Podcast appearances and mentions of Mary Jackson

In this conversation with renowned midwife and pre- and perinatal somatic psychology guide, Mary Jackson, we explore our earliest imprints and the impact they have on us as we grow. If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend! You can also pitch in to support the show once or monthly at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman Resources Mentioned: *A Wild New Work events: https://awildnewwork.com/events *Meghan Schoneberger's energy healing work: https://www.cosmicharmonyhealing.com/ *The Ray Castellino Foundation training: https://castellinotraining.com/ *Mary Jackson's website: https://birthinconnection.com/ About Mary Jackson: Mary Jackson has been married since 1987, is the mother of 2 children who were born at home, and has been featured in 11 books and 5 movies. Mary has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She has attended over 2,500 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas and is now attending the home births of her second generation of babies. She is a certified Castellino Process Workshop Leader and co-teaches the Castellino Pre and Perinatal Training. In the first year after incorporating these pre and perinatal approaches in her midwifery practice her home to hospital transfer rate went from 20% to 6%. Mary is participating in cutting edge research about imprints that occur around the time of conception, pregnancy and birth and how they affect us throughout the rest of our lives and what it takes to heal from challenges in these experiences. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and leads trainings throughout the world.

"Hidden Figures" erzählt die Geschichte von drei Schwarzen Mathematikerinnen, die für die NASA jahrelang die Berechnungen der Flugbahnen von Raketen und Raumkapseln übernommen und geprüft haben – zunächst ohne öffentliche Anerkennung trotz ihrer immensen Bedeutung für die amerikanische Raumfahrt. Gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftsjournalistin Marie Eickhoff vom "Behind Science"-Podcast prüfen wir, wie nah der Film an den historischen Ereignissen dran ist und welche Rolle Diskriminierung aufgrund von Hautfarbe und Geschlecht noch immer spielt.

Send us a textAmber and Liam shed some light on the history of the Space Race and the 3 women responsible for sending John Glenn into space. We are go for launch in this review of the 2017 film, directed by Theodore Melfi, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae, Hidden Figures.Twitter @dockingbay77podFacebook @dockingbay77podcastdockingbay77podcast@gmail.compatreon.com/dockingbay77podcasthttps://discord.gg/T8Nt3YB7

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In this episode, Katie and Leanne delve into the often unacknowledged contributions of women throughout history. Titled 'Hidden Heroes,' this episode illuminates the stories of women like Mileva Marić, who played a crucial role in the development of Einstein's theories, and Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, whose mathematical prowess was essential to NASA's space missions. Katie and Leanne discuss the importance of recognizing these hidden figures and encourage listeners to explore the overlooked stories of women's contributions to science, activism, and beyond. Filled with insights and passionate discussions, this episode serves as both a tribute and a call to action for women to step into their power, amplify their voices, and take credit where credit is due. Tune in for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation that challenges the traditional narratives and honors the true 'Hidden Heroes' of our world. Katies Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Being-Seen-My-Journey-Self-love/dp/B0D1HGS41C⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join us for exclusive content on Patreon : ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/sitcrookedtalkstraight⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SCTS Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sitcrooked_talkstraight/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SCTS Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJu9cX2Vw5XUXAXAeQnnFiw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Katie's Release Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/releasewithkatie⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Katie's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.releasewithkatie.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Katie's TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@imkatiemyers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Leanne's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instituteforfemaletrailblazers.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Leanne's IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/institute_female_trailblazers/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Leanne's FB Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ezliving.site⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Leanne's Private Group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/nextlevellifepurpose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Leanne's TikTok:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@essentiallyzenful⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠    Credits To: Sarah Wilke, Virtual Assistant & Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.wilkeondemand.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Music: One Night Away Patrick Patrikios Special Thanks to: "To my husband for believing in me and cheering me on when I doubted myself." - Leanne

 In Episode 43, “Bridging The Gap: Empowering Local Leaders and Strengthening Communities with Mary Jackson” podcast hosts Kailah Dozier and Brandi Merrill dive deep into local government and community development with the Director of Community and Professional Development at the Alabama League of Municipalities. Mary shares her journey from Colorado to Alabama, discussing her background as a city clerk and her dedication to empowering local leaders. Learn about the League's initiatives and the partnership between the League and the Innovation Center to create a Skills for Success course specifically tailored for mayors and city officials that focuses on the training needed to lead a community forward.Discover how government agencies and community partners can work together to enhance cities and towns and explore innovative solutions to educate the youth and local leadership to cultivate the next generation of civic-minded changemakers. Whether you're a local official, community advocate, or simply interested in government, this episode offers a unique look at how Alabama's communities are growing and thriving!

Inspired by the 2024 theme for Black History Month (BHM) in the UK, "Reclaiming Narratives" - this episode of the Dive Into Your Career looks at this concept more widely as well as specifically in relation to proudly owning your careers story. In this episode, career coach and host of the Dive Into Your Career podcast shares thoughts around: Critical thinking in relation to history when it comes to who is telling stories and what their motivation is (as well as considering who is not telling their own stories)Hidden Figures - The brilliant film inspired by the discovery of the impact 3 black, female Mathematicians (Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson) who worked for NASA during the space race Reclaiming Narratives in relation to your career journey Acknowledgement that with the global situation being what it is, there are many people who cannot own their own journey, due to their circumstances. Bisan from Gaza is named as an example (of the thousands and millions who may not have control of their career trajectory but certainly are reclaiming their story)Proudly owning your career journey and your career story (and what the difference is) Don't be a passenger in your own life. Ready to own your experiences and differences?Time to level up and take some ownership of your trajectory?This is a powerful episode for you...Do feel free to engage with this topic (or indeed with me) at any of the below: The Dive Into Your Career podcast page of the Your Career And Future website where you can also leave me a message suggesting a careers-related topic for a future episode Follow Your Career And Future on Instagram and TikTok Via "Gina Visram" on LinkedIn (where they may be a post with a link to this episode where you can contribute some wisdom / reflections) Sign up for the mailing list (for students and graduates... a list for their supporters will follow) E-mail me on gina@yourcareerandfuture.com with any queries Also - are you a job seeker early in your career? Download the checklist: 25 UNMISSABLE TIPS TO SKYROCKET YOUR JOB APPLICATION SUCCESS RATEYou've got this!

There's a rise in interest and practice of witchcraft among young people. Is that worth being concerned about? We discuss with journalist Mary Jackson. Notes from the show:   Witchcraft definition:    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/witchcraft   Witchcraft history:    https://www.britannica.com/topic/witchcraft   Mary Jackson's article on rise of witchcraft and its harms:  https://wng.org/articles/out-of-darkness-1713232697   More modern witchcraft trends   https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a42798881/magic-touch-witchcraft/   https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/paganism-witchcraft-are-making-comeback-rcna54444   https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/september/wicca-berger-conversation.html#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%20there,approximately%20800%2C000%20Americans%20are%20Wiccans   Blesses The Crucible The Village  Talk to Me The Screwtape Letters Curses The Witch The Front Room The Wicked Witch character Contact and Websites: Nathan Clarkson: nathanclarkson.me Joseph Holmes: josephholmesstudios.com Mary Jackson at World Magazine: https://wng.org/authors/mary-jackson Mary Jackson on X: https://x.com/mbjackson77      

The United States Congress has honored four women known as the “hidden figures” of the space race with its highest civilian award. 美国国会向四位被称为太空竞赛“隐藏人物”的女性颁发了最高平民奖。 The Congressional Gold Medal was presented Wednesday to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Only Darden is still living. The 82-year-old watched the ceremony from her Connecticut home. 周三，国会金质奖章在美国国会大厦颁发给了凯瑟琳·约翰逊、多萝西·沃恩、玛丽·杰克逊和克里斯汀·达登的家人。只有达顿还活着。这位 82 岁的老人在康涅狄格州的家中观看了仪式。Lawmakers recognized the four Black mathematicians for their critical work early in the space program. 立法者认可了四位黑人数学家在太空计划早期所做的关键工作。 They also presented a medal to all the women who worked as mathematicians, engineers and "human computers" in the American space program from the 1930s to 1970s. 他们还向 20 世纪 30 年代至 1970 年代在美国太空计划中担任数学家、工程师和“人类计算机”的所有女性颁发了一枚奖章。 Margot Lee Shetterly wrote the 2016 book Hidden Figures about the Black women mathematicians who supported the space program in the 1960s. It was made into a movie of the same name in 2017. 玛格特·李·谢特利 (Margot Lee Shetterly) 于 2016 年撰写了《隐藏人物》一书，讲述了 20 世纪 60 年代支持太空计划的黑人女数学家的故事。2017年被拍成同名电影。 "By honoring them, we honor the very best of our country's spirit," Shetterly said at the ceremony. 谢特利在仪式上说：“通过向他们致敬，我们就是向我们国家最优秀的精神致敬。”The early space program employed hundreds of women to work as mathematicians at what is now NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. But, the Black mathematicians were not permitted to work with the white mathematicians because of racial separation policies at the time. The Black researchers' work went unrecognized for years. 早期的太空计划雇用了数百名女性在现在的弗吉尼亚州美国宇航局兰利研究中心担任数学家。但是，由于当时的种族隔离政策，黑人数学家不被允许与白人数学家一起工作。黑人研究人员的工作多年来一直没有得到认可。 The team used pencils, slide rulers and mechanical calculating machines to calculate the paths of rockets and orbiters in the atmosphere and in space. The path is called the trajectory. 该团队使用铅笔、滑尺和机械计算机来计算火箭和轨道飞行器在大气层和太空中的路径。该路径称为轨迹。 “Our office computed all the trajectories,” Katherine Johnson told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 2012. “You tell me when and where you want it to come down, and I will tell you where and when and how to launch it,” she explained. “我们的办公室计算了所有的轨迹，”凯瑟琳·约翰逊在 2012 年告诉《弗吉尼亚飞行员报》。“你告诉我你希望它在何时何地降落，我会告诉你在哪里、何时以及如何发射它，”她 解释道。In 1961, Johnson did trajectory research for the Freedom 7 Mission, the first to carry an American into space. The next year, she checked the calculations made by a new NASA computer for astronaut John Glenn's planned orbits around the planet. 1961 年，约翰逊为自由 7 号任务进行了轨迹研究，这是第一次将美国人送入太空。第二年，她检查了美国宇航局一台新计算机对宇航员约翰·格伦计划绕地球轨道进行的计算。 John Glenn did not trust the new computer. Days before the launch, he told NASA, “Get the girl to check the numbers.” John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. 约翰·格伦不信任这台新计算机。发射前几天，他告诉美国宇航局，“让女孩检查一下数字。” 1962 年，约翰·格伦 (John Glenn) 成为第一个绕地球轨道飞行的美国人。 Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 – the nation's highest civilian honor. Her work at NASA helped open doors for many other women to take part in the space program. 约翰逊于 2015 年被授予总统自由勋章——美国公民的最高荣誉。她在美国宇航局的工作为许多其他女性参与太空计划打开了大门。 Dorothy Vaughan rose to become NASA's first Black female supervisor. Mary Jackson was NASA's first Black female engineer. And Christine Darden is best known for her sonic boom research. 多萝西·沃恩 (Dorothy Vaughan) 成为美国宇航局第一位黑人女主管。玛丽·杰克逊是美国宇航局第一位黑人女工程师。克里斯汀·达顿 (Christine Darden) 因其音爆研究而闻名。

Astronomy Daily - The Podcast: 19th September 2024Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your go-to Podcast for the latest and most exciting developments in space and Astronomy. I'm your host, Anna, and I'm thrilled to bring you another episode packed with cosmic wonders and scientific breakthroughs. Today, we've got a stellar lineup of stories that will take us from the farthest reaches of the universe to our own cosmic backyard. We'll explore record-setting jets from a distant black hole, witness a dramatic rocket launch abort, celebrate the hidden figures of NASA's past, ponder the possibility of ancient Earth sporting Saturn-like rings, and even discuss the potential for space lasers in planetary defense. So buckle up and prepare for liftoff as we embark on this cosmic journey together.Highlights:- Record-Setting Black Hole Jets: In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected the largest known jets of energy shooting from a supermassive black hole. These colossal beams extend an astonishing 23 million light years from end to end, dwarfing our entire Milky Way galaxy. The black hole responsible for this cosmic spectacle is located in a galaxy about 7.5 billion light years from Earth. These jets, nicknamed Porphyrion, are made up of subatomic particles and magnetic fields, all moving at nearly the speed of light. This discovery provides valuable insights into how black holes influence their surroundings on a truly enormous scale.- Rocket Lab Launch Abort: Rocket Lab experienced a last-second abort during their latest mission attempt. The company's Electron Rocket was poised to lift off from New Zealand carrying five Internet of Things satellites for the French company Kinéis. However, as the countdown reached zero and the first stage engines ignited, they immediately shut down, resulting in a launch abort. Rocket Lab's team is now assessing options for the next launch attempt within their 14-day launch window.- Honoring NASA's Hidden Figures: In a moving ceremony at the US Capitol, four trailblazing women of NASA were honored with Congressional Gold Medals for their groundbreaking contributions to space exploration. Kathryn Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, the hidden figures behind America's space race success, were finally given their well-deserved recognition. This ceremony not only celebrated these four women but also acknowledged the countless others who worked behind the scenes at NASA performing critical calculations before the advent of electronic computers.- Ancient Earth with Rings: A new study suggests that our planet may have once sported a ring system similar to Saturn's about 466 million years ago. Researchers believe that Earth may have captured and destroyed a passing asteroid, creating a debris ring that lasted for tens of millions of years. This ring could have had a major impact on Earth's climate, potentially contributing to the Hernantean Ice Age, the coldest period Earth has experienced in the past 500 million years.- Space Lasers for Planetary Defense: A recent study has explored the idea of deploying laser arrays in space for deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids. The concept, known as Directed Energy Systems for Targeting of Asteroids and Exploration (DE-STAR), involves creating a modular array of lasers powered by solar cells. These space-based lasers could heat the surface of incoming asteroids to about 3000 Kelvin, hot enough to alter their course. While no one is building a DE-STAR array just yet, it's crucial to start thinking about the implications and potential uses of such technology.For more space news, be sure to visit our website at astronomydaily.io. There you can sign up for our free Daily newsletter and explore our constantly updating news feed. Don't forget to check out all our previous episodes on the website as well.And if you want even more Astronomy Daily content, find us on social media. Just search for #AstroDailyPod on Facebook, X, YouTubeMusic, and TikTok.Thanks for listening, and remember to keep looking up.Sponsor Links:NordVPNNordPassMalwarebytesProton MailBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-the-podcast--5648921/support.

While school may be out the learning doesn't stop for students enrolled in IVRS' Summer Pre-Employment Transition Services program.  Hundreds of students with disabilities across the state are exposed to several different careers to learn hands on, and see what it takes to enter in those career fields. Mary Jackson, Bureau Chief for Transition Services at IVRS , talks about the ever expanding program and how employers who are interested in partnering can get involved. 

