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Raised in a devout Christian family with a preacher father, Mike McCann's early life was grounded in faith and equipped him with a strong spiritual foundation. In this episode Mike shares challenges faced while working in an inner-city context, and the rich community life he fostered in different regions. The episode highlights the significant influence of dedicated mentors in his journey, and the importance of discipleship. As he recounts the hurdles and victories of serving a complex community, Mike's story ultimately underscores the incredible power of faith and perseverance in the face of adversity. This episode serves as an inspiring testament to the responsibilities and rewards of a lifelong journey in ministry.

With Boomer on jury duty, Gio and Jerry speculated on his experience, pondering if he's encountering starstruck fellow jurors, and debated Gio's susceptibility to jury pressure. C-Lo's final update included Mike McCann's halftime mishap, post-loss reactions from Rick Pitino and Dan Hurley, and Jim Harbaugh's bow-and-arrow metaphor for the Anaheim Ducks. A Citi-Field food mix-up involving Piazza and pizza, Alec Baldwin's "moment of the day," and Gio's discovery of a 1991 Boomer football card with an anti-drinking message concluded the hour.

Hour 1 With Boomer on jury duty, Gio and Jerry discussed St. John's recent loss to Arkansas, disagreeing with the assessment that their season was a failure, while also analyzing the game's shortcomings and officiating controversies. C-Lo's update featured Rick Pitino's post-game remarks, Dan Hurley's emotional reaction to UCONN's loss, and Maryland's buzzer-beater victory. The update included Jameis Winston's signing with the Giants, potential interest in Russell Wilson, Juan Soto's Mets decision, and the Mets' rotation. Tragically, Brett Gardner's 14-year-old son, Miller, passed away unexpectedly during a family vacation. The hour concluded with Tiger Woods requesting privacy regarding his new relationship and a discussion of Alec Baldwin's reaction to his wife's ex-boyfriend. Hour 2 With Jameis Winston's Giants signing and potential Russell Wilson addition, quarterback speculation swirled, including a possible Steelers return for Wilson. Gio and Jerry debated Cam Ward versus Shedeur Sanders, fielding fan calls on the latter's Giants prospects. C-Lo's update followed Gio's Disney vacation recap, featuring Rick Pitino's tense post-game interview with Evan Washburn, and Mike Francesa's St. John's analysis. A BT & Sal caller critique of BT's St. John's celebration was highlighted. The hour concluded with Gio's Disney ride breakdown anecdote, involving a security guard's memorable "clamshell" command. Hour 3 This week's baseball buzz centers on the Mets and Yankees' opening day, with concerns about the Yankees' injury-hampered start and the Mets' high-pressure expectations. Gio expressed skepticism about the Mets' current rotation. C-Lo's update featured Rick Pitino's post-game comments, player reactions to St. John's loss, Dan Hurley's emotional UCONN comments, and Mookie Betts's ongoing health struggles. The hour concluded with news of a Paul Skenes rookie card selling for over a million dollars, and the A's sparse media coverage in Sacramento. Hour 4 With Boomer on jury duty, Gio and Jerry speculated on his experience, pondering if he's encountering starstruck fellow jurors, and debated Gio's susceptibility to jury pressure. C-Lo's final update included Mike McCann's halftime mishap, post-loss reactions from Rick Pitino and Dan Hurley, and Jim Harbaugh's bow-and-arrow metaphor for the Anaheim Ducks. A Citi-Field food mix-up involving Piazza and pizza, Alec Baldwin's "moment of the day," and Gio's discovery of a 1991 Boomer football card with an anti-drinking message concluded the hour.

Mike McCann joins the show to discuss the current state of the ENC space and how his company is differentiating itself through a focus on existing building and infrastructure upgrades. Despite industry headwinds, Mike remains optimistic about the company's prospects, citing strong demand from mission-critical sectors such as healthcare and industrials. He also touches on the impact of tariffs.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

In the new year, congress will look again at laws around sports betting, which has exploded since a twenty-eighteen U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing states to legalize wagering on sports.  Today, on The Legal Impact, one of the country's leading experts on this topic, Michael McCann. He's founding director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at UNH-Franklin Pierce School of Law and is a visiting professor at Harvard. Get an email when the latest episode releases and never miss our monthly episodes by subscribing on Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, and Pandora! 

Johnny Rabbitt is At Your Service! On this New Year's Day special, Johnny sits down and reflects on what's to come in the new year. Talking with Amy Shaw of PBS 9, life coach Barry Cervantes and ex KMOX announcer Mike McCann.

We hear part two of our conversation with IOC President and CEO Mike McCann. We learn more about the company's efforts to work with Indigenous communities, and also hear their plans for a more sustainable future.

As IOC celebrates its 70th anniversary, we speak with President Mike McCann about some high and lows for the company throughout the decades.

We head back to IOC's 70th anniversary celebrations held last week in Sept-Îles. We hear from IOC president Mike McCann and Innu elder Paul-Arthur Mckenzie at those celebrations, and then speak with Memorial University professor Arn Keeling about the mining company's history here in Labrador.

Beast is joined by longtime radio update host of WFAN, WCBS Sports Radio Mike McCann-Tauss as we dive into the recap of the MLB trade deadline!!!! We also discuss the minor league prospects involved in specific trades, the direction of the game of baseball, and its return to the 2028 Olympic Games. What will McCann have to share? Is baseball going in the wrong direction? Tune in to find out!!!!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtownsportspodcast/support

Scott and Eben are joined by Mike McCann, Sportico's legal expert, to discuss the security issues at the Copa America final, delays in the NCAA's latest anti-trust settlement, and the NFL's recent legal setbacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Give people a reason to come in, and that's their motivation, education, collaboration, fun, all of the above. Also have an environment that's welcoming to each person. You have to lead by example. All I know is how to lead by example. Not do as I say, but see as I do.”Mike McCann is a real estate professional within the Philadelphia and surrounding areas.00:00 Intro10:50 Every 3 minutes a realtor is hanging their license up.20:45 Conducting your business from afar.30:30 92,000 push ups.

The Future of Lab West summit has had some major announcements. One was a federal funding announcement to help decarbonize IOC. We hear from IOC president Mike McCann.

On December 5th, 2023,  NCAA President Charlie Baker proposed major changes to the college sports model.  Under proposal, all DI schools would be allowed to do NIL deals directly with their athletes and could offer athletes "any level of enhanced educational benefits they deem appropriate."  The proposal would also create a new subdivision of DI schools that could create a "trust fund" for each athlete of at least $30,000 per year and would allow the schools to create more permissive rules for recruiting, NIL, transfers, roster size, and pay-for-play.What does it all mean and where do we go from here? Michael McCann and Andrew Brandt join the pod to discuss. Thank you for listening! For the latest in sports law news and analysis, you can follow Gabe Feldman on twitter @sportslawguy .

Today is Hungerthon day and Boomer & Gio have agreed to have lunch with whoever wins the auction to come watch the show. Boomer hates a restaurant that won't let you modify your meal. We have audio of Mike McCann doing an update from years ago where Gio made him read a fake commercial for Trix cereal and White Castle. We also talked more about Tommy DeVito and the Giants and the benching of Zach Wilson (finally). A caller tried to bore us to death and we barely escaped. Gio said the Jets are like Home Alone 2, but now starring Tim Boyle. Jerry returns for an update but first we were all invited to a child's 1 year old birthday party on a Sunday during football season. Unfortunately we can't make it. Jerry has all the audio from last night's Eagles win over the Chiefs in KC. Charissa Thompson talked about being locked out of her house and how it's ok to pee outside. Gio trained his dog by peeing outside so that his dog could see him. Pete Hoffman caught up with Dexter Lawrence in the locker room after the game in Washington. The Moment of The Day involves Gio's Mike McCarthy impression ordering coffee for his offensive coordinator. In the final segment of the show, Boomer got his CBS Sports NFL stat pack and has some stats on QBs.

Hour 1 With the Chiefs losing last night and not looking great offensively this year, the AFC seems wide open right now. In the NFC, what team can go into Philly and beat the Eagles? It looks like just the Niners. We talked about the Steelers and Boomer said Kenny Pickett has the same problem as Zach Wilson: he can't process the game. The Chiefs had a huge drop with 1:45 remaining in the game when Patrick Mahomes hit Valdes-Scantling with what should have been a TD. The Chiefs have not scored in the second half in the last 3 games. The Jets have moved Zach Wilson to the number 3 quarterback and for some reason they are dressing him Friday against the Dolphins. Gio said it sounds like Saleh really wants to distance himself from Zach. Jerry is here for his first update of the day and starts with the sounds from last night's Eagles win over the Chiefs. We heard from Hurts and Mahomes after the game. Rob Saleh talked about Zach reacting to the news of his benching. They will deal with his future in the offseason. In the final segment of the hour, we talked about the autographed guitar signed by the NFL Today crew. We also talked about the only team that could go into Philly and beat the Eagles and that's the Niners. A caller thinks Phil Simms should auction off a pair of his lady glasses for Hungerthon.   Hour 2 Everyone loves Tommy DeVito because he's from NJ, but Tim Boyle is also a local guy from Connecticut. Gio's not sure what to make of the Dolphins right now. They haven't found that gear that they had a few weeks ago. Boomer said the Niners had a good rhythm, lost it, but found it again. Jerry returns for an update and starts with Kevin Harlan calling the huge drop by Valdes-Scantling of the Chiefs. Gio thinks it's dangerous that we laugh along with an unhealthy Andy Reid. In the final segment of the hour, we talked to the Executive Director of Why Hunger, Jenique Jones. A caller also thinks Tommy DeVito plays like Tua. Alrighty sir Hour 3 Now that Zach Wilson has been relegated to third string, Gio is feeling a sense of relief. We are moving on and Gio doesn't have to fight with the Zach apologists. But are we expecting the offense to get much better with Tim Boyle? A caller wants Tommy DeVito to do a Jersey Mikes commercial with Danny DeVito. Gio then brought up Danny DeVito posting pics of his ‘troll foot' on Twitter. Jerry returns for an update but first Gio talks about a pro golfer who somehow got 3 clubs stuck in a tree. Jerry has audio from the Eagles win over the Chiefs in KC. Jalen Hurts is not satisfied with regular season wins. The Chiefs had a huge TD drop with 1:45 to go. Rob Saleh met the media to talk about the benching of Zach Wilson. Mike McCarthy gets his offensive coordinator a white mocha or something. In the final segment of the hour, the Executive Director of Why Hunger, Jenique Jones, joins us to update us on the WFAN auctions. In breaking news, the Steelers have fired offensive coordinator Matt Canada.  Hour 4 Today is Hungerthon day and Boomer & Gio have agreed to have lunch with whoever wins the auction to come watch the show. Boomer hates a restaurant that won't let you modify your meal. We have audio of Mike McCann doing an update from years ago where Gio made him read a fake commercial for Trix cereal and White Castle. We also talked more about Tommy DeVito and the Giants and the benching of Zach Wilson (finally). A caller tried to bore us to death and we barely escaped. Gio said the Jets are like Home Alone 2, but now starring Tim Boyle. Jerry returns for an update but first we were all invited to a child's 1 year old birthday party on a Sunday during football season. Unfortunately we can't make it. Jerry has all the audio from last night's Eagles win over the Chiefs in KC. Charissa Thompson talked about being locked out of her house and how it's ok to pee outside. Gio trained his dog by peeing outside so that his dog could see him. Pete Hoffman caught up with Dexter Lawrence in the locker room after the game in Washington. The Moment of The Day involves Gio's Mike McCarthy impression ordering coffee for his offensive coordinator. In the final segment of the show, Boomer got his CBS Sports NFL stat pack and has some stats on QBs.

