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SEASON 3 EPISODE 94: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump and Musk are, at this moment, overthrowing our form of government. And this is how to stop them: Yell. Keep yelling. Government data about religious charities – private, if not necessarily secret – has wound up in the hands of Mike Flynn, the foreign asset, General Scumbag – and he’s posted it online, and mocked the Lutheran Church in doing so. Musk’s hatchet-men are literally inside the government right now demanding leaders of the U.S. Agency for International Development turn over classified documents inside restricted areas and those that have refused have been placed on leave. Trump has started a trade war with our closest allies just to have somebody for his morons to hate. Quote: “It’s a coup. Elon Musk is running a palace coup. Musk is taking classified information. Musk has taken YOUR social security number. Everybody involved should be arrested, by local DA’s if that’s all we can do, and denied bail,” unquote. A Democratic Senator, Representative, Governor, Mayor, needs to stand in front of microphones today and say that today and say that THAT BLUNTLY today. And, quote: “Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump might as well have killed those teenaged skaters on American 5342 themselves. The DC crash was their fault. Period.” Some OTHER Democratic leader, maybe the head of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, elected Saturday, needs to say that. As it is, Martin says: “We’re taking the gloves off. I’m always viewed my role as a chair of the Democratic Party to take the low road, so my candidates and elected officials can take the high road. Meaning, I’m going to throw a punch.”Good. Start swinging. Because the FIRST step towards stopping wrong is by publicly and loudly yelling, THIS is wrong. A Minnesota colleague described the new DNC Chair: “Ken will cut you if he has to.” I’ll bring the metaphorical Ginsu set because right now where we actually ARE is: the nominal leading Democratic office-holder is Chuck Schumer and as Trump and Musk began to ransack your social security number and starting trade wars with our literally closest allies, Chuck Schumer’s social media Saturday afternoon was: “You’re worried about tomato prices…” and ten minutes later “You’re watching the Super Bowl…wait’ll Trump’s tariffs raise your guacamole and beer prices.” Useless. I need a thousand Ken Martins, throwing punches and metaphorically cutting a MAG-itch. I need them saying this is a coup, we will stop it, it will take time, we will beat them and jail them because bottom line is they are lazy and they leave half their lives to chance – just look at their haircuts. B-Block (30:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: CBS, NPR, New York Times, Politico, NBC all tried to kiss Trump's ring. He just hurt them anyway. And this is not a joke: Semafor is hosting a "National Summit" on how to restore confidence in media. The speakers are Megyn Kelly, the idiot running CNN, the other idiot running NBC, and the idiot running The New York Times. No - seriously. B-Block (37:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Chuck Todd gets scooped on his own firing. Chris Licht finally gets a new job. Free-lance. Temp. At scale. And Neto-Baby Peter Doocy asks Softball Scholarship Recipient Karoline Leavitt about DEI. Also you doubted she called Hitler "Hilter?" I'll show you. C-Block (47:00) SPORTSBALL CENTER TONIGHT: A basketball trade deal so bad it must have been ordered by Trump. How many Petterssons? ALL the Petterssons. And for the last damn time: hockey's "Original 6?" They aren't original, and there aren't six of them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This week's episode of Anchored features a speech delivered by Jeremy Tate, CEO of the Classic Learning Test, at the National Summit on Civics in Catholic Education at Benedictine College. Jeremy talks about the story of Catholic education in America. Jeremy highlights the challenges faced by Catholic schools today, including declining enrollment and the influence of secular educational standards, while also presenting a hopeful vision for revitalization through distinct Catholic identity and practices.

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and RCP contributor and host of The Unknowns Charlie Stone discuss Kamala Harris' virtual campaign event with Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump's appearance at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Washington, DC. They also talk about how the Harris campaign is outspending the Trump campaign by a factor of 20 to 1 on digital advertising and today's unanimous House vote to improve protections for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Next, Tom Bevan talks to RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann about whether Democrats are moderating their campaign rhetoric in the wake of a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And finally, Andrew Walworth speaks to RealClear Investigations contributor Julie Kelly about the Justice Department's treatment of January Sixth defendants and whether the tempo of J-6 arrests has increased in recent months for political purposes.

Did you miss it? Tune in to our latest podcast episode as we bring you highlights from the Ask the Experts Q&A session at the 2023 US HAEA National Summit in Orlando, Florida. In this episode, members of the US HAEA Medical Advisory Board address pressing questions and provide invaluable insights into the challenges and advancements in the field of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE). Listen in on this informative and enlightening discussion! For more information, please visit www.haea.org. A special thanks to CSL Behring and Takeda for sponsoring the 2024 HAE Speaks Podcast Series!