Katherine Johnson, mathématicienne afro-américaine, a joué un rôle crucial dans la conquête spatiale américaine. Le 20 février 1962, lors de la mission Friendship 7, l'astronaute John Glenn exige que Johnson vérifie manuellement les calculs des ordinateurs pour sa trajectoire en orbite. Cette confiance absolue témoigne de son extraordinaire talent. Née en 1918, elle démontre des capacités exceptionnelles en mathématiques dès son enfance, malgré les obstacles de la ségrégation raciale. Elle surmonte ces défis et rejoint la NASA en 1953. Son expertise aide non seulement à la réussite de la mission de John Glenn mais aussi à celle de la mission Apollo 11 qui a permis le premier alunissage. En plus de ses contributions scientifiques, Johnson et ses collègues, Dorothy Vaughan et Mary Jackson, ont été des pionnières dans la lutte pour les droits civiques. En 2015, Johnson reçoit la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté pour ses contributions révolutionnaires. Son héritage continue d'inspirer les jeunes filles à poursuivre des carrières dans les STEM. Merci pour votre écoute Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes de l'Heure H sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/22750 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

SEIU's Anthony Caldwell reveals how to get union representation at your workplace. The Ford Motor Company says there's a serious shortage of auto technicians. Mechanic and author Mary Jackson explains how to have your car repaired without being taken for a ride. More at http://krobcollection.com

In Episode 139 of "Hey, Did You See This One?" we explore the inspiring true story behind Hidden Figures (2016). Join us and our special guests Caitlin Claessens and Noel K. as we discuss the incredible contributions of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson to the space race. Tune in for an enlightening conversation about history, perseverance, and the brilliance behind this groundbreaking film! Please remember to like, comment, subscribe and click that notification bell for all our updates! It really helps us out! Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge & Glen Powell Directed By: Theodore Melfi Synopsis: Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world. Watch LIVE at: https://www.twitch.tv/heydidyouseethisone every Thursday at 8 PM EST A PROUD MEMBER OF THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PODCASTS Check us out online at: https://www.ufpodcasts.com/ We use White Bat Audio – a user that creates DMCA free music for podcasters and YouTubers. Please follow at: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio Audio version of the show: Spotify - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heydidyouseethisone Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hey-did-you-see-this-one/id1712934175 YouTube Audio Podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6BOSx2RcKuP4TogMPKXRMCxqfh5k9IU&si=umIaVrghJdJEu2AR #HiddenFigures #KatherineJohnson #DorothyVaughan #MaryJackson #MovieReview #CaitlinClaessens #NoelK #HeyDidYouSeeThisOne #SpaceRace #InspiringStories #FilmDiscussion #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heydidyouseethisone/message

Jim reflects on a masterful tale involving a clean-cut suburban lad who goes on a deadly shooting spree in Los angeles - Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets," starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Arthur Peterson, James Brown, Tanya Morgan, Mary Jackson, Sandy Baron, Monte Landis and Mike Farrell. This critically-acclaimed 1967 thriller shocked audiences on first release and developed a cult following during the next five decades. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a masterful tale involving a clean-cut suburban lad who goes on a deadly shooting spree in Los Angeles – Peter Bogdanovich’s “Targets,” starring Tim O’Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Arthur Peterson, James Brown, Tanya Morgan, Mary Jackson, Sandy Baron, Monte Landis and Mike Farrell. This critically-acclaimed 1967 thriller shocked audiences on first […] The post Targets | Episode 415 appeared first on The ESO Network.

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As we enter Women's History Month, it's important to remember just how far we've come and still having so much more work to do. In that effort, it's important to know just how women have contributed to our advancement and many of these women you might recognize and many you may not because their work was stolen or taken credit for by someone else. These women show what's possible and I can't wait for you to listen to this one! Please share it with someone you think would enjoy it too!   Time Stamps:   (0:16) Women's History Month (2:06) Grateful Today with A Lot of Work Still To Do (4:51) Elizabeth Stanton and Ending Slavery (6:48) Marie Curie and Two Nobel Prizes (8:00) Ada Lovelace and Coding and Programming (9:45) Rosa Parks (10:25) Malala Yousafzai (12:25) Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson (13:20) Ching Yi Zao The Pirate (14:15) Nettie Stevens on Sex Determination (15:15) Rosalind Franklin and The Double Helix DNA Structure --------------------- Stay Connected: Instagram: @alyciaisrael Facebook: Alycia Israel Apparel: Be Your Own Daddy

NASA honors the legacy of the agency's first African American female engineer and affirms a commitment to diversity and inclusion as core values.

The amazing singing/songwriting duo from Nashville, TN Sisters J (featuring Elizabeth & Lily Jackson) talk about their latest release “Breathe In” along with “Open When”, “Clearly” and “You Shine Thru”! Elisabeth and Lily talk about how they got started in the business inspired by their mother Mary Jackson including numerous Top 5 hits (World, Euro, Indie charts) and finalists in Henderson, TN's Got Talent, plus going to school (Elisabeth at graduate school in music, Lily in animation/filmmaking in college) and Mary's work as an author of “The Wonder of Me”, “Cheers From Heaven” , co-founder/co-host of “The Writers Corner Live TV Show” and “Special Needs TV Show” and special needs advocate! Check out the amazing Sisters J on all streaming platforms and www.sistersj.com and Mary Jackson's works at www.maryejackson.com today! #sistersj #maryejackson #elisabethjackson #lilyjackson #breathein #openwhen #clearly #youshinethru #worldmusiccharts #hendersonsgottalent #nashville #autism #specailneedsadvocate #thewonderofme #cheersfromheaven #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnersistersj #themikewagnershowsistersj --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

The amazing singing/songwriting duo from Nashville, TN Sisters J (featuring Elizabeth & Lily Jackson) talk about their latest release “Breathe In” along with “Open When”, “Clearly” and “You Shine Thru”! Elisabeth and Lily talk about how they got started in the business inspired by their mother Mary Jackson including numerous Top 5 hits (World, Euro, Indie charts) and finalists in Henderson, TN's Got Talent, plus going to school (Elisabeth at graduate school in music, Lily in animation/filmmaking in college) and Mary's work as an author of “The Wonder of Me”, “Cheers From Heaven” , co-founder/co-host of “The Writers Corner Live TV Show” and “Special Needs TV Show” and special needs advocate! Check out the amazing Sisters J on all streaming platforms and www.sistersj.com and Mary Jackson's works at www.maryejackson.com today! #sistersj #maryejackson #elisabethjackson #lilyjackson #breathein #openwhen #clearly #youshinethru #worldmusiccharts #hendersonsgottalent #nashville #autism #specailneedsadvocate #thewonderofme #cheersfromheaven #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnersistersj #themikewagnershowsistersj --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

The amazing singing/songwriting duo from Nashville, TN Sisters J (featuring Elizabeth & Lily Jackson) talk about their latest release “Breathe In” along with “Open When”, “Clearly” and “You Shine Thru”! Elisabeth and Lily talk about how they got started in the business inspired by their mother Mary Jackson including numerous Top 5 hits (World, Euro, Indie charts) and finalists in Henderson, TN's Got Talent, plus going to school (Elisabeth at graduate school in music, Lily in animation/filmmaking in college) and Mary's work as an author of “The Wonder of Me”, “Cheers From Heaven” , co-founder/co-host of “The Writers Corner Live TV Show” and “Special Needs TV Show” and special needs advocate! Check out the amazing Sisters J on all streaming platforms and www.sistersj.com and Mary Jackson's works at www.maryejackson.com today! #sistersj #maryejackson #elisabethjackson #lilyjackson #breathein #openwhen #clearly #youshinethru #worldmusiccharts #hendersonsgottalent #nashville #autism #specailneedsadvocate #thewonderofme #cheersfromheaven #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnersistersj #themikewagnershowsistersjBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-mike-wagner-show--3140147/support.

This interview is part of the preparation for the series: Supporting Families to Integrate their Birth and Early Experiences, that is a fundraiser for the clinic that is run by Tara and Mary, the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic.  Tara Blasco has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 2001. Currently she is the Director of the BEBA clinic and works as a facilitator . She is a certified craniosacral therapist. She is a psychologist in her country of origin, Spain. She is a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator through Castellino training. She co-teaches Dr. Castellino's Foundation Training in Spain and in the US together with Ray Castellino and Mary Jackson.With her husband Lyn, she co-directs the non-profit organization Global Resource Alliance dedicated to the alleviation of poverty and disease by supporting communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST has been a home birth midwife since 1975. She was one of the women who brought midwifery back to life in California in the '70's. Her work encompasses prenatal care, home birth, postpartum care and birth trauma resolution. She incorporates Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Circle of Security and Castellino PPN training into her work as a midwife. She is one of the co-teachers of the Castellino Foundation Training and is a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator. Mary was an adjunct faculty member for eight years at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and has been the President of the BEBA clinic since 2003. Her focus is on assisting babies and parents to integrate the birth experience in order to strengthen their relationships. A national and international speaker, Mary strives to educate people around the world about birth and how it can impact their lives forever.Read the research project published by the Castellino Group, Supporting Families to Integrate Their Birth Experiences. See more about their practitioner training at Castellino Training. They have new trainings forming for this year and in 2025.

Mary Jackson est la première mathématiciennes afro-américaines mise à l'honneur dans cette trilogie "Les figures de l'ombre de la NASA". L'histoire de Mary Jackson est celle d'une femme qui s'est battue toute sa vie pour l'égalité des chances et les minorités. En devenant la première femme afro-américaine ingénieure à la NASA en 1958, elle a ouvert la voie pour bien d'autres après elle. Elle est également promue directrice du programme des Femmes à la NASA. Pourtant, il faudra attendre 2019 pour qu'elle reçoive, à titre posthume, la Médaille d'or du Congrès américain, la plus haute distinction civile des Etats-Unis. Dans cet épisode, découvrez son histoire et ses incroyables découvertes. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Hoje é dia do "Influencers da Ciência", um Spin-Off do podcast "Intervalo de Confiança". Neste programa trazemos o nome de Influencers que de fato trouxeram algo de positivo para a sociedade, aqueles que expandiram as fronteiras do conhecimento científico e hoje permitiram o desenvolvimento de diversas áreas.Nesse episódio, Sofia Massaro nos traz a vida e obra de uma importante matemática e física americana que venceu o machismo e racismo da primeira metade do Século XX no segregado Estados Unidos para se tornar uma importante engenheira da NASA, responsável, entre outras coisas, por calcular a tragetória do fogete Saturn V, que levou a humanidade à Lua. De tão importante, a sede da NASA foi renomeado em sua homenagem.A Pauta foi escrita por Sofia Massaro. A edição foi feita por Leo Oliveira e a vitrine do episódio feita por Júlia Frois em colaboração com as Inteligências Artificiais Dall-E, da OpenAI e MidJourney. A coordenação de redação é de Tatiane do Vale e a gerência financeira é de Kézia Nogueira. As vinhetas de todos os episódios foram compostas por Rafael Chino e Leo Oliveira.Visite nosso site em: https://intervalodeconfianca.com.br 

Have you ever felt like someone is watching you or had a sense of knowing how and what you're feeling? That feeling of never being alone? Sometimes, even in the midst of difficult times or when there's no one around, we feel and think that we are not alone. This is exactly what Mary Jackson has felt since she was a child, and now she wants to share what it means to her. You should listen to this podcast episode where Mary shares her book called "PRESENCE: Recognizing the Divine in Your Everyday Life." She explains how we can identify the divine speaking to us in our normal daily activities.

Margot Lee Shetterly is a non-fiction writer. Her book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, tells the story of African-American women mathematicians who helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens. After a career in investment banking and media, Margot moved to Mexico with her husband and founded Inside Mexico, an English-language magazine, while writing Hidden Figures. In addition to her work as an author, Margot is the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor dedicated to recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s.Today, you'll hear about Margot's journey in writing Hidden Figures. She describes her childhood in Hampton, Virginia, growing up surrounded by engineers and scientists and shares her experience witnessing the 9/11 attacks while living in New York City. She explains how she happened upon the book idea and how her awareness of the women in Hidden Figures—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson—came to the fore. She discusses the importance of having an objective view from the outside and how living in Mexico allowed her to write Hidden Figures. You'll also gain insight on Margot's experiences writing Hidden Figures—from interviewing Katherine Johnson to getting the book published—and hear her advice for young people at the early stages of their careers.“The advances that allow us to get on an airplane—without thinking that it'll take off, fly, and land safely—happened because these women and their colleagues were doing the numbers for decades.” - Margot Lee ShetterlyThis week on Kathy Sullivan Explores:   •   Margot's background and life growing up in Hampton, Virginia   •   Her interest in business at a young age and path to investment banking   •   A brief history of NASA   •   Margot's interest in business at a young age and her path to investment banking   •   Her life in New York and her experience in foreign exchange trading, Meryll Lynch, and start-ups   •   Her adventures founding a magazine in Mexico with her husband   •   How living in Mexico allowed Margot the space to write Hidden Figures   •   What inspired the idea behind Hidden Figures and how Margot began writing the story   •   How interviewing mathematician Katherine Johnson led Margot to Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and the other Black computers at NASA's West Area   •   How long it took Margot to finish writing Hidden Figures   •   The two kinds of writers and why Margot is a combination of both   •   Historical accuracy of the film Hidden Figures and how similar it is to Margot's book   •   The process of creating a book proposal and why it's similar to forming a business plan   •   What Margot wanted to show through her book Hidden Figures   •   Margot's favorite travel destinations and travel bucket list   •   Her current book project and the joys of writing Hidden FiguresResources Mentioned:   •   NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project   •   NASA History Division - Oral History   •   Book: They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators by Harold EvansOur Favorite Quotes:   •   “The thing about a book proposal is that it's a business plan. You have a book idea, find a publisher to take it and sell it to them, explain why people will read it, and have a sample of the product.” - Margot Lee Shetterly   •   “Make failure your friend, especially when you're young and ambitious. There's a stigma that's still attached to failure, but it's a good teacher; you get some of your best lessons from it.” - Margot Lee ShetterlyConnect with Margot Lee Shetterly:   •   Margot Lee Shetterly Website   •   Book: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race   •   Margot Lee Shetterly on LinkedIn   •   Margot Lee Shetterly on TwitterSpaceship Not RequiredI'm Kathy Sullivan, the only person to have walked in space and gone to the deepest point in the ocean.I'm an explorer, and that doesn't always have to involve going to some remote or exotic place. It simply requires a commitment to put curiosity into action.In this podcast, you can explore, reflecting on lessons learned from life so far and from my brilliant and ever-inquisitive guests. We explore together in this very moment from right where you are--spaceship not required.Welcome to Kathy Sullivan Explores.Visit my website at kathysullivanexplores.com to sign up for seven astronaut tips to improving your life on earth and be the first to discover future episodes and learn about more exciting adventures ahead!Don't forget to leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts!Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google I Amazon Music.