Sports law giants Mike McCann and Jeremi Duru join the pod for the first ever sports law issues draft! Yes, that's right. Mike, Jeremi, and I draft-- and debate-- the biggest and most important stories in the sports law world.  Let us know who you think has the strongest team...  Thank you for listening! For the latest in sports law news and analysis, you can follow Gabe Feldman on twitter @sportslawguy .

On this week's episode of What's At Stake, Bryan DeAngelis, Partner and Head of Penta's DC office, is joined by sports law expert Mike McCann to discuss the proposed PGA Tour and LIV Golf merger.In 2022, it was announced that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund would be sponsoring a new golf league, LIV Golf, and had signed a number of prominent professional golfers. In response, the PGA Tour announced that current and former PGA golfers who signed with LIV would be indefinitely banned from participating in PGA sponsored events. Then, in a shocking twist, it was announced that LIV would merge with PGA. Additionally, Saudi Arabia would become an investor in the PGA Tour, a nonprofit organization, through the country's Public Investment Fund. Players and fans of golf have expressed displeasure with the announcement, leading to a Senate hearing on the topic on June 11, 2023 and the Department of Justice opening an antitrust investigation into the proposed merger.Bryan and Mike discuss the recent Senate hearing, the legality of this merger, and what they expect from the leagues merging for players and fans. The two also outlined how this proposed merger is unprecedented in professional sports and the serious implications it could have on other leagues around the world.Mike McCann is a professor of law at the University of New Hampshire and the founding director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute. He is one of the nation's leading experts in sports law and Name, Image, Likeness. Mike also co-authored a book with former NBA player Ed O'Bannon, titled "Court Justice: The Inside Story of My Battle Against the NCAA," which tells the story of O'Bannon's life and his historic court case against the NCAA.

Mouth and Beast are joined by longtime radio anchor Mike McCann as we dive into the Mets and Yankees at the All Star Break. Who is to blame for both teams' horrific first half? Can they rally in the 2nd half? Buyers or Sellers? mikemccann.blogspot.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtownsportspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtownsportspodcast/support

Mike McCann, Sportico Legal Expert joins to give us the latest hope - or lack thereof - of Seattle getting an NBA team. He says he'd be shocked if the next two cities to get a team were anyone but Seattle or Vegas. Luke Willson gave us some interesting news on why he really retired from the Seahawks after just a single day. We take a listen back to the best and most surprising things he had to say. Dick guesses the preseason rankings for Pac-12 basketball this year.

This week its a www.digitalmarketbattles.com ad free exclusive interview edition of Downtown Sports. They left Mouth alone, again!!! This time they saw it fit to bring back one of the guests of our holiday special, Mike McCann, to talk to John Schiavone about New York Sports. What did they cover and WHY IS CASHMAN FINALLY GOING TO BE SHOWN THE DOOR!!! Tune in to find out!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtownsportspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/downtownsportspodcast/support

“Patient persistence overcomes resistance.” - Mike McCannMike McCann is a real estate master, servicing people and families throughout Philadelphia and surrounding areas.00:00 Intro10:23 First half of 2022 was great for business in the real estate industry while it collapsed during the second half.20:26 Invest in yourself.31:06 Do you want to grow? Do you want to be a part of something?37:48 It's not really “work” if you LOVE what you do. Why would you stop?

Andy starts with Thom Loverro's story about former Washington long snapper Nick Sundberg and his family's experience with the Snyder ownership (0:00-14:27). Next, Andy reacts to John Keim's conversation with attorney Mike McCann regarding Dan Snyder's legal situation and how the NFL could seek to protect him (14:27-31:14). Andy disagrees with Dan Orlovsky that Florida QB Anthony Richardson is worth mortgaging your team's future (31:44-48:56). Max Kellerman joins to talk NFL Draft, James Dolan vs. Dan Snyder, and more (48:56-1:03:28). For more sports coverage, download the ESPN630 AM app, visit https://www.sportscapitoldc.com, or tune in live from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Monday-Friday.To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @ESPN630DC and @andypollin1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We were joined by Mike McCann who is the Senior Director of Law Enforcement Relations, and Larry Weeks who is the Chief of Police for Eaton Rapids. They joined Huge to talk about why they dedicated their lives to Law Enforcement, the Chiefs of Police having 4,000 job openings, and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we're broadcasting live from the Annual Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police Convention at the Amway Grand Plaza in Downtown Grand Rapids. Throughout the show we were joined by some of the great first responders from across the State of Michigan to talk about the Chiefs of Police mission, to let people know how to they can get involved, and so much more. We also talked about the Super Bowl, Red Wings and Griffins Hockey, the Grand Rapids Gold, and more. We kicked off the show with Luke Sherman who is in charge of the First Responders program with Folds of Honor. He joined Huge to talk about Folds opening up their foundation to the children of First Responders who are hurt or killed in the line of duty. We were then joined by Bob Stevenson who is the Executive Director for the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police and Kim Koster who is the Director of Public Safety/Police Chief for Wyoming. They joined Huge to talk about their need for people to join the force, different positions available, informed us how how you can get involved, and much more. In our second hour, we were joined by Mike Knuble who is the Assistant Coach of the Grand Rapids Griffins. He and Huge talked about how the Griffins and Wings are doing at this point in the season, discussed a Purple Community Event happening at Southside Arena this weekend, which will raise funds for Van Andel Institute Cancer & Parkinson's research. We were then joined by Chief Jon Gale who is the Chief of Police for Norton Shores. He told us about how Law Enforcement is reaching out to Children, discussed recruiting for Norton Shores, and much more. We wrapped up the hour with Mike McCann who is the Senior Director of Law Enforcement Relations, and Larry Weeks who is the Chief of Police for Eaton Rapids. They joined Huge to talk about why they dedicated their lives to Law Enforcement, the Chiefs of Police having 4,000 job openings, and much more. We kicked off the final hour talking some basketball with Trey Conner, the Vice President of the Grand Rapids Gold. He and Huge talked about the tonight and tomorrow's games for the GR Gold downtown, discussed their favorite NBA players of all time, and much more. We were then joined by our good friend Johnny Brann Sr. from "Voice for the Badge." He told us about his love and respect for the Military and Law Enforcement, discussed "Voice for the Badge" and their mission, and more. We were then joined by Ron Wiles who is the Chief of Police for Grand Blanc and the Deputy Director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. He joined Huge to talk about his commitment to community and Law Enforcement, the need for more people, and much more. We wrapped up the show with John Smith from Great Lakes Segway talking about their involvement with Law Enforcement.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our second hour, we were joined by Mike Knuble who is the Assistant Coach of the Grand Rapids Griffins. He and Huge talked about how the Griffins and Wings are doing at this point in the season, discussed a Purple Community Event happening at Southside Arena this weekend, which will raise funds for Van Andel Institute Cancer & Parkinson's research. We were then joined by Chief Jon Gale who is the Chief of Police for Norton Shores. He told us about how Law Enforcement is reaching out to Children, discussed recruiting for Norton Shores, and much more. We wrapped up the hour with Mike McCann who is the Senior Director of Law Enforcement Relations, and Larry Weeks who is the Chief of Police for Eaton Rapids. They joined Huge to talk about why they dedicated their lives to Law Enforcement, the Chiefs of Police having 4,000 job openings, and much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from World Champs with Bobby Hurley! This is Bobby's 5th World Championships as a commentator. He's also been on the top of the podium at a World Championship as a swimmer in the 50 Back. He's the epitome of a swim nerd. Brett & Bobby discuss Worlds Champs thus far, how he prepares for commentating, Chad Le Clos, Kyle Chalmers, Emma McKeon, the USA Swimming short course selection process, the Australian media, and the insanity of all these relays. 00:00 Hello Bobby Hurley! 00:10 SC World Champs Recap 01:00 Best announcer in the world 02:40 How do you prepare? 04:40 Mike McCann 07:35 How does this World Champs stack up? 08:25 USA Swimming selection process 10:30 Jordan Crooks 12:30 Australian swimming experience 14:23 Kyle Chalmers 18:30 4x50 Relays 21:20 Emma McKeon 26:00 Day 5 Finals 26:30 Chad Le Clos 27:15 French Team 28:06 Kate Douglass 28:40 Olympic commentary Our Sponsors: BRATTER PA IMMIGRATION LAW: Exclusive immigration representation of athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, and entertainers. SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today! BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics. SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device. INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club! VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout! DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout! SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter. Subscribe & Listen: Apple Podcasts Google Spotify YouTube

