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Spring has well and truly sprung and our gardens are bursting into life. It's a time of excitement and anticipation for the growing year ahead. Monty Don reveals his gardening plans for the year at Longmeadow, what he loves about spring, and shares details about his upcoming Chelsea Flower Show garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kathy Martin crafted an impressive career in higher education before pivoting, in the fall of 2023, to the world of senior living as president and CEO of Glenmeadow, a venerable Longmeadow facility that specializes in independent living, assisted living, and at-home care. It's been an intriguing career change that gives this lifelong learner the chance to impact a much different demographic than college students. On the next episode of BusinessTalk, Martin talks to BusinessWest Editor Joe Bednar about challenges in senior care today, an exciting new program that recognizes accomplished individuals over age 60 around the region, and much more. It's must listening, so tune into BusinessTalk, a podcast presented by BusinessWest.

He was born the year before the Revolution began.  His mother died before his 7th birthday.  His father ended up in debtor's prison and provided material aid to men involved in Shays's Rebellion. Yet his story is known to many and has been portrayed in song, story and animated movies across the world.  This is the story of John Chapman, aka "Johnny Appleseed" who left his impoverished home in Longmeadow, Massachusetts to spendhis life wandering the Northwest Territory creating nurseries for apple trees as far away Ohio and Indiana.   Melissa M. Cybulski, Vice President of the Longmeadow Historical Society and author of Appleseeds:  A Boy Named Johnny Chapman  she shares with us the role of the Chapman family, Longmeadow & Western Massachusetts in the age of the American Revolution.Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

Monty talks about the nation's favourite flower, roses, and his love of these beautiful plants. His cottage garden at Longmeadow is dominated by roses and he offers advice on how to look after roses from the wide varieties, how to plant and rose care throughout the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gina Ferazzi grew up in the small New England town of Longmeadow, Mass. Gina went to the University of Maine for Journalism. Four years at the Lewiston Sun-Journal in Maine and other four years at the San Bernardino Sun. She has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a part of the staff Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News in 2016 for the San Bernardino terrorist attack and for the wildfires in 2004. She's an all-around photographer covering assignments from Winter Olympics, presidential campaigns to local and national news events. Her video documentaries include stories on black tar heroin, health clinics, women priests and Marine suicide. A two-sport scholarship athlete at the University of Maine, Orono, she still holds the record for five goals in one field hockey game. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-brown57/support

This month on DIG IT Peter Brown and Chris Day discuss the latest gardening news, what's on's and as the peak gardening season is well underway, a look at those tasks to keep your garden looking its best this month and beyond.What's on2 – 7th July: RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is held in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace, Richmond.12th July and 4th August: The Big Butterfly Count 2024.17 – 21st July: RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in Cheshire.20th July: Great Dixter Summer Plant Fair at Great Dixter Gardens, Rye, East Sussex.NewsPlant Heritage will showcase a range of its National Plant Collections, including Kniphofia, Rubus and Hosta (miniature and small) at Hampton Court. New 4-year project by the University of London is evaluating prescribing social pursuits like gardening to children. New garden around the Natural History Museum opens this month.The BBC Gardeners' World presenter Monty Don will be out on tour to share tales from his garden at Longmeadow and gardens he has visited around the world.Belinda Howell has been appointed chair of the Peat-free Partnership to establish peat-free legislation across the UK and NI.Susan Raikes is appointed the new Director of Wakehurst at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Nick Bailey, Gardener's World presenter is appointed director of the University Leicester's botanic garden.Percy Thrower's greenhouse, which once featured Shrewsbury's main park, The Quarry, is to be restored by Shrewsbury Men's Shed.Bumper year for Box Tree Caterpillar reveals RHS.Be alert for toxic oak processionary moth caterpillars.How to take part in the Great Stag Hunt to help record the UK's largest, and endangered beetle.Asian Hornets: help needed to irradicate imported bee-killers.The winning plants at last month's BBC Gardeners World Live Show, include Hydrangea Eclipse and Apple Peter's Gold. New plant awards annouced at the HTA Show including Digitalis Apple Blossom and Prunus Crystal Falls.This month's DIG IT top 5: Strawberry varieties. 1st Strawberry ‘Symphony' 2nd ‘Cambridge Favourite' 3rd ‘Hapil' 4th ‘Honeoye' and in 5th ‘Elsanta'.Plant mentions: Apples (variety Scrumptious), Cherries, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Delphiniums, Euonymus Jean Hugues, Euonymus Green Spire, Pears, Plum, Sweet corn, Yew, Lonicera nitida, fuchsias, Dianthus, Carnations, Purple loosestrife, and Salvia Hot Lips. Sow Foxgloves, Sweet Williams, Wallflowers and Forget-me-nots and veggies including Round Carrots, Beetroot, Radish, Lettuce, and Spring Onions. Continue to plant Tomatoes and Peppers.Product mentions: Bug Clear Ultra 2, Box Tree Caterpillar Killer Nematodes, Poppyforge plant supports, bird food, straw and terracotta pots for earwig control.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we take a look at how the state of Massachusetts qualifies athletes to their outdoor state track and field meet. *Fun Fact: Athletes in Massachusetts have the opportunity to compete in the javelin, 400m IH, AND the pentathlon at their state championship meet!

Longmeadow volunteer fire company responds to a house fire on Thursday. A new bill may allow a new form of gambling in Frederick. Board of Education decides on new redistricting plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When you get rid of the things that are physically in the way, you have more time and more clarity, you can see what is next for you and it is life-changing. -Eileen Reed Years ago Eileen Reed was killing it in sales. Sure, there were plenty of financial benefits but she just wasn't happy. Eileen wasn't healthy, either. For the first time in her life, she was overweight, she was plagued by migraines and high blood pressure. At one point, she even thought she was having a heart attack. It was a family loss that served as a wake-up call for Eileen, compelling her to rethink her career and launch a whole new business. Today, Simplify with Eileen www.simplifywitheileen.com is thriving and so is she, offering coaching, hands-on reorganization of home and work spaces, online auctions and so much more. Says Eileen: “All too often, we attach too much value to things. When we declutter, we unburden ourselves. We are finally able to get out from under it all.” Raised in the little town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Eileen is one of five children who was taught at an early age to be a contributing member of her family and society. In this interview, we learn that Eileen has combined her old-school values with a new philosophy: “I'm an essentialist. I believe in the disciplined pursuit of less.” If you could use an organization coach, 20 minutes of wisdom is just a download away. #declutter #reorganization #essentialist #onlineauctions

Hailing from Longmeadow, MA, Peter Venti says hello. Having received proper exposure to music as a kid, after his three years of mandatory piano lessons, and exploring the bass guitar in college, this keys player/singer ends up in Arizona in the late 80s. He mucked it up in various bands such as Garage Mahal, The Unholy Alliance, The New Subterraineans, Black Sheep Choir, Suffering Bastards and eventually in 2004 we start a band called Ten Dollar Outfit. From it's creation at an open mic at Rula Bula in 2004, to making our first studio album "East Meets West," this trio still performs to this day. Many studio and live albums later, we still enjoy making that music. For more information and to listen to TDO, please visit: www.tdo.brianchartrand.com/music

Welcome to Rock Your Shine: After you've been cracked wide open. On this show, I sit down with people from all over the world to hear their transformational stories on their deep grief and loss journeys.  In this deeply personal and emotional episode, we embark on a journey with Melanie as she copes with her surgeon father's terminal disease and subsequent death. After receiving a blood transfusion with tainted blood during open-heart surgery in 1985, he learned he was HIV positive. We delve into the profound impact of her father's diagnosis at a time when HIV was highly misunderstood and stigmatized and HIV patients were shunned and ostracized. To protect his family, Melanie's father decided his illness would be kept a secret by the whole family. We  explore the ripple effects it had on her and her family dynamics. Melanie shares the pivotal moment of discovering that her father had AIDS, forever changing her life. The unresolved grief and anger stemming from her father's diagnosis and passing come to the forefront, as we explore the complex emotions she grappled with. Melanie reflects on the confusion surrounding the need to keep her father's illness a secret, further burdened by the weight of her silent struggle. Having a confidant outside of her family proved to be a lifeline for Melanie, providing solace amidst the turmoil. We explore the concept of living with anticipatory grief, a constant companion throughout her journey, and the profound impact it had on her perspective. Melanie recounts the heart-wrenching story of her father's passing, sharing the indelible mark it left on her life. We delve into her decision to start therapy almost 20 years later, unraveling the layers of pain and grief she carried for so long. Waves of grief wash over Melanie at different moments, reminding her of the deep love she shared with her father. In a transformative realization, she connects her grief to her panic attacks, shedding light on the interconnectedness of emotions and their physical manifestations. We discuss the emotional process of writing her book, A Hard Silence: one daughter remaps family, grief and faith, when HIV/AIDS changes it all, a cathartic and intimate journey that allowed Melanie to confront her grief head-on. Exploring her path to healing, we delve into what self-love looks like for Melanie today and how she navigates her ongoing journey. Lastly, we ask Melanie to define hope, providing listeners with a profound understanding of resilience and the transformative power of love. Join us for this raw and honest exploration of grief, healing, and the enduring strength of the human spirit. Melanie is a writer, a teacher and a mother living in National New Hampshire. She currently teaches professional writing at Northeastern University in Boston, mass and creative writing in the MFA program at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She completed her MFA in creative non-fiction through the Stoner Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine, and she is currently completing a certificate in narrative medicine at Columbia University. **TRIGGER WARNING** This episode covers sensitive subject matter and is not suitable for all listeners. If this topic could be a trigger for you, listen to this episode with a friend, a sibling, a loved one or a parent so you can talk about any emotions that come up for you. The contents of this episode are not intended to replace therapy and should not be taken as such. If you need immediate help, please call the crisis hotline listed below in our resources. Listen in as we talk about: [1:35] Her father's HIV infection after undergoing surgery   [6:50] The experience of finding out about your father having AIDS [11:20] The unresolved grief and anger from his diagnosis and passing [15:45] The confusion around needing to keep his illness a secret  [18:40] Having a confidant outside of her family  [22:30] Living with anticipatory grief  [27:25] The story of her father's passing  [33:30] Starting therapy almost 20 years later [34:55] Grief hitting her in waves, at different moments throughout her journey [40:30] The lightbulb moment that grief was triggering her panic attacks [50:00] Writing her book, and the emotional process behind it [53:50] What self love looks like for Melanie today [55:30] Hope is…   Resources mentioned in this episode: Book: https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Mining-River-Sibling-Grief/dp/1732888892/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Rock+On%3A+Mining+for+joy&qid=1570199126&sr=8-1  L.E.A.P 6 week virtual course: https://rockyourshine.com/l-e-a-p-into-light-and-healing-6-week-virtual-course/   BetterHelp Go to https://betterhelp.com/rockyourshine for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help. #sponsored   Grief Hotline:  https://www.griefresourcenetwork   Connect with Melanie  https://www.melaniebrooks.com/ https://www.melaniebrooks.com/books-1 https://www.facebook.com/melanie.brooks.1690 https://twitter.com/MelanieJMBrooks https://www.instagram.com/melaniejmbrookswriter/   Connect with Susan http://instagram.com/susan.casey/  https://www.facebook.com/Susan-E-Casey-101187148084982  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDcl58l8qUwO3dDYk83wOFA  https://rockyourshine.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@leapwithsusan?   

Our weather is changing, with extremes in heat, cold, wind and rain all becoming more common. The summer of 2022 saw extreme drought and blistering temperatures in many areas of the UK, which was followed by a very wet autumn and a winter with freezing temperatures like we've not seen in decades. The weather is becoming unpredictable and, if you're a gardener, extremely challenging to cope with. We chat to the nation's head gardener, Monty Don, about how weather extremes are changing the way we garden. Just how is the weather impacting Monty's own garden, Longmeadow, and what is he going to need to do differently in years to come? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K535: About the US - Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. 西雅圖的公立學區對TikTok、Instagram、臉書（Facebook）、YouTube和Snapchat背後的科技巨頭提出一項新的訴訟，試圖讓它們對青少年的心理健康危機負責。 Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children. 西雅圖公立學校週五在美國地方法院提起訴訟。這份長達91頁的訴狀指稱，這些社群媒體公司將旗下產品鎖定兒少，已造成公害。 It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers. 訴狀指控它們導致（兒少）心理健康和行為障礙惡化，包括焦慮、憂鬱、飲食失調和網路霸凌，使得教育學生變得更加困難，迫使學校採取相關措施，例如雇用更多心理健康專業人員、制定有關社群媒體影響的課程計畫，以及為教師提供額外培訓。 Next Article Massachusetts woman accused of assaulting officers with swarm of angry bees （釋放狂暴蜜蜂襲警 麻薩諸塞州女子挨告） Rorie Woods, a 55-year-old professional beekeeper from Massachusetts, stands accused of using a swarm of bees as a dangerous weapon while deputies were trying to serve an eviction notice. 麻薩諸塞州55歲專業蜂農羅莉‧伍茲，在縣警準備執行驅逐令時，把一大群蜜蜂當成對付警察的危險武器，因而遭到控罪。 The incident unfolded when Woods drove a SUV to the home in Longmeadow, towing a stack of beehives. At arriving, she exited the vehicle and tried to open the lids to unleash the bees. 這起事件發生在伍茲開著一台休旅車、後頭拖著一堆蜂箱前往朗梅多的一戶住宅時。抵達後，她下車試圖打開蓋子放出蜜蜂。 A sheriff's deputy tried to stop her, but as the bees started getting out and circling the area, he pulled back. Woods then smashed the lid of one hive, agitating the bees. They swarmed the area, stinging several officers and bystanders who were nearby. 一名縣警試圖阻止她，但因蜜蜂開始飛出並四處盤旋，他不敢上前。伍茲之後砸開其中一個蜂箱的蓋子，激怒這些蜜蜂，一大群蜜蜂衝出，叮咬多名警員和附近的路人。 Meanwhile Woods put on a professional beekeeper suit to protect herself. 與此同時，伍茲穿上專業的蜂農服裝保護自己。 The residence belonged to a man who had been litigating against his removal for years, garnering support of anti-eviction activists, including Woods. 這個住所住著一名多年來持續就驅逐令進行爭訟的男子，此事受到反驅逐志工的支持，包括伍茲。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1571057 Powered by Firstory Hosting

In this Lost Massachusetts Episode we take a zig-zag drive through the Mass/Conn border examining the odd crossings between Southwick, Mass & Granby, Conn; Longmeadow, Mass & Enfield, Conn; and a 12-second crossing in the Douglas State Forest. There are also waterfront properties where the house is in one state but the beach is in another. Take a good look at the Mass/Connecticut border, it's not a straight line, not even close. From New York the mass border slopes north, then south, then drops into Connecticut for miles in places, slopes north again, then south again and then finally straight down where it meets the Rhode Island border. A bad survey line established in 1642 marked a disputed state line that placed a dozen or more Connecticut towns within Massachusetts. It would take almost two hundred years to settle this dispute. Why was the line so inaccurate? Because the people who did it conducted their measurements from a ship instead of on the land. They took measurements from the ocean and the Connecticut River which were not much better than guesses. Connecticut did not even have its own royal charter 1662, it was a mishmash of adjacent colonies centered around New Haven and Saybrook that did not combine until later. This was the period of history where the Netherlands was loosing control to England, including the Dutch possessions in New England. When they received their charter, Connecticut put its version of the state line well above the 1642 line, but this remained an issue of dispute and confusion between the two states. More settlers moved into the towns not always clear on where they lived. Connecticut conducted a new line survey in 1695 which massachusetts ignored. Mass did not like the results from another survey conducted in 1702 either. in 1713 the two colonies simply agreed to divide up the towns in the disputed area, but the towns impacted by the change did not like being tossed around so another survey was chartered. Strangely, the new border agreed to by massachusetts put several towns that were clearly settled by massachusetts in Connecticut. These towns were shifted back to massachusetts which made the various jogs we see on the map. If you think this ended the issue it did not since some settlers in massachusetts wanted to be part of connecticut because the taxes were lower. Imagine that. So the border shifted again for some people. In 1797 part of the border was adjusted because a river used as a marker had...moved. After the revolution the issue was revisited in 1801 but was not redrawn until 1826 and agreed on until 1840. All of this confusion was compounded by the fact that many stone markers, while intended to show the actuate borders were in the wrong place. It was also found that some settlers have moved marker stones to expand their own farms. These discrepancies were not fixed until 1941. The issues did not end there as new technology in the early 2000s made more accurate measurements and these results showed many border lines to be invalid. Believe it or not, Connecticut's eastern border with Rhode Island is still in dispute. These are the towns above the 1642 survey line: Thompson, Woodstock, Union, Stafford, Somers, Enfield, Suffield, Granby, Windsor Locks, Hartland, Barkhamsted, Winchester, Colebrook, Norfolk, Canaan, Salsbury, Millerton NY. The towns specifically settled and claimed by Massachusetts: Woodstock, Somers, Enfield, Suffield. Sources, photos and more information at lostmassachusetts.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lostmass/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lostmass/support