More than half a century after NASA launched astronauts into space, you'd think all the stories about these groundbreaking missions had been told.But they hadn't.Margot Lee Shetterly's father worked at NASA, and the stories of the women of NASA were commonplace among the local community, but the world was yet to know the incredible true story of the African-American female mathematicians, and how integral their work was to the space race.Lee Shetterly's book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, was optioned for a film even before she finished writing it, and told the stories of four African-American women. Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008)Mary Jackson (1921-2005)Christine Darden (1942- )While only three of those women's experiences made it into the movie, the story (while containing a few embellishments) is a remarkable one of hard work, grit and determination, set against the backdrop of racially and gender segregated America.I would love to hear your thoughts on Hidden Figures !CONTACT.... Twitter @verbaldiorama Instagram @verbaldiorama Facebook @verbaldiorama Letterboxd @verbaldiorama Email verbaldiorama [at] gmail [dot] com Website verbaldiorama.comSUPPORT VERBAL DIORAMA....Give this podcast a five-star Rate & Review Join the Patreon | Buy Merch ABOUT VERBAL DIORAMAVerbal Diorama is hosted, produced, edited, researched, recorded and marketed by me, Em | This podcast is hosted by Captivate, try it yourself for free. Theme Music: Verbal Diorama Theme Song. Music by Chloe Enticott - Compositions by Chloe. Lyrics by Chloe Enticott (and me!) Production by Ellis Powell-Bevan of Ewenique StudioPatrons: Simon E, Sade, Claudia, Simon B, Laurel, Derek, Vern, Cat, Andy, Mike, Griff, Luke, Michael, Scott, Brendan, Ian, Lisa, Sam, Will, Jack, Dave, Chris, Stuart, Sunni, Drew, Nicholas, Zo, Kev, Pete, Heather, Danny, Aly, Tyler, Stu, Brett and Philip!EPISODE THANKS TO....Most excellent patrons:AlyTwitter peeps@chlovol6@realhuntermmm@BeardedRyno15@emhig@Wreckfast_Club@ThiefCGTInstagram folkNone this timeFacebook chumsNone this time

Becky Rasmussen Simmons is a victim advocate, TV personality, YouTuber, podcaster and founder of a successful nonprofit - Call to Freedom. She is well known in the Midwest for her advocacy since 2016 for anti-human trafficking. Mary Jackson is a survivor mentor and educator for those victimized by human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual exploitation. She contributes vital expertise into survivor supportive services, as the Survivor Program Coordinator and serves on the Board of Directors, of Call to Freedom. Call to Freedom brings wholeness to all individuals impacted by sex and labor trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by navigating a healing path through our continuum of care model. Based out of SD, Call to Freedom not only serves those in the state but the Midwest region. Connect with our guests at: calltofreedom.org www.facebook.com/calltofreedomsd ---------------------------------- Connect: ⁠gifts4glory.com⁠ FB/IG/Twitter: @gifts4glory ⁠wellversedcomedy.com⁠ FB/IG/Twitter: @wellversedcmdy Well Versed Comedy Events: ⁠events.wellversedcomedy.com⁠ #testimony #faith #Jesus #God #HolySpirit #trafficking #endtrafficking

Hi guys! Happy women's history month!!! Today we talk celeb plastic surgeries, new podcasts we're loving, performers flopping, and take a deep dive into THEE baddest mathematicians NASA has ever seen, the women of Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn! Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/textured-heir/support

Frank Carbone Is a Singer/Songwriter,and DJ from Queens, New York. He  has been performing since 15 years old and is a dedicated practitioner and  teacher in the field of somatic health and well-being for over 25  years. He has extensive training with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper and  is a 1st generation Continuum Teacher,and is a certified practitioner in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic psychology and health (PPN). Frank has  extensive training,and experience with Dr. Ray Castellino, a pioneer in  the field of prenatal and birth trauma healing, and the developer of  The Womb Surround Process Workshop. Frank lived almost a decade in Ojai  California working at Ray's BEBA Clinic (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) as a Facilitator of families. Frank has assisted other leaders in the field, including Mary Jackson and Tara Blasco. He is currently assisting Anna and Elizabeth Chitty's Biodynamic Craniosacral Training in Boulder, Colorado.As a Continuum Teacher, and Gyrotonic instructor, Frank draws on the principles of fluidity, movement, breath, sound and tracking pleasurable sensations to facilitate healing and transformation in his own life as well as his students, and clients. He has a deep  understanding of the connection between the body, mind, and spirit and  believes in the power of somatic practices to promote greater awareness, vitality, and well-being.Frank is currently working and teaching in Queens NY at # Elements Healing Arts Center on Bayside NY.He is the lead singer and songwriter of WOOFWOOF and NY GrooveFrank is the creator of WombContinuum, a unique blend of Continuum movement  therapy and womb surround work developed by Ray Castellino. In his small  group workshops, Frank creates a safe and welcoming environment for  participants to explore early imprinting, heal from prenatal and birth  trauma, and discover more creative and pleasurable ways to play in "The  Umbilical Field."Through his work, Frank is committed to helping  individuals tap into their innate potential for healing and  transformation. He believes that by reconnecting with our bodies and the  wisdom of our earliest experiences, we can discover greater ease, joy,  and meaning in our lives.

Dear Parents, Even if your child speaks well, you will be inspired by Mary's journey.  Thank you, Mary E. Jackson for being vulnerable and willing to sharing your story of hope and strategy.  This is an amazing story of courage, pain, discovery and strength.  You will be Wowed!  Mary Jackson shares parenting her children with autism spectrum disorder, and successfully guiding them along to speech, even to college!  Beginning with pictures, her winding journey from a mother's heart, tells of heartache, healing, despair, advocacy, encouragement and empowerment.  This is worth every minute. If you have a child with low-verbal skills or is non-verbal, this episode will be a particular gift as she shares ways she connects with her children on a deeper level, helping them communicate better. Enjoy the show! Dinalynn CONTACT:  hello@thelanguageofplay.com     ABOUT THE GUEST: Mary Elizabeth Jackson is a wife, mother of three children and two of her kids are on the spectrum. She is a certified special needs and disabilities advocate and an ambassador advocate with AutismTn. Jackson is a children's author who empowers children through storytelling and education. Mrs. Jackson co-founded and co-host Writers Corner Live Network TV featuring author interviews and Special Needs TV featuring interviews, advice, and tools for families in that community. Her passion is to help others through education, awareness, and being more empowered in their lives. GUEST CONTACT:  Website: www.maryejackson.com https://www.facebook.com/jackson.mary.elizabeth https://www.facebook.com/SpecialNeeds.TV      

Let's talk about some sensitive shit, weird shit, the shit that matters, and shit that has to do with an unstable Santa.Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea. Available on Netflix (2019) A documentary directed by Alex Stapleton and starring Chelsea Handler. The premise revolves around examining the concept of white privilege.Sorry About the Demon (2022) available on Shudder. A young man struggling with a broken heart learns that his new place is full of restless spirits.Hidden Figures (2016) available on Disney+ Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.Violent Night (2022) available on Peacock. An elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone hostage inside. However, they aren't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint.

¿Sabes algo de Mary Winston Jackson? Pues ella fue nada más y nada menos que la primera ingeniera afroamericana en trabajar para la NASA. Ella fue un símbolo de empoderamiento para las mujeres de su época y lo sigue siendo hoy en día. Hoy te vamos a contar sobre su vida, su carrera, sus logros, su impacto y más. Ella es una mujer que merece ser recordada por su tenacidad, inteligencia, trabajo duro y muchas otras cualidades más. Descarga la transcripción de este episodio aquí: https://www.espanolistos.com/

