Podcasts about Lincoln Hospital

In this episode, Lewis W. Marshall Jr., MS, MBA, MD, JD, FACP, FACHE, CPHQ - Chief Medical Officer; Affiliate Dean; Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine at Lincoln Hospital, shares groundbreaking initiatives transforming care for underserved communities in the South Bronx. From mobile health outreach to integrating dental care in the emergency department, Dr. Marshall highlights his team's innovative solutions, plans for advancing high reliability, and his approach to cultivating leadership and mentorship within the organization.

A group of teenagers and college kids were fed up with the lousy healthcare in their New York neighborhood. So they came together as a group, calling themselves the Young Lords, and fought the system head on — a fight that still resonates today. Sid Davidoff, Mickey Melendez, and Cleo Silvers share their story. [REBROADCAST] Check out the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsProtestersWon  In this episode, we cover: (00:00) David vs. Goliath (05:01) The garbage offensive (10:20) Taking on lead paint and hunger (13:54) The tuberculosis offensive (17:08) The fight for Lincoln Hospital (28:39) The aftermath of the takeover  This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Rose Rimler, Meryl Horn, Michelle Dang and Lexi Krupp. Editing by Caitlin Kenney with help from Jorge Just. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord. The archive for this story came from Pacifica Radio Archive, and the documentaries: El Pueblo Se Levanta, and Palante, Siempre Palante!  A big thanks to Denise Oliver Velez, Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Iris Morales, Walter Bosque Del Rio, Professor Jose R. Sanchez, and Professor Lloyd Novick. An extra thanks to Blythe Terrell, Amanda Aronczyk, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Dr. Lewis Marshall, Chief Medical Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Hospital, shares insights into his background and current priorities. Tune in to learn about the organization's future evolution and impactful changes made by Dr. Marshall and his team.

In this episode, Dr. Lewis Marshall, Chief Medical Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Hospital, shares insights into his background and current priorities. Tune in to learn about the organization's future evolution and impactful changes made by Dr. Marshall and his team.

On July 14, 2070 the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx to demanding better care, improved conditions, and a variety of patient and worker rights for the communities of color. The Young Lords demanded a “People's Hospital,” and advocated for equitable healthcare. Their vision is one of the healthcare models that inspired People's Health Sanctuary. Dr. Xavier Coughlin spoke about their influence to Sina Basila Hickey for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

This episode of Revolutions Per Minute explores the life and legacy of Pablo Yoruba Guzman, who co-founded the New York chapter of the Young Lords, and later became a prominent television reporter on local news channels in the city. We are joined by Mickey Melendez, a fellow Young Lord, to discuss the group's occupations of the First People's Church in Harlem and Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. We will also hear from New York City Council Member Charles Baron, the organizer Denise Oliver-Velez and CUNY scholar Johanna Fernandez on the legacy of the group. 

http://www.nativerootmedicine.com/Raised with her Penobscot culture and Native American spiritual practices, Dr. Jus Crea realized the healing powers of nature at a young age. Rich with ancestral knowledge of healing, medicine, and midwifery, Dr. Jus Crea received a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the University of Bridgeport and a BS in Ethnobotany and Holistic Health from UMass, Amherst. She has also been trained as an auricular acupuncture detox specialist at Lincoln Hospital, WTS therapy for restorative healing as well as Indigenous Midwifery with Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming. Dr. Jus Crea has lectured extensively on healing, ethnobotany, midwifery, naturopathic medicine, environmental medicine, and cultural history and traditions. She was previously an adjunct professor of Nutrition at Springfield College and Pathology at STCC as well as a primary care physician in Brattleboro VT. Dr. Jus Crea has been practicing Naturopathic Family Medicine at The Integrative Health Group in Springfield MA since 2005. She is passionate about cultural healing practices and works towards reclamation of her Wabanaki traditions, spiritual practices, and language.quote for title of episode:

En junio y julio del 2023, estamos transmitiendo una vez más algunos de nuestros episodios más escuchados durante la segunda temporada. Reanudaremos con nuestra tercera temporada en agosto del 2023. Muchas gracias a todos nuestros oyentes por su apoyo y por compartir nuestros episodios de "Pediatras en Línea". “Dentro de la rama de la medicina, los diagnósticos que más frecuentemente veo es el déficit de atención e hiperactividad y el autismo. Ver que los niños están mucho mejor al usar el medicamento, me da una satisfacción muy grande”.  Dra. Nydia Hernández    Según los Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades, el trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH) es uno de los trastornos del neurodesarrollo más frecuente de los niños. Generalmente se diagnostica en la niñez y durar hasta la edad adulta.  Para hablar más sobre el tema, nuestra invitada el día de hoy es la Dra. Nydia Hernández.   La Dra. Nydia Hernández es pediatra de desarrollo y comportamiento. Su rama de la medicina se enfoca en retrasos en los diferentes aspectos del desarrollo en la niñez, habilidades motoras gruesas, motricidad fina, comunicación y el desarrollo socio-emocional.   La Dra. Hernández cursó la carrera de medicina en la Universidad Iberoamérica en la República Dominicana. Realizó su especialidad de Pediatría en el Hospital comunitario Lincoln Hospital y su subespecialidad de desarrollo y comportamiento en Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children´s Hospital of Montefiore en el Bronx, Nueva York.   Instagram: @ladradelosninos - Dra. Nydia Hernandez    ¿Tienes algún comentario sobre este episodio o sugerencias de temas para un futuro podcast? Escríbenos a pediatrasenlinea@childrenscolorado.org.  

Enrollment for my Design Your New Life in Retirement April Group is Open - Learn more __________________________ Sometimes it's a good idea to get back to basics. A good place is start is sleep. That's because better sleep has a myriad of positive benefits. But there are a lot of things these days that can get in the way of better sleep. Dr. Frank Lipman has answers. Dr. Frank Lipman joins us from New York. _________________________ Resolutions not working? Don't give up on your goals. Get on track with a smarter way: Tiny Habits. _________________________ Bio For Dr. Frank Lipman, health is more than just the absence of disease: it is a total state of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing. Dr. Lipman is a widely recognized trailblazer and leader in functional and integrative medicine, and he is a New York Times best-selling author of five books, How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young and Slim for Life, Revive and Total Renewal. After his initial medical training in his native South Africa, Lipman spent 18 months working at clinics in the bush. He became familiar with the local traditional healers, called sangomas, which kindled his interest in non-Western healing modalities In 1984, Lipman immigrated to the United States, where he became the chief medical resident at Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, NY. While there, he became fascinated by the hospital's addiction clinic, which used acupuncture and Chinese medicine making him even more aware of the potential of implementing non-Western medicine to promote holistic wellbeing. He began studying nutrition, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, functional medicine, biofeedback, meditation, and yoga. Lipman founded the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in 1992, where he combines the best of Western medicine and cutting edge nutritional science with age-old healing techniques from the East. As his patient, chef Seamus Mullen, told The New York Times, “If antibiotics are right, he'll try it. If it's an anti-inflammatory diet, he'll do that. He's looking at the body as a system rather than looking at isolated things.” ______________________________ For More on Dr. Frank Lipman Website Better Sleep, Better You: Your No-Stress Guide for Getting the Sleep You Need and the Life You Want The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality _______________________________ Mentioned in this Episode Oura Ring _______________________________ Podcast Episodes You May Like Breaking the Age Code – Dr. Becca Levy Take Charge of Your Well-Being – John La Puma, MD The Mind-Body Connection and The Rabbit Effect – Kelli Harding Tiny Habits Can Lead to Big Changes – BJ Fogg ________________________________ Wise Quotes On What Affects Sleep "It's also important to understand with sleep, it's not only about what you do at night before you go to sleep, it's also about what happens during the day that's going to affect your sleep. And it's important to realize it's one of the important pillars of health.  We talk about diet, exercise, and stress, but sleep is up there. And the last thing I'd like to say, especially with your audience and with our age group, alcohol is not your friend. It's not your friend with anything, but particularly when it comes to sleep. A lot of people drink alcohol because it sort of calms them down and they think it makes them fall asleep, but it really disrupts your sleep." On Melatonin "We've always thought of melatonin as something for sleep. But lately I've been exploring a lot of the research using or seeing melatonin as one of the primary anti-aging hormones. So as we get older, our melatonin levels decrease, and that may be why we find it harder to sleep, but melatonin doesn't just affect your sleep. Melatonin affects your immune system, your heart, it affects  metabolism, sugar control and your weight.

Between the seasonal flu, COVID-19, and the rising number of kids with RSV, it's time to talk about this triple-demic.Today we'll talk about the slight differences between these 3 big illnesses hitting us this winter, what kind of symptoms to look for, and what to expect for the rest of the year's flu season. Our guest for this conversation is Dr. Upma Suneja. Dr. Suneja is a Board-certified Pediatric Physician currently working as a part-time General Pediatrician at USF, Tampa. She graduated from Government Medical College in India after which she moved to the United States to pursue her Residency training in Pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.

Between the seasonal flu, COVID-19, and the rising number of kids with RSV, its time to talk about this triple-demic.Between the seasonal flu, COVID-19, and the rising number of kids with RSV, it's time to talk about this triple-demic.Today we'll talk about the slight differences between these 3 big illnesses hitting us this winter, what kind of symptoms to look for, and what to expect for the rest of the year's flu season. Our guest for this conversation is Dr. Upma Suneja. Dr. Suneja is a Board-certified Pediatric Physician currently working as a part-time General Pediatrician at USF, Tampa. She graduated from Government Medical College in India after which she moved to the United States to pursue her Residency training in Pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is something so common you see it in every hospital—and we have a group of young revolutionaries in the South Bronx to thank for it. In the late 1960s, the Young Lords and the Black Panthers were working hard to challenge the dismal healthcare standards plaguing their community. It was so bad that Lincoln Hospital, the only hospital in the area, was called the Butcher Shop of the Bronx. So, the Young Lords took it over. And in the aftermath of that action, they drafted a document that would re-shape healthcare, giving us permission to advocate for the care we rightfully deserve: the Patients' Bill of Rights. Who were they? Today, the story of The Young Lords. A Sony Music Entertainment and Somethin' Else production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I met Frank in 2018 and taught him and his entire team to meditate. Since then we have stayed close and he has sent many of his patients along to learn.For almost 40 years, Frank has guided people to help them feel healthier, look great, and increase energy and resiliency to better deal with life's stresses.After his initial medical training in South Africa, he spent 18 months working at clinics in the bush. In 1984 he emigrated to the US and became chief medical resident at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. During this time he began studying nutrition, acupuncture, herbal medicine, biofeedback, meditation, and yoga.He founded his own clinic, Eleven Eleven Wellness in 1992. As a leader in Functional Medicine, Frank practices what he calls Good Medicine; a blend of cutting-edge, modern modalities with age-old healing techniques from the East creating, together with the patient, a personal health care plan. This integrative approach takes into account physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing.He is a New York Times best-selling author whose recent books include:Better Sleep, Better You: Your No-Stress Guide for Getting the Sleep You Need and the Life You WantThe New Rules of Aging WellHow To Be Well: The 6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy LifeSo speaking of meditation, here's Frank. Enjoy. Speaking of Meditation is written and produced by Michael Miller, with direction by Jillian Lavender and assistance from Emma Rae.Editing by James Green at Green Podcast Productions.https://www.greenpodcastproductions.com/Original music by Rich Jacques.https://www.richjacques.comGraphics by Elle and Elle.http://www.elleelle.comSpeaking of Meditation… What are you noticing? Who is benefitting? And how are you staying inspired? 