Handling protestors is all in a day's work for police officers across the world. From facing abuses to defending themselves against projectiles such as stones, there is not much they are not ready for. However, deputies from the Sheriff's Department in Hampden County, Massachusetts, recently faced something that they would have never imagined even in their wildest dreams: a protestor attacking them with thousands of bees. The bizarre incident occurred on 12 October 2022 in Longmeadow, Hamden County, when members of the Sheriff's Civil Process Division were executing an eviction order at a home. Rorie Susan Woods, 55, a resident of Hadley, Hamden County (over 20 miles from Hamden County), drove to the location with several bee hive towers and set the insects upon the deputies, injuring several of them. She was arrested, arraigned, and released without bail. Stating that he had never "seen something like this", Robert Hoffman, Chief Deputy of the Civil Process Office, said in a statement: "I'm just thankful no one died because bee allergies are serious. I hope that these out-of-county protesters will reconsider using such extreme measures in the future because they will be charged and prosecuted." Woods faces multiple charges of assault and battery. According to the statement, deputies from the Sheriff's Civil Process Division were enforcing a court-ordered eviction at a house—that has been under the process of eviction for nearly two years—in the Memery Lane area of Longmeadow on the morning of 12 October. Several protestors were also present on site to oppose the eviction. Importantly, Woods was not a resident of the house and lived in Hadley, around 25 miles away from Longmeadow. At around 9:15 am, when the officers were at the mentioned residence, Woods arrived in her SUV with a trailer carrying multiple bee hive towers in tow. She got out of the vehicle and began "shaking" a hive and tried to release the thousands of bees stored in it. A deputy immediately boarded the trailer and attempted to stop Woods. However, she managed to smash the lid of the tower, causing bees to escape and sting the deputy several times on his head and face. Following this, Woods tossed the entire hive tower on the ground, which agitated the bees it held, and caused them to swarm the area. Several deputies were stung as a result. The 55-year-old, however, was not done. She wore a beekeeper's suit and moved on to another tower with the intention of releasing more bees. Luckily, she was stopped by the deputies and apprehended. After being arrested, the Woods called out to another protester and asked them to take care of her pet dog who had accompanied her and was in the SUV. As she was being walked to the department's cruiser, a deputy informed Woods that he and some of his colleagues were allergic to bees. She responded: "Oh, you're allergic? Good." Nick Cocchi, Sheriff of Hamden County, commented that the department is always prepared to handle protests at evictions. However, he noted that most protesters know that his office is carrying out its statutory duty in accordance with the law. "But this woman, who traveled here, put lives in danger as several of the staff on the scene are allergic to bees. We had one staff member go to the hospital and luckily, he was alright or she would be facing manslaughter charges," he added. Following her arrest, Woods was arraigned and released without bail. She faces seven felonies and one misdemeanor charge and is set to appear in court at a later date.

Keith Campbell, head coach of Longmeadow (Mass.) High School, joins the podcast as a champion. He helped lead Longmeadow to the Division 2 boy's lacrosse championship this past summer in a double overtime thriller. Coach Campbell discusses the big win, and talks about what it takes for a public school to maintain a top-level program.

On this rebroadcast, you'll hear a seasoned pro taking Chion into the depths of a dumpster in West Springfield, Massachusetts, plus a tik tok star talks about how she got hooked on dumpster diving. You'll also get some do's and don'ts from a guy who wrote a book about it! GUESTS:  Robert Vadas is the author of A Beginner's Guide to Dumpster Diving and the creator of the Facebook group, Dumpster Diving Tips and Finds Tiffany Butler from Denton, Texas, is also known on Tiktok as “The Dumpster Diving Mama”. She has 2.4 million followers. Deirdre lives in Longmeadow, MA. She goes dumpster diving regularly Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monty's garden at Longmeadow is among the most famous gardens in Britain, thanks to its starring role every Friday evening on Gardeners' World. But it's been the private garden – and passion – of Monty and his wife Sarah for 30 years, created from a bare field of rough grass with a lot of energy and imagination. In this podcast, Monty takes us back to its beginnings and shares how much has changed in the time – even though today's garden layout remains as he imagined it back in 1992. And he reveals, for all his travels around the gardens of the world, that it remains his private refuge – and there's nowhere else he'd rather be. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Her debut novel, Two-Family House, was a USA Today bestseller and a nominee for the Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards in Historical Fiction.Her second novel, The Wartime Sisters, was selected as a Woman's World Book Club pick and a Best Book of 2019 by Real Simple Magazine. The Matchmakers Gift is her third novel.Intro roll for WTPC

Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow and Father Richard McGowan analyze the Senate vote on sports betting and the odds of passage by the Legislature.

For today's Move Well Radio Podcast, Dr. Alex is joined by Lindsay McKee. She is a devoted mom of two kids and the owner of Fit4mom. They discuss the classes that they offer and how their community support moms of all ages to be the best version of themselves. In this episode: 00:57 – What is Fit4moms? 03:10 – Lindsay discusses how Fit4moms helped both mom and kids. 06:23 – Lindsay talks about the classes that they offer and recommends which one to start with. 13:23 – Lindsay shares how they support pregnant mothers and help them recover after giving birth. 17:56 – What is the Body-Well program? 21:45 – How does Lindsay help moms who had complicated pregnancies get back on track? 24:47 – Lindsay talks about how they inspire family bonding activity in their classes. 27:46 – Lindsay discuss a bit about the struggles of kids who grew up during the pandemic. 30:40 – Lindsay shares how she got into Fit4moms and eventually started her business. 33:47 – Fast round with Lindsay. For more information, visit and shoot her a message on: Instagram: @f4m_longmeadow Facebook: FIT4MOM Longmeadow Website: FIT4MOM --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/move-well-radio/message

I speak with Janice Berliner, Genetic Counselor, Author, and Genetic Counseling Program Director at Bay Path University.  We talk about Genetic Counseling training, telemedicine, and the logistics of getting to Longmeadow, Massachusetts.  In Good Conscience, her fictional book, talks about a celebrity with Lynch Syndrome.  I may have commented in the back of book.  Little known fact is that Janice discovered genetics and is on Mount Rushmore.   

This week's episode features Michele Marantz from the Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group. She and many others have spent the last several years fighting to stop a new gas metering station in Longmeadow, MA and a new gas pipeline from Longmeadow to Springfield. Tune in to hear Michele talk about working in coalition with other communities, building political power, and understanding the complexities of our gas permitting system. You can support the campaign by checking out the website (https://www.stopthetoxicpipeline.org/), and finding the involved groups on Facebook (Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group; or Springfield Climate Justice Coalition) or Twitter (@LongmeadowG). You can sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ban-construction-of-gas-meter-station-and-high-pressure-pipeline-in-longmeadow-and-springfield Learn more about Community Action Works on our website: https://communityactionworks.org/. We're also on Facebook (Community Action Works), Twitter (@ComActionWorks), and Instagram (@ComActionWorks).

You're listening to the Westerly Sun's podcast, where we talk about the best local events, new job postings, obituaries, and more. First, a bit of Rhode Island trivia. Today's trivia is brought to you by Perennial. Perennial's new plant-based drink “Daily Gut & Brain” is a blend of easily digestible nutrients crafted for gut and brain health. A convenient mini-meal, Daily Gut & Brain” is available now at the CVS Pharmacy in Wakefield. Now, some trivia. Did you know that Rhode Island native, Paul Francois Guay is a retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Flyers, the Kings, the Bruins, and the Islanders? Paul played for the 1984 US Olympic team and scored one goal with the team. He is now a captain in the Pawtucket Fire Department. Next, an event that you should know about… Tonight from 7 to 11pm the Westerly Armory is holding a Halloween ball. Admission is $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Wear a costume! See you there! Next, Are you interested in a new opportunity? Look no further, we're here again with another new job listing. Today's posting comes from the City of Norwich. They're looking for 911 Emergency Dispatchers and your responsibility will be to handle and keep accurate communications of calls made to the emergency system.  Pay starts at $51,000 per year. If you're interested, you can read more and apply by using the link in our episode description. https://www.indeed.com/jobs?l=Westerly%2C%20RI&mna=5&aceid&gclid=Cj0KCQjwpf2IBhDkARIsAGVo0D2S3gEb-328GyRpBuTTeeKPdn3-klOh0KYAsfete6MEZmI5S4qTg-4aAnQkEALw_wcB&vjk=c91650dde4931e5f Today we're remembering the life of Margaret Mary Clark. Margaret was born in Pawtucket in 1931. She married the love of her life, Jerry Clark in 1949 and they had two children together. Margaret's favorite work was as a Direct Support Professional at the Frank Olean Center. She was awarded the OSARR Direct Support Professional Award in 2003 and was proud of the fact that she worked until she was 75 years old. In addition to her daughter, she leaves behind 5 grandchildren, as well as 7 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.  She was predeceased by her beloved granddaughter, Kayla Rae Cher-kas-Clark of Longmeadow, MA. Margaret's family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to the devoted staff at the Westerly Health Center for their exemplary, compassionate care over the past six years, as well as to the St. Andrew Lutheran Church Care Team who visited her regularly. A Celebration of Life will be held at St. Andrew Church, 15 East Beach Rd., Charlestown, RI at 11:00 am on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. A private burial will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Frank Olean Center, 93 Airport Rd., Westerly, RI. 02891. For online condolences, please go to  Lastly, remember that reporting the local news is an important part of what it means to live here. Head over to Westerlysun.com and help us tell the stories of our community each and every day. Digital access starts at just 50 cents a day and makes all the difference in the world. That's it for today, we'll be back next time with more! Also, remember to check out our sponsor Perennial, Daily Gut & Brain, available at the CVS on Main St. in Wakefield! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's the secret to success with veg growing? Monty Don shares his tips for great tasting, healthy fruit and veg – and why your best-ever veg year starts not in the new year, but here in autumn. With just a little planning, you can look forward to year-round fresh and healthy harvestsWe caught up with Monty as he was in peak harvest season at Longmeadow – and heard how his veg plot is at the heart of family cooking.He shares why growing food gives him so much pleasure, the tricks he uses to ensure a steady flow of harvests, and why his sowing choices start at the kitchen table.He also reveals why things still go wrong on his plot – and how learning from mistakes rather than striving for perfection are often the best way to improve your veg growing, and tackles the common mistakes that most beginner gardeners make when starting out growing veg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Saul and Lucy are at BBC Gardener's World Live - Special Edition as the Plant Experts. The show spans the 26-29th August and consists of a Special Edition from the outside areas of the usual show ground and the Floral Marquee - bringing some beautiful gardens and wonderful plants to see and buy. On Day 3 of the show, Saul and Lucy had the great privilege of sitting down with Monty Don, the face of Friday Night Gardening, to talk about his great love for Longmeadow (his garden in Herefordshire), how he manages its creation and maintenance and his plans for its future while juggling the demands of being one of the most filmed gardens in the world. Twitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulLucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Holyoke Media, en asociación con WHMP radio, emiten diariamente la Síntesis Informativa en español a través del 101.5 FM y en el 1240 / 1400 AM. Esta es la síntesis informativa del martes 24 de agosto de 2021: - La Agencia Federal de Medicinas y Alimentos de EEUU aprobó la vacuna COVID-19 de Pfizer el lunes, lo que podría aumentar la confianza del público en las vacunas y abrir instantáneamente el camino para que más universidades, empresas y gobiernos locales hagan que las vacunas sean obligatorias. El Pentágono anunció rápidamente que seguirá adelante con los planes para obligar a los miembros del ejército a vacunarse en medio de la batalla contra la variante delta de alto contagio. Pfizer dijo que Estados Unidos es el primer país en otorgar la aprobación total de su vacuna, en un proceso que requirió una solicitud de 360.000 páginas e inspecciones rigurosas. Nunca antes la FDA había tenido tanta evidencia para juzgar la seguridad de una inyección. La fórmula, desarrollada conjuntamente con BioNTech de Alemania, se comercializará con la marca Comirnaty. Moderna también ha solicitado a la FDA la aprobación total de su vacuna. Johnson & Johnson, fabricante de la tercera opción en Estados Unidos, dijo que espera hacerlo a finales de este año. FUENTE: AP - La semana pasada, el gobernador de Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, firmó una orden ejecutiva que ordena la vacunación COVID-19 para unos 42,000 empleados estatales. La orden dice que deben vacunarse a mediados de octubre o enfrentar las consecuencias, que podrían incluir perder su trabajo. Con la orden, el gobernador republicano promulgó algunas de las políticas de vacunación más estrictas del país. Muchos sindicatos de trabajadores estatales apoyaron esa medida, pero algunos no lo hicieron. Algunos empleados estatales han dicho que se negarán a seguir el mandato. Por otra parte el uso de mascaras se ha ido restableciendo en diferentes municipalidades del estado. A partir de este viernes, en Boston, todas las personas mayores de 2 años, independientemente del estado de vacunación, deberán usar una máscara en todos los entornos públicos interiores. Eso incluye todas las tiendas minoristas, restaurantes, bares, espacios para eventos y edificios municipales de la ciudad. Sin embargo, en el oeste de Massachusetts, algunas comunidades han implementado sus propias órdenes de máscaras para combatir la propagación de COVID-19. La Junta de Salud de Longmeadow recientemente requirió que todas las personas se cubrieran la cara en el interior. Northampton tiene medidas similares si desea ingresar a cualquiera de los negocios de la ciudad. Con la aprobación de la FDA, los funcionarios de salud esperan que más estadounidenses se vacunen El gobernador Charlie Baker ha dicho que no planea colocar un mandato de máscara en todo el estado, pero deja que las comunidades decidan si lo implementan. FUENTE: MASS.GOV, WWLP, NEPM

Kim Cartelli Liguori describes how there are no “relaxing Sundays” while she resiliently parents her son on the spectrum, Anthony. She describes the constant work of keeping her family moving along, the work she shoulders, and her own endurance with the help and partnership of her family, friends, and community for s1. E7. N7. of the Otherness Podcast titled White Knuckle Parenting. No Downtime in Autism Families.Todd reflects on how connection to community and family, an intuitive sense of your child on the spectrum, and even painful internal conflicts with Kim, an old friend from Longmeadow, MA.Clearly Todd has a special relationship with his hometown of Longmeadow, MA. Many discussions he's had on the podcast end up there. When Kim Cartelli Liguori was mapping her autism quest with her family and son, Anthony, it also brought her back to Longmeadow. Both Todd and Kim's husband, Jeff, have referred to it as “Pleasantville” due to it's picturesque suburban feel. For Kim, returning to the home of her youth, meant grounding herself in family and lifelong friends in order to provide support as she hurdles forward in the tumultuous life of autism parenting. “The humanity of autism does involve some resentment about the work you have to do…and sometimes it takes you to the limits.”Kim describes how she is constantly working to schedule Anthony's time in a way that keeps him content as he has tremendous difficulties in self-entertaining. She anxiously put him on Prozac as his mood and discomfort was so pervasive and heartbreaking that she desperately wanted to help him. She also meaningfully describes how she feels guilty that wishing for a life without autism may lead herself and others to believe she does not truly love Anthony for who he is. Todd understands this unique guilt and has heard similar stories from many parents of kids on the spectrum who feel alone with the guilt. Kim is not alone, nor are any of the other resilient autism parents. Putting your best foot forward is always done on instinct, and sometimes does not allow room for the mixed feelings we all carry.The Otherness Podcast is exploring and engaging autism through experienced stories with Dr. Todd Peter Levine and is available on most places and sites where you like to listen to podcasts. S1. E7. N7. of the Otherness Podcast is titled White Knuckle Parenting. No Downtime in Autism Families.*******Opening Theme Song Music Credits“Otherness Podcast Intro Theme Song and Music” by Nicholas BurlingCopyright 2021 Late Leopard Publishing/Nick Burling (ASCAP)Administered by Late Leopard Publishing (ASCAP)*******Closing Theme Song Music Credits“Otherness Podcast Outro Theme Song and Music” by Nicholas BurlingCopyright 2021 Late Leopard Publishing (ASCAP)Administered by late Leopard Publishing (ASCAP)*******White Knuckle Parenting. No Downtime in Autism Families.