Show Notes and Transcript Tina Descovich, co-founder of Moms for Liberty returns to Hearts of Oak to discuss the organization's growth, legislative victories, and commitment to empowering parents in navigating the education system and defending parental rights.  We take a close look at federal policies like the Title IX rewrite and emphasized parental involvement in advocating for change, including options like home-schooling and school choice to safeguard children's education.  Tina highlights the challenges that parents face in choosing the right education, navigating woke ideology, and the importance of monitoring children's education regardless of the setting.  The need for transparency in curriculum, traditional teaching methods, and critical thinking in education for children's well-being is a must so please share this interview far and wide. Tina Descovich has a long record of fighting for students and parental rights in Florida and at the national level. She was elected to the Brevard County, FL school board in 2016. She was selected by her peers in 2017 to serve as Vice Chairman and Chairman in 2018. While on the school board she was a member of The Florida Coalition of School Board Members and served as the organization's president in 2018. Tina currently serves on several non-profit boards in her community that are aimed at helping children. She and her husband Derek have five children. She is passionate about America and is dedicated to protecting liberty and freedom for the future of all children. Moms for Liberty are Moms, Dads, Grands, Aunts, Uncles and Friends. They welcome all that have a desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government. The founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty. As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now they are using their first-hand knowledge and experience to unite parents who are ready to fight those that stand in the way of liberty. Moms for Liberty is dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. Their vision is to see Americans empowered and thriving in a culture of Liberty. Moms for Liberty are joyful warriors who stand for truth, build relationships and empower others. Connect with Tina... X/TWITTER        twitter.com/TinaDescovich Connect with Moms for Liberty... WEBSITE           www.momsforliberty.org X/TWITTER        twitter.com/Moms4Liberty Interview recorded  6.5.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... 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All the links are in the description. but Tina maybe start with an update of what's been happening in the world of Moms for Liberty and then we'll get into some of the issues but yeah what's been happening in your world? Well that's a loaded question moving at 5,000 miles per hour just trying to, I don't know fix education and save this country, defend parental rights, the Biden administration here is moving so fast. And it's just a behemoth. They've got hundreds of millions of dollars within the teachers unions as kind of their foot soldiers. They have the media on their side. It's just endless what they can do. And then there's little old moms for liberty and just moms on the ground in this organization trying to fight back with all of our might to protect our children, to defend parental rights, to keep that division between the government and our families. And it's a 100-hour-a-week job for a whole lot of people. It's really a lot. But we have a lot of exciting things that we're doing as an organization. We're growing, obviously. We're in 48 of the 50 states, over 300 chapters, 130,000 moms on the ground. We are doing a ton of things and a ton of growth within policy work now. And so our chapters have come together in the states to form legislative committees and they put together a legislative agenda. Usually has a parental bill of rights to protect parents rights in that state. A lot of times there's bills about transparency in curriculum. Protecting girls in their own locker rooms and restrooms, girls protecting girls sports, things like that. And we are having great success. The last legislative session, twenty four bills were signed into law over seven different states. And that was the last legislative session. we are still in session in a few states like North Carolina still has their legislative session going on and so we haven't even taken account yet for this session of how many more bills have been signed into law that our organization's been working on. And is the main focus, your work at the state level or is it at the federal level? So our mission statement is to unify educate and empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government where we work at the the most local level, which is school districts, where honestly the most parental rights historically have been the most parental rights violations. Lately, we've been doing a ton of work, like I said, at the state level with policy and laws. And then it looks like we now have to get involved at the federal level because of the Biden administration. They're just obnoxiously overstepping their bounds. I don't know how much you're following here in the U.S., butthe new rewrite of Title IX, which has, you know, Title IX was written to protect women, to give them equal opportunities. It was written in the 70s and itprotected women's sports. It gave them an opportunity to have women's sports. And anyway, he had just, he's just obliterated that with the new rewrite. He's pretty much made it allowable, made it mandatory in every state and every school district that they have to allow boys that identify as girls mentally in restrooms with girls on their sports teams. And at a federal level, at a national level, you know, those school districts are going to be held accountable to doing those things. And so our whole country is in an uproar over this. Moms for Liberty, we've put out a massive toolkit to educate people and to arm them with letters to their local school board, letters to their state legislators, letters to the federal government. We're giving them all kinds of ideas and suggestions and tools to go fight this because, you know, states left and right are launching lawsuits now against the Biden administration on behalf of women and kids everywhere. Because it does seem as if that's full-on compelled speech. And I was looking at the website and I saw all those different tools. And it does seem to be one of the main focuses at the moment. And here in the UK, we've had legal cases of teachers not using preferred pronouns and ends up in the courts. But we don't have, at the moment, we don't really have compelled speech legislation that overarches everything. So it seems to be bits here and there. But what I'm reading into this would be in the States that then would cover everyone. So is that what because it does mean the teachers are forced to use whatever the kids come up with? Yeah. So there's a lawsuit. I was reading an article this morning. It's coming out of California, a teacher that was fired for not using the students preferred pronouns, which were not aligned with what the child was born as and for not lying to the parents. And so the teacher refused to do that. They fired her. And now she's got a lawsuit going. It's just a disaster. You can't you can't compel speech in the United States of America. This Title IX rewrite is trying to do just that. And it's not going to hold up. It's not going to stand. But, you know, the American people don't even I don't think most of them are even awake to what's happening. You know also the rewrite was through the department of education it's not a law it wasn't passed by congress it wasn't um you know what he's doing is just he is, he's he's making a mockery of the rule of law too. I mean has the pendulum swung too far for that because we have had I had Billboard Chris on a few weeks ago talking to him about what's been happening, and in Europe, and maybe we'll touch on what's been happening in Europe in regards to that but it, when you wonder how far can things go and with children being able to decide, with the children being the adults and they make the decisions and there are no adults left in the room. Do you think this title IX, do you think that will push it so far that people do wake up to it? I mean what's the media conversation in the mainstream media. The mainstream media so far has really picked up on what this does to girls' sports, and that seems to be the only thing they're focusing on. Moms for Liberty, obviously, is because our mission is to protect parental rights, is really working hard to expose how this oversteps and destroys parental rights in the education system at a minimum. And so they're starting to pick it up. I think Fox here has picked up a couple stories of Tiffany, my co-founder, over the weekend and last week did some interviews, and they ran them this morning. And so we're really trying hard to make sure parents understand what's going on because they just don't know. And a lot of times they don't pay attention. They don't watch the news. They don't really realize how it's going to impact them until it impacts them, until their their daughter comes home and says, I have to compete against a six foot two, 250 pound man on Saturday. Mom, all of a sudden they're in a frenzy. Like, how did this happen? And I had a friend of mine who is left leaning, has voted Democrat her whole life. And, we've been friends since childhood. And she called me like six months ago and said, you know, my daughter's in the bathroom. She just called me from high school. There's a boy in there. How did this happen? What's going on? And I'm like, I've been trying to tell you. And so, you know, they just people just don't know. Moms are busy. They just don't know until they know. And when they know they are looking for help. And so we want to be there to help them. I mean, is it because obviously there has been lots of discussion here in the UK, we read every few days about another story, whether it's Europe or whether it's over in the States about women competing in sports, forfeiting that, walking away because they say, I am not competing against a man. I would rather give up whatever pay there is at that level. And that does seem to be getting the media attention. But then that's, I guess, a different focus than purely on the education. But surely that will filter through. Yeah, I think it'll rise up. I mean, the shiny object is what's happening in sports because it's such a clear violation. And we'realready seeing news stories this morning in West Virginia, one of our states, I think four or five middle school girls said that they refused to compete. They withdrew or they did a bye, whatever it is, when you on a sports team say we're not going to compete in this session. And then the school district kicked them out of the next, I think it was a track meet, kicked them out of the next track meet because they withdrew from the previous one. And so now that's being handled in the courts too. But good for those four little girls. I mean, middle school here is 12, 11, 12, 13 years old maximum. And they stood up as a group and said, we are not going to compete against a man in track. It's just not fair. And so that's the shiny object. That's what's in the courts right now. That's what everybody sees. But I think the other stuff is going to start bubbling up soon. Of course, this has been a long plan, march from the institutions, back from the 60s or however far back you want. And it does seem as though what you're doing is the most positive response for that, is the most natural way of actually tackling what's happening, which is parents coming together in groups and being vocal. And why it's taken this long, I guess none of us know, but it is happening. So it does seem what is happening there with Moms for Liberty is the most common sense and the most logical. and the only way really that this actually can be changed when the voice comes from parents themselves. Yeah, parents is a powerful, a powerful group. And I think Moms for Liberty has proven that, even historically, when you look throughout history, when parents pull together and really rise up within a country, within a boundary, within a community, even at local school board meetings, that gets the attention. We are the taxpayers, we are the voters, and no one is going to fight like a parent to protect their child. And so, you know, we, we have captured that, I think, at Moms for Liberty, and our politicians know that and realize that, which is why, you know, last summer at our National Summit, we have all five conservative presidential candidates, we invited them all, President Biden, Robert Kennedy, Jr., all of them, five of them showed up to talk to us about their concern about parental rights. And you know we have a lot of influence in local elections our people are concerned they get out they knock doors they campaign for their favorite candidate we have a parental rights pledge that we ask all elected officials or candidates to sign to say that you will defend parental rights and this is all levels of government and we post those on our website so that people can go and say did my candidate for school board or state house or president sign the pledge and it helps people gauge on if these people are going to protect the right of a parent to direct the upbringing of their child. What options are there of children in the States? I'm curious because in the UK we still have church schools, Roman Catholic and Anglican, but those are very rapidly adopting the woke mentality. But there are still options, that's kind of quasi-state. Private education isn't as really a main area here as it is in the States. But when, because parents sometimes don't want to rock the boat, they think, well, don't worry, I'll just hold on and hope that it's all OK. And it's all about grades and they don't realise what's happening. So what options are there for parents? Or is it if they don't fight now, then actually it's gone? So I'd like to like I'd like to change this this question a little bit, because as you know, I was there in your country several months ago. I saw you while we were there and I spent a lot of time talking to my Uber drivers because I spent a lot of time in Ubers while I was there. And one in particular said he currently, him and his wife home-school their child, their children there in the UK. And I was asking him about that. He said he pulled them out because of the woke ideology in the schools there. But in the UK apparently one of your government officials has to come and do home checks, quarterly or something of that nature to to prove that the children are learning what they're supposed to be learning at home and he said just last week and you know this was a few months ago now but he was telling me at the time just last week one of those people came in to do a home check and they said to the little girl, they didn't ask can you do math can you multiply do you know know, the history of the UK, he said, or the home check lady said to their daughter, what would you think if your brother decided he wanted to be a girl? That was the question, but they came to the home to check. And he was appalled, but he said he didn't feel like he could speak up or do anything. And I thought, oh my goodness, this is, this is so bad. Here in the United States, you know, the one thing about education in the United States is it's different. It's vastly different and the laws are different from state to state. And so in some states, home-school parents are completely on their own. No, the states don't check in. There's no follow up. And in other states, in other counties, like in my county here in Florida, you're supposed to fill out a form at the school district just so they know they can account for a child and they say that they're being homeschooled. So there's been a big push in the United States the last 10 years, but really in the last couple of years for what we call school choice. And that means the money follows the child. So if our state spends ten thousand dollars for a public education school, the parent could apply and get ten thousand dollars and they could take that to a private school, a religious school. And they could take that in some states they can take that and give it to themselves to homeschool to buy books and things of that nature but it's such, a it's such an interesting argument because in some states like texas the homeschool parents have just completely risen up and they don't want school choice and they don't want those funds for homeschool because they know that's tied to government strings and they want to be free of it, in other states they've done complete universal school choice and homeschool parents gladly take the 10 000 or whatever the rate is some states it's 8,000. In America, some states, it's 30,000. In New York City, it's almost 40,000 per student, but they don't have school choice there. And so, you know, we have a lot of options here. We have private schools. We have very expensive private schools. A lot of them have been captured and have the woke ideology in them also. So there really is, there's nowhere to hide these days. It's even if you home-school, you have to like read every word in the textbooks that you purchase to teach your children with, unless you use original source documents and the Bible and things of that that nature, you have to watch closely because it's just everywhere. Yeah we, home-schooling is different here, it's not, it's really a cottage industry, it's very small. I know in Europe there it's larger but in some countries they tried to ban it and it's a whole mishmash but yeah we have mostly left governments, some of them even call themselves conservative like the the UK but it's far-reaching in terms of state control and big government but I think what you're saying is then there's nowhere to go, you either stay and fight because there isn't down the road a nice school that will be nicely protected from the state and you can just get on, they will come for that really think we learned that in all our in dealing with the government they don't want to leave any part of your life alone they'll come for it so unless you fight now this is the battle line and this is where you have to fight. Yeah, I mean, I pulled my son during middle school and during COVID and put him in a small private Christian school that doesn't take any government funds. And it was just, it was beautiful. My son was able, they checked temperatures at the door, washed hands thoroughly, and then they were normal kids all day long. They didn't mask, they didn't, you know, they didn't sit apart. They stayed with their classroom cohorts. You know, they didn't mix with the whole school in case someone was diagnosed, but he had a fantastic two years because they weren't tied to government funds and therefore they weren't tied to any government rules or laws or policies or anything. They were able to do what they want. But, you know, it's hard for those schools to stay in existence, especially with school choice now, because all of that money will be flowing into all the schools around it. And a private school will be very tempted to take those funds. And the minute they take those funds, you're now tied to all the laws. And so there are nooks and crannies to still hide, but they're becoming few and far between. And so that's what we tell everyone when we fight. We say even with homeschooling and private schooling, 80% of American children are still in public schools and we cannot leave them behind because your child may be homeschooled and will graduate at 18 to go vote. But if that's only 20% of America, they're going to lose the vote every time to the people that have been indoctrinated. And that's 80% of America. And so this isn't sustainable. No, 100%. No child should be left behind, completely. Can I ask you about parents, what rights they have to access materials, this has been what was a debate in the UK probably six eight months ago, whenever it became obvious that parents didn't have a legal right to access teaching materials specifically in the area of sex education. What is it like in America? The parents have the legal right to access those materials or is it simply those, I guess, school board meetings where things come out and surprise everyone. So I love this question, and I'm going to take it back five steps and say every parent in the world has the fundamental right from God to direct the upbringing of their children, and that is their education. And so you have that fundamental right as the parent of that child to see what they are being taught. Now, Government steps all over those rights and takes that right. We know that and that's what's happening. I know you phrased the question though, the legal right, you didn't say the fundamental right, but I had, you know, I had to get that in there if I had the opportunity. The legal right in the United States varies again from state to state, especially when it comes to sex ed. Some states, I think five out of our 50, you actually have to get parental permission before you can can teach sex ed. But, you know, the tide is changing on a lot of these things, too. Many of the states, about 20 or so, have opt-out. Parents have to have the right to opt-out. But what we just saw with a lawsuit in Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, is the school district would not allow Muslim parents to opt-out of the comprehensive sex ed, which taught gender ideology. It taught homosexuality, and the Muslim parents were not having it. And good for them. They should assert their rights. But the school district said, you do not have the right to opt out of this. And I think there's a lawsuit now, you know, going in that direction. So it just varies. And thank goodness it varies. That's the one thing I love about education in the United States. It's getting more federalized. It should not be federalized. For the most part, education is supposed to be controlled by local school boards here, which are elected. It allows parents to march down to their school board member, which they elected in their small community. Likely they see them at the grocery store and tell them off and tell them, you don't get to do that. And if you're going to teach my kid that, I want to see what it is. And that's your neighbor. That's someone that you maybe have known for a lot of years or your kids are on the same soccer team. And so you have the ability to influence and change that quickly when it is held by the federal government of the United States. You know, this morning I was reading an article that said somebody in University in California is pushing for federally mandated sex ed and I thought what a what a nightmare especially with comprehensive sex ed knocking at everybody's door, that should never come from the federal government in America ever. Well it does seem everywhere that the parts of government are desperate to sexualize children through any way possible.. I know, like what is wrong with people and what is wrong with parents that are allowing this, sorry… Yes, why is the anger not there because you're right we we saw a similar thing with Muslim parents rising up in the summer, cities in the UK and I was scratching my head thinking where are the churches, why are they not angry and then you realize they've fallen and they've accepted it so we are having the same issue where the fight back coming from, it's not coming from established churches or even the free churches, coming actually from the Muslim community and you think well, if they're going to lead the fight then then so be it and you can see the confusion with the government that they don't know what to do with this because there's all types of repercussions. Well this is usually the victims that we've had to protect and now they're mad at us too, what are we going to do we can dig into that a little bit, but this whole victim mentality our schools are teaching that and our governments now, both your government and my government are are being moulded around it. And so, yeah, when the victim turns out and says, uh, now they're like, what are we going to do? It's just confusion in our government. But in the argument in the UK for parents having no legal access or no right to have legal access, and it was a long court case, and the conservative government seemingly only realized the parents didn't have the right, even though they've been in charge for 14 years. But we'll put that to the side. And the argument was that these companies that run these courses have a right to protect it, because if they opened it up to the parents, to the public, that would damage their competitive edge. And that seems to have stuck. The courts have ruled that, yeah, that's a fair enough point. What is it like in the States? Are there separate organizations, separate companies that actually put on those courses, or is it purely by the school? And would that same argument work, that you need to be able to hide because that's your business model? You don't want the competition seeing this. Yeah, they're trying that here for sure. And it's working, I think, in some places. It's intimidating school districts into saying parents can't see it. From what I've heard mostly, though, the school districts, they're trying to find a compromise because they just want to make everybody happy. And so our moms are telling us, well, they're going to allow me to go in and for eight hours and review the book. I'm not allowed to take pictures. I'm not allowed to, because it's copyrighted by the by the publisher. You know that it hasn't quite played out yet here in the United States. I'm sure it's coming because this is what's happening as more and more parents are asking to see and more and more textbook publishers want to hide what they have. I will tell you several years ago, you know, I served on school board here in Florida 2016 to 2020. And when I began this fight, I ran and started my campaign in 2015 on parental rights because I already saw the problem. One of the things we have here in the U.S. and you probably have it there is standardized tests. So a test that the whole country takes at a certain age so you can gauge where everybody is, which is fine. It's a great idea. Except what we were finding here in Florida and around the country is those testing companies were just like those textbooks publishers. And they were not allowing teachers even to see what was in the tests. And so not allowing parents, absolutely. So I went to our state Capitol and spoke about it at a legislative committee hearing as they were discussing this. And one of the legislators brought the testing company head up and said to him and asked him questions and said, if I, as a representative in the state house in Florida, want to see what's on this test that our children are being put in front of our children in the state, may I see it? And he said, no, we can't show it to you. It has to be. And then he went through a laundry list. He ended up, he said, if the governor of the state of Florida would like to see what's in that test. Would he be able to see it? I think at the time, Rick Scott was governor, not Governor DeSantis. And the guy said, no, unfortunately, we would not allow him to see it. And I was like, oh, things are about to hit the fan around here. And so they are on such a high horse, these textbook companies, these test makers, They've had such straight access to our children for so many years without anybody questioning it. But the tides are changing. Tell us about the tide changing on the political side, obviously, presidential election year. And I haven't seen a lot from, originally from from the candidates in the primaries on this and this being an issue. I mean, simply saying that parents should have access, that you think that is a right to any parent legally in any democratic country, but it's not. I haven't seen these type of things push forward. It's simply we're going to have a discussion on bathrooms and make sure boys can't go to girls. That kind of is and maybe the sports issue, but it doesn't seem to go far enough at all. I mean, is that a fair enough assessment that the conversation is not really being had, wasn't had in the primaries? And I haven't even seen it coming out of the Trump campaign massively. So just to note, President Trump has, he's the only presidential candidate right now that, you know, a lot of the primary candidates had signed our pledge. But President Trump is the only one that has made it this far, that has signed the parental rights pledge through Moms for Liberty. We've had discussions. He has signed it? He has. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed to come to our summit. We worked with his people to put out a press release on that. They sent us his bio and headshot. And one week before our summit, he cancelled due to a family emergency. A week later went on, you know, went on some talk show and said that we were anti LGBTQ. So he went on my wall here in my office, he's still up there, my coward wall, I call it, too afraid to stand up. Somebody pressured him, I believe, some people pressured him to not stand with parents for his, you know, to be politically expedient. And then, of course, President Biden is just in full on attack to parental rights. So I don't expect he would ever discuss transparency in curriculum. He sides with the teachers unions who don't want transparency in curriculum. We don't really know where RFK Jr. stands at this point because he's not talking about it. But President Trump has addressed it. I wouldn't say at length, but he has signed our pledge. We have talked to members of his team about where he stands on these issues. And he supports the right of a parent to direct the upbringing of their children in education. So that includes transparency in curriculum. And of course, you and Tiffany are regularly on WarRoom and you don't get a better way of connecting with the Trump's team and with conservative voters than through WarRoom so that seems to be a massive outlet for this information. Yeah Tiffany usually does that one, I'm her backup, I'd say when she can't get to it, but yeah she is on WarRoom regularly, Steve Bannon is great about letting us get our message out and what we're working on and yeah the hope is that Trump and his team are watching and hearing and seeing, but, you know, they've reached out, we've had direct access with his team. He came to our national summit last summer, and I spent some, I would say I spent a pretty good time with him, green room, backstage. And, you know, he sincerely seemed very concerned about what's happening to parental rights and with education in our country. I think, does he still have a Moms for Liberty cup behind him when he hosts? Yes, I'm not sure. I hope so. Yeah, we gave him or somebody gave him. I don't think we gave him. I think one of his listeners sent him one, one of our travel mugs, and he had it on the shelf behind him. So I saw it for quite a while. So great advertising. I think you had a quote on one of your tweets in the last few days. I said, are politics taking them? You said for this entire campaign, and Kennedy has refused to answer any serious questions about what he would do as president to protect kids from the predatory transgender industry. Instead, he upskirts trying to con voters into thinking he's on their side while taking no firm positions. I think it's fair to mention because he will have a big impact on, not necessarily, I don't think, being elected, but he will have a massive impact in a third candidate. And you kind of know where Biden lies. you know I mean I've been to three Trump rallies and and heard him speak, certainly talk about the trans stuff in schools regarding bathrooms, regarding sports and a big cheer, probably the biggest cheer when I last heard him, the biggest cheer went up for him said that he will keep boys out of girls bathrooms and girls out of the boys and it was heartening to hear such a massive cheer, but yeah you're right, Kennedy, I think people maybe forget that he is not socially conservative. Now, he shouldn't have to be socially conservative to worry about sexualisation of kids. It should go across the board. But yeah, he does seem to be holding back, and I can't imagine he would go along with opposing what's been happening. I have no idea. Look, a lot of our moms really have great respect for him. He stood up against the COVID vaccine. A lot of our moms, their children are vaccine injured, And so they really have followed him for a long time and appreciated his courage and bravery speaking out on some of those issues. But, you know, for the reasons you just said, I'm going to print out another picture of him and put him up on my coward wall because this is one issue you cannot be silent on. You know, there is a loud minority group that is radical, that is aggressive, I think, very angry. And if there's a terrorist group in the United States, you know, like they try to call us, it's these gender ideology terrorists. They harass people. They follow them around. They scream at them. You said you've had Billboard Chris on, the way they treat him when he all he does is just with the sign that says children cannot consent to puberty blockers or no child is born in the wrong body. This is not an issue that should be partisan. This is just like a general human, protect kids issue. I think history is not going to look kindly on any of us that allowed this to happen and did not speak out, including RFK Jr. Yeah, 100%. What is the pushback on puberty blockers? I think we now see six countries in Europe where it's banned to some degree with now legal conversations taking place of whether these should be allowed or not here in the UK and across Europe. In the US, there doesn't seem to be that pushback. Am I correct on that? We are about five years, if I had to guess, behind you on all of this, we watched you all open your gender clinics and the puberty blockers and you know you guys have learned, I think you're starting to learn and that's why the discussions and the debates are happening. We are just behind you know ours I think we've ramped up now, people are starting to become aware and I think what you're going through now is right around the corner for us. Yeah, no, I really think so. I mean, we're having a lot of de-transitioners speaking out. We're having whistle-blowers from the centres and then realising, I guess, the industry, which is fairly profitable. Just like whenever I talk to those in the pro-life, they talk about the massive industry on that side. And I guess this is what, just like under COVID, you're up against a massive big pharma industry that makes a lot of money through their products. And they're not saying this is right or wrong. They're just saying we were making money and we're going to do it anyway. I think that's the massive push. But yeah, we've been, certainly for 12, 13 years, the experiment in the UK. And now people are beginning to wake up. I don't know if you're having whistle-blowers in the States talking about what happens, because we had a single clinic in the UK, really, that was under government. I'm sure in America, it's much more fractured. Yeah, just like everything else here, we like to localize a lot of things, the good and the bad. Yeah, I think it was in Tavistock that you guys had? Yeah, Tavistock. We've learned so much from that. And, you know, I'm sorry that you and your country and your children had to go through that. But we follow it closely. We've learned a lot from it. And, you know, we have de-transitioners here that are starting to speak out, Chloe Cole and some others. They're speaking at state houses. I think there's been a couple of congressional hearings now. So again, we're behind, but I think it's starting to happen. But as far as big pharma and how this is an industry, I mean, just imagine, like you have got a, you've got customers for life when you give kids puberty blockers and you chop off their healthy body parts, customers for life. And we're watching the same groups like Planned Parenthood, who have been behind the abortion industry for so long, now jumping on the puberty blocker industry. And schools are letting them in, especially in blue, left-winging, radical cities and school districts. They're letting them on campus. They're letting them right off campus next door. They're letting them set up shop in the parking lot. And in some states allowing them without parental consent or notification, allowing them to give puberty blockers to children at the schools and so, and they're just getting them for life like now you'll be a patient of mine forever, it's the most absurd horrible thing I think that we've experienced in America in a long time. And the more side effects the more money to be made from a further product that will supposedly fix those side effects so yes. Is it that you're going to amass a division in the country? I mean, you see the division happening in red and blue in pro-abortion at any side and then actually pro-life. And you see, obviously, in Florida, you've got the heartbeat bill being attacked or looked at at the moment, which is probably the furthest any state has gone to protecting life. But it seems to be the same in the sex ed in schools. You've got a massive division. Is that how it's happening, the country being more divided over those individuals that want to protect children or want them to grow up as innocent as possible before they get sexualised and those who want sexualisation as early as possible? No, I don't think this is divisive like abortion at all. So we've done some national polling and 70 percent across the board of Americans agree with us on these issues. So that's even, they've dug down into the data. That's even people that are pro-choice, that are Democrats. No matter your nationality, no matter your gender, no matter what religion you are, 70 between 68 and 72 percent of Americans all agree on this. So the hard division, although it may appear that way in the media or it may appear that way because the vocal minority is so loud and obnoxious and hate filled and rage filled and are on the streets, you know, here locally. And we've got a causeway that goes over a river. And the last few weeks as I drive home, there's people up and down the cause, like 10 of them. That's it. With signs, you know, protect whatever. I'm like, what are you doing? Nobody cares. Nobody's listening to you. So I think Americans, I think people in general, when they are awake and know what's happening, they don't agree with this. The problem is, is the media helps deceive the messaging. They pick up the talking points of the radical left and say, for sex education, for example, oh, it's comprehensive sex education. It's important that, you know, children learn that they're, you know, that this is how a baby's made by sixth grade. And people aren't educated on what that really is, that they are learning about the different types of sex, that they are learning about abortion in grade school, that they are learning when they are five, that they can be a boy or a girl or neither or both. You know, none of that is told. The media just goes on and then people think they know. And soI would I would argue that that 70 percent number, if if that 30 percent was truly educated, it's probably only 5 percent that would really stand against children. And that's the radical lunatics. Do you also think there's a danger? I know in the UK we had a case a week ago where a teacher wasn't there. So a stand in teacher came and it was a 'female' who was really a male, then started telling the children about how they were getting married and they started discussing how trans. And this was to maybe eight or nine, maybe 10, I think it was nine. And again, there's a massive issue in the media on this. Why were parents not told? And when parents did write, the response was, we are inclusive, we are diverse, and we will not stop anyone because that would be hateful. Again, there... Whenever you have teachers, you've got the education side, which is there. You can access them black and white. But then, I guess, the other side are the actual teachers. And we're certainly seeing in the UK, a lot of them, it so happens, are certainly more liberal. And that means you've got coming in with lifestyles and sexuality that is on show for the children. And it's in their face. So it's not just on the sex side, but actually they could be teaching history or mathematics. And if it's a guy who thinks they're a woman right in front of the children, that's going to cause so much damage. I don't know it's probably the same in the US where you're getting teachers like that, who will really cause confusion throughout the whole day [38:46] Not in Florida, not where I am. That's an advert for Florida. Yeah like we're gonna exclude Florida from this because Governor DeSantis said first round House Bill 1557 here in Florida, which was dubbed a name that it's not is at all, took care of that from kindergarten through second grade. It said no gender ideology should be an instruction to children. So it just should not happen. And then this past legislative session, they took it all the way through 12th grade. So that will not be taught, preached, encouraged from schools here in the state of Florida. You know, you want to go to New York or California. Yes, it's happening. You know, go follow Libs of TikTok on Twitter and she exposes them all. They're loud and proud. They laugh at, there's one teacher. I still have that video. I think on my computer of one teacher saying, Oh, look, I got my class. I put this flag up and study the American flag. And it's the, it's the the LGBTQ flag. And she's like, I'm going to have my class pledge allegiance to this. And she laughs and, you know, it's just, it's. If more people got to see Libs of TikTok and could identify those teachers in their communities, more parents would be upset. And that 70 percent again would be 95 percent. Yeah, not completely. Let me ask, finish off on something just quite different. And seeing all the the protests in the States and you kind of put up a quote, why action civics is more action than civics. K-12 students aren't ready to be activists. It seems so there's a push, I mean, not look at the issue, but simply kids should be in school learning. There should be a syllabus. And it seems they're being encouraged to be activists, to protest, to be demands before they actually know much. I mean, let us know, is that a push towards that? I guess those demonstrations instead of being concerned at what they are learning. Our test scores show that, you know, I think it's like 30 percent, I'd have to go look at the numbers, of students in America could pass civics right now. They don't, you know, we have those joke commercials where people go out with a microphone and just grab even grown adults and say, how many branches of government do you have in the United States? One, you know, they don't know. Who, what is the House of Representatives? No idea. No idea what the Senate does. Some of them don't even know who the president is or the vice president. We have a real crisis in civics. In America, I don't know how you're doing in the UK, but it is really, really, really awful. I watched my son who just graduated from college this past weekend, when he was in middle school in seventh grade, that's when you take civics. And I don't know how it's going there. It seems like the stuff is global, but he brought home a passage that he had to evaluate in civics. And it was Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. And it had, it didn't have the whole thing. Like they never studied the whole thing. He didn't learn what it did or what laws came after that because of that address. He was just supposed to evaluate a middle section of it. He didn't know where the passage even came from. And so he called me in and he said, it's called a DBQ here. And it's the way that they learn. It's this inquiry learning, they call it. And he called me in and he's, mom, I don't know how to do this. I don't know what's going on? Well, because they never taught the context. It's very bizarre what's going on in America and in education. And it's driven from the higher ed teaching schools and what they think works. And it doesn't work. I mean, it's all the way down to they stopped teaching phonics here in America. Kids can't read. We have the lowest reading scores in America since the 1980s and the lowest math scores ever because they started this new math, you know, about five or six years ago. And kids, you know, I don't understand it. Kids can't, parents can't help their kids because they don't understand it. Why do we need new math? Math has been around for a thousand years. We don't need new math. And so we are in a crisis between math and reading and definitely in civics. And so they've now transformed civics into something that's kind of easily teachable, especially to young people. I don't know about you, but when I was in high school, I remember walking out and we were protesting the lunch food or something. It wasn't anything important, But I remember feeling so like, yeah, we are going to change the lunch and marching out in the courtyard with the students. And I think we made signs. And there's something about youth that makes you want to feel like you are in it, that you are doing something. And so these schools and these ideologues, or capitalizing on that. And you said it, it started in the 60s and they have infiltrated, for lack of a better word, our teaching colleges. And now all those teachers are in our schools teaching and they're using that desire that students and young people have to make a difference to push them in a direction of their beliefs and their ideas. My civics teacher when I was in middle school, I know her now, she lives in my community. And I know where she leans politically because we're adults and we interact. But as a middle school teacher, I had no idea. She taught me about the founders. She taught me about the branches of government. She taught me patriotism and to really respect and love our founding history. And that's not happening. Between critical race theory being taught and being pushed in the schools, teaching that America in general is bad and it was founded on slavery instead of being founded on the principles of freedom like it really was, it's really damaging to the future of our country. Yeah well the British empire is the worst of the worst we're learning. So yeah if we're bad you're like you guys are the worst of the worst behind us. I mean you're the ones that caused all our problems to begin with. We are the worst! But just finally I think one talking to my older boy and realizing, he's very much involved in the debating society and thinking back to when I was in school and loved that and you realize that's not actually there. There are very few involved, law schools don't have it and that ability to reason, public speaking, all of that has gone and you don't get any now you know when you're given a subject and you may think the opposite but you have to argue and to understand the other side, now just kids are taught if you shout louder and be more obnoxious then you're in the right. I assume it's the same in the States? 100%, but it's not only shout louder and be obnoxious. It's shout louder and be obnoxious about this because you are a victim or that person's a victim and you need to shout louder for them. There's no, let's look at both sides. Let's dig into this. I love how you said, I remember in school having to debate things that I didn't agree with to take the other side to prove I could. It really gets your brain going and thinking and looking at things from all angles. That is not happening to my knowledge in most schools in the United States anymore. No. Tina, really do appreciate your time. Really love what Moms for Liberty are doing and I would encourage all the viewers and listeners to make sure and go on the website to look at that Title IX rule change and follow those action points and make sure and have your voice heard before. It's another, what, five weeks or so, I think, is the deadline. I think it's middle of June, is it, for people to respond? Is there a deadline? I'll have to double check on that for you. But you know, if they don't know our website, they can go to momsforliberty.org. I'm not sure if you said that. Also, if you're here in the US, or you're going to visit the US, we have our National Summit coming up in Washington, DC. There'll be some great speakers and educational breakouts. And then we are a participant in the March for Kids. The National Mall in Washington, DC has had a march since the beginning of the the United States for everything under the sun, every foreign country, every war, every endangered species. We've never had a march for kids or a march for children on the National Mall. And so we have a coalition of about 20 parent groups so far. We're working to build that to over 100, hopefully closer to 200 by August. We would love to have international partners show up too. We are going to march on the National Mall for kids to protect children. When are you planning to do that? It's August 31st, this summer. August 31st make sure and follow the website momsforliberty.org and get all that information. Tina thanks so much for giving us your time today. Thanks Peter.