In this episode, host Marc Goldberg interviews Oregon Coast Community College graduate Cameron Vasquez who shares more about his experience in the nursing program at OCCC and now working as a registered nurse at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital. He emphasizes the value of clinical rotations as part of his nursing program and how he views his employment at the hospital as a quality job. This is followed up with engaging conversations with the CEO of Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Dr. Lesley Ogden and OCCC President Dr. Birgitte Ryslinge both reflecting on Cameron's interview and sharing the importance and mutual benefit of the long standing partnership between the college and hospital to support both economic mobility for residents and employer workforce needs in a rural coastal region of the state. 

“Dentro de la rama de la medicina, los diagnósticos que más frecuentemente veo es el déficit de atención e hiperactividad y el autismo. Ver que los niños están mucho mejor al usar el medicamento, me da una satisfacción muy grande”.  Dra. Nydia Hernández    Según los Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades, el trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH) es uno de los trastornos del neurodesarrollo más frecuente de los niños. Generalmente se diagnostica en la niñez y durar hasta la edad adulta.  Para hablar más sobre el tema, nuestra invitada el día de hoy es la Dra. Nydia Hernández.   La Dra. Nydia Hernández es pediatra de desarrollo y comportamiento. Su rama de la medicina se enfoca en retrasos en los diferentes aspectos del desarrollo en la niñez, habilidades motoras gruesas, motricidad fina, comunicación y el desarrollo socio-emocional.   La Dra. Hernández cursó la carrera de medicina en la Universidad Iberoamérica en la República Dominicana. Realizó su especialidad de Pediatría en el Hospital comunitario Lincoln Hospital y su subespecialidad de desarrollo y comportamiento en Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children´s Hospital of Montefiore en el Bronx, Nueva York.   Instagram: @ladradelosninos - Dra. Nydia Hernandez    ¿Tienes algún comentario sobre este episodio o sugerencias de temas para un futuro podcast? Escríbenos a pediatrasenlinea@childrenscolorado.org.  

Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/mutulu-shakur-former-black-liberation-army-member-denied-compassionate-release-despite-terminal-cancer-diagnosisAfter 36 years behind bars as a political prisoner, Mutulu Shakur is on his deathbed. The movement elder, radical healer, and former member of the Black Liberation Army was diagnosed with stage 3 bone marrow cancer in June of this year. Despite qualifying for compassionate release and having been eligible for parole since 2016, prison and federal authorities have refused to grant Shakur his freedom. With time running out, activists gathered at the Department of Justice on the weekend of July 23 to demand Shakur's release. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa reports from the rally to free Mutulu Shakur.Born in Baltimore and raised in Queens, Mutulu Shakur first became politically active in the 1960s as a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement and Republic of New Afrika. In 1970, Shakur helped found the People's Drug Program at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx alongside the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords. As the husband of Afemi Shakur, Mutulu Shakur was the stepfather of Tupac Shakur. He was convicted in 1988 for his role in the prison escape of Assata Shakur, as well as for his part in the 1981 Black Liberation Army robbery of a Brink's armored car in Nanuet, New York, which resulted in the deaths of two police officers and a security guard.Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron GranadinoHelp us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-rtbSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-rtbGet Rattling the Bars updates: https://therealnews.com/up-pod-rtbLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

There are currently (in the USA) 4 generations of available progestins in combination birth control pills. Are these differences clinically relevant, or is it all manufacturer marketing? In this session we will review the chemical nature, biology of, and clinical manifestations of the different progestins. We will set the record straight. (This topic was suggested by an OB/GYN senior resident at Lincoln Hospital, South Bronx… Thank you for listening to our podcast and for the wonderful podcast topic suggestion).

Through the Portal is a podcast from the Social Justice Portal Project, a national collaborative think tank hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago. Each month, grassroots activists and radical scholars will give voice to community struggles, national strategies and sustainable alternatives for the future. The guest speakers, who are also Portal Project participants, explore what it means to walk through the portal of the current moment by centering racial and social justice issues. On this first episode, cohosts Damon Williams of AirGo and Teresa Córdova of UIC's Great Cities Institute talk about Abolition with organizer, law professor, and writer Dean Spade. Dean breaks down how his work connects with larger movements for abolition, the ways that the legal system disrupts social movements toward liberation, and how to wrestle with grief collectively in this painful time. SHOW NOTES Learn more about the Portal Project: https://sjiportalproject.com/ PREA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003 Black and Pink: https://www.blackandpink.org/ Oakland Power Projects: https://oaklandpowerprojects.org/ Young Lords and Lincoln Hospital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk

Health coaches are a great asset to doctors even if they're not licensed practitioners. Dr. Frank Lipman sheds light on the benefits of working with a health coach and where the future of medicine is heading with wearables.  In this episode, Cathy and Dr. Frank discuss:  What sparked Dr. Frank's transition from traditional Western medicine to integrative and functional medicine Why Dr. Frank decided to include health coaches in his practice Most common sleep issues and how American culture impacts sleep habits Recommendations for how health coaches can guide clients to a healthier and happier place by calming the nervous system  How Dr. Frank's passions shift depending on what will help clients the most  Benefits of wearables and where the future of medicine is heading   Next steps for incorporating wearables, genetic testing, biomarkers           Memorable Quotes: “I realized how helpful a health coach could be because they could spend the time going through the specifics and help my patients implement what I was recommending…it is pretty obvious that a health coach could make a big difference to my practice.”  “Getting your clients to do something to calm down the nervous system. If they can start coaching them with meditation or breathing exercises…just trying to teach people to get out of their heads…even teaching clients breathing techniques can be very helpful.”  “...that's sort of where medicine is heading where people will be able to get daily, every minute, some type of information about how they're doing, whether it's their heart rate variability, their heart rate, their blood glucose, how are they sleeping…we're getting to a place where we'll be able to get a lot of this information from wearables.”    Dr. Frank Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, meditation and yoga. Now recognized as a vocal pioneer of integrative and functional medicine (or what he calls "good medicine"), Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and the Chief Medical Officer at The Well. He is a sought-after international speaker and the best-selling author of seven books Better Sleep, Better You, The New Rules of Aging Well, How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young & Slim for Life, Revive,Total Renewal.     Mentioned In This Episode: Join Hearty - http://www.joinhearty.com   Dr. Frank Lipman - https://drfranklipman.com/new-rules/     Links to resources: Health Coach Group Website https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

The image of China's Barefoot Doctors struck a resonant chord with those in the West who were looking for simple and effective means of helping people with medicine that was not tied to an established medical hierarchy. In the late 60's and early 70's acupuncture had not made its way from the Chinese communities into the dominant culture. And the early adopters of Chinese medicine were just beginning to find their way to the East where they'd learn the language and medicine. It was in this time that the Black Panthers and Young Lords in their work in building community resources came across acupuncture. And began to explore its use as a people's medicine. And that connected with the groundbreaking addiction treatment work at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx. This aspect of the history of acupuncture in the West has received little attention, but it caught the attention of Rachel Pagones, and she's written a book about it. Listen into this “community voices” conversation between Rachel and guest interviewer Beth Sommers on acupuncture as revolution and this grassroots effort of community organization, self-care and acupuncture.

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Many in the global West have heard something about acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief; they may even have learned of its use in treating opioid addiction. But few know that, in the early 1970s, acupuncture was employed as a means of social and political revolution by Black, Latinx, and radical left-wing activists, inspired by the barefoot doctors of Mao Zedong's Communist revolution. Led by Mutulu Shakur, a charismatic member of the Republic of New Afrika, these young and idealistic people learned to apply acupuncture in the gritty confines of Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx of New York. The derelict public hospital, long known as "the Butcher Shop," became an unlikely source of energy and hope as the activists successfully helped people from the community recover from heroin addiction. The acupuncturists - some of them recovering from heroin addiction themselves - employed a combination of needling points in the ear with counseling and "political education"; for instance, taking clients to witness the trials of political prisoners (people imprisoned for their political beliefs or activities). By the late 1970s, the activists' radical approach led to their forced removal from Lincoln. But Shakur and others formed the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and founded a college to train a new generation of acupuncturists in the fine art of traditional Chinese medicine.  The fundamental principle was healthcare as a human right. The goal was the liberation of people oppressed by racism. The college had a short life; it was closed after an FBI raid in connection with the lethal armed robbery of a Brink's truck. Yet over three decades, the spirit of revolutionary acupuncture did not die, and neither did the issues that forced its rise, including drug addiction, racism, and social and health care inequities. Inspired by the radical acupuncturists of the 1970s, another group - the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture - founded the community acupuncture movement and took up the mantle of revolution. They, too, proclaim health care as a human right for people marginalized by society - and seek to give back that right through the art of inserting fine needles. Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love (Brevis Press Limited, 2021) highlights a little-known intersection of acupuncture, leftist movements of the 1970s, and the global influence on the healthcare of Mao's Communist revolution - and shows how the legacy of that explosive meeting lives on today. Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Oscar© shortlisted documentary TAKEOVER takes a long overdue look at the true history of a nearly forgotten event through the voices of the Young Lords, a collection of politically engaged young Puerto Rican men and women. On July 14, 1970, a group of Young Lords made history when they occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as the “Butcher Shop.” The activists barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community. Originally a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords turned to community activism, inspired by the Black Panthers and by student movements in Puerto Rico. A Young Lords chapter in New York soon formed, agitating for community control of institutions and land, as well as self-determination for Puerto Rico. Their tactics included direct action and occupations that highlighted institutional failures. Through archival footage, re-enactments and contemporary interviews, the documentary above shines a light on the Young Lords' resistance movement and their fight for human rights. The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient's Bill of Rights, changing patients' relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide. Director Emma Francis-Synder joins us to talk her own discovery regarding the impact that the Black Panther Party had on the Young Lords, the impact that they had on New York City and the Puerto Rican community, reaching out to the surviving Young Lords and why grassroot action remains the most effective way to affect positive change. For news and updates go to: marketroadfilms.com/takeover Watch at: nytimes.com/TAKEOVER

In our penultimate episode of the season, we're talking about radical solutions in health care. We look at the historical example of the 1970 Lincoln Hospital Takeover in the Bronx with former Black Panther and Young Lord Cleo Silvers. Casey also goes down the history rabbit hole discussing their MA thesis. We also sit down with Fiyah Angel and Rachel Thompson from the Radical Well-Being Center in Southfield, MI to talk about their work in the field of mental health and decolonized healing practices. Want to learn more about the Lincoln Hospital takeover? We recommend two excellent recent documentaries: Emma Francis-Snyder's Takeover and Mia Donovan's Dope Is Death. To learn more about the Detroit Justice Center and support our work, go here.

Lynn Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the US and throughout the world. They include, Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por'knockers and POOF!Nottage is the co-founder of the production company Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include Unfinished/Deep South (Podcast) and is developing the documentary Takeover, about the Young Lords takeover of Lincoln Hospital, as well as A Girl Stands at the Door, a multi-part series on the history of school desegregation.

Episode 56 featuring Matt On influential Black radical figures, the importance of reading, and starting a reading club/mutual aid organization. Find more of Matt here and more of his org mutualaid4thehomies here, Check out Matt's writing here, "Looking Back at the Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital 51 Years Later."

