Podcasts about Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Target Zero team up for the inaugural Bike/Walk like MADD event on May 31 in Vancouver, dedicated to the memory of Danielle “Danie” Abrahams and her dog who were killed by a drunk driver in 2023. https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/madd-target-zero-team-up-for-bike-walk-like-madd-event-saturday-may-31/ #ClarkCounty #localnews #MADD #TargetZero #DanielleDanieAbrahams #BikeWalklikeMADD #FrenchmansBarRegionalPark #AnneMcEnernyOgle #ImpairedDriving #Event

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A stuck elevator packed with twenty-three Bible college students becomes an unexpected metaphor for spiritual awakening in this powerful Easter message. When we're trapped between floors—books and backpacks pressing against us, someone desperately needing a bathroom—we suddenly notice emergency buttons and speakers that were there all along. Similarly, we often remain oblivious to God's presence until life corners us with questions nothing else can answer.Drawing from John 20, this message explores how Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb sparked the greatest hope humanity has ever known. Nobody expected resurrection that first Easter morning—not even the disciples who had followed Jesus for three years. They didn't fully understand until they personally witnessed the empty tomb. This revelation transformed their devastating grief into world-changing conviction.The resurrection fundamentally distinguishes Christianity from all other belief systems. As the pastor powerfully states, "Christianity is not based on the teachings of Jesus. Christianity is based on the person of Jesus." This challenges listeners to confront the essential question: Did Jesus actually rise from the dead? If so, neither our painful experiences, disappointing church encounters, nor intellectual objections change the fact that a resurrected Savior demands our attention.Most profoundly, the message reveals how God's redemptive power operates in our darkest moments. Just as Easter Sunday emerged from Good Friday's tragedy, God specializes in bringing hope from sorrow and purpose from pain. The story of Mothers Against Drunk Driving—founded by a grieving mother whose daughter was killed—demonstrates how God can transform our most devastating losses into powerful testimonies that save others.Whether you need to trust Jesus for the first time, remind yourself that God can redeem your current struggles, or simply reconnect with faith after drifting away, this Easter message invites you to experience the living hope only found in a risen Savior. As C.S. Lewis observed, Christianity "if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

Welcome to episode 269 of the Grow Your Law Firm podcast, hosted by Ken Hardison. In this episode, Ken sits down with Bert Parnall, Owner & Attorney at Parnall Law.   Bert grew up mostly in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but also spent several years in Africa as a youth. While pursuing a major in history and French at Rice University, he spent a year studying at La Sorbonne in Paris and six months in Laos. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Rice in 1993, Bert attended the University of Mexico School of Law (J.D., 1997). Bert spent four years as a prosecutor in the most violent county in New Mexico, convicting murderers and rapists through trial by jury.  In 2005, Bert began his personal injury practice to help victims of negligence and crime. He now leads a law firm of 15 lawyers and 105 team members, helping thousands of victims recover damages for serious injuries.    Bert proposed to Marta Strzyzewski (Miss New Mexico 2001) two weeks after they met. Luckily, she accepted, and they made their home in Albuquerque, together with their four children.  Bert is involved with the following community organizations: Rotary Club of Albuquerque (past president), Mothers Against Drunk Driving (board member), New Mexico Trial Lawyers (board member), and the National Crime Victim Bar Association. He and his law firm also sponsor trips for children through Make-A-Wish.  After competing in judo for 15 years, Bert now enjoys teaching his kids judo, as well as taking them on hikes, camping, and other trips.   What you'll learn about in this episode:   1. Importance of Teamwork:         - Focus on hiring the best people         - Emphasize values like teamwork, talent, truth, and tenacity 2. Growth through Learning and Development:         - Encourage continuous learning from failures and mistakes         - Promote a culture of listening, learning, and sharing ideas 3. Mastermind Groups for Growth:         - Leverage mastermind groups for idea sharing and collaboration         - Invest in personal and professional development through mentorship 4. Strategic Decision-Making:         - Prioritize working on the business rather than in it         - Make strategic decisions to drive growth and success 5. Hiring for Success:         - Evaluate candidates based on qualities like being humble, hungry, and smart         - Seek individuals with a story of challenges, successes, and lessons learned   Resources:  FB: https://www.facebook.com/ParnallLawFirm Twitter: https://x.com/BertParnallLaw Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/parnall-law/   Additional Resources:  https://www.pilmma.org/aiworkshop https://www.pilmma.org/the-mastermind-effect https://www.pilmma.org/resources https://www.pilmma.org/mastermind

Bryce Hamilton LSCSW and Regional Executive Director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Jerod Breit sit down to share how to... The post Alcohol Awareness For Teens appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

