Podcasts about Rockettes

Host Robin talks with Robert Isenberg about his latest collection of essays about cycling, Mile Markers. They also discuss past visions of the future, documentaries, and the Rockettes. In the Last Chapter they discuss: what are some of your favorite cycling books? Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers''' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission. Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is byNeura-Flow. Books Mile Markers by Robert Isenberg Century of Tomorrows by Glenn Adamson Six Walksby Ben Shattuck The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick Becoming Spectacular by Jennifer Jones The Spectacular by Fiona Davis Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen Cold Beer and Crocodiles by Roff Smith Cyclettes by Tree Abraham Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman  The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner Media The White Lotus (2021- ) The Penguin Lessons (2024) Other Robert Isenberg Avon Cinema, Providence, RI Books on the Square, Providence, RI You Are Here Documentaries (Medium)

Host Robin talks with Robert Isenberg about his latest collection of essays about cycling, Mile Markers. They also discuss past visions of the future, documentaries, and the Rockettes. In the Last Chapter they discuss: what are some of your favorite cycling books? Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers''' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission. Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is byNeura-Flow. Books Mile Markers by Robert Isenberg Century of Tomorrows by Glenn Adamson Six Walksby Ben Shattuck The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick Becoming Spectacular by Jennifer Jones The Spectacular by Fiona Davis Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen Cold Beer and Crocodiles by Roff Smith Cyclettes by Tree Abraham Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman  The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner Media The White Lotus (2021- ) The Penguin Lessons (2024) Other Robert Isenberg Avon Cinema, Providence, RI Books on the Square, Providence, RI You Are Here Documentaries (Medium)

Send us a textWelcome back Jam Fam!  We know you are going to love our chat with Andrea Kron.  Andrea is a wealth of knowledge, having been in the dance world as a performer, educator and choreographer.  Her credits speak for themselves, and you can see why we had her on the show.  Andrea received her Certificate of Dance from The Ailey School NYC where she was part of the Student Performance Ensemble and toured the New York metropolitan area. She has studied with the late Kevin Rotardier, the late David Howard, Milton Myers, Ann Reinking, the late Tony Stevens, Dorit Koppel, and Savion Glover.Performance credits include Radio City Music Hall, Helen Hayes Theatre, Hercules on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the role of Arabian in The Nutcracker as a guest artist as well as dancing as a Rockette in Cremaster 3, an independent film at the Guggenheim Museum,  directed by Matthew Barney.  She has also premiered numerous dance works at the Two River Theater, Silk City Arts Festival and SUNY New Paltz.As a choreographer, Andrea has created over fifty repertory works for students and professional companies ranging in style from classical to Modern to Musical Theatre, including full length versions of ballets to full scale musicals.  Some of her favorite shows and performances include A Funny Thing...Forum, Chicago, and Guys and Dolls. Other regional productions include Grease,  Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell and Footloose.Andrea guest teaches ballet, Horton modern, theatre dance, audition technique, injury prevention and Pilates.  She has designed injury prevention programs that fuse dance, science and anatomy so that students have a better understanding of how their bodies work.  Teaching credits include Broadway Dance Center, Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY New Paltz, and Montclair State University. She coaches students and professionals in NYC for auditions and college bound performers.Today's episode is brought to you by the Commercial Dance Experience at Seton Hill University.  For more information or to apply, go to:  setonhill_dancedept and follow the link in bio on Instagram!Thank you for listening Jam Fam! Make sure you follow us across social media and don't forget to like and subscribe anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts!Facebook: JAM Joe and Michelle's Dance PodcastInstagram: jam_dance_podcastTwitter: @jamdancepodcastEmail: jamdancepodcast@gmail.com

A few weeks ago, we told you that Acquired is doing something in New York City on July 15 with our good friends at J.P. Morgan Payments. Well, the big announcement is finally here: We are doing our 2025 Live Show…  at Radio City Music Hall!Radio City is of course the iconic New York City theater that hosts the Rockettes and the Tony Awards, and has hosted the Grammys, the MTV VMAs, and the NFL Draft. And it's also a storied part of Rockefeller Center, as chronicled on our Standard Oil episodes. We can't think of anything more "Acquired".If you want to be part of the ticket pre-sale, you can sign up at acquired.fm/nyc. While Radio City is the world's largest indoor theater (with room for 6,000 Acquired fans), more than 6,000 folks came to last year's Chase Center show! So get cracking on figuring out which friends and co-workers you want to go with (seats are assigned), and get your hotel + plane tickets booked! Tickets will be available in $100 and $200 tiers.This is — without a doubt — the biggest undertaking we've ever done here at Acquired. In true Broadway fashion, we're keeping the show details under wraps… but trust us, it'll be an evening of surprise and delight. If your idea of fun is the world's greatest business and technology nerds gathering together for a night on the big stage, this is for you. Oh, and a huge thank you to all our friends at J.P. Morgan for making this possible.We can't wait to see you there!Sign up for ticket pre-sale: https://acquired.fm/nyc

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Happiness Solved with Sandee Sgarlata. In this episode, Sandee interviews Kelly Etter. In this conversation, Kelly Etter shares her journey of resilience after losing her home and Pilates studio in a wildfire. She reflects on her experiences as a Rockette, the challenges of transitioning from dance to Pilates, and the importance of faith and community in overcoming adversity. Kelly emphasizes the significance of self-care and movement in healing, and how building resilience is akin to strengthening a muscle. The discussion highlights the power of asking the right questions during tough times and finding purpose in supporting others.Guest Bio:With a lifelong passion for movement, Kelly has dedicated herself to making a positive, healing, encouraging and empowering impact on the world. Her purpose is being a teacher and facilitator. From a childhood marked by physical challenges to a 20-year professional dance career—Kelly experienced firsthand the power of perseverance. Transitioning from the stage, she found her calling as a certified Pilates trainer. Kelly has spent the last 24 years helping others find strength, alignment, and relief from chronic pain to achieve their fitness goals. Movement has been her refuge, guiding her through personal challenges and empowering Kelly to teach and inspire others with compassion and humor. Always on a quest for growth and the ability to more effectively be of service to and in support of her clients and community, Kelly recently became a Lisa Nichols Transformational trainer. She is excited about combining her expertise in nervous system support, healthy body mechanics, and self-care practices to empower clients to transform their bodies and lives. Through practical habits and transformative programs, Kelly fosters deep, lasting change for body, mind, and soul. If it is too long feel free to cut & paste as best supports the theme of the show.Takeaways:Resilience is a muscle that can be built over time.Transitioning careers can lead to new opportunities for growth.Faith and trust play crucial roles in navigating adversity.Movement and physical activity are essential for mental health.Self-care is not selfish; it's essential for well-being.Asking 'what now?' instead of 'why me?' can shift perspective.Community support is vital during challenging times.Finding purpose in helping others can aid personal recovery.Adapting to change is a necessary skill in life.Embracing challenges can lead to personal transformation.Connect with Kelly:Website: kellyetter.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.etterbeilfuss/https://www.facebook.com/KellyEtterPilates/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyetterpilates/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-etter-62423633/https://kellyettercertifiedpilatestrainer.vipmembervault.com/reclaim-your-body-reclaim-your-life-short-landing-pageConnect with Sandee: Website: www.sandeesgarlata.comPodcast: www.happinesssolved.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlataTwitter: www.twitter.com/sandeesgarlataInstagram: www.instagram.com/coachsandeesgarlata

This week, Ira dives into glitz, grit, and glamour with Diane Christiansen—dancer, educator, and author of "The Last Real Showgirl: My Sequined '70s Onstage." (She will also appear on “Ira's Everything Bagel” this Thursday-https://iraseverythingbagel.com/) At just 13, Diane set her sights on becoming a Rockette. By 17, she nailed the audition and never looked back—rarely needing to audition again, save for a memorable encounter with Jerry Jackson at the Tropicana. From the fine line between dancer and showgirl to becoming one at the age of 18 (no easy feat!), Diane shares how she found joy, strength, and sisterhood in the dazzling world of showbiz. She opens up about her journey from the chorus line to Las Vegas lights, becoming a “swing girl” for the nudes at the iconic Tropicana, and what inspired her to finally pen her memoir—especially after a reunion of showgirls from multiple generations. Diane also reflects on why grand showgirl productions may never return, the essential teamwork behind the sequins, the legacy of legends like Donn Arden and Miss Bluebell, staying grounded and grateful, and her passion for mentoring the next generation (as well as current generation) of actors through the Christiansen Acting Academy. It's a glittering, heartfelt, and unforgettable conversation you won't want to miss. (Also Watch Full Podcast Video)