On today's Reset Renew Revive Podcast, our host Dr. Bindiya Gandhi speaks with Dr. Frank Lipman. Dr. Frank Lipman was initially medically trained in South Africa, but after emigrating to the United States in 1984, he became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. He then studied acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, biofeedback, meditation and yoga. He now practices his unique blend of what he calls “Good Medicine”, combining all the systems in which he has trained. A New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Lipman has written several books including: The New Rules of Aging Well; Revive – End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again; The New Health Rules – Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-Body Wellness; and his latest book Better Sleep, Better You: Your No-Stress Guide for Getting the Sleep You Need and the Life You Want. Dr. Lipman's journey into health and wellness (1:05) Why we need to do things different in medicine (6:00) Principles of anti-aging (10:39) Nutrition (12:56) Wearable technology (17:39) Anti-aging tips (21:16) How Dr. Lipman's starts his day (25:52) Dr. Lipman's advice to his younger self (27:49) For more on Dr. Lipman, you can find him online at: https://drfranklipman.com/ @franklipmanmd

Lynn Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the US and throughout the world. They include, Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por'knockers and POOF!Nottage is the co-founder of the production company Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include Unfinished/Deep South (Podcast) and is developing the documentary Takeover, about the Young Lords takeover of Lincoln Hospital, as well as A Girl Stands at the Door, a multi-part series on the history of school desegregation.

In this segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Johanna Fernandez, Associate Professor of history at Baruch College of the City University, author of the book The Young Lords: A Radical History to discuss the anniversary of the historic occupation of Lincoln Hospital in NYC by The Young Lords in 1970, the issues of lack of access to decent housing, food, and healthcare that they confronted, the connection to workers' rights and wages that they also connected, and the lessons we can learn in the ongoing struggle surrounding these issues today.

On today's episode of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie commemorate the birthday of Assata Shakur, who is 74 today, by discussing how her case, her struggle, and her example continue to influence the movement today, the continued state repression against freedom fighters in the US, as well as the need to continue to fight for political prisoners like Sundiata Acoli. In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Johanna Fernandez, Associate Professor of history at Baruch College of the City University, author of the book The Young Lords: A Radical History to discuss the anniversary of the historic occupation of Lincoln Hospital in NYC by The Young Lords in 1970, the issues of lack of access to decent housing, food, and healthcare that they confronted, the connection to workers' rights and wages that they also connected, and the lessons we can learn in the ongoing struggle surrounding these issues today.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Mike Sampson, co-host of the RedSpin Sports podcast and Miguel Garcia, host and creator of the Sports As A Weapon Podcast to discuss the US challenging Nigerian-born basketball players Nneka Ogwumike, Chiney Ogwumike and Elizabeth William requests to play for Nigeria in the Tokyo Olympics, the ways that sports team owners use their franchises to skirt paying taxes even as they make billions off of the working class and poor fans that support their franchises, and how Black soccer players are subjected to racism in European leagues whether they win or lose, highlighting the case of English player Bukayo Saka and the virulent racist attacks he received from British fans upon missing the winning goal against Italy in the Euro 2020 championship.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and author of the book "Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents" to discuss the hypocrisy of US President Joe Biden calling Cuba a ‘failed state' that represses its citizens as hundreds of thousands in the US are dead from coronavirus and millions face hunger and homelessness, how US-backed regime change Hip Hop is being promoted by corporate-owned media platforms and how anti-imperialists can't be taken in by disinformation on the subject of Cuba.

Legendary Group Furious 5 Member "Dynamite" The history and nostalgic memories of the past that todays artist still mimic until this day, We talk 70's and 80's era along with how times changed also we talked about his biography and his collection of NFT's he's dropping this Aug. 2021! This is going to be a good one!! Dynamite was born in the old Lincoln Hospital in 1960 in The South Bronx Fox Ave. His parents later moved to 141st Willis Ave, but he spent his formative years on 165th Boston Rd and later on 181st as well as 196th in The Grand Concourse. The fact that he moved to the Westside of The Bronx from the South Bronx would play a pivotal part in his place in Hip Hop. Check out his Biography below (just click the link) DYNAMITE - A BRONX TALE (thafoundation.com) with JayQuan Instagram @Buythedipshits @Healthynaire @Therealgalaxywhales Contact Buy The Dipshits Email: BuyThedipshits@gmail.com Buy The Dipshits DISCORD link https://discord.gg/8NhGAYQear Lock in Your Crypto Domain name Now!!!!! at "Unstoppable Domain" Link Below https://unstoppabledomains.com/r/589a31673384465 https://anchor.fm/buythedipshits/support --- 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/buythedipshits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/buythedipshits/support

Whether it is the United States or India, Covid has hit us equally and we still remain under its horrors. Doctors and frontline workers have been our heroes through it all. They have worked day and night to make the citizens feel better and safe. Research says that Covid is here to stay and vaccination and herd immunity is our only chance at survival. Today The Brand Called You brings you a chief hospitalist from the Lincoln Hospital, New York, Dr. Moiz Kasubhai who talks to us about the Covid-19 situation in the US, vaccination, veganism, and diseases, health, wellness, and much more! Tune in to this very interesting conversation and learn more! Find us on: Facebook - http://facebook.com/followtbcy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/followtbcy/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/followtbcy/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

Did you know that Lincoln Hospital began as a school for “colored nurses?” Or that the first Black jockey competed (and won) at the Jerome Racetrack? What African American notables are interred in Woodlawn and St. Raymond’s cemetery? New York was built on the backs of Black enslaved people. Many fought in the Revolutionary War and even spied for General George Washington. In honor of Black History Month, we delve into the history of Black people in The Bronx and honor the legacy of our brothers and sisters. Find out more in this episode. You can find some of The Bronx Merch we wear while recording our podcast in any of these places: https://georgerafael.com/ https://www.bronxnative.com/ Follow DJ Sam Real on Instagram for a sample of his line  @djsam_real For more Go Bronx Pod episodes go to https://gobxpod.podbean.com/