Tim Gaudet talks with B.J. Williams from Belchertown, who will be running in the World Marathon Challenge, an incredible test of endurance in which runners complete 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, to raise money for Team Hoyt. B.J. is a member of Team Hoyt New England, has participated in events as a Duo Team member, and is the race director for the Hoyt 5K run and walk that will take place in Longmeadow on August 29th. Tim also provides an update of local running events. Music https://www.purple-planet.com

BusinessWest editor George O'Brien talks with Charlie Christianson, president of East Longmeadow-based CMD Technology Group. The two discuss the recent spate of high-profile cyber attacks and how they have served to drive home the point that small businesses — and large businesses as well — need to do all they can to be prevent such breaches and properly respond when and if they do happen. It's must listening, so tune in to BusinessTalk, a podcast presented by BusinessWest in partnership with Living Local. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With work on the state budget largely completed, except for possible overrides of Gov. Charlie Baker's vetoes, the state legislature is moving onto other issues such as the wellbeing of Gateway Cities.Rep. Christina Minicucci, a member of the legislature's Gateway Cities Caucus, describes the caucus' recent visit to the area last. Says the group comes together once a month to talk about issues specific to individual cities, versus the collection of cities across the state, and also looks at initiatives available to Gateway Cities.“Here we have Methuen, Haverhill and Lawrence. So, we have three Gateway Cities that are clustered up here, and there are grant programs that are available to our cities that aren't available to Andover or North Andover or small cities like Newburyport,” she explains.The caucus made stops last week in Methuen, Lawrence and Lowell and will eventually make a visit to Haverhill. Besides Minicucci, local lawmakers involved with the caucus include Sen. Diana DiZoglio and Rep. Linda Dean Campbell.“Part of this listening tour is that chairs of that group have been going around the state just hearing ‘What are we doing well here? What was really hard for us?' and trying to share amongst other members of the caucus maybe best practices they can take back,” she adds.Minicucci was a recent guest on WHAV's morning program. Yesterday, caucus co-chairs Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow and Rep. Antonio Cabral of New Bedford were scheduled to give closing remarks at the Annual Gateway Cities Leadership Summit, focused on “Growing an Inclusive Economy.”Support the show (https://whav.net/become-a-whav-member/)

Gina is the owner of APEX Nutrition. She is in the process of becoming a Registered Dietitian, and is currently working on her masters at Concordia University, Chicago. Gina has a bachelors degree in psychology from Salve Regina as well as a bachelors degree in nutrition from URI. Gina is a Rhode Island native, who grew up in Longmeadow, MA and is currently living in Newport, RI. She has a history of CrossFit training, marathon training and recently completed a 1/2 Iron man. Give her a follow at @Apex__Nutrition and check out her website at https://apexnutritionri.com/ Photo by @lost_art_photography

State Rep. Leonard Mirra, a member of the new Future of Work Commission, says money spent on public assistance might be better allocated to guaranteeing jobs.Mirra, a recent guest on WHAV's morning program, said there are a record number of job openings right now.“We've never seen it like this. I was in the construction industry for 30 years and I never saw an economy like this where there so many jobs that we just didn't have enough people to fill them. Over the July fourth weekend, we heard that some restaurants simply could not open up simply because they could not hire enough people to make their business work, and they just remained closed over a very busy holiday weekend, which is kind of sad to see,” he says.Mirra, a Georgetown Republican appointed to the Commission by Gov. Charlie Baker, asked panelists at the inaugural online meeting if any research had been done on a federal or state-level job guarantee, similar to what Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed in Congress.The 17-member Commission was formed by the governor when he signed the 2020 economic development and jobs bill this past January. He has filed legislation he is calling a “guaranteed jobs bill” that would examine how much government money is being spent to keep people out of work, and transition them back into the job market, including the private sector.Mirra says the Commission, made up of legislators, community leaders, municipal leaders and organized labor leaders, is reviewing the current job situation.“We're concerned about the number of jobs that will be available in the near future as we increase the amount of automation and the amount of robotics. Our fear being those things will take away a lot of jobs. You're starting to see it now. We've been seeing it for a long time in things like automotive manufacturing. A lot of that work is done now by robots rather than by people. And automation is starting to make its way into, even, the restaurant industry. So, this commission was formed to prepare us for that, to make sure that Massachusetts always has ample number of job openings for people. It's very exciting work,” he explains.The Commission is co-chaired by state Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow and State Rep. Josh Cutler of Pembroke and includes Labor Secretary Rosalin Acosta along with two members appointed by Attorney General Maura Healey. The Commission will be receiving testimony from leaders in workforce training and education, fair labor and workers' rights, as well members of the labor and business communities. A final report will eventually be issued with findings and policy recommendations.Support the show (https://whav.net/become-a-whav-member/)

Today's Guests: We welcome Heath Stencel, General Manager of Longmeadow Game Resort, Clays Club & Event Center back with us. Last week Heath talked about an overview of what they have to offer and the 2021 Rocky Mountain Classic Clay Shoot July 8-11th. Over 1400 targets available. Register at: www.ScoreChaser.com. For more information and Sponsorship... READ MORE

Today's Guests: Heath Stencel, General Manager of Longmeadow Game Resort, Clays Club and Event Center talks about all they have to offer and Heath says they have a few slots left for the 2021 Rocky Mountain Classic Clay Shoot July 8-11th. Over 1400 Targets Available. Register at: www.ScoreChaser.com. For more information and Sponsorship Opportunities call... READ MORE

BusinessWest editor George O'Brien talks with Charlie Christianson, president of East Longmeadow-based CMD Technology Group. The two discuss the recent spate of high-profile cyber attacks and how they have served to drive home the point that small businesses — and large businesses as well — need to do all they can to be prevent such breaches and properly respond when and if they do happen. It's must listening, so tune in to BusinessTalk, a podcast presented by BusinessWest in partnership with Living Local.

In honor of the release of her debut EP, Based On A True Story, we had the opportunity to chat with the amazing Brynn Cartelli! Born and raised from the small town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the 18-year-old grew up with a constant passion for music, for both writing or performing. You might also recognize Cartelli as the winner of Season 14 of the popular singing competition The Voice, where she won on Team Kelly Clarkson back in 2018. Following her massive win, Cartelli was also given the chance to tour with Clarkson and the popular pop-rock band Maroon 5 as the opening act on their 2019 "Meaning of Life" tour. Her EP "Based on a True Story," touches on Cartelli's personal journey tackling being a normal teenager in a small town, whilst enduring her transition into stardom post The Voice. Prior to the project's release, Cartelli has dropped two singles, the first of the two being "Long Way Home". Another standout track is the emotional piano ballad "Love You In My Mind", which stemmed from an interactive story post on her Instagram. The song was inspired by the mass amount of stories sent in by her fans dealing with hopeless high school crushes. Listen to our full conversation and let us know your thoughts on social media! Follow Brynn on Instagram and Twitter.

Flaunting a skyscraping range, undeniable presence, and eloquent songcraft, Brynn Cartelli tells relatable stories without filter, but with a whole lot of finesse and fire. Long before amassing 20 million-plus streams and receiving acclaim from People, Billboard, and more, she grew up in Longmeadow, MA where she embraced music as a kid. At just five-years-old, she took regular piano lessons. She eventually learned guitar and developed her chops by performing in talent shows, at coffeehouses, and anywhere else with a stage. Her vocals captivated viewers everywhere when she won Season 14 of NBC's “The Voice” and emerged as “the youngest champion in the show's history.” However, she hunkered down and focused on writing original material in the aftermath. Introducing her signature style, “Last Night's Mascara” amassed over 10 million streams globally. Meanwhile, her 2019 follow-up and original composition “Grow Young (Version 1)” cracked over 1 million total streams. Hitting the road coast-to-coast, she supported Kelly Clarkson on the Meaning Of Life Tour and opened for Maroon 5. Along the way, she also garnered a nomination at the “People's Choice Awards” and captivated audiences on the NBC's “TODAY” and “Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,” “Radio Disney Music Awards,” and on Boston's most hallowed ground, Fenway Park. Brynn released her fan favorite, holiday cover of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and gave an unforgettable performance of the staple on The Kelly Clarkson Show to cap off 2019. After two years of writing and recording, she's back in 2021 with her new single “Long Way Home” and her EP, Based On A True Story, coming May 28th. We chatted with Cartelli about her new single and much more!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A Longmeadow woman has created legislation after her dog was attacked by several other dogs at an unlicensed doggie day care center.

Earlier this month, a community meeting in Longmeadow was zoom-bombed by someone shouting racial slurs and drawing a swastika across the screen. In December, the Martin King Junior Community Presbyterian Church, a historic church in the heart of Springfield's Black community, was set ablaze in an arson attack. Eric spoke with Bishop Talbert Swan, Senior Pastor at Spring of Hope Church of God and Christ and President of the Greater Springfield NAACP about these recent events, along with police reform efforts, vaccine equity, and the challenges of ministering during COVID-19. This is that conversation.

Meet Penny Pink and her new boss, Perry Pink (no relation). Together they are the P. Pink Detective Agency and the Earl of Longmeadow has hired them to investigate the case of his 'murdered' rose bushes. Episode one of a new series for the award-winning Comedy Whodunnits - For your ears. Expect a "mesmerising mix of murder, mayhem and comedy". To support the company visit www.newoldfriends.co.uk (C) New Old Friends & Fred Riding 2021

Knitting and fitness in 30 min or less.  Shownotes can be found at windsweptknits.com.  You can find me on IG and Ravelry as WindsweptMonique and on Facebook and Twitter as WindsweptKnits. Ep 90 recorded 1/22/21 Segments this week include: Be A Helper Craftalaong, FOs, Wips, Stash, Spinning, Out and About Virtually, On the Run Note on Ravelry – all links to Ravelry are clearly labelled as such – if a link does not say Ravelry, it does not go to Ravelry.  Links to yarn are directly to manufacturer’s pages and should be safe for those still having rav accessibility issues.  So it’s been a month since I last recorded and what a month it’s been.  2021 definitely told 2020, “hey hold my beer”.  With all the craziness happening the last few weeks here in the US and the terror attacks on the Capitol Building I had thought of skipping the Be A Helper Craft-a-long this year because my anxiety levels were hovering around vibrating-chihuahua-on-espresso for a while there, but after some reflection I think that we need it now more than ever. Welcome to our 5th annual craftalong! Inspired by the famous Mr Rogers quote that in times of trouble you should look for the helpers, I'm encouraging folks to BE the helpers.Be A Helper Craftalong5th Be A Helper Craft-a-long has begun! We keep the rules simple.• Anything you make for any charity counts, doesn’t have to be knit/crochet/woven or spun. ANYthing you make for ANY charity.• One FO submission of the Google Form https://forms.gle/QdJuQUSr8uM7GoiF6• Donating blood counts too • Google Form closes when I wake up April 15th.• Wips are welcome One change this year - due to the ongoing accessibility issues at Ravelry, finished objects can be submitted via a Google Form.  I have pages set up to share your beautiful work on Ravelry, but if you want to win a prize, please submit the Google Form. I will link to the Google Form repeatedly over the net few months here in the shownotes, on Ravelry, on IG, on FB and anywhere else I can think to post so you'll be able to find the link when you're ready to submit. Link to submit your Finished Object/blood donation: https://forms.gle/QdJuQUSr8uM7GoiF6 FOs Tan House Brook Shawl (Ravelry) – this is a pattern by Jennifer Lassonde of Down Cellar Studios in the Sekhment base, an alpaca/silk/linen yarn from A Hundred Ravens in the Nevertheless She Persisted colorway that I bought during the virtual Maryland Sheep and Wool.  I’m doing a few rows each week The Opposite of Strict (Ravelry) hat by That Metzbower Girl Designs and it’s a ponytail hat designed to use scraps.  I used up the leftovers from the two RBG Dissent Cowls I made earlier this fall. Princess Blanket by Carol Hladik – wearable crochet blanket.   WIPs Wenlock (Ravelery) from Tin Can Knits.   Knitting done.  Need to weave in ends Galliatt (Ravelry) by JimiKnits – pattern also available on LoveCrafts, using discontinued Longmeadow by Webs.  I finished the front and am about 7” in to the back Willowbrook Shawl (Ravelry) – pattern by Brenda Castiel in my own handspun cotton.  Fiber from HipStrings.  I used 2 braids, pulled apart the colors, spun them in rainbow order then chainplied it to maintain the rainbow.  I am nearing the end of orange – there’s a lot of orange. Pull Me Over sweater – This was my Christmas Day cast on, though I haven’t picked it up at all since then!  Pattern by Andrea Black, using leftover Universal Yarns cotton that are leftovers from knitting my husband a sweater many, many years ago.  Slice of Summer (Ravelry) – my New Year’s caston using BaH yarns shawl ball Ozone crochet top (Ravelry) – restarted it now that my crochet skills are better; already half way through the band of hexies that go around your ribcage Stash My family got me a subscription to Hipstrings Cotton Club!  I am so happy to be a member again, I looooove her colorways.  I got 2 2-oz braids (technically it was the December shipment) that are beautiful blends of purple, blue, brown, mauve and brown called Moody and On the Horizon.  I’m thinking of pulling these 2 apart and making a chain ply, but not sure. For Christmas I got 3 colors of Nomad Yarn’s hand-dyed Gelato series.  This time I got the green, blue and purple to go with the pink, orange and yellow that I bought during a virtual fiber event last summer.  Now I have a whole gorgeous rainbow and I need to decide what to do with it! Spinning Buchanan Fiber gradient spin – the 4th color is done and plied I’ve been spinning 10 min a day Out and About Virtually Lots of fiber events happening online this winter Pigskin Party now through the Superbowl Ravelry Group  I’m sponsoring for the 3rd year and also participating. Vogue Knitting Live Upcoming Vogue Knitting Live @ Home Feb 11-14, Mar18-21.  I got tickets for my birthday am taking classes with Bristol Ivy and Alisdair Post-Quinn and I’m very excited. Stitches At Home Feb 5-7 GGKCS podcast is running their annual winter craftaong starting now through the end of Feb 2021, more details on their Facebook page. Spa 2021 is virtual, sign up for their mailing list for further details. If you have any events you’d like me to share please email me windsweptmonique@gmail.com   On the Run We took our annual New Year’s Day hike.  It’s normally a big group event in our town – groups of 30-ish people led by a guide on trails in our town.  Of course it was a bit different this year.  We hiked by ourselves on a new-to-us trail behind our local agricultural high school.  Lovely trail plus the kids loved seeing the cows and horses.  Other people on the trail but everyone maintained a safe distance and wore masks. Belly dancing - great for bad knees and so much fun!  