For much of history, the word 'epidemic' applied to infectious diseases. Large numbers of cases of disease caused by organisms such as bacteria and viruses that spread through water, air, or other means, sometimes transmitted from person to person, or back and forth between people and animals. Then came epidemics of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease - diseases occurring in very large numbers and created not by infectious agents, but by drivers in our day to day lives, such as a bad food environment. A new paper was just published in the PLOS global health literature that I found fascinating. It focuses on another use of the concept of epidemics: market driven epidemics. Let's find out what these are and find out a little bit more about their implications for our health and wellbeing. Our guests today are two of the authors of that paper. Dr. Jonathan Quick is a physician and expert on global health and epidemics. He is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute. Eszter Rimanyi joins us as well. She works on chronic disease and addiction epidemiology at Duke university. Interview Summary Access the PLOS article “Dynamics of combatting market-driven epidemics: Insights from U.S. reduction of cigarette, sugar, and prescription opioid consumption.” So, Jono, let's start with you. Tell us what you mean by market driven epidemics. The pattern is familiar to people. There is a product that that humans like and the business community says we can make a lot of money on this unmet need. And so they do that and they start selling a lot of it. And then people start noticing that this thing that the humans like is killing some of them. And so, the scientists do the public health. And then the business community says these scientists are going to kill the golden goose. They buy up other scientists and try to defend themselves. And then it goes on and on before we really bend the epidemic curves. This pattern of consumer products that have harmful effects, those products are major contributors to the root causes of at least a million deaths a year in the US, and over 20 million deaths worldwide. So, to try to look at this from an epidemic point of view, we first established a case definition. Our definition of market driven epidemic is a significant increase in death, disability and other harmful effects on humans and human health and wellbeing. It's arising from a consumer product whose use has been accelerated by aggressive marketing. Whose harmful effects have been denied or otherwise minimized by producers. And for which effective mitigation is possible but actively opposed by producers. So, we looked at the natural history of this, and we found five phases through which these epidemics pass. There's market development, either inventing a new product, developing a product like prescription opioids, or transforming an existing product like tobacco. Phase two is evidence of harm. First, there's suspicion, astute clinicians, whistleblowers, and then eventually proof of harm. Phase three is corporate resistance. Companies deny harm, seek to discredit accusers, commission counter science, manufacture doubt, mount legal challenges. All the while deaths and social upheaval and economic costs are mounting. And finally, our next phase four is mitigation. We get some regulatory efforts going, and there's a tipping point for the consumption and resulting deaths. And then finally, phase five of this is market adaptation. In a response to decreasing or threatened consumption, companies and consumers typically seek alternatives. Adaptations can be positive or negative. Some are healthier, some are equally or more harmful. Thanks very much for that description. It really helps explain what the concept is all about. You chose three areas of focus. You could have chosen others, but you chose cigarettes, sugar, and prescription opioid use. Why those in particular? We wanted to identify differences in these market driven epidemics in a few product categories. We wanted to look at distinctly different consumer experiences so we could see what worked and what didn't in terms of bending the epidemic curve. We picked nicotine delivery, food, and prescription medicine. And to choose within those categories we established five inclusion criteria. So, number one, the product had to have proven adverse health effects. Number two, there needed to be well documented histories of product development, marketing, mitigation efforts, and so forth. Number three, the product needed to meet the overall case definition. That is, companies knew they were doing harm, continued to do harm, and fought that harm. Number four, there needed to be long term data available for product consumption and associated impact. And number five, most important, we chose products for which mitigation efforts had already resulted in significant sustained reduction in product consumption. Based on these three criteria, cigarettes, sugar, and prescription opioids came out as the ones that we studied. Thanks. I really appreciate that description. And when we get to the punchline in a minute, it's going to be interesting to see whether the behavior of the industry in this natural history that you talked about is similar, given that the substances are so different. We'll get to that in a minute. So Eszter, I'd like to turn to you. What kind of information did you pull together to write this paper? I think I looked at over a thousand different documents. But there were two clear types that I interrogated to pull together all of our background data. The first category was publicly available data, so that could have been a clinical study, epidemiological study, advertisement by the company, CDC or other government reports, mortality data, etc. But then there was also a distinct different type of data that we really looked at and that was really useful for putting together these pictures of the natural history, which was internal documents. In some cases, these could have been leaked by an internal employee, which was the case with the so called 'brown documents' with tobacco. But it also came from sometimes court hearings or as a result of lawsuits that the companies had to release internal data. It was really interesting to compile together the different sides, of the outside look from CDC reports, and then the insider scoop from Purdue Pharma. So, it's a very well rounded, interesting way to find all this data. I admire your effort. It's a big job to do a normal scientific review where you might have 50 papers and you were looking at things that were much harder to obtain and a vast number of things that are really quite different in character. Boy, congratulations for just reading all those things. Tell us what you found. Gosh, so even though there's so many distinct differences between a lot of these epidemics, what we actually found was that there was a lot of narrative similarities. And because of that, we could really create this holistic, but also really well-fitting idea of market driven epidemics. A lot of the corporate strategies were either mirrored, imitated, or in some cases quite literally lifted over because of overlapping ownership between the companies. One of the things that we really wanted to hammer into our article was that producers not only created their product, but they also manufactured doubt. Which means that they created, on purpose, public hesitancy around their product even when they internally knew that it was harmful to health. They wanted the public to be on the fence about what the health impact of their product was. There was a lot of different ways that they achieved that goal. Sometimes it was through showing propaganda films in high schools. Which I still can't believe that happened and then that was legal. But also in different ways, like co-opting science, paying scientists to publish articles in their favor. I know a really famous example of this that has now been public is that two Harvard researchers in cardiovascular disease published saying that sugar was not harmful to health. So, there's a lot of different ways that they achieved it, but the goals overall were very similar by all the companies. You know, you mentioned overlapping ownership. And so, you might have been referring specifically to the ownership of the food companies by the tobacco companies. Correct. Because it happened a while ago, that's not something that was well known. But there's a fascinating history there about how the tobacco industry used its technology to maximize addiction and used that to develop food products and to change the DNA of the food companies in ways that still exist today, even though that ownership ended many years ago. I'm really glad you pointed that out. Yeah, exactly. I think there's this shared idea that there's a turning point for companies. Where they know internally that their product is causing harm. And what really tips them over into becoming market driven epidemics is not actually coming out and saying that there's an issue with their product or not improving it. But you know really digging that information into the dirt and saying no we're going to protect our product and keep giving this out to the public despite the harms. You know, maybe we can come back to this, but the fact that you're finding similarities between these areas suggests that there are contingencies that act on corporate executives that are similar no matter what they're selling. And that's helpful to know because in the future, you can predict what these companies will be doing because there are many more similarities than differences. Jono let me ask you this. You've talked about this appalling period of time between when there are known health consequences of use of some of these things and the time when meaningful action occurs to curb their consumption and to rein in the behavior of the companies. How long is this gap, and what explains it? Kelly, this is one of the most fascinating things about this study. And it really highlights the importance of taking an epidemiologic approach. This is a behavioral epidemic, not a viral one. But it has so many characteristics. One of the key points is that is how important time is. And we see that in any epidemic curve when things start going exponential. If we take cigarettes, okay, the harms of cigarettes had long been suspected. But the first credible scientific publication was by a US physician, Isaac Adler, in a 400-page 1912 book where he first associated cigarettes with cancers. Fast forward over 40 years to British scientists Doll and Hill, and they did the epidemiology which definitively and convincingly links cigarette cancer with smoking deaths. So that gap was incredible and so that's one of the first examples. Once those articles were published, others followed the initial one. It took about a decade until the 1964 Surgeon General's report on smoking and health. And that was quickly followed by a series of federal actions. So, 1964, '63, '64 was the tipping point. Five decades after the initial suspicion. For sugar, the journey from suspicion to compelling evidence was more complex. There was a big debate between researchers, clinicians, scientific journalists, that began in the '50s. A diabetologist from Britain John Yudkin, argued in the 1957 Lancet piece, it's sugar that's equal or larger than fats. An American physiologist, Enzo Keyes, says au contraire. He said it on the cover of Time Magazine. From 1950 to 2000, there was this debate back and forth. Finally, sugar consumption in the US peaked in '99 when a sugar wary group of researchers, journalists, and advocacy groups began becoming really vocal. And that was the tipping point. The actual compelling science, it came a few years after the preponderance of folks engaged said, no, it's sugar. You got to do something. And finally, with prescription opioids: 1997, rural doctors Art Van Zee and another fellow, alerted Purdue Pharma, the producer of OxyContin, about rising overdoses. A year later, there was a publication that said the sustained release version of OxyContin, which was a hydrocodone that was sustained release, that they first tried it with morphine, and they had evidence from there that the sustained release drugs were a problem. And again, it was over a decade later that mounting prescription opioid deaths in the US convinced CDC to declare an epidemic of [00:14:00] opioid prescribing. This gap, if you look at it, to summarize, for cigarettes, the journey from credible suspicion of harm to consumption tipping point, five decades. Sugar, four decades. Prescription opioids, fourteen years. But the key thing is that the power of collective action, because today, only one in eight Americans smoke, and it was nearly 50 percent at the peak. The US consumption of sugar, which increased by 30 pounds between the year 1950 and the year 2000, when all this debate was going on. We picked up an extra 30 pounds of sugar consumption per person per year, but within two decades, that was cut back. We gave back 15 pounds of that. And now prescription opioids have gone back to a medically defendable level, having risen to 8 to 10 times that in the peak of the prescription opioid epidemic. Hearing you talk about that, it's nice that there's sometimes light at the end of the tunnel. But boy, it's a long tunnel. And that you can count the, the number of deaths during that tunnel period of time in the millions. It's just unspeakable how much damage, preventable damage gets caused. Now, and I'd like to, when I come back to wind up this podcast, I'd like to ask each of you, what do you think might be done to help narrow that or shrink that time gap and to prevent these long delays and to help address these corporate determinants of health. But before I get there, Eszter, you know, I'd like to follow up on the conversation we had earlier. You know where it's clear that sugar and tobacco and opioids are all quite different substances, but the companies, the natural history of these things looks quite similar. And you mentioned in particular the industry attempt to plant doubt. To create doubt in the minds of people about the stories they were hearing of the dangers of these things, whether they were true or not. And were there other things that the industry was doing during that time that you noticed might have similarities across these areas? Oh my gosh, so many. I have to go through all the examples in my head and make sure that I have a very crisp message out of all of them One of the ones that is interestingly being employed today in a very different epidemic with firearms and guns, is this idea of whose choice is the consumer product in its use. And today there's a lot of ideas that were initially created by tobacco, and then used by food, that are currently being used by gun lobbyists talking about individual freedoms. So with some of the previous market driven epidemics, like tobacco and prescription opioids, it's a way easier argument to make that the individual at some level does not choose to use the product. Maybe in the beginning, the first couple uses were their individual choice, but then there's on purpose, a really strong withdrawal response in the body and socially. The individual kind of had to continue using the product. But some of those ideas are being used today with firearms. The idea that somebody has the liberty to use this product or to purchase this product, which undoubtedly causes harm. You know, it's probably not really good for public health if this argument exists. And, in the cases with firearms, which I think is a little bit ironic and sad, a lot of the people that buy guns for their own self-defense actually experience those guns turned around and used on them, usually by the perpetrators of aggression. These ideas of individual freedoms usually backfire to the people that are consuming the products. It's interesting to me that a lot of these ideas were initially created for very different products, but are being used in the current day. So interesting to hear you say that because here we have yet another area where there are similarities with the firearms. And the companion argument to that idea that it's your personal liberty to use these things is the argument that there's overreach by government, big brother, things like that. When government wants to, you know. Yeah. It's so interesting. So one point on that. The market economy was never meant to be a free for all. Because the reality is that the market economy has brought billions of people out of poverty and saved more lives than most health interventions. But the problem is, as I said, it wasn't meant to be a free for all. And it depends on having good consumer information and when companies are distorting it, they're basically taking away the informed choice, which is critical. The other part of it is, when they are purposely engineering their products for maximal addictiveness, which is done with clicks and social media, and was done purposefully with the nicotine content in cigarettes, then you don't have a real informed choice. The freedom of choice. You've had your brain pleasure center hijacked by, by purposely addictive products. Right, and you didn't mention food, but there's another example of substances that are created to hijack the reward pathway in the brain. Absolutely. I'd like to ask each of you, what in the heck can we do about this? I mean, you've pointed out a massive problem. Where the number of lives that are sacrificed because of corporate behavior, just enormous numbers. What can we do about it? Jono, I will start with you. And, you know, you've written this very highly regarded book called The End of Epidemics. And you've talked about things like bending epidemic curves and accelerating shifts. But tell us more. What do you think can be done in the case of these market driven epidemics like we're talking about? Well, I think it's important to realize that both kinds of epidemics, viral and behavioral, are communicable. Both involve a lot of rumor, blame, uncertainty. And as we've talked about both cause deaths in the thousands or millions. And we haven't talked so much about the significant social disruption, and the cost. Trillions of dollars in economic losses and additional health burdens. So let me focus on four kinds of key actors because when it comes down to it, it's groups that that really start acting against these things. The first is the research community and its funders. You won't be surprised given the time it takes to get the evidence because what's clear is without clear evidence of product associated harm, we're not going to move the political agendas. We're not going to get public support for epidemic curves. So, we have really good researchers working in these areas. They need to guard against groupthink. That's what happened with our salt sugar 50 years of chaos discussion. And conflict of interest because companies do try to undermine the database. The second is the funders of research, foundations and all, and national health services need to have an early warning system and an annual research roadmap in this area. I think Eszter will probably talk about the importance of public health leaders, because she's looked a lot at that. Another community though is the different civil society groups that are active. Because there's Mothers Against Drunk Driving, there's the Sandy Hook group on gun shooting, and there are a variety of interest groups. But what we realize is that there are lots of different strategies for how you move decision makers and all. So, more information sharing from those groups, civil society groups and all across. And finally, companies. It's actually in their interest to be more forthcoming earlier on. With tobacco, with prescription opioids, and now with baby powder, with talc, what we're seeing is companies at risk of bankruptcy paying billions of dollars. And if their CEOs aren't looking at that, then their board needs to be. Can I ask you a quick question about that? When the chickens come home to roost, and those bad things befall a company, you know, really seriously damaging lawsuits, or the possibility that perhaps sometime the executives will go to jail for corporate malfeasance. You know, the behavior that caused all the millions of deaths occurred 15 CEOs before them. So, if you're a CEO and you know you have a certain shelf life as CEO, you want to maximize profit during that time. And by the time anything happens negatively to the company, you're on vacation, you're retired, or you're gone. So how do you deal with that? Here's the thing, it's having criminal and civil liability that can go back to the individuals involved. From a different sector, an example. The German executive who was head of Volkswagen over a decade ago when they cheated on their environmental issues. He's been criminally charged today, a decade later. And I think that sort of personal accountability, it'll be hard to get, but that's the kind of thing that will make CEOs and their boards, if their boards also become responsible for hiding information in a way that it resulted in deaths. I think that, unfortunately, that kind of hammer, although it's going to be hard to get, that's probably what's needed. Okay, that makes good sense to me, and I'm glad I asked you that question. And I appreciate the answer. Eszter, anything you'd like to add to what Jono said about what could be done. Yes. One of the amazing things about market driven epidemics was when we were creating the paper, we created a table of all the different types of actors that could have very successful mitigation. And that table actually ended up being cut from the paper because it was so long that the editor said that it might distract from the rest of the paper. But that's actually a very positive message because there are so many actors that can have positive change, I'm going to highlight a couple of them because I think there's a few things here that are fairly good core messages that we can take away. One of the ones is the need for a trusted public health authoritative voice. I think nowadays there's a lot of commotion over how much we trust the government. And how much we trust, for example, the head of the CDC and the types of data they're talking about in terms of public health. But in the past, when we had a very trusted public health voice, that was really crucial in getting consumers to change their behavior. For example, in the 1964 Surgeon General's report, seemingly overnight changed people's behavior. Before then, smoking was a common, everyday social event. And after that, people started viewing it as a deadly, bad habit that some people had. And that type of change was really hard to get in the modern day. When we were talking about public health crises that were viral. So, I think one of the things that we really need to get again in the modern day is this trust between the people and public health voices so that when we have such good forthcoming information those statements actually mean something. So much so that the consumers change their behavior. Another thing is with us individuals who maybe aren't part of public health, we actually play a pretty big role in how much other people consume these different products. I remember when I was researching cigarettes in particular and the intersection with social media. I think if somebody under 18 saw a peer smoking and posted that to Instagram, that doubled their likelihood of trying out smoking for the first time. You have to be really careful with how you show yourself in the presence of others, and online too with a new digital age. Because you might tip the scale in somebody trying out a product for the first time. Which then if it has a very strong withdrawal effect, you know that person might have to might feel that they have to continue using that product to avoid withdrawal. I think as an individual, you can be more mindful about if you have a certain product use that you don't want others to also pick up, to maybe not do it or not show it as much so that other people aren't interested in doing that. Okay, the last really positive message I have is that I think as my generation gets into higher positions of power, even within corporations, I think Gen Z and Gen Alpha and other young people have the sense of responsibility for others and for the planet. And I think if there was a young person in power in a corporation and saw that oh no this product that we've had is now there's evidence that's harmful. I think there would be more accountability and more of a want to do something that's good for the planet and for people. I'm hopeful that, maybe 50, 60 years ago, if people were more in favor of kind of brushing things under the rug, then maybe the young generation won't be as into those ideas. And we'll actually want to be accountable and do what's right. BIOS Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH (“Jono”) is adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute, where he teaches global health policy, serves on foundation grant advisory boards, and mentors students. Dr. Quick's current research and writing focuses on market-driven epidemics, from tobacco to opioids to social media.  He is also Affiliated Faculty in Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Quick is the author of The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It  (Australian, Italian, Korean, South Asia, U.K. and U.S. 2018/2020/2021 editions), creator of MDS-3: Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies and an author of  The Financial Times Guide to Executive Health, Preventive Stress Management in Organizations, as well as more than 100 other books, chapters, and articles in leading medical journals.  Eszter Rimanyi is a chronic disease epidemiologist working with Dr. Jonathan D. Quick at the Duke Global Health Institute. Her research interest centers around Market-Driven Epidemics, including tobacco, sugar, opioids, and breastmilk substitute/infant formula. She is currently working on applying the market-driven epidemics approach to new epidemics, such as social media and firearms. Rimanyi has authored scientific papers in journals such as PloS Global Public Health and MDPI.