Hindsight is a wonderful thing! Making conversations about partnerships count. In a Making Conversations Count first, we are joined by two dynamic guests in this episode. Joining Wendy chatting about all the elements that make up a great debate. You are not going to want to miss the observations with Taz Thornton and Asha Clearwater around questioning, opinions, debate and discernment that makes for wonderful colourful conversations. An energetic episode that even features an attempt at a quick rendition of the Pearl & Dean theme tune, ABBA and the Wombles...showing our age! These ladies have been pioneers in many aspects of life, business and spirituality. It would be impossible for them to pick just one pivotal moment - take a listen and see if you can count how many are shared in this brilliant conversation.   Connect with Taz on LinkedIn.  Connect with Asha on LinkedIn. Your host, Wendy Harris, runs a training business and has been Making Conversations Count for over 30 years. She has a best selling book on Amazon and loves nothing better than helping others find the right people to have the right conversations with. You can find out more on her website www.wagassociates.com #debate #lifestylechoices #worklifebalance #partnerships   INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT  Making Conversations Count - Episode Nineteen February 25th 2021  Wendy Harris, Taz Thornton & Asha Clearwater   Timestamps   00:00:00: Introduction 00:02:10: Accents! 00:03:03: The conversational approach to coaching 00:05:32: Learning not to sit on the fence 00:07:46: Listening skills 00:09:29: Think for yourself 00:10:51: A combined pivotal moment 00:15:39: Asha's pivotal moment 00:19:02: Sharing stories through online content 00:20:10: Taz's pivotal moment 00:22:58: Depression and mental health 00:23:25: Wendy on her pivotal moment 00:26:52: Communication from medical experts 00:29:32: Humour can lighten any subject! 00:31:47: Being labelled with a disease 00:34:26: Laughter impacts your physicality 00:37:29: Final thoughts   Wendy Harris: So, welcome to Making Conversations Count, the podcast that brings you business leaders to share their pivotal moments, a conversation that really has created a turning point in their life or career.  Today, we have a Making Conversations Count first, because we have two guests.  I'm going to introduce them as I know best, two powerhouses of LinkedIn, which is where I've gotten to know them, and that is Taz Thornton and Asha Clearwater.  Please introduce yourselves, ladies. Taz Thornton: Hello! Asha Clearwater: Hello! Taz Thornton: Go on, you go first. Asha Clearwater: No, after you. Taz Thornton: No, after you. Asha Clearwater: We could be here a long time.  Hello, I'm Asha Clearwater.  I'm what I call a Content Coach, and I'm delighted to be here; it's amazing.  I run my own business, I have done for about 20 years; how did that happen?  Oh my goodness!  Obviously started when I was 5 -- yeah, all right, thank you! Wendy Harris: Time flies when you're having fun! Asha Clearwater: It does, and that's me.  Taz, over to you. Taz Thornton: I am an award-winning coach, lots of awards, which my PR tells me I need to talk about a lot more; two best-selling books, three more in the pipeline.  I do one-to-one coaching with people in business, working predominantly on visibility and personal brand, as well as growth and planning and all of that, rah rah rah!  And, on an individual level, I work with people on confidence, empowerment and a lot of spiritual empowerment too.  A lot of people are out of alignment and I help them to get that alignment back and feel more energised. When I'm not doing that, I'm speaking on stages across the world, or teaching other people how to do the same.  I've done three TEDx events so far and counting. Asha Clearwater: And we happen to be married! Taz Thornton: We do. Asha Clearwater: We've been together 23 years next year. Taz Thornton: 23 years next year. Wendy Harris: So, you were just arguing about that before we came on, as to how long it's actually been.  So, it's a miracle! Asha Clearwater: Yeah.  That was our youngest dog, Bailey, barking in the background.  I think he's saying I'm right! Wendy Harris: Yeah, exactly. Taz Thornton: Don't you be on your mummy's side. Wendy Harris: He's agreeing with his mummies! Asha Clearwater: He is, definitely.  Asha Clearwater: But, we've got very similar career paths.  When we first got together -- Taz Thornton: Yeah, you could pretty much overlay our CVs; it's really quite freaky.  And then, we ended up working in the same place several times over.  It was fun when Asha particularly was in the closet and we were having to hide being together; that was good times! Asha Clearwater: Yeah, that was interesting. Wendy Harris: My greatest fear about having you two on, without seeing you, which is what the listeners are maybe going to have a bit of a challenge, is that you sound so alike.  So, it's great that I can see which one of you is actually speaking, because I know. Asha Clearwater: We've had that actually.  A lot of my family members, whenever they've rung up, they've said, "Is that Taz, or is that Asha?" and I can't hear it.  Taz, I think, has got more of a Midlands, haven't you? Taz Thornton: Do you want me to drop back into Brummy; does that help? Asha Clearwater: Yeah, exactly, you've got a bit of that; she has got that. Taz Thornton: All right. Asha Clearwater: But, I'm from the South East, so we've got very different accents, potentially. Taz Thornton: I tend to pick up accents wherever I go, so I've just got a weird mix. Wendy Harris: I think you kind of mirror each other, and that just shows the closeness of your relationship, I think.  I was thinking about it over the weekend thinking, "Oh, I've got that pair on Monday; that will be --" Asha Clearwater: Double trouble! Wendy Harris: And, for how we've gotten to know one another online and I know online at some of the networking events, Taz, and some of the empowerment groups that you've got on Facebook, I know I'm a member of those, your conversational approach to everything has really been what has drawn audiences to engage with you and then turned it into clients.  I would say, I'd take it one step further than just being a client relationship, because it's that people meeting likeminded people, and the holistic approach that you both take in your respective roles, that they become more like friends and family? Taz Thornton: Totally, yeah.  There are certain situations, particularly in a coaching scenario where, of course, you need to have very clear boundaries.  But, yeah, I'm absolutely committed to putting people first, whether I'm speaking on a stage for thousands of people, or sitting one-to-one with someone; it's always their needs that come first.  Sometimes that means that I'll have to push people in a way that they might not enjoy at the time, in order to get the best from them, but I don't think I could do that if I didn't have that approach of showing that I genuinely care about people being able to make proper, genuine, lasting improvement in changing their lives.  It's that framework that enables me to sometimes push people's buttons a little bit, because they know that if they fall, I'll catch them.  And, you're very similar with your work, aren't you? Asha Clearwater: Yeah.  I think, for me, because I coach people on particularly writing content, but also speaking it, whether it's video or it's audio or it's written, it's about bringing the true them out in what they're creating.  And, sometimes that needs a little bit of a gentle push or prod, and maybe delving into areas of content that they're not sure about or they don't think people are going to be interested in.  And, I really work hard to get that through to people, so that we can work as a team to bring that out and bring the best out for them so it's their voice. So, I'm really passionate about that, having worked in PR, and it's fantastic; there are some great PR agencies out there.  But very often sometimes, it can come across as the PR's voice and not the client's voice, and I think that's absolutely crucial for good content and to get that rapport, to build the rapport and to get the kind of reaction and response you want from the audience. Wendy Harris: It's bringing that personality that you both have, big personalities, and you bring that in.  Sometimes I get to the bottom like today, Asha, you know, with getting the keyboard out, I was answering you, I was having the conversation in my head with you.  So, by the time I'd got to the bottom of finishing the post, I was kind of like, "What was the question again; I've just answered you?" and now I've got to think what I've got to put in reply. So, that's what I think connects with people.  You're divisive sometimes and that's the pushing that I see, "Is this okay?  I'm not sure it is?", so you're questioning, you're constantly questioning and getting people to not sit on the fence so much, which I think is really important. Taz Thornton: I think, particularly when we're putting ourselves across on a public platform, we've become far too used to sitting on the fence.  I think too many of us still have this old kind of 1980s, 1990s business idea that we just need to not offend anybody, because then we'll get more clients. Well, Marmite gets cited an awful lot.  They've built a whole business around people loving them or hating them.  I wouldn't mind being 50p behind Marmite in terms of profit. Wendy Harris: Sure, yeah. Taz Thornton: So, I think we need to come away from that, I think we need to recognise that beige doesn't offend anybody, but it's nobody's favourite colour either, and we need to get back to who we are; and to go really deep just for a minute, I think that's where social media has kind of messed things up for us a little bit, because the algorithms put us in bubbles with everyone with the same opinion, and we start to believe that our opinion is in the majority. Where in fact, step out into the real world, and then we'll underpin conflict, because we stop recognising that -- how can I say it in a way that won't get bleeped out?  Opinions are like bottom holes; everybody's got one, you know, and we need to remember that it's opinion and we need to be proud of our own opinion.  We need to have our opinion, we need to be brave enough to speak it, and that doesn't mean we need to get into conflicts and arguments; it means we can get into discussion and learn from one another, not try and convert somebody to our point of view. Wendy Harris: Yes, it's a real vegan status, isn't it, you know, "I'm vegan, so you're going to have to be vegan too"; well, it doesn't really go down very well, does it? Asha Clearwater: And that's the thing, isn't it?  Since we've gone vegan, since we've gone plant-based diet, it's that I've noticed that there's a lot of kind of -- you can feel people getting really agitated about it very early on in a conversation.  And, that's where I always say to people, "I'm not a political vegan; I did it because of my health".  But, even if I was, you know, it's about debate, isn't it; learning how to debate on an issue and not take offence, just listen. It's those listening skills that you talk about, Wendy, all the time; you know how important that is, really, truly listening. Wendy Harris: There's equality in everybody's opinion, isn't there?  It doesn't mean that you have to agree, but you can agree to disagree and have a broader spectrum of opinions to judge your bias on. Taz Thornton: Absolutely, and to recognise the difference between discernment and judgement as well.  So, for instance, if we just look at someone who has a different opinion and say, "Oh, they're an idiot"; that's judgement.  If you say, "Oh well, okay, their opinion is different to mine.  It might not be for me, but I wonder why they think that?"; discernment. Just before lockdown, I remember sitting down with one of my clients and we had absolute polar opposite opinions on Brexit and foxhunting; it was a bit Smith and Jones.  We sat opposite each other on this table -- Asha Clearwater: You're showing your age now, Taz. Taz Thornton: Yeah!  We literally said, "Okay, well why do you believe that; and, why do you believe that?"  We didn't argue; there was no trying to persuade each other; there were no raised voices; we just listened and learned from one another, and then understood why we both had those opinions.  And that was fine. Wendy Harris: Because some opinions are not even based on fact, are they; they're quite emotive opinions? Taz Thornton: Yeah, definitely. Wendy Harris: And, they can even be passed-down opinions.  You don't even realise why you've adopted those opinions. Taz Thornton: Yeah, it's not your opinion in the first place, is it; it's somebody else's opinion that you've -- Wendy Harris: Yeah.  So, it's important that we are unpicking a lot of societal constraints; I don't know if that is the right word.  But certainly, we are kind of told what to think and where to think it, and this year has opened the chasm to just how wise that is, I think Taz Thornton: I think that's exactly it.  One of my big things, particularly -- well, we both run spiritual empowerment circles together; particularly when I'm sitting in those, and that's a mix of kind of coaching and medicine path and NLP and empowerment, even a bit of fire-walking brings it all together. But, one of the big elements of that that we're both so passionate about is, we're not here to tell people what to think; we're here to remind you how to think, or just to think.  I'll never tell somebody what to believe; I'll say, "Well, there's this, this, this and this, it's up to you". Wendy Harris: Get them to think what else is there. Taz Thornton: Precisely.  Just scratch the surface a little bit. Asha Clearwater: It's really important that, I think. Wendy Harris: Three women agreeing; who'd have thought it?! Asha Clearwater: Quick, frame it! Wendy Harris: This is what I love about the guests on the show, is that we all have a passion for that conversation, and to kick-start something.  We're kind of little revolutionaries in our own right, aren't we, doing what we do, where we do it and how we do it.  So, it's just a delight to be able to chat with you today.  Everybody that comes on the show, I ask them all to have a think about a pivotal moment.  Since you are my first duo, I have no idea whether you've picked the same conversation, whether you've got your own individuals, or whether you've just got a bit of a mix.  So, who's going to go first? Taz Thornton: Well, it was a bit of a mix.  I think initially, we both came up with one each.  But then, one of the pivotal moments for me that crosses over is when we were finally able to legally marry, and we were the first same-sex couple in Lincolnshire that were able to marry. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, we were! Taz Thornton: And, on my 40th birthday. Asha Clearwater: Yeah. Wendy Harris: Double bubble! Taz Thornton: 25 years ago now. Wendy Harris: You don't get that for manslaughter, do you?! Taz Thornton: Yeah, but we were married 23 years ago, actually. Wendy Harris: I was going to say, you're wearing well then, Taz, if it was 23 years ago on your 40th.  I would never have put you at -- Taz Thornton: I'm 46 now, so 6 years ago.  But, what was interesting is when we were booking the wedding, because it was so close to them changing the law -- Asha Clearwater: It was literally like a week. Taz Thornton: -- the registrar's on the other end of the phone saying, "You mean it's going to be a civil partnership?"  "No, marriage".  Because, I wanted to do a civil partnership and Asha said, "No, I want to wait until we can get married", and I said, "Don't be ridiculous; it will never happen in our lifetime". Wendy Harris: And it did! Taz Thornton: It was difficult to book it, because they didn't have the paperwork through in order to book the ceremony, so it was really, we just scraped under the wire, didn't we? Asha Clearwater: Yeah, exactly, yeah.  And it was amazing.  I mean, it happened at the time when my mum had just died and I was obviously dealing with that.  And although she'd been ill for some time, it's always a shock, isn't it, whatever the circumstances.  So, I remember, because that had happened that week, and then I kind of proposed. You'd been proposing to me for years, hadn't you, and I'd been saying, "Let's just wait, let's just wait" and then that happened and then I proposed to you, and we said, "Let's do it".  And it started off as a little ceremony, and then it got bigger, didn't it; I got a bit Bridezilla-like! Taz Thornton: Well actually, we had two, didn't we, because one in the registry office that we just had fun with, and we did the legal bit there; and we themed it all around our years of birth and the year that we met, so we had Asha 1968; I'm 1974; and then we met in 1998.  So, we themed everything.  We walked down the aisle to the Pearl & Dean theme tune, you know, the old cinema.  Then, we signed the register to Waterloo. Asha Clearwater: Do you remember the twist, though, with that? Taz Thornton: Yeah, one of the guests was related to the guy who wrote the theme tune! Asha Clearwater: Yeah, can you believe that! Taz Thornton: That was Great Uncle, whatever it was, "What?  Really?" and we thought she was winding us up, but no!  Then we signed the register to Waterloo by Abba, which was 1974 -- Asha Clearwater: Because, I love Abba.  I know you love it or hate it. Taz Thornton: Asha's a massive Abba fan. Asha Clearwater: I am a massive Abba fan. Taz Thornton: But, we bought those kids plastic echo mikes and put them on the seats, so made everybody do karaoke to it while we were doing the register. Wendy Harris: Brilliant! Taz Thornton: And then, we walked out to the Wombles. Asha Clearwater: We did. Taz Thornton: But then, the second day, right, we've done the kind of small -- Asha Clearwater: [Humming a tune] Taz Thornton: That's the one!  So, we had the limited numbers to that.  So, we had the wedding in the morning, then we just had a kind of big, group meal in the evening for my birthday; we split the day.  And the next day, we had our woodland, not quite a handfasting; it was our spin on a handfasting. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, so kind of quite Shamanic, wasn't it?  Lots of drums, lots of singing. Taz Thornton: We just put a note out to our friends on Facebook saying, "We're going to be in this woodland, we've got permission for the woodlands to do it as this point.  If anybody wants to come and join us, then come along".  And, we were late turning up, because my mum, bless her, had come over for the legal bit, and she was supposed to be coming the next day, but she felt poorly.  So, we were running late and she decided to stay home in the end. By the time we got there, we got to the woods and all three car parks were full and we were like, "What's going on; have they got an event here?  The day we're -- this is no blooming good.  How are we going to do this if they've got loads of people?" and they'd all turned up for us. Asha Clearwater: It was marvellous. Taz Thornton: Wow! Asha Clearwater: And we had, "Taz and Asha" on the front of the car. Taz Thornton: Yeah, magnets. Asha Clearwater: With a bright green -- you know those really green Fiestas; bright green. Taz Thornton: Yeah, we'd got those at the time. Wendy Harris: Was it with the dice? Asha Clearwater: You've got that in your Mini, haven't you? Taz Thornton: I have got furry dice in my Mini.  Got to do it; it's got to be done.  Yeah, and a Tazmanian Devil sitting on the dashboard to scare everybody. Asha Clearwater: And she's now got Xena as well, haven't you? Taz Thornton: Yeah. Asha Clearwater: So, it was an amazing day. Taz Thornton: Amazing two days. Asha Clearwater: Two days, yeah. Taz Thornton: But, just that turning up and thinking the car parks were full and getting really irritated about it, and then realising they were all for us; it was like, wow! Asha Clearwater: And we wrote our own vows, and -- Wendy Harris: And really, you are those revolutionaries that I had in my mind's eye, because if it was so close to, like you being the first one, you've kind of forced their hand to get that paperwork ready for you, because they had a legal obligation to fulfil that for you. Taz Thornton: I hadn't thought about it like that; that's a nice way of looking at it, isn't it?  Thank you, Wendy, yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Wendy Harris: Yeah, so you've paved the way for those that came behind you, because how long would they have, not stalled as such, but they would have just dragged their heels over it. Taz Thornton: Well, legally they've got to do it, but yeah, absolutely, totally.  Asha Clearwater: I like that; that's a lovely way of looking at it. Taz Thornton: We were right out in the sticks in the Lincolnshire Fenlands and it's been okay, we've not really had any issues here.  In Peterborough, we've had a little few issues -- Asha Clearwater: Yeah, we've had a few issues in Peterborough over the years. Taz Thornton: -- interestingly enough, but here it's been all right. Asha Clearwater: It was amazing.  So, that was a big pivotal moment, wasn't it, for both of us.  But, you mentioned that. Taz Thornton: We've both been through individual ones before though, hadn't we?  So, yours was when you couldn't walk? Asha Clearwater: Yeah, my MS diagnosis 12, 13 years ago now and I got really poorly.  I had a mum with MS, so I grew up with that, so I knew what it was like being a child with a parent with MS and so my mum's -- Taz Thornton: Your diagnosis, if we go back, came two weeks after my dad died and then the week after, you were made redundant. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, so it all came together, you know how it always does in life, doesn't it? Wendy Harris: Like buses. Asha Clearwater: It hits, then it hits again.  Yeah, and it was like that and it was really difficult, and just thinking about mum.  But, mum was just such an inspiration.  It's funny because, when she was here, we always sort of say that, don't we, or very often, that I wasn't that close; I was closer to my dad.  But, now I can see and really acknowledge how strong my mum was going through all of that.  She had it at the age of 38, diagnosed at 38.  I was diagnosed at 38; freaky, or what?  Wendy Harris: But, she protected you an awful lot; she shielded you, then?  So, it's only in your hindsight that you can see just where that strength came from? Asha Clearwater: Yeah, definitely.  She was amazing though, and always saw the funny side in it, was always laughing, you know, falling over, people thinking she was drunk.  She could absolutely hold her drinks all right.  She used to drink my dad under the table.  She could do the old, what's the old pool table game, you know, the snooker table where you have all the different coloured drinks; she would do that. Taz Thornton: I remember, at your nephew's wedding, because by then she was quite bent over and she couldn't get her head back properly. Asha Clearwater: She was in her 80s then. Taz Thornton: We turned round and she'd literally got the entire champagne flute in her mouth trying to get the rest!  "What are you doing?!" Asha Clearwater: And she liked her Sherry, bless her, so she was amazing; and, a great conversationalist.  That's one of the things that really gets on my nerves sometimes when people, if there's somebody with a disability, say they're in a chair, for instance, and they talk to the person that's wheeling them in the chair, not the person.  It's that; it's acknowledgement, you know. Wendy Harris: What I would say, Asha, is I didn't know about your diagnosis? Asha Clearwater: Oh, okay, cool. Wendy Harris: And, it doesn't have to be what defines you either. Asha Clearwater: And, that's what my mum always said, and I never got it until later on again, because things like, she was a member of the MS Society.  They do amazing work and I want to realty make that clear; they really do, and I've raised money for them myself.  But, what mum would do, or dad would say, "Do you want to go to the MS do tonight?" and she would say, "Why do I want to go there, sitting around with a load of people in wheelchairs?"  It sounds awful, but sometimes you can get sucked into that.  And I did that for a while, when it becomes the only thing you talk about.  So, I do talk about it, and I've talked about the MS a little bit, but I've not talked about it a lot, and that's because it's only a tiny part of who I am. Taz Thornton: A pivotal moment, isn't it, was that you got the diagnosis, but then a few years later, you had that relapse and you lost the use of your legs again, and that was ultimately why you went vegan -- Asha Clearwater: Yeah, yeah. Taz Thornton: -- because you started working with a guy who said, "Try this diet", and literally, within two weeks of changing her diet, she was walking again. Wendy Harris: It's amazing, isn't it, the little things, which isn't such a little thing when you think about it, as your diet, that can have such an impact on your whole system? Taz Thornton: It's the things that make you think.  