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On today's episode, we're looking back at some of our top moments from the 2023 Joyful Warriors National Summit.  Sections:  0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Vivek and Apoorva Ramaswamy 11:04 - Ambassador Nikki Haley  20:56 - Lt Gov Mark Robinson  26:57 - Rabbi Yaakov Menken  ► Visit us online: https://www.momsforliberty.org/ ► Connect with Moms For Liberty on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moms4Liberty/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moms4libert.. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty ► Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcast:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23uQONh... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ► Moms For Liberty merchandise: https://www.momsforliberty.org/store/ #MomsForLiberty #politics #education #JoyfulWarriorsPodcast

Sam talks with David Gilbert, writer with Vice.com about his recent coverage of the "Moms for Liberty" movement which just held their National Summit in Philly. Read his recent piece The GOP Is Lining Up to Pay Homage to America's Newest Extremist Group, Moms for Liberty and follow him on Twitter https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davidgilbertwriter/. Mentioned in this episode: Annika Brockschmidt: At Moms for Liberty Summit 'Mama Bears' Declare Spiritual War on the 'Radical Left' https://religiondispatches.org/at-moms-for-liberty-summit-mama-bears-declare-spiritual-war-on-the-radical-left/ Anthea Butler: Nothing about Moms for Liberty is new. That's why it's effective. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/moms-for-liberty-republican-politics-rcna92395 Nicole Hemmer: What history reveals about the biggest new power player in US politics https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/07/opinions/moms-for-liberty-conservative-women-history-hemmer Dr. Gillian Frank: Moms Can Do Anything...Even Shape An Election https://wearethemeteor.com/moms-for-liberty-history-white-supremacy/ ICYMI Related episode: Moms for "Liberty" aka Moms for Fascism https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refuse-fascism/id1522364165?i=1000618282540 Refuse Fascism is more than a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RefuseFascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and other social platforms including Threads and Mastodon. Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@SamBGoldman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Record ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a voice message for the show here. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with the movement at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RefuseFascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and support: · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠donate.refusefascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message

On today's episode of the Joyful Warriors Podcast, we're looking back at some top moments from our 2023 Joyful Warriors National Summit in Philadelphia! Today's top moments include President Donald Trump and Governor Ron DeSantis sharing what they'll do to fix the American education system and how they'll protect our children from woke ideologies.  Timestamps:  0:00 - Trump's speech 22:51 - DeSantis's speech  ► Visit us online: https://www.momsforliberty.org/ ► Connect with Moms For Liberty on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moms4Liberty/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moms4libert.. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty ► Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcast:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23uQONh... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ► Moms For Liberty merchandise: https://www.momsforliberty.org/store/ #MomsForLiberty #politics #education #JoyfulWarriorsPodcast

Convened by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHR), the Wiyi Yani U Thangani ('women's voices') summit brings together, for the first time, more than 900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from around the country to discuss how they can take control of their future and deliver safety, justice and prosperity for their families and communities. The event is taking place d at the National Convention Centre on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country; Canberra ACT from 9-11 May 2023.

