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In this episode of The Business Development Podcast, Kelly Kennedy sits down with Alyssa McMasters, a confidence coach and speaker with a mission to empower individuals to overcome self-doubt and embrace their authentic power. Drawing on over a decade of experience in sales and four years in the wellness space, Alyssa shares actionable insights into building confidence as a skill, addressing insecurities, and redefining what success means during challenging times. The conversation dives deep into overcoming imposter syndrome, managing performance anxiety, and developing a personal "toolbelt" of strategies to navigate life's uncertainties. Whether you're a business leader or someone seeking personal growth, Alyssa's advice offers transformative steps for unlocking your full potential.Kelly and Alyssa also explore the parallels between courage and confidence, emphasizing the importance of facing fear and discomfort to grow. Through relatable anecdotes and engaging dialogue, they discuss how unlearning societal conditioning, reframing setbacks, and celebrating small wins can lead to profound personal transformation. Alyssa's practical strategies, such as using a “neutrality ladder” to shift self-perception and setting realistic goals for success, provide listeners with tools to navigate both personal and professional challenges. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to embrace vulnerability, build resilience, and take actionable steps toward a more confident life.Key Takeaways: Confidence is a skill that can be developed through intentional practice and self-reflection.Imposter syndrome is temporary and often occurs before achieving something new.Small, consistent steps toward a goal are more effective than aiming for immediate results.Reframing setbacks by focusing on what's within your control can help shift your mindset toward neutrality.Confidence doesn't mean eliminating insecurities; it means not letting them hold you back.Vulnerability and authenticity are powerful tools for personal and professional growth.Celebrate both wins and losses to normalize the journey of growth and learning.Unlearning societal or external conditioning is essential to building authentic self-confidence.Developing a "toolbelt" of strategies helps prepare you to navigate challenges as they arise.Success looks different during difficult times, and redefining it can help maintain momentum.Companies mentioned in this episode: Capital Business Development Toast Let Me Introduce YourselfReady to Transform Your Business? Start Your Journey Today with Kelly Kennedy's expert coaching. Discover strategies tailored for your growth and success. Begin your transformation now at Capital Business Development Coaching.
Senator Rick Scott, Senator Rubio, and Congressmen statewide working days ahead of Hurricane Milton's arrival, while "Hurricane Kamala" is doing interviews on 'The View', Howard Stern, and Steven Colbert. Now she's trying to remain relevant! Too little...Too late! With just 24 days before our Presidential election. Newsmax's Bianca de la Garza and Gene Valentino critique government responses to crises, including Alejandro Mayorkas Homeland Security handling of online hate speech while they ignore missteps in disaster preparedness and recovery.. FEMA's response to the hurricanes raises more questions than answers. We stop to listen to President Trump express his appreciation of how the Governors DeSantis, Kemp and McMasters are handling the situation. Kamala Harris claims that Ron DeSantis is making Milton a political issue. Even though Joe Biden says he is in constant communication and DeSantis is doing a great job. Senators Scott and Rubio, and Florida congressman are working diligently to help their state prepare for Hurricane Milton's arrival. Dive into this evolving situation with us as we move closer to Hurricane Milton and the upcoming election! Gene with Newsmax's Bianca De La Garza on Hurricane MiltonGene Valentino on Newsmax NewslineORIGINAL MEDIA SOURCE(S):Originally Recorded on October 10, 2024America Beyond the Noise: Season 5, Episode 547Image courtesy of: NEWSMAX➡️ Join the Conversation: https://GeneValentino.com➡️ WMXI Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/NewsRadio981➡️ More WMXI Interviews: https://genevalentino.com/wmxi-interviews/➡️ More GrassRoots TruthCast Episodes: https://genevalentino.com/grassroots-truthcast-with-gene-valentino/➡️ More Broadcasts with Gene as the Guest: https://genevalentino.com/america-beyond-the-noise/ ➡️ More About Gene Valentino: https://genevalentino.com/about-gene-valentino/
Patrick discusses BOMBSHELL acknowledgment from H.R. McMasters, former national security advisor to former President Donald Trump.
In this enlightening episode of The Midlife Makeover Show, host Wendy Valentine welcomes the multifaceted Kelly McMasters, a best-selling author, professor, and former bookshop owner in New York. Kelly's notable works include “The Leaving Season” and “Wanting: Women Writing About Desire”. Kelly shares her profound insights on viewing leaving as a new beginning, whether it's leaving a job, a relationship, or even a town. She believes that every ending can be the start of something beautiful. Join Wendy and Kelly for a thoughtful and inspiring conversation that will encourage you to see new opportunities where you might have only seen loss. Kelly delves into her personal journey of leaving a marriage, moving from Manhattan to rural Pennsylvania, and finding hope and new beginnings. They discuss the importance of dreaming, embracing desires, and the courage it takes to step out of one's comfort zone. Don't miss this heartwarming episode that reminds us of the power of embracing change and finding new beginnings in midlife.
Some of the people best suited to make the case against Trump are the jilted Cabinet members and others who worked with him—doing the right thing is never the wrong thing. Plus, McMasters's preposterous spin, appreciating the words Kamala didn't say in her speech, making Trump own RFK, Jr.'s antivax views, and the gamesmanship over the debates. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller. show notes: Adam Kinzinger on speaking at the Democratic convention Tim on the big fish anti-Trumpers who should endorse Kamala already Bill on the key line in Kamala's speech
Following Elon Musk's estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson's accusations of unethical behavior on the part of Musk's authorized biographer, memoirist Kelly McMasters and biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the ethics of biography. Dunkle, the author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb, talks about using archives to restore the history of Babb, the writer whose notes John Steinbeck used to research The Grapes of Wrath, and how women's lives are often wrongly or incompletely depicted. McMasters, a memoirist whose recent book The Leaving Season: A Memoir portrays many people close to her, talks about the impossibility of writing honestly about her life without including her children, the two people with whom she spends the most time. Dunkle and McMasters discuss Wilson's accusations against Walter Isaacson, whom she says did not directly contact her for comment for his recent book about her father, although much of his book refers to her life. The group also discusses recent revelations that Alice Munro failed to act when she learned that her second husband had abused her daughter, and how authorized biographies often omit full accounts of the truth. Dunkle and McMasters read from their work. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Iris Jamahl Dunkle Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb West: Fire: Archive Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer Finding Lost Voices | Substack Kelly McMasters The Leaving Season: A Memoir Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir From and Atomic Town This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home “The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir,” Literary Hub Others: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson “Musk's Daughter Flames Dad's Biographer: ‘You Threw Me to the Wolves'” by Dan Ladden-Hall | Daily Beast J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck “What do we Know about Alice Munro Now?” by Contance Grady | Vox La Belle Noiseuse The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse by Lyndall Gordon Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation by Emily Van Duyne Jackson Pollock “What Virginia Woolf's ‘Dreadnought Hoax' Tells Us About Ourselves” by Danell Jones | January 25, 2024 | Literary Hub Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 6 Episode 19: “The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Located in Mid Town Memphis, Overton park is a 342 acre gem. Established in 1902, this park is one of the rare local parks which predates the establishment of the State Park System and even predates the general enabling authority for Tennessee cities to have parks. Designed by George Kessler, it is listed on the National … Continue reading "Historic Overton Park in Memphis Tennessee, Melissa McMasters and Eric Bridges of the Overton Park Conservancy (Episode 112)" The post Historic Overton Park in Memphis Tennessee, Melissa McMasters and Eric Bridges of the Overton Park Conservancy (Episode 112) appeared first on Mark Fraley Podcast.
Bill welcomes essayist and memoirist Kelly McMasters to the show. Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the Zibby Book Club pick The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton) and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary film ‘The Atomic States of America,' a 2012 Sundance selection, and the anthology she co-edited with Margot Kahn, This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017), was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The American Scholar, Literary Hub, Newsday, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, Romper, and The Rumpus, among others.
Welcome to a special season of A Fresh Story Podcast: The Divorce Announcement Season. This season is co-produced by Divorce.com; Divorce.com offers a streamlined path through divorce that helps couples avoid unnecessary conflict and costs. On this episode of The Divorce Announcement Season, we talked to mom, writer, and professor Kelly McMasters. Kelly McMasters, author of The Leaving Season, discusses her experience with divorce and how she announced it to the world. She shares that her book served as her divorce announcement, as the process was prolonged and gradually revealed to different people. Kelly emphasizes the importance of keeping the announcement respectful and focused on one's own perspective. She also highlights the power of sharing and finding support from others who have experienced divorce or loss. Kelly's advice is to be open and not be ashamed, as it helps in moving forward and feeling less alone.