And obviously, it was on the back of that that you changed your whole business -- Asha Clearwater: Yeah, I did. Taz Thornton: -- and went from doing PR and marketing for people, to only doing that kind of occasionally for causes you really cared about, to being a content coach. Asha Clearwater: And hence why, the only time I'm doing that now is things like National Pet Month, which is a pet charity, so that's close to my heart, because you know I'm pet-mad; so, that fits beautifully.  But now, I coach people to create their own content, because I feel, you know, I know it's such a cliché, but it's true; everybody has a great story to share. Wendy Harris: So, it's not just one story, actually, there are loads of stories that people have got and when you come to think of it, because of the situation, we've kind of been forced more online with our communication than face to face.  So, what better way to be able to convey those stories? I kept saying to people about my book because now, Taz, when I go to your book on my shelf, a little bit of, "What would Taz say?" you're in my head!  I hear Taz in my head, and I've had somebody message me over the weekend going, "Wendy, you're in my head!" Taz Thornton: Well, it's really getting through to people when you're hearing that; that's fabulous.  I love that. Asha Clearwater: You've got a mug, haven't you; you do things in your shop as well, don't you? Taz Thornton: Oh, my merch range? Asha Clearwater: The merch range, and she's got a mug and sometimes I'll pick that up and it says -- Taz Thornton: If it can be a pink silhouette of just my hair and my glasses, and then it says WWTD underneath, "What would Taz do?" Asha Clearwater: I think it's great, but it's lovely; that's a real compliment, isn't it, when you hear that back?  I think that's really lovely. Taz Thornton: One of the posts I put on my Facebook page, on my business page last week, somebody had posted underneath, "Did anybody else read this in Taz's voice?" so it does happen! If I was going to go for a pivotal moment, there are so many, but the one I always talk about is the one where I broke my back in three places.  There were others after that, and it didn't immediately create this change, but that was the beginning of me starting to turn my life around and change things. Trying to check out of life, and ending up instead not only killing my car but breaking my back, was a real wail, and it sounds such a cliché, but I ended up on a hospital flatbed for nine hours with my head packed in sandbags and nobody telling me what was going on.  And, at that point, when they first said "spinal damage", it sounds so clichéd and cheesy, but I literally went from hopeless to hopeful.  I started calling out to whoever I'd been speaking to, whatever your beliefs are, I used to just ask them to just give me terminal illness.  I've done a lot of work to undo that energetically since.  But, I went, in that moment, from instead of, "Let me die", to, "Just let me walk.  Just let me walk and I promise I'll use what I've been through to help other people.  I'll do it; I'll do it". So, I didn't do it straightaway; I went back into my career and back into goalsetting and hiding behind masks for a few years, but that was the start of changing things for me. Wendy Harris: It's that undercurrent that follows you though then, isn't it? Taz Thornton: Yeah. Wendy Harris: Because, as much as anything, when something so traumatic happens, it's that need of getting back to some form of normality.  So, you went back to what was your security blanket as such? Taz Thornton: Absolutely.  But, I think we forget, don't we, that once we've dropped the stone into the pond, we can't stop the ripples. Wendy Harris: No, not at all. Taz Thornton: And actually, what came next that really created the change was that same series of happenings we just touched on, when my uncle died, my dad died, a load of family debt came to light that I hadn't been aware of, so my financial future as I thought it was literally disappeared overnight.  Then you got your MS diagnosis, then you got made redundant. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, it was interesting, wasn't it?  Interesting times. Taz Thornton: That all happened in eight weeks.  And, in the middle of that was all this stress over, do I come out now, because my parents had known for years, but we were being asked to keep things quiet and pretend we had boyfriends and stuff for a long time. Asha Clearwater: That was really quite difficult, wasn't it? Taz Thornton: And the family half joke had been, "We don't care who knows once your dad's died", and then dad died and it was like, "Well, I really need my partner with me now".  So, it was, do we stop hiding now; what do we do?  So, everything unravelled in the best way, or began to.  And again, hindsight's a wonderful thing.  I think, when you're going through a breakdown, a lot of the time, I don't think we realise.  To use a really crass saying one of my old workmates used to use was, you'd work like a rat in the sewers, just going through the motions.  I think I was like that and in hindsight, I can look back and say in my corporate life, I worked through a breakdown in four years without anyone really knowing what was going on.  But, I didn't realise that I was going through a breakdown until after I was through the other side of it.  The best way out is through. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, that's so true, isn't it? Wendy Harris: I think that's why depression is so dangerous. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, it's only afterwards, isn't it, once you come through the other side, that you can see where you were.  And, it's the same for me when menopause hit, or perimenopause hit. Taz Thornton: Yeah, because you had your unravelling, didn't you? Asha Clearwater: I had my unravelling, and that was all kind of around that time, and family not accepting us and all of that stuff going on, and my mum dying.  I hadn't dealt with that at all.  And as you know, it piles up and up; you get layers.  And, when you're in it, you can't see it.  It's only afterwards, now thinking -- Wendy Harris: A similar experience for me about four or five years ago, my sister was diagnosed as being psychotic and she was threatening to come and take my daughter who, at the time, would have been about seven, and she was going to go and collect her from school.  So of course, I had to get the school involved so that they didn't let her go with her auntie, and it became really difficult. I kind of went into an autopilot of, I was going through the motions of everything that I was doing at work.  As far as the family was concerned, the shopping was bought, the dinners were cooked, the washing and ironing was done and everywhere was clean and tidy, Wendy was going to work.  But, what I was actually doing was sitting with my laptop, not speaking to anybody, communicating only by email and watching boxsets.  I was shutting down and it was to the point where I thought my results were being affected, everything. So, the only thing to do was to go to the doctor and say, "I don't want tablets; I need to talk to somebody.  And that first CBT session, they said, "We know what the problem is; you know what the problem is; it's not that, it's this; cut it out of your life until you are ready to deal with it again".  It was a massive change, just instantly, and it was like a pivotal moment. Taz Thornton: Absolutely.  And I think that's one of the other really important things to recognise with mental health.  Obviously, through my work now, I work with a lot of people going through all kinds of different stages of that umbrella term of "mental health".  I wish we could change that because that covers -- Wendy Harris: Mental wealth; it should be mental wealth. Taz Thornton: Or mental wellness, because I think mental health covers such a massive spectrum that people who would see themselves as being at the lighter end, with depression, stress, anxiety, won't want to identify that, because it covers the extreme end as well.  There's still so much stigma attached to that, but it's so important for everybody to recognise as well that one size doesn't fit all. So, sometimes it can be that we need to take more exercise and we need to drink more water; sometimes it can be that we need CBT, we need a coach, we need a counsellor; sometimes we do need anti-depressants.  I mean, you went and got the tablets, but never took them. Asha Clearwater: Yeah.  For me, all it needed for me was to actually say, "Help; I need help", but go through the motions of going to the doctors and going into floods of tears and just releasing it.  And, those tablets probably are still in the drawer today.  I haven't taken them; that's my choice. Wendy Harris: I've got a packet just the same in my cupboard!  One day, I might just go, "I've got them, I'm going to take them"! Asha Clearwater: Yeah, exactly that.  It's actually going through -- that, for me, was a healing.  That, in itself, was actually deciding that I was going to go ahead and do it and saying I need help was the biggest thing for me. Taz Thornton: Whereas for me, I did take the tablets route.  I was on and off anti-depressants for years.  But, I remember that last time, when I was going through the breakdown, as I can now call it, arguing with the doctor that, "Okay, well I'll do this, I'll be on them for six months and then we'll review".  And, I think they're so used to just saying, "Just give them to these people as a crutch" whereas for me, it was about getting myself up to a stable enough platform so that I was strong enough to do the work with whatever was going on underneath the pain, underneath the disease. So, it matters not whether it's tablets, whether it's CBT, whether it's coaching, whether it's counselling, whether it's exercise, water, whatever it is, but just get yourself to a place where you're strong enough to look at what's really going on under the surface. Wendy Harris: Those experts, like doctors, are there to serve us, but they have their own boundaries that they have to meet, which means that they don't necessarily serve us in the best way that they can, because we don't know the questions to ask in the first place. Taz Thornton: Exactly.  And, sometimes it can depend so much over where you are in the world and what your doctor's like as well.  We've got great doctors near us; we can get in first, same day if we need to, outside of lockdown, but they're all still, well one of them, it's also a very rural area where I think they're just used to people coming in and saying, "I've got this problem; what do I take for it?"  And when you try and say, "Well, hold on, what have we got outside of medicine?" Asha Clearwater: When I was diagnosed with MS, my GP printed off something from the internet -- Taz Thornton: In front of you! Asha Clearwater: -- about my diagnosis in front of me, and that was his idea of support, which I thought for me maybe wasn't -- Taz Thornton: And, they're specialists as well; your first specialist appointment!  When you have your next relapse, when you are in a wheelchair, when you can't walk, when you're permanently disabled -- Asha Clearwater: Sod that!  Sorry, am I allowed to swear?  Sod that; that's not happening, you know? Taz Thornton: Why can't they say, "Well, this is what could happen; this is the spectrum".  What do you need to do to help you stay out of that for as long as possible? Asha Clearwater: It was.  I wrote quite a lengthy -- you can find it on Medium actually; I wrote quite a lengthy article about it, didn't I, because I found out about my MS diagnosis in a letter.  It wasn't a phone call, it was a letter, which was a bit of a shock, and I remember ringing you up at work to tell you.  But, that whole experience taught me a lot about how to broach a subject with somebody like that, that is so potentially life-changing and how it can be done. Wendy Harris: Yeah, you see it's interesting, isn't it, where communication sometimes is disjointed.  I was having this conversation with another guest where he said that his consultant rang him and said, "There's evidence of prostate cancer" and he said, "What do you mean by evidence?" and he went, "You've got it".  If you're the specialist and you're delivering this kind of communication, you've got to have found a better way of saying it than that! Taz Thornton: There's never a good way of delivering bad news, is there?  When it's a medical professional though, you might expect they've had some level of training, or some understanding on bedside manner? Asha Clearwater: I mean, what, for me, made that bearable, because that whole experience of going to Lincoln Hospital for the first time, sitting in a waiting room full of people with something similar to me; when we arrived, it was obviously quite difficult.  It was a really busy waiting room, because I remember it, and we went into the consultant, and he didn't even make eye contact at all. Then, I did a really silly thing.  I've got to tell you this, Wendy, because this will make you laugh.  Taz, you must tell this story, because you know sometimes humour, if you believe in a spirit God, whatever, but I think it's the universe's way of lightening the subject and helping you through it; something very funny, I thought funny, we thought funny happened.  So, go on, Taz. Taz Thornton: Well, for anyone who's friends with us on Facebook, mild swear word coming in, you can't really bleep this one out without losing the context, but there's a hashtag, "Sh*t my wife says and sh*t my wife does", that we put out to friends on Facebook, and this was one of those moments.  The consultant touched his finger to his nose and said, "I want you to do this", so he was obviously checking for her coordination.  So, she reached out and put her finger on his nose!  And she saw nothing wrong with it! Asha Clearwater: You went into hysterics. Taz Thornton: Which was almost as good as the time you had your eyes tested and I took you to that appointment too, because it was when your legs weren't that good.  And, she was sitting at the machine and the optician said, "I just want you to look at the green light", and she said, "I can see it; I can see it!" and the optician said, "The machine isn't on yet".  She went, "I can see the green light" and she paused for a moment and went, "Mrs Clearwater, that's my eye"! Asha Clearwater: So, I've obviously inherited that, because my mum was very much like that; always doing silly things.  But, we laughed hysterically in the room with him, didn't we, and I said to Taz, I would have loved to know -- he buried himself in his notes, I will always remember that, writing; I'd love to know what he'd written. We were in hysterics, crying with laughter, but it lightened the whole experience, didn't it?  And then, we came out of that room laughing and smiling and of course, that spreads, doesn't it?  We sat in that waiting room and we saw these people and people were making eye contact, and it was a different place. Taz Thornton: Yeah, but when we first went into that waiting room to wait to go in, I could absolutely understand what your mum said about, "Why would I want to go and sit around with a group of people in wheelchairs, because the energy in that room; it was so oppressive, depressive.  It was like nobody had any life left.  It was like going into Gregg's, the bakers, just before payday, when everybody's broke and surviving on sausage rolls.  We've all been into one of those cheaper cafés and felt that vibe, you know, and it's like that. Asha Clearwater: It was that, but when we started laughing as we came out of the waiting room, which is what I say in my Medium article, it spread, didn't it?  Taz Thornton: Yeah. Asha Clearwater: Suddenly people looked up and we smiled and we made eye contact, and we had that connection with other people, without sounding like an old hippie; I am an old hippie at heart. Wendy Harris: Yeah, but that's the right sort of infectious, isn't it? Asha Clearwater: Yes. Taz Thornton: It's like, why aren't they doing that in places where the mood is going to be low, possibly not in places like funeral homes, no; but, in hospitals and things where people are ill or poorly, or have chronic conditions; why aren't we doing something to lighten the mood instead of sending people out with this badge of honour and all these labels, "I have all these things wrong with me and it's become my identity"?  We're not doing anything to lift people out of that identifying as the disease.  And, I just wish that we could do something to change that, because how awful, my opinion of course, but to go through life connecting so solidly with a label a medical professional has given you, that you lose sense of everything else.  That level of low energy, low vibe, depression, disease, when there are things we could do fairly easily to just lift that up a little bit. Wendy Harris: Do you remember me writing about Valerie? Taz Thornton: Yeah. Wendy Harris: She was staying with us this weekend, and she's got PSP, which is a very rare form of Parkinson's, and she freezes.  But, we have her laughing about it, because she comes sometimes, she is so down in the dumps.  She fell over in the bathroom and I heard her bounce.  So, when my husband, Rob, went and picked her up and said, "What have you done; what did you do that for?  I've told you to wait for me" was kind of the wrong way about it.  Whereas, I came in and went, "Are you okay; are you hurt anywhere?"  "Oh, my bum hurts a little bit".  "I'm not surprised, because I heard you bounce".  Then, she laughed, she was shaking, she was crying, but the laughter broke that energy. Asha Clearwater: And that, Wendy, that sums up my childhood; that's what my mum was like.  So, she'd frequently have falls like that, and it was in the days before we had all the things to help us in the way that we do.  Actually, we had a lift in our house.  I was very proud as a kid, because we had a lift going up from the -- Wendy Harris: You're like, DIY is the best! Asha Clearwater: Oh, it was fantastic.  I used to get everyone, you know, the postman had to have a ride in the lift, and the gasman; all these people coming in.  The Avon lady would be in the lift.  But, what mum taught me there was, she would laugh at it.  She'd come out of the loo and you'd find her; she'd be in her sling.  Sounds a bit dodgy; not like that.  And, you'd come home, I'd come home from school, and mum would be upside down nearly with her head down the loo, but she'd be in hysterics about it.  And, that laughter is what got us through, what got her through. She'd be covered in bruises sometimes, because she had a lot of falls.  Because MS, you know, that's how it approaches.  She went from walking to going into a chair, but she would always laugh about it.  Laughter's the best medicine. Taz Thornton: And it has such an impact, even on your physicality, I think, when you have a chronic condition.  So, you will have seen me talking with Emma Sheardown, who is one of my clients online.  She's a quadriplegic, cerebral palsy, but she's been World and European champion in the sport of Para Dressage, that medics said would never walk or talk; now her Para Dressage career has come to an end, is now a motivational speaker. In the time that we've been working together and, goodness me, if anybody heard some of our conversations sometimes, we're so un-PC, you know, when we've been trying to get her to high-five and stuff, and talking about whether she could catch a fly with chopsticks; really un-PC stuff that people would frown upon.  And yet again, it breaks the energy and she can laugh at herself. Emma would tell you herself, I'm sure, that when we've been working together a few months, she'd get to the point where she'd walk into where we were having our coaching session and I'd go, "What's up?"  "How do you know?"  "Well, because you're walking's not as good today, and I know that if your mood is down, it impacts on your walking and it impacts on your speaking".  So, we've done so much work just to get her to the point where she's really chilled out before she goes to do a speaking gig, which of course is a real opposite because, of course, people very often get wound up and stressed before they go and speak in front of people.  With Emma, we've had to create the opposite because, if she's stressed, she won't be able to communicate as well, and she won't be able to walk up to the stage as well. Working with Emma has really, really shown me how much our mental, emotional mood, state, can really impact our physicality; in the same way that I know, when I was in corporate land and when I was depressed, the kind of run-of-the-mill colds and things would have bowled me over and I would have been off work.  Whereas now, because I'm happier, I go, "Oh, it's just a cold", and carry on. So that, for me, is such a measure of where we are with our with our mental wellness as well that, if we have a bit of a sniffle and we find that it stops us and it bowls us over; I'm not talking about people with chronic conditions, I'm talking about people who are ostensibly healthy.  If we're finding that the little knocks are stopping us, that's really time to go, "Okay, what's going on with my mental and emotional health right now?" Wendy Harris: Yeah.  Our bodies do tell us, don't they? Asha Clearwater: Without a doubt, they do. Taz Thornton: But even that, our mindset, if we are in a good place, will keep us going. Wendy Harris: Yeah, our bodies are our biggest defence. Taz Thornton: Our symptoms can seem so much worse if we're not in a good place mentally and emotionally, and I find that fascinating. Asha Clearwater: It's the key, isn't it, to everything really; it's the key to everything, isn't it, having that PMO? Taz Thornton: Your psychology really is your physiology; it's amazing. Wendy Harris: Quite a few pivotal moments there and some insights into our own experiences and how that's affected us, and in terms of defining why we do what we do now.  It is about serving as many people as we can, sharing that story and empowering people to be the best that they can ever be. Taz Thornton: Definitely, 100%. Asha Clearwater: Yeah, it's what makes the world go round. Wendy Harris: Ladies, thank you so much for giving up your time to share those stories with us.  If anybody wants to pick up the conversation with you, where will they find you?  Is there a page for both of you, or do they have to find you separately? Taz Thornton: No, you have to find us separately.  You can find me, search Taz Thornton on pretty much any social channel and you'll find me.  You'll find me on Snapchat, but don't try and contact me there because I'm just there, but I never actually show up on that one. Wendy Harris: I'm addicted to TikTok. Asha Clearwater: Oh, TikTok; I keep trying to do TikTok.  I keep listening to Gary saying, you've got to do TikTok, but I don't get it! Wendy Harris: Hang on, we're going to have loads of people approaching us now, "Do you want some training on TikTok and SnapChap?" Taz Thornton: No, I don't want training on TikTok; I'm in too many places as it is, so predominantly for me, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Insta, YouTube and www.tazthornton.com.  And, Asha? Asha Clearwater: Well, mine's much smaller, because really the ones that I work on predominantly is LinkedIn for me.  You'll find me on there, you'll find me on Medium on there, because I write on there as well. Taz Thornton: Oh yeah, Medium as well. Asha Clearwater: You will find me on Insta; I need to do more on Insta really. Taz Thornton: Yes, you do; yes, you very, very do. Asha Clearwater: As soon as I said that, I just get that look and I know that look very well.  Yeah, but come and find me on LinkedIn, is probably the best one, I think.  And also, Medium; and go and read that story about my MS diagnosis. Taz Thornton: You need to get on Twitter more, too. Asha Clearwater: Pardon? Taz Thornton: You need to get on Twitter more, too. Asha Clearwater: I do need to get on Twitter, yes, because it's the place where all the journalists hang out. Taz Thornton: It is. Wendy Harris: I think you'll be found!  Thank you so much.  Don't forget, listeners, to subscribe at www.makingconservationscount.studio/podcast.  You'll get notifications for every episode so you won't miss a guest or guests.  Thank you for being my first duo, ladies; it's been an absolute pleasure. Taz Thornton: Thank you so much for inviting us, loads of love. Asha Clearwater: Thanks, Wendy, bye.