Hear how planning for the future means loving change I worked with Jennifer Kluge several years ago on a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources, was focused wholly on businesses in Michigan, offering important services from insurance products to support with accounts receivables. As CEO, Jennifer has catapulted NABR into a national initiative that supports businesses with best practices, training and development, insights, leadership, and a range of programs reflecting the needs of industry today—such as rebuilding talent, focusing on wellness and burnout, and helping businesses rebuild their cultures in a new hybrid workplace, among other things. I love her message: Don't be afraid to fail. Something we all need to hear. Watch and listen to our conversation here What is the right strategy for an uncertain future? This is what I worked on with Jennifer and her leadership teams. I remember at the time that my Michigan clients were struggling with talent flight. Students were leaving the state after graduation, and industries were trying to figure out their own futures. Fast forward to the pandemic and now the post-pandemic years, and Detroit, where Jennifer is located, is on the rebound, as is Michigan. Between the automotive industry, Rocket mortgages and loans, and IT incubators, lots of new businesses have successfully made it through the pandemic and are now rebuilding the economy of the state. But Jennifer learned something very important during the pandemic, namely that the challenges of the past had changed, forcing companies to rethink how they were going to survive into the future. In this podcast, you will hear the journey that she has been on as she has built her association into a major resource for companies across the U.S. You can connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn or her company's website, the National Association for Business Resources. Is your business struggling with change? Give these blogs and podcasts a try:  Blog: Okay, Okay, I'm Ready To Change. How Do I Do It? Blog: Hate Change? Anthropology Can Make You and Your People Love It! Podcast: Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—Yes Change Is Painful But It's Necessary! Podcast: Rita McGrath—Don't Run From Change, Embrace It! Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Businessand On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants   Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. I'm Andi Simon, your host and your guide. And remember, my job is to help you see, feel and think in new ways so you can change. That's not easy because your brain often hates me. I can't tell you how many clients who hire me immediately hate me, because I'm doing something that the brain says, Oh, please stop, stop trying to make me better. I know I need to be but it's hard to do. So I go looking for people who are going to help you do the same thing: see things through a fresh lens. People ask me, What does an anthropologist know? I was asked the other day at a conference, What do you do? I said, I hang out. And they laughed. And I said, No, my job is to help you see things differently, not to necessarily build a new sandbox, but to at least see the edges of what you're doing so you can see what you might be missing. And my first book, On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, was about all my clients who got stuck or stalled. So Jennifer Kluge is my guest today. And Jennifer is interesting to me to share her thoughts with you. I worked with Jennifer and her team a number of years ago. We did a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. And they were quite stuck or stalled. But trying to figure out, Where are we going? What else could we do? Jennifer, thanks for coming today because I want to share what you did. It was great fun to see you then and to continue to see you now. Welcome. Jennifer Kluge: Thank you so much indeed for having me. This is fun to talk about our journey and what's happened and what others can learn from. So thank you for having me. Andi Simon: Help our video watchers and our listeners on our podcast know more about Jennifer. You've had a journey. And it's always important to sort of set the stage for why people should listen to you. Because it hasn't just happened, you didn't jump out there. It was in stages, you have seen it, you built it, you've carved it. It's a big piece of playdough that you've made into something big and special. Just let me add one thing. Jennifer is the CEO of the National Association for Business Resources. Now she's going to tell you how that has pulled together a whole lot of stuff, Corp! Magazine, Best and Brightest. But Jennifer, a little bit more about who Jennifer is. Jennifer Kluge: Oh, gosh, that's a loaded question. Let's start with a business perspective. You know, I started my career in human resources. And the whole goal was, I wanted to help people, but I wanted to use business, I wanted to be in business. But I wanted to help people within business. So I've landed in human resources. I was one of the first graduating classes where it was actually called human resources. So I'm dating myself there. And then later on, I added strategic planning and marketing to my background. As far as my education goes, I was in the corporate world and it wasn't talking to me. I wanted to continue that mission of helping people. So the opportunity came to work for NABR, and I jumped at it, and some 25 years later, here I am. And quite honestly, that whole theme of helping people has been throughout my business career, whether it's my teammates, mentoring them, whether it's our clients. During the pandemic, we sat down as a team. I had all my team leaders, and we said, I said, How are we going to navigate this? And we came out with, We're going to help as many people as possible. And that enlightened us to unglue some things. We were able to launch so many programs that helped thousands of people through the pandemic and I'm super proud of that. Andi Simon: You know, your personal expression, your brand, your answer to the question, it's a very powerful one because there's purpose. There may be profit. And we do need profit so that we can pay our folks and they can all make living. But what mattered most to you is, How do I help people do what they have to do? Not what I have to do. So talk a little bit about your evolution as a business because when we met, if I remember correctly, your organization was providing some insurance products, some support for accounts payable and receivables. They were also doing tactical and practical solutions that smaller midsize businesses could use. It was an association of businesses helping each other and it's come a long way and tell me the journey, a little bit about the business, because part of it reflects you, not just them. Jennifer Kluge: Well, you know, we ignite greatness in companies in their people. And so we kind of pivoted from, Here's what we're doing, to Here's our mission, here's our purpose. And by shifting to that, we were able to think differently and offer different solutions to companies. So yeah, there's the pre-pandemic story and the post-pandemic story. You helped us pre-pandemic unglue the brain so to speak, as far as strategic planning. Everybody on my team knew who André Rieu was. And we used it in every meeting, every board meeting. We built the André Rieu story, and this is what we want to do: we want to change who we are in a way that is tenacious and has ingenuity. So for those that are listening and don't know André very well, you used the story of André Rieu and how he changed the whole orchestral experience from kind of boring to exciting and fun and a value and got everyone involved in classical music. So we used that example for years before the pandemic on how we wanted to change. And I think the secret there is that we know that success comes from a series of failures. And I think too, there's an element of, the more you fail, the more confidence you have. And having an important event, like the pandemic, and then you get through it, and you're crushing it through the pandemic, I think that builds confidence, not only in yourself, but in your team. And so it's the combination of knowing that we have to fail in order to succeed, and releasing yourself from the fear. I think for every CEO, there's kind of a thing, Not while I'm at the helm, and, It's not going down with me at the helm. So I think there's this fear out there for CEOs, a subliminal fear, that you might fail. And once you release yourself from that and have confidence, hey, you're not going to fail. No matter what happens, you're going to get through it. I think that releases you to think more Blue Ocean Strategy. So there's the philosophical, and then there is the actual doing the work. And doing the work is trial, we did a lot of pilots. So during the pandemic for the Best and Brightest companies we work for, we launched seven new cities. So we pivoted. I hate that word. Now, I hate the word pivot. Everyone hates it. We refocused. We shifted and we had a majority of the things that we did were in person. Across the country, we had conferences across the United States. So when that element went away, it liberated us to launch more cities for regional competitions. So we had our biggest growth during the pandemic because we were released from fear, I guess you could say, and Blue Ocean does this. It says, Okay, this is something strategic here. But there's opportunity in it. Andi Simon: What is the Best and Brightest? I've had some clients who are recognized as among the best and the brightest. So I'll put this in context for the listener or the viewer. Blue Ocean Strategy is not about competing in the market, it's about creating a new market, thinking about non-users and unmet needs, not simply more of the same cheaper, and then being free to do what Jennifer was talking about: to begin to experiment with new ways to do very important things. Because we don't know what we don't know. And I always say never waste a crisis. I never want another pandemic, but don't waste a crisis because as you listen to her talk about the Best and Brightest, it went from nice to very nice, and from some people benefiting to lots of people benefiting, all because of a crisis. What is the Best and Brightest? Jennifer Kluge: So the Best and Brightest is a series of programs that we score and rethink excellence. So there's the Best and Brightest of wellness and there's the Best and Brightest companies to work for. We put companies through the gauntlet. How do you treat your employees? We have 10 different scoring categories and we have an extensive survey to the employer. But we also validate that by surveying the employees at the end of going through these companies so they can see how they ranked. They see where their engagement levels are and they get a plethora of tools and services to help guide them with their talent. Now, that was our core. Since then we've launched all kinds of tools and resources. We have thousands of best practices that we now share through the Best and Brightest programs. So thousands of best practices, and then we've opened it up to CEOs and thought leadership best practices, diversity and inclusion, team bonding and hybrid work, digital engagement. So we have this whole plethora of what I call deliverables but it would be of value to the business community that came from the pandemic, quite honestly. But, what I like about the pandemic, not that we all had to go through it, but what I liked about it is that it gave you the excuse to go bigger. Andi Simon: And you didn't run the other way because I've heard of people who went smaller, and they shrunk. And they decided to reduce their staffing and they fled. Instead, you turned fear into an opportunity. And you parked it on the side and said, What do I have to be afraid of? What's the worst that could happen? You know, let's go help people because those deliverables are really a resource, as you call it. A business resource for people who need to know, How do I do this? Where are they going to turn? To a university when they're shut down too? And they're going to go to their association. Well, they weren't sure what they were doing. But you filled an unmet need of a huge proportion across the country. And people came to say, I'm not sure who you are, but I really liked what you have to do. Am I right? Jennifer Kluge: Correct. Correct. And we went, like I said, we got our team leaders together. And we said, What role do we want to play here? When times are tough, that's when people lean on their associations. And so we jumped in. We were answering legal questions. There were all these mandates and what have you. I mean, we were working around the clock. We felt we had to help as many people as possible...you know, people's jobs, livelihood, income, food on the table. So we felt a strong mission to help people and we still do. It's carried on to now. We've always felt that as a service organization that we have a significant job to play. Andi Simon: What's interesting for our listeners to think about is, here we are, we're facing a battle. We're not quite sure if we're trained for it. But we know that people have unmet needs, and I have a hunch those calls came through. You are a day ahead of them. It wasn't as if there was a whole lot of time studying the legal ramifications of the mandates that had to be done. Or what do I do to build a collaborative culture when people are in different places doing it in different ways? How do I keep them from getting phished, and having cybersecurity? And all of a sudden, the questions were beyond and all I bet you could do is say, Hang on, I'll be right back. Let me find out. Am I right? You were the go-to. Jennifer Kluge: Right. And I gotta tell you, Andi, no past emergencies prepared you for this. And what I noticed is, more seasoned people that have been through the Great Recession, have been through other hard times within their own careers in their own companies. Those were the ones that were like, Oh, yeah, I know what this muscle is. Let's roll up our sleeves. I don't think people realized how long the run was gonna be. We definitely knew that we had to use those muscles. Andi Simon: Real important point, because people who they didn't think were leaders rose to leadership, and people who they thought were their leaders didn't know what to do or how to perform. And so you know, don't waste them or waste a crisis, even for your own development. So that's really, really interesting. As you were going through it, was there a case or two that really stood out as something that was quite exemplary, either in a performance by a person or an area that you found was in tremendous demand, and people didn't know where to go and we rose to that. Something that you can illustrate? Jennifer Kluge: Well, I think what's coming to my mind is the themes that are still going on there. There's a lot of themes around talent right now. Wellness and well-being in the workplace, mental health and workplace burnout, hybrid work. There is a lot that we continue to see in that space that has not gone down at all. It's really interesting because some of these business trends are the inability to look to the future and predict things. That's a frustration at the C-suite level. So different themes are coming out. But they were the themes that were there three years ago; they're still here. What's the future look like? We have a lot of space and talent so we see a lot of the woes related to keeping and retaining talent. And there's been a lot of mergers and acquisition activity, a lot of culture merges and a lot of change. So, I mean, this is a great topic. If somebody can manage change and thrive and change, they thrive in business. If you are going to excel in business, you have to love change, you have to drive change, and you have to bring others with you to drive change, and you have to make it fun and exciting for them as well. So you can't be in business and think that things are fine, status quo. Well, it's weird. Andi Simon: Well, but just think about the things you just highlighted, because I think they are classic problems. How do you attract and retain people, but it's on steroids, or to use that expression: the Great Resignation. Your people may have resigned and have second thoughts, but it was a catalytic moment for employers to realize that they don't really own anybody. They're not really committed. And then I have had endless conversations about why did they leave? I said, Why don't you ask them? And what you find is that what they needed wasn't what you were focused on. You were focused on what you needed. And we flipped it all. Stop thinking about what I need, think about what we need and what that person is looking for. Because if you don't understand that, it's no different than a customer. You know, they aren't that different as people and they are looking for something to give them their own purpose and their own reason for staying with you. And they're willing to go jump off with everyone else and see what else is around. They may come back but the damage is done. They too can say it didn't work out. So what? But what's interesting is that you made a big point: the times, they are changing, I think Bob Dylan sang that in the 60s. I love the lyrics to that song because they're today. And I think they are always. When you talk about this, though, the National Association for Business Resources is also migrating in some ways. You're taking your own business, and changing as it comes to respond. And I love your pilots. I always love pilots because we don't really know, so let's try it and maybe we'll get part of it. Where do you see your own future? Because that's a big topic for your CEOs. Can you share with CEOs what you see, because you're a little bit ahead of them. Jennifer Kluge: In what way Andi? As far as where the business world is going? Or where are organizations going? Andi Simon: Well, you can do the first after the second. I want to know where the Association is going because you're responding to what people come to you with. You are anticipating, but you also are growing yourselves where many of you are in your future. Jennifer Kluge: So we're going through that right now. We are now finally able to launch our own strategic plan versus what the market tells us we need to do. So it's refreshing to get back to strategic planning and say, Here's where we want to go, here's where we're willing to drive. So we want to expand some of our work on best practices. We have all these wonderful resource guides. I do interviews like this with CEOs to find out what their secret sauce is, as it relates to talent. You're gonna see a lot more quick and dirty tools and resources. That's where we're going. We're gonna probably be launching some new programs. We have some wonderful endeavors that we do at our headquarters in Michigan that you'll probably see outside of Michigan within the next couple years. We don't let anything go too long without a big change or a big launch. And there's a lot of past launches that didn't work. I remember around 15 years ago, we did this online digital education and training program. A leadership program for small businesses. And I thought it was gonna be so cool. And we launched it, did a lot of marketing, and it didn't take. But gosh, if we had launched that this year, you know...we do have some wonderful training programs. We have leadership development, training programs, and what have you. But it's so funny, if you live long enough, right? You're in this long enough. That old tie from the 70s becomes a hit. Andi Simon: To your point, so I have three leadership academies operating, one for the fourth year, one for its fifth year. And when they went pandemic style, we went remote in our pack, and now we're sort of hybrid. But you know, only 18% of the companies in the US have training programs. And they expect their folks to be learning how to do things. In healthcare, I was always appalled that we would move a nurse up from nurse to nurse manager and tell her to wing it. I mean, it was like, Oh, how do I matter? Well, that's different from being a nurse and that's not. And then the ward manager became the leader. And what's the difference between one and the other? So there are some real profound transformations in organizations today, and how we get things done. And I also think, generational transitions. You know, Boomers are not Gen Xs, not Gen Ys. I've had folks where the Gen Xers are translating the Gen Ys to the Boomers so they could get along. And then you have the Zs and the As coming behind them. And the world is very complicated. And it's an interesting time. At one point, I had clients in Michigan and they all were struggling with the migration of people after college from Michigan. Has that changed, are people staying. Jennifer Kluge: In fact, we're hosting our National Summit in Detroit so people can see how cool and hip Detroit is now. I think the phrase Comeback City is very accurate. In fact, we moved our offices to downtown Detroit to be a part of the change in the resurgence. There's so many wonderful things happening in Michigan now. Again, talk about Blue Ocean, there's an opportunity right there. The cost of living is lower here. Land is cheaper here. A lot of people took advantage of the low interest rates, and they grew their businesses. So yeah, I would highly recommend that if you have not been to Michigan or Detroit or Grand Rapids in a while, you should come check it out. There's some pretty cool cities here. And we're doing some really incredible things. But to answer that other question that you had about what are the trends we're seeing right now, it's very interesting to see this transition right here in this moment. There are some companies that are thriving and can't hire enough talent. There's other industries that they're letting people go. We're at the beginning of this change of economy, where you have this group thriving and this group not thriving. So I think there's going to be another shift soon for employers to really focus on. The other interesting thing is hybrid work, and how that affects culture and creates subcultures. And we are seeing a lot of issues around, Do we have digital employees? Do we force them to come back to the office? Do we not force them to come back? Do we need them to come back because the economy is really hurting our operations and it's time? Those kinds of questions. I think that a lot of people are swimming in that right now. Andi Simon: Well, you know, it's interesting, I had done a podcast with a gentleman who had a book about how to manage a totally remote workforce, Running Remote. There are others that are global, that have been for a long time completely remote. And then I've been called to come in and help with a culture of organizations who have a flywheel of hires and fires and hires, and they leave because they think it is a bad culture. And being an anthropologist who studies culture and helps companies change their culture and knowing that people don't know what their culture is, they're not even quite sure what they want to create out of it, which makes it intentional. And that creates a whole new platform for thinking about what it is you're really trying to do. What is it you missed? I have a wonderful client and they have a brand new office that was completed in March of the beginning of the pandemic, and nobody wants to come in. And their folks, they have 70 employees, they say to us, Why do I have to drive an hour in and an hour back to sit there to do the same work I can do here? And the CEO wants to be with people. I mean, he's a social fellow, and really just wants the socializing part of it. It's interesting what the pressure is, and how efficient you can be or how social and effective you are. And it really reflects who you are as much as anything. And I don't want my listeners to underestimate the power of me and who I'm looking for, as opposed to we and what we need to be effective here. I had a client ask, Why do you think people are leaving? Well, because it's not the culture that it was before. I mean, nobody left before. Well, they did too, but they seem to be moving faster now. And I said, So, let's take a look at what's going on. But these are interesting times, aren't they? Jennifer Kluge: Very, very different. So I think we're at the beginning of a new era of how business is done and how talent works. It's going to be very, very interesting to see what best practices come out of this. And quite honestly, it is different. You know, there's truth to both sides, right? To the companies that want to bring people back in person, it's much easier to communicate and engage in a group, in person. Training is a huge issue, bringing people in with the right skill sets is much harder now. Training people for their job is much harder. Imagine a supervisor that's digital and an employee that's in person. So there are a lot of issues now. And that's what we're hearing about. So what we're doing as an organization is, we're saying, Okay, this is what this company is doing, here's the best practice on that side, here's the best practice on this side, but you have to fit it for your culture. You can't just take a best practice from another company and plop it in. It has to be shaped and molded for your company's personality. Andi Simon: And it's important to figure out what your customer's personality is. Jennifer Kluge: Well, I'm blessed because the Best and Brightest companies to work for and the companies that we work with, they're above average, they think differently. They're more elite thinkers. It's a community of really smart, cutting-edge companies. So I have the pleasure of seeing the best. But it's our job to share what they're doing with others, right? So that's an expensive expectation. Going through the programs, we're gonna share your secret sauce, but it's also a gift. Andi Simon: And there's nothing better than the gift of kindness, of sharing, and then celebrating. And I do think that says getting exactly the gift you have. So I'm absolutely having a blast listening to you. I love Michigan, it's been a good world for me to have clients in and that's how we met. A couple of things you'd like our listeners not to forget? They always remember the ending even better than the beginning. One or two things that they should keep in mind that you've learned in building your business? Or as you work with your Best and Brightest who are building theirs. Jennifer Kluge: A success comes from a series of failures. Don't be scared to fail. And it's about you. It has nothing to do with you. Take the emotion out of it, the emotion out of decision-making, the emotion out of your personal impact and the best road for decision-making. Andi Simon: You know, years ago I taught. I was a visiting professor at Washington University teaching entrepreneurship, and some of the entrepreneurs I brought in to talk for their case studies said, "I opened three businesses. That one worked, that one didn't. I never failed" And that's a little like what you're saying. Let's distance the business from ourselves and make sure that we understand that sometimes things happen for good or for not, that's part of it, but it isn't necessarily all of us that's doing it. I had two things I didn't hear from you. I want you to be free from failure. The fear of failure is what impedes you from doing the best things, the right things, or knowing what you could do. And the other thing is that this is a time for rethinking talent. And I think all of the things you talked about, whether it's well-being, and that's a really big area, or it's burnout, or it's hybrid or it's culture, people are herd animals. We have survived because of our work together. We've evolved because we could really do things better together. So a great book is called The Secret of our Success. And our success has been because we did it together, not alone. You let that happen. What a gift. Thank you, Jennifer, thank you for joining me today. Jennifer Kluge: Thank you, Andi. So it's always a pleasure to chat with you and get your wisdom. Andi Simon: Well, I'm glad it's been so impactful for you, but it's fun for me to share it as well, for my listeners, and my viewers. Thank you for coming. Remember my books, Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business and On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights are both available. They've done extremely well. They won us awards, and they share the stories of people like Jennifer's customers, their clients. And they are like Jennifer who have smashed the myths tof what women can do. My new book comes out in September. It's called Women Mean Business. It's the wisdom of 101 trailblazing women and it is truly an extraordinary experience to listen to 101 women tell you their experiences, a little like Jennifer has done today. What are the wisdoms that we want you to share so we can elevate you and inspire you and help you get to where you need to go. And I think that it is a time of transformation for business, but also for women in business. So for all of you who come, thank you so much. Have a wonderful day. Stay safe, stay healthy. Jennifer, thank you again. It's been such fun. Goodbye now. Bye bye.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit davidlat.substack.comDuring my two-year detour into legal recruiting, I was struck by how many Biglaw attorneys, both associates and partners, want to make the jump to the in-house side. As a result of this keen demand, the competition for desirable corporate-counsel jobs can be fierce, with hundreds of applicants for a single opening.What are in-house employers seeking in their hires? In my latest podcast interview, I explored the topic with Sonya Olds Som, a prominent figure in the world of legal search (and, full disclosure, an old friend). We also discussed her interesting and impressive life and career, which took her from a challenging childhood in Detroit to Cornell Law School to law firm partnership to Diversified Search Group, a fast-growing and highly regarded company in the executive-search industry, where she serves as a Global Managing Partner and leads the firm's Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Government Affairs practice.If you enjoy this interview, try and meet Sonya in person, since even a podcast can't do her justice. She's helping to organize or speaking at several events in the next few months, including the National Summit of Black Women Lawyers in Chicago (March 30-April 1), the National Bar Association Annual General Counsel Invitational in New York (May 11-12), and the National Bar Association Annual Corporate Counsel Leadership Summit in Minneapolis (July 31). In case you're not familiar with it, the National Bar Association (NBA) is the nation's oldest and largest national association of predominantly African-American lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students.My thanks again to Sonya Som for such a delightful conversation.Show Notes:Sonya Olds Som bio, Diversified Search GroupSonya Olds Som Joins Diversified Search Group as Global Managing Partner, SavoyHow Sonya Som Rebounded From The Recession, And Her Advice For Landing Your Dream Legal Job, by Renwei Chung for Above the LawSponsored by:NexFirm helps Biglaw attorneys become founding partners. To learn more about how NexFirm can help you launch your firm, call 212-292-1000 or email careerdevelopment@nexfirm.com.