[iframe style="border:none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24802530/height/100/width//thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/2148560/custom-color/61ce70" height="100" width="100%" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] A Due Process Hearing is just one of the dispute resolution options available to parents of children with special education needs. But what is a Due Process Hearing? In special education, Due Process Hearings are not often fully adjudicated, because the issues are resolved through some form of settlement. In fact, I'm pretty sure special education is the only civil right we negotiate away. For those fully adjudicated, parents rarely win. The school has significantly more resources (from their administrative staff to their on call attorney). Parents simply don't have the same legal, financial, and emotional ability to pursue and complete a full due process hearing. And that is why it is so exciting when a parent wins!!   Today, we look at due process hearings through the lens of one specific case in Connecticut in which the Parents prevailed. Meredith Braxton is a special education attorney in private practice in Greenwich, CT (bio below), who recently prevailed in an interesting due process hearing right here in Connecticut. We discuss the process, the facts, and the final decision as we break down this special education due process hearing.   Meredith C. Braxton, Esq., has been practicing law for 32 years, with a primary focus on special education for 20 years. After spending time in general and business litigation in "big law" in New York City and two smaller Connecticut firms, Meredith started a solo practice and began representing students and parents in their efforts to enforce their civil rights by having their children identified, securing appropriate services, and enforcing their rights to appropriate placements, whether via PPT, negotiation, an administrative due process hearing, or appeal to the federal courts. Her office is in Greenwich. Meredith is also a partner in a companion practice with her colleague Liz Hook (Braxton Hook) to represent families in New York in special education matters and individuals in both Connecticut and New York in education-related civil rights and tort cases as well as employment matters.   The full decision can be found here.   You can find Meredith's contact info here.   FLASHBACK: If you are curious about other dispute resolution options, you can check out the episodes What's the Deal with Mediation, State Complaints, and Special Ed 101!   Check out this episode!   TRANSCRIPT (not proofread) SUMMARY KEYWORDSwitnesses, hearing, decision, officer, felt, parents, child, school district, case, board, argument, student, attorney, people, meredith, thought, footnotes, understand, works, remedy   SPEAKERS Meredith Braxton, Esq., Dana Jonson   Dana Jonson  00:08 All right. Welcome back to Special Ed on special ed. Thank you for coming back and joining me today. Today I am meeting with Meredith Braxton one of my favorite Special Ed attorneys from Connecticut. Hello, Meredith. Thank you for joining me.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  00:21 Good morning.   Dana Jonson  00:22 Good morning, we're going to discuss a case in which Meredith prevailed and discuss the components of a due process hearing, or decision, or pleading or all of that, through this one case, in which Meredith prevailed. But before we say one word, I'm gonna play my disclaimer for you all. The information in this podcast is provided for general informational and entertainment purposes only, and may not reflect the current law in your jurisdiction at the time you're listening. Nothing in this episode, create an attorney client relationship, nor is it legal advice, do not act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information included and accessible through this episode without seeking appropriate legal or other professional advice on particular facts and circumstances at issue from a lawyer or service provider licensed in your state country or other appropriate licensing jurisdiction. All right, Meredith. First of all, congratulations. This is awesome. You're welcome. This is a 54 page decision. There are four issues at the beginning that you raised 176 findings of fact, about 36 conclusions of law. And at the very end, there are nine orders. So that's a little overwhelming. And this is a final decision and order. And I'm a lawyer, and I was so excited when I got this when we all heard that you had prevailed, and we got to read it. And even I'm overwhelmed with 54 pages. So I want to start by, I want to read the actual issues that are listed in the decision. And then I want you to sort of tell us how we got here, if that works. Okay, so the first of the four issues in the final decision in order are, has the board denied the student a free appropriate education or a faith for the previous two years by habitually failing to record the PPT decision in prior written notice? We're going to come back to that one, too. Does the current IEP and placement deny the student faith? Three, should the hearing officer place the student in a residential therapeutic school for students with CP or cerebral palsy? And if necessary, order the board to hire an educational consultant to identify a placement for the student? And for is the student entitled to compensatory education, which would be education to make up for education missed? So those are some pretty loaded issues. Why don't you take us back to the beginning and tell us what happened.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  02:54 First of all, this client is an amazing kid. And I actually spoke to her recently, she's really happy at man's two right now. So great, really thrilled. So I'm really glad we got there, I was actually brought in after the kiss was pretty well set up. There was a lay advocate involved who did a really good job, got some amazing ies, you know, independent educational evaluations from I mean, some of the most qualified people I have ever run across, they were really, super, she also has a super medical team, you know, all of whom, even though some of them were out of state, they weren't totally willing to testify, you know, and give me not very much time, but some time to educate the hearing officer about the student's conditions.   Dana Jonson  03:46 And that's an important component is that there's a difference between what is a medical responsibility and an educational responsibility. And as you and I know, a lot of times those responsibilities overlap, correct, making it incredibly difficult to get anyone to provide.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  04:03 Yes, yes, but these medical providers were very well able to connect what was going on with her medically to what was going on with her educationally. So that's amazing. They were really, really helpful. But when this case first came to me, I wanted to file for due process, but I was always until the very end, I was always really concerned about the remedy, right? Because you don't know which hearing officer you're going to get. And if you're not able to put specific remedy out there you just don't know where that hearing officer is going to go with it. So we have not found a placement for this student yet. She's very difficult to place because she has you know, high cognition, but her physical disabilities are profound and urgent Communication Difficulties are profound. So there's just not a lot of places, you know, for that profile.   Dana Jonson  05:06 And that's an important piece to understanding what you want. Because we run into that problem a lot with families where they know something's wrong, they know it's not working, but they don't know what will work or what they do want. And that makes it really, really hard for us. Because and I explained this to clients a lot. You could go through a due process, hearing, and win on every single issue, and not get the remedy you wanted, right. And I think the example I use is, you could go into a hearing, asking for an out of district placement, go through the entire hearing, and have the hearing officer say, you are right, the school didn't do anything they should have done. But I think that school can create a program. So I'm going to order them to do that instead of residential, and now you've gone through the entire expense of winning a hearing. Right, and you're not getting any remedy. So that is a very concerning component that I don't think people   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  06:05 realize, and I really wasn't willing, you know, I advised my client that I just didn't feel comfortable filing until we had better direction there. So but as time went on, first of all, she was able to eke out a little money to find an ad consultant. And this ad consultant was really great. He was wonderful to work with. And I couldn't stand it anymore. I felt like Greenwich was torturing this, like literally torturing this kid, because, you know, I was on the back end of every email, and phone call, and what they were doing to I couldn't take it anymore. I really just I couldn't take it anymore. So I was like, Okay, we just have to file we have to get this hearing going. And hopefully, by the time we get to the end of the hearing, we will have a remedy in mind and we won't have a placement. We almost got there. Not quite but you know, it turned out okay. But that was a little bit of a, you know, risk that we took, but what was going on was so unacceptable, that that you know, as a moral proposition.   Dana Jonson  07:17 Right. Right. And I think that's where school districts don't realize they really messed up is when they one of us off? Yeah, is you know, when one of us is even in the grand scheme of everything we've seen and experienced if we get off, we're like a dog with a bone. Yeah.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  07:34 Yeah.   Dana Jonson  07:36 Don't do this. Don't get out of my way.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  07:37 Yeah, yeah. That's how we sort of got to filing the various issues that wound up being presented. Actually, we didn't even really address the faith based on not recording PVT decisions appropriately, even though they did not I was gonna ask   Dana Jonson  07:55 you about that. Because now in the in the new IEP, which I've yet to see, in case you're wondering, every school district I'm dealing with is like, yeah, we'll deal with that later. I gotta get back to school right now. So talk to me after Christmas.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  08:11 What I'm what I'm hearing from them is it's taking them six hours to fill out the new form exactly this new   Dana Jonson  08:17 convenient form that was going to take less time. But there's no prior written notice in it now.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  08:23 But I thought the prior written notice was supposed to be a separate document, but I have a separate one here.   Dana Jonson  08:27 But we haven't seen any documents yet. So I think that this is a really interesting point about the prior written notice. Because what that means in that issue, for those who don't understand is that decisions were made in the IEP meeting that need to be documented in the IEP, because they were either accepted or refused. And when a school does,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  08:51 the more the even more important piece of that is they're supposed to record why they did right. Or important part and the data they relied on to get there, right, which is usually how you can point out how freakin absurd their decision was. Right? Exactly. Because   Dana Jonson  09:09 this is my favorite is on I had one where they made the decision based on grades and performance. And the child had modified work and modified grades. So it was like, Well, wait a second. understand all of this.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  09:26 My favorite is where they deny, like a residential placement. And they say it's based on the independent evaluation, you gave them that recommended residential place.   Dana Jonson  09:36 Fabulous. Yeah. So it's based on that because we read it. And that's how we read it. And we rejected all of it. Yeah. So actually, that leads me to my next question, which is, you know, after you read the issues, and the piece on why the hearing officer has jurisdiction, we get to your 176 findings of fact. And so the findings of fact, are sort of the meat and potatoes, is that right of the   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  10:03 of the you don't you don't get to conclusions of law without those findings of fact, they're the   Dana Jonson  10:08 evaluation of your due process demand, right? findings of fact are what you base everything else on. So how does the hearing officer determine what the findings of fact, are? Like? Do you provide those in your brief or your due process demand? Or how does the hearing officer come to determine which facts are actual facts?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  10:29 So the post hearing brief is, is always proposed findings and facts and conclusions of law. And, you know, I can track through this decision the places where he definitely adopted, you know, what I wrote in my brief, but there's a lot of it where he had his own thing going and this particular hearing officer, who unfortunately has been picked off by virtue Moses, since then, he listened so carefully works for birch and Moses now, yeah, they hired him right after his case.   Dana Jonson  11:00 Sorry, I can't help but laugh.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  11:01 I know. It's so upsetting. Speaking of absurd, yeah. Anyway, so he listened really carefully to all the witnesses and clearly was focusing on their credibility. And I could tell I was landing the punches, you know, as I was going on, and he was getting them. And the one that was really telling was, you know, there's a principle in examining witnesses for trial lawyers where, you know, if you've got a hospital, first of all, he did go with the school district employees who I called, on my case, were hostile witnesses who I was allowed to ask leading questions. Great. So a lot of our hearing officers won't go there. And it makes it harder, because you have to do direct examination with non leading questions, right, anyway.   Dana Jonson  11:52 Right, I mean, that's getting a little in the weeds. But for parents who don't understand that, as attorneys, when we examine a witness, we are bound by certain restrictions, we can't just ask them anything, we can't just suddenly blurt out stuff, right. Like, we have to have a foundation, we have to lead them to a certain place, we have to have demonstrated certain things and have specific items and evidence. And there's a process and if you don't go through the process, you don't get your information across. So one of the ways in which we ask questions is, we ask leading questions all the time in our day, across the day, and you're not allowed to do that, unless they're, especially with your children, especially with your children, right, we're trained to write to ask leading witness. And that's why children shouldn't be witnesses, because you can lead them. So we really have to be cautious about that. And so then it depends on the hearing officer as to what they will allow, and they have a significant amount of leeway in what they will allow or not allow. So it sounds like this hearing officer was really focused on understanding the issues   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  12:58 he really was. So one of the principles for examining witnesses from the other side, is, if you land your point, you don't go on to ask like the ultimate question, because then that clues them in that they just messed up, and they will go back and they'll fix it. You instead use that nugget in your argument later on. So that's how we roll I got one of the school district witnesses to say that she made all the decisions in the PPTs. And so I'm sliding away from that, because I'm like, hopefully, like guaranteed, and, of course, returning picked up on   Dana Jonson  13:35 that. But whatever. That's kind of a mess.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  13:38 I'm going on, going on to the next thing. And the hearing officer goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then he starts questioning her and she doesn't fix it. She doubles down on it. And then I'm cross her attorney tried to save her and she didn't go for it. So she basically got predetermination. That's amazing lack of parental participation. So the hearing officer in this case, he really listened. And he was sort of going through issues in his own head clearly the whole thing about you know, in his findings of fact, in his conclusions of law, he talked a lot about how the school district had the wrong primary disability for this child and that how it drove an inappropriate IEP. Now you and I know that's actually true. Most of the time, if you have the wrong primary disability, it does, to some extent derive. You know, services. Absolutely. Schools always say is no, we give whatever services are needed, no matter what the primary handicap is, blah, blah, blah. I felt like that was just a loser of an argument for me like when I didn't want to spend a lot of time on. I had so many other issues that I thought were really compelling and really important, and that would win the case. It was funny because he kept bringing it up. During the hearing, and I was like, Yeah, you know, and I didn't really press it with witnesses, but he did. You know, he would ask witnesses his own questions,   Dana Jonson  15:09 and I find that fascinating about hearings is that the hearing officer can and will just stop everything and be like, I have some follow ups. I need you to clarify that. Yeah. I love it when we hear a hearing officer ask questions, because all that says is, oh, they're listening. Yeah, do get it because not all hearing officers really do get it. Not all of them have been doing what we do our whole lives. And we have to not only explain to them the process, the law but the disability.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  15:35 Right, right. And this one is very low incidence. So it's particularly difficult to convey what it's like, like I said, we had a, especially her physiatrist was really great at describing what it was like to be, I'm allowed to use her name, she doesn't care. Okay. So you know what it was like to be Sydney. And that really got to the hearing officer. So did the videotapes of what was going on on the bus ride. Wow, I thought, did you get those? Well, they're an educational record. They're a four year record. And I was like a dog with a bone. And I did when I filed, I also served an Administrative Code document request. And so at the very beginning of the hearing, when you're sort of like, what housekeeping items do you have, I'm like, I'm asking for these documents. And these videos, they haven't given them to me, I can't do this hearing without it, and I got him to order them to be given to me. So I find   Dana Jonson  16:36 that I don't always get everything in a FERPA request. There's never I get everything. Shocking, really. It's shocking, really, but and in my FERPA request, I have a laundry list of things I would like included, and then I just hope I get most of it. You know, videos, and particularly bus videos, I think have to be the hardest things to obtain. That's just my experience. It's just a lot of red tape to get your hands on those videos. So that is huge. Yeah. So you provide your findings of fact, the board attorney is going to provide there's right. So what the hearing officer chooses is going to be based on the testimony. Right. Right. And so that's your point in your testimony is to demonstrate what actually happened, right, I presume you had good witnesses and parents for this? Because I know for me, anytime I contemplate whether this is something that would go to due process or not. The first thing I think of is Who are my witnesses? Yeah. And my first thought is can either parent be witness, and that sometimes makes the decision?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  17:49 You know? Yes, I had one due process where, I mean, the hearing officer literally hated my client. And he was difficult. He was a difficult person. He was a difficult person, like, I liked him. But you know, I'm weird. But she ruled for us anyway. And I was a little I mean, she even dropped a footnote about how she didn't believe that I love that. Yeah, yeah. So it's very important. The parent is very important. Sometimes, like, in this case, I had the parent, but as a backup, I also had her sister who had quit her job to help Sydney, you know, during COVID, and was, I mean, had basically been in her life the whole time. So it was very, sort of a corroborating witnesses if I needed it. Or it could be the primary witness about what was happening during remote instruction, and stuff like that. So yeah,   Dana Jonson  18:45 and I see you guys had 11 witnesses, and the board only called to it looks like,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  18:50 Yeah, cuz I called all her witnesses on my case.   Dana Jonson  18:54 You called them all first, so that you could get that done with   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  18:56 in this, you know, in this particular school district, I find that the attorney, if you do this, if you if you call her witnesses on your case, and she often hasn't glommed on to what your their themes are, and doesn't really prepare her witnesses. Well got it. Well, I can tell my stories through them. And they're the people I had first, and the hearing officer had a little issue with it. He was like, aren't you gonna call them? And I'm like, Oh, get there?   Dana Jonson  19:27 Yeah, well, because mom's usually number one, right? Yeah, I don't like doing like that. Well, good. That's, that's great. You should talk to my lawyer about that, because she was working really, really hard to figure out how to not put me because for all of those parents out there who've heard you wouldn't be a good witness and make and took it personally and felt bad. I was informed I would be a horrible witness. So I'm an attorney who does this every day. So you know, don't feel bad about it. So you called everyone that you needed for your case and the hearing officer allowed you to treat the school personnel as if they were hostile. So that is huge. You know, it sounds like we got a really great hearing officer and then a board firm just snatched them up immediately.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  20:12 It did save money, how that works about that   Dana Jonson  20:16 money how that works. I wanted to touch on the timeframe to because you filed on October 12, in 2021. And your briefs were due in March 28 2022. And that is actually only five months, I was actually thinking for a hearing that went through so many witnesses that you would conclude this and only five months, I was kind of impressed. And to tell   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  20:43 you the truth, this included a month or two of me foot drag. Oh, wow. Because I was I was foot dragging. Because we didn't have that placement. Right. I was like, you know, Brenton, come on. So I delayed things a little bit. And then I decided I gotta go, Yeah, this has got to get going. Right, the hearing officer made it really clear that he was feeling pressure from the State Bureau of Special Education, to move these hearings along faster. You know, they're getting very concerned about their timeline issues as they should, as they can. Absolutely. He assured me and I felt with, you know, after we'd been going at this a little bit, I felt like I could believe him about this, that I could always just refer to an exhibit, and he would read it. And I felt like he would read. Okay, so some hearing officers, you really have to have every single bit like presented orally to them, or they focus on it. But in this case, I felt like I could rely on him to read the exhibits that were admitted. I sped through some of this stuff. Yeah, I mean, the medical people, I probably had a an average 30 to 45 minutes with them, half of which I seated to the other side. Right, wow. Yeah. And so I was like, bang, bang, but I had one day when I had like six witnesses, I blew through six witnesses, that's insane. I then laid down on the floor of my office and made it like an IV of vodka, but it was intense. But it made the hearing officer very happy, they do appreciate it. And I kind of liked it, because I was able to get all the really important stuff in and then the other side was kind of limited and what they could do with it. You know, they were also limited. The you know, in the end, I kind of liked it, even though I ordinarily would,   Dana Jonson  22:43 yes. Where are you for this matter? It worked for this matter for this hearing   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  22:47 officer, you know, so much depends on the hearing officer get and what their style   Dana Jonson  22:53 is. Yeah. And I hear that a lot from parents, do you have experience with this district? Do you have experience with this lawyer? And all of those things do matter. But I feel like the experience matters more in knowing how to shift because all those players change all the time. And I've had evaluators where I felt like I could just leave the room and they'd be fine. And then the next tvip meeting, I go to them, I'm like, Who is this pot person? Like what did they do to my evaluators? So you just never know, there's a lot up in the air,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  23:26 you don't know. And that's what I try to convey to my clients about due process. It's a high risk situation, because you don't know which hearing officer you're gonna get. You don't know what pressures they have on them, because they are getting pressure from above, you don't really know how the evidence is going to come in. You don't know whether some of the board people who you think are charlatans are going to come across as believable. You don't know if you're going to be able to get in every document that you think you need to get in. I got a lot out of those board witnesses that have they been better prepared and probably would not have. Yeah, and that   Dana Jonson  24:03 preparation is big. I mean, the prep is big for your clients, too. I remember a colleague telling me I mean, when you're talking about how is someone going to present colleague was telling me they had a client and the school had really messed up. But this was an exceptionally wealthy client who came across as exceptionally wealthy when she walked in a room. And so she was asked to dial it down. So she walked in to the hearing and her kids dinner, blue jeans and a T shirt and no jewelry. And the board almost dropped dead. Really, because they were relying on this person to walk in and look like an extremely wealthy person and present the way she normally does and hoping that that in and of itself would sway the hearing officer. But then she walked in and they're their philosophy has gotten now a good attorney doesn't rely on just that. Right. But to your point, people can present as anything when they walk in that door. Yeah, and they can Say anything. So, like if you if you have someone on the line on the stand and they are flat out lying. What do you do?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  25:08 Well, I mean, it depends on whether I have documentary evidence that I can confront them with that shows they're flat out lying. If this is where a lot of times you do want to have at least partial transcripts of various meetings and recordings. So they can't claim they said something other than what they did. And it's a problem, because in my experience, almost I would say 95% of board, witnesses lie under oath. Yep. And have no problem with it. Yeah.   Dana Jonson  25:38 And it's shocking, sometimes to parents. Right.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  25:41 And absolutely, I mean, honestly, when I first started practicing law, many, many, many moons ago, I was shocked, I assumed that everyone who was put under oath would tell the truth. And then I learned that actually a minority and people put under oath will tell the truth. It's not just in special education. Yeah, just board witnesses. It's pretty rampant,   Dana Jonson  26:04 pretty rampant. And it's I do think that people take it have a different level of respect, being under oath. I do believe that, as a rule, and I do think that that anxiety is heightened in the person when they are lying under oath versus just in a school meeting, I, I absolutely can see that I can see the change in their body language from lying in the IEP meeting to lying on the stand. They're way more uncomfortable. But that's another reason why I like going to the IEP meetings, because they may be more comfortable there. But you do get a sense of who you can trip up and who you can't. And if the school has bad witness, you make sure they know that.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  26:43 Also, I prefer due process hearings to be in person, because if you've got that body language going on the other side, you can start drilling into it. And sort of push them. Yes. completely out of their comfort zone.   Dana Jonson  26:58 Yes. And that's more difficult on the screen. Oh, it's   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  27:01 impossible.   Dana Jonson  27:02 Have you done any hearings on the screen?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  27:04 Well, this one was completely virtual,   Dana Jonson  27:06 Oh, this one was virtual? I don't think I realized that maybe I must have I mean, maybe just because it's so normal now that I didn't think of it. So that must have been really hard, then I didn't even realize this was virtual.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  27:18 Yeah. It was very hard. That's really hard.   Dana Jonson  27:21 Amazing. Your experiences you would still prefer in person, right?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  27:26 Yeah, for that very reason. Just looking through the screen at someone, you can't hold their eyes, you can't sort of judge their expression. You can't figure out how to destroy them. You can't pick   Dana Jonson  27:42 them apart to the degree that you would like to.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  27:47 So bad, you know, so you're when you're a litigator, you just have to admit that you have a dysfunctional personality. Right? Yes. So that's why we do this, right? Yes, exactly. We got paid for being like completely not the social norm. So   Dana Jonson  28:01 I always say that I do that I'm a lawyer, because I think this way, I don't think this way, because I'm a lawyer isn't the only place that that I fit in. So let's talk a little bit about the remedies. Because from the remedy in the decision, it doesn't look like you ever found that one place, did you?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  28:20 Well, no, we found it afterwards. So may Institute was one of the ones that our ED consultant found that he thought was the leading candidate. Ironically, also, the neuropsychologist who did an independent evaluation had put that out as a recommendation as well. So I was able to direct the hearing officer to an email from him saying, you know, this would be a good place. And also ironically, that particular neuro psychologist, I just, you know, I wasn't in love with his evaluation. And I was very concerned about him as a witness, because I've actually seen him under oath before. And so I elected not to call him interesting. Yeah,   Dana Jonson  29:03 that's a risk. Huge risk, right? Like, because, I mean, at first thing you're gonna hear from any attorney is you want to go to a hearing, you need an expert.