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Sandy chats with Michelle Stiles, author of the newly released One Idea to Rule Them All (Winnie Mae, 2022). Michelle tells us how much of what we see in the media is not news but fabricated campaigns orchestrated by a wealthy minority. But there's hope. Once you recognize the patterns, it's child's play to understand and expose the ruse.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with international bestselling author Corban Addison (Virginia) about how a small band of Black homeowners battled the world's largest meat producer and won. This story shows how a group can find and use the leverages in the system to force the Big Guys and their entrenched injustices to change. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Dan Schneider of the Netflix docuseries "The Pharmacist" which highlights the Oxycontin crisis and "pill mills." Dan (Mandeville, LA) explains how just one person really can make a difference.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

When Ed Bisch's son died in 2001 after taking an OXY at a party, Oxycontin was barely mentioned in major media. With unparalleled moral authority, Ed founded Relatives Against Purdue Pharma to get the story of the addictive drug in the media and in front of every person in America.

The predicted "red wave" was nothing more than a trickle! But rather than talk about the candidates, Journalist Nathan James joins me for Drinks with Jess to break down the issues that were prevalent during the Midterms. Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

Someone got subpoenaed and someone flashed a badge! This week, journalist Nathan James joins me to break down the start of the January 6th Committee hearings Season 2, and we break down some of the latest key state debates! So pull up a seat and have Drinks with Jess!Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

We are coming up to National Coming Out Day, and I challenge you to step up your game! We are tackling personal and professional confidence while dropping the imposter syndrome, as LGBTQ+ ally and founder of K2 Creative and PR, Kelli Komondor joins me for Drinks with Jess!Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

The Queen has crossed the bridge, the Obamas are still distinguished, and Donnie Johnny sucks at chess! All this and more as journalist Nathan James returns as I kick off the 9th year of Drinks with Jess!Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

I'm like a kid on Christmas receiving the best gift ever! Pull up a seat, grab a drink, and tune in as journalist Nathan James joins me to give you the breakdown of the FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago!Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

This week Sandy chats with Lee Donahue (Campbell, WI) about her successful battle to expose PFAS carcinogens in her hometown's drinking water.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Whether you're Josh Hawley sprinting through the halls, or Trump hitting the podium, the end of Season 1 of the January 6th Hearings tied everything up in a nice little bow. Tune in as journalist Nathan James and I discuss the finale while we await the start of Season 2!Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

Sandy chats with Dr. Ketra Davenport-King (Dallas/Fort Worth) about her experience overcoming abuse from the age of six and the creation of her flagship group Life After.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

The clown car is finally running out of gas! The January 6th Committee Hearings are getting better and better, as the House of Cards falls! Tune in as Journalist Nathan James and I discuss the latest hearing and the bombshells that are dropping with it.Hosted by: Jess BranasExecutive Producer: Jess BranasConnect with us!Website: dwjphl.comFacebook: DWJPHILLYInstagram: drinkswithjessTwitter: DWJPHL"Drinks with Jess" is a Branas Enterprises production.Website: branasenterprises.comFacebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @Branasent

Sandy chats with Phyllis Glazer (Dallas TX) about her all-out battle with the second-largest commercial hazardous waste injection well facility in the country. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Howard Prager (Chicago, IL) author of Make Someone's Day about the value of being an upstander. He also discusses the VIP Model (V=view, I=identify, P=plan) in leading your cause.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Lavinia Masters (Lewisville, TX) about the Lavinia Masters Act, recently signed into law in Texas, which seeks to tackle the backlog of sexual assault forensic exams (rape kits). The act is named after Ms. Masters, a crime survivor whose exam sat on a shelf for over 21 years.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy has a conversation with Neil Carman (Iowa City, IA) about the power of speaking up. Too often the burden is on oppressed communities to prove harm, but speaking up is intensely powerful to Beat the Big Guys.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Dr. Michelle Johnston (New Orleans, LA) about her new book The Seismic Shift in Leadership and about how good leadership skills are important––and also accessible––to beat the big guys. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Wilma Subra (Baldwin, LA) about her role as a technical advisor to a community group in winning a battle against an oil waste incinerator that started using hazardous waste as fuel.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

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Sandy has a conversation with Milann Guckian (New Braunfels, TX) about her successful battle to keep a massive stone quarry away from her forever home and her community deep in the hill country of Texas.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Councilperson Kim Coates (Pontchatoula, LA) chats with Sandy about how––after she stood up against a battery-making factory in her community––experts came forward to offer useful advice.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Susana Almanza (Austin, TX) about the value of a low-tech health survey. These are easy and inexpensive to collect from residents and are highly effective in Beating the Big Guys.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Pennie Opal Plant (Richmond, CA) about how, when leading the charge to improve your community, there really are no human enemies.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netConnect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguysProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Marsha Jackson (Dallas, TX) about her leadership in literally moving a mountain and how that coveted "silver bullet" could be information right there that is publicly available online.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week, Merrit is joined again by Diane Urban, founder of APALD, who is sharing what is happening soon with the organization. As they continue to inform others of the Fentanyl crisis, Diane and Merrit team up to talk about the future of rallies.Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com

