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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 41:28

Few people have turned adversity into opportunity as dramatically as Kelly Brush.Brush was on the Middlebury College ski team when she was paralyzed in a ski racing accident in 2006. Twenty years later, Brush is a leader of a national movement to empower people with spinal cord injuries.“I'm so glad that I'm able to do that and support … thousands of other people that I don't even know and their families and create things that just feel a little bit better,” Brush told me.I asked Brush what enabled her to stay positive following her accident.“Whenever something happens in life, you have a choice on how you respond,” she replied. “Even when there's things that are really hard or really sad, you feel that, and then you make the choice to move you forward in a good direction.”Brush has mixed feelings about people calling her an inspiration. If “an understanding of who I am and what I've done creates inspiration, that's great. But not the inspiration that comes just because I exist and I'm in a wheelchair.”Brush is concerned about how people with disabilities are especially vulnerable to delays or cutbacks in health care. She has personal experience of this: she recently had to undergo major back surgery and had to seek care in an emergency room when her primary care provider couldn't see her for several weeks.“People with disabilities have greater health care needs,” she said. “When the health care system isn't set up well, we are then paying more for those greater needs. I see it time and again with complications that come from spinal cord injuries.”Brush, who recently turned 40, is the founder and spokesperson for the Kelly Brush Foundation, which grants about $1 million per year to people with spinal cord injuries to purchase adaptive sports equipment and maintain an active lifestyle. Its best known fundraiser is the annual Kelly Brush Ride, which draws nearly 1,000 bike riders and will take place this year on Sept. 12 in Middlebury. There are also Kelly Brush Rides in Park City, Utah, and the Bay Area.Brush is especially proud of the community that she and her foundation have helped build. “When I got hurt, I didn't know anybody else with a spinal cord injury,” she said. Now her foundation connects people with spinal cord injuries with one another. “There's something really different about being able to build community with people who are doing things similarly to you, as well as just the ability to feel seen and be seen by other people who are living a similar life to you outside of adaptive sports.”Brush lives in Charlotte with her two young daughters. She worked for 10 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner, but is taking a break from that to lead her foundation and look after her children.I asked Brush what she hopes people take away from her story.“To be excited about the fact that I've been able to live such a full life and continue to have all the same highs and lows that so many people have and I do it from my wheelchair,” she replied.“I definitely have some more struggles than others. But my life is awesome and really fun. I hope people can see that and see the beauty in life, no matter what comes up and what happens, and find and follow that.”

The Missing Ingredient of a Good Life with Lorraine Besser

Bountifull Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2026 62:15

We spend so much of our lives chasing happiness. But happiness naturally comes and goes, and it was never meant to be the only measure of a good life.In this episode, I sit down with philosopher Lorraine Besser to explore what happiness misses and why we also need meaning and psychological richness.Lorraine explains how novelty, complexity, curiosity and experiences that change our perspective can make life feel fuller, even when those experiences are difficult or uncomfortable.We also explore Lorraine's experience of reaching the milestones she had worked towards, only to realise how much of herself had been lost to achievement. She shares how she began reconnecting with adventure, spontaneity and the things that genuinely engaged her.This is a conversation about boredom, risk, resonance, regret and remembering who you are. Most importantly, it shows that a rich and interesting life does not require money, constant travel or dramatic reinvention. It can begin in ordinary moments by noticing more, asking better questions and paying attention to what sparks something within you.In this episode, we exploreWhat philosophers mean by “the good life”Why happiness is temporary and why that is not a problemThe pressure to feel happy all the timeHappiness, meaning and psychological richnessWhat novelty, complexity and challenge add to our livesWhy difficult experiences can still be valuableHow to make ordinary life more interestingBoredom as a signal that the mind wants to engageThe role of curiosity, risk and emotional discomfortHow achievement can crowd out other parts of ourselvesWhy resonance helps us recognise what is good for usThe importance of remembering who we areHow to create a richer family and everyday lifeWhy our greatest regrets often come from what we did not doChapters00:00 Why Happiness Isn't Enough02:14 Lorraine Besser and the Good Life07:41 What Is Psychological Richness?10:16 Happiness, Pleasure and Human Flourishing19:39 Why Happiness Naturally Fades28:41 The Missing Dimension of a Good Life35:06 How to Make Ordinary Life More Interesting44:06 Losing Yourself to Achievement50:10 Boredom, Curiosity and Resonance58:39 Regret, Risk and Living FullyGuest BioLorraine Besser is a philosopher, author and professor specialising in moral psychology, happiness and the philosophy of the good life. She is the Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and the author of The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It.lorrainebesser.com/A thought to leave you withYou do not need to feel happy all the time to be living well.A good life can be pleasurable and meaningful, but it can also be challenging, surprising, emotionally complicated and deeply interesting.We may not be able to control when happiness arrives, but we have far more control over whether we pay attention, follow our curiosity and allow life to change the way we see the world.About the Bountifull PodcastThe Bountifull Podcast explores the stories, ideas and experiences that shape a full and meaningful life.Each week, host Sian Simpson sits down with fascinating people from around the world to explore creativity, connection, curiosity, resilience and what it really means to live well.These are honest, thoughtful conversations designed to challenge the way you think, introduce you to new ideas and help you find more joy in everyday life.Follow the Bountifull Podcast and join us for a new conversation each week.bountifullworld.com/

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Ep 130: Environmental and cultural journalism & exploring storytelling from novels to film with Megan Mayhew Bergman

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 49:38

Professor Megan Mayhew Bergman is an award-winning fiction writer, conservation journalist, filmmaker, and cultural critic. She serves as Director of Creative Writing at Middlebury College and Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She is the author of four books and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere.See more of Megan's work here: https://www.mayhewbergman.com

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Emily Seidel: CEO Americans for Prosperity

MN CEOs You Should Know

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2026 19:07 Transcription Available

Emily was appointed as chief executive officer of Americans for Prosperity in 2017. As CEO, Emily drives the organization’s mission and strategy to build a permanent grassroots presence that educates and activates citizens to advocate for policies that will help people improve their lives. Emily has been a public policy advocate for the past decade, building policy coalitions of principled lawmakers to unleash opportunities for all Americans to pursue their dreams. Emily also served as the director of special projects at Koch Companies Public Sector, where she worked on a team to build some of the capabilities that make up the Stand Together community today. Emily has over two decades of experience in policy and politics. She spent 12 years serving the U.S. House of Representatives, working for various House Republican leaders in the Speaker’s office and at the House Republican Conference, including Vice President Mike Pence. Emily is a graduate of Middlebury College, with a focus on international politics and economics. Originally from Minnesota, Emily and her husband now live in suburban Virginia with their two children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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304: ¿Por qué no sabes estar solo/sola?

Supéralo Por Favor

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2026 33:50

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Is the iPhone the Most Effective Birth Control Ever Invented?

