his mission and passion to see people get activated into their destiny.

In the 2nd part of Mike Jarrell’s interview, Mike shares with us why he has persevered even when things look impossible.

In this of a two part interview, Orrin speaks to a man who’s wife was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 47. His story is one of faith, hope and love and will encourage and challenge you.

In this Episode, Orrin Rudolph becomes transparent about an issue that he struggles with, and how the Holy Spirit works with us in our weaknesses.

Orrin goes through the final five principles that were gleaned from Chad’s interview.

Orrin Rudolph talks about 5 principles that stood out in the interview with Cancer survivor, Chad Burnette.

(FYI: for some reason the last 12 minutes of this show was cut off, very sorry).  Past Life connection & discovery part II, Tonight's Friday Night Spiritual Night episode of Relax, Let Go, Be with Charles is a continuation of a most amazing journey to the center of soul consciousness. Tonight's show is part two, you will discover easy ways to connect yourself as often as you desire to explore your soul and soul experiences.  Tonight's show will spotlight The Rope of Time method of past life/other life exploration.  Discover more about the experiences of your soul and the way you experience this life, love, connections and fears, that maybe connected to early times in this lifetimes and beyond! A most awesome and awareness creating guided meditation will be part of this show! Listen live and join the conversation by calling 646-721-9527 while the show is live. Link to Elissabeth's music and new cd  “Passage” : heartsoundsbyelissabeth.com Our Facebook page : www.facebook.com/RelaxLetGoBe Email Charles:  relaxletgobe@gmail.com

Past Life connection & discovery part I. Tonight's Relax, Let Go, Be with Charles is a most amazing journey to the center of soul consciousness. Discover your souls experiences, other lifetimes, experiences, and connections. Charles will offer a deep guided meditation for you to experience your soul consciousness and a beautiful, spiritual adventure into your souls past/other lives and ways of being. Tonight's show is part one, you will discover easy ways to connect yourself as often as you desire to explore your soul and soul experiences.  Tonight's show will spotlight The River of Time method of past life/other life exploration. Listen live and join the conversation by calling 646-721-9527 while the show is live. Link to Elissabeth's music and new cd  “Passage” : heartsoundsbyelissabeth.com Our Facebook page : www.facebook.com/RelaxLetGoBe Email Charles: relaxletgobe@gmail.com