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How to solve the crisis in education   Stanley Litow is a Professor at Duke, Trustee of the State University of NY and  columnist at Barron's. He previously served as President of the IBM Foundation, Deputy Schools Chancellor for New York City, Founder and head of Interface and Executive Director the Urban Corps. He organized and led 3 National Education Summits, served on two Presidential Commissions and helped found PTECH schools     Show Highlights   Solutions to the crisis that education is facing as a cause of the pandemic.  Unpack the demands leaders are facing from the decline in the achievement rates, high school graduation, college enrollment and teacher recruitment and retention.  The essential step to addressing student achievement.  The P TECH program provides a clear pathway from school to college, to career.  Be part of the solution at the upcoming National Summit on Pathways from School to College to Career in Washington DC this March.  Overcome the doomsday data facing education leaders. The big tent approach for Ruckus Makers to make systemic change.     “The one thing I would say is, and having been Deputy Chancellor of schools in New York City, the largest school system in the United States, worked in the private sector, worked for a mayor back in the day, worked in the non-for-profit community At this juncture, I don't think that there's an issue that's more significant and important than education, but it can't only be solved by educators. This is something that we need to get every American involved in. And not just to say what could we do, but give them a very concrete and specific agenda where our investment and it's gonna take an investment, but done in an innovative, creative and different kinds of ways can produce real meaningful change. And I think it is definitely possible.” -Stan Litow Episode's Resources & Contact Info: Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools  Twitter  LinkedIn Facebook Stanley Litow Link to the event here: https://nationalpathwaysinitiative.org The 2023 National Pathways Initiative Summit will be designed and structured to advance a clear vision for a new educational system that will incorporate a fundamental shift in the paradigm that has long guided U.S. education and enhance the pathways from the classroom, to college to a career. To bring this initiative to life and marshal the support of federal policymakers, we are forming a diverse National Pathways Coalition composed of prominent leaders in sectors vital to this effort, including business, education, government, the civil rights community, nonprofits and students and young adults.     Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Apply to the Mastermind The mastermind is changing the landscape of professional development for school leaders.    100% of our members agree that the mastermind is the #1 way they grow their leadership skills.   Apply to the mastermind today!   SHOW SPONSORS: HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard's online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader.   TEACHFX Imagine providing feedback for every teacher, as often as they'd like, without relying on classroom observations.   TeachFX is an app that supports both student learning and teacher learning. With instructional support at the push of a button, our app provides teachers with objective, personalized, non evaluative feedback about the teaching and learning happening in their classrooms.   From student talk and teacher talk to insights into research-supported teaching practices like questioning technique, wait time, and more, TeachFX provides teachers with new insights into student engagement, academic dialogue, and equity of student voice.   Learn more about TeachFX and find out how to get a free TeachFX account for one of your teachers. Visit TeachFX | BLBS     ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is the missing piece in many classrooms. Many teachers are great with the main content of the lesson. Organized Binder helps with powerful introductions, savvy transitions, and memorable lesson closings. Your students will grow their executive functioning skills (and as a bonus), your teachers will become more organized too. Help your students and staff level up with Organized Binder.   Copyright © 2023 Twelve Practices LLC    