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Episode Summary Thanks for reading these notes and listening to Unstoppable Mindset. Might you happen to be a parent? Better yet, might you be the parent of a child with a disability? How about two children with what we call disabilities? I want you to meet this week Mary Elizabeth Jackson who is the mother of three children two of which are on the Autism spectrum. You get to hear in this episode about a mother who confronted her own challenges and who not only worked through learning how to best support two children diagnosed as autistic, but also who has become a staunch advocate for these and other children. Mary also is a successfully published author and, among other honors, has been a #1 Amazon bestselling writer. You get to meet this week someone who is quite open about what she has experienced in life. She also has much advice to give us and lots of concepts to discuss and teach. I am sure you are going to come away from this episode of Unstoppable Mindset seeing even more than usual how you too can learn to be unstoppable and inspired by challenges rather than quitting. Life really is an adventure. Come listen and become a part of Mary Jackson's journey. Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com. About the Guest: Mary Elizabeth Jackson is a two-time #1Amazon Bestselling author in the collaborative anthologies The Fearless Entrepreneurs, and International Best Seller Invisible No More, Invincible Forever More (Aug 2021). Jackson is also the 2017 Gold Maxy award-winning author of the children's book series Perfectly Precious Poohlicious and Poohlicious Look at Me, (Tuscany Bay Books), Poohlicious Oh the Wonder of Me, (Tuscany Bay Books June 2021). Cheers from Heaven, a mid-grade reader releases October 2021, (Tuscany Bay Books), with co-writer Thornton Cline. Jackson focuses on writing empowering books for kids. Jackson is also a ghostwriter, collaborator, songwriter, educator, and the voice for the Sports2Gether app. Mrs. Jackson is a special needs advocate and an Ambassador Advocate for AutismTn. Jackson is also an advisor for the Global for profit Billion-Strong. She co- founded and co- hosts Writers Corner Live TV and Special Needs TV Shows that air on Amazon Live, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Writers Corner Live features author interviews from New York Times best sellers, International and National best sellers to multi award winning authors, and all things in the writing world. Special Needs TV features interviews and resources for parents, families, and caregivers. Jackson is also working on an edutainment YouTube channel with her son featuring children's book reviews and family fun and education for all children. Mrs. Jackson is a very busy mom, wife, empath, and intuitive. She loves nature, being creative, anything funny, and inspiring others to believe in themselves to go from where they are to their full potential. She lives with her hubby, three kids, and dog in the Nashville area. -Cherish every moment of life. You can find her books and other content at www.mary@maryejackson.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:13 Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Again, it is time for another episode of unstoppable mindset. We're inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Today, we get to talk with another author and this person Mary Elizabeth Jackson is a two time Amazon Best Seller number one best seller as I recall. And in reading her bio, she's got lots of interesting things to talk about. Definitely proving she's unstoppable. But she's also helping other people become unstoppable. And I don't mean that in just a hokey, wordy kind of thing. And you'll see that as we go forward. So Mary, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  01:59 Hi, thank you, Michael, for having me. I'm so excited to be here today. Michael Hingson  02:04 Well, it's our pleasure to to have you tell me a little bit about you and where you where you started and came from and all that kind of stuff. And we'll go from there. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  02:14 Okay, well, I am from Orlando, Florida, actually. And I live in Tennessee now. And I am a mother of three children. Two of my children are on the spectrum. I am, like you said an author, I have been in now just as of March 29, three collaborative anthologies for adults, I have a award winning children's series called foolishness. And our newly really recently released middle grade reader for kids. It's an anti bullying story that's about how Sue includes redemption. And it's called tears from heaven. And, you know, I love writing. From the viewpoint, when I write for children, I love reading from the viewpoint of a child in in, in educating them as well as empowering them. So I like to just do more than storytelling. But those were the first the series I have was kind of birth after my late life son was born and had a lot of challenges. And, you know, I had no idea book series was coming after he was born. And it really changed my life in so many ways. And I'm so grateful for it. I've been an advocate for a long time because my middle daughter was diagnosed 16 and a half years ago. And so I've been doing this a very long time Michael Hingson  03:37 and was diagnosed with autism. Yes, she Mary Elizabeth Jackson  03:39 she had she was nonverbal. So language delay, speech delay, developmentally delayed and nos, which is not other other specified any, you know, medical, there's not a specific category for what it was was going on with her. She's on the, uh, you know, back then it was called Asperger's. Now, it's kind of lumped into that, you know, autism spectrum disorder. And then she said that that's where it was introduced to that whole world. I actually just was writing a query article about it yesterday, and this morning, finishing it up, and just talking about that journey as a parent, the glimpse into the life of having a child with challenges when your first child meets all their milestones. And then you have your second child does not and you don't know what's happening. And so all of that's brand new, it was for me, and you know, I hope to help educate others so they don't feel like lost and alone. You know, I did that journey twice because my youngest son had his own set of challenges coming into this world and I found myself lost it alone again, and just not knowing what to do and the frustrations and, you know, the questions of Was it my fault? You know, did I Do Something was it medication or the environment or food or genetics or, you know, there's any number of things that can add up to what's happening with the child. And I also co founded and co host two shows that are online, and one is called writer's corner live TV. And that is, it features everything about authors in that whole in the whole writing world. And that we've been doing it for about three and a half years. And then I have special needs TV as well. And we stream out through Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and YouTube and Amazon live. So you know, those are my passions. I, Michael Hingson  05:40 you also you also voice an app, don't you? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  05:42 I do is called the sport together app. Yes. And it is here in the States. It began in Denmark and Sweden and Norway over there. It's actually it's funny. It's, it's a friend of mine from high school who is with the company that created the app. And so he called me and said, Hey, would you be the voice on this app for us? And I was like, Sure. Michael Hingson  06:05 What is it? What does the app do? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  06:10 what the app does is it brings folks together to exercise out in public, you have meetups, you have challenges, you have gatherings, you can teach classes on there, you can pose challenges to other folks. So it's a pretty cool app. So it will they're gonna grow it here more in the States. So it's they're trying to create it to be global. Michael Hingson  06:31 Is it? Is it an iPhone app and Android app or both? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  06:35 I think it's both. I know, it's an iPhone app, but I'm not sure if it's gone to Android yet, you know, but I need to ask him that. I think that it is on Android now. But you know, Michael Hingson  06:47 and you probably should say or tell people how to spell it? Oh, yes. That's very clever. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  06:54 It is clever. So it's a capital S. So p o r t s and then the number two and then a capital G e t h e r so sports together? And it is it is catchy, isn't it? But yeah, if you don't know how to spell it, you're probably not going to find it. So Michael Hingson  07:13 well, you clearly advocate advocating? Why do you do that? As opposed to you're a mom, you've got kids that keeps you busy. But why did you choose to become an advocate and go down that road as well? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  07:30 That's a good question. Well, I you know, when a mother becomes pregnant, she actually becomes an advocate than in that moment, right? Because then she has to start caring for that child inside her and be careful what she eats, and what she drinks and taking care of herself, so that the baby can, you know, come into this world and be as healthy as it can be. But when you have a child who has needs, you really don't have much of a choice, but to become their voice and to become their advocate. And, you know, at first I felt so lost. And I, I felt so overwhelmed. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know where to go, who to turn to. And I actually ended up having I really turn to education and research for myself. That is what helped me feel more empowered. And I have done that and still do that. And I teach that I talk to parents about that, you know, and my middle daughter had a very traumatic experience in pre K kindergarten. And it was so traumatic that it it changed all of our lives in our family. And it changed my direction as an advocate, because then I went to Capitol Hill here in Nashville, Tennessee, and I spoke to senators and state representatives and pursued changing laws, to better the classroom environment for children who are nonverbal and have special needs and disabilities. And I'm still working on those things. Actually, this summer, I'm going to be working on some legislation for next year. And I it really just took hold of my life and became a passion of mine to make sure that things are the best they can be for kids and to educate families. After my son was born. I then went to Vanderbilt and got certified as a as an advocate so that I can help families in schools in going to make sure their children get the right services and help them understand more of what's happening for them and how to be empowered themselves on that journey. Because it takes you from feeling so helpless and hopeless and a victim even to being more of a Victor and going okay, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. And when we're empowered as parents that only trickles down to our child to be more empowered. So they know hey, I can do this. You know I can Concord this, I can try this, you know? Michael Hingson  10:03 Well, what what if you can talk about it? What happened to your daughter? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  10:08 Um, well, I've never I've not written about it yet. It was it was really difficult, but she was in a classroom and, and along with other children, I can't talk for any other family. But I was mentally, emotionally physically and verbally abused for about eight months that we did not know about it. And I received a phone call from the police department letting me know what had happened. And that's pretty traumatizing for a parent. Yeah. Michael Hingson  10:37 So when I was in second grade, I had a teacher who turned out to be one of my favorite teachers. But partway through the school year, they decided to transfer me into another class because they said, Well, we have a teacher that we think would be better for Mike because she knows Braille. And I had learned braille in kindergarten, but forgotten. And so anytime we could find a way to reintroduce me to Braille, it was a helpful thing. And because originally when I, when we moved to California, they didn't have any braille materials or anyone to help with that, well, we put me in this class. This teacher liked to use corporal punishment to make kids behave, and she would hit people with rulers. And sometimes it was pretty arbitrary. So I wasn't necessarily able to interact by reading things out loud, because I didn't have the materials. And as it turns out, she didn't know braille. So I was in that class a month when it was discovered that keeping me there was not a very healthy thing to do. I don't know what happened to that teacher. But I ended up going back to Mrs. Hill's class, which, as I said, she was one of my favorite teachers in elementary school. But I understand the kind of thing that you're dealing with. And hearing about that must have been quite a shock and caused a lot of stress, distress and trauma in all your lives. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  12:06 Yeah, it's hard to describe if you've never been through it, it is not something you because there were we had a total of six or seven families, we actually pursued legal over it because of the trauma and damage that was caused to the children. You know, I learned a lot about the law. And there was a lot of disappointment. The sad thing is, when a child experiences abuse, no matter where it comes from, it can get stuck in the brain of a child, it doesn't matter what age you are, but being a child who can't reason through things, the healing for that is much more difficult. And what I was told by the forensic psychologists when my daughter was five was that she will be more likely to have heart disease, cancer and die at a young age and have lots of mental issues from this mental emotional. And that's not something a parent ever wants to hear about their child. So our life for a long time at that point was filled with lots of therapies. More than just her speech and OT now we've added psychological, mental, emotional therapies into all of this, you know, for me, yeah. It was tough to talk about that. She's one of my heroes. Michael Hingson  13:33 So were you able to discern that something was different when it was happening? Or was she just not able to communicate well enough for you to understand that there was something amiss, as it were, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  13:44 both both happened? And the questions that the questions I had, were always, there was always an answer for them. You know what I mean, it's that coverage that happens. And it was near the end, when you know, you have a fully potty trained child who's starting to wet the bed and wet at nap time. It was like, right when all that happened, then we went on break and got the call about what had been going on. And you know it when you get a call from the police department telling you what's been happening to your child, that's not something that you've made up. That is legit information coming through. And you know, when you have to have Child Services, come to your home and interview your child who won't even say anything except whisper in the person's ear, and because of the fear based upon her. What do you do? I mean, it's, it's so life changing that your parenting style changes, your trust in the world and other humans change. I mean, it embarks upon so many different facets of life. You know, I I lost all hope and me and my relationship with God for a period of time we just was gone, because I just couldn't imagine how somebody would be allowed to do this and get away with it in a public school system. And, you know, it was the birth of my son later in life, many years later that healed and brought our I think that he healed our family a lot. But you know, when you're going through something like that, and you can't discuss anything, you can't even really go to therapy. It's like a family therapy to help. Because all of that can be brought into the court system, you know, trial, you're pretty much on an island by yourself. And and that's, that's one of the that's one of those things, I think you look back in life and go, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Right? Yes. So it ended up empowering me in many ways, and has been a lot of the drive forward for the work that I do. Michael Hingson  16:05 So how old is your daughter now? She's 18. And she's doing okay, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  16:12 she is doing fantastic for what she's been through. And part of that is, you know, the help that we got her and as a family staying strong and connected and continuing in life, not letting that define who we were as a family, not letting that be the definition of her and her life, and keep pushing forward and pushing forward and pushing forward. And, you know, I never, I never said you can't do this, or you can't try that. Or you, you know, she she now is a five time published illustrator. You know, she's going to go to college next year for animation and filmmaking. And that has been her avenue for channeling what she went through, it's been a godsend. And I would say for any child out there, give them a channel to express themselves. However, that is, as long as I sit, you know, it's legal, of course, right? You don't want to try and keep paint cans at somebody's house, you know, but I mean, as long as it's, it's healthy, and, you know, kids need exercise for their brain and their physical body. And they need their, they need their academics, they need their, they also need their art, they need creativity, we are creative humans. And we are meant to express that. And so giving a person that channel can be a lifesaver, actually, I believe? Michael Hingson  17:40 Well, I guess we'll just have to have her on the podcast, and she can talk about you. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  17:44 Oh, she has her. She has her triggers. But you know, we've learned there there are coping skills for things, you know, of course, it won't. It won't define her life. You know, she she's very, she's forgiving. She's much more forgiving about this situation than I have ever been able to do. Because there's a lesson right there. Yeah, that's why I say she's my she's one of my heroes, for sure. But you know, as a parent, you want to protect your child. And of course, nobody should touch my child in any way that is hurtful or inappropriate. But nobody should ever do it to anyone in this world ever. You know, it just should be something that I wish it could be expelled from the world. Michael Hingson  18:31 Well, out of all of that did were there. Did the legal system do something about what happened to her? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  18:38 They did but not enough. It was not enough. So and that that's where those loopholes come in those legal loopholes that people get off on technicalities, and things like that. So, you know, there was not a punishment fit the crime in this incident, unfortunately. And, you know, I was I was interviewed during that period of time, near the end of when we had gone to court finally, I was interviewed by a subcommittee in Washington, actually, there was a senator that was leaving a congressman, excuse me, he was leaving. And he was doing some legislation on restraint and isolation. And they had gone across the country looking for cases to interview people. And what they were finding is that there were cases all across our country where abuse was happening to children. And when the when the parents went up against the school systems and stuff, they were all losing. Right. And it was just shocking to them. And I remember spending about two hours on a phone interview all about the situation. And it was very enlightening to know and sad to hear how much it was happening across our country and it still is, you know, and we're rectification the correct process. So it is not it, you know, it wasn't nothing's can be different now because this was back in, you know, it happened this school year 2008 2009. So, you know, it's been a quite a many years since then. But I just think that when we have the ability to right and wrong into make law and to put rules into place and to make things better, if we have the ability to do that, it's our responsibility, especially to protect those who can't protect themselves. Michael Hingson  20:31 So all of that happened, which gave you the opportunity to gain a lot of knowledge do you think we've made, mate? Well, let me ask another question first, if I could, were all the children involved. Back then kids with disabilities? Yes. Uh huh. Were they was it all autism or a variety of different disability? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  20:54 Yeah, I was a disability. Okay. Michael Hingson  20:57 So now, the question that comes to mind is, do you think that there have been major advances and improvements in the system since then? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  21:08 I think it depends on where you are in the country. I think it really depends on the advocacy work that's done, the awarenesses that had been made. But I think we still have a lot of places that have not made a lot of advancement across our country, which is sad. And I'm not saying that. I certainly don't want anyone to be angry. It's just it's doing the research and having that awareness that we still have a lot of work to do. You know, we still have, we still have, you know, I Somebody just sent me something the other day, and the report was about the states in the United States that are really great for families with children with challenges and the ones that still are not. And so, you know, we still have some work to do. Absolutely. Michael Hingson  21:53 I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done. And it's, it's a real problem, because we talk about diversity. But diversity doesn't include disabilities. It still doesn't. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  22:08 I you know, you that is absolutely true. Be especially this whole last through the pandemic and all the the rising up of folks with diversity. Well, and I don't even you know, that's really not we're just humans, right? It doesn't matter what we look like, we're all human. But a disability is totally different than diversity. You know, Michael Hingson  22:30 it shouldn't be but it is. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  22:32 I know, I agree. Michael Hingson  22:33 And that's why we talk about inclusion. One of my favorite speeches that I give regularly is moving from diversity to inclusion, because that's what we need to do. Right? You either are inclusive, or you're not. And the whole idea of, well, I'm partially inclusive, we deal with race and stuff, we just don't deal with disabilities. No, you're not inclusive, right. And we need to get to the point in our society where we truly recognize we're not inclusive, and work vigorously and absolutely as hard as we can to change that. But we don't. And you're, I'm not surprised that your answer of it differs depending on where you are in the country. And it also differs some from disability quote, to disability. But the reality is, from my perspective, you can put it all in this context. Take blindness, the reality is, every single person in the world has a disability. Some of us are light independent, we don't care if the lights are on or not. Most of you are light dependent, you need the light in order to function, you haven't learned how to get around in the dark. We fixed that when Thomas Edison and others invented the electric light bulb. So now you can flip a switch, and you can see what you're doing. But don't insult us by saying that that doesn't mean you have a disability because it does. Without those lights, you're in a world of hurt, what happens we get a power failure. Immediately people go looking for the candles in the flashlight. You poor individuals can't function without light. And I feel sorry for you. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  24:19 You know, I It's, I love that you said that because I've never heard someone say that before. I mean, I know when I talk about, you know, learning through the eyes, you know, quote, unquote, the world through someone or someone else. You know, that's the beauty. One of the beauties of having a child who has needs, you get to learn life a totally different way. You know, you get to see it, hear it, feel it, it helps you come outside of your box to understand there's so much more to the world than what you think there is. And you just said it right there. And that's really funny because we are very dependent on electricity and yes, the power goes out what does everybody do? They start to scream Oh my gosh, where's the lights? You know? When kids freak out, you know, Mom, Mom, is everything okay? And, you know, and then for Michael, he'd be like, yeah, what's wrong with you people, Michael Hingson  25:09 even more than electricity, even more than electricity, it's just light. I mean, back in the back in the day, before electric lights, it was fire and candles, and you've always had a fireplace or you had torches, go back 1000s of years still had torches once we discovered fire. And the fact is that you guys don't do well without light. And that's okay. But don't think that that's the only way to do business and to function. But that's what we do. We teach people there's only one way and the reality is eyesight is not the only game in town. Hearing is not the only game in town, for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. And the verbiage and the words matter, and are a big part of it. So when people talk about me, they're afraid to say or they think it's not politically correct to say you're blind. So they say your sight impaired, well, no, you're blind impaired. But then the other thing that they talk about is your visually impaired? Well, that's the worst terminology that we can use. Because the last time I checked, visual meant how things appear. It's all a visual experience. And so visually impaired is is wrong. But that's what the professionals in the world have worked with the blind talked about for many years. I don't really like vision impaired, because I think I have lots of vision, I just don't say to people, I don't see good, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  26:35 y, right. So what is proper, and I'm glad you're bringing that up what is proper, because I know everyone's trying to be so careful. And you know, there are words that people just don't use anymore. Like my mother worked in the college 40 years ago, and it was the handicap department, we don't use those words anymore. So what is appropriate for someone who is bald, Michael Hingson  26:56 so a person who's blind is blind, right? There's nothing wrong with being blind. And if you can see some, we could debate about this, but you're either partially blind or partially sighted, I choose partially blind. But I could go either way, you're blind, or you're partially blind, or you're sighted, and all three of those categories? Well, the reality is, if you're partially blind, it's also a good opportunity to learn the skills that that totally blind people use. Because one, your eyesight might deteriorate. Or two, the skills that I use might greatly enhance what you as a partially blind person would do. So for example, if your eyesight is diminished to the point where you have to use alternatives to full eyesight to say read print, because the prints too small, you have to use large print, magnifiers, and so on, it's also probably a good time to learn to read Braille. Because no matter what you do with those alternatives to regular size print, you won't read as fast, you will probably get headaches and have other kinds of things that will make it more difficult for you to read as much. And as often. Whereas with Braille, you can read all day, and you will be a much faster reader. And today the technology exists that many, many more things are available to be in a Braille format than ever were before. But we don't include teachers still won't even teach totally blind kids Braille and you don't need Braille, you can listen to audiobooks. Well, if that's the case, why do they teach sighted kids to read print? Why don't they just let them watch TV, but we don't do that. We're not inclusive. So the blind kids don't get the full services that they deserve. And it's the same sort of thing that you experience with your children. We don't get included, and we don't understand and we don't teach people to understand. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  29:01 Right. And that's part of education, you know, that's part of continuing to have these conversations to, to make people are aware to help them understand to you know, it's like today, this meeting I had earlier, I was telling you a little bit about it. And the things I was talking about, they had no awareness of now they have an awareness about it, which is fantastic, right? Michael Hingson  29:28 Yeah. And hopefully they will internalize that enough to follow through and not make it a one time thing, but rather recognize that we all deserve to be treated equally. And equality doesn't necessarily mean that we treat people exactly the same way. What equal means is that I truly need to have equal access to the same things. And so giving me a print book does not provide me with equal access to that. book that you have. And there's nothing wrong with that. Equal access to school desks doesn't mean that a left handed person should necessarily get the same desk with a return on it that a right handed person uses their they need to have the side of the deck come out on the other side. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  30:21 Yeah, they need to be on the outside, not in the middle between two people with their left handed. Michael Hingson  30:27 Yeah, well, or they need to have the desk configured so that the the armrest or the return is on the left side as opposed to the right side. There's so many different things. And there's nothing wrong with us expecting that we make these accommodations. That's what the Americans with Disabilities Act is all about. Is mandating or requiring that we make accommodations, it needs to be strengthened. Right. I remember once being on an airplane with my guide dog. And I don't like to sit in the front row. People say but there's more room for the dog. Yes. And if there are turbulence, there's nothing to keep the dog from bouncing around. And the reality is, don't look at it the way you want to look at it. I'm the one that has been using a guide dog for well, now 58 years. But we actually had a legal action that that I needed to take against an airline back in no, well, in 1980, the incident actually occurred. So that's now 42 years ago. But I wanted to sit in something other than the front row of an aircraft. And the airline policy wasn't what I would like it to be. But it said that I could sit in any of the first three rows with my guide dog. So I wanted to sit and row to the pilot would have none of it, he violated his own airline policies. And we had to take it to court. And again, based on a technicality, the policy of the airline wasn't even allowed to be entered into the court record. Because the lawyer for the airline said, but it's not an FAA document. It's an airline rule. And the judge bought into that, which is extremely unfortunate. So we do get technicalities all over the place. But the reality is, the airline pilot violated his own company policy, and had not one single piece of accountability for violating their own rules. Well, everybody ended up paying for it because the airline went out of business. So I love to think I was a contributor to that. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  32:42 Good for you. Well, I mean, you know, we are trying to write, you know, we are there are corrections that need to be made in this world. And it's interesting, how much show needs to be done. So Michael Hingson  32:56 well, you are doing a lot of different things. Tell me about the TV show that you started. Why did you start that? And tell me a little bit more about that? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  33:05 Um, well, back in 2017, in the early part of 2017, I got I was first published. And I wanted to I had a friend who was kind of diving in a little bit to live streaming back then. And she, we had a conversation I said, You know what I would really like to do a show, where we have a platform of 30 minutes to offer authors, they get to come on and talk about their books and their journey and things like that. And she said, Okay, let's do it. And so we started it in 2017 It's three and a half years later, we're still going strong. We're booked for the entire year actually. And it's very exciting. We have interviewed authors New York Times bestsellers, international bestsellers, debut authors, publicist, illustrators narrators you know, I like to feature and we like to feature my co host and I everything in the writing world so that we can offer that to folks who are looking for a new book and a new authors to love. Maybe they want to do it but they don't know how to get started, you know, so we like to provide all that. And then I have special needs TV. So that's all about the special needs and disability world and that has been on hiatus but it's starting back this month. It is autism awareness month. So we're just starting back this month and that is interviews and information and resources for families in the disability community. You know, that's what we're providing with that that online TV show. Michael Hingson  34:48 Well of course October we have what National Disability Awareness Month are actually now more National Disability Employment Awareness Month. And, and there ought to be in it's also meet the blind month which the National Federation of the Blind helped to begin. And there there ought to be more done in the area of creating the conversation. It would be great if if the government would help to create the conversation, but we do need to create more of a conversation around it. The reality is, if you want to put it in a fear environment, anyone can suddenly discover they have a disability. Chris, my position is that we all do anyway, but a more visible disability. And so, what, what all of us face is no respecter of anyone. And it would be ideal if everyone had every sense that everyone has. But the reality is, all of us are given different gifts. And we need to get the message out that just because someone doesn't have the same gifts you do, let's face it, you don't have the same gifts that someone else does. I bet that most of the people listening to this show, aren't really great in math and aren't really incredibly adept at performing partial differential equations and, and other things like that, that, that I learned when I was going to school, but I have an aptitude for it. Or even doing audio editing, I was speaking with someone yesterday about starting a podcast and talked about the fact that editing the podcast is something that I like to do to a to a degree, and then I turn it over to someone to do the hosting. And I think that everyone who does a podcast ought to do some of that. Because it really gives you a better flavor for what's going on if you have some involvement in it. But this person is I could never do that, well, maybe they can. And maybe it's they really don't have an aptitude for it, or they've just talked themselves into it. But we all have gifts, and we all ought to be not only allowed to utilize our gifts to our maximum potential, but we all be respected for the gifts that we have, which are different than gifts that others have. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  37:06 Right, we also need to have you know, it's I just, I wish that we could help spread that awareness for families, caregivers, whoever's raising the child, to help them find that pathway for themselves. You know, what, what are they good at? What are what do they excel at? What do they love, you know, where's their channel for them, and help them grow that, because it can turn a situation and a child's life completely around for them, you know, and make it a success, Michael Hingson  37:44 when children are really allowed to explore, to the best of their ability, and parents really allow them to do that. Which means free, frankly, sometimes taking a risk and letting a child do that. But the child is going to grow a lot more than they otherwise would. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  38:03 Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Michael Hingson  38:06 It does have to be scary to be a kid today. I mean, there are just so many examples of ways that the kids are exploited and so on. And so it's also a lot tougher, I think, to be a parent than it was when I was growing up. And when you were growing up, but still, kids have to be able to learn and grow. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  38:26 They do you know it and I'm parenting twice. So like I have a 21 year old, an 18 year old and an eight year old. So it's like I'm having this do over stage right, because I've already been I've already been through my daughter's and then now I've got my son and just in that short span of time, life is totally different now raising him than it was raising my girls, you know, they didn't have as much access to social media is like my son does in their world is so unless you're a parent that's on top of it, and you're only allowing certain times with it and certain shows to watch and certain things to do. You know, that can be all consuming for a child, well, then what are they learning? So since my son is he's very smart. He has autism level one, he's sensory processing, language processing, and then various other things as well. But what we have to understand about children, whether they have a challenge or not, is the way their brain functions. And so there are they're exposed to things so much younger now that their brain can't really process yet. So they really don't know is that real or not? Is it okay for me to do that or not? So we have kids that are doing things younger and younger, and being exposed to things that they really don't have the mindset yet to be able to process. So you know if like, my son is a boy, he has testosterone, right? So he has a tendency toward aggression. So if he is going to spend time watching shows that are aggressive, what kind behaviors you're going to display in life. So as a parent, you need to be aware of that and expose them to more like, calm, peaceful, gentle way of doing things. So they can, you know, be able to work through their life and their world in a much more balanced way, as opposed to, oh, you know, punching and fighting and jumping and hurting and, you know, banging and, you know, I mean, that's all part of growing up for a boy and testosterone. But still, you know, there needs to be that, I guess that watch on it is I'm only coming from my own experience with my child and watching other children as well, you know, so we have to be aware and responsible as parents and caregivers, Michael Hingson  40:48 as your youngest, what your son, does he read a lot, or is he able to do a lot of Mary Elizabeth Jackson  40:54 that? Getting a lot better at it? Yes, this this just recently, he's kind of blossomed. And, you know, that's always been really hard for him. I mean, he was nonverbal. And his language really didn't come through until he was, I guess, even at five we were still having trouble with he was he was still having a challenge with it. And I've just in this last year, seen him grow so much now i homeschooled last year because of the pandemic. So I got to see the whole process on a deeper level of how he learns. And I ended up going to the county to get some testing done on some additional things that I was like, Okay, I'm seeing this besides all his diagnosis, you know, because a lot of times, a child can have things that come on later in their life as they progress through and then now they have a new diagnosis for something that does happen with kids. But you know, he, he has, he really struggles with, he has his lot of language processing stuff that he struggles with. So you just have to take it at his pace, we use different techniques to teach so that he can get it. And he's, he's very, very smart. It's just it's like a really high functioning ASD child or Asperger's or autistic child who has no social skills, but they're very, very smart. In other areas, I mean, all children have their strengths. In I just learned so much about the brain through my children, and the kids that I my kids and the things they've dealt with, it is so fascinating how the brain works, and how you could have one area of the brain that is functioning very high, and then another part of the brain that's not able to do much of anything. You know, it's just fascinating. So what do you do? Well, you focus on those strengths. And then you work on those weaknesses and help make them stronger for a child. No. Michael Hingson  42:52 Well, yeah, and I was the reason I asked about reading, as I was thinking of, as you point out all the graphic and the violence stuff on television. And there's there there are things that are not my wife and I both love mysteries. But if you really come down to it, the mysteries that I like the best, although we are James Patterson fans, and JD Robin, so on, my favorite mysteries are still the ones that are really puzzles, if you will, and don't need to portray all the violence and show graphically all the violence to get you deep into the book, or the or the movie or enthralled by it. So we love, for example, Hallmark movies and mysteries is as a channel, because there, it isn't nearly as violent. But the mysteries are there. And oftentimes, we'll watch something. Didn't we see that already? Yeah, but I don't remember how it turned out. But again, they're not as violent and we don't need that shock value. No. And we don't need the gross violence, to if we allow ourselves to do it to get into who really done it, you know. And so, for me, books that do that are the same way I love to try to figure out who did it, what and exactly how they did some of the things that they do. And I think that the best books and the ones that will ultimately be the classics are the ones that create the most puzzles, and keep people in growth without violence to do it. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  44:30 Right. And unfortunately, our social media and media of the world has, it's almost like they have convinced our public to think in our youth that you've got to have that. It's like we've become so desensitized to things that you need more and more and more, to get a response and to feel that sensation of whatever it's trying to portray to you. When really exactly what you We're talking about is it doesn't take that much, you can watch a very something very innocent and really gain something out of it. And so I wish that we had more ability to bring back into balance, what's out there for viewership, you know, whether it's online or television period, Michael Hingson  45:26 you've got a lot of things going on between the writers corner and the television shows, obviously a busy mom and so on. What do you enjoy most? Well, it was, I had to ask. Well, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  45:41 it's funny, I do love writing, even if I'm not, you know, because I'm a ghost writer, but as well, but I even not for that I like writing for myself. Writing isn't inspires me, when I see something that inspires me, I like to write about it. It's a good channel. For me, it's a way to decompress. But you know, I love nature. I love I love family time. You know, because I'm a big advocate for a strong family. And, and getting back to the, the importance of the roots of a family and why family is important. And being able to work out issues within a family, you're never always going to agree. And there can be some very unpleasant things. And some families have a lot of dysfunction in them. But I come from a broken family. So it was my goal to make sure my family is strong, and I teach my children, the importance of that. But I love the beach, I love hiking, I love I grew up on horses. So I love that. And, you know, it's I do I do do yoga, I meditate, those are things that helped keep me balanced in my life that bring me kind of keep me grounded with everything going on. Because otherwise I wouldn't be able to do all the stuff that I'm you know, trying to do. And I had a tolerance for it. So you Michael Hingson  47:05 do a lot of stuff where you truly have to think and do a lot of introspection, which I would assume helps. And you really have to put things in mental order in terms of what you do. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  47:20 Yes, I do. Absolutely. Michael Hingson  47:23 So that, that forcing yourself to really think and not just reacting is is I would think pretty important too. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  47:32 It is it's very important. And I think when you're trying to think of solutions, and like things like solutions for a child or in your own life, you really do have to stop and think and how can we come more from a place of action as opposed to reaction, because we're so especially through the pandemic charged, if you want to say, you know, we're more charged as an environment of humans than we used to be. And a lot of that is being charged by other people's emotions and what's happening, like what happened in New York yesterday in Brooklyn. And then, at the same time that was going on, I was on the I was actually online with my co host and producer of our show, and she's in Cape Town, South Africa, and she was reading that they had a landslide from flooding and 45 people died. And, you know, that's an awful thing that happened over there. That's not a normal thing for them to have landslides over there. And I just think the fear factor that's out there with the pandemic, and where are we headed in this country and the world creates so much anxiety for all most everyone, unless we find a place to kind of be in our happy bubble. You know, let's sit in this place. And everything else is out there. Michael Hingson  48:56 Being in our own closet well. So Where Where does God fit into your life nowadays, I understand not the past not withstanding, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  49:06 no god is, you know, after everything that happened with my daughter, and then my son was born. It was a really, there was like a rebirthing. For me, in my belief system with God. God is always been a part of my life. Ever since I was little bitty and could understand. I've had, you know, many very interesting experiences in my life. But God is just very important to me in my life in my children's lives, and my husband and our family and is the center, you know, in God guides us gives us strength helps us to understand things in the world more than, you know, as a human. How do we make sense of what's happening? Why are other humans doing what they're doing to others? I mean, it's really hard, you know, so we have to turn to something that we believe in and for me It is God. You know, God gives me my power and my strength every day to do what I do. And listen, when God gives me an idea or a thought or three o'clock in the morning, and God says, You got to do this. You know, I have learned in the last five years, at least, I have our 5678 years, I have to do what he says. And even if I say, Okay, I don't know what I'm doing. And he's like, we'll do it anyways, I don't care. You know, it's like, that's what happened with the writers corner live show, you know, he said, You got to do a show. And then I was like, why don't know what I'm doing. Because I don't care. Just do it. And then three and a half years later, here we are, you know, my first manuscript for my children's book, I sat on for two years, I didn't do anything with it, because I thought I'd just keep it for my kids to read one day, and it was like, somebody kept doing this on my shoulder, you have to do something with this, you have to do something with this. And so I finally surrendered. And when I did all these doors opened up, and and then here I am. So I am a believer in miracles. Absolutely, I'm a believer in miracles, my three children are miracles, because I was not. I was told I would never ever have children. So and especially what I went through with my son, in the end of my pregnancy, and after my recovery, you know, it was a miracle. So I do believe in Michael Hingson  51:21 Him. And great gifts all too. Yes, absolutely. Yes. So, so what tell me about prayer than you know, talking with God talking to God? Where does prayer fit into everything that you've experienced? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  51:38 Well, I have two of my kids, because I have one in college, one in high school, one in elementary, and two of my kids are in Christian School. So their life is taught to them from a Christian perspective, which is, I think, really great because it gives them a grounding. That's what I've seen with my children, and a sense of a purpose larger than just being inside themselves consumed by you know, I want this, I need that, because we're humans, we tend to be that way, right? But we pray every day, we talk about Scripture every morning that we can that we have time for because you know, a lot of times you're rushing out the door. But, you know, we we surrender. And we lean on God for strength. So I pray and meditate every day. That's a part of my everyday life. And it doesn't always mean it's in the morning, sometimes it's three o'clock in the morning, if I wake up and can't go back to sleep. Then I go into prayer and meditation and I surrender all of my worries and concerns or just asking for guidance. Please show me the way open the doors, open the opportunities, leave me Tell me what you want me to do. You know, so there is surrender involved in all of it? Michael Hingson  52:46 Well, there actually is. And the fact of the matter is that from from me and observing a lot of people in prayer and talking about prayer, it's about them telling God what they want. And every time I hear that, I kind of go, don't you think God already knows Mary Elizabeth Jackson  53:05 what the Bible tells us? If you read? You know, people do do that. Right. And we are I think we're taught that sometimes to tell God what you want. But I mean, in the Bible, it says, to go ahead and thank Him that you've already received Michael Hingson  53:17 it. Well, that and my point is that it's all about talking with God not talking to God. And we tend to want to as a, as a race, or as a set of creatures think that we're the ones that are in total control. Well, God, God does give us free will. But there are laws within which you exercise free will. And and it is important, if you truly want to get the best solution that you you need to ask to, to be shown what you need to get the best solution, as opposed to just saying, God, I need this. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  53:54 Yeah, I know, it doesn't always work that way. So we have to we have to surrender to get to what what is in our highest and best good, what is in the highest and best good for those around us, our children, our family, friends, or whatever project we're maybe working on. And God show me the way show me the way because I am human and I don't know everything, you know, so I need some guidance on this and put in my heart what it is you want me to do. And I just, you know, I have friends who and I know people who don't believe in God. And you know, that's their that's what their choices and it's like, you know, we have to be okay with wherever somebody is. You know, I believe the way I believe because of the way I was raised and my own experiences in my life have led me to where I am now. You know, and it's it's made, even though trauma has happened in my life and in sad things have happened. They've happened to everybody, but what got me through with my dependents On or my reliance on and my surrendering to God? Michael Hingson  55:04 Well, you know, in the thing about God and meditation and prayer, and I think meditation really, in a lot of ways is, is a significant amount of part of prayer. Because what you're really doing, as you said, when you truly meditate is you're opening your mind, you're not trying to solve problems you are surrendering, giving up or giving up all things or simply saying, these are here, but I'm just going to be open to what comes along. And then, of course, there are a number of different kinds of meditation, but it still amounts to the same thing that you're truly looking inward to get to a place of much more inner peace than you otherwise would Mary Elizabeth Jackson  55:49 have. Right? Exactly. Yeah. Michael Hingson  55:53 Have you ever read 10% happier by Dan Harris? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  55:56 No, I have not, I will have to check that out. So Michael Hingson  55:59 he was a host on the weekend edition of Good Morning America for years, and along the way, became involved in meditation. And he wrote this book entitled, 10%, happier, and there's also a 10% happier app. And he talks about the two main ways of meditation and just talks about the value, that meditation has brought him a really not only a good book, but a really good read for anyone who kind of wants to learn more about it and understand the value of bringing meditation into their lives. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  56:35 Well, it's a very important thing. It's been very instrumental in my life. And it's been very instrumental in all three of my children's lives, and my daughter, you know, with anxiety, and, you know, I used it a lot during the pandemic, everybody was home, schools were shut down, life was scary. Okay, we got to ground ourselves here. And we've got to focus on positive and what we do have control over what our choices are, where we have power, because everybody wants to know where they have control and power, right. That's an innate thing and all of us, and not to control somebody else. But to not feel so helpless. Because the pandemic and lockdown made most all of us feel pretty helpless didn't. Michael Hingson  57:20 And that was all about fear. We got here, we became so afraid that we wouldn't ask for help, we wouldn't accept help. And we were just afraid of doing anything. And that continues today. And that's one of the reasons that we started working on the project. I've mentioned a couple times on this podcast to guide dogs Guide to Being brave. And we're, we're excited, that's going to be the next book that that I write. And that will be a little ways out yet. But the fact of the matter is that it's not about brave, it's not about fear. It's about being open and learning to look at what goes on around you. And you said it very well. You learn what you can control. And don't worry about the things that you can't, because it's not going to do you any good. It's going to just stress you out. Right. So Mary Elizabeth Jackson  58:11 I stay busy. My kids are out doing whatever, you know, I've got one on a trip somewhere and yeah, the others at college and you know, so you just, and I, I had to surrender a lot. And I know I have to go pick up my little guy from school. But, you know, when you have your child abused in a public school system, we've let your child be the challenge is to ever let your child be with anyone ever again. Other than you that that took a lot of strength and growth for me a lot. Michael Hingson  58:49 What does it mean to you to be an advocate? What does happen because he mean to you? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  58:55 Well, it means it means a lot actually it means fighting for and, you know fighting for things that someone else can't being a voice for someone else who doesn't have a voice speaking up for others who can't it trying to make the world a better place. Um, I feel I guess I feel a sense of responsibility for some reason that I you know, I'm supposed to I just know that it's on my heart and there's a purpose inside of me that drives me to be an advocate. Michael Hingson  59:32 What's your favorite part of of advocacy? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  59:36 Well, seeing something work, Michael Hingson  59:39 seeing something work Mary Elizabeth Jackson  59:42 that you try for, I would say most recently would be the art exhibit at the Nashville Public Library with eight artists with challenges or disabilities and seeing their art on display for whoever comes, you know, in giving people a little bit of a peep of the view into that A person's world, you know, and what art represents for them, because art empowers all of us. And so I would say, that brings me a lot of joy, you know, seeing a library turn a room into a sensory room for kids. That is exciting to be a part of, you know, I'm getting ready to embark on creating some toys and tools and apps to make the world a better place for children and adults who have challenges that is exciting to me to be a part of solutions, I guess, Michael Hingson  1:00:29 what advice would you give to parents and others today about advocacy and dealing with kids with special needs and so on? Well, I Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:00:39 would say that, as you know, becoming an advocate is one of the most empowering things that you'll do for yourself, for your child, to educate yourself to get to get certified in it. So then you understand what your rights are, what your child's rights are, and be able to maneuver for them. Like with a doctor with a school. I mean, I took my my my education as a an advocate, and used it medically for my daughter, my oldest going into college, the campus was not ADA compliant. So we had them build a ramp for her her first semester of college, you know, so if I was not trained in any of this, I wouldn't have known to go do that for her and for the school. So ask questions. If you are up against you know, something's going on with your child. And nobody's listening to you, then you keep going to you keep searching until you find a doctor who will listen to your concerns and always listen to your instincts. Always listen to your your mom instinct, your dad instinct, Grandma instinct, because it's always right. You know your child better than Michael Hingson  1:01:48 anyone else. Your oldest daughter has a disability as well. Well, she Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:01:53 had hip surgery, going into major surgery going into college and was in a wheelchair and then on crutches, and it took a year to heal. So you know that that was what happened for her. Michael Hingson  1:02:05 So she's all healed now. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:02:07 She's all healed. Now. She's, she's got enough sensory issues that she deals with. But you know, we work through those things, sensory issues, or we work through all that now? Michael Hingson  1:02:16 Well, if her hip is all he if her hip is all healed, and all that, is she gonna apply apply for being a place kicker for the Titans? Or what? Just checking, you know, Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:02:25 I will ask her, Michael Hingson  1:02:27 ask her that that. Well, but I but I appreciate what you're saying. And advocacy is important. But more, most important of all, it seems to me is that parents really do need to understand their children not go into it with the prejudices that we've all been taught. And when you discover that you have a child who has gifts that are different than yours, and I can use the term disability, but I do think we we totally warp it in ways that we shouldn't, because it isn't a lack of ability. So if you discover that you your child has different gifts, I think it's also important that we learn how to be open to letting our children use those gifts, and not limiting them by our own perceived limitations. And let and let them explore the world. Yes, we're going to supervise them and helicopter them to a degree and all that, but let them explore the world, let them learn because it's the only way we're going to grow. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:03:32 That's exactly right. Never tell them they can't do something because they have a challenge about it. Always encourage them always encourage them, you know, because then they learn to be more confident in themselves. And that's important. Michael Hingson  1:03:45 Yeah, I mean, when someone says, Why, why should I allow my child to do this? Why should this be the case? My favorite answer is still why not? Exactly. Well, Mary, this has been absolutely enjoyable. We do need to do more of it. And I'd love to meet meet your kids. But I'd love Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:04:09 for you to absolutely yes, they would love to meet you. I think you're amazing. And I'm so honored to be here on your show. Thank you so much for having me. I really enjoyed this. And we need to do more. And I want to have you on my show. And you know, we should collab about talking about this awareness. Michael Hingson  1:04:27 Absolutely. Absolutely. How can people reach you? How can they learn about your books and so on? Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:04:33 Well go to www dot mariee jackson.com all of my books are there. Links to my shows are there and some information about advocacy and stuff in there as well. And I'm going to I will continue adding information you know, always adding Michael Hingson  1:04:49 in people email you through the site and contact you bottom and Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:04:53 there was a contact email. I think my phone numbers there. My publicist is there too if somebody wants to contact him for an interview who are speaking? And I'm on Facebook is Mary Elizabeth Jackson? Instagram Mary Jackson Five because there's five of us. Michael Hingson  1:05:10 Oh my gosh. It's an invasion Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:05:16 Yeah, we're the Jackson Five and then LinkedIn is Mary Elizabeth Jackson, I think on LinkedIn as well. So Michael Hingson  1:05:22 well I hope people will reach out and and read your books. I'm gonna have to go find them and and read them as well. But we really do appreciate you being on unstoppable mindset today. Mary Elizabeth Jackson  1:05:34 Thank you, I appreciate you being here. Thank you so much for the opportunity. Michael Hingson  1:05:39 Well, thank you. And for those of you listening, thanks for joining. Thanks for being here. Please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to this podcast. And if you'd like