Sheila Lockwood of Mothers Against Drunk Driving joins Lisa to promote an upcoming 10,000 candle vigil to remember those lost to drunk driving accidents. Sheila also discusses and advocates for new legislation to add equipment to prevent inebriated driving.

The 2024 Ride Like MADD Poker Run benefiting Mothers Against Drunk Driving is this weekend. Matt Bretz from Bretz Injury Law joins us to talk about the event.

In her anger and grief after the death of her 13-year-old daughter in 1980, Candy Lightner formed a group which she dubbed Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And it quickly grew into a powerful grassroots campaign to force states to stiffen the penalties for drunk or impaired driving. She later wrote a book about grief and death, called Giving Sorrow Words. In this 1990 interview Lightner offers compassion and insight into the grieving process. Get Giving Sorrow Words by Candy LightnerAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases.You may also enjoy my interviews with Erin Brockovich and Helen Caldicott For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. and now on YouTube #MADD #drunk driving #activism #grief

Someone is killed or injured in a drunk driving crash every 79 seconds. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) works every day to see a world where there are no more victims of drunk/drugged driving. In this episode, MADD Nebraska Executive Director Sara Draper sat down with Sheriff Terry Wagner, Chief Deputy Ben Houchin, and Captain John Vik to discuss MADD's mission, services, and how they interact with LSO to combat drunk and drugged driving in Lancaster County.

The effects of boating under the influence can be fatal and heartbreaking for all involved. In this episode, we talk with Rhonda Campbell, California Victim Services Manager with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Deputy John Canepa with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department about boating under the influence (BUI). We'll learn about how BUI differs from driving under the influence (DUI), some important and shocking statistics, penalties, and much more.

Former NFL tight end Delanie Walker joins The Mental Game to talk mental health with Brandon Saho. Delanie opens up about his football journey from community college to the NFL, playing in the Super Bowl, tragically losing his aunt and uncle, advocating with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and how he takes care of his mental health.

Ray Schwetz gets business empowerment from Paige Carbone, Regional Executive Director of MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving.  The mission of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking. In her role as Regional E.D., Paige develops, manages, and implements initiatives for MADD's core programs and services and promotes the mission of MADD in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, overseeing Victim Services, Development and Community Education & Prevention Programs.

Bryan Barrett gets a state legislative update with State Rep. Mike Sparks (R-Smyrna) from Nashville. Then, he talks with Mothers Against Drunk Driving Tennessee Program Specia

Wabush fire chief Marvin Butler pleaded guilty to driving under the influence earlier this week. We hear reaction from Josephine Gaulton-Rowe, the Labrador West vice-president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Kenneth Ceaser, Chief People & Culture Officer at Mothers Against Drunk Driving, joined us on The Modern People Leader.  We talked about the impact of his HR experience in the military, MADD's people and culture strategy, and his advice for leaders that are burnt out. ---- This episode was brought to you by Pyn. Get access to their Employee Journey Designer here. ---- (1:02) Good news stories (07:28) Kenneth's career journey, starting from his upbringing, joining the Air Force, and transitioning to HR roles in the civilian sector. (14:40) Insights into the transformation and challenges faced by MAD and HR's role in driving change. (19:13) The impact of military experience on Kenneth's leadership and HR practices. (26:27) Kenneth discusses prioritizing strategic objectives and the importance of workforce planning for MAD's goals. (32:59) Exploring the future of HR technology and the balance between automation and personal touch in HR practices. (36:26) Advice for burnt out leaders (47:59) Rapid fire questions ----

Mothers Against Drunk Driving joined the Military Spouse Employment Partnership in 2023. Learn more about MADD, a nonprofit that works to end impaired driving, and has committed to recruiting, hiring, promoting and retaining military spouses as an MSEP employer. Host Bruce Moody speaks with MADD Chief Executive Officer Stacey Stewart and Chief People and Culture Officer Kenneth Ceaser about career opportunities at MADD, its mission, workplace culture and the unique qualities military spouses bring to the organization. Visit Military OneSource at https://www.militaryonesource.mil/role/spouse/to learn about the resources and support available to military spouses. Bruce Moody is a public affairs specialist with the office of Military Community and Family Policy. Share your feedback about this podcast as well as ideas for future episodes by visiting the Military OneSource Podcasts Feedback Form at https://public.militaryonesource.mil/podcast-feedback. The Military OneSource Podcast series is an official resource of the Defense Department. For more information, visit MilitaryOneSource.mil or call 800-342-9647. Military OneSource is your 24/7 connection to information, answers and support to help you reach your goals, overcome challenges and thrive.

Val spoke with Regional Executive Director Paige Carbone about the "ToGetThere" campaign promoting safe driving during the holiday season as well as go over the safety measures in place to prevent both drunk and drugged driving.

This month is the 20th Anniversary for Labrador West's chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The group is holding a ceremony on Monday to honor those who have been lost to impaired driving. We hear all the details -- and learn more about the group's history.

Every 79 seconds, someone is killed or injured in a drunk or impaired driving crash in the United States. As we near the holiday season, this risk increases to approximately 21 million chances of encountering an accident between November 1 and January 1.Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is the foremost non-profit leading the fight to prevent the devastating consequences of impaired driving. The organization has played a crucial role since its inception, reducing crashes by 50% through advocacy efforts, influencing federal policy, leading education initiatives, and providing support services to victims.Ultimately, the power to reduce drunk driving lies not with any organization but with the people who make the decision to drive impaired. So this holiday season, MADD is introducing its new year-end campaign and cause platform, ToGetThere, with the aim of increasing everyone's chances to get home safely.We invited Stacey Stewart, CEO, and Kim Pucci, Senior Director of Marketing and Engagement, to speak to MADD's impact, how you can make a plan to drive safely this holiday season, and how they plan to get “there”— to a world in which impairment puts no lives at risk.Listen for insights on:Rebranding cause initiatives to align with the digital media ageHelping stakeholders understand the true impact of a statisticEngaging multi-stakeholder groupsStaying true to purpose during periods of changeResources + Links:Stacey Stewart's LinkedInKim Pucci's LinkedInSign the ToGetThere PledgeDrunken-Driving Warning Systems Would Be Required for New Cars Under U.S. BillMADD's Power of Parents ProgramMADD's Power of Youth ProgramMADD's Victim Support (00:00) - Welcome to Purpose 360 (00:13) - MADD (01:52) - Meet Stacey Stewart (03:32) - Meet Kim Pucci (04:48) - Initiatives (09:49) - Relevance (12:04) - Effective and Impactful (14:40) - To Get There (19:08) - Core Insights (21:09) - Changing Behaviors (22:27) - Other Trends (24:43) - Leadership (26:10) - Shared Insights (33:08) - Wrap Up

Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the windy road to non-profit corruption and the liberty-squelching laws that they fund.  Kathy Hochel and her liberty-squelching administration. A funny video on how drunk driving is tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIWgbgfsJ4 Tag us on Instagram and Matt and Kelly will buy you a sandwich As always, if you like (or don't like) what we're doing, let us know on your podcast app by leaving a review or reach out to us on Instagram. And, check out our website for the best subversive shirts, flip-flops, and coffee mugs your money can still buy at libertytreelifestyle.com Wanna support the show? Go to https://www.patreon.com/libertytree and become a member of the Liberty Tree Social Club Follow us and give us a review @Libertyupatree on twitter @Libertytreebrand on Instagram Order Kelly's Book The Great American Contractor  Look into a Cold Tub at Kelly Cowan Designs Love you guys Kelly and Matt  

Hey hey hey!! On this week's episode, we had a wonderful guest who talked to us about an organization she works for called Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Her name is Aaprara Mills and she is the Program Manager for Victim Services for Mothers Against Drunk Driving for the State of Missouri. She is also getting her DOCTORATE in Business Psychology. She gave us a lot of knowledge about the organization and promoted the Walk they have coming up called Walk like MAAD. The event is on Sunday, October 15 at 9a at Tremayne Shelter at Creve Coeur Park. If you have any questions about the organization, the walk or, anything in general, please reach out to Aaprara at aaprara.mills@madd.org With October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we shed light on both and gave you all some statistics. Lastly, we discussed the viral TikTok video made by user QBTHEDON, discussing how children are behind when it comes to education. We gave our take on the video and our experiences when we were kids when it came to education. Don't forget to Subscribe to us on whatever listening app you are using AND follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Black Millennial Mamas