Moms for Liberty have really put themselves on the map in two short years. Parents have been crying out for an organisation that helps them mobilise a common sense opposition to an increasingly woke education establishment and to connect like minded concerned families. Moms for Liberty founder, Tina Descovich joins us to discuss how it started and how they have grown all over the US to become the most visible group that stands up for parental rights at all levels of government and how this could be replicated in the UK and elsewhere. Join us this episode to be inspired and please share with all the moms, dads, grands, aunts, uncles and friends out there! Tina Descovich has a long record of fighting for students and parental rights in Florida and at the national level. She was elected to the Brevard County, FL school board in 2016. She was selected by her peers in 2017 to serve as Vice Chairman and Chairman in 2018. While on the school board she was a member of The Florida Coalition of School Board Members and served as the organization's president in 2018. Tina currently serves on several non-profit boards in her community that are aimed at helping children. She and her husband Derek have five children. She is passionate about America and is dedicated to protecting liberty and freedom for the future of all children. Moms for Liberty are Moms, Dads, Grands, Aunts, Uncles and Friends. They welcome all that have a desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government. The founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty. As former school board members, they witnessed how short-sighted and destructive policies directly hurt children and families. Now they are using their first-hand knowledge and experience to unite parents who are ready to fight those that stand in the way of liberty. Moms for Liberty is dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. Their vision is to see Americans empowered and thriving in a culture of Liberty. Moms for Liberty are joyful warriors who stand for truth, build relationships and empower others. Connect with Tina... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TinaDescovich?s=20 Connect with Moms for Liberty... WEBSITE: https://www.momsforliberty.org/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Moms4Liberty YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2H19eKURyI364Q3Rv-o_5g Interview recorded 22.2.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak and welcome to another interview coming up, this time with Tina Descovich from Moms for Liberty. We followed Moms for Liberty for quite a while. I bumped into her at an event over stateside a few weeks ago and it is really exciting what has been happening there. In two years they have grown all across the US, over 100,000 members with 270 chapters, groups all across America engaging with school boards, with schools and getting 270 or something people elected onto school boards. Really exciting. We talk about why they're there, why they're needed, their engagement with political figures. Obviously they started in Florida and you've got Governor Ron DeSantis who's a governor who understands that children must be protected from these ideologies and cannot be sexualised. So talk about how working in a state which understands that to working in states that maybe don't get that and where it's more uphill battle, mention the church and churches engagement with this issue and whether they need to become international. They've done so much in two years and it's an example to us in other countries at what can be done here where we are. So I know you'll enjoy listening to Tina as much as I enjoyed speaking with her. Tina Descovich, thank you so much for joining us today. [1:51] Glad to be here. Thanks for having me, Peter.   Not at all. Tina is co-founder of Mums For Liberty. All the links are in the description. MumsForLiberty.org and you can find her on her Twitter handle @TinaDescovich. And were going to talk about Mums For Liberty and I think I look back and you were first selected to a school board 2016. So you've been kind of involved in that whole area of engagement with our children, which we'll discuss why many parents don't. But tell us how you first got involved in that school board back in 2016. Easy enough. I have two kids at home at the time in public schools. You know, I first got engaged, like most people do, volunteering in the classroom, things of that nature. As my oldest reached middle school, I started paying more attention to what was being brought home in the curriculum and being taught and started seeing some concerning things about American history. [2:50] Started asking more questions. And then here in Florida, in the United States, they passed some law that expanded testing for children. And it was just some absurd law. It was like it was being interpreted wrong locally also. And so school districts were creating these standardized tests, that all students were going to have to take for every grade level in every class. So it was like a massive stressful standardized test for kindergartners to take gym and art. And it was really ridiculous. And so I went down and I thought, you know, I talked to the school board and they're like, And it's not us. We didn't do it. It's the state's fault. And so I called my local representative, and he agreed to meet with me. And I went down there, and he said, we didn't do that. And I said, yes, you did. Let me show you the testing schedule from our district. And he was surprised. And to make a really long story short, the whole law, the policy, the way it was out on the road was changed within 30 days. And it really empowered me, just as an average mom that had a concern, it showed me that I could make a difference. A little bit of action, a few phone calls, and taking time to explain to people what's going on, I could really make a difference in education, in government, in all kinds of ways. So when the seat came open in 2016 in my area to run for school board, by then I had all kinds of issues I was concerned about in the school district. I decided to throw my hat in the ring and run for school board and won my election in 2016. [4:19] Tell us, two years ago you co-founded Moms for Liberty and you've grown rapidly in numbers and in recognition of what you're doing. [4:31] It seems as though looking from far away here in the UK at what you're doing there that many parents were just waiting for an organisation like what you've set up for them to belong to and be part of. Is that a fair assessment? [4:47] I would say 100%. We were watching parents as COVID was happening and schools were staying closed, and parents were trying to go to school board meetings to speak out, to ask for schools to be open, to change how the classes were being streamed into their homes or to talk about forced quarantining of healthy children. You know, most everyone saw they would get their mics shut off. School boards were closing doors and not allowing them in to speak. They were changing their speaking times from three minutes to one minute or 30 seconds or not allowing them to speak at all. And it was really a problem for a lot of parents in this country. And so, you know, we kind of looked, I say we, Tiffany Justice is the other co-founder of Moms for Liberty, and she also served on a school board in Florida from 2016 to 2020. And we have the same experiences. And so when we came off of our terms in 2020, and we kind of were having some conversations and looking at what was was going on, we thought, we know how to help these people really advocate, how to articulate what their concerns are and how to really make change. And so we launched Mom's for Liberty here in Florida. Our goal, we launched January 1, 2021. And our goal was just to kind of be in Florida, help parents in Florida advocate. That's what we knew. In two weeks, we got a call from Long Island, New York. [6:04] Mom said, I really want to start a chapter. I need one here. And I called Tiffany, and I'm like, I don't know anything about education in New York. In the United States. It's very different from state to state, the laws and how education is run and who has authority and control. And so I just said, I don't know anything about it. And she said, Tina, this really isn't about me and you. This is a movement and parents need this tool to be able to organize to make change. And so we said, okay, sure, we can do New York. And now here we are a little over two years and we have 270 chapters in 44 states and 115,000 moms that are actively [6:37] fighting on the ground.   How do you connect with that? Is it mainly through the website? You provide resources? I mean tell us how you actually pull that together and make sure those members have, I guess, the tools they need to actually stand up and engage with their school. We started with no money. We started with $500 that I put forward and I bought some t-shirts that said Moms for Liberty and sold them for a 50% or 60% profit so that I could then build up enough to buy a new computer. I was thinking about it this morning actually, you know, the back bedroom $500 box of t-shirts and a 10-year-old Mac computer is what I designed our logo on and what I built our website on and it would just spin and spin and it was so painful and I remember being so excited when we finally had enough money to buy me a new computer so that I could make some of our graphics. Anyway, I digress a little bit. We worked on our website and social media. We used as a tool to [7:37] connect and recruit people. We have private Facebook groups that we would kind of meet in by chapter. But really, as we've grown, we are very well structured. We're organized by county. We have a chapter chair in each county. They register as a legal entity of Moms for Liberty. They meet in monthly chapter meetings, live meetings they're required to if they launch a chapter to actually have physical meetings where people show up. And they have an agenda to follow. They put together an agenda and it always includes reviewing what the school board is doing in your local community. And so we make sure you get eyes on that. And honestly, the minute anybody looks at a school board agenda, there's all kinds of things to stand up for and fight. So there's plenty, there's plenty there to do. We have monthly meetings via Zoom nationally where all the leaders of each organization get on and that's where we do a lot of our training. We've been traveling to states and doing state leadership trainings now that we've grown so much. And then annually we have our National Summit, which is just a, I can't even explain what our National Summit is like. We have 30 breakout sessions of training from everything, how to run from school board, how to run a campaign to issues like gender ideology, critical race theory that are facing us. We bring in experts. It's just, it's an amazing time. So that's going to be the summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And we're really looking forward to that. [8:58] What, what was it that kind of started you on this road? Was there a particular issue? Because now we're seeing a whole mass of issues which are impinging on, I guess, parents' right to parent and the state is pushing a lot of things that many, many parents are massively concerned about. But for you, was it a certain topic that you'd seen or a paper you'd seen that sparked off, you need to get involved?   So I, when I ran first for school board, one of the four key things I ran on was parental rights because I saw then that there were real concerns about school districts and higher levels of government making decisions that parents should be making about their children. [9:43] And it was the trend was not was not in parents favour of how that was going. Once I served on school board, I learned so many other things. And I can speak for Tiffany, my co-founder, because we have the same story when we say this. Once we served on school board, we saw not only the entities like school districts and state and local governments making decisions on behalf of children that parents should be making. We saw how much power teachers unions have in making decisions on behalf of children and families. And it was, it wasn't a pretty sight. Neither one of us liked it. We had to try to, and when you're serving on a school board, you can't push back against the teachers union. It's your job to be impartial. It's your job to bring everybody to the table for negotiations. There's it's really a complicated situation and you are ultimately the judge if there if the whole process goes to impasse And the district is fighting over salary with the union. [10:35] You're you have to be an impartial judge and act at that capacity So you're really cut your hands are tied on the work you can do in that area, So, you know once I was no longer on the school board I was able to I guess sing like a bird about about how government entities are stepping on parental rights and how unions are are really have way too much power in public education for a very long time. And so those are the things we focus on. Our mission, I'm not sure if I've stated that yet with you, but our mission at Moms for Liberty is to save America by unifying, educating, and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. It's a very specific mission. We stay laser focused, and I think that's why we are so successful. We have a very clear understanding that once you lose your right to raise your children, how you see fit, once someone else is able to make decisions on your behalf that you are just adamantly against, all is lost. Like your family's lost, your community's lost, and for us, America will be lost. I think one of the strap lines used a lot is we do not co-parent with the government. I love that, because that... Makes you step back as a parent and think, well, that's true. Well, what right of the government? Because I think we have, in many countries in the West, we have entrusted our government too much and trust that they will do the right thing because you think the best of others. But I love that strap line. Would you not co-parent with the government? [12:04] Yeah, Tiffany first, I think, said that before Mom's Liberty was even born. She said it on her school board in a school board meeting one time. And so she brought that to the organization. We picked up on it. Our best-selling shirt for the first year was, we don't co-parent with the government shirt. We still have signs, and we use that, because it really defines what we're trying to say. And when we speak about it, we say, I will partner with my kids' teachers, 100%. We want to partner to help my child to be educated and be a better person. But we do not co-parent. You are not the parent. You're not the final say. I'll partner with you to make things better, but the final say is me. And I think all it does, we talk about the culture wars. There are a lot of conversation about that. And it does boil down to actually the next generation. It boils down to children, it boils down to education. And I think what you're doing is getting to the root of that where often you will see different organizations trying to fight the fires. And it's interesting what you're doing because you are trying to get to the roots of where the issue is, which is educating our children, as only when that can be solved, then we can actually begin to win this. So yeah, I think what you're doing is central in regards to that. [13:22] In America, our NAEP scores, which are global test scores, came out last year. And America's scores were dismal at best. We have the worst reading scores that we've had since the 1980s and the worst math scores that we've ever had in the United States of America. Something is terribly wrong with our education system. People have known it instinctively for a while. Nobody's been able to really articulate the problem or, you know, hasn't just just haven't done a good job at articulating the problem. And then what we saw in 2020 with a lot of riots in our cities, a lot of racial tensions happening, it became even more clear, like, something is really, what is happening? People just couldn't quite figure out, how do we get here? How do we get to Antifa rioting in our streets? And how did this happen? And Tiff and I were like, we know how this happened. And so again, how do you stay silent? How do you go home and just take your kids and make dinner when you know you have the answer? And it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. Our schools in America are so focused on social justice. They're so focused on all these issues that have nothing to do with reading and writing and arithmetic. And it's showing, it's showing in the test scores. It's showing in the riots in the streets. And what our chapters have found when they've really dug into curriculum, and assignments that have come home. [14:51] Is that there's a lot of anti-American rhetoric in our curriculum that we're teaching children. So why are there riots in the streets? Well, for the last 20 years or so, there's been anti-American curriculum. And so the students are getting these messages in public schools for 12 years that America is systemically bad, that our systems are broken, and the only way to fix them is to break them down completely and rebuild them. Parents don't believe that. That's not what I was taught in school. It's not what I believe now. And yet I send my child off and they're being taught that for 12 straight years. And so that's why there's riots in the streets. [15:27] We have exactly the same where children are taught to hate British life, British culture, British history, British empire, that's all bad and there's a rush to rewrite it. And that focus is really strange. I guess back in the day, if you look back other generations, people got involved in teaching. People wanted to be teachers because they wanted to make sure schools were doing well in arithmetic and writing and reading and there was a focus on that. [15:58] You sit back and look at it, how has that changed from you say it is now a focus on social justice and away from the basic building blocks which it's always been, teachers wouldn't really have brought their opinions in necessarily, it was simply to make sure the children could do the best at those, the three R's we call them, reading, writing, arithmetic. How has it changed so massively from that focus?   There's a couple answers I think here. One is the teaching colleges have, I don't think a lot of our teachers recognize that these are opinions that they're teaching. This is what they've been taught. That's why I say this has been going on for decades for us to get where we are. [16:44] It's what they were taught in school now. We're a generation behind. And then it's in the textbooks and curriculum that's handed to them. And why would they think any different? And so I can really see a glaring difference between older, really well-seasoned teachers right now and the new teachers that are coming in. And the new teachers, they're the ones coming straight into the classroom and saying, and they think they're being open-minded. They think they're being more inclusive and more accepting. But the new teachers that are coming out say, please tell me which pronoun you would like to be known by, you know, and the older teachers were like, it's a boy or a girl, I'm not doing this game. And unfortunately, the older teachers are starting to retire and all of our teachers are being replaced with the ones that just came out of teaching college that were taught the right thing to do on day one, the fair and the just thing to do is really ask their pronouns, not only on the day one, but every morning because know, they can change from day to day. [17:44] We've had a massive push on that. We've had a situation which has exploded, which is the biggest gender reassignment clinic for children here in the UK, which has now been shut down. Tavistock has now been shut down. In March, there are up to a thousand parents who are taking the government to court over it. But again, I'm thinking, when I look at it kind of politically, that's all happened under, in the UK, a so-called conservative government for the last 13 years. And it's curious because you used to think a conservative government used to conserve, used to keep those traditions, and yet, a lot of this confusion has happened under them. And as much as I think I would like to lay it at the feet of the left, of Biden, of the left of the UK. It seems to be that a lot on the [18:44] supposed right have also become confused and afraid to stand up for what is right. Is that kind of what you've seen as well?   Yeah, they're not confused. They are afraid. So, and I do lay this at the feet of the left. Absolutely. That's been their agenda. They are the the ones pushing it and they are the ones that have had a plan for decades to change and reform society into this. And it is working. What you can blame the conservatives for and the average American or British citizen that just wants to get up in the morning, go to work, come home, have dinner with your family, just average normal people is they don't want to be called a bigot. They don't want to be called a homophobe. They don't want to be a hateful person. And who does? Nobody wants to be that. And most conservatives, at least in America are just like, nice, mind to themselves, maybe go to church on Sundays, just want to spend time with their family. They don't want to be attacked on social media as a bigot. And so they think, well, I'll just be quiet, let them do them, and I'll do me and it'll be fine. But they have pushed so far, so far now that we can't just let them do them. It's not even happy. It's like they're not even happy. Let them do them. They're infiltrated our classrooms, whole states here in the United States, comprehensive sex ed, I don't want to make a leap on you, but it includes gender ideology. Whole states here, state of New Jersey, has adopted that for all the students in the state of New Jersey. So that means pre-K through third, by the end of second grade, I think. [20:09] Which here is like, what, five, six, seven year olds, they have to understand the gender identities and that it can be fluid. [20:16] That's not you do you and I do me. That's you pushing what you believe in your ideologies on me and my family and my kids. And that's why the final line in the sand for us, we're here, we're at it, we're moms. And boy do our moms take the heat and the criticism. I mean, just go on our social media right now and look at the comments. I delete the ones that have profanity or are really obscene, but I leave most of them up. And they just call you all hateful, hate monger, bigot. I leave those up. And it doesn't feel good, especially and it's your local community, it's your neighbours calling you that, but it's time to stand. [20:51] I think it was, I looked at your Wikipedia page, which isn't always the wisest thing, but I did have to laugh. It said, many have described Moms for Liberty to be an extremist group and they've been designated as a hate group. And I'm wondering, what is hateful or extremist about wanting the best for your children?   You know, it's actually been upgraded. It used to to say Moms for Liberty is an extremist hate group. And now somebody invested it to say many have called them as. I'm like, oh, well, at least they know. It's getting better. The Wikipedia page used to be really, really bad. The first time I read it, I was like, oh, my heck. But I don't know how all that works. They have people that keep submitting, and I don't have time to deal with it. So it's just, I'm thankful that it's a little better than it was. But yeah, do I look like an extremist? Am I a hate group? Do I hate anybody? No. It's not even how I function in life. And most of our moms are that way. We call ourselves, I was looking for my joyful warrior hat. We call ourselves joyful warriors at Moms for Liberty. We're gonna fight like that, but we're gonna do it with a smile on our face because this is serious business, but we don't want our kids seeing us angry and miserable and hateful. Oh, that's a good way to look at it. [22:03] You looked at, tell us about kind of how states work. Cause here in the UK, our model is really, you've got within the whole of England, it's generally the same. You've got local education authorities, which would be smaller kind of areas, and they decide, and they're quite difficult to actually get into and find out what they're putting it out. In the US, you've got a clear demarcation, I guess, and more visible, which is state by state. Tell us how, kind of how much it does differ by states. [22:37] I have a question for you really fast. Are your school leaders in an area, are they elected or appointed? So we have again, completely different and I have watched the school board meetings with jealousy, a lot of jealousy and envy because we don't have that. We have a small school board of governors and small, you may have maybe half a dozen, But it's not really talked about or publicized. And I know the school one of my children are at. They say, well, there's a five-year waiting list. And it's kind of more cloak and daggers. And it's not really out there where what you do is open. And people can see it. They can engage with it. So here the parents vote. But it's not that well known or publicized. [23:25] Sounds like you need some Moms for Liberty chapters in the UK to liven this up. So here, this is a hard topic for me to talk to you in another country about because I am so passionate about America's form of government. I think it's the best there is, and so I don't want to come off as arrogant or offensive to the British form of government, but I don't know exactly how it works. Doing what you've done in two years, go for it. Say what you like. I love our form of government. So first of all, our federal constitution, it basically says that if it's not written in this document, the authority belongs to the states. And so the federal constitution doesn't talk about education. So from day one when America was born, when we broke away from you all, education belonged to the state or even more local, actually. But in [24:23] in modern America, the states have really taken a priority on that. And it looks different from state to state, which is also fascinating to watch how it's set up, how it's structured. But the one thing that's the same and it's truly American is that school boards are elected except for one state, Hawaii. Hawaii appoints their school board for the whole state. And we're working on that because that is a problem for me. That is not American. And so you elect your school board members and the laws and policies that states have put in place. It's just beautiful. I mean, here where I live, all of the curriculum, when you adopt a textbook, you have to put it out publicly for two public school board meetings. You have to notify in your local paper that there's a book that's about to be adopted for your district. You have to stop the meeting, hit the gavel and say, because I was chair of our school board, is there anyone here tonight that wants to speak about this book we're about to adopt? You know, there's much more formal language than that. And you have to pause and then, you have to ask again. By law, you have to ask twice, is there anyone here? And you have to open up the microphone and let them complain all they want or support all they want the books you're about to adopt into a school district. And it's like that all across the country. So our form of government is set up for parents to be 100% involved and drive education in your local community. [25:38] However, I served on a school board. Parents did not take advantage of that, not the four years I was there. And so, you know, I would put out, we're about to adopt a textbook and I will tell you the room would be empty. And, you know, I would put it out on social. I would shout from the rooftops, We're about to adopt a history textbook. I'm just a school board member. I don't have time to review 12 years of history textbooks for every grade level before I adopt them. I need the community to be involved. I need parents to be doing this. And so it's one of the reasons we created Moms for Liberty the way we did. Now we have 115,000 moms and parents around the country that are taking the time to review these things. And they can give the feedback to their school board members. At a very minimum, they're being good citizens. They're participating in the process. And so yes, when you say you're jealous watching the school board meetings, I understand because I love it. It is, that's my like theatre. That's my Hollywood, watching school board meetings. And you're obviously in a state, Florida, that has taken this seriously. We heard De Santis, I heard him speak the first time the other week over there in Miami talking about what he is doing, his track record, and you sit back and you think, wow, it's impressive he gets it. Tell us about that political engagement, because as you say, some states get it and some states don't. [27:00] Governor DeSantis has gotten it pretty much from the beginning, at least from Moms for Liberty. So when we first launched in 2021, a lot of the districts in Florida were still force masking children. And we were looking at some other countries that weren't doing that and, you know, just our own gut instincts. And my son, who was struggling with mental health issues, and it's just, it wasn't a good fit for him. And so we just, we had, we knew a lot of moms were just really frustrated with this, that they didn't get to decide if their child was going to wear a mask or not. And so our moms, you know, they bought their first Mom's Liberty t-shirt and they would make homemade posters and they would kind of like stalk Governor DeSantis. They would show up, if he was speaking about the economy, they would show up across the street in their shirts and their signs and it would say, get these masks off our kids, Governor DeSantis. And we had political operative type people tell us that is not the way to engage with the governor. It's not the way to engage politically. You guys are never going to be successful, but you try telling a mom that she can't do that, and so everywhere he travelled around the state, our moms were showing up with these signs. And it wasn't because we told them to, It's just because [28:04] they needed to tell the governor that he needed to help them because their school districts were not listening. And, you know, Governor DeSantis took that in. He would look, see the signs, and then lo and behold, there was some press conference where he was like, uh-uh, no more of this. Parents don't want this. And so he does that time and time again. He listens. He listens to the people on the ground and what they're saying, and then he takes action. And for me, I haven't seen that in the political world happen very often. And so we in Florida are very blessed and at Moms for Liberty we have been so thankful for all he has done to fight for parents. [28:37] And can school boards push back? So they're pushing back maybe what's happening in different states and in Florida it will be easier because you have a administration or government within the state that is more understanding of that and will be just as shocked I guess. But what happens happens if it's a state that, God forbid, anyone is living on the West Coast in California, and it's more difficult there. Do the school boards still have the authority if the parents are there involved to push back on it, or is it much more of an uphill battle depending on the state? It is definitely much more of an uphill battle depending on the state, because state laws oftentimes direct what's going on at the school district level. In New York, for example, our chapters are really struggling. I mean, they're looking at forced vaccinations, you know, adding new vaccinations that they don't want their children to have. And the state [29:36] would make that law. And once they do, the school districts have to comply. In Florida, school districts derive their power from our state constitution. And so the state kind of trumps authority on most education issues. You know, they don't have the time, the energy or the patience to carry out all the laws and such that they vote in and enact. That's the job of the school board. So when you're elected to the school board position, you actually swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Florida Constitution, which outlines a lot of the education laws, statutes, and policies. [30:10] But it's different from state to state. In other states, school districts have more authority than they do in Florida. They derive their power sometimes from the city or the county. It's very interesting how it's set up. And so we help our chapters navigate through that in their area. [30:25] As we've grown, there's more chapters in each state. They actually form like state coalitions and then work on these things together with resources and tools to understand what's going on and fight it.   Can I ask you a question about another political engagement? But there's another side, I guess, which is church engagement. As Christians, we would like to see the church involved. But we've certainly seen here that maybe a fifth of our schools are church schools, part of the Church of England. So it is part of, we don't have any separation church and state. Anyway, that's a whole other issue. But those, the church schools are even worse than the others. And they've jumped into all this diversity and inclusion nonsense. They want all the whole pride displays on different floors of primary school and they're pushing all of that. What's it like there? What's kind of your engagement with the churches or where do the churches fit in to actually encouraging schools or speaking truth within that environment. [31:32] So, are you saying that church schools are also state schools in England? Yeah, we have a weird mix where, I mean, traditionally schools were set up by the church, if you go back in history, and that has remained. We have a quasi-strained situation where they're set up by churches but still follow the state curriculum. So, it's a very strange mix we have in the UK, but you'd expect a church school set by the state church would actually be strong on biblical values of freedom, but actually often that is not the case and they've been as captured by the left and the diversity agenda as any other schools.   Yeah, you know, I'm going to go back to my Americanism here. It's one of the reasons we broke away from you guys was to get separated, you know, but here's the thing, we are returning back to that in a different, almost in a reverse way, because, you know, the woke nonsense is kind of a religion and it's capturing all the public schools. It's seeping over into our private schools. So for us, the religious schools are private schools. And so they can do what they want and how they want and parents pay for to attend those. And so parents [32:44] have a lot more control technically because they would say, I'm not going to give you $20,000 this year for my student to go if you keep that garbage in. And so it's a, it's a much more, you know, you can make it change quickly. But as far as the churches go here in America, you know, I think the consensus is it's been very disappointing. They, many of them, I'm not going to say all of them, but many of them are captured and have bought into this and they're scared and don't want to stand up. They hide behind churches saying that churches can't get involved in politics, they'll lose their non-profit status. So they hide, you know, we left you guys to separate church and and state, and then now they're hiding behind it to be weak, in my opinion. So that's a little bit different than the scope of Moms for Liberty. That's just kind of my personal opinion on what I'm watching here in the US. [33:35] No, no, of course. We've also found that when parents have raised these issues, actually friends of mine have told me that the response from the school has been, if you continue to oppose the gender ideology being taught in a primary school, so for five to 11-year-olds, then we will report you to social services. Those are church schools. So I guess in one way, parents will be concerned and afraid to engage with a school unless there is a backlash. Because you talk about the difference between paying for the education and not here. Generally, it's free. Paid for education is a small minority. But you don't want your child to be thrown out of a good school. And you think, well, maybe I can't get them in to good school. So I can see as a fallacy that maybe some parents just want to keep their heads down and think, kind of cross their fingers and hope it's okay. That's not really a way of dealing with it. [34:32] It's really not. And for even in the UK, like people have to organize. Your voice is always stronger together. One parent honestly can't make, I don't want to say that because I don't want to discourage people from getting involved. You should always stand up because the minute you stand up and are brave, more than likely someone will be brave with you. And then those two will be brave and then that should multiply to four and then to eight, etc. That's what we've seen in Moms for Liberty. But once you get those numbers, even if you don't vote in your school board members, but if you have a school, for example, and half of the parents are saying, this is not going to fly, people start to listen. And so the only way we're going to make change around the world is for parents to pull together and stand up and just say no. [35:17] And it seems to be a really dirty fight that we seem to have a group that are intent on how to go as far as sexually abusing children with teaching them, pushing something at them, which is not right. Whether or not you agree they're not certainly for young children, it's not right. And then you can take a conversation with older children. But that sexualized content shouldn't have any place in with young children. But then the flip side, I remember when it was over last in the US talking to a taxi driver and he was saying, you know, he was talking about the De Santis, and saying, well, you know, I think, you know, children get exposed to a lot the internet and also we need to help them understand. And I said, but do you know what they're being taught? And there's that, I guess, confusion with parents, how they deal with the onslaught of technology. And maybe they do need to learn something and I guess there's a lot of confusion when parents look at and think it wasn't like this in my day. [36:23] I think a lot of parents still don't know and they don't believe it. It's shocking. You know, even when we get called names, when we are concerned about some of these books that have pornography, they say, Oh, you just want to ban books, you guys are book burners. I'm like, Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Actually, like, look, oh, let me show you. Here you go. And so I carry it with me now. And I'm like, Oh, we don't want to ban a book. But let me show you should this be in an elementary school? And I won't do it. Because I don't know if you have any I don't know who who watches your show, but the stuff in here is pornography. It's been found in schools all across our country. It's literally children performing sex acts on each other. And it was on display at a middle school. So for 12 year olds in my community, and it's unacceptable. It is just plain unacceptable. And so call me a book burner, make a meme about me burning books and a fire in my living room. I don't care. I have no desire to ban any book. I think every book should be printed, published, sold, put it in our public libraries in the United States. You can even put it there. [37:21] But don't put it in our schools, especially when only one third of American children are reading on grade level. There is no need for this trash to be in there if kids can't even read. This literally has like, oh gosh, I can't even show you. It's cartoony drawings. You know, it's ridiculous. And yet I've seen some school board meetings of parents reading out some of this and them being told stop it because it's not acceptable to read that out with adults. Yet it is acceptable for children. I don't know how we've got to that level of confusion where adults say that's wrong with adults, but it's fine with children.   Truth is under attack. You know that. [38:01] I know that. There is no truth anymore. I mean, there is truth, but people are so confused about everything. They don't know what to believe anymore. You know, when you don't even, when the Supreme Court justice on the United States Supreme Court can't articulate what a woman is, we are in a deficit of truth. And so everything is meant to be confusing and what we need are people to stand up and say, I know what's right. I know what's wrong. I know what truth is and say it loud and clear and boldly. Look in the future and how you're growing Moms for Liberty. You mentioned about having international groups, UK groups. I mean, as you grow, you've gone much past Florida. So why stop on the US? Are you looking forward to take the model you have? Obviously with different education systems, different countries, there are different ways of tackling it, but what you've done is a model for how to take it elsewhere. Is that something you've thought about? [38:59] It is we've had a lot of requests from other countries Canada, we get like a ton of requests to start trying to need help. Yeah, Canada's in really bad shape for sure. I think we've had a couple from the UK. We've had them from all over Europe. And here's the thing, if you've got a listener that could help us figure out how to do that legally, I am open to it. I say that, but I haven't talked to Tiffany, the co founder yet. I mean, I've mentioned it to her her once, and she was like, oh, I don't even know how to do that. And so everything we've done so far, we have not known how to do, but we figured it out. Again, like Tiffany said to me when we expanded to New York and throughout the country, this is not ours to keep. This is a movement. This is not my business or my organization. It belongs to moms and parents and to truth and to reason. And so if you've got a listener that knows how to do it, please connect me to them if they reach out to you because I would gladly, slowly expand into other places if people wanted to start. I don't know if it'd be a chapter legally. I don't even know what the legal terminology would be, but I don't wanna keep the movement just to myself. [40:05] Well, certainly to our viewers and listeners, if that's something you're interested in, I would encourage you to certainly email us directly, info at heartsofoak.org or drop us a DM on any of the, you can contact Moms for Liberty directly, but certainly if you're UK based and wanna contact us, we will happily look through those and see what we can do because we've always wanted to facilitate. What are the six states or seven states you're still missing? [40:33] Alaska, no one in Alaska, apparently, is a mom's city yet. And Idaho, which is surprising. It's a pretty conservative state that has a lot of issues, but we don't have a chapter in Idaho yet. [40:47] Maine is a tough state. I know that that one is there. That's three. I'm not sure, honestly. There's some other smaller states. I don't know off the top of my head. And as you grow, you mentioned the teacher training colleges and how I guess you're engaging with the parents. But then as that grows, then you will naturally have some look at there are other areas, the education that we can bring this understanding to. And teacher training colleges, Can you see a way of how you can raise people up to begin to get more involved there or how would that work? I think that's somebody else's job. You know, we have a lot that we do and we are so overwhelmed and underfunded at this point that we try to stay within our scope. There's a lot of work we want to do, especially, you know, we have the knowledge and experience to train school board members once we work to get elected. We got 275 school board members elected last year, but we have no ability to support them once they're elected. [41:49] So different organizations like Leadership Institute have launched a training program. So luckily we were partnering with them. So once our people get elected, we're like, hey, go there and get trained. And then honestly, they need an organization because we have school board member organizations in the United States that then support school board members. But they're woke, they're completely captured. They're radicalized. And so we also need someone to build that. I mean, all these things we could do, but I just don't have the capacity, the bandwidth. I need other people to step up and really each level of this, including working with the teachers. I mean, we started here for a number of reasons. [42:28] If we can get the kids, get the stuff out of the schools at a young age, and then they get to the teachers college, if it's still woke when they get there, at least hopefully they'll be able to think critically enough to think past some of the stuff they're being taught. Okay. To finish off, probably a quarter of our listeners are US based and maybe a third of our viewers. If someone is sitting in the US and watching or listening to this and think I wanna get involved, what is the best way for that? Go to momsforliberty.org and hit join the fight. It's very easy. Okay, that is simple and straightforward. We will leave it at that.. Tina, I appreciate your time. Thank you so much for coming along and sharing with our viewers and listeners what you're doing with Moms for Liberty. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. I appreciate the conversation. Thank you so much.