The Smerconish Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 30:04

America's birth rate has fallen dramatically over the past two decades—but why? Michael speaks with Middlebury College economist Caitlin Myers about her provocative research linking the rise of smartphones to declining fertility. Using the iPhone's early AT&T-exclusive rollout as a natural experiment, Myers argues that smartphones may have fundamentally changed how people socialize, date, and form relationships. The conversation explores loneliness, social media, pornography, and whether technology has reshaped modern life in ways nobody anticipated. Is the smartphone merely correlated with falling birth rates—or could it be a cause? Original air date 23 June 2026. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Citizenship & 14th Amendment with Prof. David Upham

James Wilson Institute Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2026 51:01

Our latest Anchoring Truths Podcast episode focuses on a new book Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment. Our guest is the author that book, David R. Upham. With the book, Professor Upham delivers a comprehensive account of the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. Drawing on a close textual analysis, Upham shows how the framers shaped the Amendment to secure the rights to life, liberty, and property for all through due process and equal protection, while reaffirming birthright citizenship for nearly everyone born on U.S. soil. He also recovers the Amendment's promise to protect core citizenship rights—including the freedoms to travel, engage in commerce, speak freely, bear arms, and live free from racial discrimination or civic exclusion. By recovering this originalmeaning, the book challenges later interpretations and offers fresh insights for today's constitutional debates.Professor David R. Upham is an Associate Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas, along with degrees from Middlebury College and Boston College.

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Who's Sorry Now? (Crime and Punishment, Part 2)

The Norton Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2026 29:53

In Part 2 of our discussion on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, translator Michael Katz returns to discuss the symbolic colors of the cover of the Norton Library edition, his first encounter with Dostoevsky's work and other Russian literature, and his favorite line from the novel. Michael R. Katz is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has translated over twenty Russian novels, including The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Children, and Notes from Underground.To learn more or purchase a copy of the Norton Library edition of Crime and Punishment, go to https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393427950. Learn more about the Norton Library series at https://wwnorton.com/norton-library.Have questions or suggestions for the podcast? Email us at nortonlibrary@wwnorton.com or find us on Twitter at @TNL_WWN and Bluesky at @nortonlibrary.bsky.social.

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RJ Adler / WheelPad

Start Here

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 38:23

“To be an entrepreneur, you have to be inherently lazy.” RJ Adler joins Start Here to give us the update on WheelPad, a manufacturer of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) based in Wilmington, Vermont. Aside from building ADU's for families around the country, RJ talks about his experience coming from a large family of entrepreneurs, his early ventures as a student at Middlebury College, and why WheelPad is choosing to grow in Vermont. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Are smartphones birth control? Economist Caitlin Myers on sex, abortion access and talking across divides

Human Capital Innovations (HCI) Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2026 46:27

The birth rate in the U.S. has dropped by an astonishing 22% since 2007. Are smartphones to blame?Yes, according to a groundbreaking new study by Middlebury economist Caitlin Myers. Her smartphone study is garnering national attention this week, confirming an idea that people have long speculated about but until now have lacked data. Myers and co-author Ezekiel Hooper showed that from 2007 to 2011, after the iPhone was introduced, there was a sharp decline in births, up to half of which can be attributed to the smartphone. They say that smartphones have led to “reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use, and reducing sexual frequency.”Myers says a declining birth rate is not necessarily bad, but that there are “many aspects of it that really concern me, aspects that relate to economic growth and supporting older generations, but also questions of what does this mean for humans.”“Everybody's just doom scrolling on their phone alone and isolated and not forming relationships.” Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is well known for her research into the effects of abortion policy on people's lives. She has testified in the U.S. Senate about the economic consequences of the 2022 Dobbs decision ending the constitutional right to abortion, and she spearheaded the amicus brief in the Dobbs case that was signed by over 150 economists, highlighting the negative impact of limiting abortion access. Myers also runs a national database of abortion providers.Myers said the Dobbs decision has resulted in about 30,000 additional births “concentrated among people who are younger, have less education and have really limited financial resources.”“The post-Dobbs era is an inequality story,” she told me. “There are parts of the country like ours where the Dobbs decision almost paradoxically expanded abortion access” due to increased availability of telehealth and medication by mail.But in states like Texas, Louisiana and West Virginia that have enacted near-total abortion bans, only 80% to 85% of people who want an abortion are getting one. That leaves up to one-fifth of people who want an abortion “trapped. They aren't finding the means, the information, the resources, the safety and security to travel long distances or to order pills through the mail, and they're giving birth as a result.”Myers grew up in rural West Virginia and Georgia. She empathizes with those who don't think like her. “As a Southerner it breaks my heart when I hear people dismiss the people I grew up with, the places I'm from, the beliefs that they have.”“We all know it's not just about dismissing far-away Southerners. There are divides within our own state.”Myers wonders “whether we could potentially bridge these divides rather than saying, ‘Yeah, I just don't think this is going to work out,' like we're never going to agree.” She wants to do her “tiny little part to create a world where we give each other more grace.”

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Today I Noticed: A Little Book of Mindfulness that Will Change the Way You See the World, with Deborah Huber and Willow Older

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2026 24:48

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Deborah Huber and Willow Older about their book, Today I Noticed: A Little Book of Mindfulness that Will Change the Way You See the World.Deborah has spent her career in creative and management positions in the tech industry, designing and managing the development of digital products. She holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. from Stanford University. Willow holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont and an M.A. from the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. Willow is an internationally published writer who runs her own editorial services business, including ghostwriting for executive leaders. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Quintessential Russian Novel (Crime and Punishment, Part 1)

The Norton Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2026 31:59

In Part 1 of our discussion on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, we welcome translator Michael Katz to discuss the effects of Dostoevsky's personal and family life on his writing, the "big questions of life" and morality woven into Dostoevsky's works, and the challenge of translating Dostoevsky's repetitive writing style. Michael R. Katz is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has translated over twenty Russian novels, including The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Children, and Notes from Underground.To learn more or purchase a copy of the Norton Library edition of Crime and Punishment, go to https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393427950. Learn more about the Norton Library series at https://wwnorton.com/norton-library.Have questions or suggestions for the podcast? Email us at nortonlibrary@wwnorton.com or find us on Twitter at @TNL_WWN and Bluesky at @nortonlibrary.bsky.social.

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Are twins really "in the water" in Sheldon? Brave Little State investigates

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2026 49:46

Vermont Edition went down the rabbit hole with a recent episode of Brave Little State to find out if there really are more twins per capita in the town of Sheldon — and if so, how it happened.Two sets of Vermont twins told us about going into business together. Leah Klatzker and Rachel Klatzker, co-owners of So Full Sisters, run two food trucks as well as a Middlebury College coffee stand. Circus artists Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion co-founded the nonprofit New England Center for Circus Arts and the creative circus production company Nimble Arts. They shared what it's been like to work together everywhere from the trapeze to the board room.Broadcast live on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.Have questions, comments or tips? Send us a message or check us out on Instagram.

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Tick talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2026 49:44

Tick season is upon us yet again, and tick bite-related emergency room visits in the Northeast are higher than normal right now. It's hard not to resent these disease-spreading arachnids. Ticks spread pathogens like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Powassan virus, and Lyme disease. We're joined by David Allen, an associate professor of biology at Middlebury College to talk about the different types of ticks in the region, the diseases they spread, how to prevent tick bites, and how he learned to embrace one of the most detested parts of the animal kingdom. But first; the chair of the education committee in Vermont's House of Representatives will not seek reelection this fall. Rep. Peter Conlon (D-Cornwall) has served in the state legislature for a decade. He's focused his efforts in the last few years on education reform and the ongoing school redistricting debate. He joins us to talk about his decision to step down and what he's learned from his time in the legislature.Broadcast live on Monday, May 18, 2026, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.Have questions, comments or tips? Send us a message or check us out on Instagram.