After finishing her training in neurology at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Svetlana Blitshteyn started a Dysautonomia Clinic in 2009. Little did she know what was in store many years later when Covid hit!Ground Truths podcasts are on Apple and Spotify. The video interviews are on YouTubeTranscript with audio and external linksEric Topol (00:07):Well, hello, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I have with me a really great authority on dysautonomia and POTS. We will get into what that is for those who aren't following this closely. And it's Svetlana Blitshteyn who is a faculty member at University of Buffalo and a neurologist who long before there was such a thing as Covid was already onto one of the most important pathways of the body, the autonomic nervous system and how it can go off track. So welcome, Svetlana.Svetlana Blitshteyn (00:40):Thank you so much, Eric for having me. And I want to say it's a great honor for me to be here and just to be on the list with your other guests. It's remarkable and I'm very grateful and congratulations on being on the TIME100 Health list for influential people in 2024. And I am grateful for everything that you've done. As I mentioned earlier, I'm a big fan of your work before the pandemic and of course with Covid I followed your podcast and posts because you became the best science communicator and I'm very happy to see you being a strong advocate and thank you for everything you've done.Eric Topol (01:27):Well, that's so kind to you. And I think talking about getting things going before the pandemic, back in 2011, you published a book with Jodi Epstein Rhum called POTS - Together We Stand: Riding the Waves of Dysautonomia. And you probably didn't have an idea that there would be an epidemic of that more than a decade later, I guess, right?Svetlana Blitshteyn (01:54):Yeah, absolutely. Of course, SARS-CoV-2 is a new virus and we can technically say that Long Covid and post Covid complications could be viewed as a new entity. But practically speaking, we know that post-infectious syndromes have been happening for many decades. And so, the most common trigger for POTS happened to be infection, whether it was influenza or mononucleosis or Lyme or enterovirus. We knew this was happening. So I think it didn't take long for me and my colleagues to realize that we're going to be seeing a lot of patients with autonomic dysfunction after Covid.On the Front LineEric Topol (02:40):Well, one of the things that's important for having you on is you're in the front lines taking care of lots of patients with Long Covid and this postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). And I wonder if you could tell us what it's care for these patients because so many of them are incapacitated. As a cardiologist, I see of course some because of the cardiovascular aspects, but you are dealing with this on a day-to-day basis.Svetlana Blitshteyn (03:14):Yeah, absolutely. As early as April 2020 when everything was closed, I got a call from a young doctor in New York City saying that he had Covid and he couldn't recover, he couldn't return to the hospital. And his colleagues and cardiology attendants also had the same symptoms and the symptoms were palpitations, orthostatic intolerance, tachycardia, fatigue. Now, how he knew to contact me is that his sister was my patient with POTS before Covid pandemic. So he kind of figured this looked like my sister, let me check this out. And it didn't take long for me to have a lot of patience from the early wave. And then fairly soon, I think within months I was thinking, we have to write this up because this is important. And to some of us it was not news, but I was sure that to many physicians and public health officials, this would be something new.Svetlana Blitshteyn (04:18):So because I'm a busy clinician and don't have a lot of time for publications, I had to recruit a graduate student from McMasters and together we had this paper out, which was the first and largest case series on post Covid POTS and other autonomic disorders. And interestingly, even though it came out I think in 2021, by the time it was published, it became the most citable paper for me. And so I think from then on organizations and societies became interested in the work that I do because prior to that, I must say in the kind of a niche specialty was I don't think it was very popular or of interest to me.How Did You Get Interested in Dysautonomia?Eric Topol (05:06):Yeah, so that's why I wanted to just take a step back with you Svetlana, because you had the foresight to be the founder and director of the Dysautonomia Clinic when a lot of people weren't in touch with this as an important entity. What prompted you as a neurologist to really zoom in on dysautonomia when you started this clinic?Svetlana Blitshteyn (05:28):Sure. So the reasons are how I ended up in this field is kind of a convoluted road and the reasons are many, but one, I will say that I trained at Mayo Clinic where we received very good training on autonomic disorders and EMG and coming back to returning back to Buffalo, I began working at the large multiple sclerosis clinic because Western New York has a high incidence MS. And so, what they quickly realized in that clinic is that there was a subset of women who did not qualify for the diagnostic criteria of multiple sclerosis, yet they had a lot of the same symptoms and they were certainly very disabled. Now I recognize that these women had autonomic disorders of all sorts and small fiber neuropathy, and I think this population sort of grew and eventually I realized there is no one not only in Buffalo but the entire Western New York who is doing this work.Svetlana Blitshteyn (06:34):So I kind of fell into that. But another reason is actually more personal that I haven't talked about. So years ago I was traveling to Toronto, Canada for a neurology meeting to present my big study on meningioma and hormone replacement therapy using Mayo Clinic database. And so, in that year, the study received top 10 noteworthy studies of the year award from the Society of Neuro-Oncology, and it was profiled in Reuters Health. Now, on the way back from the conference, I had the flu, and when they returned I could no longer walk the same hallways of the hospital where I walked previously. And no matter how hard I try to push my body, we all do this in medicine, we push through, I just couldn't do it. No amount of wishing or positive thinking. And so, I think that's how I came to know personally the post-infectious syndromes. And I think it almost became a duality of experiencing this and also practicing it.Eric Topol (07:52):No, that's really striking and it wasn't so common to hear about this post flu, but certainly it changed in 2020. So how does a person with POTS typically present to you?Clinical PresentationSvetlana Blitshteyn (08:08):So these are very important questions because what I want to stress is though POTS is one of the most common autonomic disorders. Even if you don't have POTS by the diagnostic criteria, you may still have autonomic dysfunction and significant autonomic symptoms. How do they present? Well, they present like most Long Covid patients, the most common symptoms are orthostatic intolerance, fatigue, exercise intolerance, post exertional malaise, dizziness, tachycardia, brain fog. And these are common themes across the board in Long Covid patients, but also in pre-Covid post-acute infection syndrome patients. And you have to recognize because I think what I tell my colleagues is that oftentimes patients are not going to present to you saying, I have orthostatic intolerance. Many times they will say, I'm very tired. I can no longer go to the gym or when I go to the store, I have to be out of there in 15 minutes because the orthostatic intolerance symptoms come up.Svetlana Blitshteyn (09:22):So sometimes the patients themselves don't recognize that and it's up to us physicians to ask the right questions to get the information down. History is very important, knowing the pattern. And then of course, as I always say in all of my papers and lectures, you have to do a 10-minute stand test by measuring supine and standing blood pressure and heart rate on every Long Covid patients. And that's how you spot those that have excessive postural tachycardia or their blood pressure dropping or so forth. So we have the tools. We don't need fancy autonomic labs. We don't even need a tilt table test. The diagnostic criteria for POTS is that you need to have either a 10-minute stand test or a tilt table test to get the diagnosis for POTS, orthostatic hypotension or even neurocardiogenic syncope. Now I think it's important to stress that even if a patient doesn't qualify, and let's say many patients with Long Covid will not elevate their heart rate by at least 30 beats per minute, it could be 20, it could be 25. These criteria are of course essential when we do research studies. But I think practically speaking, in patient care where everything is gray and nothing is black or white, especially in autonomic disorders, you really have to make a diagnosis saying, this sounds like autonomic dysfunction. Let me treat the patient for this problem.Eric Topol (11:07):Well, you brought up something that's really important because doctors don't have much time and they're inpatient. They don't wait 10 minutes to do a test to check your blood pressure. They send the patients for a tilt table, which nobody likes to have that test done, and it's unnecessary added appointment and expense and whatnot. So that's a good tip right there that you can get the same information just by checking the blood pressure and heart rate on standing for an extended period of time, which 10 minutes is a long time in the clinic of course. Now, what is the mechanism, what do you think is going on with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its predilection to affect the autonomic nervous system? As you know, so many studies have questioned whether you even actually infect neurons or alternatively, which is more likely this an inflammation of the neural tissue. But what do you think is going on here?UnderpinningsSvetlana Blitshteyn (12:10):Right, so I think it's important to say we don't have exact pathophysiology of what exactly is going on. I think we can only extrapolate that what's going on in Long Covid is possibly what's going on in any post infectious onset dysautonomia. And so there are many hypothesis and there are many suggestions, and we share this disorder with cardiologist and immunologist and rheumatologist. The way I view this is what I described in my paper from a few years ago is that this is likely a central nervous system disorder with multisystemic involvement and it involves the cardiovascular system, immunologic, metabolic, possibly prothrombotic. The pathophysiology of all POTS closely parallels to pathophysiology of Long Covid. Now we don't know if it's the same thing and certainly I see that there may be more complications in Long Covid patients in the realm of cardiovascular manifestations in the realm of blood clots and things like that.Svetlana Blitshteyn (13:21):So we can't say it's the same, but it very closely resembles and I think at the core is going to be inflammation, autoimmunity and immunologic dysfunction. Now there are also other things that are very important and that would be mitochondrial dysfunction, that would be hypercoagulable state, it would be endothelial dysfunction. And I think the silver lining of Long Covid and having so many people invested in research and so many funds is that by uncovering what Long Covid is, we're now going to be uncovering what POTS and other autonomic disorders are. And I think we also need to mention a couple of other things. One is small fiber neuropathy, small fiber neuropathy and POTS are very much comorbid conditions. And similarly, small fiber neuropathy frequently occurs in patients with Long Covid, so that's a substrate with the damaged small nerve fibers that they're everywhere in our bodies and also innervate the organs as well.Svetlana Blitshteyn (14:34):The second big thing is that needs to be mentioned is hyperactive mast cells. So mast cells, small nerve fibers and capillaries are very much located in proximity. And what I have usually is a slide from an old paper in oral biology that gives you a specimen where you see a capillary vessel, a stain small nerve fiber, and in between them there is a mass cell with tryptase in it stained in black. And so there is a close communication between small nerve fibers between endothelial wall and between mast cells, and that's what we commonly see as a triad. We see this as a triad in Long Covid patients. We see that as a triad in patients with joint hypermobility syndrome and hypermobile EDS, and you also see this in many of the autoimmune disorders where people develop new allergies and new sensitivities concurrent or preceding the onset of autoimmune disease.Small Fiber NeuropathyEric Topol (15:49):Yeah, no, it's fascinating. And I know you've worked with this in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) as you mentioned, the hypermobility, but just to go back on this, when you want to entertain the involvement of small fiber neuropathy, is that diagnosable? I mean it's obvious that you can get the tachycardia, the change in position blood pressure, but do you have to do other tests to say there is indeed a small fiber neuropathy or is that a clinical diagnosis?Svetlana Blitshteyn (16:20):Absolutely. We have the testing and the testing is skin biopsy. That is simply a punch biopsy that you can do in your clinic and it takes about 15 minutes. You have the free kit that the company of, there are many companies, I don't want to name specific ones, but there are several companies that do this kind of work. You send the biopsy back to them, they look under the microscope, they stain it. You can also stain it with amyloid stain to rule out amyloidosis, which we do in neurology, and I think that's quite accessible to many clinicians everywhere. Now we also have another test called QSART (quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test), and that's a test part of autonomic lab. Mayo Clinic has it, Cleveland Clinic has it, other big labs have it, and it's hard to get there because the wait time is big.Svetlana Blitshteyn (17:15):Patients need to travel. Insurance doesn't always authorize, so access is a big problem, but more accessible is the skin biopsy. And so, by doing skin biopsy and then correlating with neurologic exam findings, which oftentimes involved reduce pain and temperature sensation in the feet, sometimes in the hands you can conclude that the patient has small fiber neuropathy and that's a very tangible and objective diagnosis. There again, with everything related to diagnostics, some neuropathy is very patchy and the patchy neuropathy is the one that may not be in your feet where you do the skin biopsy. It may be in the torso, it may be in the face, and we don't have biopsy there. So you can totally miss it. The results can come back as normal, but you can have patchy type of small fiber neuropathy and there are also diagnostic tests that might be not sensitive to pick up issues. So I think in everything Long Covid, it highlights the fact that many tests that we use in medicine are outdated perhaps and not targeted towards these patients with Long Covid. Therefore we say, well, we did the workup, everything looks good. MRI looks good, cardiac echo looks great, and yet the patient is very sick with all kinds of Long Covid complications.Pure Post-Viral POTS?Eric Topol (18:55):Right. Now, before we get into the treatments, I want to just segment this a bit. Can you get pure POTS that is no Long Covid just POTS, or as you implied that usually there's some coalescence of symptoms with the usual Long Covid symptoms and POTS added to that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (19:21):So the studies have shown for us that about 40% of patients with POTS have post-infectious onset, which means more than a half doesn't. And so of course you can have POTS from other causes and