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This week we're talking about everyone's favorite “grassroots” organization, Moms for Liberty. Justin is breaking out the cork board to show you where it's all coming from. We also share our controversial takes on the Wikipedia redesign.    Readings https://web.archive.org/web/20230117220154/https://www.momsforliberty.org/news/moms-for-liberty-partners-with-brave-books-to-donate-thousands-of-books-to-schools/  https://bookriot.com/moms-for-libraries/ About the launch of Moms for Libraries. Among the titles in Brave Books's catalog are Elephants Are Not Birds, Little Lives Matter, and More Than Spots and Stripes — 100,000 copies of this anti-critical race theory book were given away on Martin Luther King Day this year. It's clear what the “values” in said books are. https://newrepublic.com/article/169946/moms-for-libraries-public-schoolsMoms for Libraries prompts supporters to purchase copies of books from a handful of small conservative publishers it's chosen, such as Heroes of Liberty, which released a book in December valorizing Elon Musk.  Also mentions Brave Books https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/moms-against-libraries/“rapid-onset gender dysphoria” mentioned in this article.  https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/09/just-who-is-behind-moms-for-liberty-column/Funding sources for Moms for Liberty unclear.  Moms for Liberty incorporated as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(4) organization, a form that lends itself to dark money political shenanigans. Moms for Liberty has formed three federal and one state political action committees, one of which is a SuperPAC able to accept unlimited donations Moms for Liberty's press is being handled by Calvary Strategies whose CEO is a former campaign manager and chief of staff to Sen. (then-Gov.) Rick Scott Two of Moms for Liberty's National Summit sponsors, the Leadership Institute and Heritage Foundation are critical members of the Council for National Policy https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/christian-childrens-author-kirk-cameron-alleges-racial-religious-discrimination-by-indypl/Kirk Cameron demanding official partnership with the library as a program.  Contrary to Cameron's statement, Brave Books had rented a room for an event. And indeed, the Indianapolis event went ahead as planned in the rented room. Afterward, Brave Books celebrated by castigating other libraries, posting on Twitter, “No longer will Christians be silent,” and Fox News hosted Cameron, during which he threatened legal action against the library anyway, a victory lap over nothing https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/unmasking-moms-liberty https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-pays-21k-to-co-owned-by-founding-members-husband/Moms for Liberty, one of the fastest-growing and most recognized conservative parent advocacy groups in the nation, paid $21,357 to a company owned by the husband of one of its founding members, campaign finance records show. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/anti-lgbtq-activists-will-train-floridas-public-school-librarians-books-ban/ “In Brevard County alone, it ignored the five submissions made by the bipartisan local school board, including the nomination of a former elementary school assistant principal, the director of Eastern Florida State College's tutoring centers, and the administrator of a local scholarship fund,” the aforementioned publication wrote. Instead, the department chose a self-nominated individual named Michelle Beavers. Beavers heads the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing group that gained notoriety during the pandemic for attending and protesting school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools. She herself advocated for Brevard County schools to ban the coming-of-age graphic novel This One Summer over its mention of lesbians and its crude teenage humor. She also supports revoking county school policies allowing parents to individually block their children's access to library materials — Beavers prefers statewide bans on titles instead. “These books violate the law, it's a felony. So why would you try and still defend there [sic] existence by letting parents opt out?” she wrote to the Brevard County schools superintendent. Who is Moms for Liberty?Moms for Liberty has county-specific chapters across the country that target local school board meetings, school board members, administrators, and teachers. The group advocates to strip districts of protective COVID-19 measures and modify classroom curriculum to exclude the teaching of “critical race theory” (CRT) and sex education, all in the name of “parental rights.” Origin in Florida, connected to mainstream Florida Republican politicians Promoting anti-trans pseudoscience: “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” From a paper in PLoS that was retracted, based on interviews with parents of transgender minors sourced from anti-trans sites.  Major playersMoms for Libertyhttps://www.momsforliberty.org/about/ Tiffany Justice Tina Descovich Marie Rogerson Bridget Ziegler (not listed on the page anymore) But there was a third founder, Bridget Ziegler. She is still a school committee member and her husband, Christian Ziegler, is vice chairman of the Florida Republican Party and the owner of a political marketing firm. Christian Ziegler owns Microtargeted Media, which Moms for Liberty spent $21,357 according to campaign finance disclosure Connections and funding (from Tampa Bay Times article)Where does funding come fromClearly a Koch funded and fundamentalist funded org. Claim to run on tshirt sales (laughable, ask anyone who sells tshirt merch) Yet perhaps they've heard of the Council for National Policy. Two of Moms for Liberty's National Summit sponsors, the Leadership Institute and Heritage Foundation are critical members of the Council for National Policy, a secretive network of right wing billionaires and Christian fundamentalist leaders that underwrites and coordinates right wing politics.  Parents Defending Education is Koch-connected. The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) claims credit for the havoc wreaked by anti-Critical Race Theory legislation. The Council for National Policy's Leadership Institute commenced its own program to take over school boards. The Council for National Policy-connected Turning Point USA initiated a School Board Watch List for reporting “woke” school boards. Michelle Beavers, nominated herself and appointed by DeSantishttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/anti-lgbtq-activists-will-train-floridas-public-school-librarians-books-ban/ “In Brevard County alone, it ignored the five submissions made by the bipartisan local school board, including the nomination of a former elementary school assistant principal, the director of Eastern Florida State College's tutoring centers, and the administrator of a local scholarship fund,” the aforementioned publication wrote. Instead, the department chose a self-nominated individual named Michelle Beavers. Beavers heads the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing group that gained notoriety during the pandemic for attending and protesting school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools. She herself advocated for Brevard County schools to ban the coming-of-age graphic novel This One Summer over its mention of lesbians and its crude teenage humor. She also supports revoking county school policies allowing parents to individually block their children's access to library materials — Beavers prefers statewide bans on titles instead. “These books violate the law, it's a felony. So why would you try and still defend there [sic] existence by letting parents opt out?” she wrote to the Brevard County schools superintendent. Mamas for DeSantis (promoted by Moms for Liberty) run by DeSantis's wife.The workgroup also included Jamie Merchant, a member of Mamas for DeSantis. The group's goals include training parents to oppose CRT, gender ideology (the existence of trans people), and “social emotional learning” while also training candidates to take over local school boards. The astroturfed group has received financing from two anti-LGBTQ conservative groups, the Heritage Foundation and Turning Point USA, Politico reported. It has been promoted by Moms for Liberty. On Mamas for DeSantis' summer reading list, the group included a book called Crimes of the Educators, which called on citizens to end the American public school system. Moms for Liberty's press is being handled by Calvary Strategies whose CEO is a former campaign manager and chief of staff to Sen. (then-Gov.) Rick Scott Moms for LibrariesCatherine Rahimian, who founded the Orange County California chapter of Moms for LibertyBoard member of the Gavel Project, “an Anti-Woke non-profit” which has sued schools to block masking and vaccine policies Heroes of Liberty - Publisher they partner with that has a book about Elon MuskAnd to help you, Heroes of Liberty are offering 15% off all of their products. Just use coupon code: MOMS4LIBERTY  From Press Release: BRAVE Books is offering a 10% off promo code “MOMSFORLIBERTY” on any purchase with another 10% kept in a donation fund to help the Moms for Liberty Foundation purchase more books for schools in the future. Brave BooksStaff https://bravebooks.us/pages/about-us Trent Talbot Zach Bell Lina Sawaqedy Savannah Morello Eric Presley Steve Ingalls Hannah Carlson Kirk Cameron book came through them. News cycle was orchestrated. Program is called Brave Books Story Hour https://bravebooks.us/pages/bb-story-hour  Other authors (Who's Who of grifters and ghouls). Looks like they're specifically chosen for name recognition. This whole operation is planned to be a culture war instrument. Figured it was just someone's husband's grift. Elizabeth Johnston (homeschool activist) Ashley St. Clair (TPUSA anti-trans person until photographed with nazis) Jack Posobiec (alt-right grifter) Dan Crenshaw (TX Republican representative, eyepatch guy) Dana Loesch (NRA spokesperson) Graham Allen (Podcaster, TPUSA guy) Missy Robertson (Duck Dynasty guy's wife) Trent Talbot (Brave Books President) Mike Waltz (Florida Republican, soldier, replaced DeSantis's seat) Robby Starbuck (gusano grifter) Bethany Hamilton (motivational speaker who got arm bit off by a shark) Gen. Michael Flynn (Trump cabinet member) Dinesh and Debbie D'Souza Sheriff Mark Lamb (Border security grifter) Moms for LibrariesMethods of outreach Facebook group Based in CA but basically synonymous and used interchangeably with Moms for Liberty, as a program of theirs rather than a separate organization.  Closely tied to Brave Books. People buy books from them to have them donated to teachers and students directly. Sales money goes back to Moms for Libraries to fund more donations (allegedly).  Donating directly to students rather than libraries.  Agenda as self-describedFocus on restrictions on “public school libraries” (very deliberate phrasing, always includes the public part). Probably to conflate school libraries with public libraries so they can censor those as well in the name of school aged children. Tend to avoid talking about public libraries when on the defensive. (“If N.C. statutes require parental consent for sex education, why are we freely allowing sexually explicit materials in our public school libraries and classrooms?”)  Probably also use Public School to differentiate from Charter Schools, home schooling Pushes for early literacy and funding of libraries (for the moment) Mixture of ideology. Wedging into liberal support until it shifts. TERF behavior.  Focus on transparency language (identical to Gov. DeSantis anti DEI order).  Most local chapter members believe these are legitimate grassroots organizations. May not have lasting power when the people funding it lose interest.  Fights over school boards are nothing new, the homeschooling movement has been infiltrating public school boards for decades. Will also attempt to divert funds to charter schools. Moms for DeSantis explicitly against public education by promoting Crimes of the Educators.

Rising longevity and the aging of boomers worldwide are radically altering both the demographic landscape and every aspect of our personal, social, financial, and political lives. In this episode of BrainStorm, UsAgainstAlzheimer's National Summit keynote speaker Ken Dychtwald, Founder and CEO of Age Wave, talks about the future of health, medicine, aging, and longevity.  What gero-science breakthroughs are currently at the tipping point and how can we ensure that our health spans and brain spans match our life spans? Dr. Dychtwald is counted among the foremost visionaries and original thinkers in the field and was honored by World Leaders magazine as one the world's visionary leaders making an impact in 2022.Do you have feedback or an idea for the podcast? Send us a note at BrainStorm@usagainstalzheimers.org.Support the show

There are over 900 communities that are members of the Iowa League of Cities. Each year the League prepares the Legislative Values shared by its members. Here we visit with Robert Palmer the General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs about what they are and talk about the impact they can, and, will have on your city.  We begin, however, talking about the recent National Summit on Civility that was held earlier this month and was anything accomplished?  Here is Robert Palmer: Thanks for listening! The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.  ere is Robert Palmer: 

On this week's Education Gadfly Show podcast, Kymyona Burk, Senior Policy Fellow at ExcelinEd, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what states are doing to promote the science of reading and crack down on the snake oil salespeople still peddling bogus reading programs. Then on the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how playing video games affects children's cognitive performance.Recommended content:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong —American Public MediaEmily Hanford's keynote address and panel discussion from the National Summit on Education —ExcelinEdComprehensive How-To Guide: Approaches to Implementing Early Literacy Policies —Kymyona Burk“The Noose Tightens Around Failed Reading Programs in Schools” —Robert Pondiscio Feedback Welcome:Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our producer Nathaniel Grossman at ngrossman@fordhaminstitute.org.

After feedback from our audience, we have cleaned up the audio for this episode to make it infinitely more listenable! Host Leanne McMahon sits down to talk with Kerryn Sandford, a mathematics educator and principal of a secondary school in Melbourne, about her thoughts on how we can ensure our students achieve success in mathematics. This episode sponsored by AMSI's own ICE-EM textbook range: https://schools.amsi.org.au/ice-em-mathematics-textbooks/  We cover all manner of topics that she mentions in her article in the latest edition of MAV's "Common Denominator" which can be accessed here: https://www.mav.vic.edu.au/Services-and-News/Common-Denominator-Magazine Other topics covered are: Out of Field Maths teachers: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIOoF Also keep an eye out for the Report from the National Summit on Teaching Out-of-field: Synthesis and Recommendations for Policy, Practice and Research. Due end of June 2022. Year 12 mathematics participation report: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIMathsChoices  Explicit Instruction: https://tinyurl.com/ExplicitInstructionVicEd Twitter: @AMSIschools Contact us: mathstalk@amsi.org.au

On this episode Rachel kicks it with Ivonne Roman, founder of 30x30, a national initiative to advance women in policing. Roman, has held every position from beat cop to police chief in a quarter-century on the Newark police force. She spent the summer of 2018 writing about policing through an internship with The Marshall Project, publishing an article that helped lead to the dismissal of juvenile curfew laws in a number of major cities (data show they don't work). Then she became the integral force behind December's first-ever National Summit on Women in Policing.  Learn more about 30x30 here: https://30x30initiative.org/about-30x30/

Register for the National Summit on Mass Incarceration happening from October 19th to October 22, 2022. Participants will be provided strategic training and resource development for persons working to improve the lives of those who are incarcerated and those impacted by incarceration. Register here. Francene Marie interviewed Wize Shahid also known as Allah King Wize. Wize is CEO and co-founder of Mecca Beez American Inc. Based in Charlotte North Carolina and Rock Hill South Carolina. Wize is the Head Consultant and founder of Wize Consultancy, and a national and international representative of the 5% Nation of Gods and Earths.Author of My Life As A 5%er: A 36 Chamber Disciple

Francene Marie interviews Toska Medlock, the National Co-Coordinator for the National Summit on Mass Incarceration, and Charlotte North Carolina is the host city. You can register for the impactful workshops that is designed to educate, but also offers solutions. Register today for the October 19th - 22nd event at University City United Methodist Church, here. 

The National Summit on Mass Incarceration has provided strategic training and resource development for persons working to improve the lives of our family members after incarceration. Click here to learn more. Francene Marie interviews Dr. Madeline McClenney about the national conference. Dr. Madeline is a prison abolitionist and an ordained Baptist minister with over twenty-five years of experience serving the church and our community. Please register for the the 2022 Prison Summit at Prisonsummit.com. Workshops being on Wednesday October 19th, and on Saturday they will have a free session to attend.   

The one-year anniversary of Canada's first National Summit on Antisemitism passed quietly on July 21. Last year, after violence resurged Israel and Hamas and Canadians saw a spike in antisemitic incidents, the government convened this emergency summit and appointed Irwin Cotler as its special envoy. The summit lasted seven hours, during which time Cotler met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers. Since then, Parliament has outlawed Holocaust denial and made progress toward an anti-hate-speech bill that would cover antisemitism, while Ottawa has earmarked $30 million in the last budget to help Jews feel safer, on top of millions pledged for new Holocaust museums across the country. Yet with all these resources devoted to fighting Jew-hatred, has antisemitism actually quieted down? To give a sense of the progress that's been made so far, and what still needs to be done, The CJN Daily sat down with Cotler for a candid self-reflection and assessment. What we talked about: Listen to our podcast about the National Summit on Antisemitism from July 22, 2021 Read our coverage of the summit See the Canadian Heritage video about what has been accomplished in the last year Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Production assistance by Gabrielle Nadler and YuZhu Mou. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to support the show by subscribing to this podcast, please watch this video.