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148 - Oral Exams, Feedback Loops, and the Future of Assessment

The Grading Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2026 47:12 Transcription Available

In this episode, Sharona and Boz explore what assessment might look like in a world increasingly shaped by AI. Starting with a recent article from faculty at Middlebury College challenging institutions to recenter learning rather than ranking students, the conversation moves into a provocative discussion of oral exams, authentic assessment, and the growing limitations of traditional testing. The hosts unpack a history professor's experiment with 71 oral final exams in 12 days, reflecting on the power of conversation-based assessment to deepen feedback, strengthen trust, and reveal genuine student understanding in ways that written exams often cannot. Along the way, they connect these ideas to their own classroom experiences, the challenges AI poses for validating student work, and the need for assessments that emphasize creativity, revision, human interaction, and meaningful thinking over rote production. Ultimately, the episode argues that the future of grading reform may depend not only on changing how we grade, but on fundamentally reimagining how we assess learning itself. LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Recentering learning when we talk about gradesWhat I learned from giving 71 oral exams in 12 daysFinding Meaningful Moments in a MergerResourcesThe Center for Grading Reform - seeking to advance education in the United States by supporting effective grading reform at all levels through conferences, educational workshops, professional development, research and scholarship, influencing public policy, and community building.The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:The Grading for Growth BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia BlogRecommended Books on Alternative Grading:Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David ClarkSpecifications Grading, by Linda NilsenUndoing the Grade, by Jesse StommelFollow us on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram - @thegradingpod. To leave us a comment, please go to our website: www.thegradingpod.com and leave a comment on this episode's page.If you would like to be considered to be a guest on this show, please reach out using the Contact Us form on our website, www.thegradingpod.com.All content of this podcast and website are solely the opinions of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily represent the views of California State University Los Angeles or the Los Angeles Unified School District.MusicCountry Rock performed by Lite Saturation, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Shepherd, farmer and award-winning author Helen Whybrow on life, death and belonging

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2026 38:34

When Helen Whybrow isn't herding her flock of Icelandic sheep or in the paddock with a ewe that's giving birth to lambs, she can be found writing. This week, this shepherd was awarded Vermont's highest literary prize.Whybrow received the 2025 Vermont Book Award for creative nonfiction for her memoir, “The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life.” The book has also been long-listed for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker.“The Salt Stones” tells the story of tending sheep on a 200-acre farm that she and her husband, Peter Forbes, began restoring after acquiring it a quarter-century ago. Whybrow lyrically weaves a tale about the rhythms of life on the farm and how the lessons that she has learned there have informed every aspect of her life. The time span of the book juxtaposes one season of a sheep's life with 20 years of Whybrow's life, during which she gets married, has a daughter and cares for a mother with dementia.For Whybrow, farming has enabled her to fulfill her desire for belonging, which she says has preoccupied her for much of her life.“I've wrestled all my life with this tension between wanting to be a nomad and wanting to deeply root in a place,” she told me. “What I've come to understand here at Knoll Farm is that the more you participate in your place and your life, the deeper your sense of belonging becomes. It's not something you just step into that was ready made and you have to keep searching until you find it. It's something that you actually create by doing it on your own.”Whybrow grew up on a small farm in Plainfield, New Hampshire, the daughter of a physician and a social worker. She left home to attend Amherst College and travel the world, and landed back in New England to pursue a career as an editor for W.W. Norton, Orion Magazine and Milkweed Editions, the nonprofit independent press that published “The Salt Stones.” She is the author of two other books and editor of several anthologies and has been a visiting professor at Middlebury College. She and her husband run Knoll Farm in Fayston, an organic farm and home to purebred Icelandic sheep, and also a retreat center for social and environmental justice.Whybrow concedes that farming is “a blessing and a curse,” with many farmers struggling to survive and Knoll Farm itself constantly scrapping to make ends meet. But she said, “There's also something incredibly beautiful and rich about staying in one place. And like Richard Nelson says in one of my favorite books, ‘The Island Within,' ‘There's more to be learned from climbing the same mountain 1000 times than 1000 different mountains.'”Whybrow's life as a shepherd helped her deal with the grief of losing her mother. “When you're a sheep farmer, you lose a lot of animals,” she said. It helped her see death “as just part of the cycle and part of the seasonal turn.”“Having gone through that for so many years helped me let go of my mom and realize she's still there. She's kind of everywhere.”Whybrow concludes “The Salt Stones” by musing, “You don't have to become a sheep farmer to cultivate shepherd's mind, which is about finding a way to listen, to tend, and to immerse in the living world.”

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#478 When Hard Things Happen, Culture Matters the Most with Erin Quinn, Middlebury College Athletic Director

Way of Champions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2026 78:18

This week we welcome back Erin Quinn to the podcast. Quinn has spent the last twenty years as the athletic director at Middlebury College in Vermont, being recognized as the National AD of the Year in 2021. Under his tenure, his teams have won 19 NCAA championships, 69 NESCAC conference championships, and 29 Middlebury athletes have won individual NCAA championships. Prior to becoming athletic director, Quinn served as the head men's lacrosse coach at Middlebury, winning three NCAA national titles and six NESCAC championships. What we love most about him, though, is that he is known as "A.D. for the Coaches." Quinn knows how important it is to pour into your people and get away from the transactional nature of sports and turn it into a transformational one. He is a huge fan of inside-out leadership with self-awareness and self-regulation at the core of being a successful coach. As you will see in our conversation today, Quinn is the type of leader that everyone would love to work for and the type of coach that we all wish our children would have the opportunity to play under. BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT THE RELEASE OF OUR NEW BOOK Captain: The Athlete's Guide to Being an Exceptional Team Leader, due out in May 2026. Please fill out this quick Google form and you will be notified when discounted book pre-orders are available. We are constantly asked "where have all the leaders gone?" Now more than ever, it is up to schools, clubs and coaches to develop our leaders, and this new book is a perfect guide to train and develop them. It is filled with stories of champion team captains on the professional and college level, Hall of Fame coaches, and more, and is a masterclass on leadership. It will help your athletes understand the qualities needed to lead, the responsibilities they must accept, and the most common challenges they will face. The chapters are short and sweet and have discussion questions so that your leaders can work through them together and set your team up for great success. BOOK A SPEAKER: Interested in having John or one of our speaking team present to your school, club or coaching event, either in person or virtually? Looking for leadership training for your student athletes, a coach development workshop or parent education? We are still booking Fall 2026 events, please email us to set up an introductory call John@ChangingTheGameProject.com PUT IN YOUR BULK BOOK ORDERS FOR OUR BESTSELLING BOOKS, AND JOIN 2025 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS FROM SYRACUSE MENS LAX, UNC AND NAVY WOMENS LAX, AND MCLAREN F1! These are just the most recent championship teams using THE CHAMPION TEAMMATE book with their athletes and support teams. Many of these coaches are also getting THE CHAMPION SPORTS PARENT so their team parents can be part of a successful culture. Schools and clubs are using EVERY MOMENT MATTERS for staff development and book clubs. Are you? We have been fulfilling numerous bulk orders for some of the top high school and collegiate sports programs in the country, will your team be next? Click here to visit John's author page on Amazon Click here to visit Jerry's author page on Amazon Please email John@ChangingTheGameProject.com if you want discounted pricing on 10 or more books on any of our books. Thanks everyone. This weeks podcast is brought to you by our newest sponsor, Zone 14 Coaching. Zone 14 Coaching is a company built by coaches for coaches. If you have ever ended a session thinking, "Did that practice really hit the mark?" you will love what they have created. Zone 14's next-gen journals for coaches and players help you plan every practice, reflect on what worked and track progress all season long. Built on intentional coaching and backed by neuroscience, they bring structure and purpose to your training. Visit zone14coaching.com and use code Champions20 for 20% off. Or if you want to outfit your whole team or club and improve consistency across coaches, you can get in touch with Zone 14 via their website to discuss bulk discounts. This week's podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports. Sprocket Sports is a software platform for youth sports clubs. Yeah, there are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites, communication tools and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams. Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs. So if you've been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG. 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If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will be granted a Premium Changing the Game Project Membership, where you will have access to every course, interview and blog post we have created organized by topic from coaches to parents to athletes. Thank you for all your support these past eight years, and a special big thank you to all of you who become part of our inner circle, our patrons, who will enable us to take our podcast to the next level. https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions

"Fossils Against Fossil Fuels: Bill McKibben on Why Seniors Are Climate's Secret Weapon"

Specifically for Seniors

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2026 31:29

Specifically for Seniors • Guest: Bill McKibbenAbout the GuestBill McKibben is a journalist, author of 20+ books, and professor at Middlebury College. He wrote the first major book on climate change in the 1980s and founded 350.org — the world's first global grassroots climate campaign — and Third Act, an organization mobilizing Americans over 60 on climate and democracy.Episode SummaryMcKibben joins host Dr. Larry Barsh to argue that cheap solar and wind power represent the most powerful climate tool humanity has ever had — and that older Americans are uniquely positioned to lead the fight.The Solar Revolution. About five years ago, solar and wind became cheaper than fossil fuels. China now installs 3 gigawatts of solar daily — one coal plant's worth every eight hours. California regularly generates 100%+ of its electricity from renewables, with batteries storing the surplus. Every tenth of a degree of warming we prevent matters: each pushes 100 million people from safe to dangerous climate zones.Sunlight vs. Oil. "Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach Earth — none of them through the Strait of Hormuz." Oil is the truly intermittent energy source. A handful of drones can shut down global supply. Nobody can embargo the sun.Batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are recyclable. The total minerals needed for the renewable battery revolution through mid-century are less in volume than one year's global coal mining. Lithium lasts 25 years and can be reused. Coal gets burned once and requires constant replacement.Health Costs. Fossil fuels cause roughly 9 million deaths per year worldwide — 1 in 5 deaths globally. Canada's 2023 wildfires, driven by climate change, caused 80,000 US deaths from smoke inhalation alone. Home insurance costs are skyrocketing as climate risk makes underwriting nearly impossible.Third Act & Senior Power. With 120,000 members nationwide, Third Act is proving seniors are a political force. Recent wins: legalized plug-in balcony solar in Utah, Virginia, and Maine; won a clean-energy majority on Arizona's Salt River Project board (serving 2M people); launched Gray PAC and phone banks for key elections. The "Rocking Chair Rebellion" shut down big-bank branches in 100 cities to protest fossil fuel financing.America's Self-Sabotage. The first solar cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1956. The first industrial wind turbine was built in Vermont in 1943. These American technologies have been handed to China while the US rolls back clean energy policy — what McKibben calls "economic national self-sabotage" without precedent.Legacy. "We're in danger of being the first generation that left the world a lot worse off than we found it." Young people aren't just anxious about climate — they're anxious about being abandoned. McKibben's call: use the time, skills, and political power that come with age to organize, vote, and fight.Key Quotes"There is no known way to stop old people from voting. We come preloaded with real power."— Bill McKibben"Solar energy takes power away from billionaires. That makes it ipso facto good."— Bill McKibben"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach Earth — none of them through the Strait of Hormuz."— Bill McKibben"There is no known way to stop old people from voting. We come preloaded with real power."— Bill McKibben"We live in a world where billionaires have too much power. Things that take power and money away from billionaires are ipso facto good — and solar energy is one of them."— Bill McKibben"We're in danger of being the first generation that left the world a lot worse off than we found it — which we do not want to do."— Bill McKibbenResourcethirdact.org350.orgBook: Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibbenSpecifically for Seniors Podcast • Follow or subscribe wherever you listen

Episode 5 of the Odd Couple: Making Maps with Claude Code!

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2026 51:55

Me and Caitlin Myers are back with our trusted robot command line interface secret agent with a license to kill, Claude Code! This week we continue our live research project studying the closure of abortion clinics across Texas under House Bill 2 and its effect on county marriage certificates, or the flow of new marriages. In the previous weeks, recall Claude Code helped find, pull, store locally marriage certificates — with people's names and selected demographics for goodness sake! — and then build a panel dataset. But Claude also helped us try to understand what was going on with these date when some irregularities were spotted. And to satisfy by seemingly endless itch, Claude also made us “beautiful decks” according to my rhetoric of decks philosophy at my MixtapeTools repository that contains skills I regularly use. And the deck had beautiful pictures in it. This week we extend that exercise and make maps of Texas with more data as we continue pressing ahead to determine the relationship, potentially causal, of increased travel distance on the flow of people into marriage. Thanks again for tuning in. Tell your friends, family, your old second grade teacher, Ms. Lacy, your barista, the kids next door who sometimes play their music too loud about this amazing podcast with Caitlin Myers at Middlebury College, and me, Scott Cunningham, at Baylor University.Scott's Mixtape Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

Vermont's landmark case

The Frequency: Daily Vermont News

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2026 10:09

In today's episode, an update to telehealth services; recognition for Middlebury College's student newspaper; the ever-popular topic of taxes; and Vermont defends its landmark climate superfund law.

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Can We Un-Isolate Ourselves?

Aspen Ideas to Go

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2026 52:44

Societal changes and world events have converged to create our current loneliness epidemic. Despite being in constant contact in some ways, we've become extremely isolated in others. But by taking thoughtful action, we might be able to reverse that trend. Today's talk from the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival brings together experts approaching this problem from vastly different perspectives. Marc Dunkelman is a fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University, Virginia Thomas is a psychology professor studying solitude at Middlebury College, and Michael Maltzan is an architect adept at designing public spaces. As the three panelists weave their disciplines together and formulate a vision for a more connected world, journalist and host of “Radio Atlantic,” Hanna Rosin, moderates the conversation.

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The DARK Magic Hidden in Mayan Hieroglyphs

Camp Gagnon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2026 164:07

Dr. James Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College, joins us today to talk about various aspects of Mayan life. From mysterious hieroglyphs and ancient technology to their rituals, previous rulers, lost cities, and other fascinating topics...WELCOME TO CAMP!