On today's episode we welcome Dr. Rebeccah Rodriguez, a Latin American trailblazer and Osteopathic Physician who serves the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee as a Team USA physician and was on the medical staff at the Olympic Training Site in Chula Vista, California, as team physician for over 10 years.  Dr. Rodríguez earned her medical degree from the ATSU- Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and subsequently completed a family practice residency at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. She Did a Sports medicine Fellowship and San Diego Sports Medicine & Family Health Center, Sports Medicine Fellowship in 2010  which opened up the door for her to work with the Olympic rugby teamBeyond her family and sports medicine practice, Dr. Rodriguez is Passionate about improving quality healthcare.  She  helps make policy for national organizations such as the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine as second Vice President, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians California Board, Health and Wellness and Procedural Committee, and the President's Council for Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Dr. Rodriguez shares her views on osteopathic medicine, sports medicine, and how she felt as a woman going in to sports medicine, a previously male dominated field.   We hope you enjoy this episode.

Oliver T. Fein, MD, serves as a Professor of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research and as the Associate Dean (Affiliations) at Weill Cornell Medicine. He also chairs the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), and is the former president of the national organization. He completed his medical school from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and his residency at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Dr. Fein has made outstanding contributions to health system delivery reforms on both local and national levels. His contributions to medicine and the healthcare system of the United States have been recognized through a number of honors and awards, including the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Alumni Award for Lifetime Achievement. Do you stand behind your values? When something comes along that goes against what you believe—how do you react? Today, Dr. Oliver T. Fein shares fascinating anecdotes about his efforts to improve healthcare throughout his long tenure. Since the very beginning of his career, Dr. Fein has stood up for what he believes in. And on top of that, he knows how to unite groups of people to fight toward shared goals. He teaches us how teamship is a key to success. And that when we feel strongly about something, we need to speak out. And we should never have to go at it alone. Pearls of Wisdom: 1. Things happen by chance. Seize those chances when opportunity arises. The way we approach these chances has the power to define our journey? 2. Stand up for what you believe in, don't be afraid to speak out, and find others who will join you in your stance. 3.  Not just mentorship—but ‘teamship'—is a key to success. Find issues that can unite us, work toward shared goals together, and the rewards will be exponential. 4. Take a “family history” from your mentor. When we aim to get to know them on a deeper level, we'll find they'll relate to us more.