the most common is puberty, hormonal change, the most common age of onset is about 13, 14 years old and 80% of women of childbearing age and other triggers or pregnancy, hormonal change again, surgery, trauma like concussion, post-concussion, autonomic dysfunction is quite common.Eric Topol (20:05):So these are pure POTS without the other symptoms. Is that what you're saying in these examples?Svetlana Blitshteyn (20:12):Well, it's a very good question. It depends what you mean by pure POTS, and I have seen especially cardiologists cling to this notion that there is pure POTS and then there is POTS plus. Now I think majority of people don't have pure POTS and by pure POTS I think you mean those who have postural tachycardia and nothing else. And so most patients, I think 80% have a number of symptoms. So in my clinic I almost never see someone who is otherwise well and all they have is postural tachycardia and then they're having a great time. Some patients do exist like that, they tend to be athletic, they can still function in their life, but majority of patients come to us with symptoms like dizziness, like fatigue, like exercise intolerance, decline in functioning. So I think there is this notion that while there is pure POTS, let me just fix the postural tachycardia and the patient will be great and we all want that. Certainly sometimes I get lucky and when I give the patient a beta blocker or ivabradine or a calcium channel blocker, sometimes we use it, certainly they get better, but most patients don't have that because the disability that drives POTS isn't actually postural tachycardia, it's all that other stuff and a lot of it's neurologic, which is why I put this as a central nervous system disorder.TreatmentsEric Topol (21:58):Yeah, that's so important. Now you mentioned the treatments. These are drug treatments, largely beta blockers, and can you tell us what's the success rate with the various treatments that you use in your clinic?Svetlana Blitshteyn (22:13):So the first thing we'll have to mention is that there are no FDA approved therapies for POTS, just like there are no FDA approved therapies for Long Covid. And so, everything we use is off label. Now, oftentimes people think that because it wasn't evidence-based and there are no big trials. We do have trials, we do have trials for beta blockers and we know they work. We have trials for Midodrine and we know that's working. We also have fludrocortisone, which is a medication that improves sodium and water resorption. So we know that there are certain things we've used for decades that have been working, and I think that's what I was trying to convey in this paper of post Covid autonomic dysfunction assessment and treatment is that when you see these patients, and you can be of any specialty, you can be in primary care, you can be a physiatrist, a cardiologist, there are things to do, there are medications to use.Svetlana Blitshteyn (23:20):Oftentimes colleagues would say, well, you diagnose them and then what do you treat them with? And then I can refer them to table six in that paper and say, look at this list. You have a lot of options to try. We have the first line treatment options, which are your beta blockers and Midodrine and Florinef and Mestinon. And then we have the second line therapies you can choose from the stimulants are there Provigil, Nuvigil, Wellbutrin, Droxidopa is FDA approved for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. Now we don't use it commonly, but it can still be tried in people whose blood pressures are falling on your exam. So we have a number of medications to choose from in addition to non-pharmacologic therapies.Eric Topol (24:14):Right now, I'm going to get to the non-pharmacologic in a moment, but the beta blocker, which is kind of the first one to give, it's a little bit paradoxical. It makes people tired, and these people already are, don't have much energy. Is the success rate of beta blocker good enough that that should be the first thing to try?Svetlana Blitshteyn (24:35):Absolutely. The first line medication treatment options are beta blockers. Why? Okay, why are they working? They're not only working to reduce heart rate, but they may also decrease sympathetic overactivity, which is the driving mechanism of autonomic dysfunction. And when you reduce that overactivity, even your energy level can improve. Now, the key here is to use a low dose. A lot of the time I see this mistake being done where the doctor is just prescribing 25 milligrams of metoprolol twice a day. Well, this is too high. And so, the key is to use very low doses and to use them and then increase them as needed. We have a bunch of beta blockers to choose from. We have the non-selective propranolol that you can use when someone maybe has a migraine headache or significant anxiety, they penetrate the brain, and we have non-selected beta blockers like atenolol, metoprolol and others that you can use at half a tablet. Sometimes I start my patients at quarter of tablet and then go from there. So low doses will block tachycardia, decrease sympathetic overactivity, and in many cases will allow the patient to remain upright for longer periods of time.Eric Topol (26:09):That's really helpful. Now, one of the other things, I believe it's approved in Canada, not in the US, is a vagal neuromodulation device. And I wonder, it seems like it would be nice to avoid drugs if there was a device that worked really well. Is there anything that is in the hopper for that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (26:32):Yeah, absolutely. Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator is in clinical trials for POTS and other autonomic disorders, but we have it FDA for treatment of migraine and cluster headaches, so it's already approved here and it can also be helpful for chronic pain and gastroparesis. So there are studies on mice that show that with the application of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulator, there is reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines. So here is this very important connection that comes from Kevin Tracey's work that showed inflammatory reflex, and that's a reflex between the vagus nerve and the immune system. So when we talk about sympathetic overactivity, we need to also think about that. That's a mechanism for pro-inflammatory state and possibly prothrombotic state. So anything that decreases sympathetic overactivity and enhancing parasympathetic tone is going to be good for you.Eric Topol (27:51):Now, let's go over to, I mean, I'm going to get into this body brain axis in a moment because there's another part of the story here that's becoming more interesting, fascinating, in fact every day. But before I do that, you mentioned the small fiber neuropathy. Is there a specific treatment for that or is that just something that is just an added dimension of the problem without a specific treatment available?Svetlana Blitshteyn (28:21):Yeah, we certainly have treatment for small fiber neuropathy. We have symptomatic treatment for neuropathic pain, and these medications are gabapentin, pregabalin, amitriptyline and low dose naltrexone that have been gaining popularity. We used that before the pandemic. We used low dose naltrexone for people with chronic pain related to joint hypermobility. And so, we have symptomatic, we also have patches and creams and all kinds of topical applications for people with neuropathic pain. Then we also have, we try to go for the root cause, right? So the number one cause of small fiber neuropathy in the United States is diabetes. And certainly, you need to control hyperglycemia and in some patients you only need a pre-diabetic state, not even full diabetes to already have peripheral neuropathy. So you want to control blood glucose level first and foremost. Now then we have a big category of autoimmune and immune mediated causes, and that's where it gets very interesting because practical experience from many institutions and many neurologists worldwide have shown that when you give a subset of patients with autoimmune small fiber neuropathy, immunotherapy like IVIG, a lot of patients feel significantly better. And so, I think paralleling our field in dysautonomia and POTS, we are looking forward to immunotherapy being more mainstream rather than exception from the rule because access and insurance coverage is a huge barrier for clinicians and patients, but that may be a very effective treatment options for treatment refractory patients whose symptoms do not improve with symptomatic treatment.Eric Topol (30:38):Now, with all these treatments that are on the potential menu to try, and of course sometimes it really is a trial and error to get one that hopefully works for Covid, Long Covid, what is the natural history? Does this persist over years, or can it be completely resolved?Svetlana Blitshteyn (31:00):That's a great question. Everyday Long Covid patients ask me, and I think what we are seeing is that there is a good subset of patients for whom Long Covid is going to be temporary and they will improve and even recover close to normal. Now remember that original case series of patients that I reported in early 2021 based on my 2020 experience in that 20 patient case series, very few recovered, three patients recovered back to normal. Most patients had lingering ongoing chronic symptoms. So of course mine is a kind of a referral bias where I get to see the sickest patients and it looks to be like it's a problem of chronic illness variety. But I also think there is going to be a subset of patients and then we have to study them. We need to study who got better and who didn't. And people improve significantly and some even recover close to normal. But I think certain symptoms like maybe fatigue and heat intolerance could persist because those are very heavily rooted in autonomic dysfunction.Vaccination and POTSEric Topol (32:26):Yeah, well, that's something that's sobering and why we need trials and to go after this in much more intensity and priority. Now the other issue here is while with Covid, this is almost always the virus infection, there have been reports of the vaccine inducing POTS and Long Covid, and so what does that tell us?Svetlana Blitshteyn (32:54):Well, that's a big, big topic. Years ago, I was the first one to report a patient with POTS that was developed after HPV vaccine Gardasil. Now, at that time I was a young neurologist. Then the patient came to me saying she was an athlete saying two weeks after Gardasil vaccine, she developed these very disabling symptoms. And I thought it was very interesting and unique and I thought, well, I'll just publish it. I never knew that this would be the start of a whole different discussion and debate on HPV vaccines. There were multiple reports from numerous countries, Denmark, Mexico, Japan. Japan actually suspended their mass HPV vaccination program. So somehow it became a big deal. Now many people, including my colleagues didn't agree that POTS can begin POTS, small fiber neuropathy, other adverse neurologic events can begin after vaccination in general. And so, this was a topic that was widely debated and the European medical agencies came back saying, we don't have enough evidence.Svetlana Blitshteyn (34:20):Of course, we all want to have a good cancer vaccine. And it was amazing to watch this Covid vaccine issue unfolding where more than one study now have shown that indeed you can develop POTS after Covid vaccines and that the rate of POTS after Covid vaccines is actually slightly higher than before vaccination. So I think it was kind of interesting to see this unfold where I was now invited by Nature Journal to write an editorial on this very topic. So I think it's important to mention that sometimes POTS can begin after vaccination and however, I've always advised my patients to be vaccinated even now. Even now, I have patients who are unvaccinated and I say, I'm worried about you getting a second Covid or third without these vaccines, so please get vaccinated. Vaccines are very important public health measure, but we also have to acknowledge that sometimes people develop POTS, small fiber neuropathy and other complications after Covid vaccines.Prominence of the Vagus Nerve Eric Topol (35:44):Yeah, I think this is important to emphasize here because of all vaccinations can lead to neurologic sequelae. I mean look at Guillain-Barre, which is even more worrisome and that brings in the autoimmune component I think. And of course, the Covid vaccines and boosters have a liability in a small, very small percentage of people to do this. And that can't be discounted because it's a small risk and it's always this kind of risk benefit story when you're getting vaccinated that you are again spotlighting. Now gets us to the biggest thing of all besides the practical pearls you've been coming up with to help everyone in patients and clinicians. In recent weeks, there's been explosion of these intra body circuits. There was a paper from Columbia last week that taught us about the body-brain circuits between the vagus nerve and the caudal Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (cNST) of the brain and how this is basically a master switch for the immune system. And so, the vagus nerve there and then you have this gut to brain story, which is the whole gut microbiome is talking to the brain through the vagus nerve. I mean, everything comes down to the vagus nerve. So you've been working all your career and now everything's coming into this vagus nerve kind of final common pathway that's connecting all sorts of parts of the body that we didn't truly understand before. So could you comment about this because it's pretty striking.Svetlana Blitshteyn (37:34):Absolutely. I think this pandemic is highlighting the pitfalls of everything we didn't know but should have in the past. And I think this is one of them. How important is the autonomic nervous system and how important is the vagus nerve that is the longest nerve in the body and carries the parasympathetic outflow. And I think this is a very important point that we have to move forward. We cannot stop at the autonomic knowledge that we've gained thus far. Autonomic neurology and autonomic medicine has always been the field with fellowship, and we have American Autonomic Society as well. But I think now is a great time to move forward and study how the autonomic nervous system communicates with the immunologic system. And again, Kevin Tracey's work was groundbreaking in the sense that he connected the dots and realized that if you stimulate the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic outflow, then you can reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines and that he has shown that you can also improve or significantly such disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune inflammatory conditions.Svetlana Blitshteyn (39:03):Now we have the invasive vagus nerve stimulation procedures, and quite honestly, we don't want that to be the mainstream because you don't want to have a neurosurgery as you go to treatment. Of course, you want the non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation being the mainstream therapy. But I think a lot of research needs to happen and it's going to be a very much a multidisciplinary field where we'll have immunology, translational sciences, we'll have neurosurgeons like Kevin Tracey, we'll have rheumatologists, neurologists, cardiologists. We'll have a multidisciplinary collaborative group to further understand what's going on in these autoimmune inflammatory disorders, including those of post-infectious origin.Eric Topol (40:02):I certainly agree with all of your points there. I mean, I'm really struck now because the immune system is front and center with so much of what we're seeing with of course Long Covid, but also things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and across the board with metabolic diseases. And here we have this connection with your sweet spot of the autonomic nervous system, and we have these pathways that had not been delineated before. I didn't know too much about the cNST of the brain to be such an