Host: Sarah Morlandt & Rachel Langston Guests: Mary Jackson & Staci Waldvogel Books: ⁠The Celebration Of Discipline⁠ by Richard Foster ⁠Sacred Rhythms⁠ by Ruth Haley Barton ⁠Invitation To Solitude & Silence⁠ by Ruth Haley Barton ⁠Abundant Simplicity⁠ by Jan Johnson Scripture: ⁠Matthew 11:28⁠ ⁠Mark 1:35⁠ ⁠Isaiah 30:15⁠ ⁠Lamentations 3:26⁠ ⁠Psalm 46:10⁠ Other: ⁠University of Alabama⁠ ⁠Women's Missionary Union⁠ ⁠Missions Mosaic Magazine ⁠ Dawson Women's Ministry - ⁠Facebook Page⁠ / ⁠Instagram ⁠ Email: podcast@dawsonchurch.org Kristen Torres, Minister of Spiritual Development - ktorres@dawsonchurch.org or 205-871-7324 Recording Date: April, 2022

Host: Sarah Morlandt & Rachel Langston Guests: Mary Jackson & Staci Waldvogel Books: The Celebration Of Discipline by Richard Foster Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton Invitation To Solitude & Silence by Ruth Haley Barton Abundant Simplicity by Jan Johnson Scripture: Matthew 11:28 Mark 1:35 Isaiah 30:15 Lamentations 3:26 Psalm 46:10 Other: University of Alabama Women's Missionary Union Missions Mosaic Magazine Dawson Women's Ministry - Facebook Page / Instagram Email: podcast@dawsonchurch.org Kristen Torres, Minister of Spiritual Development - ktorres@dawsonchurch.org or 205-871-7324 Recording Date: April, 2022