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  29:12 Yeah. Well, so but we had all these other experts. And but that's usually the one that we want, right? It's the neuro Psych. Fortunately, he had spoken to that entire medical team, and incorporated what they said in evaluation itself. And then all of those medical experts wrote follow up letters saying we agree with that neuro psychologist, this is what she means. So I called every one of those medical experts got it. And that's how I got it. I mean, and this is what happens in a due process hearing like, I had him on my witness list, in case I had to I had to put them on. As things develop, you have to make decisions about what you're going to do and what's the whole in your case, you know, then I was like one of the holes My case is, what's the remedy? And I don't usually call Educational Consultants, but I did with this one. Also, because he's got lots of bonus CDs, right? He's, he's run a therapeutic school. He's been, you know, he's   Dana Jonson  30:15 got credentials that you can defend. Yeah, I love that. When I get stuff from parents who say, you know, this is the expert. And I'm like, well, they don't have any credentials. No one's ever heard of them. They're in a different country. I don't know that I'm going to get anyone on board.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  30:32 He worked really hard for this placement. I mean, yeah. Beyond what he ever has to do with anyone. I was on a low fee. On this case, he did a low fee on this case. So we've sort of felt like, Okay,   Dana Jonson  30:45 we're gonna do we're in it together. Yeah.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  30:47 And, and one of the things we got as a remedy was that he got paid his full fee.   Dana Jonson  30:54 Oh, good. Yeah. So that's what I was going to ask you about was the remedies, because one of the remedies is when you win a hearing is that you're entitled to your legal fees? Right. So what I'm curious about is when you submit that legal fees Bill, what is that going to look like after 11 witnesses and five months? It was   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  31:15 close to 100,000. It was like 98,000.   Dana Jonson  31:19 There were a few things in terms of parents listening to this just passed out. Yeah. But   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  31:26 that's what I tell my my clients, it's between 50 and 100,000, for average due process. Yeah. And on top of that, you may have to be paying experts. And that's not reimbursable.   Dana Jonson  31:37 Right. So you're not going to get back and that I can't risk, you know, but right, we can always risk our fees, right? Because we can try and get them back. So that does put give you more skin in the game, I guess.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  31:49 I mean, they pushed back on a couple of things. One of them is definitely legitimate. I put it in there and hope it would just slip by but it didn't, you know? And then there were a couple that were like, arguable. Right? Right. So I just rolled over on that, because I'd rather get it paid. Right. So I want to be reimbursed 92,000?   Dana Jonson  32:11 Well, and I mean, you know, say it's the only civil rights that we negotiate. So parents are always negotiating way their rights. And we as attorneys are always negotiating away our fees. Yeah, we do nothing on the parents side, but negotiate against ourselves from from the beginning. I don't know of very many of any attorneys who have gone through a full hearing and actually received their full BS, they just don't I also find it when when sometimes I hear people say, Oh, well, litigation fees are so much more than, like, we're never seen. No calm down. Take it down a notch. Uh, yeah, I found the remedies really interesting because one remedy said to find the placement and a consultant is ordered. If you can't find a placement, so the the hearing officer did order that consultant as well, correct?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  33:02 Absolutely. But and the thing with may Institute is they are not going to accept anyone unless they're fully funded, right? Because it's a very expensive place. Yes. So the day this decision came out, the ad consultant got on the phone with them with two words fully funded. And within a week, we had an acceptance, but they had to do a little bit of hiring to bring her on, started right after labor.   Dana Jonson  33:27 Right. And I think that's important too, for parents to understand that not a replacement is ready to take your child that day. There usually an acceptance usually means that they can prepare to do that. So if you come, they will then start preparing. They're not going to staff for a student who's not there yet. That's very typical, then that's great. So now is this child going to be there for too long this is placed there   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  33:53 now. Yeah. So as their stereo slave foot and everything else? I don't see them after that horrendous decision. Yes, coming back and saying no, you're ready to come back to Greenwich, right.   Dana Jonson  34:04 And school districts have done that they have a year after a hearing decision said, Well, we gave it a year, and now they're all ready and everything's back together. But you have that hearing decision under your belt. And that is something you can pull out and use. And it would be foolish to do that, at this stage. And particularly given given how many fights are going on between parents and school districts at you know, there was a time where fighting every hearing decision was worth their time and energy. I don't think it is anymore.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  34:34 But then so there was a significant amount of time between when the decision came out and when she was able to go, you know, in the meantime, he ordered remedies for while she was still in the British school system. And I actually had to get down this state's throat to get them to enforce this decision. Really, I did what happened. They were ordered to have an aide in the home for 30 minutes before the ride to school to help the mom get her ready, and they just didn't do it. And I had to go to the state. And they eventually got to st Greenwich Get your act together, you know, and do it and they finally did. And it made a huge difference. Then she was supposed to have a medical taxi instead of the bus that was so torturous for her never got that I was on the state's case, like every two days. And Greenwich kept giving them a spreadsheet showing all the contacts they made to try to arrange a medical taxi. And I was like, this is just baloney. I mean, I'm literally there was one point where they were like, Okay, well, the legal director Mike McCann and Mary Jean Shugborough, who, unfortunately, was the person assigned to the enforcement part of this. The retired. She's retired, isn't she? Yeah, except she's still a part time consultant for some things. I'm like, Why did you assign us to a part time retired consultant? You know, it's   Dana Jonson  36:04 pretty significant. Yeah.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  36:05 So at one point, they were like, well, we're gonna be on the phone with graduates about this on Monday. And we'll let you know. And I'm like, I want to be on that phone call. But I'm on vacation. And they're like, I'm like, do it on Friday, when I'm not on vacation. Oh, well, we can talk to Friday, and then we'll talk to them on Monday. I'm like, No, I will just be on this call during my vacation. So I'm hiking in Maine and losing a signal every three seconds, and I am yelling my butt off. And my husband's like, Oh, my God. And I like I keep losing the signal dialing back in angrily, and on top. So because anyway, never got the medical text, even though I'm, I'm busting a gut. Then on top of that in between, yeah, when I started getting down on their case, and this phone call, they had finally posted this decision, you know, I got it by email. But then they post all of their decisions, right? And the decisions are written. So there's no identifying information the student has called student parents called parents, etc. But it identifies the witnesses, aside from the parent, and the school district and all that, while they put this one on, and they've blacked out everything that would identify the school district or the school district witnesses. And I was like, Okay, so while I'm on the phone screaming, I'm like, who did this? Which one of you did this? You know, what are you doing? They're like, Oh, we thought it might be too specific. And you know, have identifying information. I'm like, you know, if that was your concern, you would have called me or the parent to ask if we had a problem with it, but you didn't. So it seems to me that you were just trying to not embarrass Greenwich, which should be completely embarrassed about how they treat   Dana Jonson  37:54 my dogs going nuts. No, that's exactly what I was gonna say. Which is that, you know, that seems like protecting the district. Were?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  38:03 Absolutely, yeah. In the meantime, I had gotten a written consent from my clients saying you can put it up on redacted and I was like, I have that. And they put it up on redacted after that. But, you know,   Dana Jonson  38:14 I've seen that before, though, that the school district personnel and school are redacted. Is that a thing? No.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  38:20 If you look on every single other decision, there's not a single redaction. Not one. So who decided to do that? Mary Jean Chabot, she admitted? Did she say why? Because she was afraid it would identify the child's that's a lie. I think so.   Dana Jonson  38:43 I feel like that's a lie. But that sounds interesting. Well, you know, and it really is frustrating, because I always feel like when people say, Oh, but these poor teachers, and you know, it's not really there. I feel like I'm with you on that. And I feel as a former teacher and a former administrator, admittedly, I spent about 10 minutes in each role, but I didn't have a problem being honest in the meeting. Now, that was me. Perhaps I didn't have as much at risk as some people by doing that. And I respect and understand that. But I go nuts. When parents say, well, the teacher told me this, but they won't say it in the meeting. And I always say, well, then I don't trust that teacher. No, I just don't, it's great. You're getting inside Intel. But how do you know? They aren't turning around and saying the same thing to the district about you? Exactly. You know, and they're protecting their butts.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  39:39 Yeah. If they're not willing to say it in the meeting, it's useless. It's absolutely   Dana Jonson  39:42 useless. You can see it when people are scripted. In the meetings, you can tell. And I you know, look, it's not my intention to embarrass anyone. But if you have made a conscious decision to toe the party line, then you are making a conscious decision to take the consequences of that action,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  40:06 this child's speech and language pathologist basically said that she agreed to include oral motor goals to help Sydney learn how to talk, which she could do, right. Basically, as a favor.   Dana Jonson  40:22 Oh, it's an accommodation to the parent.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  40:24 Yeah, cuz she wanted to talk. But you know, she didn't really need it for accessing the general education. Oh,   Dana Jonson  40:29 why do you need language for that narrative? I know, I'm sorry, I just get flip. I can't stop myself. I love that when it's an act as an accommodation. I'm   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  40:38 gonna call out that I'm gonna call it call that speech pathologist out on that? Yep. You know,   Dana Jonson  40:44 accommodation is what the child needs. And you know if that I found that frustrating during the pandemic, too, when people were like, well, I don't want to be on tape or on screen or what have you. And I do understand that there is something to being under a micro microscope and people taking things out of context. We've all had that happen to us at some point on the internet, right? Or in a text, something has been taken in the wrong tone. And I just feel like, Haven't we all been using the internet long enough that we should know that. And you know, that tone gets lost and things get lost in translation. But knowing what happens, and being able to reflect on that and make changes that that's important if we're not willing to do that. And that's where I feel like we are right now in schools. I feel like no one's willing to reflect. Yeah, because everyone's so afraid, even more so than before, to look back and say, Yeah, we messed up. And I understand because there are legal ramifications to saying that, so I get why they're not announcing it to the world. Yeah. But maybe their inside voice like in the back of their head, maybe could say, We screwed up, and we gotta fix this. You know,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  41:58 honestly, I find that the better board attorneys manage that, right? Yes, by having a good relationship with you giving you a call saying, can we talk about some solutions? Right? It doesn't have to be an explicit, we messed up, it can be willing to make it better. Right? Right. Good board attorneys. manage that.   Dana Jonson  42:19 Right. And some board attorneys, you know, when when the parent calls you, I'll say, you know, what, I know, we can get X, Y and Z, which will help bring everyone back to the table and and start the conversation over. And then there are some board attorneys where I have to say, look, I hate to tell you this, but we're going to start off fighting, because that's where you are. And that's unfair to it depends on who represents your district as to what kind of what access you will have to that due process, and whether you will be able to fight them or not. And not every parent has access to us. No, you know, and I was just talking to Christine Lai on my last episode about self in the special legal fund and how they've allowed for so much access for parents afforded us I've you know, regardless, look at this, this is a like I said, it's, you had 11 witnesses, it took five months, this took up a significant amount of your time, most of which you were not paid for at the time. Like that's something else people have to realize we get paid when we work, right. Like I'm not on a salary over here with fabulous benefits.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  43:26 What we eat what we kill, as they say, exactly, we   Dana Jonson  43:29 eat what we kill. Yes. I   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  43:30 mean, I had restricted cash flow for a few months there because it took time,   Dana Jonson  43:35 it takes a tremendous amount of time for us to have even one full blown.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  43:40 If I win, I'll be fine. If I know, I'm gonna be second run for a little bit, you know?   Dana Jonson  43:45 Exactly. So I mean, yeah, I mean, it's tough all the way around, and you have to have the bandwidth to do it. And you have to not be afraid of creating bad law because you have to look at if I lose this. Yeah, the way that I have asked this question, if I lose it, what will that do to other families? Exactly.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  44:04 And this decision, I felt like I got more good law out of this, than expected. So tell   Dana Jonson  44:10 us what you think the main takeaways are that you got from this this decision that you think are solidified that are helpful for parents?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  44:18 Well, the blasting of how the school district treated COVID and learning during COVID? Yes, and the failure to implement the IEP at all, really during COVID. And he runs through that was he on the legal side, the support for you were supposed to do what you needed to do and you didn't do it that leads to combat. So I thought that was good. I thought the way he treated the requirement for residential placement when there were mixed issues of because here we had mental health issues, but also medical issues. But those medical issues were very much intertwined with ability to be educated. Yeah, right. So the way he merged those things In talking about the requirement for a residential placement and the board's duty for that residential placement, I thought that was very helpful. Yeah. So those, those were the two takeaways that I really enjoy.   Dana Jonson  45:15 Now, those are great. And those were great for the rest of us. Thank you. Here. I say, the combat peace to the combat peace is great.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  45:24 Yeah. So that was good, because he talked about how you don't need to have gross violation to get combat if you're not in a aged out situation. Right. And he kind of blasted the whole equities argument, which I was like, I didn't even understand the board's argument. I'm like, this isn't the unilateral placement case. Right. That's third prong about the equities. Right. Yes. So but he turned that around to Well, maybe it's, you know, relevant to combat? Well, and   Dana Jonson  45:56 that's I mean, to explain to parents who don't understand really what we're talking about. No, no, it's good. It's good. Because what what that means is there are specific arguments we have to meet. So the first question I have to ask is, did the school district provide an appropriate program? And if the answer to that is yes, then nothing else matters, right? So there are different prongs of these different arguments. And some of them get to the point of equity. And this one doesn't. So it was unclear where he was going when he went down that road. But what he was doing was taking that equity argument and, and putting it towards compensatory education and saying that, for these reasons, this child does require compensatory education, which is meant to bring the child back up to where they would have been had they had that service. So that's an that's a big win, especially post COVID. Where that's a lot of the arguments is whether it's compensatory or not. So that's, that's a tough argument. And so that was a great win for parents. Yeah. And the last thing I want to ask you about, though, is the quotes throughout the decision, because I started reading and I thought was this a quote from the transcript? So at the beginning of every section, the hearing officer wrote a little quote, and the chapter and pages that it was from so I put that into my trusty Google search, and discovered that he was quoting Helen Keller throughout the whole thing. Can you talk a little about   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  47:24 could have looked at the footnotes, or I could   Dana Jonson  47:27 have looked at the footnotes that would have required this dense dyslexic woman to look at every footnote in this 54 Page decision.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  47:37 Okay. We won't do that to you. He basically took the I guess it was the autobiography of Helen Keller, and took various clubs, this kid touched his heart. And she's touched mine as well. She wants to start a school for kids with disabilities. She's she's just, she's an amazing kid, right? Before she went to me. I went and had dinner with her. And she finally had the new communication device that had actually been recommended and like managed never did. Wow. And we sat and had a really long, pretty fluent conversation about how do we get to the point where she gets to go to May? What was the hearing? Like? Who did I call? What did they say? You know, do I have to go back to Greenwich public schools for like three days to the school they have before I go to make? No you don't, I can see her really doing something in the world. Her physiatrist testified very clearly that he expects big things from her. And the hearing officer clearly felt that this child had a lot of potential and could make some change in the world. I think putting in those quotes helped bring it to like, we need to liberate this kid from her, the confines of her body, right? And let her be the person she can be. So I just about cried when I was reading through the decision with those quotes sprinkled throughout. I talked to a board lawyer afterwards. And she was like, Oh, that was quite a decision, like, I guess was just like, you know, the quotes from having Helen Keller were a little bit of overkill on like, this is run through your veins,   Dana Jonson  49:22 right? And by the way, not if you were there, if you were there. These fit in perfectly. And I did I mean I did read a couple of footnotes narrative, but I liked how he he did talk about while this student is not deaf and blind, they are bound by these disabilities in a way that we can't comprehend. And that it wasn't until, you know Helen Keller, somebody taught her how to communicate that she was able to share herself with the world and that those comparisons he felt applied to this student as well. And I think that just added to the impact of those quotes. And you're right, you could tell that this was a very emotional matter. And this is one of those matters where you read through it and you think, well, it's a slam dunk, right? You read this and you're like, of course, you're gonna win. But that just simply isn't how special education works, you know,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  50:31 and back to what we were talking about at the beginning, you can win, and the remedy can wind up being useless.   Dana Jonson  50:39 Exactly. So there's a lot of risks, but it's decisions like this, that are the reason why we continue to do it, and move forward. And also, make sure that your attorney moving forward and a hearing has the experience and background necessary to and resources. You know, if you don't have experience, you can get experience, right, you can learn, you can get experience, you can get mentored, you can do all those things. But you can't pretend you know what you don't know. Right. And it's important to make sure that your attorney does practice special education law, that is their primary, that they are not doing something else, and are not distracted by other laws that may conflict with the ID EA, which people don't realize there are a lot of educational rules and laws that actually conflict with the ID EA. So if you're more familiar with those than the IDA, then you may not be giving the right advice.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  51:44 It's ironic that a lot of that was passed in order to be parent friendly, and increase parental participation in the education of disabled kids is so non parent friendly.   Dana Jonson  51:56 It's not parent friendly. It's not free to access. No. Because if you want to access it, you need an attorney or an advocate. And those are not free. Just think about the professional development that parents do just to understand how to talk to their attorneys. I mean, to their sorry, to their school districts, you know, like, just to get the vocabulary to advocate for their child, they spend a tremendous amount of money on professional development and all of those pieces.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  52:24 So back up for a second. The other thing I thought this decision was Brown was LRE least restrictive environment.   Dana Jonson  52:31 Oh, yes. Talk about LRE for a second. So   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  52:34 least restrictive environment means that your disabled children are supposed to be educated to the maximum extent possible with non disabled kids. My argument here was because they were screwing up so much. And they really did not include her appropriately in general education things. She was isolated from her peers. And it's even as much as like the chair they were using, they were having her in a wheelchair in her classroom, which separated her and put her on a different level than her peers. And the physical therapist, do   Dana Jonson  53:07 you mean physically, like height wise?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  53:10 Yeah, so she's not even at the table, right. And they were like, you know, the IES were like, You need to get this kind of chair and play her here. So that she's with her peers. And they never did any of that. It was stuff like that. And then she would have total meltdowns, especially Shan Maxon, or whatever, and be removed from the classroom because of her meltdowns, and then be removed to go to the bathroom and spend all sorts of time on there. The general education setting for her was more restrictive than one that was designed for kids with similar disabilities. And he went for that argument, which I really appreciate it.   Dana Jonson  53:51 And that's an amazing argument. And I I make it all the time. It's, like all my philosophical, yeah, argument of what's least restrictive, right. And I had a student once who were arguing over Villa Maria. And in the public school, the student had to be in the sub substantially separate room all day, including lunch, including everything, but at Villa Maria, they could roam the halls, they could have lunch with   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  54:16 their peers. And from my perspective, that is absolutely and Hillary argument in favor of Bill Murray. Yeah,   Dana Jonson  54:22 exactly. Exactly. You know, and so, you know, fortunately, that didn't have to go to a hearing at that point in time, because I don't know where that would have landed. But I do think we are getting closer to understanding that that may be a more a less restrictive environment for that student. It looks restrictive to us,   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  54:41 but if they have no peers to relate to, right, exactly, and they're not being educated with the same materials, you know, if they're sitting in the general education classroom, everyone else is working on, you know, XYZ, but they're working on a different on a different level on a different skill on their own little worksheet. with their pero right here, that's not the least restrictive environment for that child. Now, they're being they're other, they're separated.   Dana Jonson  55:08 Right? They're substantially separate from everybody else, even if you physically sit them in the room and kids do not learn independence through osmosis. No, it's not by sitting near typically developing children that you become typically developing. The goal is to become independent. Right? And what does this child need to become independent? And sometimes what a child needs to become independent is more children like them?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  55:36 Right. Right. So I thought that his ruling on that issue was helpful for this argument.   Dana Jonson  55:43 Yes, yes. That's very helpful for this argument, because it gives us a little something with some meat on it. Yeah, too.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  55:51 When I when I was bringing it up, you could see him going like, that's an interesting point.   Dana Jonson  55:57 Yeah. And now I really hate for to Moses for taking him out of the hearing officer, Bill. I'm hotline.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  56:07 He was he was previously I think he was in a judge advocate corps. Okay. He was a Jag. Um, you could tell you know, he have plenty of litigation experience. Right. Okay. So he was it was sort of easy that way for me, because my litigation arguments like right in a place where he understood them.   Dana Jonson  56:28 Right. That was good, good. Friend, now he's gone. And so this is the this is his swan song, which we will have framed up in many offices around Connecticut. This was incredibly helpful narrative. And thank you so much for coming on. And talking to me about it. I really, I don't think parents really understand everything that goes into due process. They just here fight the school district, I will put the link to your decision in my show notes. So anyone who wants to geek out like the one right? Yes, the unredacted one, so you can see everybody's name and all the footnotes. And she could just click on them and they pop up. So I'll put the link to that there. But if someone's listening, and they're like, Wow, I need to hire Meredith clearly, because she's the only attorney who who can understand me and my child. How do they reach you? How do they find you?   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  57:25 Well, it would be great if I had a website, but I just haven't over the last 20 years have the time to put Yeah, really   Dana Jonson  57:30 had a need. Hmm.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  57:33 Really? I'm gonna do it soon. No, I swear.   Dana Jonson  57:36 Okay, I got I have a good name for you.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  57:40 I've had it in process for a long time. You can look me up on the internet, probably. I don't know some I'll put a link to how you can find this. Sometimes when you put in Meredith Braxton. There's some Meredith Braxton some like soap opera or something.   Dana Jonson  57:54 Awesome. So you show up in the soap opera star? Yeah, I think that's great.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  57:58 No, it's the name of a character.   Dana Jonson  58:03 Even better. All right, I will put a link to Meredith in the in the show notes as well. If you feel you must reach out to Meredith and find her. And thank you so much, Meredith, for coming on and talking to us and talking about your case. And thank you for taking it all the way. Because I think that that is not easy for any of us to do. And   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  58:22 you know, I had not had a case go all the way in like two years. So I was also sort of chomping at the bit. Yeah, because I am a litigator at heart. And I like to go to hearing occasionally. And I was like it was sort of killing me. So I was happy to bring it all the way and I got a few more going into the can this week, then. I think at least one will my gold way.   Dana Jonson  58:49 That will be amazing. Yeah. Well, thank you. And that, that it makes a huge difference for the rest of us. And it definitely helps. helps all of us. You know, when   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  58:58 we talk he's, I was about as pleased as one could be with that decision. It's amazing, even better than I had hoped.   Dana Jonson  59:05 And that's amazing. And the family must've just been beside themselves.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  59:10 You know, and Sydney. She's, she's happy as a clam of May.   Dana Jonson  59:14 I'm so happy and validation. Yeah, it wasn't her right that.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  59:20 Yeah. Oh, but she always knew that.   Dana Jonson  59:22 Yeah, she she's smarter than they are.   Meredith Braxton, Esq.  59:24 She is. She really is.   Dana Jonson  59:27   That's often the problem. Well, thank you so much. Meredith. Thank you so much for joining me today. Please don't forget to follow this podcast so you don't miss any new episodes and leave a review and you have a chance. If there's anything you want to hear about or comment on. Please go to my Facebook page special ed on special ed and find me there. I'll see you next time here on special ed on special ed. Have a fabulous day. 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News Channel 3's sports director Andy Pepper chatted about this years 68-team field with three men who absolutely love the game of basketball: Former WMU Head Coach and current ESPN analyst Steve Hawkins, who led the Broncos to the 2004 and 2014 NCAA Tournaments; Ed Kengerski of Michigan Sports TV, who covers the Wolverines on a daily basis; and former News Channel 3 sports reporter Mike McCann who is — to put it bluntly — a bit of a college basketball junkie. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwmt/message