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The Odd Couple Episode 4: Introducing Hannah

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2026 32:48

If the concept of a podcast where two economists use Claude Code to do research together sounds absurd, well, you would not be wrong. But that has not stopped Caitlin Myers and I from doing it. This podcast is about the two of us using Claude Code to do a research project together on abortion clinic closures and the effect it had on marriage using a Texas natural experiment called House Bill 2, and county level marriage data we collected with Claude in an earlier episode. Some of you had asked to see the “beautiful deck” that Claude made for us last week and so here it is!And here is the YouTube video if you're wanting to watch us and meet Hannah.The age of AI has shifted things somewhat for researchers where we have to bring in verification of what we do sooner and often. Figuring out how, when and where to do that is something me and Caitlin, as well as most listeners, are trying to figure out too. Caitlin had the idea of embodying our own verification methods with a real live human being — a former student of hers, Hannah Sayre, a recent graduate of Middlebury College. In this episode, we meet Hannah, talk with her and hear about her own story and journey as a young person aspiring to a PhD in economics, and how what her job will be on this project to confirm what we are doing with Claude Code.Plus a little easter egg if you skip ahead is in the video because Caitlin is going to tell us about her new job!Thanks again for your listener and viewer support! This podcast, just like the substack, is a labor of love. So sit back and enjoy!Scott's Mixtape Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

When Climate Catastrophe Changes Everything: A Literary Sci-Fi Journey Through Deep Time with Author Tim Weed

Online For Authors Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 24:02

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Tim Weed, author of the book The Afterlife Project. Tim Weed is the author of four books of fiction. His recent novel, The Afterlife Project, was named a best book of 2025 by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. He's won multiple Writer's Digest Annual Fiction Awards and his work has been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, the Fish International Short Story Award, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Writers Digest, Literary Hub, The Revelator, The Millions, The Writer's Chronicle, Talking Points Memo, The Good Men Project, and elsewhere. Tim serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program. A former featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions, he spent the first part of his career directing international educational programs throughout Latin America and in Spain, Portugal, Australia, Iceland, and other locations around the globe. He holds a BA in Spanish from Middlebury College, a master's in international affairs from the University of California, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. He occasionally leads international travel programs and appears often at writing conferences and other events in the U.S. and abroad. In my book review, I stated The Afterlife Project is a dystopian science fiction by Tim Weed. I can honestly say I am shocked by how much I enjoyed this book. I tend not to like science fiction or dystopian literature. However, this one had me from moment one. Why? The characters! We get into the head of Nick, a microbiologist, who is now 10,000 years into the future due to the cataclysmic climate issues caused by humans. We also follow the last remaining members of the Centauri crew in 2068 - tasked with trying to save the species through a journal kept by Alejandra. We skip back and forth between the two time periods, always wondering if the human race survives. Tim did an amazing job describing a world 10,000 years after it's destruction by humans - as well as what it would be like to live in a climate crisis - all without being preachy. He manages this by letting us see the world through the imperfect eyes of the characters. They make mistakes. They trust the wrong people. They believe in miracles that aren't likely to happen. They do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Just like you and just like me. I couldn't put this book down and have already recommended it to several friends. It's a must-read! Subscribe to Online for Authors to learn about more great books! https://www.youtube.com/@onlineforauthors?sub_confirmation=1 You can follow Author Tim Weed Website: https://timweed.net/ IG: @timweedwriter FB: @timweedauthor LinkedIn: @Tim Weed Purchase The Afterlife Project on Amazon: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3OehfPL Ebook: https://amzn.to/49POn91 Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor IG: @terimbrown_author X: @terimbrown1 Want to be a guest on Online for Authors? Send Teri M Brown a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/onlineforauthors #timweed #theafterlifeproject #sciencefiction #dystopian #terimbrownauthor #authorpodcast #onlineforauthors #characterdriven #researchjunkie #awardwinningauthor #podcasthost #podcast #readerpodcast #bookpodcast #writerpodcast #author #books #goodreads #bookclub #fiction #writer #bookreview *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

417: Graduate Programs for English Teachers (Help to Launch your Search)

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | Education

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 12:34

I loved the Bread Loaf School of English program at Middlebury College. It's a unique summer program leading to a Masters in English, catering almost entirely to English teachers. So the class conversations are literary, but somehow it's all infused with teaching ideas, since it's almost all teachers in every room. Through this program, I spent two summers in Vermont, two in Santa Fe, and one in Oxford. I'd be happy to talk about it here, in today's episode on masters programs, but I already shared a complete review, from my perspective, of The Bread Loaf School back in episode 223, so I'm going to direct you over to that episode if you're looking for a masters in English right now that you can do in person while you teach. But then there's the other option for an English teacher - a masters in the field of education. There are soooo many possibilities that it's a bit hard to know where to start. So here I'm going to round up some top candidates that I considered when I recently decided to go back and get a second masters. They all appeal in different ways. In the blog post, I'll let you know the name of the program, the format, the length, the description as given on the program website, and the current deadline to apply that they have listed for the nine programs I considered. In the podcast version, I'm going to zoom in on my personal top candidates. I'll also share links in this blog post and the podcast show notes to the many ongoing conversations on masters programs always taking place in Creative High School English, and to the U.S. News and World Report Rankings for top programs. All the Links! The Masters in Teaching & Curriculum at Michigan State University (all online): https://online.msu.edu/programs/teaching-curriculum The Master of Arts in Education from Arizona State University (all online): https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/graduate/masters-in-education/ Learning Design, Innovation and Technology Program (in person): At Harvard: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/degrees/masters/program/ldit At Stanford: https://ed.stanford.edu/ldt Interested in a Masters in ENGLISH? To learn about a summer in-person program for teachers that I did and loved, check out Episode 223: The Bread Loaf School of English Want to read the most current conversations about masters programs in Creative High School English? Here they are: https://www.facebook.com/groups/256927044749038/search/?q=masters%20program The U.S. News and World Report ranking for best programs in Curriculum & Instruction: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-education-schools/curriculum-instruction-rankings The U.S. News and World Report ranking for best programs in Secondary Instruction: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-education-schools/secondary-teacher-education-rankings Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Grab the free Better Discussions toolkit Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram. Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the 'gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the show. Thank you!

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The Odd Couple Season 5, Episode 2: Setting it up and getting the data

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 56:56

In this week's episode of the Mixtape with Scott season 5, "The Odd Couple" Scott Cunningham (Professor of Economics at Baylor) and Catilin Myers (Professor of Economics at Middlebury College) set out to use Claude Code to get the data for their project studying travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic's effect on marriages in Texas after House Bill 2 shut down half the state's clinics. As they do, they talk about their project, the trappings of having a third party robot as a colleague and RA on this project done on the air, and articulate aloud the prompts as they do them!Thanks again for all your support! This substack and the podcast are labors of love. Please consider becoming a subscriber at only $5/month! Scott's Mixtape Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

Books & Writers · The Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2026 49:36

Have we forgotten how to truly participate in the natural world? What can the ancient practice of shepherding teach us about ecological healing? How does physical labor connect us to the land, memory and belonging?In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu speaks with Helen Whybrow about her book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life. Besides being a detailed account of the day to day, season by season life on her farm, where she and her family raise sheep, build a broad community, and maintain Knoll Farm, a center for activists, writers, artists and others to share ideas on how to promote healthier and more just ways of living together and in the environment, The Salt Stones is at base about the ways we are losing a sense of belonging, not only with others and with other forms of life on this planet, but also with the cycles of existence, of life and of death. Whybrow shows time and again that it is mostly a matter of developing ways of seeing and noticing what is all around us, and learning about and respecting the ways that generations of people and non-human animals have existed together in sustainable and mutually-dependent ways.Helen Whybrow is a writer, editor and organic farmer whose book about shepherding, land and belonging, The Salt Stones, was longlisted for the National Book Award and chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2025. Her other titles include Dead Reckoning (W. W. Norton, 2001) and A Man Apart (Chelsea Green, 2015). She has a master's in journalism and has taught writing at Middlebury College and the Breadloaf Environmental Writer's Conference. She and her family farm and steward a refuge for land justice at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont.(0:00) The Salt Stones(2:50) A Lifelong Love of Land and Language(6:50) The Cord: A Story of Lambing and Life(13:40) Literary Influences and Jean Giono(18:15) The Erased Work of Nature(20:30) Radical Intimacy and Participation(23:45) Measuring Diminishment and Listening to Nature(25:15) Lita the Ewe and Complex Ecosystems(29:17) Kulning: The Lost Art of Herding Songs(32:15) Embodied Memory and Physical Labor(37:45) The True Meaning of Belonging(43:30) Radical Hospitality at Noel Farm(46:15) Closing Thoughts on Kinship Episode Websitewww.palumbo-liu.comhttps://speakingoutofplace.comBluesky @palumboliu.bsky.socialInstagram @speaking_out_of_place

The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers) Season 5: Episode 1 of The Odd Couple!

The Oregon Wine History Archive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2026 53:07

The Odd CoupleThe Mixtape with Scott is back. Season 5. Season 5 of the Mixtape with Scott is going to be different, and fun, and different, and creative! It'll be called The Odd Couple. And it'll be called “The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers)”. It'll have different naming conventions until Caitlin pick one we like! Let me tell you all about it.I started the podcast around four years ago as a way of creating an oral history of economics while also tracing out the history of the credibility revolution through Orley Ashenfelter, his students, and the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton. I tacked on a bunch of other things too along the way like “the students of Gary Becker” and “economist in the tech industry”, as well as any number of eddies I wanted to swim in along the way. And after 130 interviews, I more or less felt like I had tapped my creativity out. I largely came to understand the evolution of causal inference a particular way, which I wrote up across several substacks, as well as added throughout my new book, Causal Inference: the Remix (proofs came to me today in fact). It was very rewarding. Maybe one day I'll write up the interviews as a book (even Claude Code cannot yet do that), but for now, I'm just ready to move on, as 130 interviews is a lot.But move on to what? Well, that's what I want to tell you about now. Today's episode is the first episode in a season I'm calling “The Odd Couple” featuring the brilliant economist, Caitlin Myers. And the concept is simple:Caitlin Myers and me will start a research project together which is only performed on the podcast. And we will use Claude Code to do this project on the air. While doing it, we will talk and laugh and share our thoughts about what we are doing. Think of Bob Ross talking while he paints trees. Only instead of trees, it's estimated dosage parameters of abortion clinic closures' effect on marriage using continuous diff-in-diff. And instead of a brush, we are using Claude Code who is using R, python and Stata. But other than those trivial details, it is exactly like Bob Ross, or maybe the View. The Odd Couple featuring Caitlin Myers, Scott Cunningham and Claude CodeCaitlin Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College in beautiful Vermont. And she is, at the time of this writing, arguably one of the leading economists working on reproductive policy in the United States, maybe the world. She's been published a lot on the topic for a very long time, including this article in the Journal of Political Economy, our JHR on abortion clinic closures, and numerous others. You can find it all at her slick website. She's also been a contributor to the public good by creating public data repositories. She built this dashboard. She knows where every clinic opened and closed and when, going back decades. She's meticulously described each and every relevant law regulating abortion access. If you've read a paper in the last ten years about abortion services, there's a good chance a design by Caitlin, or data she helped curate and distribute, was somehow connected to it. Her influence in this space has been massive.But in addition to being great, she's also funny, thoughtful, and thinks really well on her feet. Which is one of the reasons I thought it would be great to have her as my research partner and conversation partner on the podcast. Because I think if this concept is going to work, a lot of planets have to align, and I had been thinking for a very long time that if there was such a square peg to fit a square hole, it would be her.I would say that Caitlin and I are right at that sweet spot of professional acquaintances bordering on friends. That's the type of person who you make a point to find when you are at a conference and get a drink with even if you aren't at that moment writing a paper together. It's that person who you shared a little about your private life with when you were on a car ride together to the airport. It's that person who you text memes of Beyonce giving out high fives for no good reason. It's that person you want to send a note to in class saying “Will you be my friend? Circle yes or no”. No one does this on the airSo the idea of this podcast is that she and I are going to extend an old study of ours with Jason Lindo and Andrea Schlosser published in the Journal of Human Resources called “How Far Is Too Far?” It studied what happened when Texas passed HB2 in 2013 and nearly half the state's abortion clinics closed overnight. We used the sudden, geographically uneven changes in driving distance to the nearest clinic to estimate the causal effect of access on abortion rates. The punchline was that distance matters, the effects are non-linear, and congestion at the surviving clinics matters too.But what we want to do is extend the research design in a couple of ways. First, we want to study the effect that the abortion clinic closures had on marriage. While Caitlin has studied the effect of abortion access on marriages, no one has look at the clinic closures on marriage using, more specifically, the “travel distance design” as I call it. Secondly, we are going to be learning how to estimate treatment effect parameters, as well as what those estimands even mean, using the new conditionally accepted (at the AER — woo hoo fellas!) continuous diff-in-diff estimator by Callaway, Goodman-Bacon and Sant'Anna estimator. This estimator already has over a thousand cites and it's only just now conditionally accepted — it's not even really really accepted. It's like the AER is saying it likes you, but does it really really like you? Not until it's accepted you does the AER really really like you. Right now it's a conditional accept which is more like a situationship. Anyway, I'm rooting that these two get hitched, and so we're going to be using their estimator with this travel distance design to estimate a bunch of estimands that we're going to learn about together. So that's fun.The AI angleAnd then third, and maybe the goofiest of all — Claude Code. We are going to do all of this using Claude Code. The hope being that we can wrap our hands around just how to use this thing to do good, and not evil. And I think this is the funnest (most fun?) part because Caitlin is probably the more pessimistic towards AI, whereas I am the most optimistic, which on average means we are aloof to AI. And Claude is probably going to sometimes agree with me, sometimes with Caitlin, and sometimes just want to say we all have a great point. Anyhow, we are going to be doing this project together using Claude Code so that listeners and viewers can better see how we use Claude Code for practical empirical research, and how we go about trying to get it to not jump the electric fence, or if it does, not cause mayhem. But as I said, Caitlin and I have very different priors on this. I'm the AI optimist and she's the AI skeptic. While we have both been using Claude Code for months, and we've both seen what it can do, and we both agree we're in the early innings of something that fundamentally changes how research gets done, I think we both have fundamental opinions and concerns that sometimes overlap with each other and other times don't. But she is, I think like me, curious to a fault. She wouldn't be doing this if she weren't — but she thinks AI is, in her words, an existential threat to humanity. And she is not being dramatic. She means it. And that's not an uncommon worry among people, nor is it an uncommon position to take that people simultaneously are angry or upset about AI and want to better understand Claude Code's utility for practical empirical research. That's just the times that we are in that both of those can be true at the same time for the same person. She's the person at the table asking the hard questions about what happens when these tools get good enough that the verification problem becomes the only problem.So you have one person who thinks this is going to be incredible and one person who thinks it might end civilization, and we're both using the same tool to do the same project. That tension is real, it's productive, and it's part of what you'll hear.And here's the thing about podcasting with Claude Code running in the background: there's a lot of time while it's working. It's reading files, writing scripts, compiling things, running pipelines. And during that time, Caitlin and I are talking. About AI, about science, about what we're seeing in real time on the screen, about the project, about whether what just happened was impressive or terrifying or both, or just about life, about the meaning of being a researcher, about our worries and hopes and where, and so on. And we are joking around and bantering. It's like The View if The View had two economists staring at a terminal.What to expectEpisodes will drop as we work through the project. Some will be data work — the kind of session where we're elbow-deep in county FIPS codes and file format inconsistencies. Some will be methodological — working through the continuous diff-in-diff framework, figuring out what the identifying assumptions actually require. Some will be the conversations that happen in between — about AI, about the future of empirical research, about what it means to do science in public.I don't know how many episodes this will be. I don't know what we'll find. I don't know if the marriage result will be a null or something real or something we can't interpret. As they say in therapy, it's about the journey not the destination! This podcast is about the journey, which is to say it's about the joy researchers get from doing research, not necessarily from completing it. And it's a podcast of two people talking while they do it.The Mixtape with Scott is back. Season 5. The Odd Couple. Featuring Caitlin Myers. We're making the sausage, and you're invited to watchScott's Mixtape Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