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Hear how to really think about the conversations you're having What if you could see the world through a fresh lens? In today's podcast, I interview Rose Fass, an author, a business executive, and an inspiration to me and to you. Rose has written one book and is on her way with her next one. Her first book, The Chocolate Conversation, focuses on how our conversations become who we are, what we hear, and how we build relationships. Great conversations help us craft clear messages, build a shared worldview, uncover concerns and uncertainties, and help you and others move forward together. As you listen to Rose and her own personal journey, you are going to rethink your own conversations, paying attention to both what you say and what others reflect on your thoughts. Listen in because there is so much to learn! Watch and listen to our conversation here Learning the lesson of resilience from a dandelion Rose tells the story of being a nine-year-old girl, walking home from school with her friends, a bit frustrated like adolescents often are. Her father was a WWII marine and a poet. That day, she saw him picking dandelions out of the lawn. Seeing her, he turned around and smiled and showed her one of the flowers, asking, “Rose, what do you see?” Not knowing what answer he was looking for, she responded, “I don't know Dad. I see a dandelion.” He said, “Yes, but I want you to look deeper and wider. Look beyond the obvious.” Rose asked him: “What do you see?” He paused, looked at her, and said, “I see the end of a long winter. I see the dawning of a new season. I see lovers walking hand in hand exchanging silent expressions of their love. I see children picking these out of the lawns and handing them to their moms.” He went on: “Rose, we, like many homeowners, will use things to take these dandelions out of our lawns, like other weeds. And in their place will come beautiful flowers like irises and tulips and even roses. But the beauty of the dandelion is not in its first expression of spring. It's in the root, because it's resilient. And all of us know that no matter how much we try to get rid of them, they come back double fold.” The message for each one of us is that resilience. As you listen to Rose talk about the work she does with and for her business clients, you will be inspired to respect and expand your own resilience. These are fast-changing times, and resilience, personally and in business, is more essential than ever. Powerful advice for women, those in the C-suite or any leadership role As Rose tells us: How often we think we're having the same conversation — about dark chocolate, for instance — only to be referring to three different things: milk, white or bittersweet varieties. She shows us how to first establish common ground that leads to an effective discourse for addressing relevance, growth and scaling — the three most important issues she sees in business today. Judith Glaser, the great organizational anthropologist and change agent, once told me that all our lives are just conversations — good ones and not so good ones. Rose has amazing insights on this too, and all women in business should pay close attention to her ideas. Searching for your passion and purpose? Start here: Blog: For Women In Business, Now Is The Time To Achieve Your Dreams Podcast: Lisa McLeod—If You Want To Succeed, You Must Find Your Noble Purpose Podcast: Tony Martignetti—Are You Ready To Live A Life Of Inspired Purpose? Additional resources for you My award-winning second book: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business My award-winning first book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants    Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon. As you know, I'm a corporate anthropologist, and my job is to help you see, feel and think in new ways. And for our podcast, I go looking for people who can help you do that as well. Our job is to get you off the brink. But unless you can see things through a fresh lens, begin to understand them in a new way, you get stuck, or stalled, or you know what you know, and your brain doesn't really want to change anyhow, thank you very much, please go away. I'm happy where I am. But today, the times are changing. We are in a world that is full of turmoil, everywhere, of all kinds. From COVID, to the Ukraine, to what's going on in corporations, everybody is having a challenging time talking to each other. And so I brought you today a wonderful woman who's going to help you think about the conversations that we're having, and how to turn them into really growth experiences. The whole world is a conversation. We're having a global conversation right now. So today, we have Rose Fass here. Rose and I met fortunately, serendipitously at the Westchester Business Council, where she was presenting an absolutely brilliant presentation. And she's going to share some of those insights with you. It was really so touching. I said, Wow, can I share her with our audience as well? Now, the Westchester Business Council is a marvelous organization. You have no idea how many people I've met there, it's a really cool place. But each time I meet somebody and want to share them, they add some dimension to our day today. Let me tell you a little bit about Rose and then she'll tell you about her own journey. Rose knows, as she says, how to use her unique gift to take a mess and quickly put it in place with effective steps to teach desired outcomes. Interesting, isn't it. So she loves to change as I do, and like me, is a culture change expert. She's a natural facilitator who connects with all types of people at all levels of an organization, from the C-suite to the people closest to the work. She has over 45 years of experience in technology and consumer-based industries. During her career, Rose has opened businesses in the United States, has been a general manager with full P&L responsibility and led major corporate transformations. She was a chief transformation officer at Xerox and she's going to tell you a lot about some of her learnings and why at this point she's ready to help others do all kinds of transformation. These times, they are a-changing as Bob Dylan told us in the 60s. Rose, thank you for being with me today. Rose Fass: Thank you, thank you so much. And it's interesting that whenever I hear my bio, I have to smile a little because I go back to being this little kid in a very small neighborhood with a group of young Italian girls like myself just walking around and trying to figure out what it was that we were going to do when we grew up. So the interesting part about all of this is, I run a company right now called fassforward Consulting Group. And it's probably the culmination of everything I ever did at Xerox. Later I went to Gartner with the now CEO of ServiceNow, Bill McDermott, and then met my colleague and partner there, Gavin McMahon, and we started this about 21 years ago. And I still feel like I'm a student of the subject that I talked about. So I want to bring myself into the room as little Rose, so you know who I am. Then we can decide whether any of us are a big piece of stuff, or we all buy into this world with our brilliance and our muddy shoes. So I used to live in East Utica, New York. That's where I was born, on Ruptor Street, and we had a four-room cold water flat that my dad worked very hard on, kind of getting it to where we would have hot water or mom wouldn't have to boil it on top of the stove. Believe it or not, I'm 72 years old and I can actually think back to those days very fondly. But my claim to fame was I lived down the street from Annette Funicello. All of you young women, she was on the Mouseketeers and we were just all a bunch of Italian girls who could dance and sing and we were all cute. And we just could not understand why Annette got discovered by Walt Disney and ended up in Hollywood and we were left in East Utica. So for many, many days, I walked with a group of Italian girls home, complaining, whining, saying bad things and being green with jealousy. I remember this one day, it was unusual because it was early spring, and if you know anything about upstate New York winters, they're horrible. But the weather was nice and I saw my dad picking dandelions out on the front lawn. I went up to him very quietly, because I just wanted to scoot by. My father was a World War II Marine, a published poet and conversant in all the Romance languages, so he was a very interesting guy. I remember walking by and him saying, Rose, and I halted. I turned around, this little nine-year-old looking at him, and he said, What do you see? And he held up the dandelion. And I thought, Oh, God, I don't want to do this. This philosopher, I don't want to do this. And I said, I don't know Dad, I see a dandelion. And he said, Yes, darling, but I want you to look wider. I want you to look deeper. I want you to look beyond just the dandelion. And he looked at me, and I said, I don't know Dad, what do you see? I think at that point, I had learned how to be very good at rhetorical responses, especially when I didn't have an idea of what to say. I was so down in the dumps that I just didn't have the energy to get into it. I usually did, because I think for my dad I was the one that appreciated poetry and philosophy. So he looked at me and he said, Darling, I see the end of a long winter. I see the dawning of a new season. I see lovers walking hand in hand exchanging silence. I see children picking these out of the lawns and handing them to their moms to put them in juice glasses on the sills as a means of saying I love you. And I looked at him. And I said, you see a lot, Dad. And he said, Rose, soon this dandelion, this beautiful expression of spring is going to become a weed, and we like many homeowners are going to go to the nurseries and we're going to get the stuff that will take it out of the lawn because we want to rid ourselves of this one beautiful expression of spring that's now an ugly reminder of cleaning up the yard. And I looked at him. He said, Because soon honey, the beautiful flowers are going to come along, the irises, the tulips, and yes, even the roses. But the beauty of the dandelion is not in its first expression of spring, it's in the root, because it's resilient. And all of us know that no matter how much we hack at them next year, they come back double fold. We named you Rose, but roses are fragile. In your heart, you need to be a dandelion. That is my signature story. I remember that day of standing there on that little patch of lawn and crying in the arms of the Marine and in the arms of the poet. And for whatever reason, letting it all out and feeling like I may be enough. I didn't think I was but maybe I'm enough. And I think we women struggle with that. And so for the rest of my journey, I have reminded myself that we get kicked around, and we get hacked at. And we just have to be resilient. And so today, I think that's probably more true than ever. And it has held me together for many, many years. Andi, so I want you know who I really am, the little rose, the woman who became who she is today, and that I am a combination of all of those beautiful moments when you learn through pain. Andi Simon: Now, by saying that, I guess I visualized that scene with your father was exhilarating, maybe painful. But he was imparting to you wisdom that's really hard to come by otherwise. Who else would you trust to listen to that way? So you may have cried but I have a hunch he had a long term impact on the way you see the world. It's all of the implications and the meaning that it has. Am I right? Rose Fass: The Marine, unlike the philosopher, said, one rule for my two brothers and me was to be up by 0600, ready for company. Every day of my life, I am out of bed by six o'clock and I get dressed no matter where I'm going. My hair is combed. I've showered and am presentable and so are my brothers. And in his mind, it was the "ready for company" meant a lot of things. Were you ready to be gracious? Were you ready to be approachable? Were you ready to be aware, conscious, willing to help? All those things culminated in that one little statement: be up at 0600 and ready for company. And I've kind of never forgotten that. Today, with people working remotely, I noticed they get on the camera, and oftentimes, they'll take the camera off because they're not camera ready or they're even in sweat pants, and they're looking draggy. And when you don't feel good about yourself, it's hard to feel good about life. Yes, and we're living in a time when I think more than ever we have to bring our best selves to whatever we're doing. Because it's going to get harder before it gets easier. I really believe that. Andi Simon: You're making the important point about our best selves. And I want you to talk a little bit about the career that you had because we could stay on your lessons learned in your youth a lot. But the best self is a very interesting concept. We are working with a lot of women as coaches, and they are successful, but not happy. They have a position or are partner in a firm. They've got degrees, are financially successful and they're asking, Isn't there more? We talk a lot about who am I? What's my purpose? What's my best self? So a little bit more about as you got into your career, you began to carve out an area around transformation. Sounds like your father became living in these companies a little bit further.  Rose Fass: By the way, Andi, you talk about youth. I often relate to men in the work that I do. I tell them there's no more important person in a young woman's life than their father. Mom plays a role but Father gives them the sense of validation and approval of who they are as women. And I think that's critical, just as mothers help their sons become more approachable and more yin and yang. So for me, my early career after I got out of Boston University, I started at Saks Fifth Avenue in an executive training program, and I had two mentors. I had Jan Edelstein, God rest her soul. She was very gypsy-ish, wore all these crazy skirts and crazy glasses and lots of bangles. But knew Judith Leiber, Bottega, every possible fashion brand you can think of in accessories. I was her assistant and I was also assistant to the blouse buyer, who was Miss Janet. And I'm not kidding. Little bow, little glasses like a librarian, always in the black pencil skirt, white blouse, buttoned to the teeth. They could not have been more different. Jan told me to have to learn how to be creative and every bit of data and information you need to make good sound decisions. But let that be one data point that I want you to go with your gut when you feel you know how your experience is and how something speaks to you. Then I went up toJudith and she taught me the process. And it was so procedural. I remember taking an inventory where every single blouse had to be counted. And in those days, these departments were massive. And I walked around and I was spinning. And I was trying to take a few little shortcuts. And she said to me, Miss Maysa (my maiden name), and I said, Yes. She said, You are not to take shortcuts. You will one day take shortcuts but that will be after you learn the long way home, and I'm going to teach you a long way home. The unique part about this was that Jan and Judith were really good friends. They could not have been more different. But they understood each other in their own way. And neither of them really took shortcuts. Most of them understood what it meant to take a long way home. Years later, working with young people and trying to get them to understand that there are steps to getting to an outcome that doesn't just happen because you wish it so, I would say to them, you are taking shortcuts. You can't do that either. You learn the long way home. And here's the long way. It's like doing math in classes, you do the long version, and then you can get to the quick answer. So for me, my whole career has been pretty much about working in data areas that required both my gut and my ability to be disciplined. Andi Simon: Very interesting. I grew up in the retail business. I was supposed to take over our family firm. A very big store in Manhattan, a department store in the old family for a model. And I was being trained to take it over. As I'm listening to you, I vividly remember trips to the market with my grandmother and my mother to go buy. I remember saying to my grandmother, How do you know what to buy? She said, "Well, Andrea," (I remember her voice so well) and she said to me, "1/3 will sell full price, 1/3 will sell on sale, and 1/3 will walk out the door. Now if we're good, we'll have enough money coming out of that to pay bills and do it again." And that's my vivid memory. I'm being taught that. I remember putting blouses on the hangers. You were counting the blouses. I was putting them on the hangers with Leo in the basement. Rose Fass: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We did it all. I remember Judy Garland coming in to buy a Rosanna sweater. Oh, no, I'm really dating myself here. But Rosanna sweaters were weaved in such a way that it was a staple in every woman's closet. And in those days, believe it or not, women wanted to be a size 12. They wanted to be curvy, and terrific. So she came in emaciated. And she insisted on the size 12 sweater and I thought, You need a size 6. We didn't have 2s and 4s and zeros. Six was the smallest size back then. So ladies, we actually did get to eat. She insisted. And then she called in my department manager and she said, I want to talk to her boss. And I'm like, Oh my God. And the whole thing was, you give her what she wants. She's a size 12 and in her mind she's that size. Well, later, I got a call from upstairs. They said, Wrap all of Ms. Garland's things up and we'll send them over to the hotel. And that was the end of the conversation. And I learned that being technically right wasn't necessarily socially effective. When I later put together the technical, social and political spheres, which are a big part of the book that I've written, called The Chocolate Conversation, and the book I'm writing now, The Leadership Conversation, making bold changes one conversation at a time. We live in this technically right space where we have the facts, we know what we're doing, we're going to say it the way we're going to say it, but sometimes we have to socially adjust to what a person is capable of experiencing in that moment. And getting somebody there by connecting with them, not through facts and through your technical expertise, but through that human connection, and then ultimately positioning it in a way that they feel like they came out of this a winner. Andi Simon: Being an anthropologist, my affection is with understanding women and people. We really intuitively watch what goes on and observe and listen. People can't really tell you what they're doing, to your point. And when you look at data that has no meaning out of context, I still hear my anthro 101 professor saying to me, There is no data that does not explain, does not exist out of context. Their meaning is set into the context. But the other thing that we've learned is that people decide with the heart, the gut, the eyes, and then the data in the brain begins to operate. And that means we have to experience each other. We've got to feel each other. We really don't know what it means. The reason I love my podcast to be video or audio is people see differently. But as you're thinking about it, the first book and the second book you're writing now are all about conversations. They are about your passion. Same thing. Rose Fass: I think for me, Andi, you put it perfectly. One of my dearest friends that I got to know when I first started at Xerox, then went to Palo Alto Research and then later came with her to Gartner and that my early days at fassforward, was an anthropologist, and I just loved Susan because she always said that to me. She said, Rose, there's their side, this side and somewhere in there there's the truth. And then there's the person who's observing the truth. We had a gig with Estée Lauder where they wanted to know what was important to women around mascara. And Susan just sat on trains and watched people put it on. And I was like, Oh my God. And she goes, Well, what's important to you? I said, Well, at night, when I want to give myself a refresh, you have to take it all off because it clumps when you put it all back on again. And later, they came out with a conditioner that you could literally put over a mascara and then put it on and we were part of that pattern. All in the conversations with women about what was important conversations. For me, the first and the most important one is the one you have with yourself. Yes. What's that conversation that's going on in your head? What's your head telling you? What have you done that maybe was right or wrong? So I'm going to take a little moment here. I have a colleague that works for me here, Liz works with me. And I adore her and she happens to live nearby. She put her car in park and realized she had forgotten two presents in the house. She left the dog in the car, her handbag, and just quickly, 30 seconds, ran to the apartment, grabbed this stuff, got back and the handbag was gone. And she beat herself up about that for three straight days in a row. "But I only left for 30 seconds." "But I only did"...is what we do to ourselves. We beat ourselves up over the mistakes that we made. And we don't celebrate the fact that we've learned something. You're parked by a bus stop, someone's riding a bus, so they're not doing as well as maybe you are in the car. They get out. They see an open door, they grab a handbag because it's something to get them by for whatever period of time. And whatever karma was involved in what you owed that individual from some other life, maybe it got taken care of at that moment. And no mistake, let's not worry about it. Let's not get ourselves all worked up. Yes, it's disturbing but at the end of the day, we are going to make mistakes. Our victories will keep us buoyant in life, but our mistakes are what are going to teach us in life. I really believe that. Andi Simon: Oh, I agree. I agree. Yeah, I'd like to add to that, that Liz had a damaged self. One of the things that we often say is, flip it around and begin to express. I think what you're saying is gratitude, what do we do, because it changes the whole, and we manage our minds, the mind does exactly what it thinks you want it to do. When you understand that you can be unhappy, or you can have a lesson learned, I'm grateful she showed me, I will never do that again. Right. I learned that the little time I took was really unnecessary to do it that way. I mean, all the things that turn negative lemons into lemonade, right out of that building that story. It's a little like your dad with his dandelion, and your answer, It's a dandelion, and he said, Push, go further. And so to your point, that self care that we need, and that self awareness comes from taking every experience and turning into something else. Rose Fass: Because nobody's perfect out there. I don't trust perfect people. I learned that in my first book. I think we're all a little messy. I kind of feel this way very strongly. I look at Golda Meir, and I think of what she went through when she became Prime Minister. And it was messy. But what an incredible character, right? Gandhi was messy. A lot of these incredible leaders that we knew about. Winston Churchill never got out of bed sober. Very messy guy. But leadership is messy. And if you are willing to take that on, you can obviously do something uniquely different in the world. I look at Steven Jobs as one of the great leaders of our time in innovation, not so much in leadership, but in innovation. And at the end of his life, he finally came to grips with the fact that I've lived this incredible life, but it's coming to a much shorter halt than I had anticipated. And yet he was very messy.  What I say to people in management is, it's something you can plan for. It's the management of work, it's the management of plans. It's all about the stuff that we get to look ahead and do but leadership happens in the moment. It happens when Rosa Parks gives up her seat on the bus. It happens when, at the worst moment in your life, you are going to have to have the courage to do something that you otherwise would be terrified to do. And yet you do it. That's leadership in the moment. We don't get to plan for that. And if we can accept the fact, as I said earlier, that we come into this world with our brilliance and our muddy shoes, and that life is messy, that we can't expect perfection, and we can't hold ourselves accountable to perfection, then we can do what we need to do as all individuals and just progress, one conversation at a time. And I do believe we're in a conversation right now. And we have had very different backgrounds, and yet some very common ground, both started our careers in retail. You went on to become an anthropologist. I got to work with one for a long time that I thoroughly enjoyed. I've taken my business career to heights I never dreamed I would be at. And I have the opportunity to work with C-level executives. And when they ask me how I think I know or why it is what I'm saying, I go, It's easy. I'm 72. I'm at least 20 years older than you and I made every damn mistake that I could possibly make up to this point. And I'm still making them. So I'm saving you the benefit of that. And in the book, it's a book of stories. It's a book of stories about different leaders, different experiences, my journey as a young woman to my business career, and all the different ways in which we sabotage what we are capable of. That phrase that came out very popular a few years back: Don't go there. I absolutely hated it, Andi. I'd be like, I'm packed and ready to go. I don't want someone to tell me, Don't go there. That means this conversation isn't safe, let's not have it. The conversation is as safe as you choose to make it if you can have a civil discourse. And so I have a chapter in the first book, Go there. Find a way to go there. So many times when you bring up the fact that women are unhappy in their current roles is because they have not expressed what they're distressed about. It's like Cassandra, Greek tragedy, the voice is trying to come out. And it's not. And we have to make ourselves known. And I don't mean in an alfa, overly feministic way, but to be real, to come out and say, look, this isn't working for me. I need other things. And today, these people in big positions within corporations, whether they're women or men, are willing to listen. They don't want the erosion of their diverse employees. They don't want that. They want you to stay. So if ever there's a time to express yourself, using the right way to speak. Andi Simon: So let's stay on that. This is a new book that Rose is working on for our listeners. She has a first book. Did you call it The Chocolate Conversation? Rose Fass: Yes, The Chocolate Conversation. Andi Simon: Yes, I do love chocolate. But The Chocolate Conversation has now led to a whole new book. What we're talking about is conversation. All of life is conversation. Yes, Lazer, the late organizational anthropologist, wrote great stuff about conversational intelligence and the power of we. And what we've learned from the neurosciences is that when you say in a conversation, the neurosciences, the brain goes, Ooh, run away. The amygdala hijacks it, it flees it, the cortisol said, This is going to be painful. Don't hang around, off you go. But when you say, We, the we brings out all kinds of good oxytocin or wonderful hormones that say, Oh, let's bond. This is the love that we feel. You, Rose, tell us about the book you're writing. Rose Fass: Well, it's a book of conversations. It's a book of conversations with myself with others. I think what you said earlier, I really care that somebody gets heard and gets acknowledged. I remember facilitating a very large group of different cultural people from Latin America, Portugal. People that were there from France. And we had these earphones on, because they were getting translated into English. And at the same time, we were facilitating all these different languages. There was this one little Portugese guy and he stood up and he was trying to explain something to his boss. And it was completely misinterpreted. One of the things that I call the chocolate conversation is just talking, right?, and the boss got very annoyed, and I said, Stop for a minute. And I kind of took off my earphones and I said, Can you just translate for me? Yes. And I said, this is what I think I heard you say, and he was, Si, si, si. And I said to him, And so I translated and took the whole thing, and I brought it back. And in that moment, there was such a relief. And I thought to myself, I teared up, because in my heart of hearts, the worst thing in the world is when you're standing there trying to express yourself in another language even, and someone is just not getting what you're saying. And completely misinterpreting, because we spend more time on our own point of view than trying to understand what it is that you're saying. So I think today, in business, we've got to start listening to people at the front of the business, the ones that are closest to the customers, it doesn't matter what age someone is, there's truth that is worth listening to. I feel that this is the last value added space right now because our institutions have failed us. People are looking at journalism, and they're saying, Where is it? Where is the unbiased truth? We're getting nothing but opinion and vitriol conversations. The public stage has become a boxing ring. Everybody is walking around that whole term of psychological safety. When I hear it, I think, Oh, my God, it sounds so clinical. What it really means is, Can I be comfortable here? Can I be in my own skin? Can I wake up in the morning and feel like it's going to be okay? And I think we owe that to each other. I think we need to become more human. We need to provide that peace of mind to our children, to our friends, to our family as much as we can. And we need to find a spiritual essence in all of us. And this has nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with who are we, why are we here? It's not just about the momentary little things that we go through. It's really bigger than that. And so my books are about how do you have conversations that are inclusive, that shift people's points of view from a worldview they're stuck in, establish new standards, a lie, some concerns. The Chocolate Conversation is about worldviews, standards and concerns. The new book is about being bold with your conversation, saying what you mean, not what you think people want to hear but doing it in a way that you can get your point across in a loving and caring and compassionate way such that people feel touched. You saw me at the Westchester Business Council. I showed that wonderful little film of Mary Jackson, NASA engineer. And those of you who have seen Hidden Figures know what I'm talking about in the film. This was a woman who needed to go to a school to get an engineering degree so she could become a NASA engineer. She's brilliant. But she was a woman of color. Walking in at a time when the level of bias against people of color was so serious. And if she had gone up against that judge with hatred, resentment, vitriol, about something that was totally unfair, she would have been right. But she never would have been effective. But she went to that judge with a different heart, and she found common ground. You've been first in a lot of places. I need to be first going to that school, we can have this in common. And I shared that at the Business Council because that to me, was the combination of one of the better conversations I've been exposed to. Andi Simon: You have a passion and a purpose. You really do want to see change happen, and how we get along, how we listen to each other, how we learn from each other. And there's something more here in your life journey that really is transformational. You see that it's a time where we have to not simply accept the way we are but begin to change the way we go. I'm anxious to hear if you have any message in your little toolkit here to share or some ideas about how we can begin to multiply. A podcast is a podcast, but my whole purpose in life is to multiply it so that people take it and share it. And in the process, learn something they can actually do with it. Rose Fass: So I think one of the things that's helped me a lot, and I can't take credit for it, was given to me by a wonderful professor at MIT that I happen to be in touch with. When you want to have a conversation, particularly one that may have a little conflict associated with it, have the meta conversation, the conversation about the conversation, get permission to have it. That was very helpful to me, because I would be, Are you open to an alternative point of view? And yes, even if it's going to be very different from the one that you have. Yes. Do you mean it? Yes, I mean, okay, I'm going to take a risk here, and say something that really flies in the face of your experience, your lived experience, and what you've just shared with me, and I just want you to consider it. I don't want you to agree with me, I just want you to consider it. And that's helped me a lot to be able to have that kind of conversation. And I'll do it often with a CEO. And they're like, Okay, and they take a breath. I think also, when I'm getting feedback, I don't know about you, Andi, but I still lose, if it's not going to be good. You know, I still have that. And what I've learned from my years here is to stop feeling that I'm going to feel it initially no matter what I do, but to step back from it and say, this is just a data point. Not defining my entire persona. It's not defining my past, my future, my present. It's a data point. Let me take it in. Let me think about it. Let me try to get myself back centered. I think staying in the present, very important, stays in the conversation you're having, not the one you're tying yourself to. And you know, having a conversation is not waiting for your time to speak. Andi Simon: Well, these are important points. And as the listener is taking their notes, as I know you often do, there's some lessons here about navigating interpersonal relationships, having a permission conversation before you have the conversation levels the playing field. It's not adversarial, it's communication. It's sharing, it's a we, in a sense, it's that what Glaser spoke about, which opens your mind up to something I'm going to enjoy as opposed to flee in some fashion. The second thing is that as you're going through this, I learned a long time ago to say something like, It sounds like you are upset about something. And if I put it into their zone, it becomes a conversation of listening, as opposed to having a point of view about it. And I would say to my staff, I was an EVP of a bank, and I had lots of folks, and I would learn that and practice it because I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. It was easy to become a command and control leader, but I was very engaging. And I said, Sounds like you're having some difficulty with your manager? No, I see. Well, it sounds like you're unhappy with your job. I mean, you can really watch the responses come back as long as I kept it in their zone, as opposed to trying to take charge of it. And then my third point is that I often ask people, Yur feedback point is really important. I teach a Leadership Academy. And we teach feedback. Because every conversation is feedback. It's in the feedback loop. And I say to people, If you really want to get the right feedback, say to somebody, What's one thing you would like me to do differently? You'd be amazed at how interesting that goes. Rose Fass: Yes. Great question. Wonderful question. And most people are afraid to ask it. And afraid to hear, afraid to ask it and they're afraid to because they're afraid to hear it. Very often, and you may have found this too Andi, if you say to someone, I sense that you're upset about something, they might feel like, Oh, are you threatening me? But it's more along the line of just sort of stepping back from it and saying, you know, we all have concerns. Yeah, I know I have them. What might be one of your concerns? What are you feeling right now? What do you like about what you do? And what are the things that you could change if you had a magic wand? And you could just change this one thing? What might that be? Just giving people a chance to step outside of themselves and de-personalize a little. Sometimes if we can step out of ourselves. This is another anthropological method that Susan taught me: stand outside of yourself, just observe it. And it was a hard thing to learn to do. But it's an extraordinarily freeing. When you can sort of step outside, say what's really bothering me. Why am I so stressed about this? And we're going to be stressed, these are stressful times. I really felt bad about that poor tennis player, devoted to his healthy body, he's not anti-vax. He's come right out and said it, I'm not anti vaccinating, I just don't want to put any foreign things into my body. Now, whatever side of the argument you're on, the newscasters kept trying to pin him as an anti-vax. And he's the sweetest guy. And there's a sweetness about him. And I said, You know, he's probably a health nut. He believes in alternative medication. Have we tried to understand his point of view? Are we just throwing this out at him that he's now part of the anti-vaxx movement now? Andi Simon: But Rose, we have to wrap up, as much fun as we are having. It's really an honor and a privilege. We have a brilliant woman, Rose Fass. I want her to give you one or two things she doesn't want you to forget because we often remember the ending more than the beginning. Although her dandelion story is one that you're gonna hold on to. Some things Rose you want to leave with us. Rose Fass: Remember that everybody, everybody piles in with their brilliance and their muddy shoes. Take that away, nobody's perfect. That's something I want you to take away. The second thing is, remember the conversation you're having with yourself. That's the single most important conversation because that's the one that's going to shape the conversations you have with others. And when you do have a conversation with someone else, think about the context. You're in the social connection you need to make, how things need to be positioned. And think about having the conversation about the conversation before you jump right in. That would be the three things that I would say. And my dandelions story is just if you're another we'd be happy to have you in the field. Andi Simon: This has been such fun. So we have had Rose Fass here.  If they want to reach you, where can they do that? Rose Fass: They can do it at hello@fastforward.com. And I'm on LinkedIn, Rose Fass. Andi Simon: Yes, everybody's on LinkedIn. Thank you LinkedIn, it's a great place to find the world. Now, for my listeners. Thank you for coming. As always, our audience is wonderful. Rose has given you some great insights today about all kinds of things: not only growing up, but also really becoming who we are, listening to our conversations about who we are, and also finding a path to where we find purpose and passion. It comes down to conversations. All conversations are there. That's how we survive. Then the question is, who are we having conversations with and what are we listening to, and listening has become real important. Thank you for coming to our podcast. As you know, we're ranked in the top 5% of global podcasts, which is truly an honor and a privilege. It's wonderful. And I bring on guests who I think have ideas they want to share with you. My books are available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local bookseller. My Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, Rose could have been in there. And I have the stories of 11 women who have smashed the myths. They didn't listen to people who said, Oh, you shouldn't, and you can't and no, we don't, because they said, Of course we can. And they are really great role models for other women. AndOn the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights is about how a little anthropology can help your business grow. And as you know, we spend a lot of time consulting with clients and helping them see, feel and think in new ways like you.