In this episode, I celebrate the 50th episode! Thank you to everyone who helped me SHINE in 2020. I hope you're fired up and ready to GROW in 2021 and beyond.  To celebrate this milestone, I welcome my LIT Braintrust, LLC, business partner in power, Shontavia J. Johnson. She is the founder &  CEO of the Brand +  Business Academy and helps working professionals start their business while employed full-time. She is the host of The Shontavia Show, a conversational web series and podcast that tackles the most common questions about starting, operating and growing a business and personal brand. Shontavia is a world renowned speaker and her esteemed background in intellectual property law, technology, education and business makes her the PERFECT strategist for working professionals who are also creatives, side-hustlers, and entrepreneurs. End of episode kudos and wisdom:Dante Disparte (24) Minda Harts (1) Jimmy Song (23) Leah Budu Super Fan Anthony Ware, (6)Tim "Mr. Future of Work" Salau (42) Anne Griffin (11) Cleve Mesidor (26) Tracy Clark Super Fan Manasi Vora (38) Carla Banks Waddles Super Fan Ram Katamaraja (48) Mike McCann (2)LaTesha Byrd (25) Susan EvansSPONSORED BY ADVANTAGE EVANS™ ACADEMY Register for the 1/13/2021 FREE "Crypto & the Future of Money" Masterclass and a chance to win a copy of Bitcoin &  Black America, by Isaiah Jackson and be one of five to receive $500 off of From Cash to Crypto™ ENCORE enrollment,REGISTER: FromCashToCrypto.comGuest assets: Twitter: ShontaviaJEsqWeb: Shontavia.comLinks: Startabusinessquiz.comContact:hello@techintersectpodcast.com Twitter @AtTechIntersect Instagram @TechIntersect TechIntersectPodcast.com  VIP List: http://eepurl.com/gKqDyP Rapternal Music (Regulate & The Rabbit Hole) by Notty Productions is licensed under a CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Produced by Tonya M. Evans & edited by Stephanie Renee for Soul Sanctuary, Inc.Support the show (https://tinyurl.com/techintersectvip)