Marina Franklin talks with the first African American Rockette, Jennifer Jones and comedian Jenny Saldana. Jennifer Jones  shares her journey from a child to the first African American Rockette. Discover her inspiring story in 'Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience.'" #RockettesAnniversary #DreamBig Meet Jennifer Jones, who has her new memoir: Becoming Spectacular :The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette. Jennifer Jones is the pioneering first African American Radio City Music Hall Rockette! With her exceptional skills and infectious passion for dance, Jennifer has not only mesmerized audiences but also played a pivotal role in reshaping the performing arts landscape. Through grace and artistry, she has shattered barriers and championed diversity in what was once a monolithic industry. Jennifer made her groundbreaking debut as a Rockette during Super Bowl XXII's halftime show, showcasing unparalleled talent, precision, and poise that left spectators in awe. Her stellar performance on such a prestigious platform ignited inspiration and underscored the vital importance of authentic representation in entertainment. Throughout her illustrious career, Jennifer's captivating stage presence has won the hearts of audiences worldwide. Her unwavering commitment to her craft, combined with her natural talent, has garnered immense admiration from fans and colleagues alike. By boldly defying stereotypes, Jennifer serves as a guiding light for aspiring dancers, encouraging them to chase their dreams with determination and tenacity. In addition to her remarkable achievements in dance, Jennifer is a dedicated advocate for colorectal cancer awareness. As a survivor herself, she passionately raises awareness about this critical health issue, striving to ensure that discussions around cancer are inclusive and accessible to all. In essence, Jennifer Jones' journey as the first African American Radio City Music Hall Rockette is a testament to her talent, grit, and unwavering commitment to change. Her memorable Super Bowl performance has etched her name in dance history, inspiring countless individuals to embrace their talents fearlessly. Jennifer's legacy transcends generations, leaving an indelible mark on the world of dance while serving as a beacon of progress, unity, and hope. Jenny Saldana is a writer, actress, and stand-up comedian and a Breast Cancer Rock STAR and all around hotness. She wrote, produced and starred in Happy Cancer Chick, a web series inspired by her own battle with breast cancer. She appeared in HBO's High Maintenance. Her video series, The Little Brown Girl Show can be found on Youtube and Facebook Live. Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch'.   

Rachel Fine is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for dancers with advanced certifications in Eating Disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Sports Nutrition. Rachel works with dancers worldwide to help them build supportive relationships with food and body. FREE 7-DAY TRIAL to become The Healthy Dancer®: https://dancenutrition.com/membership/From downloadable guides to workbooks and online courses, dancers can access everything they need to learn about building a nourishing lifestyle that supports the physical, mental, and emotional demands of dance. A note from Rachel: The importance of dance nutrition goes beyond our plate. This is why I created www.DanceNutrition.com and The Healthy Dancer®. Dancers, dance educators, and dance parents can utilize these resources to access information and guidance about fueling for performance!Disclaimer: This is produced for informational purposes only. This information is general, not specific to you. The information in this podcast does not substitute for medical advice. The viewer or listener assumes full responsibility for consulting a qualified health professional regarding health conditions or concerns, and before starting a new diet or health program.

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Cynthia and Daniel discuss the 2024 romantic comedy The Merry Gentlemen, starring Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray. Would you pay a $30 cover for 3 minutes of PG action? Why are city girls so evil, and handymen so hot? Should a Rockette be shocked she has to work Christmas? And most importantly: does this movie give endorphins? Plus: our holiday rom com roundup, and Daniel's most impressive ending prediction yet! This is another special bonus, or "lost" episode of The Endorphin Report - we plan to post new ones every once in a while when inspiration strikes! Cover art by Paul Saunders, theme song written and performed by by Ali Lipman. Support LRR: http://Patreon.com/loadingreadyrun Romantic movies give us endorphins - even when they suck. Each episode, Cynthia and Daniel (Fight the Future with Dan and Paul) talk about a romantic comedy or romantic drama, digging into both the plot and the romance, and answering questions like: What happens the day after the end of the movie? Which romantic gestures are endearing (ooo!) and which are just creepy (eww!)? Will the couple make it? And does this movie, regardless of quality, deliver the happy-making endorphins we could all use right now? Support LRR: http://patreon.com/loadingreadyrun Merch: https://store.loadingreadyrun.com Discord: https://discord.gg/lrr Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun Check out our other channels! Video Games: http://youtube.com/LRRVG Tabletop: http://youtube.com/LRRTT Magic the Gathering: http://youtube.com/LRRMTG Comedy: http://youtube.com/LoadingReadyRun Streams: http://youtube.com/LoadingReadyLive

the Rockettes were founded in St. louis in 1925. But they didn't have a single ethnic or Black dancer on the line until 63 years later. Debbie Monterrey spoke with the women who broke the color barrier Jennifer Jones. She is in St. Louis to discuss her book "Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm and Resilience from the first African American Rockette."

What an absolute honor it is today to have the first ever African American Rockette, the fabulous Jennifer Jones, here with me to talk about her new book Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette, which comes out February 18. What a powerhouse woman Jennifer is. The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes had been in existence for 62 years in 1987, when Jennifer broke barriers and became the first African American Rockette. She made her debut with the Rockettes on January 31, 1988—which was also Super Bowl Sunday, which was in San Diego that year. Jennifer takes us inside that moment in today's conversation; she writes, poignantly, “Making history rarely feels like it in the moment.” Jennifer talks about the struggles she faced and her rock-bottom moments as she worked to achieve this dream; what it was like to be the first; dance and what it has meant to her life; what life as a Rockette was like—and Jennifer would know, as she was one for 15 years; her life after the Rockettes, including joining the cast of the acclaimed Broadway production of 42nd Street; her diagnosis with cancer and how she made it to the other side; and how, in her words from the book, “As I age, I feel more alive than ever.” Quick correction: I said in the episode that Jennifer was given five months to live; it was actually five years to live—but she beat the odds regardless. The Rockettes are an iconic dance troupe, but Jennifer is an iconic woman, and I know you're going to fall in love with her as I did in this conversation. She is a Tony Award-winning dancer, a staunch advocate for equal rights in the arts, and her work has been celebrated by the Harlem School of the Arts, Radio City Music Hall, and Madison Square Garden. She is a survivor of colon cancer, and she fiercely promotes early screenings. She's also written a children's book called On the Line, and there exists a Limited Edition Dancing Jenn Doll, which is reflective of her dedication to the arts. I am so thankful to now know her.Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African-American Rockette by Jennifer Jones

Episode Notes S6E5 -- Join us as we dive into the mind of Radio City Music Halls first ever African American Rockett.. Jennifer Jones will be in the house telling her tales of how she was able to breakthrough the color barrier to become the first African American Rockett in its 62 year history.. Jennifer Jones (born August 1, 1967) is an American dancer and actress. In 1987, she became the first African American Radio City Music Hall Rockette. Jones was born on August 1, 1967, in Newark, New Jersey and was raised in Randolph, where she attended Randolph High School and County College of Morris. CHECK OUT Ben & Jeff's newest animation and past LIVE episodes at https://redcoraluniverse.com/the-misadventures-of-tobi-duke1 HELPFUL LINKS: VETERANS: https://www.va.gov/.../mental-health/suicide-prevention/ https://homebase.org/programs/get-care/ ADDICTION: https://lp.recoverycentersofamerica.com/.../continuum-of.../ https://www.refreshrecoverycenters.com/reclaim-your-life... https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/ / https://drughelpline.org/ Due you know someone that has lost their lives due to addiction? Or even someone that has made a full recovery? Reach out to Johnny Whitaker so they can help to celebrate the lives lost/ lives recovered at overdoseawareness0831@gmail.comedcoraluniverse.com/en/ NEWS FLASH: You can now purchase Toking with the Dead full novel here https://a.co/d/7uypgZo https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.../toking.../1143414656... OR Show your support by purchasing FB stars. Send stars to the stars fb.com/stars Follow our guest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Jones_(Rockette) https://www.instagram.com/rockettejenn/ https://rockettejenn.com/ Toking with the Dead: https://www.stilltoking.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TokingwiththeDead?tn=-]C-R https://www.instagram.com/stilltokingwith/?hl=en https://twitter.com/thetoking?lang=en https:/ /pinecast.com/feed/still-toking-with Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhL5FyW_j4 Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUai58ua6o Buy awesome Merchandise! https://www.stilltoking.com/toking-with-the-dead-train https://teespring.com/stores/still-toking-with Our booking agent: https:// www.facebook.com/AmyMakepeace https://www.facebook.com/groups/3770117099673924 Sponsorship Opportunities: https://www.stilltoking.com/become-a-sponsor or email us at bartlett52108@gmail.com thetokingdead@gmail.com ————————————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 https://thedorkeningpodcastnetwork.com/ ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/ TheDorkening Youtube.com/ TheDorkening Twitter.com/ MORE ABOUT THE GUEST: Jones' national debut with the RCMH Rockettes was on Sunday, January 31, 1988 during the National Football League Super Bowl XXII halftime show at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, in a game between the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos. Produced by Radio City Music Hall, the theme was "Something Grand", and was intended to break from the "traditional baton-twirling approach" of past halftime shows, as explained by Barnett Lipton, Radio City Music Hall's special events coordinator.[11] He added that the theme was a spinoff of the year 1988. “We've come up with a show that's all 88 – 88 pianos, each with 88 keys, and the 88 greatest legs in show business.” The 12-minute spectacle showcased 1,200 performers, which included 44 Rockettes, 400 swing band members, 300 Jazzercisers, 88 tuxedoed pianists simultaneously playing on 88 Kimball grand pianos, and two college marching bands (San Diego State and USC).R&B singer Chubby Checker sang his hit song, The Twist. The pianists performed an adapted version of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, accompanied by the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Find out more at https://still-toking-with.pinecast.co Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/still-toking-with/8e2a9b11-7d9a-4926-bf09-979704453a82