As natural habitats disappear, gardens have become vital for the future survival of much of our wildlife, from unseen soil-dwelling creatures to hedgehogs and house sparrows. Monty Don has been observing the wildlife that visits his garden at Longmeadow for decades – and how his gardening has encouraged those creatures to not only visit but stay and contribute to a place that's full of life. As he publishes his discoveries in a new book about the garden wildlife year, we catch up with him to hear his advice on creating a rewarding space that's as good for wildlife as it is for you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dustin Plantholt’s “Life’s Tough—YOU CAN BE TOUGHER!” podcast this week features Mel Allen, American journalist, author, college professor, and current editor of the prestigious Yankee Magazine. Mel imparts enriching stories of human strength, perseverance, and survival. Mel Allen is a New England institution. He wrote his first story for Yankee Magazine—the official publication of the region—in 1977, and has been there ever since, being named the magazine’s top editor in 2006. During his career at Yankee he has edited and written for every section of the magazine, including home, food, and travel, with his dedication of long form storytelling being vital to his mission. In his pursuit for a good story, he has raced a sled dog team, crawled into the dens of black bears, fished with baseball legend Ted Williams, profiled astronaut Alan Shephard, and stood beneath a battleship before it was launched. He also once helped author Stephen King round up his pigs for market, but that story is for another day. Earlier in his career, Mel taught fourth grade in Maine for three years and believes that his education as a writer began when he had to hold the attention of 29 children through months of Maine’s long winters. He learned you had to grab their attention and hold it. He later taught magazine writing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for twelve years and currently teaches in the MFA creative nonfiction program at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. While Mel has seen his share of challenges in his 74 years (including the loss of both parents, his brother at the young age of 29, sister at age 58, and his first wife), he believes that his losses pale in comparison to the stories about those he has written about in the magazine. Admiring their courage, he uses their stories of strength and resilience “to keep going and doing good.” He says, “I am certain that my desire to write about these people were fueled by my personal experiences. So many of my stories have been about people faced with seemingly impossible obstacles. And through-perseverance—and in no small measure, courage - they find a way to push through.” Some of Mel’s most inspirational stories (in his own words) include: - One of my first stories for Yankee, in the early 80s, recounted how six young men who had trekked through snow and ice to climb Maine’s highest mountain in winter became trapped on a tiny ledge by a fierce, unexpected blizzard. Though temperatures plunged well below zero made it impossible to move, all through the night they shouted hundreds of times, “Endure! Endure!” All but one made it off the ledge at daylight, and one eventually lost his legs, only to become the world’s best para-Olympic skier. - Grace Corrigan:  The mother of Christa McAuliffe, she stood watching Challenger lift off that cold January morning in 1986 and then explode—a tragedy that could have destroyed her. Instead, she found the resolve to carry on her daughter’s mission to highlight how vital education and teachers were.  https://newengland.com/yankee-magazine/living/profiles/christa-mcauliffe-nh/ - Bill De la Rosa:  When Bill was in 10th grade his mother returned to Mexico to what she was told would be routine paperwork to enable her to obtain a legal visa, since her children were US born and her ailing husband was a U.S citizen. Instead, she was detained for having once crossed illegally, leaving Bill to care for and raise his young brother and sister. My story told how he graduated first in his class, came to Maine’s elite Bowdoin College and graduated being named the number one Hispanic scholar in America.  https://newengland.com/yankee-magazine/living/profiles/two-worlds-bill-de-la-rosa/ - Brendan Loughlin:  I told about this once homeless man, whose paintings of sunflowers inspired an entire Connecticut town and how he went from obscurity to a local institution.  https://newengland.com/yankee-magazine/travel/connecticut/stilllifes/ Besides writing about the people who have defied defeat, Mel has assigned and edited countless others—including the story of a logger who had to saw off his own leg when a tree fell on him deep in the woods, and a sailor who survived two months on a small raft. Mel is also the author of A Coach's Letter to His Son. His column, "Here in New England," was 2009 and 2012 National City and Regional Magazine Awards Finalist for the category "Column." He is also one of the feature writing judges for the National Magazine Awards for the American Society of Magazine Editors, where he weighs in on many of the best nonfiction long form narratives to appear in magazines in the past year. Mel lives and writes in New Hampshire, and like all editors, his greatest joy is finding new talent and bringing their work to light. Join Dustin and Mel for a heartfelt chat and hear Mel share stories that highlight humanity’s incredible courage and about looking to others to find your inspiration and overcome your own challenges. Of these stories Mel says, “When we read about those of us who have endured, we find solace and hope for ourselves as well. We feel we know them. Maybe they are no different from us, their storms were simply stronger. Because they made it, we believe we can.”

Support for Normal Guy, Lazy Eye is brought to you by MANSCAPED™! Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code "LAZYEYE" at Manscaped.com. Your balls will thank you™! On today's episode, we're sitting down with Author, John Glynn. John is originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts. In 2019, John wrote Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer. An "extraordinary" debut memoir of first love, identity, and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family in a Montauk summer house (Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner). John comes on to talk all about his journey and what he's up to these days. I cannot recommend this book enough! John's Website Order Out East off Amazon HERE Follow John on Instagram: @glynner85 Odd News of the Week: Pennsylvania family builds 'Candypult' for safe trick-or-treating Follow us on Instagram! @normalguylazyeye --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/normalguylazyeye/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/normalguylazyeye/support

10-15-20 7AM Covid Uptick in East Longmeadow by Bax & O'Brien Podcast

1. Jean-Paul Jigs: Le Tourment / Korolenko - Arise & Go (Newfield, NY). These tunes are both by Québécois musician and composer Jean-Paul Loyer and are from Arise & Go’s recent album Meeting Place. https://ariseandgo.bandcamp.com  2. Like barley bending, by Sara Teasdale. Read by Ben Williams (Northampton, MA). Ben writes, “Like much of Sara Teasdale's poetry, I feel I can see the images she is describing, and I hope we all, like barley bending, are able to rise again from our pain and turn our sorrow into song.”  3. Aoife’s / Coleman’s March - Lissa Schneckenburger (Brattleboro, VT). This track is from Lissa’s 2005 self-titled album. www.lissafiddle.com  4. Excerpts from If the trees can keep dancing, so can I, a community poem compiled by Kwame Alexander. Read by Julie Vallimont (Brattleboro, VT). Kwame Alexander, NPR’s poet-in-residence, created this poem from crowdsourced submissions.  5. Longmeadow - Haley Hewitt (East Hartford, CT). Haley notes, “I wrote this piece at a time when I was living in Glasgow, UK and missing the trees of my hometown Longmeadow, MA in the United States. In writing this I wanted to capture the feeling of being surrounded by the tall trees which dominate the landscape, casting shadows and only letting shafts of sunlight through their leaves.” Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, with Haley Hewitt (harp), Joe Armstrong (flute), and Marissa Helen Waite (bodhran).  6. Nothing will die, by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Read by Julie Vallimont (Brattleboro, VT), with musical accompaniment by Eleanor Lincoln (Northampton, MA).  7. All Will Be Well - Ethan Tischler (Lincolnville, ME). This studio single by Ethan Stokes and the Gawler Sisters was recorded this spring. Ethan notes, “Its lyrics trace their way back to the 14th century anchoress, mystic, and theologian Julian of Norwich, whose Revelations of Divine Love is the first known published (and still celebrated) work by a female author. The book, and the song, speak to the love and peace that persist and guide in even our most challenging times, as a people, a nation, an interwoven global community.” http://ethanstokestischler.bandcamp.com  The opening music is “The Pearl in Sorrow’s Hand” by Julie Vallimont, from her album Dark Sky, Bright Stars. Produced by Julie Vallimont. Mixed and mastered by Dana Billings. All content courtesy of the artists, all rights reserved. This series is supported in part by the Country Dance and Song Society, NEFFA, CDS-Boston, and Pinewoods Camp. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting it via Patreon: www.patreon.com/starsintherafters

Hannah Aseltine is a Honors Program student at UCONN from Longmeadow, MA. Her passion and dedication to enter and succeed in an industry traditionally male dominated is inspiring. Working on a team focused on hybrid electric, her work is helping to create future air taxis. Feel free to use this video link showcasing an air taxi. https://vimeo.com/322561633. Please credit the Aerospace Industries Association.

Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Her debut novel, The Two-Family House, was a USA Today bestseller and a nominee for the Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards in Historical Fiction. Her second novel, The Wartime Sisters, was selected as a Woman's World Book Club pick and a Best Book of 2019 by Real Simple Magazine. She is currently at work on her third novel. You can find Lynda at www.lyndacohenloigman.com In this episode we talk about Lynda's two books The Two Story House and The Wartime Sisters. Lynda talks about her creative writing process involving the  alternating narrative between characters thus showcasing the character's unique way of speaking and thinking. As a child, Lynda was fascinated by the stories that her mother and aunts shared about living in Brooklyn. After practicing law for ten years Lynda decided to follow her passion and write. Using the stories she heard as a child, Lynda  writes about women, and in particular sisters and sister in laws and the complex dynamic that often exists in those relationships.    Favorites: Book: Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan City: Paris  Quote: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Eleanor Roosevelt Girl boss: her daughter   You can purchase Lynda's book here. You can find out more about Emily Schuman's initiative here.

03-27-20 17 Yr Old Longmeadow Student develops PPE, Jim Peterik from Survivor by Bax & O'Brien Podcast