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Matthew Buckley (callsign “Whiz”), a decorated Navy fighter pilot, is the Chief Executive Officer for TOPGUN Options LLC (TGO) and Strike Fighter Financial LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also the Producer of the groundbreaking documentary film No Fallen Heroes.   Prior to starting TGO he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Options News Network, a financial media company headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade. He rose from the position of Managing Director of a leading multi-billion-dollar Wall Street trading firm to CEO in one year at the age of 38. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and execution, raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, building profitability, public speaking, charitable fund raising, leadership development, and team building.   Prior to this Mr. Buckley was the Managing Director of Strategy for the largest Wall Street proprietary volatility arbitrage equity options trading firm. He was responsible for the strategic development, successful execution, and debriefing of all strategic plans across the firm and retail business units. His efforts enabled the firm to grow from 99 employees to over 600 and increase in enterprise value from $150M to over $2.5B in just 3 years.   Before heading to Wall Street Mr. Buckley was the Director of Leadership with a military themed consulting company, where he became an internationally recognized and highly sought-after public speaker. He created and deployed leadership and strategic planning and execution processes and was a primary executive consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Cisco, Sanofi, Macquarie, McKesson, AT&T, VMWare, Logitec, Fidelity, Cargill, Oracle, Capital One, MasterCard, Medtronic, Abbott, Medtronic, Siemens, and Gilead Sciences.   From 1991-2006, Whiz was a highly decorated Naval Aviator with the United States Navy serving at multiple duty stations worldwide. He was an F/A-18 Hornet Instructor and Adversary Pilot with experience in hostile situations. He flew 44 combat sorties over Iraq and was awarded 2 Strike/Flight Air Medals. He graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He served as a Department Head in a fighter squadron responsible for the safe operation and combat capability of 12 F/A-18 Hornet aircraft worth over $500 million. His responsibilities included the supervision and management of 200 naval personnel and material assets during combat operations. He managed the career paths and professional development of officers and enlisted personnel, managed a $25 million operations budget, and was responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing allied assets in the Persian Gulf theater as the Mobile Targeting Officer in Riyadh, KSA. He conducted briefings for the highest levels of the National Command Authority and held a Top Secret/SCI clearance. He was recalled to active duty and served during Operation Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom.   Mr. Buckley lost his sister at the age of 19 to a drunk driver when she was a freshman at Villanova University. Whiz vowed to fight drunk driving and support Mothers Against Drunk Driving and their mission of ‘No More Victims'. He currently serves as the MADD Dash 5K honorary co-executive chairman and for 3 years in a row raised the most donations both as an individual and company.   In 2020 Mr. Buckley founded the TOPGUN Fighter Foundation, a 501c3 charity dedicated to reducing the national tragedy of veteran suicide through alternative and leading-edge therapies.   Mr. Buckley serves on the Broward Sheriff's Office Advisory Council as well as the Executive Committee for the Parkinson's/Alzheimer's Research & Education Foundation of Broward and Palm Beach counties.   He has combined his unprecedented experiences in the military and in corporate America in the writing of From Sea Level to C Level: A Fighter Pilot's Journey from the Front Lines to the Front Office. His follow-on work Covid Crash: From Panic to Profit chronicles how Whiz was one of the only financial professionals in the world to predict to the day the market reaction to the covid virus and detail how he empowered his members to recognize outsized profits. His latest work Strength and Gratitude is an international best seller in 3 categories ranging from business to leadership.   Mr. Buckley is married to Susan and has 3 children – Matthew, Jack, and Keeley. Matthew and Jack plan on following in their father's footsteps by serving their country in the Marine Corps and Navy.   Make a Donation: https://nofallenheroesfoundation.org/

Devon is joined by Therese Paulette and Alice Liu of Hawaii Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also known as Hawaii MADD. Together, they discuss the upcoming Hawaii Walk like MADD event! Hawaii Walk like MADD is MADD's annual fundraiser being held on September 16, 2023, at Kaka'ako Waterfront Park. It's a morning 5K walk/jog/run that welcomes families, kids and co-workers to raise monies for grief counseling, education programs, and more ways to remind people not to drive while impaired. Theresa Paulette is a mom whose teenage son was killed by a driver who had six DUI arrests prior to that summer evening over 30 years ago. Alice Liu's mother was struck by a driver under the influence of alcohol. The message: When you drink, don't drive.

On this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy interview Adam Ross Nelson. Adam is a consultant, where he provides insights on data science, machine learning and data governance. He recently wrote a book to help people get started in data science careers. Get the bookHow to Become a Data Scientist: A Guide for Established ProfessionalsSpeaker BioAdam Ross Nelson is an individual who initially pursued a career in law but ended up making a transition into education. After attending law school and working in administrative and policy roles in colleges and universities for several years, Adam hit a plateau in his career. Despite being a runner-up in national job searches multiple times, he felt that his lack of a PhD hindered his advancement in academia, while his legal background prevented him from being taken seriously by law professionals. Consequently, Adam decided to pursue a PhD in order to overcome this hurdle. During his PhD program, Adam discovered his passion and knack for statistics. His focus shifted towards predictive analytics projects, specifically ones related to identifying students in need of academic support. As he shared his work with friends, family, and coworkers, they began referring to him as a data scientist, a label that Adam initially resisted due to his legal and educational background. However, he eventually embraced the moniker, and even his boss started referring to him as the office's data scientist, despite HR not recognizing the title.Show Notes[00:03:26] Transitioning from law to education administration, plateaued career, runner-up in job searches, pursued PhD, became data scientist.[00:08:58] Data seen as liability, now asset. Examples: DBA's OLAP analysis, Walmart's weather-based inventory management.[00:12:56] Dotcom crash aftermath: fierce competition for jobs.[00:22:48] Salespeople have deep-seated insecurities and unique perspective.[00:29:31] Various classifications of data scientists and career advice.[00:35:55] "No full-field midfielder, data science is teamwork"[00:39:23] Navigating job descriptions for transitioning professionals.[00:42:56] Career coach helps professionals transition into data science.[00:49:41] First job: English teacher in Budapest, Hungary. Second job: Speaker for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.[00:56:30] Concerns about reliance on technology, especially AI.[01:00:22] Food options in lobbying are better in DC & state capitals. Also, check out the funny WY Files YouTube channel.[01:04:21] You can't separate them: LLM, bias, internet.[01:10:23] Ethics in consulting and avoiding dilemmas.

E. Matthew Buckley, also known as 'Whiz', is a distinguished former Navy fighter pilot and the CEO of TOPGUN Options LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. He previously founded the Options News Network in Chicago and swiftly advanced from Managing Director to CEO of a major Wall Street trading firm, overseeing its substantial growth. With expertise in strategic planning, capital raising, M&A, and leadership, Buckley drove remarkable success. He was instrumental in propelling a Wall Street options trading firm from 99 to over 600 employees and increasing its value from $150 million to over $2.5 billion in just three years. Prior to this, he excelled as a Director of Leadership at a military-themed consulting firm, working with Fortune 500 companies. Buckley's exceptional military career spanned from being a Navy Aviator, flying combat missions and graduating from the Navy Fighter Weapons School, to serving in key leadership roles, earning awards, and holding top-secret clearance. Committed to noble causes, he actively supports Mothers Against Drunk Driving and leads the No Fallen Heroes Foundation, focused on preventing veteran suicide. Buckley's written works, including "From Sea Level to C Level," "Covid Crash," and "Strength and Gratitude," draw from his diverse experiences. He's a devoted husband and father, with two sons aspiring to serve in the Navy like their father. @official_whizbuckley ​ @NoFallenHeroes   @topgun_options @maxafterburnerpodcast Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3opNURn  PATREON: patreon.com/brassandunity  - - - - - - - - - - - - SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS H.V.M.N - 20% off with code BRASS20 - https://hvmn.com/pages/home Mindful Meds - 15% off with code BRASS - https://mindfulmeds.io Brass & Unity - 20% off with code UNITY - http://brassandunity.com  Three Horses Hat Co - 15% off with code BRASS - ⁠https://threehorseshatco.com/⁠ Combat Flip Flops - 25% off with code UNITY - https://combatflipflops.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - SHOP B&U Jewelry & Eyewear: https://brassandunity.com  - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow #brassandunity - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHARITY Honour House - https://www.honourhouse.ca Vet Solutions - https://vetsolutions.org  Heroic Hearts - https://www.heroicheartsproject.org Warrior Angels Foundation - https://warriorangelsfoundation.org All Secure Foundation - http://allsecurefoundation.org Defenders of Freedom - http://defendersoffreedom.us The Boot Campaign - https://bootcampaign.org The Overwatch Foundation  - http://overwatchfoundationusa.org

Description: Discussion with two longtime DUI/DUID prevention partner organizations Arrive Alive, CA and Mothers Against Drunk Driving about prevention programs, focusing on the Real DUI Court in Schools program, the importance of reaching children early and the importance of partnerships.   Show Notes:  Guests Arrive Alive CA CEO Angela Webb, MADD Victim Services Specialist Rhonda Campbell and Lead Deputy District Attorney (DDA) Gregory Hayes introduce themselves.   Hayes explains his current role related to DUI cases and the DUI/DUID prosecution and Education Outreach program.  Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.    Hayes states current DUI penal codes. Hayes, Webb and Campbell talk about the scope of the DUI/DUID problem with local and national stats.   Webb and Campbell talk about the importance of reaching kids early – elementary and middle school – to shape their ideas and provide accurate information about DUI/DUID.  They explain high school is when they act on their ideas/beliefs.  Webb explains the Real DUI Court in Schools program and gives stats on the number of students reached since the start of the program. Hayes and Campbell talk about their involvement in the program.  Webb, Campbell and Hayes share the feedback they have received about Real DUI Court in Schools and why they believe the program is so effective among students.   Campbell talks about other MADD programs, how they work and why they are effective.   Webb and Campbell talk about the challenges, changes and successes they have experienced over their time working in prevention.  They give insight into the importance of partnerships and who they work with to get the message across to different audiences.  They also share what keeps them motivated and energized to continue their work.   Hayes, Campbell and Webb close the discussion by giving advice, resources and key takeaways.    RESOURCES: https://madd.org/ https://www.arrivealiveca.com/ https://www.sacda.org/in-the-community/community-programs/ Follow us @SacCountyDA on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and find us on YouTube

If you go back in history like the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, the country was pretty permissive when it came to drunk driving. It was only after Mothers Against Drunk Driving launched in 1980 that things began to change. To talk about that today, Emma Dugas, she is the MADD State Program Manager.

The following is a conversation between Stacey D. Stewart, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving.   Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, seeks to stop drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and strive for stricter impaired driving policy, whether that impairment is caused by alcohol or any other drug. They also serve as a lifeline for thousands of victims and survivors. And here to tell us more about this work and their vision for the future is Stacey D. Stewart, the Chief Executive Officer of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Welcome to The Business of Giving, Stacey.

Following the loss of her father to a drunk driver in 2009, Heather Geronemus took a leadership role with Mothers Against Drunk Driving of Broward County, ultimately becoming the chair of MADD's National Board of Directors and establishing the Annual Walk Like MADD and MADD Dash Fort Lauderdale event which has raised more than three million dollars for the organization. Heather also actively serves a myriad of other nonprofit organizations including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and American Heart Association. Professionally, Heather's role as Senior Director of Social Equity, Opportunity and Impact at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), where she drives the strategic direction of the company's global philanthropic investments and initiatives focused on accelerating equity, opportunity and impact worldwide. Heather has been with UKG (formerly Ultimate Software) for more than a decade, serving in various marketing, PR, and community relations leadership roles.To learn more about the Walk Like MADD & MADD Dash Fort Lauderdale 5K, visit:Website: http://www.walklikemadd.org/fortlauderdaleIG: https://www.instagram.com/madddash5k/Twitter: https://twitter.com/madddashTo learn more about UKG philanthropy and volunteering, visit:https://www.ukg.com/about-us/esg/ukg-philanthropy-and-volunteeringFor more information on the Jason Taylor Foundation, visit:www.JasonTaylorFoundation.orgTwitter & Instagram: @JTFoundation

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Although the holidays have past, its never too early or too late to talk about safety on the nation's highways and byways.  We talk statistics and National Impaired Driving Month.  Cars and trucks are not the only powered wheel vehicles on the road.  During this episode we discuss motorcycle roadway safety.  And finally, impaired driving isn't just about drunk driving.  We talk about several other ways that drivers may be impaired behind the wheel. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Change is coming to the RoadWorthy Drive Podcast in the new year and we couldn't be MORE excited! Be sure to WATCH THIS SPACE for more information as it unfolds...