Boone McCoy-Crisp: Oral History Interview

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 145:34

This interview is with Boone McCoy-Crisp of Lumos Wine. In this interview, Boone talks about growing up in the Oregon wine industry and the seeming inevitability that he would end up working in it. He talks about the early history of his family's vineyard and his father Dai Crisp's entry into the wine industry.Later, he talks about his childhood memories of being in vineyards, and how he slowly started to work with the family business. He speaks of his time at Middlebury College and of the way he slowly learned more and more about winemaking as he wrapped up his education.Boone also talks about the pride he feels being part of the industry and about how his role has evolved and progressed.This interview was conducted by Rich Schmidt in the Nicholson Library at Linfield University on February 12, 2026.

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Bill McKibben on fighting climate denialism with democratic power

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 34:51

As the world contends with increasingly destructive and costly climate-fueled disasters, the Trump administration has announced that it is eliminating the government's ability to fight climate change.Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is erasing the scientific finding, known as the “endangerment clause,” that permits it to take action to protect public health and the environment.“Led by a president who refers to climate change as a ‘hoax,' the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be,” reported the New York Times.I turned to Bill McKibben to glean the significance and implications of this latest development. McKibben is arguably the world's foremost reporter and organizer on the climate crisis. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book for a general audience about climate change, and he has gone on to author over 20 other books.He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, the New York Times, and to his Substack, The Crucial Years. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. McKibben is also the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for progressive change.

S8: E8 January Gill O'Neil Chats with Dion O'Reilly

The Hive Poetry Collective

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 59:05

January Gill O'Neil reads and discusses Lucille Clifton's "Won't You Celebrate with Me" and also poems from January's newest book, Glitter Road.January Gill O'Neil is a poet whose work explores the afterlives of history in American landscapes and intimate lives. Her poems trace how place, memory, and moral inheritance shape identity across generations, joining lyric precision with documentary attention and restraint.She is the author of four poetry collections published by CavanKerry Press: Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009). Glitter Road received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize and was a finalist for several honors, including the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series.A Cave Canem fellow, O'Neil is a professor at Salem State University and teaches graduate poetry writing in the summer program at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. She served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival from 2012 to 2018 and was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is a former chair of the AWP Board of Directors and its longest-serving current board member. She earned her B.A. at Old Dominion University and her MFA. at New York University.

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Vermont's 'Wildlife Action Plan'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2026 49:50

What does the timber rattlesnake have in common with the eastern meadowlark? Or how about the elm-leaved goldenrod and the Green Mountain quillwort?These plant and animal species are all classified as endangered or threatened in Vermont. And right now, local biologists are working to update the state's Wildlife Action Plan. That plan is basically a wildlife-focused conservation blueprint for the state. The team that's been working on it is proposing some changes that could mark a shift in how the state thinks about conservation.Recently I sat down with Dr. Rosalind Renfrew to learn more. She's based in Montpelier as the Wildlife Diversity Program lead for Vermont Fish & Wildlife. We were also joined by Kent McFarland from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich.Then; Marie Curie is a famous name, but even if you know who she is, you might only know the basics of her extraordinary life. Marie Curie was a Polish-French scientist and a pioneer in the study of radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win a Nobel twice.Marie Curie is also the subject of a new book by Devon Jersild of Weybridge, Vermont. Devon is a psychotherapist and a writer. She's won a prestigious O. Henry Award for her short story writing, and is the former associate director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, associate editor of the New England Review, and a visiting lecturer in English at Middlebury College.

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'A terrific year' for Nordic skating on Lake Champlain

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2026 49:50

This cold winter has created excellent conditions for ice skating on local lakes and ponds. Some wild ice skaters in our region have found audiences for their adventures on social media.Today on Vermont Edition, experienced skaters explain how to know when wild ice is safe to skate on and what to do if conditions suddenly shift. You'll hear from the Pawlet-based moderator of the Vermont Nordic Skating Facebook group and a farmer-slash-skater from Barnet.Plus, a Middlebury College alum manufactures Nordic skates in Alaska. He'll explain the art of crafting the perfect blade for getting off the rink and out on remote ice.

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The Seasons of a Shepherd's Life and the Importance of Belonging--A Conversation with Helen Whybrow

Speaking Out of Place

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2026 49:35

Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Helen Whybrow about her book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life. Besides being a detailed account of the day to day, season by season life on her farm, where she and her family raise sheep, build a broad community, and maintain Knoll Farm, a center for activists, writers, artists and others to share ideas on how to promote healthier and more just ways of living together and in the environment, The Salt Stones is at base about the ways we are losing a sense of belonging, not only with others and with other forms of life on this planet, but also with the cycles of existence, of life and of death. Whybrow shows time and again that it is mostly a matter of developing ways of seeing and noticing what is all around us, and learning about and respecting the ways that generations of people and non-human animals have existed together in sustainable and mutually-dependent ways.Helen Whybrow is a writer, editor and organic farmer whose book about shepherding, land and belonging, The Salt Stones, was longlisted for the National Book Award and chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2025. Her other titles include Dead Reckoning (W. W. Norton, 2001) and A Man Apart (Chelsea Green, 2015). She has a master's in journalism and has taught writing at Middlebury College and the Breadloaf Environmental Writer's Conference. She and her family farm and steward a refuge for land justice at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont.

Adina Hoffman on Georges Perec's AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 32:41

Our winter season continues with Adina Hoffman (recipient of a 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction) chatting with Michael Kelleher about Georges Perec's magical and mercurial and maddening An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, translated by Marc Lowenthal. Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (with Peter Cole), Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, and Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. Hoffman's essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the TLS, Raritan, Bookforum, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Tin House, and on the World Service of the BBC. She is formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post and was one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the publication of the literature of the Levant. She has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, and NYU, as well as the Franke Fellow at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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210. The Pet Industry Has An Overconsumption Problem with Spencer Williams

Outdoor Minimalist

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2026 31:31

You know full well that I am a dog lover, and I know that many of you are dog lovers, or just pet lovers in general. They are our family, and much like humans, our domesticated pets have a pretty big impact on our planet and the environment around us. Think about walking into a store like PetSmart, or even your local pet store, there are aisles and shelves lined with single use toys, plastic bones, and items destined for one use just destined for the landfill. But that's not all, we've done several dog related episodes including one on the impact of our pet's waste and another on pet food and the reliance on high impact meats. I'll link both episodes in the description below. Episode 39: Benefits of Insect Proteins for Us, Our Pets, and Our Planet (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outdoor-minimalist/id1586174667?i=1000565326336)Episode 112: Does It Matter If I Pick Up My Dog's Poop or Not? (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outdoor-minimalist/id1586174667?i=1000634653124)So, today, we are looking at the industry as a whole. Why it is the way it is, and what some within the industry are working to change. Joining me to share his experience and expertise is Spencer Williams, the CEO and owner of WestPaw.A fifth-generation Montanan, Spencer grew up on a ranch near Columbus. His love for his home state and its pristine beauty, led Williams back to Montana after receiving a bachelor's degree in German from Middlebury College in Vermont. Since 1996, Williams has grown the Bozeman, Montana-based West Paw into a world-class manufacturer of eco-friendly pet toys and treats. West Paw's products are sold in over 7,500 U.S. retailers and in over 45 countries. From its start, the company has focused on environmentally friendly business methods and product materials, including recycled, recyclable, regenerative and organic materials. Spencer is a founding board member and past board chair of the Pet Sustainability Coalition. West Paw became the first pet product manufacturer to become a certified B Corp and in 2015 became Montana's first Benefit Corporation. Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/outdoor.minimalist.book/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@theoutdoorminimalistBuy Me a Coffee: ⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/outdoorminimalist⁠⁠⁠Listener Survey: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/jd8UCN2LL3AQst976⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠------------------West PawWebsite: https://www.westpaw.com/YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/westpawInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/westpawUSCradle to Cradle Book: https://mcdonough.com/cradle-to-cradle/Pet Sustainabilty Coalition: https://petsustainability.org/