Avi Arya is a father of two girls and 6 dogs, a street car racer turned hotelier turned Social Media Influencer. He is named amongst the top 25 influencers by Influencive, ranked as one of the top 100 digital icons of the region by Impact Magazine, and credited to create 100 million dollar revenues for his clients. With over 20+ years of experience, Avi now shares his knowledge about Social Media, Digital Marketing, and Revenue Generation. He has delivered talks at various forums in India and overseas some of them being Social Media Camp in Victoria, Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, National Summit of Small Business Digital Marketing in San Diego, and Social Media Mastery Conference in Canada where he also won the Best Speaker Award. In this episode, Avi explains how to get better course sales with a personalized customer avatar plus the importance of kindness as an entrepreneur. Follow Avi Arya at https://www.askaviarya.com/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Meet Avi Arya 01:20 Patrick Bet David 02:00 9 Love Languages Of Entrepreneurs 06:40 Kindness & Vulnerability 09:20 How To Be A Great Leader 10:45 Perspective Shift 13:15 Checking In On People 15:10 Anger Issues 16:50 Lesson In Bravery 18:25 Human Beings Need Validation 19:00 Building Out Of Love 21:20 Amitabh Bachchan 23:10 Business Anxiety 24:05 My Gift To The World 26:20 $1Billion Facebook Ads 28:20 Customer Avatar 30:00 Identifying Pain Points 31:30 How To Scale A Coaching Business 32:25 $100M Offers 33:30 Sell Thing That You Would Buy 36:00 Understanding Your Customer Avatar 40:50 Finding The Ideal Customer 43:40 The Digital Masters Alliance 45:00 Selfless Endeavor 46:45 The Perfect Pitch 48:15 The Pain Behind The Pain 49:45 Hiring A Specialized Team 52:10 What Your Customer Avatar Wants 54:05 Burnout Sign 55:20 Repurposing Contents 56:10 Understanding Appeal 58:50 Finding Podcast Guests 01:00:20 Creating Personalized Micro Videos 01:03:30 The Internet Moguls Of The World 01:05:20 Outro

Host Leanne McMahon sits down to talk with Kerryn Sandford, a mathematics educator and principal of a secondary school in Melbourne, about her thoughts on how we can ensure our students achieve success in mathematics. This episode sponsored by AMSI's own ICE-EM textbook range: https://schools.amsi.org.au/ice-em-mathematics-textbooks/  We cover all manner of topics that she mentions in her article in the latest edition of MAV's "Common Denominator" which can be accessed here: https://www.mav.vic.edu.au/Services-and-News/Common-Denominator-Magazine Other topics covered are: Out of Field Maths teachers: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIOoF Also keep an eye out for the Report from the National Summit on Teaching Out-of-field: Synthesis and Recommendations for Policy, Practice and Research. Due end of June 2022. Year 12 mathematics participation report: https://tinyurl.com/AMSIMathsChoices  Explicit Instruction: https://tinyurl.com/ExplicitInstructionVicEd Twitter: @AMSIschools Contact us: https://calculate.org.au/mathstalk-podcast/   

GREEN CALIFORNIA, PROTECTED BALLOTS in AZ, A NATIONAL SUMMIT, STUDENT DEBT, TX/OH/NY This brilliant marathon GREE-GREE #93 takes us first to a Green California with TATANKA BRICCA and BEN EICHERT. We then spend an astonishing 40 minutes with JOHN BRAKEY & KEN BENNETT discussing major new legislation proposed in Arizona to protect the ballots and establish a digital image library to guarantee maximum accountability.  Should it pass this could become the first such bill to pass anywhere in the US. JOEL SEGAL takes our third section into the realm of a nationwide strategy for grassroots elections to be launched at a national summit zoom on June 11. We also hear from ANTHONY GUTIERREZ of Common Cause about the horrors of race-based disenfranchisement in TX. JULIE WIENER explains some welcome reforms in NY. ERIC LAZARUS introduces an in-depth analysis of the economic benefits of cancelling student debt. Congressional candidate PETER MATHEWS tells us of a “lost” campaign mailer. RACHEL COYLE updates us on the insanity in Gerrymandered Ohio, with a nod to Florida from SUSAN PYNCHON & WENDI LEDERMAN. This two-hour deep dive into democratizing our energy & elections is not to be missed!!!

In this episode, Aeon and the Lioness recorded a live show at the inaugural The Dolls Are Thriving: A National Virtual Summit For Trans Women of Color (Hosted by Transformations Kansas City) where they discussed the process of letting go of the lie. (Recorded on August 12, 2021). Transformations Kansas City: https://transformationskc.org/ Become a Patron on our Patreon page and get access to our exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/boxno512podcast Email us at boxno512podcast@gmail.com Follow Us on Social Media: linktr.ee/boxno512podcast Jubilee: A Black Feminist Homecoming, is a virtual experience celebrating the legacy, power, and possibilities of Black feminisms hosted by Black Feminist Future on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 7:00pm-9:00pm EST. Our comrades at Black Feminist Future will be hosting a free virtual experience celebrating the legacy, power, and possibilities of Black feminisms on August 28th. We deeply believe that Black liberation is achievable; and to get there we must center Black feminisms, build power, and organize to defend and protect Black women, girls, and gender non-conforming folks. Jubilee will be a space to be reintroduced, reenergized, and renewed in BlackFeminisms. Register for free at http://www.BlackFeministHomecoming.com #podsincolor #podcastersofinstagram #podcasts #podcasting #podcastingwhileblack #transpodcasts #blackpodcasts #blackpodcasters #girlslikeus #blackwomenpodcasts #transgenderpodcasts #dopeblackpods

It's a sad reality that no matter which industry you're in, if you are a woman who has ever had a job in Australia you've probably witnessed or experienced sexual harassment or assault in the workplace. Last week, hundreds of experts and survivors came together to discuss how we can better protect all women at the National Summit on Women's Safety, but with the Government refusing to implement key reforms, will it really make a difference? The Quicky hears several women's stories, and speaks to a workplace investigator and trainer who uses his experience as a lawyer and former member of the Police to change workplace culture and prevent inappropriate behaviour before it happens. CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Jacob Round Guest: Phil O'Brien - Workplace Investigator and Trainer at Australian Workplace Training and Investigation (AWPTI) Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It has been confirmed that the federal government was contacted by Pfizer in June 2020 to provide Australia with 40 million doses – which wasn't taken up by the government – after months of denying the story and suggesting that everyone else was wrong. There's two issues here: the constant denials – which continue to be provided by Scott Morrison and the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt – and a deal which could have delivered the Pfizer vaccines to Australia in early 2021, offered protection to the community and avoided the current lockdowns, was squandered by the federal government.And this has become critical: on a day when NSW recorded 1542 new cases of coronavirus and nine deaths, it's a issue the federal government wants the public to forget. And those merchants of collective amnesia, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the NSW Government, have decided to cancel daily media conferences, even though the number of cases is going to peak in a few weeks' time. It's an abrogation of responsibility and is a tactic to avoid scrutiny and accountability. It's going to backfire.The National Summit on Women's Safety was held during the week, but it was hard not to think that the event was all about the Prime Minister and his desire to resolve the politics of the issue, rather than the issue itself. Sexual harassment, sexual violence and domestic violence perpetrated against women are serious issues in Australia – and costs the economy around $26 billion per year – but that's not enough for the Liberal Party to take enough notice of these issues and the Summit was a missed opportunity.We have been criticised for being too Sydney-centric but we have news from Victoria! – a state which has a new (but recycled) Leader of the Opposition – Matthew Guy. He was the leader of the Liberal Party at the 2018 Victoria election and lost 11 seats – leaders can become more successful when they return to the leadership a second time: Winston Churchill, John Howard, Jeff Kennett – but the successes of recycled leaders are few and far between. It's going to be hard road ahead.And the “you only had two jobs” message is starting to get through to the electorate. It's a message pushed through by federal Labor and it relates to the poor vaccination rollout, and the bungles in hotel quarantine. It's a message that can only be sustained during this current lockdown period and if NSW and Victoria ever do come out of their respective lockdowns before the next election, a new election message will need to be developed. But the Liberal–National government has had close to eight years of mismanagement and left behind a trail of incompetence. Labor shouldn't have too many problems finding other issues to campaign on.

In the week of the National Summit on Women's Safety, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins joins the podcast to discuss progress – and lack of progress – on issues of vital importance to Australian women. Last week, the government passed aspects of Jenkins' Respect@Work report into law. Of the 12 recommendations which called for specific legislative reform, only six were enacted. In particular, the recommendation for placing a "positive duty" on employers to protect employees against workplace harassment has not been adopted. This cherry-picking has attracted considerable backlash.  Jenkins intends to continue pressing the government on the six unimplemented measures. "When they gave their full response to the 55 recommendations in April [the government] did indicate they would do some legislative reform now and they would take longer to consider the other six." "So they haven't said no to me right now, and I am going to hold them to their commitment that they will continue to consider those reforms." The women's safety summit came when the conversation about this issue is front of mind, following marches early this year, sparked by the Brittany Higgins' allegation of rape in Parliament House, and the allegation of historical rape against Christian Porter, which he denies. Jenkins says achieving gender equality is an issue in "many other Western countries" but Australia ranks 50th on the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index. "We started in 2006 at, I think it was, 15. So [...] other countries have been really moving at a faster pace than we have." "We are world-leading in terms of [...] educating women and girls. So the problem does tend to arise once those women leave university, get streamed into lower paid jobs, get expected to stay at home, don't have access to good, flexible, affordable childcare. There's a whole range of things that then build up in the Australian community. And I think it's time we change that."

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) released 60 calls to action ahead of the National Summit on Islamophobia. Nadia Hasan, COO, NCCM speaks with Shameel Jasvir about these recommended policy changes. RED FM listeners further speak about Islamophobia based on their experience.

Next week's (Sept 6 to 7) National Summit on Women's Safety is to form part of the consultation process for the new national plan to reduce gendered violence in Australia. Ahead of the summit, SBS News spoke to four experts, advocates and survivors about what needs to come out of it. - Zîrveya Neteweyî (summit) ya Ewlehiya Jinan ku di 6 û 7 Îlonê de cî digire dê bibe beşek ji pêvajoya şêwirmendiyê ji bo nexşeya nû ya neteweyî ji bo kêmkirina tudûtûjiya zayendî li Australya. Berî zîrveyê, SBS News bi çar pispor, parêzvan û rizgarbûyan re axifî ku ew çi ji civînê hêvî dikin.

This week we welcome Snehal Bhakta to the Canvascasters Podcast! Currently, Snehal is a CTE Administrator employed for the 5th largest school district in the country, Clark County School District(CCSD) focusing on ensuring that Nevada's future workforce is prepared for success. Snehal has worked on projects related to increasing student and community participation with National Job Shadow Day, started an Annual Student Workforce & Innovation Summit for seniors, promoted growth of Career & Technical Student Organizations, and leads CCSD's #GirlsinSTEM and #GirlsinTECH Initiatives as well as supporting STEM Equity and Diversity programs across 59 middle and 47 high schools especially for those students that are underserved and underrepresented. Mr. Bhakta also serves as the Nevada Affiliate Coordinator for NCWIT(National Center for Women & Information Technology), legislative member for the Society of Information Management(SIM) of Las Vegas, steering committee member for the Intermountain STEM Steering Committee, and holds board positions on several other local organizations. In 2017, he was awarded the Top Tech Exec Award in the Education Category by Cox Communications and in 2019, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity(NAPE) awarded Snehal the 2019 Rising Star award at their National Summit for Educational Equity in Washington, D.C. and received the COX Business 2019 Top Tech Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with diversity in the workforce in Southern Nevada. Mr. Bhakta has also been appointed in 2020 to the Governor's Advisory Board for STEM, Nevada State Multicultural Committee, National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity(NAPE) Executive Committee, and the Inclusion, Access, Equity and Diversity Taskforce for the Association of Career and Technical Education(ACTE). In This Episode You Will Hear Great Stuff Like: “Data is great, but you still gotta work with humans” “You can tackle equity with a hammer or with a scalpel” “Empower learners to CHOOSE a CTE path, rather than force them down that path.” You can find Snehal on Twitter @Snehalstocks *****Canvas Certified Educator Program***** Love using Canvas? We invite you to deepen your Canvas knowledge and officially become a Certified Canvas Educator. Take a series of online courses designed to strengthen your hands-on experience teaching with Canvas as you learn pedagogical best practices for online and blended learning. Music Provided By: Finding Happiness by Dj Quads http://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music provided by Free Music for Vlogs https://youtu.be/Yh9fk9iLR4s --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/canvascasters/message

DAY 260 NBPP NATIONAL SUMMIT FIELD REPORT: JUSTICE 4 QUAWAN CHARLES

The subject of nonviolent communication has been one that we have long been believers in and recently we've been wanting to deepen our education and commitment to learning and implementing these valuable tools within our own lives.   See me beautiful, look for the best in me That's what I really am and all I want to be It may take some time It may be hard to find But see me beautiful. See me beautiful, each and every day Could You take a chance? Could You find a way? To see me shining through In everything I do And see me beautiful. See me beautiful, look for the best in me That's what I really am and all I want to be It may take some time It may be hard to find But see me beautiful. See me beautiful, each and every day Could You take a chance? Could You find a way? To see me shining through In everything I do And see me beautiful. "See Me Beautiful" by Marshall Rosenberg   Today, we are so excited to welcome Katherine Winter-Sellery, CEO of Conscious Parenting Revolution, to the show to share with us her deep knowledge and understanding of non-violent communication and how its implementation can greatly benefit our relationships with our children, our partners, and ourselves. Katherine shares specific tools of nonviolent communication that we can all strive to use throughout our relationships, both to heal our own trauma and to cultivate relationships of trust and respect with those around us.   Resources From This Episode: Katherine Winter-Sellery, Conscious Parenting Revolution: https://www.consciousparentingrevolution.com   Subscribe Now: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play   ---   About Katherine Winter-Sellery Katherine Winter-Sellery is the CEO of the Conscious Parenting Revolution and co-creator of the Guidance Approach to Parenting, a program that applies conflict-resolution skills to communicating more effectively with children and adults. Through her popular training, she has taught thousands of parents, educators, and other professionals in a half dozen countries how to minimize misunderstandings and melt-downs, and to communicate with more collaboration, cooperation and consideration. Passionately committed to healing inter-generational dysfunction, she is the host of three TEDx talks on listening for unmet needs, unconscious communication, and speaking out, and she is the co-author of three books on unconscious parenting. Katherine trained with the late Marshall B. Rosenberg, creator of Nonviolent Communication. She also studied Thomas Gordon's Parent Effectiveness Training and is certified as a facilitator and as a Leadership Effectiveness Instructor. She holds certificates in Matrix Re-Imprinting, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), is trained in BreakThrough, a method to address triggers, as well as Focusing, an inner relationship dialogue technique.  She is a trained mediator, and teaches breathing meditation with the Art of Living Foundation. She holds a B.A. from the University of Denver where she also attended law school.  After more than 15 years of teaching the Guidance Approach to Parenting, Katherine founded the Conscious Parenting Revolution to help people locate and understand their own triggers, avoid family resentment developing into retaliation, rebellion and resistance.  Her desire is to support parents to create safe and stable homes and families.  The founder and chair of the National Summit on Mental Health and Mental Fitness summer 2019, (with sponsorship by the International Association for Human Values), she brought together more than 50 scientists, politicians, mental health care providers, businesses and spiritual leaders with more than 500 attendees for a conference that looked beyond mental health treatment to holistic mental wellness. The Summit culminated in the largest-ever group meditation in the United States, when more than 7,000 people meditated together in Denver's City Park joined by over 1 million online.  Katherine has been married to John Sellery for more than 30 years, and together they have two children, Pia just graduated from USC and Sam is a young architect working in San Francisco. Katherine and John now make their home in several cities around the world.  She is launching her popular training online.   Subscribe Now: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play

ABOUT THE GUESTBrian Brooks is a TechGC member and was also the keynote at our most recent National Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. Brian is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbabse - one of the largest digital currency platforms in the world, valued at over 8 Billion. Prior to Coinbase, he was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Fannie Mae - the largest financial institution measured by it's assets of 3.2 Trillion dollars. Brian is also an investor and advisor at numerous FinTech companies, including Andreesen Horrowitz's Fly Homes, Spring Labs, Earn Up and Grasshopper Bank. TECHGC LINKSWebsiteLinkedInTwitterCareer Center 

In the month of September 2019, CrossPoint Hutch hosted a National Summit of the Rural Matters Institute Wheaton College. One of the sessions was a live recording of a very unique podcast. You are invited to listen to CPXL episode 41.

Battleground: Mississippi justice for willie jones jr. The NBPP 2018 National Summit

Philip Clayton is on the podcast and we are talking the shape of postmodern theology. Phil came on so we could let you know about the National Summit on Reimagining Theological Education. It is gonna be kicking off a new initiative in theological education and as you will hear our listeners are people they are looking to connect with. Recently Philip published his follow up to The Predicament of Belief, Confronting the Predicament of Belief. In it he tackles some direct push backs to the thesis he argues in POB from philosophers and scientists of different perspectives. In this podcast we discuss some of those topics and have some nerdy fun. Join us for the first National Summit on Reimagining Theological Education (Oct 9-11 in Chicago) featuring some of the most innovative and out-of-the-box programs in theological education.  Leaders of these programs will be present to share what is groundbreaking about their curriculum, how they teach and market it, and what kinds of leaders they are seeking to develop.  The National Summits are the first open forum where all involved in theological education can share ideas, discuss challenges and successes, and collaborate on new ways to train faith leaders for a just, sustainable, and generous world. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices