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Sometimes, the hardest thing we'll ever do is face our own reflection and embrace who we truly are. Ginger Bliss takes us on a powerful journey of self-compassion, transformation, and breaking the cycle of self-doubt. She opens up about confronting buried pain, shifting from self-loathing to self-love, and discovering that true freedom comes from facing what scares us most. Through her story, we're reminded that pain is inevitable—but suffering in silence doesn't have to be. With wisdom, courage, and a heart full of hope, Ginger shows us that when we stop pretending and start reflecting, we unlock the path to a more authentic, fulfilling life. Key Takeaways: Avoiding pain doesn't make it disappear—it seeps into behaviors and relationships. Facing it head-on allows for healing and personal growth. Practicing self-compassion helps you embrace your worth, let go of perfectionism, and build deeper connections with others. Other people's words and actions are a reflection of them, not you. Releasing self-blame can bring more peace and confidence. Small, intentional steps like journaling, listening to inspiring content, or following uplifting voices can lead to powerful mindset shifts. Growth may change your relationships, but by living authentically, you'll attract the right people who support your journey.   About Ginger Bliss: Ginger L. Bliss is an accomplished executive leader with over two decades of experience developing staff and leaders, driving operational improvements, guiding strategic planning and business development within healthcare and corporate environments. With a proven track record in leadership, operations, marketing, communications, and organizational efficiency, Ginger has a unique ability to identify opportunities for growth, anticipate challenges, and develop solutions that enhance human behavior leading to increased engagement and satisfaction both personally and professionally, as well as organizational performance.  Ginger is also the author and publisher of Brave Enough To Be Bliss, a memoir that delves into the power of self-reflection in overcoming fear and control within relationships. She launched her book in 2024 at the BrainStorm Summit in Washington, D.C., where she spoke to grieving parents and physicians working to find a cure for terminal pediatric brain cancers DIPG and DMG. As the founder of GB Real Life & Leadership Strategies, Ginger provides tailored life and leadership coaching services that deliver strategic guidance and actionable plans with measurable outcomes. She works with adults of all ages, as well as emerging and executive leaders. Drawing on her deep and broad knowledge of human behavior, gained through years of professional experiences and personal healing, Ginger guides struggling humans and business leaders toward creating their own long-term fulfillment and success. Ginger's expertise extends to operational enhancements having spearheaded transformative projects such as facility expansions and greenfield development, joint ventures, partnerships and mergers, process optimization, and relationship management. She has also successfully overseen multimillion-dollar budgets, and streamlined a variety of individual and organizational processes, consistently improving efficiency, accuracy, and cost savings. Throughout her career, Ginger has held executive leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer at Midwest Aortic & Vascular Institute, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Carondelet Health, and Vice President of Marketing, Planning, and Business Development at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, among others. Her leadership in these organizations led to significant operational improvements, increased market share, and enhanced organizational performance. She maintains relationships with colleagues and vendors from every organization throughout her distinguished career because her primary concern and investment has always been with the people who cross her path.  Ginger earned a master's degree in health services management from Webster University and a bachelor's degree in journalism/mass communication from Kansas State University. She has been recognized for her leadership with inclusion in Ingram's Magazine 40 Under 40 Leaders and has actively contributed to many community organizations, including the serving as a board member for the HeadsUp Foundation for PCS, Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault, Spofford Home for Children, and the Leawood Chamber of Commerce. https://www.gingerbliss.life @ginger_l_bliss linkedin.com/in/gingerbliss   Connect with Dr. Michelle and Bayleigh at: https://smallchangesbigshifts.com hello@smallchangesbigshifts.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/smallchangesbigshifts https://www.facebook.com/SmallChangesBigShifts https://www.instagram.com/smallchangesbigshiftsco   Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! 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Content warning: gender-based violence, abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and rape. Alison Jones-Lockwood is a mother and victim advocate in Colorado. Her career in aiding survivors began years ago while she was in college, and continues to this day. Although her journey recently pivoted when she became Executive Director of the Rape Crisis Center for Northern Colorado, at the time of our recording she worked with EVAWI or End Violence Against Women International. The Broken Cycle Media team is grateful Alison was able to offer such a broad perspective of the advocacy arena, as well as a detailed account of what's coming next for EVAWI, as the organization works to change the criminal justice and legal landscapes for victims. Although the importance of advocacy work is always relevant, this conversation is especially timely considering October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Sources: How the Indy Star and Rachael Denhollander took down Larry Nassar. (2018, January 25). CNN; CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/us/larry-nassar-indy-star/index.html Investigative Journalist Digs Deeper to Tell Overlooked Stories. (2023, December 5). CSUNshine Today. https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/community/investigative-journalist-digs-deeper-to-tell-overlooked-stories/ Miller, T., & Armstrong, K. (2015, December 16). An Unbelievable Story of Rape. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story Resources: SAVA Center: https://www.savacenter.org/ End Violence Against Women International: https://evawintl.org/ Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault: https://mocsa.org/ For additional resources and a list of related non-profit organizations, please visit http://somethingwaswrong.com/resources 