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Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on the lessons and moral clarity of 'Silent Spring'

Mongabay Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2026 47:52

It's been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S. presidents, artists and musicians, spurring the environmental movement and leading to the eventual ban of the toxic pesticide DDT. Joining the Mongabay Newscast is environmental writer and director of the creative writing program at Middlebury College, Megan Mayhew Bergman. She unpacks the impact of Carson's work, which came under public attack from chemical companies seeking to discredit her, and how, eventually, the truth broke through. "We don't change our minds usually based on data. We change our minds based on emotion, but historically, it's been pretty taboo for scientists to include emotion in the way that they write. And I feel like Carson risked that here in a way that was really powerful." Please take a minute to let us know what you think of our podcast, here. Image: Megan Mayhew Bergman. Image by Cameron Russell. Environmental writing and authors mentioned in this conversation: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Florida by Lauren Groff The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham Hope Is the Thing With Feathers by Christopher Cokinos How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald The Wild Flag by E.B. White Zora Neale Hurston Other works and authors mentioned: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray Men We Reaped by Jasmyn Ward A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov —- Timestamps (00:00) Changing hearts and minds (02:46) Rachel Carson's journey to Silent Spring (08:22) Controversy and impact (14:40) Room for a new voice (20:55) Bioaccumulation and what it means (24:07) "We don't change our minds based on data" (26:43) Recommended reads (35:21) The American South and environmental writing (39:57) Lessons for writers

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James Bailey & Randy Weiner—A Blueprint for Teacher Retention: Leading Schools that Teachers Don't Want To Leave

Principal Center Radio Podcast – The Principal Center

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2026 28:00

Get the book, The Daily SEL Leader Get the book, A Blueprint for Teacher Retention: Leading Schools that Teachers Don't Want to Leave Visit the Brass Tacks Innovations website, www.brasstacksinnovations.com View the Teacher Retention Model PDF About The Authors James Bailey's career has encompassed teacher, principal, assistant superintendent, school turnaround leader, consultant and superintendent roles spanning Texas, Colorado and Wyoming. He holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation from the University of Colorado-Denver, is a prolific publisher and presenter, and currently serves as a core faculty member at Walden University in the area of educational leadership. Randy Weiner has worked in education and education technology and consulting throughout his career. He co-founded the country's first public Montessori, arts integration, and design thinking school in Oakland, CA. A Teach for America alum and father to two daughters, Randy taught for 5 years in Oakland and Madagascar, and holds two BAs from Middlebury College and an MA in Education from Stanford. They are the founders of Brass Tacks Innovations, a consultancy focused on leadership development, workplace culture, teacher retention, and other challenges. James and Randy are the co-authors of The Daily SEL Leader and James is the author of A Blueprint for Teacher Retention: Leading Schools that Teachers Don't Want To Leave.

Shawna Ferraro: The Savage Athlete Mindset: Ownership, Ambition, and Self-Trust

Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 40:27

In this episode, Dan is joined by Shawna Ferraro to discuss the "savage" mindset she lives, what it means to be a "savage" in athletics and classes, and more.Originally from New Canaan, Connecticut, Shawna is currently a Junior at Middlebury College. Shawna plays as a forward on the field hockey team, and has a dual major in sociology and English. Shawna is passionate about writing and relentlessly pursues her goals, often waking up at 5:30 in the morning and staying late in order to perfect her craft. Shawna is also an avid endurance athlete and can often be found running when not playing field hockey. For more on Shawna, be sure to follow @insidethesavagelife & @shawnaferraroSeason 7 of the Braun Performance & Rehab Podcast is proudly supported by Pura Health, bringing ultrasound into every clinician's hands. Learn more at purahealth.net and @pura.health_ultrasound.Additional support provided by Firefly Recovery, the official recovery partner of Braun Performance & Rehab (recoveryfirefly.com), and Dr. Ray Gorman of Engage Movement. Learn how to grow your income beyond sessions—follow @raygormandpt on Instagram and DM “Dan” for a free breakdown of the blended practice model.Episode Affiliates: Isophit (BRAUNPR25%), MoboBoard (BRAWNBODY10), AliRx (DBraunRx), MedBridge (BRAWN), CTM Band (BRAWN10), Ice Shaker (affiliate link).If you enjoyed this episode, share it with someone who would benefit and leave a 5-star review.Explore more from Dan at linktr.ee/braun_pr.

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S6 - E2: Gaurav Gupta, Managing Director of R & D - Kotter

The PIO Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 42:57

Send us a textEpisode Summary: In this episode of the PIO Podcast, Robert interviews Gaurav Gupta, head of R&D at Kotter, discussing the transformative role of AI in public information and communication. Gaurav shares insights on generative AI's impact on content creation, the importance of effective communication strategies, and the need for transparency in AI usage. They explore the challenges posed by misinformation, the need to reskill the workforce, and the importance of aligning AI tools with agency strategies. The conversation emphasizes that AI should be viewed as an enabler of change rather than a replacement for human roles, underscoring the importance of leadership and adaptability in navigating the evolving AI landscape.Gaurav's BIO: GAURAV GUPTA has been helping organizations and individuals unleash potential and maximize business outcomes for over 20 years. His expertise is in change leadership and strategy execution. By combining thinking from behavioral science, leadership development, and strategy implementation, he has advised leaders on their most important business initiatives across industries as diverse as finance, healthcare, extraction, oil and gas, and chemicals. Having worked in over 10 countries, Gaur3av draws on extensive global experience in collaborating with leaders to develop and implement new ways of working in their organizations. Gaurav is the head of R+D at Kotter and collaborates with Dr. John Kotter, the world-renowned expert on change and leadership, to develop the most successful approaches to create large-scale change and greater adaptability. Gaurav is the co-author of the book Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times. Gaurav represents Kotter through speaking engagements, consulting, and facilitated learning events. Gaurav also co-founded Ka Partners, a firm established to help growing startups perform better through greater employee engagement, more efficient resource utilization, and better decision-making. Gaurav has delivered keynote addresses for corporate clients and at various conferences. He has published numerous articles, including in HBR, MIT Sloan Review, and Forbes, and has been quoted in publications like The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and USA Today. He holds a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Middlebury College, where he graduated summa cum laude. Support the showOur premiere sponsor, Social News Desk, has an exclusive offer for PIO Podcast listeners. Head over to socialnewsdesk.com/pio to get three months free when a qualifying agency signs up.

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