important connect point for this. And I wonder, so here's another example. Concurrently the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs have this pronounced effect on reducing inflammation in the body before the weight loss and in the brain through the gut-brain axis, as we recently discussed with Dan Drucker, have you ever tried a GLP-1 drug or noticed that GLP-1 drugs help people with Long Covid or the POTS problem?Svetlana Blitshteyn (41:12):So I have heard anecdotally people with Long Covid using these drugs for other reasons, saying I feel much better. In fact, I recently had a woman who said, I have never been more productive than I am now on this medication. And she used the word productive, which is important because non-productive implies so many things. It's the brain fog, it's the physical fatigue, it's the mental fatigue. So I think we are, first of all, I want to say, I always said that the brain is not separate from the body. And neurologic manifestations of systemic disease is a very big untapped area. And I think it's not going to be surprising for me to see that these drugs can improve many brain parameters and possibly even neuroinflammation. We don't know, but we certainly need to study this.Eric Topol (42:15):Yeah, it's interesting because statins had been tried for multiple sclerosis, I think maybe not with very clear cut benefit effects, but here you have a new class of drugs which eventually are going to be in pills and not just one receptor but triple receptor, much more potent than what we're seeing in the clinic today. And you wonder if we're onto an anti-inflammatory for the brain and body that could help in this. I mean, we have a crisis here with Long Covid in POTS without a remedy, without adequate resources that are being dedicated to the clinical trials that are so vital to execute and find treatments. And that's just one candidate of many. I mean, obviously there's so many possible ones on the list. So if you could design studies now based on your extraordinary rich experience with Long Covid and POTS, what would you go after right now? What do you think is the thing that's, would it be to evaluate more of these noninvasive, non-pharmacologic treatments like the vagal nerve stimulation, or are there particular drugs that you find intriguing?Svetlana Blitshteyn (43:33):Well, a few years ago we published a case series of patients with severe POTS and nothing helped them, but they improved significantly and some even made close to recovery improvement and were able to return to their careers because they were treated with immunotherapy. So the paper is a subcutaneous immunoglobulin and plasmapheresis and the improvement was remarkable. I say there was one physician there who could not start her residency. She got sick in medical school and could not start her residency due to severe POTS and no amount of beta blockers, Midodrine or Florinef helped her get out the house and out of bed. And therefore, sheer luck, she was able to get subcutaneous immunoglobulin and she improved significantly, finished her residency and is now a practicing physician. So I think when we have these cases, it's important to bring them to scientific community. And I think I'm very excited that hopefully soon we're going to have trials of immunotherapy and immunomodulating treatment options for patients with Long Covid and hopefully POTS in general, I believe in novel, but also repurposed, repurposed treatment.Svetlana Blitshteyn (45:01):IVIG has been used for decades, so it's not a new medication. And contrary to popular belief, it's actually quite safe. It is expensive, it's a blood product, but we are very familiar with it in medicine and neurology. So I think we have to look forward to everything. And as I tell my patients, I'm always aggressive with medications when they come to me and their doctor said something like, well, let's see, it's going to go away on its own or keep doing your salt and fluids intake or wear compression sucks. Well, they're already doing it. It's not helping. And now it's a good time to try everything we have. And I would like to have more. I would like to have immunotherapy available. I would like to have immunosuppressants even tried potentially, and maybe we'll be able to try medication for possible viral persistence. Let's see how that works out. We have other inflammatory modalities out there that can potentially give us the tools. You see, I think being that it's a multifactorial disorder, that I don't think it's going to be one thing for everyone. We need to have a toolbox where we're going to choose what's best for your specific case because when we talk about Long Covid, we have to remember there are many different phenotypes under that umbrella.A Serious MatterEric Topol (46:40):Now, before we wrap up, I mean I guess I wanted to emphasize how there are clinicians out there who discount Long Covid in POTS. They think it's something that is a figment of imagination. Now, on the other hand, you and I especially, you know that people are totally disabled. Certain days they can't even get out of bed, they can't get back to their work, their life. And this can go on and on as we've been discussing. So can you set it straight about, I mean, you are seeing these people every day. What do you have to say to our fellow colleague physicians who tend to minimize and say, this is extremely rare, if it even exists, and that these people have some type of psychiatric problem. And it's really, it's distressing of course, but could you speak to that?Svetlana Blitshteyn (47:39):Absolutely. So as I always say, Long Covid is not a psychiatric or psychological disorder, and it's also not a functional neurologic disorder. Now, having said that, as I just mentioned, brain is not separate from the body. And neurologic manifestations of systemic disease are numerous. We just had a paper out on neurologic manifestations of mast cell activation syndrome. So certainly some patients will develop psychiatric manifestations and some patients will develop major depression, anxiety, OCD or functional neurologic disorder. But those are complications of systemic disease, meaning that you cannot diagnose a patient with anxiety and send them off to a psychologist or a psychiatrist without diagnosing POTS and treating it. And in many cases, when you approach an underlying systemic disorder with the right medications, like dysautonomia for example, all of the symptoms including psychological and psychiatric, tend to improve as well. And certainly, there is going to be a small subset of Long Covid patients whose primary problem is psychiatric.Svetlana Blitshteyn (49:01):And I think that's totally fine. That is not to say that all Long Covid is psychiatric. Some will have significant psychiatric manifestations. I mean, there are cases of post Covid psychosis and autoimmune encephalitis and all kinds of psychiatric problems that people may develop, but I think we can't really stratify well, this is physiologic and this word functional that I'm not a fan of. This is physiologic as we see it on MRI. But here, because we don't see anything on MRI, it means you are fine and can just exercise your way out of it. So I think with this Long Covid, hopefully we'll get answers as to the pathophysiology, but also most importantly, hopefully we'll get these therapies that millions of people before Covid pandemic were looking for.Eric Topol (50:02):Well, I just want to thank you because you were onto this well over 10, 15 years before there was such a thing as Covid, you've dedicated your career to this. These are some of the most challenging patients to try to help and has to be vexing, that you can't get their symptoms resolved no less the underlying problem. And we're indebted to you, Svetlana, because you've really been ahead of the curve here. You were writing a patient book before there were such things as patient activists in Long Covid, as we've seen, which have been so many of the heroes of this whole problem. But thank you for all the work you do. We'll continue to follow. We learned from you about POTS and Long Covid from your work and really appreciate everything you've done. Thank you.Svetlana Blitshteyn (50:58):Thank you so much, Eric, for having me. As I said, it's a great honor for me to be here. Remarkable, amazing. And thank you for all this work that you're doing and being an advocate for our field because we always need great champions to help us move forward in these complicated disorders.********************************The Ground Truths newsletters and podcasts are all free, open-access, without ads.Voluntary paid subscriptions all go to support Scripps Research. Many thanks for that—they greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for 2023 and 2024.Thanks to my producer Jessica Nguyen and Sinjun Balabanoff tor audio and video support at Scripps ResearchNote: you can select preferences to receive emails about newsletters, podcasts, or all I don't want to bother you with an email for content that you're not interested in. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe
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Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
About this episode: When exercising power, the 16th President's stocky and sphinxlike Secretary of War could demonstrate a Jekyll and Hyde personality. Personally honest, he could be unforgiving and given to histrionics when he thought them necessary. And again, when required, warm hearted, selfless and patriotic. In charge of the Union's land-based operations, he made tough decisions and did so with little regard for those affected by those decisions. His mission was to win the war and he pursued that purpose with relentless fury. In doing so, far too many simply remembered him as the “unloved Secretary of War”. In the pantheon that was Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet, this is the story of his Mars. This is the story of Edwin McMasters Stanton. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Salmon P. Chase Daniel Sickles Simon Cameron William Seward Lorenzo Thomas Manton Marble Additional Resources: Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here *Title Image by The McMahan Photo Archive/RMP Archive/Mathew Brady / The Brady Studio Producer: Dan Irving
Kelly McMasters joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about the elusiveness of “home”, creating space for our children in our art, questions as writing tools, letting go of what we thought our lives would be, falling in love with narcissists, the critical distance necessary to our work, writing about exes, landscape as a foil, and her memoir in essays The Leaving Season. -Visit the Let's Talk Memoir Merch store: https://www.zazzle.com/store/letstalkmemoir -Take the Let's Talk Memoir survey: https://forms.gle/mctvsv9MGvzDRn8D6 Help shape upcoming Let's Talk Memoir content - a brief survey: https://forms.gle/ueQVu8YyaHNKui2Z9 Also in this episode: -stealing with intention -curiosity and self-reflection in memoir -approaching an essay Books mentioned in this episode: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray Soil:The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille Dungy Omega Farm by Martha Mcphee The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham History of Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the Zibby Book Club pick The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023) and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary film ‘The Atomic States of America,' a 2012 Sundance selection, and the anthology she co-edited with Margot Kahn, This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017), was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post Magazine, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, Tin House, Newsday, and Time Out New York, among others. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia's School of the Arts and is the recipient of a Pushcart nomination and an Orion Book Award nomination. Kelly has spoken about creative nonfiction at TEDx, authors@google, and more, and has taught at mediabistro.com, Franklin & Marshall College, and in the undergraduate writing program and Journalism Graduate School at Columbia University, among others. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of Publishing Studies at Hofstra University in NY. Connect with Kelly: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_mc_masters Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.mcmasters.3/ Website: www.kellymcmasters.com — Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers
This love story is straight out of a Holiday Rom-Com. It all started at a party when Alyssa spotted a Christmas card featuring a scantily clad bachelor with a huge sense of humour. It was that very Christmas card that was the start of a great love story. For 5 years, Steve had his very own unconventional tradition of humorous photoshoots, which he turned into yearly Christmas cards for his family and friends. But when Alyssa entered the picture, the solo shoots were no more, and the pair has now embraced the tradition together. Steve and Alyssa are truly a united team, who have navigated the waters of life's obstacles together. They have also learned a thing or two about how to maintain a strong marriage. For these two, life is all about enjoying the moment, embracing who you are, and finding the person you can fully be yourself with. Presented by Charm Diamond Centres Hosted by Nancy Regan Produced by Podstarter Do you have a great love story? You could be the next guest on the Canadian Love Map! Apply here!
This love story is straight out of a Holiday Rom-Com. It all started at a party when Alyssa spotted a Christmas card featuring a scantily clad bachelor with a huge sense of humour. It was that very Christmas card that was the start of a great love story. For 5 years, Steve had his very own unconventional tradition of humorous photoshoots, which he turned into yearly Christmas cards for his family and friends. But when Alyssa entered the picture, the solo shoots were no more, and the pair has now embraced the tradition together. Steve and Alyssa are truly a united team, who have navigated the waters of life's obstacles together. They have also learned a thing or two about how to maintain a strong marriage. For these two, life is all about enjoying the moment, embracing who you are, and finding the person you can fully be yourself with. Presented by Charm Diamond Centres Hosted by Nancy Regan Produced by Podstarter Do you have a great love story? You could be the next guest on the Canadian Love Map! Apply here!
In This Episode:Tyler and Mike welcome in Sean McMasters to the Richest Men In Town podcast. Sean is the Senior Pastor for the Vineyard City Church in Redding, California and he just so happens to be a former classmate of Tyler's (shoutout to Enterprise High School class of 1993!). Tyler and Sean get reunited and Sean catches everyone up on what the journey over the last 30 years has looked like. And what a journey it has been. The end result is a powerful conversation that will leave everyone feeling like they just had some midweek church. Topics include:InfluenceAuthenticityGod's loveGraceComparison vs. EmulationGood theologySean delivers a powerful witness of his personal faith and lessons that he learned and is now teaching others. His invitation to rest in grace hit powerfully and just might be the antidote that the world needs right about now. To Sean, thank you for the authentic way you show up in your life. Thank you for sharing how everything changed once you met Jesus. Keep going brother!Show NotesQuotes..."For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." -John 15:5"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -2 Corinthians 5:21References...Sean's church congregation at Vineyard City ChurchThe Gift of Influence by Tommy SpauldingThe Beatitudes in Matthew 5For the Life of the World by Alexander SchmemannThe Insecurity of Freedom by Abraham HeschelThe Other F Word documentaryJesus Revolution moviePsst...Check out our website or visit us on our Facebook and Instagram platforms.