The Rockettes kicked off a celebrity line-up including Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Jimmy Stewart, Al Pacino and Miss Piggy at ‘The Night of 100 Stars', a benefit for the Actors Fund of America recorded on 14th February, 1982 at Radio City Music Hall, New York.  A night of sheer glitz and excess, the true tally of stars on-stage totalled 206 - but perhaps that's what you'd expect for $1000 per ticket and a bum-numbing running time of five-and-a-half hours. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly question the star-counting mechanic for the New York Yankees; explain how the assasination of Abraham Lincoln inspired the foundation of the Actor's Fund in 1882; and marvel at the long-windedness of this televised tribute to the charity's centenary… Further Reading: • ‘Bask in the Bewildering '80s Glamour of 'Night of 100 Stars'' (Jezebel, 2016): https://jezebel.com/bask-in-the-bewildering-80s-glamour-of-night-of-100-sta-1759236215/amp • ‘Glamor Glut' (The Washington Post, 1982): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/02/16/glamor-glut/7ff21880-5540-4c20-acb4-fa5832781184/ • ‘VIDEO: The Night of 100 Stars' (ABC, 1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkgaJobbIPg Love the show? Support us!  Join 

Hey Jersey Girls and Guys! This episode was so much fun to film and put together! Dani and Jacey are two badass women who took their years if dance experience in the Rockettes to create a fun workout for girls and even guys to do! Grab a coffee and listen to their story! The video version is available on Youtube! xoxo Your Host

Covino & Rich react to breaking news about a messy coaching/G.M. situation for the Jags! They continue their fun Old-School topic on what you would refuse to see even if you were given a free ticket! Tons of calls & the Rockettes, Pitbull and Bob Dylan get airtime. Plus, Mark Andrews & Saquon spark a Pearly Gates conversation about your best & worst moments in life! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C&R have fun explaining why the Texans Joe Mixon was fined TWICE by the NFL! The guys share stories where they were innocent (allegedly!) 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' ruffles some feathers! They react to breaking news about a messy coaching/G.M. situation for the Jags. What you would refuse to see even if you were given a free ticket?! Tons of calls & the Rockettes, Bon Jovi/Pitbull and Bob Dylan get airtime!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Summary: Menina Fortunato interviews Traci Reszetylo, a 22-year veteran of the Radio City Rockettes, to discuss her incredible career and journey in the dance world. Traci reflects on her early dance training in Pittsburgh, her move to New York, and her audition experiences for the Rockettes, eventually landing the role on her second attempt. She shares the challenges and rewards of performing with the Rockettes, including her experiences on tour, in prestigious events like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and her role as dance captain. Traci also talks about her passion for teaching, which led her to create Exactitude Dance during the pandemic. She explains how the studio evolved from online classes to an in-person space in Brooklyn, where she combines precision dance with other genres and offers career development workshops. Traci offers valuable advice for aspiring dancers, emphasizing the importance of consistency, humility, and building relationships in the industry. She shares audition tips, time management strategies, and insights on how dancers can create a sustainable career in dance. This episode is filled with inspiration and practical advice for dancers at all stages of their careers. Show Notes: (00:00) - Introduction to Traci Reszetylo (02:15) - Early dance training in Pittsburgh and competing (05:30) - Auditioning for the Radio City Rockettes and getting the job (10:00) - Performing with the Rockettes: Tours, TV shows, and events (15:30) - Becoming a Dance Captain and the team-oriented culture of the Rockettes (20:00) - Starting Exactitude Dance during the pandemic and growing the business (25:30) - The evolution of Exactitude Dance and its workshops (30:45) - Balancing a dance career with family life and other pursuits (35:00) - Advice on auditioning: staying in the moment and managing nerves (40:00) - The importance of consistency and humility in dance (45:30) - Final thoughts on building a successful dance career and long-term sustainability Biography: Traci, the founder of Exactitude Dance & dancer for Radio City Rockettes, attended Point Park University focusing on jazz and musical theater. While attending Point Park, Traci performed in the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's Richard Rodgers Awards, and also performed as a dancer/ singer for Royal Caribbean. She was then cast in Pittsburgh Musical Theater's production of Chicago, performing the role of “Liz” at the Byham Theater. Traci moved to NY and was chosen to be a Radio City Rockette in 2002. Her first four years as a Rockette, she performed on tour in several cities, and in 2006, started performing at Radio City Music Hall. She has been performing there to the present date. Traci was selected as the Assistant Dance Captain in 2009. In 2010 was cast as a swing, and in 2014 Dance Captain/ Assistant Choreographer for 5 years. Traci has performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Today Show, Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, Dancing With the Stars, America's Got Talent, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Tony Awards, Live with Kelly and Ryan, Ellen, and the Wendy Williams Show. Traci participated in Oprah's celebration for the 10th anniversary of her O Magazine, and also traveled to Vienna, Austria, where she performed in Diane Von Furstenberg's fashion show at the Life Ball. Traci has led & assisted auditions, taught for Rockettes Summer Intensive and assisted in teaching and staging the Christmas Spectacular. Her passion is teaching and working with her students. She cannot wait to share her knowledge of precision dance and create exactitude in you! Connect on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/tracirez https://www.facebook.com/traci.reszetylo.167

Who cares what this episode is about other than Gianmarco got a mystery gift box from his dad and we'll all learn its contents together (on the Patreon). But this public excerpt has Russell preparing for his someday run as Santa in The Rockettes. He's got the costume but the laugh needs some work. Join the Patreon for access to exclusive content and bonus episodes for only $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/downside See The Downside live on tour in 2025! We're coming to Toronto, Chicago, LA, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco. Get tickets here! https://linktr.ee/downsidepod January 22 | Toronto, ON (sold out) February 17 | Vancouver, BC March 9 | Chicago, IL March 11 | Los Angeles, CA March 12 | San Diego, CA March 14 | Portland, OR March 15 | Seattle, WA (2nd show added!) March 16 | San Francisco, CA You can watch full video of this episode ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠! Join the ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ free for 7 days for ad-free episodes, exclusive content, and MORE. Follow The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ Follow Gianmarco Soresi on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ Subscribe to Gianmarco Soresi's ⁠⁠email⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠texting⁠⁠ lists Check out Gianmarco Soresi's ⁠⁠bi-monthly show⁠⁠ in NYC Get tickets to see Gianmarco Soresi in a ⁠⁠city near you⁠⁠ Watch Gianmarco Soresi's special "Shelf Life" on ⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠ Follow Russell Daniels on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ E-mail the show at TheDownsideWGS@gmail.com Produced by Paige Asachika & Gianmarco Soresi Video edited by Dave Columbo Technical production by Chris Mueller Special Thanks Tovah Silbermann Original music by ⁠⁠Douglas Goodhart⁠

Rachel Wagner recaps her trip to Broadway and reviews the shows she saw, including Drag: The Musical, Elf: The Musical, The Rockettes, Death Becomes Her, and more with co-host Jacklyn Collier. Check out all of OnStage Blog's reviews on onstageblog.com!onstageblog.comfacebook.com/onstageblogtwitter.com/onstagebloginstagram.com/onstagebloghttps://www.youtube.com/@onstageblog8213

In this episode (Milestone 250!!!) of Screens in Focus, Diana and Sam dive into the magic of holiday movies while sharing personal stories and traditions that shape their love for the season. They chat about bucket list holiday adventures, like seeing the Rockettes in New York, and reminisce about childhood memories that make the holidays special. Their movie lineup includes classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Elf, Christmas Vacation, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. They also review new holiday films such as Holiday, Dear Santa, Nutcracker, and The Holdovers. In addition, they discuss festive music, from Taylor Swift's Christmas Tree Farm to holiday staples by Michael Bublé and Ingrid Michaelson. The episode wraps up with a warm invitation for listeners to share their favorite holiday traditions, movies, and songs! 00:00 Welcome to Screens in Focus 00:31 Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting 02:03 Q of the Day: What is your fav holiday song?  02:41 Holiday Movie Favorites 02:59 The Nightmare Before Christmas 03:54 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 05:15 Elf: A Modern Classic 06:57 Christmas Vacation 10:07 Claymation Classics 11:49 It's a Wonderful Life 13:24 Christmas with the Kranks 14:43 New Holiday Favorites 19:39 Fun Rom-Coms and 'Dear Santa' Review 20:50 Nutcracker with Ben Stiller 22:45 The Holdovers: A Must-Watch 24:15 Favorite Holiday Songs answered!  29:56 Holiday Memories and Traditions 35:00 Closing Thoughts and Upcoming Episodes   The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special | On Disney+ Nutcrakers inspired by real brothers - https://decider.com/2024/11/29/nutcrackers-true-story-ben-stiller-movie-real-kids-janson-brothers/ Ingrid Michaelson - "All I Want for Christmas Is You (Feat. Leslie Odom Jr.)"  Follow and subscribe to Screens in Focus. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw0ZfyWmkD0 Website: www.screensinfocus.com Email: screensinfocus@gmail.com  X https://x.com/screensinfocus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/screensinfocuspodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/screensinfocus  Feedback and TV/Movie Recommendations:  Google voice (669) 223-8542‬  Free background music from JewelBeat.com: www.jewelbeat.com