In today's episode, Ruth Markel, the mother of Dan Markel, joins the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to discuss turning grief and pain into advocacy.Ruth's son, Daniel, was a Harvard undergraduate and graduate law school professor who was shot and killed in his driveway in 2014. Ruth is also the author of “The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief and Trial Life.”Candace Lightner is a spokesperson and widely recognized as one of the most influential American citizens of the 21st century. Candace is the founder of the first national anti-drunk driving campaign in the United States and currently manages the “We Save Lives” foundation.In today's episode, we'll be discussing turning mourning, grief, and pain into public movements and a force for good.Make sure to check it out!--Key Takeaways:- Intro (00:00)- Introducing Ruth Markel and Candace Lightner (02:31)- The history of drunk driving in the US (15:30) - Anger can be the fuel for meaningful change (25:38)- How violent deaths impact families of victims (29:25)- "Kick a few pebbles, turn a few stones, and eventually..." (39:10)- Is social media hurting social change? (49:25)- Things to be aware of as an advocate for change (1:05:30)- Episode wrap-up (1:14:50)--Additional Resources:Connect with Ruth Markel: https://ruthmarkel.com/Connect with Candace Lightner: https://www.candacelightner.com/Learn more about Mothers Against Drunk Driving: https://madd.org/Learn more about We Save Lives: https://wesavelives.org/--Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/survivingthesurvivorpodSurviving the Survivor is a podcast dedicated to incredible stories of survival and the people who share them.Be sure to give us a follow, so you never miss an episode!

In today's episode, Ruth Markel, the mother of Dan Markel, joins the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to discuss turning grief and pain into advocacy.Ruth's son, Daniel, was a Harvard undergraduate and graduate law school professor who was shot and killed in his driveway in 2014. Ruth is also the author of “The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief and Trial Life.”Candace Lightner is a spokesperson and widely recognized as one of the most influential American citizens of the 21st century. Candace is the founder of the first national anti-drunk driving campaign in the United States and currently manages the “We Save Lives” foundation.In today's episode, we'll be discussing turning mourning, grief, and pain into public movements and a force for good.Make sure to check it out!--Key Takeaways:- Intro (00:00)- Introducing Ruth Markel and Candace Lightner (02:31)- The history of drunk driving in the US (15:30) - Anger can be the fuel for meaningful change (25:38)- How violent deaths impact families of victims (29:25)- "Kick a few pebbles, turn a few stones, and eventually..." (39:10)- Is social media hurting social change? (49:25)- Things to be aware of as an advocate for change (1:05:30)- Episode wrap-up (1:14:50)--Additional Resources:Connect with Ruth Markel: https://ruthmarkel.com/Connect with Candace Lightner: https://www.candacelightner.com/Learn more about Mothers Against Drunk Driving: https://madd.org/Learn more about We Save Lives: https://wesavelives.org/--Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/survivingthesurvivorpodSurviving the Survivor is a podcast dedicated to incredible stories of survival and the people who share them.Be sure to give us a follow, so you never miss an episode!

Each of us unknowingly walks around dropping stones in the lake of world history. The resulting ripple effects cascade across lives and generations, but all we see, if we notice at all, are small stones dropped into a vast often over-crowded lake. Many of us see the world this way because history is viewed in reverse. We see Rosa Parks as the iconic civil rights activist who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, not the department store clerk who was tired of getting mistreated on her daily commute. We see the powerful change in federal and state drunk driving laws caused by Candace Lightner and her fellow Mothers Against Drunk Driving members, not individual grieving mothers who simply want their loved ones back. It is this out-of-order view that causes us as ordinary people to doubt the impact of our dropped stones and resulting ripples. This week, start seeing your actions for what they are, opportunities to create historic change in the world around you through the exponential ripple effects of personal giving.______________________________________________________Start your Micro-Philanthropy journey today through the free course: https://www.udemy.com/course/micro-philanthropy_paycheck/Password: micro-philanthropy______________________________________________________Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y5EoKavS8Hw

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, to talk about how the powerful grassroots network of mothers is fighting for greater public safety measures to protect people from gun violence. The two discuss the impact of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed by Congress, and why it's just one step in the right direction of a much longer journey to address gun violence in America. Shannon also recalls the outrage she felt after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 and how Mothers Against Drunk Driving became an inspiration to build an “army of badass women” to drive real change. Tune in to hear more about Shannon's story and learn more about Mom's Demand Action at momsdemandaction.org. Production Credits: Aaron Kwittken, Haley Sacotte, Nina Valdes, Maria Bayas, Michael Grubbs, Anna Lamm and Mathew Passy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description: Discussion on problem of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and/or drugs (DUID) and the education and prevention efforts among youth – focusing mostly on teenagers. Show Notes: Judge Curtis Fiorini, Deputy District Attorney Stefanie Mahaffey, CEO Angela Webb of Arrive Alive, California and CHP Officer Travis Herbert discuss the issue of DUI/DUID and efforts to educate and prevent teenagers from becoming offenders or victims. They start by talking about the problem of DUI/DUID in the Sacramento community. In 2020, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office filed 263 felony and 3,954 misdemeanor DUI/DUID cases. Stefanie states the case rates are tracking the same in 2021 and so far in 2022. The group then shares the specific challenges of DUI/DUID among youth. Officer Herbert details what he and other CHP officers observe with youth who are under the influence and how it affects them more profoundly than adults. The discussion turns to the importance of reaching teenagers, and younger kids, early on to educate them about DUI issues. Angela then explains what the “Real DUI Court in Schools” program. Judge Fiorini and Stefanie talk about how they are involved in the program? The group shares the feedback they receive and their thoughts/insights into the program. Officer Herbert talks about additional youth DUI/DUID programs the CHP holds, including “Every 15 Minutes.” All participants close the discussion by giving parents/guardians advice and resources to help prevent their teenagers from driving under the influence or getting into a vehicle with an impaired driver. RESOURCES: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) at MADD.org Follow us @SacCountyDA on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and find us on YouTube Tags – Justice Journal Podcast, DUI, DUID, Youth Offenders, Arrive Alive, California Highway Patrol, CHP, Office of Traffic Safety, OTS, MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

June 14, 2022 ~ Full Show. Jim Irvine, Co Director of FASTER Saves Lives discusses the Ohio bill that would allow teachers to carry after mandatory training. Senator Debbie Stabenow breaks down her mental health bill that is part of the Senate's gun reform package. Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne on the new 988 Suicide Prevention Line. Senior News Analyst Lloyd Jackson gets us ready for the heat along with Brian Rich, Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Consumers Energy. Senior News Analyst Chris Renwick updates us on the fire at the Somerset Collection and Woodward Bar. Dr. Jeffrey Rich, from John Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Stephanie Manning, Chief Government Affairs Officer for Mothers Against Drunk Driving are our guests for Mobility Makers. State Senator Jim Ananich discusses his bill with Mike Shirkey to improve Michigan's roads and Bryanc Phillips, CEO at the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority closes out the show.

Alex Otte is Mother's Against Drunk Driving youngest National President. Alex got involved with MADD when she was hit by a boat driven by a drunk driver. Alex's injuries were life-threatening, severe and long lasting. Today, Alex is using her voice, her story and her passion to advocate for an end to drunk driving. While there is good news coming in 2026 about an almost complete reduction in drunk driving due to new technologies that will be implemented in all new cars, with an estimated 9,400 lives saved and countless injuries prevented annually from the new technologies once all cars on the road are equipped, there is still so much we can do today. An estimated 10,000 people die per year due to drunk driving and more than 300,000 are injured annually. With several years left before the new technology makes it to new cars, there are still going to be tens of thousands of lives lost. Think about that for a minute - tens of thousands of preventable deaths, and hundreds of thousands of preventable injuries caused by drunk driving. If you want to be a part of preventing drunk driving deaths and injuries, you can get involved with your local MADD chapter. Listen in to hear how Alex endured a horrible tragedy and has made it her mission to prevent future deaths and injuries and to support victims and survivors. This is a more serious topic, but it is one we must pay attention to. Next time you think you can make a difference to prevent the next drunk driving incident, take the action. Your future will thank you.   Find a local MADD Chapter Follow us on IG @meantfort Check out our new website  

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The National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center's Dr. Dan Smith is joined by a few of the legends in the victims' rights world. The group brings over 160 years of experience assisting crime victims and survivors, including mass violence victims. Those interviewed include: Jeanette Adkins, part of the original National Organization for Victims' Assistance Crisis Response Team and currently a NOVA trainer; Janice Harris Lord, former National Director of Victim Services for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and cofounder of Trauma Support Services of North Texas; Anne Seymour, cofounder of the National Center for Victims of Crime and currently our Associate Academic Program Director, and; Dr. Dean Kilpatrick of the National Crime Victims Research & Treatment Center and Director of the NMVVRC.

In 2009, a drunk driver almost ended my life. Every day, when I put on my uniform, I see a zipper scar down the middle of my body where I had more than a hundred stitches and staples because someone made the wrong decision. Like me, ending drunk driving is Mothers Against Drunk Driving Program Specialist Stephanie Murphy's passion. Learn how the Broward Sheriff's Office and MADD are working to educate communities about the dangers of underage drinking, drug use and DUI to ensure a future of no more victims. Tune in and be sure to subscribe, share this episode with a friend and follow @bsosherifftony on Instagram to keep up with the latest BSO news between podcast episodes.

Host and Executive Director of KKAD25 Tom Everson talks with Candace Lightner, Founder of M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and We Save Lives, an organization that offers a representative voice on traffic safety issues.