This week, Sandy has a conversation with Dr. Emma Osong (Elkridage, MD) about an ongoing humanitarian crisis in her home country of Cameroon.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week Merrit is mad, and he is joining in the fight against Snapchat. As drugs are spreading like wildfire through this social media site, Merrit is bringing insight to people on how dealers are utilizing this platform.Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com

This week, Merrit is bringing some inspiration with guest Matt Scoletti. Matt went from addiction to 5 years of sobriety and in the meantime, became a champion athlete, Ironman, and American Ninja Warrior. His story will motivate you to spend your time wisely through recovery.Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com

Sharon Lavigne (St. James, LA) talks to Sandy about how special training or experience is not necessary to Beat the Big Guys, even when everything is declared a "done deal" by the State Governor.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Dr. Laura Hunt (Midlothian, TX) speaks with Sandy about how speaking out against the Big Guys can increase your power exponentially because it can connect you with like-minded powerful people and groups.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week Merrit is having a "MUST LISTEN" conversation with Ed Bisch. After losing his son to Oxycontin, Ed has become a lead activist in combatting Purdue Pharma. The fight is still going and he is spreading the word to help save communities. Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com

Michelle Bowdler (Sudbury, MA) was gang-raped in a home invasion. When she learned her rape kit was lost, she began her journey to change law enforcement's standard procedure of doubting the victim's story. Bowdler is the author of Is Rape a Crime? (Flatiron Books, 2020).Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Mary Zack (Chicago, IL) about her ongoing efforts to expose decades-long illegal dumping of toxins in her small hometown after rare cancers started showing up.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Chris Oliver, a professor at Tulane University, talks to Sandy about his work with citizens' groups in Gorden Plaza and his efforts to hold the government accountable. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week, Sandy talks with twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner (Wallace, LA) about their work with The Descendants Project and how all successes, no matter how big or small, are valuable.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Jim Schermbeck, director of Downwinders at Risk (Dallas Fort Worth) chats with Sandy about the importance of writing a good press release to get the attention of the media.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Physician and author, Mark Cucuzzella (Shepherdstown, WV), talks to Sandy about his quest to remove sugary sodas and high carb food from WVU Medical Center and his success. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Author, humorist, motivational speaker, athlete Alexandra Allred (Dallas, TX) talks with Sandy about the value of using humor in your visuals and photo ops. And how having a celebrity spokesperson isn't critically necessary, but you should line one up if you can get one.

Sandy Rosenthal changes the routine this week with a monologue so important it needs an entire episode - the trick question which Big Guys use to push the civic leader off-topic. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

In this episode, Sandy chats with investigative journalist Karen Savage (New York, NY) who relates her experience being threatened with arrest for the 'crime' of her photography and how this threat is an intimidation tactic by the big guys.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Naomi Yoder (New Orleans, LA), a science team member with Healthy Gulf uses their background in holding Big Energy accountable in their chat with Sandy about the value of including faith-based support in your fight to Beat the Big Guys.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Kayne Darrell (Castle Hayne, NC) chats with Sandy about her role in a community opposition to ––and triumph against––Titan Cement in the county of New Hanover, NC. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week Merrit is flying solo and bringing attention to what matters. Reflecting on his past few months covering those who lost a child to Fentanyl, it's time that people start speaking the hard truth.Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Dr. Samantha Montano (Bourne, MA), author of Disasterology: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis, about why emergency management reform in the US is needed and the steps that communities can take to get it passed in Congress.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Robert Bilott (Cincinnati, OH), author of Poisoned Water––also the subject of the major motion picture Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo––talks with Sandy about his battle to expose Dupont's contamination of drinking water in West Virginia and its attempts to cover it up.Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

Nina Teicholz (New York, NY) , author of The Big Fat Surprise, shares her experience with Sandy about when she challenged the entrenched American Medical Association about saturated fat.

Sandy talks with Kimberly Terrell (New Orleans, LA), Research Scientist & Director of Community Engagement at Tulane's Environmental Law Clinic about how asking the right questions can be the key to winning. Beat the Big GuysHost: Sandy Rosenthalhttps://www.sandyrosenthal.netProducer: Jess Branashttps://www.branasenterprises.com

This week, Merrit welcomes Cammi Velci who lost her son Emilio, after 1 pill. It started with wisdom tooth pain that led to a Percocet which was actually Fentanyl. So in this episode, they delve deep into the role insurance companies should play regarding coverage.Purchase a copy of Merrit's book "Lost Innocence" by visiting: amazon.comHosted by: Merrit HartblayExecutive Producer: Jess Branashttp://www.branasenterprises.com