This weeks guest is Nathan Hirsch. Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He is the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, and much more. He has sold over $30 million online and regularly appears on leading business podcasts, such as Entrepreneur on Fire, and speaks at live events about online hiring tactics.Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freeeupmarketplace Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/realnatehirsch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhirsch/ FreeeUp: https://freeeup.com/FreeeUp Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/outsourcingmasters/ My calendar: https://calendly.com/freeeup-nathanwelcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild the newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started. As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon if you will, your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're going to find this book on Kindle, Amazon and their website Sam Knickerbocker. com.Welcome back to fuel your legacy. This week we have another guest that is not common for our podcasts, which is exciting because we get to learn something new. We have a lot of people talk about mindset. We have a lot of people to talk about different areas. But when we get these kinds of oddities, then I get excited because I'm learning equally as much like you who are listening. So if you wish that I would have asked different questions message me and we can happen back on and ask him those questions, because that happens, right? I see I have that happen all the time. I'm listening to a podcast, I think, Man, I wish you would have asked this. This is the thing I wanted the answer to the message, the person who's running the podcast, ie myself or whoever podcasts you listen to, and say, I would have loved to get this answer from that person. And potentially, you could just reach out to that person and ask them on social media. Most people are pretty accessible, which is awesome, even though it doesn't feel like that they actually are very, very accessible. So this week's guest is Nathan Hersh and he is kind of an expert, entrepreneur. So I had had a conversation with somebody on the self-making calls and they specialize in laying people off, which is interesting, but he's the opposite. And Nathan specializes in hiring people remotely. So if you're wondering like man, how do I get good people into my company. First is I debt identifying candidates and then actually being able to, to that and hire them that's important. So that's what his company does. And then e-commerce. So very interesting thing I'm getting into the, I guess you could say e-commerce industry through learning how to sell my, my books, my merchandise for my brand. So I'm really, really stoked to hear about this and ask lots of questions. But Nathan, go ahead and share with us really where you came from in your childhood, what your story of growing up college wherever it was, and then what was that epiphany where you went from? Okay, kind of undecided or not sure what exactly you want to do with your life to I has a passion. I have a legacy. I know my purpose and I'm chasing it. Yeah, sogrowing on my parent's Teachers so I grew up with a mentality that I was going to go to college, get a real job work for 30 years and, and retire. And I mean, that's what they did. They're retired right now they're traveling the world. There's nothing wrong with that. But I, they always made me get the summer jobs. I was working like 4050 hours a week, all my friends were outside playing that they wanted to teach me hard work at a young age. So from the time I was like, 15 on I was always working like 40 hours a week during summers during vacations. And I learned a lot about sales and marketing and growing businesses. But I also just learned how much I hated working for other people. So when I got to college, I kind of looked at it as a ticking clock where I four years to start my own business. And if I didn't do that I was going to go into the real world and get a job. So I started hustling. I took that summer money and started buying people's textbooks competing with my school bookstore offering better prices. I created a referral program. And before I knew it, I had lines out the door of people trying to sell me their books. So the point where I just got a cease and desist letter telling me to knock it off. So, from there, I didn't want to keep that a school. My parents are both teachers. So I pivoted, I sold some books on Amazon. I thought it was so cool. I could have this Amazon business that was like the storefront. No one really understood Amazon at the time, but I could use my customer service skills and my marketing skills and all that and I did to figure out what products to sell. I couldn't sell books anymore. So I started experimenting with outdoor equipment, video games, computers, and I just failed over and over and over. And it wasn't until I branched out of my comfort zone and down the baby product industry that my business really took off. So if you can imagine me as a 20-year-old single college guy selling baby products on Amazon, that was me. And, and this business just took off. I was making more money than I could imagine as a college kid. I was dropshipping from different manufacturers of different distributors. My parents told me I should probably start paying taxes. So I met with an account And the first question he asked me was, when are you going to hire your first-person? And I kind of shrugged him off, like, why would I do that? It's one out of my pocket, they're gonna steal my ideas. They're, they're going to hurt my business. And he just laughed in my face. And he said you're going to learn this lesson on your own? Well, sure enough, my first busy season came around the fourth quarter, and I just got destroyed. I was working 20 hours a day, my social life plummeted. My Grades went down. And I got to the other side, and I thought to myself, man, I need to start hiring people. So I don't know how to hire people. I post a job on Facebook. Someone shows up for my business. Law class says, Hey, I need a job. I don't know what you do. I didn't even interview him. I just hired him on the spot. ends up being an unbelievable hire. He's hard-working. He's smart. He's actually my business partner. We've been working together for eight years. I was texting him right before That's why we're delayed a little bit. But I just hit the ground running like right from the beginning get super lucky. But there I am as a punk 20-year-old thinking man, this hiring thing is easy you post a job on Facebook someone shows up you make more money you get more time back and I just proceed to make bad hire after bad hire after bad hire quickly learning that hiring not that easy. college kids were not that reliable. No one in person really wanted to work for me when I was 2021. So I went to their whole hiring world The upwards to fivers and hired some good people, people that are still with me today. But I always just hated the process, posting a job getting 100 applicants, interviewing them one by one just took forever. And that's what I had the idea to build my own marketplace free up. So I really took everything I liked and change everything I didn't like and I'm sure we'll talk about free up later on. But that's kind of how I went from broke college kids to books to baby products to eventually starting a freelancer platform.Awesome. So there's a there are a few things that I want to kind of share my perspective on. Because it's funny and this is something I haven't thought of in a long time. So I'm glad We're talking about this right? summer jobs so I was homeschooled so there's not like a summer thing it was like if you wanted income ever, then you just had to go get a job. And I rememberup until I was like ninelet's see when I was six or seven I wanted to play soccer. No money in my house. So I went got you to remember and like the old snapper, lawnmowers or heavy metal and I would shoot the grass right out the back. Anyways, this snapper lawn mower did not have a bag but I would push that thing up and down. are busy street as a six-year-old knock on people's door with my gallon of gas is a kind of cut your grass and I made enough money to pay for my soccer habit right? For the first little bit had the whole lemonade stand everything. By the time I was 1011 years old. I was like this. I am working More than whatever crap I've been getting paid. And so a neighbor woman asked my brother and I had to go and help pull weeds. And I was like, yep, I got two able young sons. They're going to go help you. And you can pay for them, right? So we go, we are businessmen in our mind. We go, we go to assess the job. She shows us what she wants to be done. And we're like, yeah, $5 an hour, or we're not doing and giving me this is a 16 years ago. So I grew up in Idaho. And so back then $5 an hour is still like, above minimum wage, almost right. It was a, it was a decent wage. And the woman like, Nope, not paying that. And so we're like, cool, we're not going to do it. Then we go home. And my mom was like, What are you guys doing back so soon? We're like, well, she didn't want that. She wanted $5 an hour. She didn't want to pay for it. So we're not going to do it. Yeah, that didn't happen. She was just right back over there. And we ended up working for free for the next two weeks. And it sucked. But it is important to do things, both on both sides, one know your value, but to understand the value of money and I think those summer jobs, those things where our parents kind of make us do things that we don't enjoy, at a younger age, they can really, really shape who we become, and, and how we end up operating in the world. So I love that idea of summer jobs and hearing what people did with their summer jobs. The other thing that I think is interesting because one of the focuses of this podcast, obviously is to help you as a listener, understand where your passion lies, what your identity is, and how you want to move forward. And for Nathan, it sounds like and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't as much of knowing what you wanted to do. Knowing what you didn't want to do.Yeah, that was part of it. Now there's another part of that I didn't touch upon. I saw I went to school and I grew up in East Longmeadow. My dad was a teacher at Longmeadow. And I got to go to the Longmeadow school system because my dad taught there and it was a much better school system. Now, in Longmeadow. Everyone's parents were doctors, lawyers, dentists, business owners, and I was broke by any means. But I had two parents that were teachers, we were middle class. So growing up, I was friends and I was around with people that had everything in my mind. And I feel like growing up in that experience, you always want more now 10 years later, I kind of realized I don't really care about money, I dress like I dress I don't go out and buy fancy cars. That's just not who I am. But as a kid, that kind of stuff resonates with you. So when you get to college and you want to pursue that entrepreneurship dream, yes, you don't want to work for other people, but there's that monetary component as well. You want to be able to just surpassed that ceiling cap and if you just go get a real job.Yeah, absolutely. And what I found because I think this happens with a lot of people, and it also holds people back. A lot of people, they aren't ready to step out because they think, well, I don't know really what my passion is, I don't know what I want to do. And so instead of going out and just doing anything, doing things, they sit there thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking about what they might want to do. And then sometimes even decide on what they want to do. They go all into it for like three months, and then I hate this, this is terrible. And then they're back to square one. And they start back thinking again, rather than, hey, look, I just know I don't want to do that. I've got a ticking time clock. I've got four years, I gotta succeed somehow because I don't want to have to work for somebody. So what can I do? How can I make money? Just simply asking yourself that question, how can I make 100 bucks a day? How can I make 10 bucks a day? How can I do something that I can do again and again and again, it's not going to get old or In, it's a need that's always going to be needed. Not necessarily that the repetitiveness is always going to be exciting to you. That's rarely the fact but it's something that's always going to be needed. Just ask yourself that question. And it's amazing what people will come up with. And the voids that you can fill in the marketplace to accomplish that.I and I like to focus on low risk, high reward situations, I try to try a lot of different things that don't cost a lot of money. I'll sacrifice my time over money, especially at the beginning, and you never know what's going to work out. I mean, if you'd asked me 10 years ago, if I'd be selling baby products on Amazon, I wouldn't believe you. But that's because I tried a lot of different things. And none of the things cost me that much money. I mean, buying books aren't that expensive. It's pretty Amazon accounts like 40 bucks a month. So I'm trying all these different things and you eventually come across stuff that's work. That works and you read the market and you make adjustments and you listen to feedback. And if you can save your car doing that and putting yourself out there, it can lead to a lot of really awesome opportunities.Yeah, I something that I've noticed is, as I've kind of got into the space of just trying a lot of different things. And for myself, at least one of the biggest fears was the fear of failure, the fear of getting that cease and desist letter, that fear of being shut down from regulation, the fear of getting sued, because you're using somebody else's trademark or copyright or like, just because You're, you're not even aware, right. I for a long time, I would just for my marketing stuff, I could download stuff off Google, Google Images, and throw it on my stuff. And it was until I sat down with somebody like, yeah, you can't like, you can't just do that. Right. Why not? Because that's, that's probably copyrighted. And maybe when you're a small fish, nobody cares. But the moment you make any little bit of money, people care, you know, so I'm like, okay, so it's those little things, but for a long time, I would not I didn't want to fail. I'm so scared of failure so scared of the repercussion that that would hold me from going out and trying. And how did you get over that? Or was that ever even a concern or a thought?It's always I mean, my business partner Connor is more relaxed like everything's gonna be okay. I'm much more like paranoid like every possible thing could go wrong in any different way, which I feel like has its pros and cons. I one part of it makes me a very good entrepreneur because I'm always looking out for things before they happen. Part of it makes me maybe not a good entrepreneur because I'll spend extra time stressing over things I don't have to instead of focusing on what I should be so there's a part of that I mean, I tend to be a little bit more conservative as an entrepreneur, I'm not out there taking big risks, whether dumping big money into stuff or trying to get into gray areas and push the limits and see what can happen. I definitely more on the conservative side. But I mean, absolutely. If you can't handle risk, and you can't handle that, that you can actually lose money in a situation if you wake up and go to a nine to five job. Are you're not coming home with less money than you? You did when you woke up that day, but that can happen in business. So if you're not prepared for that risk that entrepreneurship is probably not for you. But you can go about it in a way that minimizes risks and keeps them as minimal as possible.Yeah, I would, I would, I would say maybe entrepreneurship. If you're in the risky form is not there's a lot of people who have zero risks in their entrepreneurship or very, very low because it's they're already doing it. I think the side hustle is probably one of the best things that ever came about was moonlighting, right? If you're already doing something at your day job, and it's a skill that you're developing, it doesn't cost you anything, there's no risk, you're not going to lose income. If you say Okay, can I do this on the side for freelance work? an extra two hours a day for myself? Right, exactly. And all of the benefits that come with that, from taxes to planning for your future, to savings, to confidence, every Comes with that still when you're even just moonlighting. And there's very little risk, to adding time, and just putting yourself out there.Right. Yeah, completely agree. I mean, I never like to say that businesses are no risk because there's always some kind of risk. I mean, you could freelance and you could mess up some client's business in some way and they end up suing you. Is there a high likely chance of that happening? No, but you can't go into it with the mindset that I'm doing this completely risk-free. That's just not how entrepreneurship is.Yeah, agreed. And from Sorry, I did a presentation last night for some investors. And yeah, it was the same thing. I was like, Look, if you think if anybody ever tells you there are zero risks in whatever you're going to be putting your money into, run, run as fast and as far away as you can. Everything has a risk. But managing the risk is really what it's about and people think I hate risk. No, you just maybe you don't like certain types of risk and learning what risk you like and what you don't like, is important. And so with your parents being teachers, did they always kind of see you as this entrepreneur? or What did they see you becoming when you were in high school and entering college?Yeah, good question. Um, I don't know. I mean, I was always one of those kids. Like I was good at school. I wasn't like the best in the class, but I was fine. I got A's and B's and, and but I always just really didn't like school. I mean, certain things I would like, but there were a lot of subjects that I just didn't care about. And if I don't care about something, I usually don't put a lot of effort into it. I usually spend most of my time focus on stuff that I'm passionate about. So at a young age, there's a certain rebellious person to me, part of me and I think that that concern my parents being teachers, thinking that hey, I was just going to joke around through school joke around through college and that was going to hurt me later in life. And I think that once I started the Amazon business that they tend to be way more conservative than I am. They were kind of not pushing but suggesting that I go out and get a real job and have more stability and health benefits and stuff like that. And I had a really good internship at the Firestone Corporation at their corporate office throughout college, and I ended up having a job offer from them and a few other places after college. And it was between Hey, do I continue being an entrepreneur? Or do I keep the jobs and I had a lot of phone calls, I was really stressed out that last week of college, I still didn't know what I was going to do? And I talked to my parents and I could tell they were really leaning into picking the job and, and maybe doing the Amazon thing on the side. And I talked to my aunt who's an entrepreneur, and I remember spending an hour talking with her just pacing around my lawn, and she essentially told me like, if you're passionate about it, you got to do it, you got to go for it and those other jobs aren't going anywhere. You can always go out and get a real job. So um, I ended up going that route and I think a few years into it. I mean, now they 100% or they've always supported me support tonight, right? Where were they were going to support me No matter what I did if I want to go become a gymnast or firefighter, whatever it was, but I think they probably relax a little bit and realize that Yeah, like entrepreneurship is what I was meant to do. And, and, and they realized that I probably wouldn't have been happy at a real job.Yeah, I know, I know, for me, my parents were always very supportive and encouraging of entrepreneurship. But when I got married, when I was dating my wife, her parents are very much like, institutional, you know, go get a job with good benefits, whatever. And I would say it's, it's taken them a while to even get comfortable with where we're at. They're still not completely comfortable. They still think hey, so what is it that you do? Like they still haven't quite bought into what that I complete idea of entrepreneurship. And what's interesting about that particular situation is his. My father, I guess my wife's grandpa was an entrepreneur, like, his whole life. That's all he did, made his millions through entrepreneurship. And yet his son is a Go get a job nice salary and just like safe very very safe right and yeah for me it's just not for me so it's been interesting watching them kind of adjust to the the idea of I'm never going to have that yet I have everything that they have and he's not in the same manner so tell me the story of who your biggest naysayers were when you started the Amazon and how did you learn to silence them in your mind?Um, so I did a block myself away from naysayers pretty quick, I think on the Amazon thing, trying to tell other people that you're selling baby products where not only does that not make sense, but we're also just in a different time. Like right now everyone knows what e-commerce is right? If you go into like, hey, let's talk about Amazon. com like probably the play shop on Amazon. com. Back in 2008. Yes, people knew about Amazon but it was mostly as a bookstore and no one knew what like being an Amazon seller was like a term didn't exist. So me trying to tell people I sold baby products as on Amazon, and the Third Party seller that thought I was crazy thought I was running a scam. I remember it was a funny story. I, I had, I liked this girl that was in one of my classes. And for one class like I sat in front of her and I was like listening baby products on Amazon and she was just like, looking over the shoulder seeing what I see what I was doing. And I don't think I ever talked to that girl again. She probably thought I was some weird creep doing it for whatever reason. I mean, trying to just explain to people what you were doing was tough. I don't think I ever had anyone that was like you're a failure, you're gonna fail like, I mean, those are just not the type of people I surround myself with. And even the people that thought I was weird probably just didn't say it to my face. So I got lucky there. But I mean, there's been times more on like the free upside where I've gotten like bashing a Facebook group or something. But I mean, there's always going to be people that either don't understand you or put you down or want you to fail or have their issues going on. And my advice is just to block those people and get them out of your network out of your community and move on with life.Yeah, I agree and I'm going to share again, sharing experience, because I think this is a principle that anybody who is going to go starts their own thing is going to choose to follow a passion. I don't care if it's for income or just because you want to do it. There's a weird thing about human nature. People don't like to know that they're being offensive. Okay? I mean, like, if they know they're being offensive, then they're a lot less likely to do it just because they want to be friends most of the time, right? So, and there's always as outliers who just really enjoy being rude, but most people, don't want to be offensive. And what happens is, when you get this passion, oftentimes you tend we tend to share it timidly. We aren't pumped up bad. We aren't excited about it. We aren't like hey, this, this is me and I don't care what you're you're doing. My wife and I, we experienced that when we decided to have our baby at home because we like home birth. This is a good experience for us. I was born at home. So it's exciting, but it's interesting how many people have an opinion about it and if you just stay silent in the conversation, You'll hear people talk about how home birth is so risky and everybody should go to the hospital and all this stuff, right? But if you are just so excited, and rather than saying, Yeah, I think I'm going to have a home birth, right? If you say it like that, then you're going to Oh? Why? Like, why don't you like dogs and people are gonna start question you. But if you say, Man, I'm so excited. This one we're going to have at home, we're going to have a family there and we just go all out on your excitement. People will never say it to your face. Even if they do doubt you as you said, they'll never say it to your face because they're so like, like, Oh, he's committed Tamanna support him, even though I think he's nuts. I'll support him because he believes in it. And so that's a life hack. I think if you don't want negative people around, you just are so excited and so purposeful about what you are doing. The people who are negative the people who don't believe in you, you'll probably never tell you because they're too embarrassed to open their mouth after you just totally sold out on how excited you are about it.Absolutely. I mean, most people Not entrepreneurs aren't that excited about their job. I mean, there's just that's just the truth. So I think that's why entrepreneurs sometimes struggle to relate because I mean, entrepreneurs, we could talk about work all day, I'll go out to dinner with a bunch of entrepreneurs, we'll talk about work the entire time. And it's fun, it's exciting. You take two accountants and throw them in with people working at whatever and have them go out to dinner and not going to talk about work for four hours. And if they did, that was probably a pretty boring dinner. So you kind of have to put things in perspective.Yeah, totally. Totally. Totally. So if you were to focus on a specific habit, mindset or behavior that you've used to create kind of your e-commerce and hiring platform, what would you say that would be? What sorry, one What? Yeah, a habit, a mindset or behavior. So whatever, whatever you feel is like the one thing that's created your legacy the most?Yeah, so for me, it's about finding out what I'm most productive and maximizing that time. I tend to be most productive 6 am to 9 am other people might be in the middle of the night or the afternoon. But whatever that time is, I make sure that that's the time that I'm working that I'm getting the most done. Six to 9 am. No one's bothering me. I'm working on projects. I'm getting organized for my day. I'm brainstorming whatever the most important thing for the day is, that's the time I'm doing it. And I think a lot of our viewers, they think they have to work nine to five or they're, they're working 60 hours a week, but they're not focused on how what am I most productive? And how am I maximizing that time, every single day? And I think that's been a big habit that has helped me just get a lot done. My businesses move fast, they grow fast, we change things quickly. Because every single day, I'm maximizing my most productivetime. So I've heard a lot of entrepreneurs say that and even just business people. How do you identify when you're most productive?It took years I mean, I went to college I slept in I mean, after college, I didn't just go from knots or from sleeping in