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Making Room for Christmas People Christmas Parkinga sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at 9:30 AM Worship Service November 7,2021 at Christ Presbyterian Church in Gardnerville, NevadaI am wearing a mask so the deep breathing is not a sign of illnessbut a sign of caring for others.edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Luke 3:1-6 Sermons also available free on iTunes Well, it’s infrastructure week in the Lectionary. That was a joke. Thank you. Thank you very much. You know, mountains made low, valleys filled up, crooked made straight. Infrastructure; right? And just like real-life infrastructure, you’ve got problems. I mean, we might say it’s bad, but it’s not that bad. We’ve got problems. They say it’s too expensive. We don’t like it when things are disrupted. We’ve got detours and construction. Who’s all this for? Who needs a roundabout? I love them. Some people hate them. Infrastructure week. In Carson City they’ve got a couple million dollars to continue their complete street program. I don’t know if you know about this. Maybe some of you are old enough to remember. Probably not. But back before there were automobiles, the streets were for everyone. Did you know that? It was for walking, and horses and carriages, and vendors and carts, and everybody would use a street. But when the cars came along, there’s a whole campaign talking about, you know, jaywalkers. “Jay” was a slang and derogatory term for somebody that didn’t know how city lives lived. And soon the streets went back just for cars. You’d better get out of their way. You know, pedestrians, pedestrians were getting killed in New York City, and their solution was “Get out of the way.” Streets are just for cars. Some of that’s changed over the years. You know, that Complete Streets program, that is to actually make streets for everyone again. There are going to be walking paths, bicycle paths, you know, actual bicycle lanes that are more than a paint and a prayer. Yeah, it’s all bicycle lanes are; you know? They’re just a, [indiscernible], oh, Lord, don’t keep the car [indiscernible]. Actual curbs and things. For people to walk, crosswalks and those curb cuts with the annoying bumps for, you know, the blind and the hard sighted. Maybe little beeps with the crosswalk so people can hear if they can’t see. Actual signs to stop the cars. Crosswalks where pedestrians have the right of way. Maybe flashing lights so they could actually stop traffic to walk across. Prepare the way of the Lord where all flesh will see salvation. It’s been a huge change in our lives. The thoughts about what streets are for, from just adding more and more lanes so more and more cars could get where they’re going faster and faster, which just brings more cars, more traffic, more jams, more problems. Infrastructure week. How about that handicap parking? You probably remember when that came up. Remember handicap parking when it first started? It was a request, a polite thing. Please, please keep this for handicapped folks. You know? And then, you know, everybody was parking there. So they got these handicap placards in license plates and things; you know? And then people still parked there. So then now you look at it, they have humungous fines, and they’ll tow your car. And we finally were able to make way for handicapped folks to park. Have you been to Home Depot? Have you seen there’s vet parking there? There is. There’s special parking for vets. Some places there’s stork parking for people that are expecting a child and maybe aren’t walking or running as well as they’re supposed to. You’ve got a 10-pounder coming on the way, every step counts, buddy. You know. What would be Christmas parking? Have you thought about that? What would be a sign for Christmas parking? I kind of get it on the front. And it’s actually, this is a legit sign that says “Handicap ramp ahead,” in case you were wondering. But I kind of thought that, you know, in the mountains and the valleys and making them accessible, I kind of thought that might be the sign for Christmas parking. You know? We’re making mountains low, raising up valleys, making a crooked way straight. Who would Christmas parking be for? We hear that the good news, it’s not for the able-bodied young white male, but for those who dwell in deep darkness, for those with sadness. Imagine if we had Christmas parking for those that were facing the mountains in the way, or those that were in the valleys, even the pits of despair. What if we made the way straight for them, or flat for them? Even though it wasn’t our mountain. Even though we weren’t in a valley. What would it be like? Too often I see people fix the problems that are out there, the people that are in the deep dip bits of valleys, and people that are facing mountains of problems and challenges, and just say, “Well, they’re not there.” Or “They should know better.” You ever been – it’s not quite yet, but later on in the winter, you ever been driving around town, and then you see a car parked, and it’s got like a foot of snow on the roof? Have you ever seen that? There’s no snow anywhere in town, but the car has a foot of snow. You know, first of all you think, you know, you could brush that off. That’d be a good idea. But, you know, you have a foot of snow, but there’s no snow anywhere else. And I’m thinking people would say, “Well, that’s just fake snow because I didn’t experience, I don’t have any problem with snow. That’s just fake snow. That’s weather crisis actors. Can’t have problems. I don’t have problems. They don’t have problems.” Well, I try to think, oh, my gosh, someone had a lot of snow where they’re at. They probably had a hard time getting down here. What would it be like if we had Christmas parking for all flesh? You know, that’s what it says. It says all flesh will see salvation. Not the deserving, thank God. Not the ones who work for it. All flesh. And you see how you prepare for this. John went out, and he didn’t say, let me affirm your [ware] and give you thanks and gratefulness for the life you’ve been living. John went out and said, “I’m preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.” Oh, my gosh. Would he be in trouble today. Because we all know that if you dare to suggest that there is something wrong with the life that we live, we’re very angry. We want it banned. We want it out of here. You are teaching hatred to our children. You can’t possibly say anything we have done in our lives is wrong. We’ve done nothing wrong. That was all in the past, John. Don’t you dare come out here and say we have anything to repent for. You see what happens if you don’t repent. You can’t get forgiveness. It’s repentance for forgiveness, according to John. It’s only then that the mountains can be made low, the valleys raised up, the crooked paths made straight. And only then is there Christmas parking for all salvation, for all flesh. Wow, huh? What are some of the mountains and valleys that are in the way of Christ coming? Have you ever thought about here we are, 2021, you think you’re tired of the pandemic and the mask. How about tired of waiting for Jesus? I mean, every year we throw a big party, and every year he doesn’t show up. We spend a whole month getting ready for him. Preparation, advent, he’s coming, he’s coming, and nothing. Why doesn’t he come? Why doesn’t Jesus come? Well, are there still mountains? Are there still valleys? Are there still crooked paths? Yeah. Yeah, there still is. I think Jesus might be saying, why haven’t they got that ready for me? I mean, when Rachel came to visit, you know, oh, my gosh, every piece of furniture in the living room and most in the other rooms were put out to the garage. We had the carpets scrubbed and clean. We’re getting ready for the advent of the girlfriend. We were ready. I hope. I think. My adult daughter Rachel was whispering tips to me over the first weekend. God bless, you know how well that goes over when your kid tells you how you should, you know. But, you know, just like those John the Baptist, I do have some things to repent for, some things I do need forgiveness. And it’s not their fault they call that up. What are some mountains that we have? How about the mountain of student debt? Let’s just pick that one. No one here has got student debt. Maybe? Anybody? No? All right. I went to college in 1977. Now it’s 2021. What percentage increase in college has happened since I went to college? Anybody got a guess how much more it is now than then? A percentage, let’s go percentage increase. ATTENDEE: Probably three times. REV. CHRISTY: Three times, 300%, would be 300%, yeah, yeah. Now, strangely enough, the minimum wage nationwide has gone about 300% up. Nevada, 400% up since then. California, 500% since then. Okay. So those are that. College, thanks for answering, Jim. College has gone up 1,424.23%. 1,424.23%. Now, I don’t think that all that expense is an additional 40 years of history. I don’t think you can put that in there. So if it was 20,000 back then, it’d be $304,846.53 now. That’s from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s a mountain. That’s a mountain. And then the minimum wage, I think it’s a valley. People are in the pit. Do you know that the minimum wage – how many, anybody, Jim, you want another one? How much was the first minimum wage? That was going to ruin business, destroy the economy? Anybody remember? What? ATTENDEE: I think it was $5, wasn’t it? REV. CHRISTY: No, no, it was 25 cents, 25 cents an hour. That was going to ruin the country. ATTENDEE: That’s what I got for babysitting. REV. CHRISTY: Oh, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, back in Roosevelt, FDR? No? No, okay. So 25 cents an hour. No, that 25 cents is a little bit different now. And since then it’s only – since ‘77 it’s only gone up – it’s gone up. It’s gone up three, 400% depending on the state you were, 500. But that’s a valley. Can’t afford college. Can’t afford a house. My kids don’t have a house. They don’t plan on having a house. They don’t see how. They’re hard workers. They’re good people. My daughter’s a teacher. My son works for BMW. That’s a valley. That’s a pit. We mostly didn’t avoid it. How about the valley of medical debt? Some of you might relate to that. How about that? Do you know we’re the only industrial civilized nation in the world, you know, we’re the greatest in the world. We’re the only ones you can go bankrupt with a major illness. My friend Eric, they don’t know how he’s going to pay his hospital bill. The longer he lives, the more he’s going to wish he didn’t, I think. That’s a pit. That’s a valley. That’s a dark place. And on the other hand there’s a mountain. You know, you look at the pit of how much medical debt comes, you know, you don’t have – people don’t understand there’s no medical debt in any other country. Nobody has a GoFundMe in Canada to pay for their cancer treatment. Why can’t we figure that out? We’re great. We’re rich. We’re smart. We’ve got great hospitals, doctors, medicines. We could figure it out. We could move that mountain. Maybe one is because – we could raise that valley. Excuse me. The mountain I’m thinking about is the mountain of profits from drugs. Have you been following the drug crisis? That’s a mountain. Raising the price of insulin through the roof. And how about all the Oxycontin and the painkiller and the drugs? Millions and billions of dollars. Get people hooked legally by prescription. That’s obscene. And why is it okay and accepted that the seniors get on buses and drive to Canada – before pandemic – to buy their drugs? Why is that okay? Why do we think, oh, that’s a great idea, great thing to do? The world is dying of pandemics. And we’ve got drugs to fight it. Oh, but the patents. We can’t let other countries make it for their people. We’ve got patents. Just because the government paid for the research doesn’t mean the companies shouldn’t have their dollar. And so now we’re wearing masks. And we’re going to continue to wear masks because there’s going to be all sorts of craziness going on all over the world because they’re not going to get vaccinated, and it’s going to mutate, and we’re going to go through the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, all the alphabets. That’s a pit. That’s a valley. And according to our scripture, Christ is saying, when you going to get that fixed? It’s infrastructure week, friends. Fix up the road so I can come. Aren’t you glad this is my last sermon here? Whew. But you know what? We’ve done mountains. I don’t want to tell you that we can’t do stuff as a people, as a nation. We can do stuff. We set our mind to it, we can do it. How many people have polio? That used to be horrible. That used to take down a President. That used to be lifelong affliction. You used to never recover, used to be in an iron lung, which is now, you know, a ventilator. But back then you had a big old tank that you lived in. You were struggling to breathe. Finally they closed swimming pools, drained pools. They didn’t know what to do. The vaccine came out, and every child in America sent dimes to the White House to get rid of polio. Chipping away that horrible, horrible, horrible disease. The vaccine was mandated, and people were glad to get it. And polio’s gone. People don’t have to be stumbling on the road because they have polio. That road is made straight. We can do that. Remember drunk driving? Remember that? There used to not be any laws against drunk driving. It was pretty recent. Used to be able to get sober by driving, by just saying, “I’m good to drive,” and then you’re good. And you drive. Wasn’t any laws against driving drunk. It was accepted. I credit mostly MADD, you know, Mothers Against Drunk Driving? They banded together, said enough. There’s too many people dying. Enough of this. And they started shadowing politicians and judges and made it impossible for them to ignore that great deep pit of drunk drivers killing their loved ones, their children. Whatever you think about laws or enforcement or all that, it’s gone way down. Maybe it’ll be gone sometime. And I dare say that it’s no longer socially acceptable to drink and drive. What about smoking? Remember smoking? Remember smoking in public places and restaurants and theaters? In planes? I remember being on a plane, I couldn’t see the plane. I couldn’t see who was sitting in the plane. It was just a big cloud in the back. My dad went to a restaurant, he was pretty sensitive to the smells of cigarettes, asked for the nonsmoking table. And so here it was. It was like all these tables were smoking, and then there was one right here that was nonsmoking, and they sat him here. And he goes, what was that? I want the table downwind of the nonsmoking table. Remember that? I remember going with some people to a theater, to a movie, and we went in, they go, where do you want to sit? And he looked around and says, where’s the nonsmoking section? I was so thrown by that because by then there was nonsmoking in our state for theaters. We got rid of that. Whatever you think about laws and government and all that, we moved that mountain. The servers and workers that were in that space eight, 12, 10 hours a day, whatever, they don’t have to breathe that smoke anymore. Oh, yeah, people talk about their rights and freedoms and all that. Just like they talk about how upsetting it is to have a detour when there’s a perfectly good street there they tore up for some improvements. Infrastructure week is not without cost, not without inconvenience, not without actual problems in trying to get things better for most people. Remember the seniors buying dog food, in the store anyhow? The cashier says, “Oh, what’s the name of your dog?” And they couldn’t tell her because the dog food was for them. I think that story helped make Social Security a little bit more secure. Used to be okay. Hey, don’t have money, you know, you’re old, I guess you just die somewhere. But we moved that mountain. Whatever you think about, is it adequate, did they [indiscernible], we worked on that, made room for folks. So we can do that. It’s painful. It’s difficult. It’s controversial. It requires this inconvenience and problems as we have to go around detours as the infrastructure’s being upgraded. But you know what comes, you know, if we can move those mountains, if we can fill in those pits, if we can make the paths straight, it will be Christmas parking for all flesh to see salvation. And Christ will come. Finally. You moved everything out. You got everything ready for me. I’ll come in. Advent is getting ready for Jesus to come. Friends, we’ve got a lot to do. Let’s hope he comes. Stays. Maybe even buys us dinner. You know. Because we’ve made the path straight for all flesh to see salvation. We’ve taken down mountains so all people can live without crushing debt, medical or college. We’ve raised up the valleys and the pits so people aren’t killed again when the medical bills come. When they look at their paycheck, realize, oh, I have to get the third job. Thank you all for all that you’ve done. Thank you for being a witness that there’s a different way of living in the world by being here today, and by living your life as you are. By doing things that don’t profit you personally as much as they help others. For all that I’m very thankful, and I am blessed to know you, and know that you’re down here doing good work in Gardnerville and the world. So friends, keep moving them mountains, keep filling them valleys, keep straightening those paths. And we will welcome all flesh to salvation and make Christmas parking available for all. Amen.