Memphis Police need your help finding a woman who has been missing for several months. 32-year-old Mary Jackson is a former University of Memphis basketball player, was in the real estate business and most recently worked at FedEx. Her father James Jackson said this is unusual behavior for his daughter. Jackson said he hasn't heard from her in eight months. Her sister Marie Martin said she randomly ran into her sister about 4 months ago while she was living in an apartment complex on South Front Street. However, police said they don't believe she's lived there since July 2020. Family says Mary could possibly be in the Atlanta area. Some of her family is traveling here to Memphis to have several search parties starting Friday. If you have any information on Jackson's whereabouts, you are urged to call Missing Persons at 901-545-COPS. Source: wreg.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leah-gordone/support

Join Dan Sly and Tree Arbor this week while they tell the stories of important Black Women in history! Dan started the episode with the life of Vivian Mildred Corbett Bailey, better known as Millie Baily. Then Tree talks about the lives of NASA'S Three Computers, Mary Jackson, Catherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn which the movie 'Hidden Figures' is about! Happy 104th Birthday Millie! Millie Bailey: Brief mentions of depersonalization. Mentions of racism of segregation. 10:59 - 28:25 The Lives of Mary Jackson, Catherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn: Mentions of racial discrimination and segregation. 28:25 - 46:25 Do you have Candy Pop! Fortunes to share, spooky story suggestions, or stories of your own? Email us! everydaynightmarespodcast@gmail.com Follow us: Twitter @ednightmares TikTok @everydaynightmares Instagram @everydaynightmarespodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everyday-nightmares/support

It's Black History Month and we wanted to highlight an incredible story of three women who were the backbone of NASA in the 60's. We cannot wait to tell you all about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson & Dorthy Vaughan. These people went above and beyond to break barriers for black women in STEM & the workplace in general during the civil rights movement. It is important to keep telling these stories so that generations to come don't have to wait 30 years before hearing about them. Representation matters and it's an honor to tell their story! RESOURCES - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson https://astrobites.org/2020/04/27/hidden-figures/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/  

Sophie and Jenna are back at it again! They start the pod with the usual chit-chat. To honor Black History Month, the hosts cover important stories featuring history-changing black individuals. Sophie covers the awful Lynching of Emmet Till. Jenna explains the real-life stories behind the Hidden Figures Book/Movie, featuring Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/horriblyhappy/support

On today's program, we take a look at the so-called “Billy Graham Rule.”  We have updates on a couple of religious liberty cases that will have an impact on Christian ministries, and we have the latest on Hillsong's Brian Houston.  He has taken a sabbatical in advance of his criminal trial.  We begin today with a history making move by the Southern Baptist Convention. So, if you have a story you'd like us to cover, or a ministry that you think needs a closer look, please email us.  Our email is info@155.138.219.249.  That will come directly to my desk, and we'll take it from there. Also, a reminder that you can help the program by leaving us a rating on your podcast app.  The more ratings we get, the easier it is for others to find us.  It's a quick, easy, and free way you can support MinistryWatch. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Ben Warwick We get database and other technical support from Cathy Goddard, Stephen DuBarry, and Casey Sudduth.  Writers who contributed to today's program include Anne Stych, Shannon Cuthrell, Bob Smietana and Elizabeth Evans, Roxanne Stone,  Bart Gingerich, Mary Jackson, Lynde Langdon, Alejandra Molina, Adelle Banks, Christina Darnell, and Warren Smith. Special thanks to the Institute on Religion & Democracy for contributing material for this week's podcast. Until next time, may God bless you.

Who is going to be the first human to step on Mars? In this episode of Before IT Happened, Donna speaks with Pamela Greyer, an atypical character to this show but a visionary in her own right. Known as “The NASA Lady,” Pamela is neither an astronaut nor an engineer. Pam is a teacher whose mission is to bring STEM education closer to black and brown kids — especially girls — through the majesty and wonder of space. Listen now and learn how this lover of science and technology is opening up the minds of the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, and space travelers! Before any world-changing innovation, there was a moment, an event, a realization that sparked the idea before it happened. This is a podcast about that moment — about that idea. Before IT Happened takes you on a journey with the innovators who imagined — and are still imagining — our future. Join host Donna Loughlin as her guests tell their stories of how they brought their visions to life. Jump straight into: (02:17) - Pamela Greyer, from an English teacher to “The NASA Lady” - “Anyone can do what I do, they just have to want to inspire kids.”  (07:27) - Pamela's fascinating childhood in Chicago - “I attribute a lot of who I wound up becoming to my mom because she made sure that I got broad experiences.” (12:01) - Writing for high school TV and getting into STEM - “I have a brother and he would always buy me stuff that my mother would frown at and go, ‘That's not for girls, that's for boys'.”  (19:02) - How Pamela went from science to communications and then to teaching -  “A very good friend of mine brought me in to do the computer classes for the elementary kids. That's where I really was able to parlay my science and my technology.” (24:26) - Becoming “The NASA Lady” - “I feel so privileged to have the opportunity to have all of this NASA goodness in my hands that I can then share, especially with kids.” (30:15) - Mary Jackson and the role of women in NASA - “These stories have been kept and have never come out, especially to young African-American girls to show them to not be afraid of math or science.” (38:00) - Pamela's dream space travel and the impact of her work - “I wish I had been able to take a group of students to Kennedy and actually see and witness in person a space shuttle launch.” (47:33) - What is next for The NASA Lady? - “I am looking at working on bringing the aeronautics education laboratory back, and doing more work with aeronautics and aerospace engineering.” Episode resources Connect with Pamela ‘The Nasa Lady' through https://twitter.com/TheNasaLady (Twitter) Follow all things https://twitter.com/i/topics/872802352448667648 (NASA on Twitter) Check out https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html (NASA's Kids' Club) Go to https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-for-kids-and-families (NASA at Home) for more activities for kids and families See NASA's resources for https://www.nasa.gov/stem (STEM Engagement) for students of all ages Learn more about NASA's https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/stem/student-activities/index.html (STEM Opportunities for Students) Read NASA's https://www.nasa.gov/feature/when-the-computer-wore-a-skirt-langley-s-computers-1935-1970 (When the Computer Wore a Skirt )  Read https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-names-headquarters-after-hidden-figure-mary-w-jackson (NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure' Mary W. Jackson) Read https://www.nasa.gov/stem/murep/mstar/feature/nasa-awards-grants-to-minority-serving-institutions-to-support-artemis-space-tech (NASA Awards Grants to Minority-Serving Institutions to Support Artemis Space Tech) Learn more about the https://www.nasa.gov/women (Women of NASA) Before IT Happened is produced by Donna Loughlin and https://www.studiopodsf.com/ (Studio Pod Media) with additional editing and sound design by https://nodalab.com/ (Nodalab). The show coordinator is Deanna Morenci with audio engineering provided by Dave Clarke-McCoy. The...