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Kelly McMasters joins Gianna Volpe for Part 1 of their conversation about her memoir, “The Leaving Season” on the WLIW-FM Heart of The East End Friday Morning Tea underwritten by Village Overhead Doors ahead of a memoir roundtable at The Church on Sunday, Sept. 18.Listen to the playlist on Apple Music
SEASON: 2 EPISODE: 35Episode Overview:Confidence is an underrated superpower that can enhance every aspect of job performance, from communication to closing sales. Not protecting that confidence in hard times, grief or self-perceived failure can be devastating. Here to talk about how to process rejection and build confidence is my guest, Alyssa McMasters.Guest Bio: Alyssa is a certified confidence coach who leverages body neutrality, mindfulness, and evidence-based exercises to guide you toward embracing your natural confidence. She believes that confidence is a muscle that can be strengthened with dedication and practice, regardless of society's judgments. On your confidence journey with Alyssa, you'll delve into the conditioning that holds you back, shed unhelpful thought patterns, and discover enjoyable ways to boost your self-esteem. Certified in Confidence Coaching and Emotional Intelligence Coaching, Alyssa employs a trauma-informed approach in her offerings.With a background in sales, Alyssa has honed the skills of self-assurance and effective communication. She transitioned from the competitive world of sales to the empowering realm of confidence coaching, gaining unique insights into the significance of self-belief, persuasion, and resilience. Alyssa works with her individual and corporate group clients to achieve confidence in various aspects of life, whether it's advancing their careers or improving personal relationships. Join Alyssa on a transformative journey to unlock your full potential and conquer life's challenges.Resource Links:Website: https://www.letmeintroduceyourself.com/Product Link: https://www.letmeintroduceyourself.com/speakingInsight Gold Timestamps: 02:52 21 Days to Your Inner Confidence05:21 The issue of confidence07:04 When we take the conditioning away….09:14 People are really afraid of that rejection10:21 That confidence translates directly to sales12:25 What can you say to make friends with rejection?14:01 The same parts in our brain that fire when we feel literal pain fire when we face rejection15:55 If you don't ask, you don't get that17:13 People don't care about us the same way that we care about us19:13 What is body neutrality?20:41 We just are 10% kinder22:57 I do believe that anybody can build confidence23:30 Limiting beliefs25:09 The glimmers in our life26:12 Low confidence often comes from our conditioning and adolescence 28:32 When we have diverse teams, we also have diverse perspectives30:38 Some can argue that these things enhance the confidence34:13 The question is do you like yourself with that? 35:02 What do I have right now?36:20 Why is it hard to accept a compliment?Connect Socially:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-briggs/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alyssasmcmasters/Email: alyssa@letmeintroduceyourself.comSponsors: Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.rainmakerdigitalsolutions.com/Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/Next Episode: AI Automation...
What do you do when you are faced with the choice between leaving a life you love or leaving yourself behind? These are the questions that essayist, professor, and mother Kelly McMasters explores in her memoir The Leaving Season, as she details her remarkable journey from being a sophisticated writer in New York City to a rural mom of two in Pennsylvania. It was in this transition that Kelly came to define her unique relationship to motherhood, find liberation in divorce, and discover the beauty that comes with choosing yourself and unapologetic happiness.Join us for a deeply emotional and powerful conversation, as Kelly and Erin explore themes of love, loss, transformation, motherhood, self-discovery, and freedom, including:Breaking free from a life that no longer allows you to be you Raw emotions of motherhood: when you don't think of yourself as a “natural mother”; the freeing feeling of becoming a single mother after divorceThe fantasy of marriage and how it masks the reality of what happens when relationships grow apart Complexities of divorce, finding critical distance, and softening anger from past relationshipsReinvention as a mother and finding empowerment on your own termsDating after divorce: creating a relationship in a way that works best for you and letting go of the fantasyWhat it means to no longer apologize for using your voice OUR GUEST: Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of several books including her recent memoir-in-essays The Leaving Season, and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine and The Paris Review. Kelly serves as an Associate Professor of English and Director of Publishing Studies at Hofstra University.Want more Kelly? Find her online at www.kellymcmasters.com and follow her on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_mc_masters/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/kelly.mcmasters.3 You can find her books at:The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-leaving-season-kelly-mcmasters/1142386744Wanting: Women Writing About Desire: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wanting-women-writing-about-desire-margot-kahn/18576719?ean=9781646220113 Want more Hotter Than Ever? Find us online at www.hotterthaneverpod.com and sign up for our mailing list! Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotterthaneverpod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hotterthaneverpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChwbEXbAVqoNYd_g5ok7VPg Facebook:...
Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, and former bookshop owner. She is the co-editor of This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017) and the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, was listed as one of Oprah's top 5 summer memoirs and is the basis for the documentary film ‘The Atomic States of America,' a 2012 Sundance selection. Kelly joins Marrie Stone to talk about her latest release, The Leaving Season: A Memoir-in-Essays (WW Norton, 2023). They discuss how this form mirrors the novel-in-short-story form and its differences. They discuss flash versus conventional essays, discovering what your essay is really about, and one piece of advice Kelly always uses during her revision process. Kelly also shares her insights about making a living as a writer and artist, what it requires, and why she won't compromise. There are also references to advice Kelly gave in her TedX Talk about experiencing “voice block” (as opposed to “writer's block”). For more information on Writers on Writing and additional writing tips, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. (Recorded on June 28, 2023) Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Co-Host: Marrie Stone Music and sound editing: Travis Barrett
Clint and Russ speak with Dr. Matthew McMasters this week who practices in Ardmore Tennessee which is literally on the Alabama-Tennessee border. We start out discussing what it is like working in a small town and how he has changed over time from trying to offer Smithson composites to just "A2 make it work." Finally, we talk about about how to choose CE courses that will bring the best ROI.
Zibby speaks to author Kelly McMasters about The Leaving Season, a nuanced, heart-wrenching, and astoundingly gorgeous memoir in essays about "leaving"–a place, a job, a home, a version of oneself, and, particularly, a marriage. Kelly describes her life before, during, and after her divorce, revealing that it ultimately helped her as a mother. She also talks about the bookstore she opened in rural Pennsylvania (and the heartbreak of having to close it), the financial struggles she has faced in the past, and the book she is working on next.The Leaving Season is the September pick for Zibby's Book Club!Purchase on Zibby's Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3r6X3UKPurchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3JCSqYKSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dr. Dan and author Kelly McMasters discuss The Leaving Season, her new memoir about divorce, creativity, the sacrifices of motherhood, and her decision to leave her marriage. This interview explores the many lessons about self, parenting, family, grief, and love Kelly learned while writing her book. Her wisdom will resonate with listeners.Kelly's honest story about moving with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rain boots and diapers is wrenching and inspiring. Eventually the pastoral landscape and the bookshop she opened — restorative at first — became the part of her reasons for plotting her escape.Dr. Dan and Kelly hope that today's episode will connect listeners, create community, and decrease loneliness.Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York. https://www.kellymcmasters.com/Email your parenting questions to Dr. Dan podcast@drdanpeters.com (we might answer on a future episode).Follow us @parentfootprintpodcast (Instagram, Facebook) and @drdanpeters (Twitter).Listen, follow, and leave us a review on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Wondery, or wherever you like to listen!Don't forget, you can hear every episode one week early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+ in the @WonderyMedia App.For more information:www.exactlyrightmedia.com www.drdanpeters.comFor podcast merch:www.exactlyrightmedia.com/parent-footprint-shopSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This is a special episode because we're sharing a live broadcast we did inside our Designer Meet-up Facebook group. We brought together 2 special guests to open up the discussion of what it really means to be a licensed Interior Designer. About Maia Maia's formative years were spent in a home built by famed Canadian architect Ron Thom. Visits to properties in Toronto's Forest Hill and Rosedale neighborhoods, and trips further afield to the Laurentians and Barbados cemented her appreciation for elegant architecture and beautifully executed spaces. A graduate of McMasters multi-disciplinary Arts & Science program in Hamilton Ontario, Maia took a brief detour into law school on the west coast before finding her niche in design. She graduated with honors from Ryerson's School of Interior Design and completed her BCIN, LEED AP, and NCIDQ designations before founding Black Sheep Interior Design in 2013. With an approach that is as creative as it is rational, Maia's design sense is fueled by sun-filled travels. Whether diving in the Caribbean, mini-breaking in Miami, or resting up in cottage country, she loves to soak up the materials and aesthetics of get-a-way destinations. She is also a dedicated volunteer and proudly combines her love of design and philanthropy. Maia is a member of ARIDO and the IDC. Maia is a returning guest - listen to her first episode 46: Budgeting, Pricing your Services & Attracting the Right Trades About Sharon Sharon has worked in the not-for-profit sector since 1997, starting in the financial sector with the Institute for Advanced Financial Education. In 2011, she transitioned to the design and construction sector in the role of Executive Director and Registrar with the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO). Her professional experience includes the development and enforcement of qualification standards for professions, regulatory frameworks, and lobbying for public policy in support of safe interior environments in Ontario. Starting in 2014, Sharon led several projects intended to provide a more inclusive and fairer pathway to qualifying as an interior designer in Ontario through competencies-based frameworks. In 2020, ARIDO undertook a commitment to the advancement of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility within ARIDO as an organization, the profession, and the community. Sharon is a Maltese-Canadian who is proud of both her Maltese and Canadian heritage and roots. Her favorite pastimes include photography and long walks with her dog, Toretto. This is always a hot topic in our community, so we decided to have this conversation because we believe the more knowledge you have, the better you are at making decisions. In this episode, Maia Roffey, Sharon Portelli and I discuss what it means to be an interior designer, the circumstances when you can refer to yourself as an interior designer, and how you can start the process. Listen towards the end when I ask an uncomfortable question and share my less-than-positive experience with the local association. I truly hope that at the end of the episode, you'll see that there isn't simply one way of doing things, but having the knowledge is the best way to make the right decision for you. You can connect with Maia at blacksheepinteriordesign.com or on Instagram @blacksheepid You can connect with Sharon at sportelli@arido.ca Download our Free Resources ➡️ Pre-qualify your clients with my Discovery Call Script: https://rebeccahay.com/discovery/ ➡️ Stay confident from beginning to end with my Consultation Checklist: https://rebeccahay.com/consultationchecklist/ ➡️ Looking for a quick infusion of cash? Grab my 4 easy ways of increasing your revenue: https://rebeccahay.com/revenue/ Looking to elevate your business? Learn more about our courses: ➡️ Want the complete blueprint to calculate your design fee with confidence and ease? Learn more about my Pricing with Confidence course ➡️ Want to be the first to know when Power of Process is returning? Click to learn more about my systems building course. Want to be the first to know when the next episode drops? Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to the Resilient by Design Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts!
Tax season is here, and as we subject ourselves to this perennial torture it begs the question: is there a better way to raise the money we need to fund the government without the massive compliance costs and inefficiencies? Two tax and economics experts, John Cochrane and Grover Norquist, join Rep. Crenshaw to answer that question. They take a close look at costs and benefits of the controversial Fair Tax and consumption taxes more broadly, how the U.S. tax system is one of the most progressive in the world, the political reality of tax reform, and what a perfect tax code starting from scratch would look like. John Cochrane is an economist and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His latest book is “The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level.” His blog is the “the Grumpy Economist” at johnhcochrane.blogspot.com and he also cohosts the Good Fellows Podcast with General H.R. McMasters and Nialls Ferguson. Follow him on Twitter at @JohnHCochrane. Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform, a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan's request. Follow him on Twitter at @GroverNorquist.
Dark Side of the Library Minisode #85: "Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide" by Rupert Holmes (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide https://amzn.to/3neyyD7 Rupert Holmes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Holmes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY9Uye1FgNYWgayf-YtrcYw https://www.rupertholmes.com/index.htm https://open.spotify.com/artist/0TqIPD4IS1w4e30R38B3vj Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! And our Amazon Live Channel! Dark Side of the Library Website
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide written by Rupert Holmes | Booklicious Podcast | Episode 28 | Powered by gobookmart.com Hello and welcome to the "Books We Love" podcast. I'm your host, [Host's Name], and today we're discussing "Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide," written by Rupert Holmes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booklicious/message
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Rupert Holmes's much celebrated career ranges from chart-topping story songs with surprising twists like “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” to Tony Award–winning whodunit musicals ("The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), Edgar Award–winning comedy-thrillers ("Accomplice), and the Nero Wolfe Best American Mystery Novel nominated "Where the Truth Lies."A mix of wordplay, twists and intrigue, "Murder Your Employer" takes us to The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.
Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,' an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.
Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,' an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.
Zibby speaks to author-editors Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters about Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, an intimate, daring, and impassioned collection of essays by award-winning and emerging female writers, such as Joanna Rakoff, Lisa Taddeo, Tara Conklin, and Michelle Wildgen (a Zibby Books author!!). The three discuss the origins of this project, the unique experience of editing and compiling an anthology, and the particular essays that Zibby cannot stop thinking about, from Joanna Rakoff's breathtaking encounter with an old love to Michelle Wildgen's mouthwatering descriptions of bread and cheese!(Oops! Zibby accidentally says that our April retreat is in Nashville -- it's actually in Charleston! And we would love it if you joined us. Visit zibbymag.com/zibby-retreats to get your weekend pass!)Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3xlN1yESubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Now there's more! Subscribe to Acast+ and get exclusive access to the in-store author events at Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. Join today! https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The House is looking for it's next Boomer to aid in driving the country into the ground. Mike Morrell is the Know-stradamus of doom is rubbing his fed crystalball and workshopping the CIA's next move to destabilize the world. Andrew Tate is a douche. The planet is dying and you're killing it. London was pushing propaganda hard on NYE. The Boys cover stories to watch in 2023 and the Virgin Islands AG was fired days after bringing a lawsuit relating to Jeff Epstien, probably just a coincidence. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING ON PAYPAL! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO KEEP GOING Huge Thanks to our Fiat Fun Coupon gifting Producers: Berlin Ethan Crawley Kassi Smith Hempress Emily M. Ryle Davis These fine folks found our donation link!We are also on Cashapp, $mmoshow, and Venmo @mmoshow. Thank you to all Boosters, both Live and Post: The Lovely Dame Boolysteed Stefke of Holland, Greetz from St. Louis & Denver! Headloon Boo-bury Billybon3s Nurse Elise This Fed Free group sent in boosts, which are little bits of bitcoin donation, which allows for comments as well. These are read live on the show! For more information on boostagrams, Check out this post. Prove you're not a fed by donating to mmo.show/donate! Thank you to providers of Content: MakeHeroism, sent us Sweepers/Stingers used in Ep. 53. LoneWOOF, sent us the clip of Moe saying "On the Offensive". Still listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? Gross. Get yourself a better and more masculine podcast app at NewPodcastApps.com Prove you're not a fed by donating to mmo.show/donate! Runner Up Titles for Episode 53: New Year, New Offensive # Pig Latin Podcast Swear Gong McMasterbater Know-stradamus Stop killing our planet and stay frosty! C U Next Tuesday!
Charlie comments on McMaster's speech endorsing electric vehicles. He is not against electric vehicles he is against government mandates. Charlie talks about John Deer's conversion to electric tractors. Charlie comments on Jeff Duncan's remarks about puberty blockers in children.
Tami McMasters-Gomez, BS, CCS-P, CDIP, CCDS, (MHL), is the Director of CDI and Coding Operations at UC-Davis Health in California. She has ultimate oversight of 80 employees, a team that is busy querying, coding, and abstracting data for a huge organization that includes its flagship 646-bed multispecialty academic medical center. Tami is a bright light in the field in all respects, and the accolades have been rolling in. This past May she was given the Recognition of Professional Achievement Award from ACDIS at its national conference in Orlando, and the year prior her organization won ACDIS' first-ever award for Diversity in CDI award, as well as similar recognition for its efforts in diversity from Forbes Magazine. It's hard to believe she ended up in this position after initially studying to be an event planner at Sacramento State University, majoring in marketing and communications and ultimately earning an event planning certification. But the world works in mysterious ways, and a part time job as a file clerk at a small rural hospital ultimately led her to health information management. UC Davis Health is the real beneficiary of that decision. According to a 2010 study, UC Davis Health generates more than $3.4 billion in annual economic output and more than 20,000 jobs. The organization is ranked in 9 specialties in the U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals—data that of course is derived, in part, from Tami's work. We cover Tami's stops over 30 years in healthcare, including 17 (wow) in CDI. Along the way we discuss its outpatient CDI program roll out and current progress, UC Davis' decision to discontinue DRG reconciliation (and why you might want to follow its lead), and also its strong commitment to diversity, both in the CDI/coding departments and organization-wide. Get inspired by an HIM professional who is doing cutting-edge work and building a CDI department that is committed to diversity of race, gender, ethnicity, and professional backgrounds (RN, HIM, MD, and more). We cover a lot more too, including the reality of CDI technology and how smart it actually is (UC Davis is a big adopter in this space, and is currently piloting provider-facing tech), tips and suggestions for progressing from coding into leadership, the importance of CDI-coding collaboration, and the usual fun asides. Despite her considerable responsibilities Tami hasn't given up on her event planning dreams, and is actively looking to buy a wedding venue in California. I can neither confirm nor deny if the weddings will be CDI themed. Stay tuned. Take a trip with me to the west coast for episode 3 of Off the Record. I hope you enjoy it.
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Community Connection Thursday July 21st 2022 Melissa McMasters Administrator for Marion County Public Health Department Infectious Disease and Immunization Program Joined Us To Talk About President Biden Contracting Covid-19. https://www.facebook.com/MarionHealthInd Open Lines Sports Segment With Danny Bridges The Indianapolis Recorder Sport's WriterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Matt is joined by one of the leaders of SatBOBS (Santa and the Business of Being Santa), Bob McMasters!
KGMI's Joe Teehan talks to Betty McMasters about the return of the Memorial Day Parade in Bellingham, Washington.
Please call in with your BEMER horse usage questions, comments, and testimonials. With Raini Hale, Tiff Schutt, and Cindy Schellenberg - And special guest Elise McMasters.
Featured in this week's episode ofThe Productive Designer, host Crystal Collinson chats with fellow designer. Maia Roffey.Maia is a graduate of McMasters multi-disciplinary Arts & Science program in Hamilton Ontario. She took a brief detour into law school on the West coast before finding her niche in design. She graduated with honours from Ryerson's School of Interior Design. Completed her BCIN, LEED AP, and NCIDQ designations before founding Black Sheep Interior Design.Crystal and Maia take a detour from their original topic, to chat about the supply chain collaboration and other issues we are all currently facing. Maia refers to lifting up a rock in the garden, and seeing all the ants working away. The COVID pandemic has revealed the inner workings of the supply chain. When one or two of the links in the chain breaks, the entire system is affected.To avoid the stress in the procurement process for any design project, Maia recommends documenting everything. And to be as transparent as possible with the process to your client. During the last 2 years of the pandemic, no matter where you purchase from, you will meet exhausted people along the way and oversight and mistakes still happen. Patience and kindness plays an essential factor in understanding and building a great network of people to rely on and work with.From the moment we signed in on the contract to the right end of the project, we must be responsible to our clients and to our collaborators. Be transparent with the documentation of the process so clients can have proper expectations. Communication is key to the successful supply chain collaboration, project management, and procurement of any design project.So join Crystal and Maia as they talk about supply chain collaboration and the effect of Covid in the supply-chain. Then “Do something today that your future self will thank you for”. Listen to this conversation and also consider supporting Eva's Initiatives Charity.If you enjoyed the episode, show your support by buying me a coffee buymeacoffee.com/TPDpodcastHow to reach Maia:Website: blacksheepinteriordesign.com I Instagram: @blacksheepid Facebook: Black Sheep Interior DesignRecommended podcasts:Bunga Bunga I i-Weigh I Momgasm
Charlie talks about the amount of people against the vaccines and the possible health concerns that comes with them. He speaks more on McMasters and the vaccine mandates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Charlie recounts his childhood and compares it to today's children. Charlie reveals breaking news on an airline not firing employees over vaccine mandates. He talks about McMaster's decisions throughout his term and compares him to Ron Desantos. He calls for McMasters to do his job as a conservative. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Chanute Tribune sports editor Jared McMasters talks about joining the Southeast Kansas sports media scene.
Colin McMasters encouraged us to learn from the humility of others.
I am so frickin excited to be joined by Alyssa McMasters! Alyssa has sky high confidence, the body of a goddess, and a bangin personality to boot. Using a mixture of learned and developed principles that helped bring herself out of the darkness, Alyssa is here to teach us how to stop listening to society's standards on who we SHOULD be, and start living our authentic lives full of self love, confidence and excitement. Her moto is to de-condition how we are SUPPOSED to act and to open up the space to become who we are supposed to BE. Her course is called Let Me Introduce Yourself and she's here to do just that! Check out:Dazzle by Pari | 15% discount | code: TPGP15 | https://www.dazzlebypari.com/Tweeling Books | 10% discount | code: CARA10 | https://www.tweelingbooks.ca/Cole Young | coletayloryoung@gmai.com | @colethegod
Scripture speaks a great deal about the heart. It is "deceitful" and "desperately wicked" (Jer. 17:9), it is the source of our sin and defilement (Matthew 15:18-20), but a "broken and contrite heart" God won't despise (Ps. 51:17). Today we talk with Jonathan McMasters, a young man who is quite familiar with the heart, both physically and spiritually. Jonathan has also undergone four open-heart surgeries throughout his life and speaks to us about how the Lord was with him through it all, even as an unbeliever, and how the Lord gave him a new spiritual heart through salvation.
In this edition of SSAT's Mentor of the Month video series, Dr. Young Hong, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Cooper University Hospital and member of SSAT Resident and Fellows Education Committee, interviewed Dr. Kelly M. McMasters. Dr. McMasters earned his dual degree M.D./Ph.D. at UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and surgical residency at The University of Louisville. He completed his complex general surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is currently the Ben A. Reid, Sr., M.D. Professor and Chair of the Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D. Department of Surgery at The University of Louisville. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. He will discuss his advice on mentorship, job searching, and life lessons he has learned along the way. Questions answered in this Mentor of the Month episode are: As you look back on your career, how has mentorship in your past affected your surgical success? What makes a great mentor/mentee relationship thrive, in your opinion? Do you have any advice you have carried with you during your career for young residents and fellows? What are key factors you look for in faculty members you look for when considering a new candidate? What unique challenges have you faced in your career, and how has it shaped you as a surgeon? What are the fundamental principles that drove you to succeed in your surgical career? Besides your professional successes in American surgery, what is a fun fact that most people don't know about you?
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Students of Western University and its affiliated colleges living in residence will be required to have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the university's plans to return to full in-person classes. The university announced that students will be asked to get vaccinated before they arrive. Failing that, they “will have 14 days following their move-in date to get vaccinated on campus.” Those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or “other protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code” can request accommodation. What is McMasters take on student vaccinations? Do they have a plan? GUEST: Sean Van Koughnett, McMaster University's Associate Vice-President and Dean of Students - A new report from Hamilton Community brings together data on a year of unprecedented change in how we work, learn, socialize and manage our health, revealing the widening of inequities that existed before the pandemic. Hamilton's Vital Signs issued today provides evidence that racialized groups and people living in poverty bore an unequal burden from the pandemic, with disproportionate rates of COVID-19, higher rates of unemployment and a greater likelihood of working in the hardest-hit economic sectors. GUEST: Terry Cooke, President and CEO of Vital Signs Hamiton - Shirley Williams is a survivor of a residential school and she joined Bill Kelly on 900CHML to discuss her experience. She talks about how she feels about the remains of the 215 children found at the former B.C residential school. How does she feel about Canada's response so far and what needs to happen next? GUEST: Shirley Williams, Professor Emeritus with the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University
Wesley Scott McMasters is a poet from Northern Appalachia (Patton, PA) who now resides in East Tennessee (Jefferson City) with his dog Poet ("He came with the name--I swear!"), and he teaches American Lit and Creative Writing at Carson-Newman University. His first book of poems, TRYING TO BE A PERSON, was published in 2016 (Words Dance) and the next, IN WHICH MY LOVER TELLS ME ABOUT THE NATURE OF WILD THINGS, is due from Mammoth Books this year.