Dickey's Doing Good tells good stories about good people doing good things in the community. Our guest this time is CASA of Collin County Executive Director Tricia Clifton. Tricia has been with CASA for several years and has spent her career in the nonprofit sector with organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Back on My Feet and Youth Villages. She also has a degree in professional counseling and a passion for helping children and the community.

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Joan Lunden, Host of “Good Morning America”, Media Superstar and Author About Harvey's guestAn award-winning journalist, bestselling author, television host, and motivational speaker, Joan Lunden has been a trusted voice in American homes for more than 40 years. For nearly two decades, Lunden greeted viewers each morning on Good Morning America making her the longest running female host ever on early morning television.Lunden continues to be one of America's most recognized and trusted personalities which has made her a sought-after speaker for events across the country. As an ardent health & senior advocate, Lunden has testified before the Food and Drug Administration advocating mandatory mammogram reporting and the Congressional House Ways and Means Committee advocating for the Family and Medical Leave Act.Lunden is the host of the host the PBS television series, Second Opinion with Joan Lunden and the Washington Post Podcast series, Caring for Tomorrow on the future of healthcare. Lunden is also the ambassador to the Poynter Institute's MediaWise for Seniors program which educates individuals over 50 on media literacy - separating fact from fiction online.  Recently, Lunden joined the faculty of Lehigh University as a visiting professor in their College of Health teaching Population Health and the Media.   As a part of the sandwich generation, Lunden's demographic is far-reaching. She is a mother of 7 including two sets of teenage twins. Like many Boomers in America she has juggled being a working mom while caring for an aging parent, and brings this experience to her role as the spokesperson for the nation's leading senior referral service, A Place for Mom, a company helping caregivers and families find the right care and resources for their loved ones.One of the most visible women in America, Lunden has graced the covers of more than 60 magazines and book covers.  Lunden's newest book, Why Did I Come into This Room: A Candid Conversation About Aging quickly became a New York Times Best Seller.In June of 2014, Lunden was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. An eternal optimist, she turned her diagnosis into an opportunity to become an advocate and help others. She chronicled her experience in her memoir Had I Known. Lunden continues to interact with American's daily on her website, Joanlunden.com as well as her social media platforms. Lunden has served as national spokesperson for various organizations such as the American Heart Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, American Lung Association, American Red Cross, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Colon Cancer Alliance.  Joan Lunden's books include Why Did I Come into This Room: A Candid Conversation About Aging; Had I Known; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Caregiving; Growing Up Healthy: Protecting Your Child From Diseases Now Through Adulthood; Wake-Up Calls; A Bend in the Road is Not the End of the Road; Joan Lunden's Healthy Living; Joan Lunden's Healthy Cooking; Mother's Minutes; Your Newborn Baby; and Good Morning, I'm Joan Lunden.For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com https://www.joanlunden.com/https://www.facebook.com/JoanLundenhttp://instagram.com/joanlundenhttps://twitter.com/JoanLundenhttps://www.youtube.com/user/JoanLundenhttps://secondopinion-tv.org/#joanlunden  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

LOCAL HEROES SERIES: From the age of 3, Heather Geronemus has been saving the world one person at a time, modeling a life of service. She joins me for a dynamic and informative discussion about the ways Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) supports one victim every eight minutes. After tragically losing her father to a drunk driver in 2009, Heather understands the essential role MADD plays in the community. She proudly serves as the Chair on the MADD National Board of Directors as well as locally for MADD South Florida. Heather also serves as the Chairwoman for the Sheriffs Foundation of Broward County which raises funds to support vital community projects, fallen heroes, training and equipment needs. Be sure to subscribe, share this episode with a friend and follow @bsosherifftony on Instagram to keep up with the latest BSO news between podcast episodes.​

