Podcasts about president's medal

This prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Past recipients have been movers and shakers in a range of fields, including public service, medicine, journalism, entertainment, and business. The impressive list of past honorees includes Steven Spielberg, Muhammad Ali, Angela Merkel, Nancy Reagan, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Gary Player explains how sentimental this is to him, he also shares many of his life experiences in the early days. He takes us back to all the things he did in the past, like building schools, raising money for the poor, and building a facility for homeless people. His ability to thrive under pressure has taken him through the difficult times. His message for fellow South Africans is to hang in there and keep loving the people around you. Faith Family and Hard Work #DonaldTrump #Golfer #Golf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stories-that-inspire/message

Pearl Milind Colvalcar was recently honored with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2020 (President’s Medal - National Award Winner for Children 2020) by President of India Ram Nath Kovind, for her excellence in sports. The 13-year-old student is a champion at sailing – skiff and windsurfing – and aims to represent India at the Asian level in near future. “Skiff sailing is not known to many. It is heart-warming to see Pearl Milind Colvalcar excel in this unique area. Interacting with her, I got to know that she has also won the “Youngest Sailor” Award at a sailing event in Hyderabad”. ~ Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India congratulating Pearl Colvalcar

Please join your host SUSAN KNOWLES as she welcomes to Stand For Truth Radio guest JOSEPH "JODY" TALLAL, JR.. Tallal is the author of "Billionaire Cab Driver: Timeless Lessons for Financial Success." You are definitely going to want to hear this show!!!Joseph “Jody” Tallal, Jr. is a man of many talents and interests. A personal Financial Manager to wealthy professionals, Tallal became one of the first fee only advisors in the 1970s. His success led to developing a course to train medical professionals at Baylor Medical School, University of Tennessee Health Sciences, and Tulane Medical School on how to manage their money. He has been named an Honorary Citizen by several city mayors nationwide and has also received the President's Medal of Merit from former president Ronald Reagan. In 1981, he served on the Chairman's Committee of the United States Senatorial Business Advisory Board.A highly respected entrepreneur, real estate investor, author, financial manager, professional speaker and wildlife photographer, Joseph “Jody” Tallal, Jr. is a man of many talents and interests. Mr. Tallal is included in U.S. Registry's Who's Who in Leading American Executives and Marquis Who's Who in Finance and Industry.Billionaire Cab Driver is an easy-to-read financial primer that reveals all of the secrets of personal financial planning that should have been taught to everyone in school.So how did a cab driver from the small Polynesian Island of Kiki Loa become worth over $20 billion?That is what Dan Langston, and hundreds of other reporters, all wanted to know! Fortunately for Mr. Langston (and you), he won the rights from Mr. Kane to report his remarkable life story . . . and Billionaire Cab Driver is the result.In this fantastic story, ancient wisdom meets modern-day techniques. Billionaire cab driver Mr. Kane drives reporter Mr. Langston around the island for a full day as he explains the secrets to building personal financial independence using examples already present in nature. By the day's conclusion, the cab driver has revealed all of the major financial principles necessary for building a personal financial plan that ensures financial success.Designed to create a paradigm shift in the way people think about and relate to money and the ability to use it in a way to achieve their financial dreams, Billionaire Cab Driver is organized in a captivating parable format that makes understanding how to become financially independent simple. Your knowledge of money will grow a layer at a time, so by the end of the book, everything will fit together into a strong, new foundation of knowledge of how to take charge of your financial future.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and nuclear scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. The first woman to be awarded the highly prestigious President's Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering, she has worked her way to the heart of an industry that remains very contentious. Her passion for understanding how and why the world works the way it does first began as she tinkered for hours at her parents' kitchen table with a little chemistry set. Today she goes into schools to encourage more girls to take up engineering and her enthusiasm for the subject has galvanised many to take up the discipline. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Most recently, she published Carthage and The Sacrifice, and the story collections High-Crime Area and Lovely, Dark, Deep. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the President's Medal in the Humanities. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Oates has taught recently at Berkeley and Stanford, and is on the faculty at Princeton University. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29541]

Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Most recently, she published Carthage and The Sacrifice, and the story collections High-Crime Area and Lovely, Dark, Deep. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the President's Medal in the Humanities. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Oates has taught recently at Berkeley and Stanford, and is on the faculty at Princeton University. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29541]