AUSTIN, Texas - Valley Interfaith and other groups that make up the Industrial Areas Foundation in Texas are strongly opposed to tax giveaways to large corporations.In Austin, IAF is mobilizing opposition to House Bill 5, which supporters argue will boost economic development. In the attached audio interview, Rosalie Tristan and Joe Hinojosa, both organizers with Valley Interfaith, Joe Higgs from IAF, and Bob Fleming, an organizer with the Metropolitan Organization of Houston, say tax breaks for large corporations should not be paid for with monies that would otherwise go to public education. To read the new stories and watch the news videos of the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service go to www.riograndeguardian.com.

Season 1: It Takes A Podcast: Conversations on PSB with the Experts  Episode 6: Julie Donelon​ Jimmy Widdifield Jr. hosts a conversation with Julie Donelon, President and CEO of MOCSA (Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault) in Kansas City, Missouri. In this episode, Donelon talks about her background as a child abuse and neglect investigator and forensic interviewer and what the impetus was for her to identify and get children with PSB referred into the system. She discusses utilizing her existing relationships with community partners to develop an effective response once a child is referred and witnessing firsthand the overwhelming benefits to treating children with PSB and their families as opposed to adjudicating these cases in family courts. Donelson also talks about how a change in state statute changed the way these cases were reported and how agencies responded.  Julie Donelon, MSW, is the current President and CEO of the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) in Kansas City, Missouri. Donelon was instrumental in MOCSA obtaining a grant through OJJDP to provide education and training around PSB to mandated reporters, Child Protective Services, and MDTs throughout the state of Missouri. She has more than 20 years experience in the field of child abuse and sexual violence, including a background in social work and experience as a Forensic Interviewer at the Child Protection Center CAC in Kansas City.  Resources:   PSB Whitepaper: “Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior: Recommendations for the MDT and CAC Process” https://www.srcac.org/research-to-practice-resources/ MOCSA: https://www.mocsa.org/ Episode Transcript: https://www.srcac.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Julie-Donelon-transcript-final.docx Credits:  Music credits: "Airport Lounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This podcast is funded through a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components, operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this podcast (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). 

Lora McDonald, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Organization for Racial and Economic Equality (MORE2.org), talks with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves about MORE2, who they are, and what they are […] The post Lora McDonald discusses MORE2 and their work to improve local government, esp. law enforcement appeared first on KKFI.

Melissa Pepper has served as the Chief Development Officer of Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma since April 2017 when she was recruited to manage fund development, business and community relations and a $13.2 million dollar capital campaign to build a new urban STEM camp.  Prior to Girl Scouts, she worked for OETA Foundation as their Major Gifts Officer and Myriad Botanical Gardens as their Director of Festivals and Events.   Before moving to Oklahoma City in 2012, she was the Event Manager for The Kansas City Zoo.  A graduate of The University of Kansas, she earned a BS in Journalism and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.  She has been a long-time community volunteer in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma for organizations such as Head Start, Children's Mercy Hospital, Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault, and Ronald McDonald House, just to name a few.  Melissa was a member of Leadership OKC Class 37 and a proud mother of her five-year-old son, Jack. Please welcome Melissa to action city!           