Welcome back to the Radio Show and Playlist #124. We have the pleasure of interviewing Mike McCann of the band Raven Tree on today's show. Plus, Ouch, You're on my Hair presents the following bands: Orion's Reign, Generation Steel, Tombs, Dozer, Holy Mother, Raven Tree, Blacktop Mojo, East Temple Avenue, Stitchfork, Living Scars, and Corners of Sanctuary, Be sure to look them up on their Social Media sites and tell them you heard them right here on Ouch, You're on my Hair - The Radio Show. Join Randy and Troy, for this and every episode of Ouch You're on my Hair, and subscribe to the show on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Podomatic, Podbean, Google Play, Stitcher, or Player FM. You can find them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Ouch, You're on my Hair is brought to you by Dirt Bag Clothing.

Episode 54 Pimp Slapped Featuring Mike McCann!On today’s episode the Kevs are joined by Sports Reporter Mike McCann! (Follow Mike @McCann_Sports on Twitter!) We discuss Bob Quinn’s top 10 blunders as the Detroit Lions GM, Firing of Matt Patricia, The next Detroit Lions Head Coach, Jeffrey Epstein, Carson Wentz, NFL news, Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, North Dakota, Hope College, and more! DO NOT FORGET ABOUT BTKP MERCH! STORE IS NOW LIVE!!!!!https://btkp-merch-store.myshopify.com/collections/allThank you to our sponsors, BIll’s Ball Bustin’ Ass Kickin’ Salsa, 8 Mile Vodka, Guernsey’s, and Conor O’Neils! And check out thenique.com to support mental health!Subscribe rate and review on all platforms! Links are below! Keep sending us your feedback, we appreciate it!- Subscribe and Review on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIV-GZPUDIA7dB8Aj3rXdw?view_as=subscriber- Subscribe and Comment on iTunes: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1110077.rss - Subscribe and Review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/26N4hy35njWDwbCJcsCOgG - Subscribe and Review on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?q=between%20two%20kevs - Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/between_two_kevFollow us on OnlyFans https://onlyfans.com/betweentwokevspodcast Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BetweenTwoKevsFollow BTKP on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@betweentwokevspodcast?_d=secCgsIARCbDRgBIAIoARI%2BCjyyun34eA58O5l7gxJdc2e4xKCq6eL7iA0PQoZkRIfMPQ5iuFcpRdmmj%2Fo4wiebc9B988DnWy%2F89hWKLCUaAA%3D%3D&language=en&sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAADKg55xK4ZeHf-t_Ro2m5DYbSGg4wItPrAq6y8_qtZb2_eqojQX-KosnjV1Q5DZre&share_author_id=6830785592931845125&tt_from=email&u_code=dcg25795feg92g&user_id=6830785592931845125&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=email&source=h5_m