at college to waking up at 6 am. That's how it worked. I mean, it took me years to realize that hey, yeah, if I buy to start working on a project at four o'clock in the afternoon, that project comes out terrible. And the same thing on weekends and nights. I mean, I think I always knew I wasn't like a crazy night person like I did it to the party in college. But that's not my natural environment. So I think it's a little bit of self-reflecting and knowing yourself, and sometimes it takes a lot of time to figure that out. And a lot of working at different times to establish when you're most productive and when you get the best workout.That's, that's interesting. I've struggled to find out when I'm most productive. So it's a question I like to ask him. I don't know how to determine when I'm most successful yet, but I'm still working on that one. So hopefully I can figure that out before I die. Question about the freedom, the freedom platform. How does that differ from like zip recruiter or some of these other platforms that kind of offer a very similar service? What what what made your special Why did you choose to create your own Rather than may be asked to adapt the services that were already there,yeah, so we're marketplace for pre-vetted virtual assistants, freelancers and agencies, we get thousands of applicants every week from all over the world five to 100 plus per hour us Non Us fixed prices too, we vet them top 1% based on skill, attitude, and communication, get on our platform, one out of every hundred so we're very picky on who we let in. Once they're in clients Jones to browse, they simply put in a request telling us what they need.And we fill it basedon our pre-vetted network from their clients can meet with them, interview them, they can hire them to negotiate rate agree to fix prices, they don't like them, they can always request for options or pass and give us feedback and we'll get them someone else. So it's a very quick and efficient process in the middle. And on the back end, we have 24 seven support in case you have even the smallest issue all about customer service, and a no turnover Guarantee. If someone quits for any reason. We cover replacement costs and get them a new person right away. So that's what we're about the preventing the speed, the Customer Service and the protection. And yeah, I mean, that's those are the four ways that we're different.And is it? So? So I've worked with fiber I've worked with Upwork. I haven't ever used ZipRecruiter.And I haven't ever used a virtual assistant. What? Like what does that one? I guess one of the reasons I haven't is because I'm, I'm worried that I don't, I don't know how to effectively communicate what I need my virtual assistant to do. So how do you help somebody kind of enter that, let's say they want to use your service, and they want their time freed up, but they don't know how to even like, help somebody help them.Yeah, so we have a Facebook group called outsourcing masters where we spend a lot of time teaching people what to do with the talented freelancers, virtual assistants and agencies because we can get you, talented people but like you said, if you don't know what to do, after the fact it doesn't do you much good and a lot of it comes down to setting expectations and a project what you want to be done how you communicate part of it. It comes down to Figuring out Hey, do I need a follower? Do I need to do or do I need an expert? So followers five to 10 bucks an hour Non-Us, they're there to follow your systems, your processes, you should only hire them. If you're stuck in the day to day operations, you know how to do the day to day operations. And you can hire them to free up your hours and get them to do those tasks repetitively. Then you got the doers, we all have different projects that come up when you're an entrepreneur, whether it's writing a blog, article, or website or logo. These are graphic designers, bookkeepers, writers specialist, you're not going to hire a graphic designer and teach them how to be a graphic designer. They're doers, and they're not consulting with you either. And then you got the experts, the high-level freelancers that the consultancy agencies that are bringing their system, their processes the table, and they're there to su high-level game plans to help your business and something that you're not good at. And you could spend the next six months learning Facebook ads, but that's probably not a good use of your time. You can't do that every single part of your business. So at some point, you need to hire experts to hit the ground running right from the get So that's usually the good starting point is figuring out, hey, do I have systems and processes that I need someone to do them besides me? Do I have projects building out that are outside of my core competency that I need to get done? Or do I taking on something new, that's a big part of my business that I don't have the time to master not going to hire an expert right from the beginning. And if you focus on those higher, each one is a little bit different for a follower you're going to create. So PS and instructions and an onboarding process for the doers, you're going to get become better at defining the scope and due dates and what constitutes success and failure. And for experts, you're going to come up with a game plan and tweak that game plan until it's good and get better at executing game plans or collaboration with that expert. So it kind of depends on who you're trying to work with.So with the amount of how, how you navigate this, I assume most people on your platform they're speaking English, or at least communicating in English.They don't speak English at a high level. They don't get a foot into our interview process.Okay, yeah, cuz I'm working with somebody on Fiverr right? Now, and that's not to throw the guy under the bus, he's doing great work. But I feel like I have enabled to communicate my needs to him. It's like, the vaguer I am, the more I get what I want. But then when I want to be, like, more specific than it just like, I don't get what I want, I'm like crap, I don't know how to, like, tell you what I want. Because the more specific I get, the less of what I want I get. So it's just, that's it. And that's happened to me a few times on fiber. And it's not I don't think it's at all the people that I like, I just see it's a typical thing that could happen in that as the process. And so that's where I wonder like, how have you mastered that that communication commission communication channel?Yeah, I mean, I can't comment on your specific situation or could be anything could be you, it could be the free or whatever. But I've had similar experiences at other platforms. And that's why communication is such a big part of our platform and we are 15 pages of communication best practice that freelancers have a memorized get tested on before they get on our platform. I mentioned that we vet them for English before they get on. But we're also very quick to remove people that struggle with communication. And we have to chase that there and clients are complaining that they can't get on the same page. So we spent a lot of time bedding and we know how important communication is, at the end of the day, if you can't communicate, nothing else matters, they might have a great attitude, a great skill set. But if you can't communicate, that's it. So that's why communication is the foundation of our platform. And we're also there to help we understand everyone has a different level of remote hiring experience. So if you are running into issues and we're not trying to get anyone in trouble, we're on the same side here. We're going to give advice and suggestions and what's worked with us and help you come up with a good system to communicate better going forward.Yeah, I love that. That's cool. So in your transition is something that I noticed with our entrepreneurs, at some point the money does come up right there has to be a money conversation. How important do you feel like when you were starting or Now, even starting your textbook business because you had mentioned that you weren't paying taxes for a while, and then they said, okay, you try to pay taxes. How important do you think it is to understand the like how money works? When you're trying to build a legacy? Why is that an important task?In your mind? Yeah, I mean, you have to understand money. At the end of the day, if you don't make more if you don't make money, you can't do much else. And I feel like one of my mindsets and I told me I told my fiance that because she's into, like, volunteer and stuff, I told my business partner this, I mean, you got to make yourself money first. If you make yourself money first, that allows you to help a lot more people, if you're just out there helping people but you're not making any money at some point that helps to go to have to stop like you're going to have to pay the bills, or you're just not gonna be able to help as many people. So it's one of those things you have to be able to make money first, the whole profit-first mentality, and then what you do with that money, how much you donate to charity, how much you invest back into the company to expand other people to help clients customers, whatever you do with it is up to you, you have to be able to generate money. And that has to be the core of your mindset at all times.Yeah. And then how about the from the understanding side of money management, so there's generating money, which is making no money manage if you aren't generating it, or I see a lot of breakdowns is people and I because of my career, I manage people's money, right? But I see entrepreneurs who they go from very little money and they go up to the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, the companies, but because they never really learned how to manage money, they learned how to grow money, which is important, but learning how to harvest and grow in an effective manner is equally important. I wanted to hear like, why why would that be important and what did you do to educate yourself in that arena?So I'm extremely fortunate. My dad from a very young age taught me to like the power of $1 he made me buy my stuff. I had a And eventually, a job and I had to pretty much buy everything for myself besides maybe like food and necessities and pay for my college and, and all that. And he also taught me about stuff like avoiding credit cards and avoiding debt and how important that is and how important is to save and, and not just buy random stuff that you don't need it and waste that money that you could be saving and putting in a CD and stocks and stuff like that. So I'm kind of a frugal person, because of him. I think at a young age, I probably didn't appreciate that as much. But again, I kind of told you I grew up with people who had everything, they had all the newest video games and newest toys, whatever it was, and I was kind of in the opposite boat. So I think now looking back, I'm so happy. I learned that I know people that are in tons of student debt, tons of credit card debt, they haven't done a good job manage their money, they're buying cars, which are terrible investments, stuff like that. And I think it's that mentality of every time that you make more money. That doesn't necessarily mean your lifestyle just continues to go up at the same pace or even faster. It's a listen, I live a very simple lifestyle too, to what I did three years ago, maybe it's a little better, maybe I can eat out a little bit more or buy the extra thing that I want me because I can it makes me a little bit happier. But I'm not I'm still even though I'm making more money, my expenses are just going up at the same pace and I think that's what a lot of people don't understand.Agree. So, do you feel like that frugality mentality though? And there's that there's a just for anybody listening. There's an I think there's a big line, but it seems a small line, but I think it's a big line between a frugal person who understands money and understands the power of money, and somebody who's a tightwad, or a miser. Okay, so I want to separate these two before I ask this question because, without a proper understanding of the term frugal and how it separates there, you might think something different, but I'm going to ask you this question has the mentality of frugality. How does that play into your growing your business?Yeah, so part of it is understanding like what a good purchase it well, I guess, well separate personal business for business, I only invest money in stuff that I think is going to be an ROI. I told you before about low risk, high reward situations, I do the same thing. When I'm big. I'm not just dumping $50,000 into Facebook ads and hoping it works out I'm starting small and going with the strategy growing up over time and trying lots of different things and seeing what works. I have a little bit of flexibility, I can take a little bit more risk. But I'm still not taking huge risks from a personal side is less to do with like, oh, I'm just not going to spend money on anything and more to do with spending money on things you care about. I love food. I love traveling. I love trying a new food that's exciting to me. That's a great way to live life. I don't care about clothes and I don't care about cars, that those things don't do it for me their physical objects. I don't care what I look like and as So, I'm spending way less money on clothes and cars than the average person in my position making what I make. But I probably spend a little bit more money on food, because that's a passion of mine. So it doesn't mean that you just are frugal and you just never spend any money and you eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day. Although if you don't care about food, I guess you could do that and you can buy more clothes. But the point is to focus on the things that make you happy and not just spending despair.I completely agree. One of the taglines of my other brand, the Samuel Knickerbocker brand is identifying your identity, right and it comes down to values. And when I'm sitting Matt is going over some of this money. The conversation is never and my objective is so they can feel zero judgment and the whole process of review, Financial Review, but it's not about where you're spending your money. I don't care where you're spending your money. I care about do you value where you're spending your money, or are you spending money out of habit habits sedation because you don't know like because you're just aren't aware and so I love that that that came up it's what do you value? I have a friend who values Formula One race cars, and he buys race cars. And he has a lot of them in my mind five or six, seven, and he has a lot of money in cars, and that's something you value is for me I would not put it there I don't value food I would spend on travel, right? or business development because I love the game of business. And I view that as a game not a by me it's just a game as a business as a game and I love the game. But it is interesting because when you're getting married because this goes into marriage. If you aren't aware of what you're your potential spouse values when it comes to money and you get married There's a misalignment of the value of where the money's going. And that's a recipe for disaster and it could kill your business could kill your I mean, even if you're not, if you're just working for your, for another company, as an employee, it could destroy you financially, not understanding. We need to make purchases based on my value system. And you're going to be happier if you're in business. I mean, even as business partners business partnership and marriage is the same contract. You've got to know that you're making those purchases based on your values, your value system,right? I mean, a perfect example is I don't have cable and it's not because I can't afford cable. Most people have cable but it's because I realized I just wasn't watching that much cable, I watch TV but it's a network that looks at Hulu. I have a Slingbox, which is great. It's hooked up to my parent's house or they're retired and they travel they don't use cable. So it kind of works out both ways. And I think the average person You can go through their lifestyle and say, Hey, I'm, I'm paying this every month and pay this every month and realize, okay, I probably don't need this I'm probably not maximizing this and, and really cut back on those expenses and you go through it and you can't cut back on stuff, that's fine too. But I've kind of found that it's not like I'm hiding in a corner, like, oh, I gotta say that extra hundred dollars a month. It's just like, I just don't I don't, I don't get $100 of value out of it a month. It's not something that I need.Yep, I agree. I love that. So let's say we want to learn more about how to start our own e-commerce business. Is that something you do? Do you offer coaching or, or some level of training on how to how somebody might start their own e-commerce business? Or is it just that's what you do?Nope. I do not offer any training or coaching. We have a lot of free content all about hiring and using virtual systems, freelancers and agencies. We're also happy to hop on a phone call free of charge to help although I tend to not consult more there to answer questions and just tell you how I how I've done things and how my classes about things in the past. But we do work with a lot of partners in e-commerce in the marketing space. So if you join the free up newsletter, the Facebook group will direct you to partners that we trust. We want to take really good care of their community just like we expect them to take really good care of our community. And those are the people that we kind of push you towards. Awesome. Ilove that just some people aren't aware of this is the best way to get an expert's advice. Come to the expert with a plan where you can ask pointed specific questions of direction where they can say yes, this direction or that direction, not Hey, what should I do? Who should I call like, that's way too broad of an example? You need to come with very specific things. Okay, I've got up to this point. What would you have given this goal, this is the objective. How do you How would you proceed most likely in this situation? And that's going to help Nathan or any other professional or expert better assist you because now they can answer a quick question and move on and still add a lot of value.Yeah, completely agree. And I mean, buying courses and stuff is great. But there's so much free content out there. And there's so much you can do with that free content. So I would encourage you to join a lot of groups follow people on, a lot of people are giving out great content for free that later have courses and you can decide who you like and who you don't like, I wouldn't just go from zero to buying the most expensive books.Yeah, I 100% agree that make sure you're in alignment and you like the communication pattern of the person teaching the course. So now if we wanted to get ahold of you, where's the best place to get ahold of you? Where are you most active? If we want to reach out to you on social media or LinkedIn or maybe on more podcasts? where's the best place to get more of you?Yeah, join my facebook group outsourcing masters. You can find my podcast outsourcing and scaling show. You can also at the top of the free of website free up with three E's is my calendar is my team calendars. You can chat with one of my VH which is kind of cool. Ask them questions about being a BA and you can understand that and then I'm on all social media channels if you want to follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn, connect with me on Instagram real Nate hearse. I'm pretty easy to contact.Awesome. Love it. So this is a section of my show that gets me the second most excited most excited I saved for last but this is this is I love this part called legacy on rapid-fire. So I'm gonna ask you five questions, looking for one word, one-sentence answers. The only caveat is you have to definitely Lee clarify the answer to the first question. Okay, so the first question goes as this what is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?Food? Yeah, good question. Oh, man, that is a good question. What is holding me back? I think I have a certain lifestyle in terms of running a remote business and a certain way that I've had an office before and I didn't enjoy that. I want to go back to remote and, and I've kind of I kind of practice what I preach. I only hire people back from I hire People for my platform, I don't work with consultants or coaches or anything along that line. So I have no idea if that's holding me back. I think at some point, I might hit a limit there and what that lifestyle can provide, but it's tough. I don't have one thing that I'm like, oh, if I just woke up, and I changed this, that I would double my business. I don't think it's that I think that yeah if I did certain things if I open up an office, and I hire full time, people, could we expand faster? Maybe, but I probably wouldn't be as happy with the business.Yeah, no, I like that. So inside of like, where you're at and where you where you'd be happy and where you wouldn't, there's always more growth you could potentially have. But maybe that's not what you actually want. So what do you believe the hardest thing you've ever accomplished has beenthe hardest thing I've ever accomplished? I mean, being an entrepreneur is hard. starting businesses is hard. It's probably harder than anything else. So I think just being able to get to this point with an awesome team and a great business partner, it's is probably the thing that I'm most proud of Actually, you know what the thing that I'm most proud of is we've paid out 6 million-plus dollars for freelancers around the world last year. To me, that's really cool.That is awesome. Would you say that's your greatest success to this point in your life? Or would you say something else's? Definitely. That's, that's awesome. And just, I'm gonna bring this out, right? People who have money and the thing that they're most excited about, once they like can provide for themselves is how can we help more people provide for themselves? That's what keeps the if you want to say the rich keep getting richer, it's because they are so focused on how do we get more people wealthy and I really believe that I think most people want to see the average of the world increase in, in lifestyle across the board and that's why they do what they do, doesn't always appear that way. I understand that. But I believe that's in the sincerity of their heart. That's what they're striving for. And everybody goes about a different way and you may agree with them or not, but I think that that is what they're striving for. Out of all the people. I've talked to I think that is there's one consistent thing. So what's one secret that you believe has contributed most to your success?Okay, I've gone through a lot of adversity. I've heard about personal standpoint, I think I've had like 15 surgeries, I've torn different things. I have like a bone condition where I keep having to get bone spurs, like shaved off. And it's one of those things that kind of hit you out of nowhere. And it's like a one to six-month recovery. And I feel like if you can go through that kind of stuff on a personal level, you can handle a lot on a business level.Yeah, agreed. So what are a few books that you would recommend to feel your legacy audience?Yeah, I recommend that the Amazon book, The Zappos book, pursuit, pursuing happiness. No, that's not it. It's. Oh, man. I'm blanking on that on the Simon Sinek book. Start with Why is a great one on anything by Russell Brunson is great. Yeah, those are the books I recommend.Awesome. So this is a this is my favorite part of the show, and which is why save it for last because we get to pretend that you're dead. Just exciting right? Now. So we're going to pretend that we you've died and you have the unique opportunity to come back and you your great great great great grandchildren sitting around a table discussing your legacy. So this is six generations from now. Do you think six generations back this is pre World War One, almost pre Industrial Revolution right along a while back six generations from now, if you were to view that conversation, what do you want your sixth generation grandchildren to be saying about you and about your legacy?I want there to be a lot of families that we helped. I mean, hopefully I remember people showing me like their houses and their cars and how they were provided for their family with the money that they made from the free up platform. And hopefully those people had kids, those kids have kids and, and we kind of helped them with a foundation to help them so I'm hoping that that that's the kind of impactthat they're talking about. Awesome. I love it. Well, hey, thank you so much for your time, and super excited. Hopefully, everybody reaches out And as always, if you got value today, let Nathan know, go and give him some love on Instagram, Facebook, wherever it's easiest for you to connect out or wherever you hang out the most. And then as always, you can go and rank and review this podcast on whatever platform you listen to as well. That way more people get to hear great information, like what you heard today. So thanks a bunch and we'll catch youguys next time on you your legs.Thanks for joining us if what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. 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Episode 66 Designer Notes, Wips, FOs, Spinning, Out and About, On the Run Designer Notes Pont du Marais Shawl released today, October 11!  Inspired by the epic fog in my grandmother’s village and named for one of the foggiest places therein (literally, it means Bridge at the Marsh). I can’t wait to share this easy, fun pattern with you. When I first saw this skein of color-changing yarn from @wollesyarn at #VKLNYC last January I knew I wanted to make this shawl, showcasing the fog and waves that I love about Nova Scotia. Pronunciation – Nova Scotia versus France. 30% off for podcast listeners with code ONTHERUN through Friday, 10/18. Wips Taking Flight – Captain Marvel inspired shawl by Katherine Belisle.  I’ve been trying to finish up the applied lace edging to I can wear this beauty to Rhinebeck because it’s beautiful!  I am ¾ done.  Knitting this up in discontinued Longmeadow from Webs (red and blue) and Berocco Modern Cotton (yellow). A new sleeveless top in silk, just started the sample, long ways to go. FOs Aggregate Shawl by #jimiknits Jiminez Joseph for the #BIPOCMAL2019 I love this pattern and I can already tell I’ll be knitting this one again in a thicker weight yarn for winter wear. New Rent-inspired shawl pattern.  For those of you at ITW, this is the gray and pink shawl that you saw me working on.  I’ll be sending it to the tech editor soon then opening it up for test knitters. Spinning I spun Alpaca for the first time.  Rolags and spinning directly from the locks.  First time using regular flyer I think! Out and About Rhinebeck in just over a week!  I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday.  Come find me and say hi!  On the Run – Back Stretching edition Regular listeners will recall that I threw my back out late last winter pretty badly.  It was a just a muscle pull, thankfully nothing worse.  But I learned some great warm up stretches that really helped get mobility in my spine back.  I still use them periodically when I feel knots in my back muscles starting to form again and they still help.

Longmeadow resident and activist Michele Marantz was interviewed in the Advocate story "Longmeadow voters say no to gas pipeline project in residential neighborhood," about her community group, which managed to get a zoning bylaw passed that could halt a pipeline project that affects several Western Mass communities. She speaks to editor Dave Eisenstadter.

Most of the focus so far in the scandal at the Registry of Motor Vehicles has been on finding out what went wrong. Now attention is starting to shift to why. On the Codcast, Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow and Paul Levy, one of the state's most experienced managers, discussed why an agency would ignore all the warning signs and allow notices about Massachusetts driver violations in other states to pile up unattended. The situation only came to light when a Massachusetts driver who should have had his license suspended because of a drunken driving arrest in Connecticut plowed into a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire, killing seven of them. Lesser is vice chair of the Legislature's Transportation Commission, which heard seven hours of testimony last week from an assortment of Registry officials who acknowledged they were aware of the backlog of out-of-state violation notices but did little or nothing to address the problem. “What was clear from the top is that a culture had developed where this was not a priority,” he said. “There were clear warning signs along the way and there were red flags along the way and there were audits that flagged these issues. But for whatever reason, the can was kicked down the road and it wasn't made a priority to get that backlog resolved.”

In his first ever podcast interview, I chat to Gardeners' World Presenter and gardening “Top dog” Monty Don. In this podcast we discuss how he went from jeweller to TV gardener.. how he feels about being in the spotlight and when he thinks he'll pass on the baton of BBC Gardeners World head presenter. To get Mr Monty Don On the podcast we've created music videos, spoke to the agent and even created a hashtag through you lovely listeners! it turns out all I had to do was pluck up the courage and go say hello to Monty. And let me tell ya, this podcast did not disappoint. Monty Don O.B.E. is the UK's leading garden writer and broadcaster. He has been making television programmes for over twenty years on a range of topics, spanning travel, craft, outdoor living and, principally, gardening. He has been lead presenter of the BBC's Gardener's World since 2003 and since 2011 the programme has come from his own garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire. Born in 1955, Monty grew up in Hampshire where he gardened with his family from a young age, and was educated at a variety of schools followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge. From the early 1980s, Monty and his wife Sarah set up and ran a fashion jewellery business which enjoyed considerable success, but closed in 1990 just as Monty's television and writing career was taking off. A prolific horticultural journalist, Monty Don was the Observer's gardening editor from 1994 until 2006. He now contributes a regular column for the Daily Mail and Gardeners' World Magazine. Monty's numerous books include the bestselling Fork to Fork, The Jewel Garden (both with Sarah Don), Around the World in 80 Gardens, The Complete Gardener, The Ivington Diaries, The Road to Le Tholonet, and his latest bestsellers Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs and Down to Earth. Monty's most recent book, Japanese Gardens: A Journey, like Paradise Gardens, was created with the acclaimed photographer Derry Moore. SUBSCRIBE to the podcast! Be sure to see each garden episode pop into your device when its ready! Sponsored by Flymo. Flymo your Life Easy. Find more at Flymo.com If you loved, or even just a little enjoyed the podcast be sure to share it on social and tag.. Facebook: @skinnyjeangardener Instagram: @skinnyjeangardener Twitter: @skinnyjeangard or email: lee@skinnyjeangardener.co.uk and let me know what ya think The NEW˜How to get Kids Gardening Book is available now! With over 30+ gardening ideas to bring the family together and create real memories. Available at skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/shop LISTEN to the podcast now FREE on all awesome podcast stores and skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/podcast

Dr. Steven Eisenberg - specialist in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology. He is known as the "Singing Doctor" Dr. Henry Miller Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, widely published in both scholarly journals and the popular press" Clint Emerson - retired Navy SEAL, spent twenty years conducting special ops all over the world https://www.amazon.com/100-Deadly-Skills-Operatives-Surviving-ebook/dp/B00UDCI5FC Michael Tougias - Michael J. Tougias is a writer who was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1955 https://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Bounty-Disaster-Survival-Superstorm/dp/1476746648

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In this episode I interview Lisa Scheff - Owner & Principal Designer at Lisa Scheff Designs - an interior design firm located in Longmeadow, MA. Their team works on interior design projects ranging from new window treatments and furniture to kitchen remodeling and full home renovations. Question List: 1: What is one of the biggest design mistakes new homeowners make? 2: When should a new homeowner hire a designer? 3. How you to help a homeowner prioritize? 4. How do you help a client who wants to hire you but doesn’t have a big enough budget? 5. After prioritizing, how can you help a client in ways they can’t help themselves? What are your services? 6. How long does it take from start to finish to do a design project? 7. How is an interior designer different from a decorator? 8. What design elements provide the most bang for the buck? 9. What are some current trends? 10. Can a designer help when moving into a new home? 11. What do you like best about being an interior designer?

In this episode NPC sat down with the lovely Shelly Lenn, Bereavement Coordinator for Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice and The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens. Grief isn't something our culture is always comfortable addressing, especially when it comes to children and teens. Shelly sat down with us to share how The Garden serves youth and their families and offered compassionate advice and tips for anyone wishing to know more about grief and how to help loved ones who may be experiencing grief.  Listen in to learn more about this local treasure; the services they provide, how you can support their work, and a bit about how children process grief in comparison to adults.  Shelly Bathe Lenn came to The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens as a volunteer facilitator in 2002 where she worked in the young teens, teens and littles’ groups. She became the Program Coordinator in 2004 and has been Director since 2006.  Shelly holds a Master’s of Education (M.Ed.) and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S.) in school counseling from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and education from the University of California Santa Cruz. She lives in Longmeadow with her husband, David and fourteen-year-old son, Evan. In her free time she enjoys the beach, trail running and painting. This podcast would not be possible without the generous support of Northampton Community Television. NCTV provided the equipment, expertise, and technical support necessary to get NPC in the 413 off the ground. To learn more about them please visit: http://northamptontv.org/ To learn more about The Garden and t support their work, please find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gardennoho/ or on their website: www.cooleydickinson.org/thegarden Resources mentioned in this podcast have been shared on NPC's Facebook page. To view and download visit here:https://www.facebook.com/NorthamptonPrevents/ They can be found on our timeline from 4/25/19 or in our photos.     

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Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He started his first eCommerce business out of his college dorm room and has sold over $30 million dollars online. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted virtual assistants, freelancers and agencies in eCommerce, digital marketing, and much more. He regularly appears on leading podcasts, such as Entrepreneur on Fire, and speaks at live events about online hiring tactics.  Questions Couldyou share with us a little bit about your journey? Could you share with us maybe one to three top tips that has really helped you to choose the right people for these organizations that you recruit for and why do you think it's important to be consistent in these attitudes or behaviors that you look for in these individuals? Could you share with us how you stay motivated every day? What are some important considerations for an entrepreneur or an online business owner to be successful? In an online business when you're not having that interaction with someone face to face. What are some of the tools or things that you need to do differently in an online space when you're not seeing the person? Could you share with us what’s one online resource, tool, website or app that you absolutely cannot live without in your business? Could you share with us some of the books that have had the biggest impact on you? We have a lot of listeners who are business owners and managers who feel they have great products and services, but for some reason they lack the constantly motivated human capital, the people. If you are sitting across the table from some of those persons, what's the one piece of advice that you would give them to have a successful business? What’s one thing that's going on in your life right now that you're really excited about - either something that you're working on to develop yourself or your people? Where can our listeners find you online? What’s one quote or saying that during times of adversity or challenge times, you revert to that quote?   Highlights   Nathan shared that he started off as a broke college kid. His parents were both teachers and he always had the mentality that he would go to school, get a real job, retire and that was going to be his life. And when he was a little bit younger, his parents always made him have a full time job, all of his friends were outside playing during the summers and he was inside working and he was learning customer service and marketing and management and all the things that go into running a business. But he also learned that he just hated working for other people and he really wanted something better. So, when he got to college, he kind of looked at it as a ticking clock, he had four years to figure out how to start a business or he was going to get thrown into the real world, get a job, and never looked back. So, he started buying and selling people's textbooks, he uses that summer money and the money he made during his summer vacations to buy people's textbooks at the end of the semester and sell them at the beginning of next semester. So, he started a little business there, created a referral program, before he knew it, he had lines out the door of people trying to sell him their books to the point where he actually got a cease and desist letter from his college because he was taking up so much of their business. So, that was his first glimpse into being an entrepreneur. And this was back in 2008, Amazon was just becoming more than a bookstore, no one really knew what Amazon or eCommerce was. There were no gurus or courses or anything like that. So, he started to sell other products on Amazon, and he tried sporting equipment and video games and typical college guy stuff, and he just failed over and over and over. And it wasn't until he branched out of his comfort zone and found the baby product industry that his business really took off. So, if you could imagine him as a 20-year-old single college guy selling millions of dollars of baby products on Amazon, that was him. And he really scaled that business using remote freelancers, remote workers. He remembered meeting with his accountant and him asking him (Nathan) when he was going to hire his first person and he kind of shrugged him off and thinking, “Why would I do that? That's money out of my pocket. They're going to steal my ideas; they're going to hurt my business…”all of that. And he just kind of laughed in his face and said, “You're going to learn this lesson on your own.”   So sure, enough and before for his first hire, he posted a job on Facebook and this guy applied and he barely interviewed him and he hired him and it worked out great and he's his business partner today, amazing hire hard worker, learned quickly. So, there he was thinking that hiring was easy, that you post a job and someone shows up and your life gets easier and he proceeded to make bad hires after bad hires using a lot of the different platforms out there, the up works and the fivers and he just wanted something better and faster. So, three years ago he had the idea to launch his own marketplace FreeeUp where they vet applicants before they get on the platform, they only let the top 1% on, they make them available to clients whenever they need them, with a no turnover guarantee, if they quit for any reason, they cover replacement costs and get them a new person right away. So, that's really the evolution of him working a summer job to go into college, starting his book business, started his Amazon business and then starting FreeeUp.   Nathan stated that just to clarify, they're not recruiting, it's not like they tell them what they need, and they go find it. They’re building a network of virtual assistants, freelancers, agencies that are all the similar mold that they know will do a great job for their clients. And you're right, that vetting is so important. He learned a long time ago that when you've vet someone just for skill, a lot of time it blows up in your face. You hire someone with a five-star review or 10 years of experience and two months later you're like, “What happened? This was awful.”And so, what they realized is it's a combination of all three, you've got skill, you’ve got attitude and you’ve got communication. So, when you're dealing with skill, you don't need everyone to be a 10 out of 10, they can be a five out of 10 or three out of 10, what you care about is that they're honest about what they can and cannot do and they're priced accordingly. On the attitude side, they do one on one interviews, they look for people who are passionate, they do don't get aggressive the second that something doesn't go their way, people who can take feedback and handle it professionally. And then on the communication, obviously you want someone that speaks your language on a high level, but it's so much more than that, it's being able to get on the same page quickly and hitting deadlines and being able to respond within a business day and use whatever clients communication method that they care about. So, they really looked for that trifecta and it's very rare that you hire someone that has all three of those and then down the line, you're like, “Wow, that was a bad hire.” Usually if you get all three, it turns out pretty well and he only hires from his own platform, his internal team is all virtual assistants, freelancers that got through their vetting process, the same people that are available to his clients.   Nathan stated that motivation for him, it's funny, with his Amazon business he kind of grew up in a place where his dad taught in the high school next to him. And he lived in East Longmeadow and his dad was in Longmeadow, so, he went to high school in Longmeadow and all those kids, their parents were doctors, lawyers, dentists, business owners and so money was always a motivation because he was never poor, but he was middle class and he was always hanging out with kids that had so much more than he did. So, at first, money was that motivator and as you get deeper in that entrepreneurship and the honeymoon period kind of ends as he calls it, you realize that money's not everything and the Amazon business he lost passion for because of that reason, he wasn't helping anyone, he was just helping himself and he was helping his manufacturers and maybe his team. And, with FreeeUp, what motivates him is he gets to help business owners from all around the world achieve their dreams and scale their business. And on the flip side, freelancers who are also business owners, he gets to help them scale and provide for their family and do what they enjoy doing instead of having to get a nine to five job, so, for him, that's motivating. He’s a hardworking person regardless, it's tough to say like what is that thing that drives him, but he really found that within FreeeUp just the fact that he gets to help so many people on a day to day basis, that keeps him going. Even on days like today where he’s a little sick and he’s got three podcasts scheduled.   Nathan shared that his mentality is you can't compete with big businesses on everything, you can't. There are always going to have bigger marketing budgets, bigger software budgets and all of that. But what you can always compete is customer service and that's something that he’s always been passionate about and you can always compete with the big players on customer service, treating clients like gold and they kind of take the mentality that 99% of the freelancers do an amazing job on their platform. He spent very little time dealing with issues, but these are human, stuff happens, they're startup, things just happen when you're dealing with businesses, so, when things do happen, they jump in quickly, they don't make excuses, they take responsibility and they just make it right and then they move forward and they built a lot of really great relationships that way. They have lots of clients that come in and have a great experience right from the beginning and that's obviously what they shoot for but they've also had a client that came in and maybe that first hire didn't turn out the way they want and they were so impressed by how they handled it and how they made it right quickly that now they are lifelong client and they got them someone else and now they love that person. So, for him, that mentality that the customer isn't necessarily always right, but it's in your best interest to make the customer happy at the end of the day, if you have that mentality, you can go a long way no matter what business you're in.   Yanique shared - I'm glad you brought up the point that the customer is always right because the statement itself is really incorrect as I'm sure you would have figured out because customers are not always right, we are human beings and we do make mistakes. However, one of the things that we teach in customer service training is that as employees in an organization, it's not our responsibility to prove the customer wrong. I love the saying, “The customer is always right,”and it's a wonderful guided principle but I do think as business owners, managers, leaders, coaches in organizations, we have to get the employees to that understanding that it's just a principle and a guideline because there are times when the customer is incorrect either in what they see, what they do, how they manage a particular process. But our responsibility isn't to say, “Hey Mr. Customer, you are wrong.”It's more to guide them to the correct way of how they are going to achieve success.   When asked about tips for having that interaction with persons in an online space, Nathan shared that it took him years to figure out how to work with people remote. It's a totally different mindset. Some quick tips are using stuff like emojis to actually portray how you're feeling on a day to day basis in different conversations because words get misinterpreted. People fire off emails, he’s guilty of that too and you don't realize how that gets interpreted to people on the other end. So, anything you can do to actually relate to people, not losing the small talk and being able to express how you're feeling and being directed and getting clarity all goes a long way. He likes to keep everything in writing and make it super clear, exactly how he’s feeling, what he likes, what he doesn’t like and that's how he has been able to build relationships. And the other side of it is when he dealt with people remote for the first time, he asked them, “Hey, how can I communicate better? Tell me about your best clients and the relationships you had. How did they talk to you? How did they communicate? How did they build the team?” And he learned from that and he took that information and he feels like most people; they don't go that extra mile to learn from the people that they're working with or to learn a new situation like working with someone remote.   Nathan shared that he uses Skypeevery day, using it now for a lot of podcasts. He slowly moved to Zoom for a bunch of them. He group chat with all his different teams, with freelancers and agencies that he uses. That's how he communicates with his business partner. He does phone calls with clients. It's such a great free tool and it just kind of goes to show that you don't need the most expensive software in the world. He works with 40 people and thousands of freelancers and his business partner and he uses Skype to connect with all of them. He uses other programs like Trelloto keep track of projects, but his primary communication channel is Skype.   Nathan shared that he loves the Jeff Bezos books, he loves the Zappos books. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsiehbook is fantastic, but the book that really resonates with him is Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek, the reasons he mentioned before where if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to figure out why you do stuff, not just how you do it and how you make money. There has to be a purpose behind it, and if you don't find that purpose, he doesn’t care how successful you are, he doesn't care how good your business is, eventually you're going to lose passion for it and you're going to realize that you wish you did something that you cared about. So that book always resonates with him.   Nathan stated that there's never been a better time to start a business. And he would never say an easier time because starting a business is not easy. But if you go back 20 years, you needed $100,000.00 or more to start a business. Now you can do it from your laptop with a few thousand dollars. So yes, obviously capital gives you a big advantage but he started his Amazon business with a few thousand dollars, he started FreeeUp with $5,000 so we're not talking huge amounts of money and there's so many opportunities out there to make money online without making a big investment. So, he would get out of the mentality that you need a lot of capital and he would focus on learning skills that actually help you start a business with very little besides your laptop and some strong internet.   Yanique stated - if they have people that work in their business that lack constant motivation, because you said what motivates you is you like what you're doing, you love what you're doing, that's what gets you up going every day. What if they don't know what they like or they're doing it just because they need to collect a paycheck, they have to pay bills. How are we going to get them to be constantly motivated so the business can grow?   Nathan shared that he’s in the mentality that you can't change people, here and there you can, but it's just not worth your effort on a big scale to go around trying to change people's mentality. Not that you shouldn't motivate people, you can meet with them, you can find out what does motivate them and that's where being a good leader is. He thinks this is where he and his business partner were for years, they were on different pages because he would find someone that was weak at something and try to turn it into their strength. And for him, he was trying to find people, what people's strengths were, and he was trying to get them to do that strength more, he wasn't trying to change people and the same thing with motivation. He can only spend so much time trying to motivate other people, if he realizes they're not motivated, he knows there's tons of people out there that are, and he'd rather work with those types of people. So, he doesn't have any quick fast hacks to make the light bulb go off it and motivate people, he can tell you that a lot of times it's not just money, it has to do with your leadership style and sharing goals and making them feel a part of something. But at the end of the day, he doesn't go around trying to change people or forcing people to do things and they don't want to do. He surrounds himself with people that want to be where he is and want to work with him.   Yanique reiterate - so then basically you're saying in summary, as a business owner, you have to quickly realize if your time and effort is worth to be invested in this employee and if after trying for so many times it's just not working, you'd probably need to channel that energy into someone else that would be able to yield you that success you're looking for.   Nathan agreed that it's not just employees, it could be freelancers, it could be agencies that you hire and he has an agency that runs his Instagram every month and they're running a business and if he can tell that they don't care about his account or maybe they care about someone else's more than his, then he’s going to find a different agency that will. So, it goes across the board that not just internal employees in your office, it could be virtual systems or freelancers that you're one of 10 clients or agencies too.   Nathan shared that he has been traveling, so let's kind of back up. At the beginning of last year, he had been on a lot of podcasts and he really wanted to get into guest speaking and then by the end of last year he was pretty exhausted by getting into guest speaking. So here we are, that's not for me. But he still enjoys talking with people, he still enjoys kind of having that stage. So, this year he’s actually launching his own podcast called the Outsourcing and Scaling. He’s recording, he has probably about 10 episodes recorded as we talk right now and that'll be launching in the next week or so. So, it's kind of a passion project of his, he’s not sure exactly the business ROI on it, although he thinks they'll have some great guests and it'll lead to great connections. But it's something he has always wanted to do on some level, and he thinks podcasts is a perfect channel to do it.   Yanique shared that now is a great time to be launching a podcast because so many people utilize this platform as an opportunity to learn and grow in different realms and genres and just different topics. You can consume this content while doing so many other things and it's just an amazing time for you to break through into this area. So, I congratulate you and please share with us the podcast name, what platforms are you going to be available on so that at least we can, if when you're launching or one once you've launched, our guests that are listening to this podcast can definitely head on over to those platforms and have a listen in on your podcast as well.   Nathan shared that it's called Outsourcing and Scaling, it'd be available on iTunes, You Tube, and a lot of other channels as well. It will be an audio Podcast and the video will be on You Tube.   Nathanshared listeners can find him at – www.freeeup.com FreeeUp Blog Youtube – FreeeUp Facebook - @nathan.hirsch Twitter - @realNateHirsch   ****Special Note: If you go to www.freeeup.comyou can create a free account, mention this podcast and get $25.00 credit.   Nathan shared that when he was little, his mom always said, “Work hard, play hard.”So, he kind of take that in all parts of his life. When he’s playing sports, I'm going all out. When he’s hanging out with his friends or his girlfriend, he’s focused there. When he’s working, he’s going all out every single day and that's kind of the mentality that he has taken.     Links   Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek  