This episode discusses the nature and purpose of leadership in organizing, how it is defined and understood, who are leaders, the difference between leaders and organizers, and what their respective roles are in the shared work of organizing. The understanding and practice of leadership in organizing is very different to that put forward in most leadership training programs, institutes, and business schools. It is counter cultural and embodies a deep wisdom about leadership that can be applied in many if not most institutional settings, particularly in congregational ones.GuestsElizabeth Valdez has nearly 40 years of organizing experience. Having begun her work as an organizer in El Paso on the US-Mexico border, she has since organized in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, and now Houston where she is the lead organizer of The Metropolitan Organization, the IAF affiliate there. She is a senior organizer with the West/SouthWest IAF and has pioneered work to address infrastructure, employment, housing, and medical needs in the region.Bishop Douglas Miles has over 50 years of experience combining congregational ministry with leadership in addressing community needs of one kind or another.  This work began with setting up the first homeless shelter with accommodations for women and their children in Baltimore in the early 1970s and has continued on with innovative initiatives to address addiction, educational needs, and starting an alternative juvenile sentencing program. He co-founded Baltimore's Interfaith Alliance and was a key leader in the development of BUILD, the IAF affiliate in Baltimore, of which he has twice been its Co-Chair.  And as a leader, he has trained many organizers. In his day job, he has built up and pastored large and thriving churches in Baltimore and Memphis.Resources for Going DeeperJeffrey Stout, “The Authority to Lead,” Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), Chapter 8; Noelle McAfee, “Relationship and Power: An Interview with Ernesto Cortes, Jr. (1993),” in People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky, eds. Aaron Schutz and Mike Miller (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015), 226-234; Marshall Ganz, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Workers Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), see especially pp. 3-21; Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos, “Developing Leaders from All Walks of Life,” Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (San Francisco: John Wiley & Son, 2007), Chapter Five. Includes an overview of leadership styles, a case study of developing a leader, and worksheets for organizers to use when training and developing leaders.

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED, or “situational prevention”) is an established criminological theory that has recently found a new life in sexual violence prevention. How can CPTED concepts be used to change the physical environment of an area to help prevent sexual violence? In this episode, we explore how a coalition in  Kansas City, Kansas is designing environments with the goal of preventing sexual assault. Listen as NSVRC’s Sally Laskey talks with Vanessa Crawford Aragon, Community Prevention Coordinator from the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault and Dr. Natabhona Mabachi, an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, about their goals, partners, and how the project is evolving during COVID-19.Want to learn more about creating protective environments? Listen to episode #10.For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

That's right everyone, its time for season 2 baby! I add a whole new feature to the podcast allows you all to interact with the show even more. I'm adding a phone number that you guys can call and leave messages and who knows maybe you'll get on the show! Also I sat down with Victoria Pickering, Director of Advocacy of the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) to highlight the services her organization provides. We also talk about the rise of publicized sexual violence over the last few years and how this has affected her work.

This week we will be interviewing Victoria Pickering from MOCSA, the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault.  MOCSA exists to improve the lives of those impacted by sexual assault and abuse and to […] The post Every Woman – 20180922 – MOCSA appeared first on KKFI.

Statistics show that one-in-six women will be raped or sexually assaulted in their life. On average, there are over 300,000 rape cases annually in the United States. A "rape kit" is one of the first steps a victim can take in helping authorities find justice in their case. Unfortunately, there have been over 225,000 untested rape kits discovered across the country, most recently nearly 5,000 found in Missouri. Victoria Pickering from the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault organization in Kansas City joins us to discuss the importance of the kits and how so many of them have been untested.

Welcome to the first episode of Stoppage Time, a new conversations series brought to you by Quit Your Pitchin' Podcast! Hartzell and Mike bring in leaders around the community to discuss a singular topic impacting our world as a whole. Our first guest is Kelcey from MOCSA, KC's local chapter of the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault

Filming The KCMOPD Can Get You Hurt Filming the police is legal, but that doesn’t protect you from abuse and arrest if you try. Today’s guest, JJ was trying to […] The post Filming The KCMOPD Can Get You Hurt; and The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault appeared first on KKFI.

Are collections ruining your life? Has what you once loved, now become clutter in your life? How do you know if you or a loved one has become a hoarder? How do you tell the difference between the two? What is chronic disorganization & how does that compare to collecting and hoarding? What's the difference between Hoarding vs. Collecting? Join Certified Professional Organizer-Chronic Disorganization expert Geralin Thomas of Metropolitan Organization as she discusses collections gone wild. About Clearing the Clutter Inside & Out Clutter is stuck stagnant energy and can prevent you from creating the life you choose, desire and deserve.  We discuss clutter in all its forms: spiritual, emotional, mental & physical and provide tips for clutter free living and how to organize your life.   We're thinking outside the box on areas where people might not realize where clutter is blocking them.  When we remove clutter from our lives we can discover our passions, lead the extraordinary lives we are all meant to live and share our gifts with the world.

Photo – www.dosomething.org Three Safe Havens For Women and Children In Distress This season is not one of joy and peace for everyone. On this edition of Jaws of Justice […] The post Three Safe Havens For Women and Children In Distress and MOCSA – The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault appeared first on KKFI.