#112 Need a winter bucket list of things to look forward to? These bucket list ideas could be the answer! In this episode of The Everyday Bucket List Podcast, discover these indoor and outdoor winter activities and travel ideas. We cover: At Home Fun Outdoor Activities Travel & the TRUTH about holiday markets in NYC The holidays are the perfect time to get cozy, have fun with family and friends, and explore exciting winter activities, whether you're staying home or venturing out. If you're feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the options, don't worry—today, I'm sharing some fun ideas for both indoor and outdoor winter activities. Whether you're hosting a holiday gathering, entertaining kids, or taking a trip to New York, I've got suggestions that will make your season special. I just got back from a trip to see the Rockettes, and I'm excited to share some of my adventures along with tips for making the most of your wintertime, no matter where you are!   CLICK THE LINKS BELOW OR CUT AND PASTE THEM INTO YOUR BROWSER: Read the blog post (show notes): Show Notes: https://karencordaway.com/winter-activities-bucket-list/   Binge-listen to my Seasonal Bucket List playlist https://bit.ly/3SPiiVN  Binge-listen to my episodes about Hobbies playlist  https://spoti.fi/46Q9p4o   Listen to these episodes next:  You'll enjoy the full podcast episodes with the snippets showcased today:  20+ Classic Winter Bucket List Ideas for Everyday Life (Ep 70) 20+ Winter Holiday Bucket List Ideas to Do This Season (Ep 110) Create a Bucket List of Fun Things to Do in Alexandria, VA (Ep 19) 5 Bucket List Ideas to Boost Your Brain & Well-Being (Ep 94)   RESOURCES: Grab a copy of  The Everyday Bucket List Book https://amzn.to/3vwxz2K If you'd like to support my work, check out https://buymeacoffee.com/edbl 10 Tips for Seeing the Rockettes The Rockettes in NYC vi.me/M6wtT Yo Sabo - Family-friendly Bilingual Card Game   Connect with me: Website: KarenCordaway.com Twitter (X): @KarenCordaway https://x.com/karencordaway Pinterest: @Everyday_Bucket_List https://www.pinterest.com/EverydayBucketList/ Tiktok: @Everyday_Bucket_List https://www.tiktok.com/@everyday_bucket_list   If you're enjoying this podcast, please rate and review it here. Let me know what you like about it so I know exactly what content to keep creating for you. Disclaimer: Some of the outbound links financially benefit the podcast. Using our links is a small way to support the show at zero cost to you. I only endorse products, programs, and services I use and would recommend to close friends and family. I appreciate your support. https://karencordaway.com/disclaimer/        

The finale episode of this year's The Acrobatic Arts Podcast features memorable moments from the 2024 line-up. Top take-a-ways in a countdown of the best include clips from Derek Piquette, Karen Ritchie, Dr. Linda Bluestein, Drew Burgess, and Dr. Leisha Strachan. Thank you to our listeners, and a huge thank you to ALL our amazing guests this past year! Feel free to also send us your ideas for the topics and innovators from the dance and acro industry that will entertain, inspire, and take your teaching to the next level in 2025: Admin@acrobaticArts.com Connect with Acrobatic Arts on your favourite social media platform: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acrobaticarts/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Acroarts Twitter: https://twitter.com/acrobatic_arts/ If you'd like more amazing content more tips and ideas check out our Acrobatic Arts Channel on YouTube. Subscribe Now! Learn more and register for our programs at AcrobaticArts.com

The Rockettes are America's best known dance troupe — and a staple of the holiday season — but you may not know the origin of this iconic New York City symbol. For one, they're not even from the Big Apple!Formerly the Missouri Rockets, the dancers and their famed choreographer Russell Markert were noticed by theater impresario Samuel Rothafel, who installed them first as his theater The Roxy, then at one of the largest theaters in the world — Radio City Music Hall.The life of a Rockettes dancer was glamorous, but grueling; for many decades dancing not in isolated shows, but before the screenings of movies, several times a day, a different program each week. There was a very, very specific look to the Rockettes, a look that changed — and that was forced to change by cultural shifts — over the decades.This show is dedicated to the many thousands of women who have shuffled and kicked with the Rockettes over their many decades of entertainment, on the stage, the picket line or the Super Bowl halftime show.This show is a re-edited and remastered version of our 2014 show with a new introduction -- in honor of the upcoming 100th anniversary celebration of the dance troupe which would become the Rockettes.Join us on Patreon for extra podcasts and lots of other goodiesShare your love of the city's history with a Bowery Boys Walks gift certificate! Our digital gift cards let your loved ones choose their perfect tour and date.Grab a Bowery Boys tee-shirt, mug or water bottle at our merchandise store.

The movie kicks off in the big city for the annual Jingle Belle's live show. They're knockoff Rockettes. The people love it. I do not. In the middle of it all is Ashley Davis. She's a legend who has apparently been doing the Jingle Belle show for 12 years! Her boss asks to see her one night after a show — she is NOT being aged out, but she IS being replaced. She doesn't even get to finish out the season. She leaves and screams, "AGGHHHHHHHH!" She goes home to watch some Netflix Christmas movies and drown her sorrows in popcorn. Her mom calls and says that, since they know she's too busy to come to them, they're coming to her. They even bought tickets to see The Jingle Belle. She says, "No, no, that won't be necessary. I'll come to you."So, she heads to her hometown of Sycamore Creek and is dropped off at The Rhythm Room. She immediately gets tangled up in some garland that a hunk is putting up on the lampposts.The Rhythm Room is the venue her parents own. They hug, and then the parents immediately go to meet with the women who own the building. Turns out, the landlord keeps raising the rent on them, making it hard for the venue to bring in big artists, which makes it hard to make money, which makes it hard to fix the faucets. But who needs money when you have a Luke? Luke is the garland guy from before, who also comes by and helps with repairs when they need him. He agrees to give Ashley a ride to her parents' place, and they spend the ride talking and getting to know each other a little bit.The next day, she heads down to the venue, and it doesn't take long for Luke to show up shirtless. She finds out that her parents are in quite the bind, and there's a juice bar interested in taking over the lease and back-paying the 6 months' rent they're behind. When all is said and done, her parents are in a $30,000 hole. But something the landlord says inspires Ashley to put together an all-male dance crew that will bring in the people. And who better to lead the revue than shirtless Luke? She'll call them the Merry Gentlemen... THAT'S THE NAME OF THE MOVIE!Luke is hesitant at first, but if it helps save The Rhythm Room, he'll give it a shot. She recruits the hunky bartender and her sister's husband, who also happens to be a stripper for bachelorette parties. She works on coming up with a routine, and the guys are all taking it seriously. Luke doesn't feel like he's getting it, so she slow dances with him, and the sparks begin to FLY!It's finally time for the big revue debut, and Luke is freaking out and breathing into a bag. Luckily, Ashley has some tricks that she's picked up to help with nerves.The tickets are $30 a pop, and the crowd... well, it's a start. But the boys crush it, and the crowd LOVES it.The night is a success, and the landlord tells Ashley to keep up the great work. Luke congratulates Ashley on her big success, gives her a necklace, and asks to walk her home. They get some pizza and really start to open up to one another. She didn't expect to enjoy directing a show as much as she did.She finds another dancer, and they start putting together some new dances. Everything is going great! They're even selling out!But one of the guys slips and falls, spraining his ankle just before showtime. This throws the boys off, and they have to press pause to try to figure something out. Luckily, there's a guy named Danny who is always at the bar doing a crossword puzzle, and he joins in on the fun. It works. Another successful night! After the 12/21 show, they're only about $10,000 short.Ashley goes to talk to Luke some more in his barn. Talking leads to dancing, and dancing leads to kissing.They are so close to the $30,000 goal when Ashley gets a call from her old boss — they have a 911 situation, and she needs her back ASAP. They're willing to give her a 25% raise and a 3-year contract. The problem? She needs to be back by the big Christmas Day show. She goes to talk to her parents, and they tell her that she has to take the offer. It's her dream. She texts her boss and takes the offer.Luke doesn't take the news as well. "The city girls are all the same," he says. "The only reason I was doing this show is because of how inspiring you are."She heads off to the airport, and he goes on stage to start dancing, but he can't do it. Suddenly, she walks in, and he can dance again. She tells him that she could do it, she couldn't leave. They celebrate with a big kiss — complete WITH A LIFT!They all celebrate Christmas together with Christmas dinner at The Rhythm Room, and they share one more big ol' kiss! 

Joan interviews two outstanding Rockettes, Ashley Kusinich Fritz and Monika Brinkmann Grimes. Ashley, a veteran of 14 seasons, and Monica, in her 4th season, share their experiences, from their early dance beginnings to the rigorous training and performances at Radio City Music Hall. They discuss the challenges and rewards of being a Rockette, the importance of perseverance, the unique camaraderie among the dancers, and their diverse backgrounds. They also reveal how they maintain their form and stay motivated, along with exciting updates to the Christmas Spectacular show, including new scenes and technological innovations. Tune in to learn about the legacy and magic of the Rockettes, and discover why this holiday tradition continues to enchant audiences year after year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a text In this episode, Kelly is joined by John Friia! He is a digital creator, New York City historian and featured on PIX11's New York Living!Kelly asks John about his New York Story: Where he's from, What kind of content he does, and why he has such a profound interest for New York City History. Kelly tells us about his time as a balloon handler in the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade. How he got the position, which balloons he got to handle, and he tells the story about the time he almost got to High Five a Rockette!Kelly and John give tips about where to go to see the parade the best. Where has the best view, how to go so you can leave early, and where the best place to go to the bathroom is. John tells Kelly about the history of the parade. When it started, the original parade route, how the Central Park Zoo was involved. John also tells us about the lengthy process that the balloons and floats go through before they can make it to the day of the Parade.Kelly also tells John about the inflation ceremony, where thousands of people from around the world gather to see the balloons inflated. He gives the listeners tips on the best places and times to see this too. But above all else; John Friia is a New Yorker!Kelly Kopp's Social Media:@NewYorkCityKoppJohn Friia's Social Media:@Here_in_NY on Instagram@hereinnyc on TikTok

#111 Need a winter bucket list of things to look forward to? These bucket list ideas could be the answer! In this episode of The Everyday Bucket List Podcast, discover these festive winter bucket list ideas for simple fun or celebrating Christmas near or far. We cover: Unique winter experiences (igloos, hot chocolate) Holiday markets and local events Outdoor adventures and DIY crafts In this Rewind episode, we share winter activity ideas. Enjoy unique experiences like rooftop igloos and hot chocolate. Classic options include ice skating, snowshoeing, and snowman building. Festive activities like holiday markets and game nights are featured. The episode wraps up with ideas for winter festivals and travels.   CLICK THE LINKS BELOW OR CUT AND PASTE THEM INTO YOUR BROWSER: Read the blog post (show notes): Show Notes: https://karencordaway.com/winter-bucket-list/   Binge-listen to my Seasonal Bucket List playlist https://bit.ly/3SPiiVN  Binge-listen to my episodes about Hobbies playlist  https://spoti.fi/46Q9p4o   Listen to these episodes next:  You'll enjoy the full podcast episodes with the snippets showcased today:  20+ Classic Winter Bucket List Ideas for Everyday Life (Ep 70) 20+ Winter Holiday Bucket List Ideas to Do This Season (Ep 110) Create a Bucket List of Fun Things to Do in Alexandria, VA (Ep 19)   RESOURCES: Grab a copy of  The Everyday Bucket List Book https://amzn.to/3vwxz2K If you'd like to support my work, check out https://buymeacoffee.com/edbl The Rockettes in NYC vi.me/M6wtT Tortilla Blanket https://amzn.to/3CDBoJx Lego Mug https://amzn.to/4fApvma French Fry Holder https://amzn.to/4fApvma Tabletop Bowling Game https://amzn.to/4ezEM5q   Connect with me: Website: KarenCordaway.com Twitter (X): @KarenCordaway https://x.com/karencordaway Pinterest: @Everyday_Bucket_List https://www.pinterest.com/EverydayBucketList/ Tiktok: @Everyday_Bucket_List https://www.tiktok.com/@everyday_bucket_list   If you're enjoying this podcast, please rate and review it here. Let me know what you like about it so I know exactly what content to keep creating for you. Disclaimer: Some of the outbound links financially benefit the podcast. Using our links is a small way to support the show at zero cost to you. I only endorse products, programs, and services I use and would recommend to close friends and family. I appreciate your support. https://karencordaway.com/disclaimer/      

It's tiiiiiiiiiiimeeee *Mariah Carey voice* Holiday season is around the corner! Cheyenne and Annie recap their holiday traditions from before and talk about what new traditions they'd like to implement. Also, let's be real, the holidays are a time of spending!! So listen for some tips and tricks to under consume this holiday season. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @barelyadulting.podEmail: thebarelyadulting@gmail.com  