It’s a fact – we are all aging. But we can choose to age well, meaning we can make lifestyle choices that will open the door for us to live in a way that doesn’t equate our chronological age to our physical age. As Dr. Frank Lipman states in his new book, The New Rules of Aging Well: The ordinary choices you make each day can have extraordinary effects on your overall health. You only need to know what to do. I’m thrilled to say, the secrets you need are all right here. It’s such a good book, and that is why I’ve endorsed it. Let me tell you more about my good friend, Dr. Frank Lipman. Dr. Frank Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, meditation, and yoga. Now recognized as a vocal pioneer of integrative and functional medicine (or what he calls “good medicine”), Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and the Chief Medical Officer at The Well. He is a sought-after international speaker and the best-selling author of six books—How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young & Slim for Life, Revive and Total Renewal – and his newest book, The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality. From taking care of your feet to making sure you’re getting enough magnesium, Dr. Lipman hones in on what really matters as we look to keeping ourselves healthy, active, and vibrant. For more from Dr. Lipman, follow him on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

Dr. Frank Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, meditation and yoga. Now recognized as a vocal pioneer of integrative and functional medicine (or what he calls “good medicine”), Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and the Chief Medical Officer at The Well. He is a sought-after international speaker and the best-selling author of six books—How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young & Slim for Life, Revive and Total Renewal - and his newest book, The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/agethoughtfully/support

Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade at various institutions, including as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. The Beauty in Breaking, her first book, is now a New York Times bestseller.  

En este episodio estaremos compartiendo con el Dr. Julio Ovalle, residente de segundo año del Lincoln Hospital en New York, quien utilizó el curso de Kaplan como fuente para Step 1 y Step 2 y nos cuenta su experiencia así como los planes que ofrecen, costo y beneficios del mismo. Somos dos IMG apasionadas en ayudar a las personas que desean ejercer su especialidad médica en Estados Unidos. Para mas información seguirnos en youtube e Instagram @imgroadtousmle o contactarnos a imgroadtousmle@gmail.com Contacto del Dr. Julio Ovalle email: julioovallemd@hotmail.com

“It’s the possibility of greater change that rejuvenates me,” says Michele Harper, MD. “That’s what makes it possible for me to keep going.” Harper is an emergency room physician who has worked as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the VA medical center in Philadelphia. She is also the author of The Beauty in Breaking. Today, she joins host Elise Loehnen to share how she manages the emotional strain of being witness to so much suffering, what she’s learned from her patients about healing, and why she sees her commitment to positive change as a form of meditation. “It is all so depleting—all of it,” she says. “But I’ve always turned my grief, my pain, my suffering into action.” (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Frank Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became Board Certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident in his final year of residency at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and the weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, biofeedback, meditation and yoga. He began to see that the polarization between how western modalities and other healing philosophies merely negated the positive attributes of both. He saw that true healing lay in a blend between the two. He now practices his unique composite of what he calls “Good Medicine”, combining all the systems in which he has trained. Dr Lipman has consulted high-profile patients, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal and is the best-selling author of 5 books (with an additional 2 in the wings for publication at the end of 2020 and early 2021!) Join us as we explore:How Chinese Medicine taught Dr Lipman to think differently The functioning sweet spot on the spectrum between illness and healthHow functional medicine has created an operating manual for doctors in AmericaThe role of mentors and health coaches in a healing journeyToxins, EMF, your microbiome and how to protect yourselfThe Carnivore Diet, CGM and the role of personalizing your nutritionDr. Lipman's top tips for sustained transformationJoin our community:Facebook MadeToThriveZA; SteveStavsZAInstagram SteveStavsZAMentions:KwaNdebelehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KwaNdebeleDr. Paul Davishttp://www.beitemanuel.co.za/chairman-2/Book: A Barefoot Doctor's Manual: The American Translation of the Official Chinese Paramedical Manual; John E. Fogartyhttps://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Doctors-Manual-Translation-Paramedical/dp/091429492XFather of Functional Medicine: Jeffrey Bland https://jeffreybland.com/about-me/Dr Stephanie Seneffhttps://www.csail.mit.edu/person/stephanie-seneffBooks by Dr Lipman:How to Be Well: The 6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Well-Happy-Healthy/dp/168441170XThe New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality: https://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Aging-Well-Resilience/dp/1579659594Health coaching tuition (Dr. Lipman teaches at both):https://www.integrativenutrition.com/career/healthcoachinghttps://www.mindbodygreen.com/classes/functional-nutrition-coachingContact Dr. Lipman:www.drfranklipman.comPodcast- Tune into Wellness: https://drfranklipman.com/podcasts/

Season 1 Episode 4 features an interview with Chanel Porchia Albert. We discuss how she became a doula, why she started Ancient Song Doula Services, the role of doulas in and beyond birthwork, and how Ancient Song is pivoting during this pandemic moment. We also chat about intergenerational hope and birthwork as political work for both the birthing person and the doula supporting them.Chanel Porchia Albert Bio:Commissioner Chanel L. Porchia Albert CD, CPD, CLC, CHHC is the Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ancient Song Doula Services: a reproductive health organization of over 70 full-spectrum community-based doulas focused on providing resources and full-spectrum doula services to women of color and marginalized communities throughout NYC and Northern New Jersey. She is a certified lactation counselor, midwifery assistant, and vegan chef who has served on various advisory boards throughout the country. When she is not working on legislative policy or facilitating workshops, you can find her spending time with her six children.References During the Episode:Follow Chanel (@chanel_porchia) and Ancient Song Doula Services (@ancientsong) on InstagramLearn more about the Listen to Me Now! CampaignIf you live in NYC and need a care package/box from Ancient Song, email info@ancientsongdoulaservices.comDonate to Ancient Song via PayPal or via their Amazon wishlistStay tuned for announcements from Ancient Song about the Virtual Decolonizing Birth Conference in Fall 2020 and recipients of the Juneteenth Birthworker Seed FundYoung Lords takeover of Lincoln Hospital in 1970 on WNYCQuestions to consider after the episode:How can we center intergenerational hope in birthwork and community organizing?How to engage people who experience oppression and marginalization in political organizing and policy work? In world building work? How do we meet folks where they are so they too can bring their voices and experiences into the processes that shape our world? Birthwork is political work. For birthworkers: what is the work you can do to address unequal birth outcomes and experiences?Hosted by Taja LindleyProduced by Colored Girls HustleMusic, Soundscape and Audio Engineering by Emma AlabasterSupport our work on Patreon or make a one-time payment via PayPalFor more information visit BirthJustice.nyc This podcast is made possible, in part, by the Narrative Power Stipend - a grant funded by Forward Together for members of&Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TajaLindley)

Michele Harper, emergency room physician and the author The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2020), talks about her work as an emergency room physician at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx as a Black woman and reflects on that work in the current time.

Mia Donovan and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Dope is Death, community acupuncture, police resistance, drug addiction, protest that leads to practical action, freedom from oppression and healthcare as a human right.TrailerAnd learn more about Mia and her work here.Synopsis:Dope is Death tells the story of how political radicals developed the first acupuncture detox clinic in America during the early 1970s. Under the leadership of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of the late Tupac Shakur, Lincoln Detox became the first and only politically run drug treat program ever funded by the government.The clinic grew out of a militant occupation of the Lincoln Hospital by members of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords who viewed heroin and methadone as weapons of chemical warfare waged on poor, black and Puerto Rican communities to pacify resistance. The clinic’s overt rejection of methadone maintenance and its deep political ties with black and Puerto Rican Nationalist groups directly confronted Nixon’s freshly launched War on Drugs campaign and Big Pharma. Despite the fact that Lincoln Detox helped thousands of people detox from heroin and methadone, the clinic was shut down in 1978. The radicals were disbanded. Some went back on the streets.Dr. Mutulu Shakur continued his work at his new clinic in Harlem called BAAANA (Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America), however the lack of government subsidies made the clinic less accessible to those who really needed it and forced them to look for other ways to procure funds.About Mia:Mia Donovan is an award-winning filmmaker based in Montreal. She made two documentaries, Inside Lara Roxx and DeProgrammed. She was the recipient of the prestigious Don Haig Award for outstanding achievement as an emerging filmmaker in 2012. Her films have been presented worldwide at film festivals, on TV broadcasts, theatrically and on digital platforms such as Netflix. In 2016 she wrote and directed her first virtual reality experience called DeProgrammed VR, which won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling that year. She is currently in development on her first narrative feature film called The Touch of Her Flesh.She recently directed and produced her first music video for Rufus Wainwright’s song Trouble in Paradise.Image Copyright and Credit: Mia Donovan and Eye Steel Films.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I talk to Dr. Vershalee Shukla and Dr. Pablo Prichard and they discuss factors as to the upsurge of cancer in young people, the importance of prevention and early detection of cancer among first responders, utilizing new technology to screen persons who are at risk of cancer due to environmental exposure, and instituting not just treatment plans but policy changes as well. Dr. Shukla and Dr. Prichard also share their very own best practices when things get stressful, their use of revolutionary technology like Zap, and dealing with immunocompromised patients in the time of COVID-19. Dr. Vershalee Shukla is the co-founder of Vincere Cancer Center. She is a board-certified radiation oncologist in private practice in the Phoenix and Scottsdale area for the past seven years. She went on to complete highly specialized training at the world-renowned University of Heidelberg, in Germany, in Proton and Heavy Ion therapy. Connect with Dr. Vershalee Shukla on Instagram @vincerecancer and Dr. Pablo Prichard @pabloprichard Read more about Vincere Cancer Center here: https://vincerecancer.com Dr. Pablo Prichard is the Chief of Plastic Surgery at John C. Lincoln Hospital, and Medical Director for Plastic Surgery. He is also a Senior Partner at Advanced Aesthetic Associates. Dr. Prichard is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a Diplomate of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. For more information about Dr. Prichard, redirect here: https://www.drprichard.com Intro and Outro Music: Hearts on Fire by Immersive Music Connect with me for inspiring and educational content on Instagram @warriormonk and Facebook: facebook.com/thewarriormonk Read more about the Warrior Monk mission here: www.thewarriormonk.com The repository of Warrior Monk Conversations podcast episodes are found here: https://www.thewarriormonk.me