In this episode, Rebecca is joined by Mike McCann, "The Real Estate Man". He has maintained the #1 Realtor status in Philadelphia every year since 1988, and for the last 20 years, ranked top 50 in the country with The Wall Street Journal! Sharing his personal story and the success tips that have helped him stay focused on his goals, as well as become one of the biggest influencers in the industry!

I welcome one of the nation's top realtors Mike McCann "The Real Estate Man" of The Mike McCann Team into the #lionden to teach us how his humble beginnings fueled his success and pushed him to lead the Philadelphia real estate market for over 30 years

Detective Lindsey Wade, the catalyst for getting Ted Bundy's DNA into CODIS (The National DNA database) and co-host Mike McCann examine the most intriguing cold cases. Investigators. Forensic and Medical Examiners, Journalists. We'll take you inside, through the eyes of an investigator. Stay tuned! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anatomyofacoldcase/support

Mike McCann has been the number one Philadelphia real estate agent for 32 years in a row. He runs the number one team in Pennsylvania (23rd in the nation), and has sold over 10,000 homes in his career. On today’s episode of Stay Paid, Mike explains the strategies and practices that have helped him become one of the most successful real estate agents in the country, including how he follows up with his database to drive the bulk of his new business. To learn how to generate more referrals and repeat business, visit: www.remindermedia.com Follow Luke Acree: https://www.instagram.com/lukeacree https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukeacree https://www.facebook.com/lukeacreeRM/ Follow ReminderMedia: https://twitter.com/remindermedia https://www.facebook.com/ReminderMedia https://www.instagram.com/remindermedia #MakeAMillionInRealEstate #StepByStepSalesMarketingTips #RepeatReferralBusiness

The Floridaville Get to Know the People Behind the Florida Names You Know Mike McCann has never backed down from a challenge.  The endurance and focus he learned on the football field as a player growing up has translated to his successful furniture business in Jacksonville.  Today his furniture company is not only selling great home furnishings but helping the First Coast community of Florida.

#175: Real Estate Titans with Greg Fowler featuring special guest, Mike McCann. Follow us on Facebook: @RealEstateTitansLive Watch this episode on YouTube: Real Estate Titans Channel Greg Fowler on Instagram: @gregfowlerco Sponsored by Lion Bolt Media. www.lionboltmedia.com   Episode Insights: "Never never never give up." "Can't means won't." "The harder you work the luckier you get." "If you believe you can achieve." "It's a beautiful day." "Boy do I feel great." "Patient persistence overcomes resistance." Website:https://www.mccannteam.com Books:Think and Grow Richhttps://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331/ref=nodl_ The ONE Thinghttps://www.amazon.com/ONE-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-Results/dp/1885167776/ref=nodl_ Shifthttps://www.amazon.com/Shift-Estate-Agents-Tackle-Tough/dp/0071605266/ref=nodl_ The Millionaire Real Estate Agenthttps://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Real-Estate-Agent/dp/B000YHH1SI/ref=nodl_ Influencers:Gary Kellerhttps://headquarters.kw.com/leadership/gary-keller/ Sponsored by Lion Bolt Media. www.lionboltmedia.com

Mike McCann has been the #1 real estate agent in Philadelphia (or Philly as he prefers to say) every single year since 1988, and he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon! Having been around for as long as he has, Mike is just a fountain of real estate knowledge packed along with a copious amount of positivity and experience! Inside this interview Mike shares how he’s manages to stay at the top of the game with an ever-shifting real estate market (he had a website before Prudential even had one), how to look for opportunity during trying times instead of succumbing to fear, and so much more insane value! Check it out!   0:01 - Interview Start 1:45 - What brought you to the real estate industry? 9:15 - Doing what’s best for the customer first 14:00 - Learning the delegate 22:00 - Looking for opportunity instead of succumbing to fear during an economic downturn 28:30 - Consistency and it’s importance 35:45 - What it truly takes to create success! 43:30 - What are some things you are focusing on to change as the industry evolves? 51:00 - Making others feel important allows them to see you as important 54:00 - 2 pieces of advice Mike would give his younger self 58:20 - Where to learn more about Mike     Websites & Contact:   https://www.mccannteam.com/   https://www.facebook.com/McCannTeam/   https://www.instagram.com/themccannteam/?hl=en   (215) 778-0901   mccann@mccannteam.com    

Jay sits down with Mike McCann to discuss what makes you successful in real estate, how Mike got to his success and what choices he made to get there. Mike lives by, "Gratitude is Attitude," so to be thankful for what have every day is most important and then what follows is more to be grateful for. Mike discusses his story from beginning to now and also what transitional things he and his company have gone through to reach their utmost potential and more. Listen to this episode and hear from the man himself, Mike McCann the Real Estate Man!

Wow, Mike McCann is one of the most entertaining interviews we have done... Many laughs and many important business ideas... Find out what type of leader you need to be to have team members work with you for over 20 years.    A powerful domino, Mike McCann is known as ‘The Real Estate Man' from downtown Philadelphia. Thirty-three years in the business has not dimmed his enthusiasm or excitement for real estate. His humble beginnings as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman set him up for grand success on the real estate stage. At $365 million in closed volume and 780 units sold in 2018, McCann is the number one agent in Philadelphia and is ready to soar to even greater heights at his new professional home – Keller Williams. https://outfront.kw.com/agents/head-turners/mike-mccann/   www.mccannteam.com  

In this episode, Sports Illustrated legal analyst and contributor, Professor Mike McCann, and I discuss how pro athletes like NBA star, Spencer Dinwiddie of the Brooklyn Nets, is leveraging his earning potential by issuing a cryptocurrency (PaINT) via the Ethereum Network's blockchain to tokenize his earnings and engage fans and investors directly. We also talked about when and how scholarship-athletes might actually benefit financially from their name, image and likeness. Given trailblazers like college basketball star, Ed O'Bannon, the mega millions that schools make off the backs of the athletes who compete under their names, and the rising public support for these athletes to receive some type of economic benefit, we conclude that it's not a matter of if but when college scholarship athletes truly and meaningfully participate in the upside of the value they generate for schools and the NCAA. As a former scholarship athlete and former professional tennis player, this topic is near and dear to my heart. Guest social assets: Twitter @McCannSportsLawCourt Justice: The Inside Story of My Battle with the NCAA, by Ed O'Bannon and Michael McCannThe Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law, by Michael McCann Full Show Notes: https://techintersectpodcast.com/listen/episodes-shownotes/**Watch the latest Ask Me Anything (AMA) Replay**Contact:Questions and requests: hello@techintersectpodcast.com Follow: Twitter @AtTechIntersect Instagram @TechIntersect Web: http://www.TechIntersectPodcast.com Subscribe to the Triple L Weekly: http://eepurl.com/gKqDyP (early episode access + info)Want early access to episodes, exclusive content including full show notes, live video chats and replays, a copy of my e-book, The Gen Xers Guide to Upskilling for a Web 3.0 World and self-guided course of the same name? Subscribe to Advantage Evans™ Plus, Advantage Evans Premium™ or Advantage Evans Pro™If you like my content and want to support my efforts, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

The Tech Intersect™ Podcast is a weekly show that features engaging conversations with rising stars and industry leaders to help you demystify leading-edge trends at the heart of where law, business and tech intersect. Your host, Tonya M. Evans, is a lawyer, academic, entrepreneur and life-long learner. This is a preview of what the Tech Intersect Podcast is all about and what you can expect as you LISTEN, LEARN and LEVERAGE to prepare for the future. Because your future is now.Topics include the business, legal and ethical issues that have emerged due to the meteoric rise of Web 3.0 technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality and connected devices that make up the Internet of things. Some of the greatest innovations present some of our most pressing legal issues and business concerns around data integrity, privacy, and security. And speaking of business, we also cover leadership, entrepreneurship, upskilling, new collar jobs, social impact, inclusion and equity and all things related to the future of technology, work and the world.The lineup of diverse, accomplished guests is really exciting! From best-selling author, entrepreneur and renowned speaker, Minda Harts and one of the world's foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts, Andreas Antonpoulos, to Sports Illustrated legal analyst and law professor, Mike McCann, and Facebook's Libra Association VC and Head of Policy and Communications, Dante Disparte.Support the show (https://tinyurl.com/techintersectvip)

During this episode of the Lab Coat Agents Podcast, host Nick Baldwin speaks with Mike McCann, the  #1 agent in Philadelphia, about culture, systems, work-life balance, and the school of hard knocks. Mike is an incredible example of someone who values building trust through cooperation. His success will inspire you to think about how you can serve others with a positive attitude.    Episode Highlights:  Mike McCann was born and raised in Philadelphia. After working a series of different jobs, he became a realtor at age 27. He had no training, but taught himself. He learned how to be a great realtor by attending events, watching top agents, and reading as much as he could.  By his third year, he did ninety transactions and became the #1 realtor in Philly. Going to events is crucial to building your business. He said to himself that he wanted the best reputation in the marketplace among the real estate community. He also wanted to be known as the most educated realtor. He went beyond his own marketplace for knowledge and inspiration. He has always prioritized giving back. When you’re building your business, you’ve got to try to get along with the agent on the other side of the deal.  He responds quickly and thoroughly. He provides tools to the other agent to help them close the deal. The key to success is your reputation among the real estate industry. Ego can get in the way. Be positive with your clients and the other agents throughout the process. Mike’s team values family first and then business. If you don’t have an assistant, you are one. Mike provides his system for taking the risk out of hiring an assistant. Mike shares his criteria for hiring assistants and agents. Hiring correctly is the most important thing. Mike describes a regular day in his office. No matter how good you are, you need to meet people. Mike stresses the law of averages. He likes to have 3-4 appointments each day. He was always ahead of his market. He hired an assistant before people hired assistants. He had a website before most agents had websites. Mike describes how he stopped working weekends to prioritize family time. Facebook has been an incredible source of referrals and direct business. Mike is grateful every day. He has learned to compartmentalize negative things and turn the other cheek. Helping people helps you more than the people you’re helping. Nick and Mike share the books they’re currently reading. Compare yourself to yourself. There’s no one definition of success.   3 Key Points: Cooperation is essential to building your reputation and your business. If you don’t have an assistant, you are one. Choose to be grateful every day.    Resources Mentioned: LCA Marketing Center: LCAmarketingcenter.com Lab Coat Agents: LabCoatAgents.com Mike McCann website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube  The One Thing (book) The Millionaire Real Estate Agent (book) Edison: Inventing the Century (book) Objections (book) Fanatical Prospecting (book)   Connect with Lab Coat Agents: Lab Coat Agents on Facebook Lab Coat Agents on Twitter Lab Coat Agents on Instagram Lab Coat Agents Facebook Group

Startups require attention, resources, and time. Finding an investor or partner that offers these factors is not an easy task and requires thoughtful and methodical intent. Our guest for this episode has fostered, developed, and nurtured innovation, idea, and startups. 36 companies have had the opportunity to work with this venture group, and hundreds of others continue to reach out. On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Mike McCann, Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at Rev1 Ventures. Rev1 Ventures is the investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and grow. Through their resources, Rev1 is able to work with startups to effectively validate a product, structure a company, land customers, raise capital, and build a team. FNO: InsureTech Podcast is created and produced by Fourseventy Claim Management. Visit us online at www.fnoinsuretech.com

Mike shares his incredible journey from waiting tables and knowing nothing about real estate to owning 60 properties without mortgages. He tells us how he was able to pay off all his rentals in shorter than 30 years, and his secret to managing his portfolio with very little effort.

It is hard to believe that we have completed 2 seasons of the METC Podcast! Can't think of a better way to close out season 2. Mike McCann and I discuss my second favorite Google Tool, Google Keep!  Keep is an amazing tool and if you are not using it, you should check it out for sure! There were two Twitter Challenges within this episode! Share your answers using #METCpodcast for an opportunity for some of our new Podcast stickers! Challenge 1 - What is @jleetechpercent's #1 favorite Google tool? Challenge 2 - How are you using Google Keep? Either within the classroom setting or personally. Not using Google Keep? Share how you would like to begin using it. Remember, use #METCpodcast within your tweet!   We will be back next week (not in two weeks like originally thought) with episode 58 and the first episode of season 3! Thank you for checking out this episode. Connect with Mike and myself on Twitter.

In this episode of business insights with John Racine my guest Mike McCann and I discuss his journey as an entrepreneur. Mike is the retired owner of Bromley Steel Fabricators located in Wesleyville, just west of Port Hope. It was a privilege to be able to interview Mike on the show as I’ve know Mike all of my life and have admired how he has created a very successful company. We discuss Mike’s upbringing in Manchester in the 40’s and 50’s and how he entered the Royal Air force at the age of 15. We talk about making the move to Canada and ultimately to Port Hope. We gain great insights from Mike as he discusses both the risk and reward of owning your own business. Episode 14: Mike McCann I hope you enjoy the show!

Yams, Ham, Potato's, Tomatoes, obligated family time you NNNAAAMMMMMEEE it!!!!!!!!!!!! The road soda of, former co-worker, dear friend, published author, OFFICIAL NOVEMBER SPONSOR, and serial entrepreneur Mike McCann of Jaxco Furniture joins us!! He cracks open a cold one and help us entertain you as you stare at a never ending interstate of headlights. We talk everything from small dogs, to the kids menu at Hooters. CHECK OUT OUR ALL THINGS NOVEMBER SPONSOR JAXCO FURNITURE!!!!- Jacksonville's Most Trusted Source For Home Furnishings -Jaxcofurniture.comFacebook: Jaxco FurnitureInstagram: Jaxcofurniture Facebook: AJ Presents The Gr8r Good Instagram: AJpresentsthegr8rgoodTwitter: AJgr8rgoodEmail: AJpresentsthegr8rgood@yahoo.comKeep it real with Reel Talk www.RealtalkClt.com

Yams, Ham, Potato's, Tomatoes, obligated family time you NNNAAAMMMMMEEE it!!!!!!!!!!!! The road soda of, former co-worker, dear friend, published author, OFFICIAL NOVEMBER SPONSOR, and serial entrepreneur Mike McCann of Jaxco Furniture joins us!! He cracks open a cold one and help us entertain you as you stare at a never ending interstate of headlights. We talk everything from small dogs, to the kids menu at Hooters. CHECK OUT OUR ALL THINGS NOVEMBER SPONSOR JAXCO FURNITURE!!!!- Jacksonville's Most Trusted Source For Home Furnishings -Jaxcofurniture.comFacebook: Jaxco FurnitureInstagram: Jaxcofurniture Facebook: AJ Presents The Gr8r Good Instagram: AJpresentsthegr8rgoodTwitter: AJgr8rgoodEmail: AJpresentsthegr8rgood@yahoo.comKeep it real with Reel Talk www.RealtalkClt.com

Within this episode of the METC Podcast, Mike McCann and I continue our conversation on how to best manage your workflow.  Mike moves away from the e-mail client and into three apps that can really ramp up your communication and management in your quest to Inbox Zero.  Check out the apps that Mike shares and connect with us on twitter to share your thoughts.   Episode's Guest: Mike McCann - Instructional Technology Coach - Wentzville School District - @mccann1776   Episode's Resources:   Google Keep   Google Calendar   Todoist

In this episode of the METC Podcast, I sit dow with Mike McCann and discuss many ways to manage our workflow.  We all receive a bunch a e-mail throughout our busy day and sometimes it can be very overwhelming.  Mike shares some great strategies to manage your inbox to hopefully one day get to Inbox Zero!  Yes, you too can get to zero in your inbox by implementing some of these strategies.  You will notice that no where in the episode does Mike say that this will be easy.  However, I love the tips he shares and the information about the new GMail.  Be sure to connect with Mike on twitter.     Episode's Guest: Mike McCann - Instruction Technology Coach - Wentzville School District - @mccann1776

Episode 10: Paula Ebben and Jon Keller talk to sports law expert Mike McCann about what the supreme court's decision on sports betting means for New England, American Oversight founder Austin Evers on using FOIA to expose corruption, Berklee professor Prince Charles Alexander explores whether Kanye West is the Miles Davis of the 21st century. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With everyone commuting home for the holidays I figured I'd drop a road soda, only to help pass the time sitting helplessly in traffic. Its a drunk conversation(while having a DD) while in Charleston, SC for out good friend Ross Peterson's wedding about mini cheese burgers, ghost tours, and getting struck by lighting. Mike McCann is not only a published Author, a business mentor, and a Serial Entrepreneur, HES MY A FELLOW PASSANGER ON THIS FANTASTIC VOYAGE!!! Mike will have his own full blown episode this year but for now, buckle up and Enjoy thanks giving we will be back Dec 12th!!! Follow the link below to check out Mikes amazing book!!https://www.amazon.com/Believe-EG21-Play-There-Tomorrow/dp/0996690514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511319253&sr=8-1&keywords=EG21- LIKE SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE AND FOR GOD SAKES WRITE THOSE iTunes Reviews-Facebook: AJ Presents The Gr8r Good Instagram: AJpresentsthegr8rgoodTwitter: AJgr8rgoodEmail: AJpresentsthegr8rgood@yahoo.comCheck Out Artist J-Breezy with this seasons new theme "Lettum Know"www.soundcloud/j-breezyA Season Of Luxury ...Check Out The Ivey's Beautiful Facilities!!www.theiveyshotel.comKeep it real with Reel Talk www.RealtalkClt.com

With everyone commuting home for the holidays I figured I'd drop a road soda, only to help pass the time sitting helplessly in traffic. Its a drunk conversation(while having a DD) while in Charleston, SC for out good friend Ross Peterson's wedding about mini cheese burgers, ghost tours, and getting struck by lighting. Mike McCann is not only a published Author, a business mentor, and a Serial Entrepreneur, HES MY A FELLOW PASSANGER ON THIS FANTASTIC VOYAGE!!! Mike will have his own full blown episode this year but for now, buckle up and Enjoy thanks giving we will be back Dec 12th!!! Follow the link below to check out Mikes amazing book!!https://www.amazon.com/Believe-EG21-Play-There-Tomorrow/dp/0996690514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511319253&sr=8-1&keywords=EG21- LIKE SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE AND FOR GOD SAKES WRITE THOSE iTunes Reviews-Facebook: AJ Presents The Gr8r Good Instagram: AJpresentsthegr8rgoodTwitter: AJgr8rgoodEmail: AJpresentsthegr8rgood@yahoo.comCheck Out Artist J-Breezy with this seasons new theme "Lettum Know"www.soundcloud/j-breezyA Season Of Luxury ...Check Out The Ivey's Beautiful Facilities!!www.theiveyshotel.comKeep it real with Reel Talk www.RealtalkClt.com

Long-time NFL reporter/analysts Ed Werder and Matt Mosley convene an emergency recording session of the award-winning Doomsday Podcast to breakdown the latest Ezekiel Elliott court decision. We concentrate on how the potential absence of Elliott for six games with the NFL suspension restored will impact the 2-3 Cowboys. In addition we explore what the court decision in New Orleans that went in favor of Roger Goodell and the NFL means going forward. What are Elliott's chances of winning another injunction allowing him to play and of winning the overall case eventually, assuming he appeals? Legal experts Mike McCann and Daniel Wallach offer their insights - and disagree on the outcome! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Emo-less Matt processes the passing of his favorite Grandparent and Toby calls BS on a Holy Spirit encounter Joey apparently had while watching a Christian movie.  This episode was recorded way past every one’s bedtime but hey, you got to do what you got to do. We’re also joined by author and friend Mike McCann.   Sponsors and Links: NatureBox - http://naturebox.com/badchristian  Mike McCann - Believe EG21 - http://believeeg21.com/

Entrepreneur Mike McCann from VennScience joins Salina and I to talk about his first year in business and shares his secrets to launching a successful start up. I share my experience with VennScience having used them to implement and launch SalesForce. We learn what Mike’s plans for his second year, which include expanding into new

Sonics Rising Managing Editor Kevin Nesgoda interviews Mike McCann on a number of subjects sports and Seattle related.   Mike McCann writes and provides legal analysis for Sports Illustrated, serves as the Director of Sports & Entertainment Law Institute & Professor of Law for the University of New Hampshire, and is a practicing Massachusetts Attorney.  You can follow him on Twitter at @McCannSportsLaw Give it a listen and chime in with your thoughts and comments.  They talk some NBA, officiating, sports law, Donald Sterling, Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, arena talk, expansion, TV Contracts, and more! Produced by Steve Stearns.