The story of a Livingston Parish Resident, Walker High School Graduate, and Former Decorated Special Forces Green Beret, Brett McMasters. Brett saw what occurred on 9/11 and made the decision to go fight for his Country. He did that and he did it well. Check out his story here. Recognition & Awards- Honored with the Bronze Star for actions during Iraqi Freedom hunting down the #3 Terrorist (Abu Saad) on Iraq's Most Wanted List- Earned an Army Commendation Medal with "Valor" device for saving the life of a NATO affiliated Iraqi female during the bombing of the United Nations building in Iraq in 2003. - Awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for serving in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.- Awarded the Joint Commendation Service Medal and NATO medal for serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. - Awarded 6 Army Commendation Medals, 9 Army Achievement Medals, 3 Army Good Conduct Medals, One Combat Action Badge, and the Special Forces Tab and Beret. - Earned Honor Graduate and Top Shot/Sniper Team at the Advanced Special Forces Qualification Course. - Selected to the Coveted Sergeant Audie Murphy Club as a Sergeant promotable. - Won NCO of the Year at Fort Polk, LA in 2006 competing against 12 of the best NCO's in the Fort Knox Installation.- Won NCO of the Year at Fort Polk, LA in 2006 competing against 20 of the best NCO's in the Fort Polk Installation.- Qualified Expert with M4 Carbine and M9/Glock Pistol; designated marksmen for the Company.
Ted Cruz chose to fly his daughters and their friends to Cancun attempting to "be a good dad", meanwhile Texans freezing. + South Carolina Gov. McMasters signs Fetal Heatbeat Act bill today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Interview with Maia Roffey In this episode, I interviewed Maia Roffey, Principal Designer, Founder, and Owner of Black Sheep Interior Design. I've known Maia for years and we've had many frank conversations about our businesses, our struggles, and our processes. So I brought Maia on the podcast to talk about all things money and how to find and work with the right trades. Maia’s formative years were spent in a home built by famed Canadian architect Ron Thom. Visits to properties in Toronto’s Forest Hill and Rosedale neighbourhoods, and trips further afield to the Laurentians and Barbados cemented her appreciation for elegant architecture and beautifully executed spaces. She graduated from McMasters' multi-disciplinary Arts & Science program in Hamilton Ontario, Maia took a brief detour into law school on the west coast before finding her niche in design. She graduated with honours from Ryerson’s School of Interior Design and completed her BCIN, LEED AP, and NCIDQ designations before founding Black Sheep Interior Design. She is also a dedicated volunteer and proudly combines her love of design and philanthropy as Chair of the annual Home for Life fundraiser for Eva’s Initiatives, a charity fighting youth homelessness in the GTA. One of the many things I love about Maia is how open she is about her business and the way she does things. She is all about collaboration and community! Through the podcast, we chat about how important it is to keep sharing our sources with each other in order for our own businesses to grow. Maia also shares how she creates budgets for projects, how she bills for a project, and the specific wording she uses to ensure clients don't push her around. Lastly, Maia and I chat about the one thing that often keeps designers up at night - TRADES! She tells us what she's done over the years to find and align herself with the right trades, and provides great tips on how you can build and foster good trade relationships. (The Unicorn Contractor may actually exist out there!) You can find Maia Roffey at www.blacksheepinteriordesign.com and on Instagram @blacksheepid. Click to download my Discovery Call Script & Start your client onboarding process!
Collin talks to the student body about choosing where you will spend your eternity.
Thanks for tuning in to the third episode of Philing The Gap, starring Phil Megenhardt, and his co-host Riley Yale. Our special guest this week is Andrew McMasters, an actor, director, teacher, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and creator of ImprovMindset, a communication, team building, and presentation support training company for business professionals. During the course of this episode, we dive into Andrew's background in the event industry, and what he's been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic to “Phil the Gap”. Check out Andrew at: www.ImprovMindset.com Instagram: @improvmindset Follow our IG: @philingthegap Check out our website: www.philingthegap.com Contact us: philingthegap@gmail.com
KJ McMasters is the Founder and President of Talent Solvers, which is a recruiting firm located out of Colorado! KJ has extensive experience in this industry, and truly has a passion for what he does not only for his clients, but the industry as well! Reach out to KJ on LinkedIn and check out their website! www.talentsolvers.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjmcmasters/
What was it like to live in the year of 1918, in the tail ends of World War I, while a pandemic was beginning to spread all over North America, England, and other European countries? How bad was the flu, and was anyone prepared for it? Professor Kandace Bogaert with her doctorate from McMasters and conducting post-doc research at Wilfred Laurier brings her expertise on the 1918 flu in this fascinating new episode. Follow Changemakers on instagram @maycooperproductions, and leave a review if you enjoyed it! Also, you can reach me at changemakerswithoutboders@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/may-cooper/message
Hour 3 of A&G features another constitutional crisis! Plus, AOC's threat, McMasters on China and a perfect encapsulation of the process of picking a Supreme Court justice. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Hjärt-kärlsjukdomar dödar flest per år. Kan en kombinationstablett om dan av mediciner för blodtryck och kolesterol till alla över 55 kunna förebygga infarkter och stroke? Allt om polypiller. I PolyIranstudien i Golestan har iranska forskare följt 6800 personer över 50 under 5 år och gett hälften ett polypiller med blodtryckssänkare, kolesterolsänkare och blodförtunnare plus livsstilsråd och andra hälften bara råden. Det blev 34 procent färre infarkter och stroke med polypiller. Men studien har fått kritik för brist på placebo och randomisering. Örjan Magnusson i Stockholm som fick en hjärtinfarkt 2015 skulle absolut kunna tänka sig att ta ett polypiller istället för de fem olika mediciner han tar idag. Men Peter M Nilsson som är professor i klinisk kardiovaskulär forskning vid Lunds Universitet tycker att det behövs en svensk studie innan pillren kan prövas i vården här. Till hösten ska en ny studie i ämnet bli färdig: Försöksledaren Salim Yusuf, professor vid McMasters universitet i Kanada, hoppas att de polypiller han testar i studien TIPS-3 med 5700 deltagare i nio länder, bland annat Indien, Filippinerna, Colombia, Kanada och Tanzania visar sig rädda liv. Programmet är en repris och sändes första gången den 6 februari i år. Programledare: Johan Bergendorff johan.bergendorff@sverigesradio.se Producent: Camilla Widebeck camilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.se
Hjärt-kärlsjukdomar dödar flest per år. Kan en kombinationstablett om dan av mediciner för blodtryck och kolesterol till alla över 55 kunna förebygga infarkter och stroke? Allt om polypiller. I PolyIranstudien i Golestan har iranska forskare följt 6800 personer över 50 under 5 år och gett hälften ett polypiller med blodtryckssänkare, kolesterolsänkare och blodförtunnare plus livsstilsråd och andra hälften bara råden. Det blev 34 procent färre infarkter och stroke med polypiller. Men studien har fått kritik för brist på placebo och randomisering. Örjan Magnusson i Stockholm som fick en hjärtinfarkt 2015 skulle absolut kunna tänka sig att ta ett polypiller istället för de fem olika mediciner han tar idag. Men Peter M Nilsson som är professor i klinisk kardiovaskulär forskning vid Lunds Universitet tycker att det behövs en svensk studie innan pillren kan prövas i vården här. Till hösten ska en ny studie i ämnet bli färdig: Försöksledaren Salim Yusuf, professor vid McMasters universitet i Kanada, hoppas att de polypiller han testar i studien TIPS-3 med 5700 deltagare i nio länder, bland annat Indien, Filippinerna, Colombia, Kanada och Tanzania visar sig rädda liv. Programledare: Johan Bergendorff johan.bergendorff@sverigesradio.se Producent: Camilla Widebeck camilla.widebeck@sverigesradio.se
Fishing Guide and fishing tips! Find out where you can see his fishing show. Sturgeon, Salmon, Bass and more! Ryan shares how to catch big fish.
"Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall" von Doug McMasters am 16.11.2019. Weitere Infos unter https://predigten.ebtc.org/sermon/index?id=593
"Trotz Schwierigkeiten das Richtige tun" von Doug McMasters am 09.11.2019. Weitere Infos unter https://predigten.ebtc.org/sermon/index?id=596
Talking about seasons with God. The good and the bad. Hear Victoria’s heart, and her struggles while trusting God as a college student, and learning to rely on Him while in the valley.
"Im Dienst beständig bleiben - Paulus letzte Worte an Timotheus - Teil 2" von Dough McMasters am 19.10.2019. Weitere Infos unter https://predigten.ebtc.org/sermon/index?id=581
"Im Dienst beständig bleiben - Paulus letzte Worte an Timotheus - Teil 1" von Dough McMasters am 12.10.2019. Weitere Infos unter https://predigten.ebtc.org/sermon/index?id=579
Team building is a popular practice in corporate America. But often the lessons learned are quickly forgotten as soon as people get back to their desks. Andrew McMasters has a unique approach. With his company, Improv Mindset, he uses improvisational acting techniques to foster better communication among teams. He makes clear that this isn’t about telling jokes or wearing funny costumes, as you might have seen with improv on TV.
After one last quote to prove there's no WAY this movie could be about Vietnam, we are swept into the action of the movie by Hawkeye finding his jeep and fixing his broken luggage. But what's this? An angry motor pool sergeant?! Tom Taylor is back to name our new character and learn some more trivia about Donald Sutherland.
Interview with Ryan McMasters. Ryan is a fishing guide and expert angler. Owner of Columbia River Hookers fishing school (Oregon), Ryan shares his vision of "River Therapy". Ryan hosted Outsider Tackle Box on our visit to Oregon! Thank you to Ordnance Brewing and Neighbor Dudes Tap House for sponsoring us.
On this episode Devlyn & Amalie sit down with writer Ryan McMasters. Topics discussed include his process for creating his art, overcoming life's challenges, and conquering your fears. You can check him out live Wednesday Nights @ Avant Garden for Write About Now Poetry and online @LaughLinesMcgee.