On this episode of The Keto Kamp Podcast we have Dr. Adam Nalley. More About Dr. Adam Nalley  For more than 18 years, Adam Nally, DO has provided full-spectrum family medicine and obesity medicine care to his patients. In his role at Nally Family Practice in Surprise, Arizona, Dr. Nally works with patients of all ages, from newborn to geriatric ages. In addition to weight loss and family medicine, Dr. Nally offers diabetes care, high cholesterol management, laser hair removal, laser facials, laser tattoo removal,  and much more. Dr. Nally’s approach is a comprehensive one: he combines nutritional and functional medicine with the latest cutting-edge evidence-based services. Dr. Nally earned his undergraduate degree at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. He went on to earn his medical degree at A.T. Still University of Health Sciences in Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Nally completed his internship at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, and then completed his residency through the John C. Lincoln Family Medicine Residency Program, also in Phoenix. He was chief resident and was awarded the “Outstanding Resident of the Year” award by the American Osteopathic Foundation in 2001. Dr. Nally completed his health policy fellowship at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. Dr. Nally is the president of Arizona Primary Care Physicians, and he’s an active member of American Osteopathic Association, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Society of Bariatric Physicians and the Arizona Osteopathic Association. Dr. Nally loves helping patients get healthy, and patients love his passionate and committed manner. Use the online scheduler or call Nally Family Practice to book an appointment today. . Learn More About Dr. Nalley here:  https://www.nallyfamilypractice.com/ . You can watch this full lecture by Dr Nalley on the Keto Chow YouTube channel:  Keto Salt Lake 2019 - 06 - Dr. Adam Nalley: Tuning the Thyroid with Ketosis . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3n6gEia_iM  . // R E S O U R C E S  

For Dr. Frank Lipman, health is more than just the absence of disease: it is a total state of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing. Dr. Lipman is a widely recognized trailblazer and leader in functional and integrative medicine, and he is a New York Times best-selling author of five books, How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young and Slim for Life, Revive and Total Renewal. After his initial medical training in his native South Africa, Dr. Lipman spent 18 months working at clinics in the bush. He became familiar with the local traditional healers, called sangomas, which kindled his interest in non-Western healing modalities In 1984, Dr. Lipman immigrated to the United States, where he became the chief medical resident at Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, NY. While there, he became fascinated by the hospital’s addiction clinic, which used acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat people suffering from heroin and crack addiction. Seeing the way these patients responded so positively to acupuncture made him even more aware of the potential of implementing non-Western medicine to promote holistic wellbeing. As a medical student, he was taught to focus on the disease rather than the patient, and now as a doctor he found himself treating symptoms rather than the root causes of illness. Frustrated by the constraints of his training, and the limitations in helping his patients regain true health, he began a journey of discovery to search for the path to meaningful long-term health and wellness. He began studying nutrition, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, functional medicine, biofeedback, meditation, and yoga. Dr. Lipman founded the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in 1992, where he combines the best of Western medicine and cutting edge nutritional science with age-old healing techniques from the East. As his patient chef Seamus Mullen told The New York Times, “If antibiotics are right, he’ll try it. If it’s an anti-inflammatory diet, he’ll do that. He’s looking at the body as a system rather than looking at isolated things.” In addition to his practice, Dr. Lipman is the creator of Be Well, an expanding lifestyle wellness brand he founded in 2010 to help people create, sustain and lead healthier lives. He is also the instructor of the mbg Video Course, 14-Day Detox.  

This episode is of the workshop Seize Bellevue, recorded on June 9, 2018 at Performance Space New York to conclude Brujas’ three week exhibition and residency. Here we will discuss psychiatry as ideology and hold space for an informed and nuanced conversation on “mental health”. Seize Bellevue, inspired by Michel Foucault’s The Birth Of The Clinic, the occupation of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords in 1970, peer support models of addressing crisis, and the real life experiences of BRUJAS and their families navigating the mental health system. The line consists of hand made and dyed designer clothes and a zine calling for a compassionate and radical reconception of one of the more insidious carceral institutions – the pharmaceutical industry and our mental health crisis system. Consisting of both streetwear garments including hoodies, unisex boxers, crop-tops and gym wear, sewn and dyed ethically in California, as well as colorful fleece and muslin hospital gowns inspired by victorian-era hysteria with multiple styling options including detachable hoodies and sleeves. Seize Bellevue is “sick-wear for contemporary rebel youth.” BRUJAS World is brought to you by: mask.fm (http://mask.fm), a podcast network from Mask Magazine. To support this show and others, visit our Patreon (http://patreon.com/maskfm). BRUJAS (http://brujas.nyc) This episode was recorded at Performance Space New York on June 9, 2018 in New York, New York and edited by Joe Kujawa in Brooklyn, NY. Please take a moment to rate and review BRUJAS World on iTunes, which helps others discover our show. BRUJAS World was produced and edited by Joe Kujawa for mask.fm in Brooklyn, NY. For announcements, follow the network Twitter, @maskdotfm (https://twitter.com/maskdotfm). For feedback and information, contact: fm@mask-mag.com.

Known commonly as DocMuscles on the internet, Dr. Adam Nally is a boardcertified family practice physician and board-certified obesity medicine specialist with advanced curriculum obesity treatment and health policy fellowships. He provides his patients a health program that brings a heightened sense of well-being, health & vitality through a uniquely personalized approach. He treats the whole family from the cradle to the grave, and has a special focus on insulin resistance, diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension, and weight management. He is also specially trained in laser skin revitalization, fat sculpting, tattoo and hair removal. He is the owner and chief medical officer of Nally Family Practice and the Arizona Bariatric Institute. Dr. Nally is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker on health, ketogenic diets and exogenous ketone supplementation. He is the author of The Keto Cure (Victory Belt Publishing) to be released April 10, 2018. He is a blogger on, and the owner of DocMuscles.com. He was the cohost podcaster on the internationally recognized KetoTalk with Jimmy and the Doc, a top 50 health podcast available on iTunes. He served as the Past-President and member of the Executive Committee for the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, and is recognized as a Health Policy Fellow through the American Osteopathic Association. He serves as an Adjunct Professor, for both A.T. Still University and Midwestern University medical schools. Dr. Nally served for six years in Air Force Reserve as a Major in the Flight Medicine Department of the 944th Medical/Dental Fighter Squadron. He also served as the Team Physician for Willow Canyon High School from 2002-2010. After graduating from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, he attended medical school at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. He completed residency in 2002 at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, in Family Medicine where he served his last year as the Chief Resident. He is board certified in Obesity Medicine through the American Board of Obesity Medicine and completed a 500 hour Advanced Curriculum Fellowship through the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. He resides in Waddell, Arizona, with his wife and two children on a small ranch where he enjoys horseback riding, archery, camping, and gardening with his koi in his aquaponics garden and pond. He is an avid reader and enjoys active participation in his church. https://www.docmuscles.com/ The Keto Cure 

Today, my interview is with Dr. Frank Lipman. Dr. Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa, getting his degree in 1979 and emigrating to the United States in 1984. He became board-certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident in his final year of residency at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and the weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, biofeedback, meditation and yoga.

A pioneer in functional and integrative medicine, Dr. Frank Lipman is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City and the author of many New York Times-bestselling books, including 10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat, The New Health Rules. and Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Start Living Again.Born into an activist family in then apartheid South Africa, he was taught to always question norms and authority. This ethos followed him into his initial training as a doctor in South Africa. In his early work in a Soweto hospital, he was exposed to non-traditional healers who were able to accomplish what a more traditional approach to medicine struggled with.He then emigrated to the United States in 1984, where he worked in the South Bronx, becoming Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital at the height of the crack epidemic. There, again, Lipman, began to see the limitations of traditional medicine in treating addiction, and embraced complimentary modalities. He deepened his study of nutrition, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, functional medicine, biofeedback, meditation, and yoga and began to form a more integrated approach to the practice of medicine and wellbeing.Frank eventually founded the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in 1992, combining cutting-edge nutritional science with age-old healing techniques from the East. In a quest to bring this unique approach to the masses, he then founded BE WELL, based on the belief that everyone should have a fundamental right to be healthy.Frank lives according to the philosophy of Ubuntu, a Xhosa word that serves as the spiritual foundation of African societies and articulates a basic understanding, caring, respect, and compassion for others. In his words, “what makes us human is the humanity we show each other.”Be sure to subscribe to our weekly Good Life Updates and listen on iTunes to make sure you never miss an episode!+++THIS WEEK’S PODCAST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY+++Today’s episode is sponsored by Camp GLP, the ultimate summer-camp for entrepreneurs, makers and world-shakers!

A pioneer and internationally recognized expert in the fields of Integrative and Functional Medicine, Dr Frank Lipman is the founder and director of Eleven-Eleven Wellness Center in New York City, where his personal brand of healing has helped thousands of people reclaim their vitality and recover their zest for life. Dr. Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa, qualifying in 1979 and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident in his final year of residency at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and the weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, biofeedback, meditation and yoga. He began to see that the polarization between western modalities and other healing philosophies merely negated positive attributes of both. He saw that true healing lay in a blend between the two. He now practices his unique blend of what he calls “Good Medicine”, combining all the systems in which he has trained. A New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Lipman has written 4 books: Total Renewal – 7 Key Steps to Resilience Vitality and Long Term Health; Revive – End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again; The New Health Rules – Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-Body Wellness; and his latest book 10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat.

British director John Tiffany, who had a huge success with the play Black Watch, is now working on a Broadway musical version of the romantic film Once. The film, set in Dublin, won an Oscar in 2007 for best original song - but wasn't a musical. John Tiffany discusses how he's brought an Irish bar to the New York stage. Writer Lyndsay Faye's new crime thriller, Gods Of Gotham, is set in 1840s New York, when the city's police force was founded. Much of the novel is written in Flash, the criminal slang of the day, which was documented by the city's first police chief. Lyndsay Faye reflects on how she researched the era. Kirsty visits Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx, where they've introduced a scheme to allow artists and performers without health insurance to trade their creative talents for treatment. Writer and performer Mike Daisey is a self-confessed geek, whose latest show, The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs, describes his love affair with technology. He describes how this led him to China, to seek out the workers who labour in the factories assembling Apple's computers - and he reveals what he found.