In the past two years, Mary Frey put out two new books - Reading Raymond Carver and Real Life Dramas. The first is made up of black and white work and the other, all color. Both bodies of work are in and around 35 years old and these were Frey’s first major publications of them. It wasn’t exactly as if she was unknown until now though. In fact, almost the inverse. She’s been a cult hero in photography circles for years and a beloved teacher at Hartford’s graduate program, where she taught until 2015.Frey earned her MFA at Yale and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her work had been show at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and at MoMA to name a few. It was actually in the catalogue for a seminal show at MoMA called The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort where I first discovered her work. I remember her pictures had everything that I was interested in photography in them - they were banal, yet mysterious moments out of the everyday, they were graphically compelling, such great color and they had a strange open ended quality to them, especially in their unusual pairings with curious texts that accompanied them.We got together at her studio in Longmeadow, MA to have this conversation.- Jordan Weitzman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode, I Zoom in Maryam Sullivan, Author UmmJuwayriyah, and we chat about Islamic fiction, her path to becoming a writer and much more. Umm Juwayriyah, a pen name for Maryam A. Sullivan who is an indigenous American Muslim woman of many gifts. Hailing from the birthplace of basketball, dictionaries, revolutionaries, it should come as no surprise that she created a genre of literature in 2006 and coined it Urban Muslim Fiction. As a mother of three, she is dedicated to increasing indigenous African-American Muslim narratives in the literary world. Her love for writing sprang up early in her childhood and took firm root in her high school journalism class. As a high school student in Western Massachusetts, she was selected to write articles for her city's newspaper (Springfield Republican) in a teen section entitled, “Unlisted”. She later went on to establish one of the first online newsletters for Muslim youth fully produced by Muslim youth in the late ‘90's. In the early 2000's she became one of the founding members of the international Islamic Writers Alliance teaming up with and learning from internationally acclaimed authors such Yahiya Emerick, Freda Crane, Linda D. Delgado, Najiyyah Diana Helwani, and the late great novelist, Jamilah Kolocotronis . Umm Juwayriyah was one of the youngest members and served as the non-profit organization's web editor and assistant director for three years. Also during the early 2000's, Umm Juwayriyah began giving back to her own community that had helped to raise her. She became the youngest Editor-in-Chief for the New England Muslim Women's Association which is the oldest and longest running Muslim women's non-profit organization in New England. Umm Juwayriyah's writing has been published in just about every major Muslim owned newspaper and magazine including SISTERS and Azizah. In 2009, Umm Juwayriyah first internationally-acclaimed novel, The Size of a Mustard Seed was published and it quickly became her publisher's best-selling novel. It was the world's first Urban Islamic fiction novel. In 2012 she published Hind's Hands – A Story About Autism which was the world's first English language Muslim children's book addressing and educating Muslims about the Autism Spectrum disorder. Then in 2015, Umm Juwayriyah's second children's book: The Princess and the Good Deed, an Islamic fairytale, addressed the important but often taboo subject of kindness to animals for children. Umm Juwayriyah has been the recipient of many awards, scholarships, and grants including the prestigious Lorraine Hansberry award for contributions to multi-cultural arts from Holyoke Community College, the Spirit award from the Harold Grinspoon's foundation for community involvement, a Canada's An Nisaa's magazine's 2010 Muslim Fiction Writer of the Year and the international Women's Initiative in Spirituality and Equality's 100 Extraordinary Muslim Women in the world. Being a dreamer and a creative writer, Umm Juwayriyah continues to break boundaries, make big plans, and shove open doors that Muslim women aren't usually invited into. She doesn't mind the stares at her hijab, her goal is to craft her stories by any means necessary. Umm Juwayriyah holds a Master's degree with honors from Regis University, a Bachelor's degree with honors from Bay Path University for women in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and she is currently pursuing her doctorate's degree in Educational Leadership. Umm Juwayriyah is an international educator, the owner of Kanz Enrichment Online - a supplemental educational service, and the creator of #MuslimGirlsReads, a literacy initiative geared towards inner-city American Muslim girls and young women.

Episode 32 WindsweptMonique on Ravelry and Instagram, windsweptmonique@gmail.com. Show Notes at knittingontherun.podbean.com Stash, Wips, Knitting Fail, Out and About Before we start – planning on getting back to having knitting and running topics, now that the holidays are over and we’re starting to get healthy again (knock on wood).  What do you want to hear about?  I have a few topics lined up but I’d love to hear from you.  Come to the Ravelry group and let me know or send me an email at windsweptmonique@gmail.com Stash Got 4 new skeins of CoBaSi by HiKoo – sock weight yarn without wool - 55% Cotton/ 16% Bamboo/ 8% Silk/ 21% Elastic – planning on using the Blarney colorway to knit JavaPurl’s Peppermint Mocha socks, and the blue-gray multi colored Wave Caps colorway to knit the Vanilla Is The New Black socks by Anneh Fletcher Also got my first shipment from HipString’s Cotton club.  Got 2 coordinated 2-oz braids of sunset colors, with oranges and blues – one with lighter tones and one with darker tones.  Normally I’m not a fan of orange but I have to say these two colorways are beautiful.   Wips Vanilla sock in Berroco Comfort Sock in Bali colorway.  Still chugging along at this 2+ year old WIP, it’s my car knitting – planning on putting the heel scrap yarn for an after thought heel in today Star Wars sweater for Thing 1 – finished the main body, on the bottom colorwork.  Using Nordic Yoke Pullover, a free pattern from Patons, as the base and altering the charts to have Star Wars characters/spaceships/icons.  Frosted by Paper Daisy Creations - finished the first sleeve, started second sleeve.  Hoping to finish the second sleeve this week and this will be my Ravellenics entry.  Knitting up in some old stash, Longmeadow (discontinued) from Valley Yarns in white, and the blues are 2 old skeins of Debbie Bliss Amalfi (discontinuted), 1 color of Elsebeth Lavold Hempathy and 1 color of Nettle Grove from Plymouth Yarns. Emerald Deep shawl – took this to Karate Movie Night at my son’s Dojo and finished Chart 3 and started Chart 4.  I’ll definitely have this done for the auction in March.  this shawl is a charity knit for AGC Scholarships, a group that raises money for families dealing with infertility or who are trying to adopt.  Worked in Ito Yarn’s Kinu, 100% silk.  Kinu has a colorway, Aqua, which is almost the exact color of AGC’s logo so it was too perfect not to use.  The shawl will be auctioned off at AGC’s annual gala to raise money.  If you or someone you love would like to learn more about AGC, visit agcscholarships.org   Knitting Fail As mentioned a few months ago, I was planning on fading a Lush by Tin Can Knits using color-coordinated yarns I picked up at Rhinebeck in gold, gold with pink specks and pink with gold undertones.  I washed the pink and gold/pink yarns to wash out extra dye – and unfortunately, it looks like the pink speckled yarn wasn’t set properly.  It wasn’t just the extra dye that came out, a lot of the pink washed out of the yarn – so much so that almost looks like the gold. :(  Definitely not going to fade it with the pink now, it would be a huge change in colors and not a fade at all, more like stripes.  Maye I’ll “fade” the gold into the gold/pink and treat them as hand-dyed yarns and just alternate skeins.  I’ll let you know what I decide to do.  Very sad. 2nd knitting fail – started knitting handspun for the Ravellenics, but I have the wrong needles.  Whereas the 2.5 and 2s I swatched with were too big, the 0s are too small and using magic loop is just not working.  So I’m putting this homespun earband on hold until I get 16 inch US size 1s 3rd knitting fail – I’m on a roll, eh?  Got to the heel of my ancient Vanilla Socks and realized I hadn’t increased for the wide par of the foot before reaching the heel.  Boo!  Lots of frogging there.  They won’t be ready for Knit Aid’s deadline.  http://www.knitaid.org/   Out and About I did not make it to Boston Fiber event – had some previous commitments that ran over.  Heard from some friends that they had a great time and saw pictures if beautiful, squishy yarn. Will be away next week visiting both my parents and my in-laws, so no episode next week.  But expect some Instagram posts involving pools or palm trees as we’re headed to Florida! On The Run I’m back :)  I've been cross-training and strength training and even hopped in the local YMCA pool for a few laps and discovered just how out of shape I am!

Janine Fondon is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Communications at Bay Path University, and one of the conveners of the March 8 “On the Move Forum” that honors our collective intention to advance women -- from Seneca Falls to Houston for the 1977 Women's Conference and now Longmeadow, MA. Also, La historiadora y coordinadora de Arecibo es Color, el proyecto cultural de Arecibo, Cynthia Velázquez, comparte su perspectiva de cómo la crisis de Puerto Rico se va desarrollando.

Garden writer and broadcaster Monty Don; journalist Ian Hislop; marine biologist Joanna Barker and pastor Gethin Russell-Jones join Libby Purves. Joanna Barker is a marine biologist who works for the Zoological Society of London and specialises in marine and mammal conservation. Her work includes carrying out annual population counts of grey and harbour seals in the Greater Thames Estuary and conserving the European eel population - London's iconic eel which is classified as critically endangered. There are 98% fewer elvers - juvenile eels - arriving in London than in the 1980s. Joanna also developed the Angel Shark Project in the Canary Islands to safeguard the future of endangered angel sharks. Ian Hislop is a journalist and broadcaster. He is the co-writer - with Nick Newman - of a new play, The Wipers Times. Based on their award-winning film, the play tells the story of the satirical newspaper which originated in the spring of 1916. A group of soldiers of the 24th Division of the Sherwood Foresters, led by Captain Fred Roberts, discovered a printing press in the bombed out ruins of Ypres, or, as it was known by the Tommies unable to pronounce it, Wipers. It poked fun at the high command and saluted fallen comrades, using spoof advertisements, agony aunt columns and cod music-hall routines. The Wipers Times is at the Watermill Theatre. Gethin Russell-Jones is a Baptist pastor and writer. In his book, Conchie - What my Father didn't do in the War, he tells the story of his pastor father John who chose to be a conscientious objector during World War Two. At the same time his fiancée was cracking German codes at Bletchley Park. As an adult Gethin investigated his father's story and discovered what led him to make his momentous decision. Conchie - What my Father didn't do in the War, is published by Lion Hudson. Monty Don is a garden writer and broadcaster. His new book, Nigel - My Family and Other Dogs, is the story of his golden retriever and the other dogs who have shared his life over the years. Beloved by the public, Nigel receives fan mail and birthday cards and has inspired social media fan sites. The book is also a tribute to Longmeadow, the Herefordshire garden Monty has created over the last 25 years. Nigel - My Family and Other Dogs is published by Two Roads Books. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow, one of the members on the panel that wrote the Senate's final version, and Christopher English, policy analyst and project manager for the city of Boston who was appointed by Mayor Marty Walsh to chair the Taxi Advisory Commission overseeing changes in regulations, joined The Codcast to discuss the shifting landscape in the ride-for-hire industry.

The Primer, official podcast of Gun Owners' Action League. Episode 5, Let's Talk Lexington! On this episode we discuss how town meetings are being used as a subversive means of suppressing our Second Amendment rights.  We discuss what just happened in Lexington, the future for Longmeadow and more.

John is from Longmeadow, MA and talked with the Kellogg Krew about his role as Butchy in "Teen Beach 2" on Disney.

John is from Longmeadow, MA and talked with the Kellogg Krew about his role as Butchy in "Teen Beach 2" on Disney.

John is from Longmeadow, MA and talked with the Kellogg Krew about his role as Butchy in "Teen Beach 2" on Disney.

This week Marc and Bryon talk about the new Weezer, Edward getting his drivers license, and how to get a happy ending in Longmeadow. Music by: Co2 (myspace.com/co2) and Theme by GBNE (iTunes).