Captain America #318 (1986)It's true — we have now entered Captain America's Guy Fieri phase as he travels the USA, not for “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” but more “Diners, Drive-Ins and CRIMES!” He's putzing around in a windowless van like he's in BLACK PHONE or something, showing off his Wakandan road technology. He runs into Blue Streak, the roller-skate based villain that goes it alone and changes outfits quicker than David Spade in that airplane bathroom in TOMMY BOY. Unfortunately for Blue Streak, it is 1986 and he's in a Captain America comic so he's soon to depart this mortal coil. Just ask Death Adder. Your co-worker ditches you to go see the first WrestleMania and next thing you know, some starstruck cabbie is waving a weapon in our face.Also (man there's too much here), Cap checks in with Jim Shooter and the Rockettes go on a massive group date with Hercules and Namor!*** PROPER COMIC BOOK DISCUSSION STARTS AT 00:13:10 ***All this plus some convo on AGATHA ALL ALONG, THE PENGUIN and Jen buys a statue!Promo: WEIRD WARRIORS (weirdwarriorspodcast.podbean.com)Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.comAlso, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTDownload the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your favorite shows. Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend! Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Our guest this time, Michael Rosenkrantz grew up in California and had, what he says, was a normal childhood. I would say that Mike grew up as a very curious individual. He went to college at the University of California at Irvine, and then, after receiving his Bachelor's degree, went East to Boston where he attended graduate schools at Northeastern University and Boston College. He earned Master's degrees in Sociology and Business. Michael then traveled around the United States quite a bit working in part for various nonprofit organizations. In 2009 he moved to India where he worked for the National Trust and became involved in helping persons with disabilities. By 2011 he had found himself involved with adaptive sports. He not only worked to help persons with disabilities become active in sporting events, but he also began working to educate others about becoming more inclusive. He eventually moved back to the States where he continued to promote adaptive sporting efforts. In 2019 Mike was a co-founder of SoCal Adaptive Sports. He will tell us about the organization. Even more relevant, Michael discuss Inclusion and its importance. This episode is not only quite inspiring, but it also helps put a lot of issues surrounding persons with disabilities into perspective. About the Guest: Michael Rosenkrantz has been working in the adaptive sport space since 2011 when he learned about wheelchair basketball. From 2009-12 Michael volunteered/worked as a Voluntary Services Overseas Volunteer with the National Trust which is part of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment-Government of India. He then worked in Nepal from 2012-16. Coming back to the US Michael was an Assistant Women's Wheelchair Basketball Coach at the University of Arizona and co-founded Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports. He then went onto to work in North Carolina with Bridge II Sports and moved back to California in 2019. In 2020 he co-founded SoCal Adaptive Sports and has been the Board President and Executive Director. Bio-Michael see greater societal inclusion as a social justice issue, having learned this from working overseas. His path to working with people with disability has been varied, having worked for numerous municipalities and non-profits including the oldest longest operating public market in the US in Lancaster, PA and Director of the Alliance for Living an HIV/AIDS Services organization in Connecticut. Ways to connect with Michael: Web: Socaladaptivesports.org https://www.facebook.com/palmstopinesparasports About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi everyone. I am Mike Hingson, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today. We get to chat with someone who was referred to me by our friend, Sheldon Lewis, who is involved in the nonprofit part of accessibe. That is he looks for nonprofits, especially in the disabilities arena, where he provides access to be to them at no charge, which is always a good thing. And Michael Rosenkrantz is one of the people that Sheldon has met along the way, and he suggested that Michael and I ought to do an episode of unstoppable mindset. And I guess I said enough right things that here he is. So Michael, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 02:03 Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:06 why don't we start kind of like I love to do. Tell me a little about the early Michael, growing up and all that.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 02:14 Sure, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of California. Was always outside what town, and it was called Sepulveda at that time. No North Hills, okay? And, you know, always played sports since the weather was always pretty decent, yeah, a fairly usual childhood, nothing out of the ordinary, I would say. And, yeah, but I think it kind of shaped, you know, where I what I'm doing today, actually, that's for sure. Especially, no   Michael Hingson ** 02:55 difference, yeah, yeah. Did you go to did you go to college?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:00 I went to college. I went to UC Irvine.   Michael Hingson ** 03:03 Did you I don't know whether I knew that. When were you there?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:07 Yeah, I was there. Let's see that's a good question. 75 to 78   Michael Hingson ** 03:18 we overlapped by one year. Well, it's not to you, okay,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:22 thank you. Went to Irvine and then went to grad school in   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:29 in the Boston area, Northeastern and Boston College, and they got me out to the East Coast, and, you know, ended up living on the East Coast for quite a number of years, and have moved around, you know, quite a bit.   Michael Hingson ** 03:46 So what got you to the East Coast rather than staying out west at Irvine or somewhere out here?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:52 Well, grad school, essentially, just   Michael Hingson ** 03:54 decided that's what you wanted to do. Yeah,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 03:57 yeah. I had a professor at Irvine had started a program at Boston College that I was very interested in, and so I ended up, you know, driving in a U haul cross country and with him, and spent a couple years at Boston College and a little bit more than a year and a half at Northeastern University.   Michael Hingson ** 04:22 So what was your bachelor's degree in   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 04:26 bachelor's degree in political science? Started out as a, you know, wanted to be a dentist. About was very short lived, as I didn't do well in chemistry and such. And, yeah, ended up changing. And you know, all for the best. Of course, all for the best. So   Michael Hingson ** 04:45 what were your graduate degrees in,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 04:49 in sociology and also in business?   Michael Hingson ** 04:55 I remember being at UC Irvine in physics and. The year I started, which was 68 1600 people joined as freshmen in the bio side department. And one of the things that the School of Biological Sciences did, at least by reputation, to weed out a lot of the people who weren't going to really do well in biosci was that in your first year you were required to take your first or second year you were required to take organic chemistry. So by the end of two years, 1600 dropped to 200   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 05:41 Yeah, that'll do it.   Michael Hingson ** 05:46 So I didn't have to take organic chemistry, um, although I would have put up with it if that were required, but in physics, it wasn't. But I did take a year of bio side biology, one A, 1b and 1c which was a lot of fun, and that was requirement, but not organic chemistry, fortunately, which would have required memorizing lots of different kinds of reactions and so on. And memory has never been a problem for me, so I could have done that, but I'm glad I didn't have to.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 06:19 That's great. Well, so,   Michael Hingson ** 06:20 so you went off to the east and went to school back there, different weather than out here.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 06:30 Yeah, yeah, I remember wearing a very puppy down coat, and, you know, with a few snowflakes, a friend from New York just laughing, okay,   Michael Hingson ** 06:44 yeah, yeah, well, I'm sure that people laughed at me the first year I was back there, starting in October of 76 I moved to the Cambridge area and actually lived for a few months in a studio apartment in Back Bay Boston, and had to go to Cambridge every day. Well, had to go, went to Cambridge every day or work. And that was the first time I encountered lots of snow. And how they shoveled the sidewalks off and made sort of snow walls along the street gutters was just a very narrow pathway to walk through to get to the street, and I knew nothing about all that going into it. Well, I figured it out soon enough, though.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 07:33 Yeah, I could just imagine   Michael Hingson ** 07:36 the dog loved it. Loved to play with the snowballs. So what? What did you do after college?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 07:45 Let's see, after grad school, got married and then moved to the Bay Area Oakland and worked for the city of Oakland for a few years got me started working in the public markets a bit, which I really enjoyed, ended up moving back to the east coast for some 20 years now. Again, it moved to Pennsylvania after that, right there, who knows, live in Connecticut a little bit longer, and then moved back eventually, went back to the West Coast, moved to Colorado, lived in moved to India. Lived in India for a while. Nepal.   Michael Hingson ** 08:45 So were you married all this time?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 08:47 No, oh, I moved to Pennsylvania. I got divorced. Oh,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 08:55 but in the meantime, you know, I had two children. You know, they had a good childhood, and, yeah, just kind of pursued, you know, things that were important to me. And so when I was in, I was a VSO volunteer, I think the Voluntary Service overseas in 2009   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 09:24 and, you know, working with the Indian government, and that company started and working with people with disability and adaptive sports. So that's been my path pretty much since, you know, 2009   Michael Hingson ** 09:40 so what kinds of things did you do, or how did you get involved in working with people with disabilities over there?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 09:47 So I was working for the Indian government, autonomous body called the National Trust, which was part of the Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment. I. And my role was to develop and then implement a variety of workshops for nonprofits, NGOs, involved with people with disability throughout the country, which I did, and was also I was living in New Delhi, so I was Saturday nights when I was in Delhi, I would coach at the YMCA coach basketball. And in 2011 some friends from a group called wheelchair athletes worldwide came over to the country, and that got me started in wheelchair basketball. And you know, I've just continued kind of on this path since that time. And you know, very much led to when I came back to the country, living in Tucson for a little bit, living in Raleigh, Durham area for a bit, and then back to California in 2019 and incorporating this nonprofit, along with some others, in May of 2020, and you know, we've continued. We've grown working throughout Southern California. And you know, I feel we're making an impact.   Michael Hingson ** 11:34 Well, going back to 2009 you started in New Delhi, and they had you starting to work with people with disabilities. What did you think about that, that that certainly was a different population than you were mostly used to being involved with so what? What were your thoughts or, how did, how did all that work out for you? What did you learn? I   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 11:55 hadn't really worked with people with disability before. I've been in Connecticut, you know, had a few different roles, but one of them was as director of an HIV AIDS organization, which was really good. So that got me more into the, you know, the nonprofit world, and kind of what that meant in working with people with disability, again, I worked, you know, primarily with the with the NGOs, with the organizations teaching them about fundraising and strategic planning, things to keep them really go, going and growing, becoming sustainable. So, you know, in India, in you know, disability looks different than it does here. You know, if you live in a village, a rural area, difficult, definitely, the thing that I learned, though, think was about advocacy and how important advocacy is. And, yeah, I think that's the thing that really put me on this path, in that, you know, people with disability are the largest minority population in the world. And about, you know, 15, 16% of worldwide population are people with disabilities. So it's a huge, huge number. And even, you know, in India, even without the kind of resources that we have in the US, there was a lot of movement in terms of trying to make structures much more accessible. You know, I saw the fight that that advocates had, and I realized that, realized that, you know, this is very much a social justice issue, and so that that really appealed to me. And then the, you know, the sports aspect, where, in India there weren't a lot of adaptive sports, you know. But since that time, obviously, things you know, things have changed and sports have grown. There are more people playing adaptive sports, yeah, certainly   Michael Hingson ** 14:32 back even in 2000 2001 and even later, the level of adaptive sports in the US wasn't what it is today either.