Texting is the most alarming distraction. Sending or reading a text takes your eyes off the road for five seconds. At 55 miles per hour, that's like driving the length of an entire football field with your eyes closed. You cannot drive safely unless the task of driving has your full attention. Any non-driving activity you engage in is a potential distraction and increases your risk of crashing. Using a cell phone while driving creates enormous potential for deaths and injuries on U.S. roads. In 2018 alone, more than 2,800 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers.On September 19th, 2016, MSU freshman Mitchel Kiefer was tragically killed in an auto accident caused by a distracted driver on I-96 on Mitchel's way to the MSU campus. Steve Kiefer is Mitchel's father. Steve earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University, and he is a member of the Michigan State University College of Engineering Alumni Association Advisory Board. He's GM's key executive at Michigan State University and is a member of GM's senior leadership team. He is senior vice president and president of General Motors, South America and International Operations, meaning he's responsible for GM operations outside of North America and China.Soon after Mitchel's death, Steve founded The Kiefer Foundation to honor Mitchel's legacy. The mission of The Kiefer Foundation is to end distracted driving and all associated traffic deaths and injuries. The foundation focuses on three pillars to support its mission, awareness, technology and policy. Within each of these pillars are specific goals they hope to achieve and initiatives in which they hope to get involved. They've already made some progress, but still have a long way to go.“Until something like this happens to you personally, I don't think people really understand the magnitude of this problem,” Kiefer says. “It's important for people to realize that, around the world, because this is a global problem, 1.25 million people are killed on the highways of the world every year. It's a huge number. Some 50 million are injured or disabled every year in car crashes and pedestrian related car crashes around the world. We lose somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 people on the highways of the United States each year. It's a staggering number.“The folks who do the analysis on distracted driving estimate that about 10 percent of those are due to distracted driving. We honestly believe that number is way under reported. As a matter of fact, the stats would generally say that 94 percent of crashes that occur on the highways are due to some type of human error. It could be speeding or drinking and driving or drowsiness, but we know a large percentage of those are distracted driving. The simple statistic that I think is most staggering is that, in this country, 10 people every day are killed by distracted driving. And it's just, again, until you go through it, it's just hard for me to imagine that today and tomorrow and the next day, every day, we're going to have another 10 people, another 10 families going through what my family has gone through. And it really is one of the prime motivators for us to get something done here and really bring an end to distracted driving.“The story never gets easier to tell, but as you said, it was September 19th of 2016 - the worst day of our lives. Mitchel was in his first month at MSU. He had come home for a nice weekend to go see a Lions game. He was driving up to MSU on I-96 early Monday morning about 7:50. It was a beautiful Monday morning, the sun was out, the roads were dry, and there was no reason for a crash to occur. There was a little bit of traffic congestion. The traffic slowed down, and Mitchel slowed down. The young lady behind him did not. She impacted Mitchel's car at about 82 miles an hour.“As most people probably know, when airbags deploy, there's a flight recording function inside modern automobiles. You get the forensics from the vehicle. It was clear that the car was going 82 miles an hour, but also that, at the time of impact, the driver's foot was on the throttle, not on the brake. That's a pretty clear indication that the young lady was not paying attention and never touched the brakes. That resulted in Mitchel being rear-ended and driven across a very narrow median on I-96 near Dietz Road, a narrow median that had no guardrails at the time. Mitchel was driven into oncoming traffic where he was hit by a large truck and killed instantly.“It's a horrific thing to think that one small act of lack of paying attention, of distraction, can just really destroy lives forever.”The Kiefer Foundation focuses on three pillars to support its mission, awareness, technology and policy.“First and foremost, we learned how large this problem is, and interestingly enough, we referred to it as a global pandemic several years ago before the more recent pandemic,” Kiefer continues. “And I really believe that it is a global pandemic. This is certainly, as I covered in the earlier stats, causing deaths and disabling injuries all over the world. So we felt, first and foremost, it was important to make as many people realize this as possible. You do find that there are families like ours all over the country that have a similar goal. We do things like advertising, billboards, and a number of community events to help raise awareness. We engaged with a nonprofit organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan called the PEERS Foundation, which brings simulators into schools and churches around the state and around the country to educate young people on the dangers of distracted driving.“We're able to put them in a car and let them drive in a simulated fashion and then distract them and show how it causes crashes. We also had the opportunity to do some things to memorialize Mitchel and to create awareness. “Mitchel was a hockey player. He went to Detroit Catholic Central. He was part of the 2016 State Championship Catholic Central Hockey Team. And he was a goalie. They won that state championship at a USA Hockey rink in Plymouth, Michigan. We worked with the USA Hockey Foundation and actually dedicated that rink in Mitchel's honor. So that ice rink is now known as the Mitchel Kiefer Memorial Ice Rink, which really feels good from the perspective of a father to memorialize your son.“More importantly, we didn't just put Mitchel's name on the rink. It's covered with distracted driving messages. There's a locker room that has a video that runs with distracted driver statistics and other messages. There are 500,000 people who visit that ice rink each year for various activities, whether it's hockey games, ice skating competitions, or figure skating competitions. And I can't tell you how many people contact me and say, ‘Mr. Kiefer, we're in your son's ice rink right now. And it's given me an opportunity to talk to my children and my family about these dangers and your message is having a huge impact in this ice rink alone.' There are several other examples I could give, but that's probably the one that's kind of closest to my heart because every time I visit that ice rink, it's such fond memories of Mitchel and the state championship, but also a really effective way to spread a message of driver safety.“There are many aspects to the technology pillar. In some cases, it's related to awareness and educating people that you need to be more cautious when driving. There are a number of technology tools that people can be using right now. One is using the safe driving mode and do not disturb mode on your Apple phones and your Android phones. Those tools work very well if you can just get everyone that you know and your families and friends to use those tools. Essentially, they disable the phone from receiving texts or calls when you're driving. “There are a number of newer technologies that are being developed, driver monitoring tools by some vendors that are watching the driver as they drive and recording these things. They hopefully alert drivers when their eyes are not on the road for a short period. These technologies are being developed. There are other technologies related to blocking the use of phones like phone bags that, if the phone is in the bag, it can't receive a signal.“And then maybe the final one that we're really quite proud of and it's a little bit of a stretch on the technology theme, is the concept of these cable guardrails. I described in my opening comments about the circumstances of Mitchel's crash. Had there been a guardrail on that narrow median on I-96, it would have stopped Mitchel's car from going into oncoming traffic and he probably wouldn't have even been injured at all. We worked with the Michigan Department of Transportation on these very simple cable guardrails that you see all over the state. We actually did a co-funding project half sponsored by the Kiefer Foundation and half sponsored by MDOT to put in about five miles of cable guardrails at the point where Mitchel's crash occurred.“Now, when we did that, we really thought it was kind of a ceremonial thing. I just wanted that exact point on the highway to be safe. I couldn't imagine, but within the first year, that guardrail was hit 12 times. Simple technology like these cable guardrails is really quite inexpensive and cost-effective, and we know this one saved 12 lives in that short period of time. You continue to see it all over the state where you see these cable guardrails that have been damaged or knocked down. They are effective and they are saving lives.”Kiefer is focusing most of his time and attention on the policy pillar.“While awareness and technology are important, we also realize that legislation and policy can be an extremely important piece of this. Reflect back on the progress that's been made, I would say in my lifetime, since the 1980s and '90s, on drunk driving in those decades. It was a huge problem. We saw a group of very motivated and very influential people called Mothers Against Drunk Driving get very active in the legislative front and in the courts.“They first made sure that there were very stiff drunk driving laws in place. Second, they sat in the courtrooms and made sure that anybody who was guilty of these things received very severe punishment. And when I was young, that seemed like a crazy group of people. And a lot of us didn't understand it, until you lose a child, then you realize exactly why they were doing what they're doing. If you look over the years now, the drunk driving occurrences have completely changed, and I would even say culturally. If you think about the younger generation right now, I know my kids would never even consider getting behind a wheel after drinking. They equate it to holding up a bank or something. You wouldn't do something like that. So behavior has changed completely. And there are now services available like Uber and Lyft, which have also really helped bring down the need for anyone to be driving under the influence.“If I fast forward to the laws that we're working on now it's about hands-free legislation. And really it basically says that if you're in a vehicle and you're holding the phone for any reason, it becomes a primary offense. Law enforcement can see it, and they can pull you over and you receive a severe ticket. By the way, this is not unusual. This is what most developed countries do around the world. I've spent many years living in Europe. In Europe, if you hold your phone in the car, it's instantly a 400 or 500 Euro penalty. So it's not a new or unusual practice, but we're trying to get these hands free laws implemented in every state in the country.“We really believe that if the laws are in place and then the awareness and enforcement are in place, and this is really important, that we have a tool that law enforcement can use. Because right now, laws that ban texting still allow people to hold the phone in the car. And it's just impossible for law enforcement to determine what a person is doing on their phone to distinguish between texting and phone usage. We believe that the hands-free laws will give law enforcement a tool that will basically be able to change behavior. And then through enforcement and education, we're optimistic that we can bring down the traffic crashes significantly. And I would just say that the data supports this effort. Every state that has implemented these laws has seen significant reductions in crashes and deaths as a result of these hands-free laws.“We're in the process of re-energizing a campaign that we refer to as Hands Free Michigan. We first introduced this a couple of years ago, and we agreed to take a bit of a pause during the latest pandemic last year, but it's time now to get re-energized on this. There are now 25 states that have these hands-free laws in place. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get the law passed here in Michigan. There's a bill that's being developed and sponsored in the House right now in Michigan. Our hope and expectation is to get as many people on board as possible to support this bill and to support the passing of a law. We have a goal here to basically get the bill brought forward and through the State Legislature and passed into law by September of this year.”Kiefer shares his wisdom on the state and future of the automotive industry, and, in particular, General Motors.“I couldn't be more excited than I am today as to where we're headed as an industry and where we're headed as General Motors. “We have a vision at GM of a future of zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. On this concept of zero crashes, as we get to autonomous driving, and we will, we're convinced that this will essentially eliminate all traffic crashes related to human error. We're optimistic about that, but unfortunately, that's many years in the future. In the meantime, I personally believe that ending distracted driving and keeping drivers' eyes on the road and hands on the wheel is probably the best thing we can do to reduce crashes in the short term.“On zero emissions, we believe in an all-electric future and plan to roll out a whole portfolio of new battery electric vehicles.“Electrification has many forms, but in its broadest sense, it's the idea of moving from propulsion systems that are based on internal combustion engines like gasoline and diesel engines into propulsion systems that are driven by electric motors and electricity. I say it that way because I think even fuel cells, hydrogen fuel cells, which are in our future as well, are another way to produce electricity for an electric vehicle. We're focused on this all-electric future, which is really about battery electric vehicles, and you'll start to see more and more of them roll out.”Challenges and opportunities for GM to reach these mobility goals?“The sky's the limit here. Technology always comes with challenges and risk, but I think one challenge is ensuring a pipeline of extremely bright, intelligent, motivated people for these jobs. I'm excited in my role participating with the MSU College of Engineering to help define some of those needs so that we get some of the best new engineers coming into our company. I think our story at General Motors right now is absolutely fantastic. And I think it's really helping us because I can't tell you how many people want to join the cause, want to join General Motors, whether it's young engineering students or even seasoned industry veterans. A lot of people are looking to General Motors and wanting to be part of the future success story.“The human capital and getting the right people in is always important and a challenge, but I think we're well positioned. The other thing is, there's a whole area of legislative and infrastructure challenges involved in getting electrical charging in place in countries all over the world. And then as you move to the idea of removing the driver from the car in these truly autonomous vehicles, safety is the absolute highest priority. There are some pretty cautious and time-consuming legislative hurdles that need to be overcome.”Kiefer talks about why MSU was the right university for him coming out of high school and more about his role on the MSU College of Engineering Alumni Association Advisory Board. What does he want listeners to keep in mind and take away from our conversation?“First, really think about the idea of what would it feel like if this happened to you? It's really hard to get people's attention and involvement until they personalize it. So, I just ask everyone to think about what you can do differently? What would you do to protect your life and your children's lives and your family if you thought that something you could do differently today might save them tomorrow from a distracted driving related accident? That's a hard thing to imagine, but I'd ask people to recognize that we never in our lives imagined something like this could happen to us. And then one day your life is shattered.“It's about personal accountability. This is a behavioral change and every one of us has to participate. I'm slightly embarrassed to admit how actively distracted I used to drive before this happened to me. I was somebody who could drive really well with my knee on the wheel while looking at the phone in one hand and maybe drinking a coffee in another. And I thought I was very cautious about it because I knew the risks. But I still admit that I did it. And then it happens to you and you realize just how senseless that is. From a personal accountability standpoint, if people could just really internalize that and say, ‘I don't need to be on this phone while I'm driving.' It is just way too dangerous. And it's just not worth the loss of your life or your child's life or the other people on the road.“Use tools like the do not disturb mode and the safe drive mode that are readily available. Commit to them, use them, keep your eyes on the road, drive safely, and make sure your children and all your friends are doing the same. That's the easy first step. If everybody could just do that, we'd be in a better place.“And then in a broader sense, for anyone who's willing to help us with the cause of Hands-Free Michigan, be very vocal on your support for getting laws in place that will help make our roads safer. Speak to your elected officials. Be vocal on this because it does have an impact. We're seeing overwhelming support for these hands-free laws. There is just no reason why we shouldn't be able to push them over the edge and get these things implemented this year.”Please find more again at mkiefer.org or Google the Kiefer Foundation. MSU Today airs every Sunday morning at 9:00 on 105.1 FM, AM 870, and however you stream at home. Follow and subscribe at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts.

A coalition of health professionals are sending a united message to Mississippians to fight the flu.Then, Mothers Against Drunk Driving turns 40. We look back with their national President and discuss new initiatives the group is pursuing.Plus, in today's book club … A remarkable story that began thirty years ago in Ted Jackson's new book, “You Ought to Do A Story About Me.”Segment 1:A coalition of doctors and associations called 'Flu Fighters' is uniting to urge Mississippians to get their flu shot. Flu season begins in October, but doctors say now is the time to get a flu shot. Dr. Mark Horne, President of the Mississippi State Medical Association, tells our Kobee Vance viruses like the flu or coronavirus lower immunity to other illnesses, which could lead to severe outcomes for patients.Experts say that wearing masks and social distancing will help reduce transmission of the flu, but the virus still poses a serious risk because of the coronavirus. Dr. John Gaudet is President of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He says young children and older adults are the most at risk for severe outcomes from the flu, and measures should be taken to avoid a "twindemic".Segment 2:Mothers Against Drunk Driving - more commonly known as MADD - is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of its founding. The organization has long-served to humanize the tragedies associated with impaired driving, and is releasing a new survey that measures the American public's attitudes and knowledge about the impact of marijuana on traffic safety. According to the survey, one in eight U.S. adults admits to having driven under the influence of marijuana. President Helen Witty joins us to reflect on MADD's origins and how the group is facing the evolving issue of impaired driving.Segment 3:Ted Jackson has been a photojournalist with the New Orleans Times Picayune for the last 36 years. The Pulitzer Prize winner is a McComb native and alum of The University of Southern Mississippi. Thirty years ago he took a picture of a homeless man that led to a revelation, redemption and his new book, “You Ought to Do A Story About Me.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.