Cancer Grand Rounds Lectures from the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Podcasts
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Grand Rounds April 23, 2019 Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD Ben A. Reid, Sr., MD Professor and Chair The Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD Department of Surgery, University of Louisville
Interview with Ryan McMasters www.outsidertacklebox.com
Episode Overview In this episode, we are speaking with Andrew McMasters. Originally from Philadelphia, he's an actor who's been working in Seattle for over 30 years. He started Jet City Improv back in 1992 and left that company back in October 2017 after 25 years. For the last 10 years, he's been working with organizations– helping them improve communications, team cooperation, and innovation. He also works with sales teams on listening, accepting and building on offers to provide customers with solutions for the needs they have. In this episode, Andrew and I talk about the power of Improv in improving buyer and seller interactions. Specifically, Andrew highlights how to be a better listener, how to accept what the customer is offering, and then how to build upon their offerings. He then talks about how to bring your full self to a selling conversation. Episode Timestamps [1:27] Andrew's story on how he became focused on improv Started with practicing improv as a theatre actor: Taught classes to people in other lines of work who wanted to be more comfortable on stage. [3:37] Why should sellers use improv as a way to connect with their buyers? Listening: How we listen. The ways we listen. What we are listening for. Listen before you solve: Establishing that there is a connection first instead of jumping to a solution. Listening for building relationships. Listening for understanding. Listening for context. Letting the other person know that they've been heard. [4:51] How does listening change based on what you're listening for? Encapsulate what someone has said and then feed it back. Saying that “This is what I heard...is this correct?”: Letting the person know that they've been heard. Understanding the other person: Makes them know that they're included and a part of the process. Building the connection first. [7:35] Improv disciplines for sellers Accepting what someone else has said and then building on it. “Yes...and” Not being afraid to get off message. Game “3-legged dog”: Improv exercise. No matter what the question is, you can answer it in a way that you need to. What are we offering: What is the item, the piece, the process: Have them break it down into 3-5 words. [11:20] “Yes...and” further explained Stray from “Yes...but”: The minute someone has heard the “but” they negate everything said before it. Using the word “and” instead of “but”: Reframing that word for yourself can continue to keep energy moving forward which means you can accomplish more. [13:18] Example of Andrew successfully using improv Andrew was doing a series of workshops for outreach Did one on status: How you present yourself in a sales meeting Uses a deck of cards as metaphor for how you can represent yourself: An ace in your pocket. Using the card in your pocket as an external device. [16:20] Listening and objections The improv mindset: Ways that you can “yes, and” an objection. Everything that someone gives you is an offer. How you accept the offer as an individual. [17:24] Where can sellers go to learn more about improv? Always different places in the city that teach different classes on improv: Practices listening and more focused on getting on stage. Andrew holds workshops that he does with other organizations: More focused on what each individual is trying to accomplish. Andrew holds his own Ted Talks: Focuses on 3 topics: Accepting and building. Everything is an offer. Additional Resources Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn Andrew's Web site ImprovMindset Ted Talk featuring Andrew where he talks about story and "yes, and" Alan Alda's Book, "If I Understood You Would I Have This Look on My Face?" Jet City Improv drop-in Dojo sessions For More Great Content I would appreciate it if you would subscribe, rate, and review this show at Apple Podcasts. Here's a cool very short video that shows you how to do this. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and will help me promote the show to others who will benefit. Credits Sound editing and show notes produced by – ChirpSound
Christina and Filippo of Black Paw Marketing are shining examples of the millennial generation. They talk about their journey into entrepreneurship, what inspired them to start a social media marketing company and the challenges they face along the way. Filippo goes deep and discusses how he was faced with a decision, to help the family business or take a risk and veer away to follow a non-traditional route. They also talk about patience being a key to success, trusting in the process, being ok with failing and viewing failure as a necessary learning tool, and finding the right partners to compliment you. Evolve and become the person you want to be! Some amazing insights are revealed at the end so stick around! Teaser, “What is the ROI (for what you’re currently doing) in life?” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/erikecabral/support
Congress passive massive spending bill. Joe Biden says he would have beaten the hell out of Trump in high school. Urban Word of the Day. Mark Zuckerberg interviewed by CNN about Cambridge Analytica. Paul Limon, Arvada Labs, talks tech. Austin bomber left behind 25 minute confession. H.R. McMasters to resign and be replaced with John Bolton. What's Next: .NCAA Tournament.Sally Pipes,President of Pacific Research Institute/ Author The False Promise of Single Payer Health Care, talks about the possibility of single payer health care in the US. Say What?? The effect of fatherless homes on children. Video released of fatal Uber self driving car accident. Trump slammed for calling Putin to congratulate him on re-election. Opioids and pharmaceutical companies.
Jackie & Dunlap on Trump's Gun Meeting, Hope Hicks, Huckabee vs. the CMA, arming teachers, McMasters leaving, Trump vs. Sessions, China, Dick's, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Trump runs in, the NRA, Ben Carson's HUD Hutch. Sponsors: Dodge's Tater Log Store, Dogs For Jackies Oh and Patreon coming soon. "The Magic Cowboy" and "The Lonesomest Staples" courtesy Seth Timbs. Check out 20 Minutes by Quick and Dirty! Red State Update theme "Tasty Sorghum Biscuit" by William Sherry Jr. For more context on this incomprehensible nonsense, listen to the original episodes (listed below) or check out our Wikipedia page. Thanks, Guy Lancaster! Podcasting from Dunlap's Jackie's Market in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, grizzled hard-bitten hillbilly conservative Never-Trumper Jackie Broyles and high-as-hell beer-breathed half-hard layabout Never-Trumper Dunlap yell about President Ultimate Yankee Donald Trump and his baby tantrums and his alt-right Nazi cabinet henchmen, about Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller and Kellyanne and Spicey and Mooch and Gorka, about Chuck Shumer and Mitch McConnell and John McCain and Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Priebus and Putin, Russia and Ryan and Reagan, liberals and conservatives, cucks and con-men, Democrats and Republicans, Never-Trumpers and Bernie bros, Deplorables and RINOs, fake news, fake sponsors, local businesses, national politics, populism, pop culture, old TV shows, current events, the white working class, Trump's America and, let's be honest, the end of the world. If you like sophisticated satire, nuanced political humor, and redneck shitkicking hillbilly country comedy Hee-Haw moonshine outhouse Blue Collar donkey cartoon face, this is the podcast for you. I mean "y'all."
In many ways comedy is a great equalizer—a ubiquitous and nationally beloved form of entertainment. To give us some perspective on the meteoric rise of American comedy, Sam Wasson took the stage to discuss his book Improv Nation: How We Made A Great American Art, a richly reported, scene-driven narrative that moves fast and digs deep. Wasson tracked the origins of improv, from the experimental theater troupe Second City who set up shop in Chicago at the height of the McCarthy era, to Dan Aykroyd’s after-hours bar and home for icons like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner. Wasson was joined onstage by Jet City Improv Artistic Director Andrew McMasters. Together, they unpacked the evolution of improv comedy as an unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style and lead a conversation that took us through improv’s influence on landmark productions such as The Graduate, Caddyshack, and The Colbert Report. With signature verve and nuance, Wasson and McMasters offered their thoughts on why improv deserves to be considered the great American art form of the last half-century—and the most influential one today. Sam Wasson is a social historian of cinema and comedy whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and The Wall Street Journal. He’s served as a consultant for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA Film. He is the author of five books including Fosse (NPR’s book of the year), A Splurch in the Kisser, and the 2010 bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. Andrew McMasters founded Jet City Improv in 1992, and then incorporated as the 501c3 Wing-It Productions in 1996. He is the Artistic Director of Jet City Improv and corporate consultant for his own company ImprovMindset, as well as the executive producer of the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater.
SHOW NOTES EPISODE 122: “Models of Modern Major Generals” This Week Host Dave Bledsoe has information animal, vegetable and mineral which will be useful scrounging for food in the radioactive ashes of nuclear armageddon. On the show this week we take a look Trump's Modern Major Generals and wonder if they are too much of a good thing. (Someday, but not yet.) Along the way we discuss how the Guamanians must feel about trending on Twitter for reasons other than pissed off TaoTaoMonas. (Which are very real and not to be trifled with!) We examine the differences between the mindset of the various services of the Armed Forces. (Army, Navy, Marine: “Kill the bastards”. Air Force: “Does this hotel have room service?”) The dive into what it takes to BE a genuine modern major general. (A lot of fancy learning degrees from what we can tell.) On the Wayback we head to October 1962 where we have a Cuba Libre and discover that really, it is just a rum and coke. We also find out why it is a really good idea to NOT have General's making decision that could end the world. Our Sponsor this week Retired General Amos T Half Track offering real world advice on national security and hoping to catch Miss Buxley in the ladies room. We open the show Seven Days in May and close with Youtuber Davis Goff's brilliant take on Gilbert and Sullivan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rGpIlmYUo Citations Needed: He hates it when you call him Mad Dog, McMasters has more than a Masters, Lighten Up Francis, Not just a good idea also the law, You don't know Jack, We probably could handle this better. Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Soundcloud www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We see the fate of Sherman McMasters.
Doc and McMasters talk about what's next.
McMasters comments on Trump & more
Ms. Kristen McMasters Kristen McMasters holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in Anthropology, specializing in Public Service Archeology, from the University of South Carolina. Before coming to work for the National Park Service (NPS), she was the City Archeologist for the City of Baltimore, MD. McMasters has conducted archeological and historical research on prehistoric, industrial, 18th century landscapes, African-American and battlefield sites throughout the Eastern US. Currently, she is the Archeologist and Grants Manager of the NPS American Battlefield Protection Program, Washington, DC. McMasters routinely works on projects with local partners, local governments, tribes and nonprofits to steward battlefields throughout the country from the Virgin Islands to Saipan. We would love to get your feedback! Email HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! Tweet: I just listened to 15 Questions with an Archeologist! http://ctt.ec/fkV5f+ If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe! Ways to subscribe to 15 Questions with an Archeologist. Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS You can also subscribe via Stitcher Read more at SEAC
The founders of Jet City Improv joined us to talk about the imrpov and theater community. We were also joined by CSz players from Twin Cities and Spokane.
Before joining the team, Wesley Scott McMasters sat down with Red Flag Poetry to read his poem, 3 Haiku for October, and to talk poetry. Check it out here! Wesley Scott McMasters: 3 Haiku for OctoberFile Size: 642 kbFile Type: mp3Download File Wesley Scott McMasters: InterviewFile Size: 18560 kbFile Type: mp3Download File [...]
While countries like Japan, Italy and Germany begin to phase out their use of nuclear energy, the US aims to build the first new nuclear power plant in nearly thirty years. We hear excerpts from the film The Atomic States of America , which chronicles the rise of nuclear energy, the high price some communities have paid for it, and how the U.S. is pushing to redefine nuclear as green to meet our energy demand. Special thanks to Specialty Studios. Featuring: Kelly McMasters , author of Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town; David Lochbaum , nuclear engineer and senior member of Union of Concerned Scientists; Arnie Gunderson , nuclear engineer and former senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services; Christine Todd Whitman , co-chair of CASEnergy Coalition, former New Jersey governor and administrator for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency; Eric Epstein , chair of Three Mile Island Alert; Neil Sheehan , spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Paul Cataldo , NRC resident inspector for Indian Point Unit 3; Michelle Catts , NRC resident inspector for Indian Point Unit 2; Dr. Helen Caldicott , co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Randy and Lauren Snell ; Alec Baldwin, actor.
While countries like Japan, Italy and Germany begin to phase out their use of nuclear energy, the US aims to build the first new nuclear power plant in nearly thirty years. We hear excerpts from the film The Atomic States of America , which chronicles the rise of nuclear energy, the high price some communities have paid for it, and how the U.S. is pushing to redefine nuclear as green to meet our energy demand. Special thanks to Specialty Studios. Featuring: Kelly McMasters , author of Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town; David Lochbaum , nuclear engineer and senior member of Union of Concerned Scientists; Arnie Gunderson , nuclear engineer and former senior vice president of Nuclear Energy Services; Christine Todd Whitman , co-chair of CASEnergy Coalition, former New Jersey governor and administrator for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency; Eric Epstein , chair of Three Mile Island Alert; Neil Sheehan , spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Paul Cataldo , NRC resident inspector for Indian Point Unit 3; Michelle Catts , NRC resident inspector for Indian Point Unit 2; Dr. Helen Caldicott , co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Randy and Lauren Snell ; Alec Baldwin, actor.
"Wie ein Christlicher Diener sein soll" von Doug McMasters am 10.06.2012. Weitere Infos unter https://predigten.ecg.berlin/sermon/index?id=5839
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