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 14:48 Yeah, well, I mean, it's certainly grown. You know, as more awareness is created about capabilities, as more awareness is created about, you know, removing barrier. Barriers, leveling the playing field, creating greater access. But you know, the thing that I saw in both India and Nepal, where I lived for four years after living in India for three years, was that accessibility was just a huge, huge issue. And you know, that starts with accessible sidewalks, or even having sidewalks, you know, that people could, could actually walk on. Yeah, so it's it, you know, it's a different it's a different access is very different than kind of what it is here. I mean, I realize there's a very long way to go. I mean, throughout the world, you know, especially in places like the US, with a lot more resources, but you know, there are a lot more opportunities here than in places, you know, like Nepal or India. I mean, I realized that there still needs to be a lot more priority placed on accessibility level in the playing field, creating societal inclusion. But certainly in my time back in the US, I've seen the growth of an interest in adaptive sports. And I you know, la 2028 with the Paralympic Games, is certainly it's already making a huge difference, especially in the LA area. How so? Well, so you have la 2028 you know, is fully functional. And so staff from LA 2028 you know, I see them in a number of adoptive sports fairs. I see the city of LA growing their programming terms of adaptive sports. You know, I see my friends organizations, Triumph Foundation, Angel City, which really la greater LA area, you know, just doing a whole lot more, and there being a lot more interest from people with disabilities in participating, but also in the able bodied neurotypical community, you know, volunteering a whole lot more. So I think you know all of those things with this goal of really making you know, huge impact in 2028 is, is making a difference. But you know, it has to continue, right? You have to have more municipalities creating adaptive sports a level in the playing field. And so, you know, that's one of the things that I'm working on, not necessarily, necessarily with La 2028 in mind, but more, you know, Southern California is an area where the weather is fairly good, and so you can play, you know, all year round. And and therefore, why aren't there adaptive sports being offered on a consistent basis in municipality, south, Southern California. So all of these things, you know. And then you have move united, which is the industry Chamber of Commerce, which is really making a difference. And I see more adaptive sports organizations joining, you know, with move united, so it, you know, it's happening. Change happens slowly, but I can see lots of light and lots more offerings, especially throughout Southern California,   Michael Hingson ** 18:58 something that I kind of wonder, and I asked the question, not being well educated in the whole area of adaptive sports, but in general, in some ways, philosophically, adaptive sports is still a separate But potentially equal environment. Can Can people who participate in adaptive sports be integrated into actually participating just in the regular sporting events, or are they so different that there's no way to really integrate the two? And I and I asked that, because I did have someone as a guest a while ago who was talking about, like wheelchair marathoners, who actually go faster than regular runners. And so, you know, is that an advantage or a disadvantage, or whatever? But are there ways to integrate any of the two so that you could have so called Able bodied people? And I, and I use it in that term, um. Um, participating with people, say, who are in wheelchairs or whatever? Yeah,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 20:05 that's a that's a really good question. A few years ago, when I was living in Tucson, we had a summertime Wheelchair Basketball League, and so you got people with disability participating with people, you know, over able bodied women. It was I thought it was great. It was really fun. You know, the True, true inclusion, the program that I run in Riverside, an after school program, city of Riverside, it's for children, and that is an inclusive program. So I think in many cases, yes, and I think that you know schools and other some other programs are looking to do more inclusive sports. But I don't think that's it's always the case, right? I think there are times with certain athletes with certain abilities that it makes sense to have, you know, adaptive sports,   Michael Hingson ** 21:29 yeah, I don't know about wheelchair tennis, for example, or even wheelchair basketball, whether you could fully integrate them. I don't know enough about them to to know so   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 21:40 in in in Wiltshire basketball, people get a certain number of points depending on their disability. So sometimes able bodied would be a 4.5 for example. And you can only have a certain number of points on the court at one time, like one of my friends, Keith Wallace, actually does a league, Wilshire Basketball League, where he allows, you know, I mean, it's just inclusive. It's just an inclusive thing. Whereas, you know, a group like the National Wilshire Basketball Association is specifically for, you know, people with disabilities, so they're not making it at an get an inclusive thing. And, you know, that's fine. I mean, that's, you know, that's how they run their lead. So I think the more that you can do inclusive sports and and have people without disability try adaptive sports, the better. Actually, we do an example of that. So we do a school based program called sports for everybody. It's a program that a similar program that I did when I lived in North Carolina and worked for an adaptive sports organization there. So we go into schools. We bring sport wheelchairs. We set up three stations teach, you know, all the children how to push the sport wheelchair. We do Boccia and do sitting volleyball in a disability etiquette piece. And so this is a way to educate and create greater awareness about capabilities. And I think that's that's really key for, you know, removing barriers, creating more access and creating greater societal inclusion. That is, you know, and I asked the children, and it's all grades, I asked the children, I say, Well, do you know someone with disability? And you know, inevitably, I would say, you know, 40, 50% of the children say they know someone with disability. And you know, by the end of the session, I'm asking, so can you play with someone with disability? And all the kids are, yeah, of course we can, but you know, we have to adapt. So   Michael Hingson ** 24:13 adapting, adapting is a two way street. But yeah, yeah,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 24:16 yeah, no, that's right. So I think that's and ultimately, you know, I'm looking at, how do you change society so that there is greater societal inclusion, and it doesn't matter you know what your ability level is, you know what's going on with your body, but that everyone can play together, right?   Michael Hingson ** 24:47 Well, one of the reasons that I asked the question was, I have a friend who, for many years was a national rowing champion and participated in rowing at the Paralympics. And I asked her, Why don't you. To participate in the regular Olympics rowing teams, and she said they won't allow that yet, you know, and she acknowledged that eyesight isn't an issue in rowing, but you know, maybe that will will change over time, but it is a growth issue just the presumption that disability means you can't do the same things that other people can do. Certainly there are areas where that's true. I am not going to watch television and make determinations about visual effects. That doesn't mean, however, that I can't watch television and I can't get a lot out of it, and it also doesn't mean that I don't encounter television commercials that have content where they never say what product they're advertising. And so they they systematically leave some of us out that shouldn't be a problem that I face, but inclusion is something that we really haven't totally adapted to and agreed needs to be part of our world.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 26:11 Yeah, I think you know that South African runner victorious? Was it? Yeah, I believe, I think you participated in the Olympics. I'm not sure, but I think there are, there probably are areas in the Olympics, or somewhat disability could participate. I mean, I, you know, I wouldn't want to see someone doing standing basketball and in a wheelchair, you know, playing in the Olympics, because I think, you know, having a wheelchair might be difficult when you know someone's running And standing right, yeah, that might not go together, but you know, one of the best archers in the world is a guy without arms, and so, you know, why couldn't he participate in the Olympics? I mean, he may choose to participate in the Paralympics, but yeah, there probably are, like, a full range of sports where, you know, it shouldn't really matter whether, whether you have a disability, but that you could participate, you know, in the Olympics, because they're all, you know, when it comes down to it, Paralympics, Olympics. I mean, these, they're all you lead athletes, you know, and they're just incredible people. Some may just have, you know, a disability, but it shouldn't really make a whole heck of a lot of difference. I think for, you know, recreation programs that you can do a lot more inclusion and, you know, but just being aware that some people need one on one assistance. So again, I, you know, I, I kind of celebrate when like the programs that I do, especially with youth, are inclusive, because many times, parents don't understand what adaptive sports are, so they just sign their kids up to participate. And I say, Okay, that's great, sure, of course. But I also take the time, you know, to talk to the children who are neuro typical, able bodied, and say, you know, look, you may have noticed that, you know, this person acts a little bit differently, and so you need to be aware that, you know, maybe this person is autistic, right, yeah? Or has intellectual disability, and the kids, you know, they'll look at me with understanding and say, Okay, now I now I get it, and maybe I can change a little bit of the way that I interact, you know, with that person, which I think is really important, yeah? And I think that's the thing that brings about more societal inclusion.   Michael Hingson ** 29:25 One of the things, and I've said it on this podcast a number of times, is we've got to get beyond thinking that disability means lack of ability. And I've had a number of so called diversity experts on and they always say, but disability begins with dis, which is a lack of and I have discovered and learned and react when I hear that by saying things like, okay, then where does this come into the word disciple or discrete? You know, the reality is, dis doesn't need to be a lack. Lack of like with blindness, we always hear about visually impaired, which is such a gross term on so many levels, because visually we're not different and impaired, we are not and why do you compare how much eyesight I have to how much eyesight you have? We've got to get beyond believing that disability means a difference that makes some of us less than some of you, because everyone has gifts, and what we really need to do is to promote and understand each person's gifts and figure out how to help them use those gifts. Yeah,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 30:36 well, that's you know, conversations about language and what people want. And when I was in India, so the the CEO of National Trust said, you know, it's discover ability, right? Put cover in there. When I use the word, or I've heard the word, differently able, yeah, one of my friends gets really pissed off and said, you know, come on, I do too, and that's okay, so, but I think it's more about it's not about disability. It's about, again, how do you create greater access, given that, you know, a lot of the systems and structures we've created did not have a person who, you know, may be blind in mind, right? And so, I mean, I think that's the thing intellectually, which we need to think about and change. And a lot of that, you know, is happening in New Delhi. When I was there, that's what the advocates were working on, you know, how do we change? How do we change the sidewalk so, you know, how do we ensure that all the restrooms have large enough openings to so that a person, a wheelchair, can fit in, right? And that's, you know, that's, that's a huge, huge discussion, but you're right. I mean, language, language does make a big difference. So I, you know, I always try to be careful and think about the language. But, you know, the reality is, how do you create greater access? So it's not, you know that person has a disability, but that person doesn't, you know, the person who maybe is blind or uses a wheelchair automatically, automatically, can get into a building, or, you know, into a restroom, or, you know, so there isn't this, yeah, there isn't this difference. I was in Israel a couple years ago for something called the Maccabee games, and I was coaching our wheelchair basketball team, and it was really curious to me, and somewhat frustrating when I saw on the hotel where we were staying at in Tel Aviv, it said handicap parking. But, you know, there was no, there was no place like for the person in the wheelchair to go, to get up, go in the front door. They had to go behind all the cars and all that. Yeah, excuse me, and you go, Well, come on, you know, that's not creating access. Or, you know, the front door that says, you know, handicap accessible, but yet, there's no button on it to push, and the doors are so heavy that you can't really pull it open, right? So, you know, you kind of scratch your head and go, Well, wait a second. This is really not, not creating greater access for people. And so it kind of defeats the purpose right to to have these signs and say all this, but yet, you know, the reality is, it's not, it's not accessible. So, you know, you got to think more about that. How do you make things much more accessible, so there isn't this difference. You know, we don't point to someone and say, Oh, they have a disability, and that's going to take time.   Michael Hingson ** 34:10 It is going to take time, and it takes involving some of the people who are actually being affected by the decisions. You know, several years ago, Israel did pass regulations that said all websites need to be accessible, and people took it, I think, in general, pretty seriously. I work with accessibe, as you know, and accessibe came out of needing to make websites inclusive, by three guys who had a company that made websites for people, and suddenly had to magically make them usable. And so they did, and they came up with a product that helps a lot in making websites usable and inclusive. Around the world, lots to do, and they're working on a lot of projects with that, but still, yeah, it's it's all about really involving the people who are affected by the decisions that you make. And clearly, if someone said that something was accessible, like a door, but they didn't have a button. You got to kind of wonder, who did they ask, or where did they consult to decide that that made it accessible? And so, you know, much less using the word handicapped in today's world, more and more, we're recognizing not a good thing to do, but you know, one of the things that that I hope over time, people will recognize is that disability is really a characteristic that everyone shares. It just manifests itself differently. I mean, you're light dependent, you know, so if the lights go out, you're in a world of hurt. Doesn't bother me a bit, but, but the reality is that we've got to raise consciousness. And it is a process. It is a slow process. And, you know, there are just so many areas where there is a lot of work to be done, but I think it's also important that we really try to get the work done. And if people refuse to listen, sometimes we have to take a harder stance than we might have in the past, but it is what we got to do. Well, you   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 36:24 know, as I say to the children that we educate in our sports, everybody program, if you live long enough, you're going to have a disability. I mean, there's no getting around that. And so, you know, understanding that now and again, you know, I keep talking about creating greater access, and thinking about that is, I think, is really, really important and very key. You know, I think about what's going on in Gaza now, and of course, they're going to be many more people with physical disability. And you know, Israel has a center for people with disability to play sports and all that. Obviously, we don't want to create, you know, more people who are amputees. But, you know, given the state of the world, you got to think about, you know, we are creating more people with disability. There's no doubt about that. Yes, but then how do we so how do we help those people once, you know, hopefully wars end, to participate fully in society, and it is about removing barriers, you know, making the world very accessible to everybody, you know, with an emphasis on body, no matter what their ability, who they are. So it's, you know, for me, it's personally, it's really important to create lots and lots of opportunities, and ensure that these opportunities are accessible. You know, whether it's sports, whether it's art, whether it's being able to go to professional sporting event, you know it's about it is about educating people to a colleague and I actually train coaches, ice skating coaches at our local ice Plex, you know, and working with people who are autistic, people with physical disability, people with other developmental disabilities. And so now we're embarking hopefully, on a program to train municipal parks and rec staff about working, you know, with people with all different abilities and and part of that, you know, Michael, is, it's demystifying, working with people with disability. Because I think many people think, you know, there's this, there's this magic, right? And I can't do it because I've never been trained on how to work with someone with disability. But I don't think that's it. You know, for me, it's been a matter of just experience, just getting in there and and doing it, and learning, you know, through sometimes making mistakes, but learning to lose mistakes and saying, okay, you know, I love sports and so, you know, I can work. I can work with anybody and that, and that's proven to work very well, you know, from non verbal people to, you know, people. People who are deaf. I mean, I, you know, I feel like I can work with anybody. And, you know, maybe it requires more patience and allowing a little more time for someone to process what direction I'm given. I've given rather but, but still, it's, you know, and I think that gets back to your question of, should we have more inclusion? And I think probably, over time, we will. But again, it's, it's this kind of taking the mystique out of working, you know, with stuff entrepreneurs who just has different abilities, you know, and who, does take longer to process, you know, direction   Michael Hingson ** 40:46 well. And the reality is, people with what are more traditional disabilities or not. The bottom line is that not everyone has the gifts to do some things. Not everybody's going to be good at basketball or tennis or golf. There are some blind people who play golf, and there are many blind people who don't play golf. There are some sighted people who play golf and are good at it. There are lots of people who don't play golf or who play at it but aren't very good. The reality is it that we need to not make the so called Disability the reason why something doesn't work? You know, people say to me all the time, well, of course, you didn't know what happened on September 11, even though you were in the building because you were blind, you couldn't see it. And of course, my response to that is, you got it all wrong as usual, and I don't say the as usual, but you've got it all wrong. The airplane hit 18 floors above us on the other side of the building. How was I supposed to know? How was anyone supposed to know what happened? I went down the stairs with 1000s of people who had no clue what had happened because they didn't see it and it had nothing to do with seeing it or not seeing it clearly, we had to get out of the building because of the way the building behaved. But you don't blame it on someone's so called disability. It's more common sense than that, but we haven't learned to do that collectively yet, and I hope it is something that over time, people will come more to realize,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 42:20 yeah, you know, again, I think it's, it's more about is there, is there an opportunity for someone to come out and try golf or basketball, right, to see if they like it? You got, you know, there's some. So we do golf. We did golf yesterday, and, you know, that's not one of my favorite sports. But, you know, for for the athletes who came out who wanted to play great, and they like it good, you know, I mean, I, I was egged on, you know, to try and do it. And it took me, let's see how many shots take me, five or six shots for me to hit the ball, you know? And it's like, I'm not. Golf is not my game, you know,   Michael Hingson ** 43:07 my, my British, New Zealand and Australian friends notwithstanding, golf is still faster than cricket. But, you know,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 43:15 I guess I got so I've heard, yeah, but, but it's, it's more about Yeah, I think the key word here, as I keep saying, is access. Correct, if the sport, if the art class, if the dance class is not offered, then certainly, you know, we put up barriers to participating. And so that's where things need to change. Again. It's, for me, it comes back to leveling the playing field, no matter what that playing field is. You know, it could be art, it could be dance, whatever. So that's where we all need to participate. And that's where, you know, municipalities, I feel, have a very key, key role, because they're managing, you know, fields and community centers and all that. And they have to prioritize, you know, adaptive sports. They have to prioritize, you know, saying this is an inclusive program. You know, anybody who wants to can come in and play, and they have to prioritize training their staff, so staff feels comfortable in working with everybody.   Michael Hingson ** 44:30 And you also have to learn to take out the disability and really look at people's gifts. I mean, as you pointed out, some people are going to play golf better than others. You might figure it out someday, though, by the way. So maybe you shouldn't give up yet. Maybe I hear a little bit of doubt there somewhere. Tell me. Tell me more about SoCal adaptive sports. You know what? It's all about, what you do and and what you're accomplishing with it? Yeah.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 44:59 Thanks. So this, you know, I told you, I've been working kind of in the adapt with sports space since 2011 when my friends from wheelchair athletes worldwide came over to India. And so it's been, it's been a, definitely an evolution for me. When I came back to the US, I was able to be an assistant coach. This was in 2016 I was able to be an assistant coach at the University of Arizona with the women's wheelchair basketball team. So the got that got me more kind of into this. And then I helped to co found a nonprofit in Tucson called Southern Arizona adaptive sports, which I left before it really took off. And it has taken off due to my friend Mia handsome, you know, went out of North Carolina for a year and a half and then came back to the US work first, I mean, to California, worked for a small non profit in Coachella Valley. And then, you know, when COVID hit, parting of ways, and said it was really time to start, kind of my own thing. Co founded the organization, and I really appreciated kind of this journey which started in in India, this path, because I, you know, I live by, how do we create, again, numerous opportunities, and, you know, I'm able to work throughout Southern California, but numerous, just great organizations, a lot of partnering. And so we offer programs, you know, we offer basketball, tennis and pickleball. We're working with a hiking program. We're working with a group called Friends of the desert mountains to lead our hiking program, which is now three years old. We're working with Special Olympics. We're working with acute autism. I'm working with a group called Desert art. You know, we go sailing. So we work with a group of California inclusive sailing. We work with challenge sailors in San Diego. We've done trips to a place called calf find a ranch where athletes can participate in numerous activities. We've gone to professional sporting events. You know, as I mentioned earlier, we've done, we're doing after school programming. I'm working with a school district. We've worked with over 3000 children at Coachella alligator bike school district. And now we're going to start working with other school districts. So it's really, you know, it's a lot of different things that we offer, I think, in an effort to, again, let a level the playing field, a lot of education, which is vital, a lot of teaching life lessons through sports and it, you know, it's, it's about I can, as opposed to, I can't do this. And when I coach, you know, if one of the athletes says this is too hard, I can't do it, I say, you need to try it. And yes, you can. And then they do, and ultimately, you know, that leads to other things, right? That leads to maybe I can wash my clothes, I can wash my dishes, I can get a job, I can get an apartment or a house. And I think that's the really important piece. That's really important piece again, for me, you know, it's not just playing sports. It's playing to the best of your abilities, whatever you know those are. But then it's taking all of that and say, okay, you know, I'm going to make decisions for my life and what I'm passionate about and what I want to do.   Michael Hingson ** 48:57 Yeah, because the usual I can't isn't that they can't, it's that they've learned through whatever society has offered them that they can't, when that isn't necessarily true at all. Well,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 49:12 I think that's right, and so I provide. You know, I don't coach anybody differently than I coach anybody else. I mean, maybe, you know, for some people, obviously, I, you know, have a bit well, I have patience, but maybe have a bit more patience, you know, wait a little bit longer for response and all that. But I push people because I think it's, I think it's important to do that, you know, I don't think it's okay to for someone to say, well, I can't do it because it's too hard. Well, no, you're going to try it and, you know, if you can't do it after I'm really trying, that's okay, but you're not just going to give up, because you're not going to give up. You know? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 50:01 yeah. We, we are taught all too often, all too much to give up rather than really being curious and really exploring and trying.   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 50:11 Yeah, you know, I've been, we have the BNP service open happening this for the next couple weeks out in Indian Wells, and I was able to see, you know, one of the women tennis players. And, you know, I thought, Wow, this woman hits the ball so hard. You know, she's only 21 but you know, she's been doing that for hours, endless hours every day, and it's not to say, you know, that I'm going to spend endless hours shooting hoops, but I'm going to play as much as I need to, so that, you know, I think compete on some level. And excuse me, I think this the same thing for, you know, the athletes that I've been working with, it's you may not play every day, right? You may not, but in the time that we're together, we're really going to push and, you know, we're all going to play to the best of our abilities, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 51:20 how do we really work to level the playing field?   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 51:24 Well, you know, I just, I just had an article published on the National Parks and Recreation website, and in that, I wrote about municipalities. And as I indicated earlier, I said, you know, municipalities really have the power to change things again, because, you know, they have the infrastructure, they have the facilities. So it takes them again to prioritize, adaptive, inclusive sports, you know, and really push this stuff. So I, I see, you know, I see municipalities doing adaptive sports, bears, right? Perhaps I'm seeing more municipalities offer, you know, adaptive sports. I think that's going to really change. That's going to really level the playing field, I think, as our younger you know younger people, and even you know those of us my age, should you know, have greater acceptance for removing barriers and say, Hey, this person's in a wheelchair, but they want to participate. So how do I make that happen? I think that levels of playing field, I think, yeah, as people become, you know, more empathetic towards others and their situation, you know, can put themselves in, you know, another person's shoes, or even consider, well, what? What if I had to use a wheelchair or,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 53:09 you know, to get around? How would I do it? Certainly, that changes things. I think, as we enlarge our world, which is not an easy task. You know, if   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 53:23 you've only lived in one part of the world for all of your life, you know, and haven't experienced other societies, maybe your empathy is not as great. But, you know, we live in a world that's, I mean, that's very connected, and so as we have more understanding that also levels of playing field, you know, it's, it's not only for people with, you know, we use the word disability, but it's, it's for everybody, right? It's   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 53:52 no matter what ethnicity you are, or, you know, religion you are, or you know what, however you choose to live your life,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 54:05 there has to be greater understanding. But I think that that levels things for everybody, and that that again, you know, it's an it's an evolution. So it's going to take, it takes time. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 54:18 it, it is a process. And we, we do need to be committed to doing it, but it is a process and and hopefully we'll get there, yeah, and that we'll we'll see a lot more inclusion than we do. My late wife was in a wheelchair her whole life. I remember once at Christmas time, we wanted to go see the Rockettes, and we went to Radio City Music Hall, and they were supposed to have accessible seats, and they didn't. They they didn't move things around so that people in wheelchairs could have a seat. And it was a little bit of a frustrating situation. We pushed back on it, and they said, sorry. Do. Don't have anything, and we the next day, we called and talked to people at Radio City, and then a couple days later, miraculously, they found accessible seating for Karen, where, where she and I could sit next to each other, and and, and it worked out, but it was just interesting, the cavalier attitude that they had when radio, city music, Hall, of all places, shouldn't have even had that issue come up. But it did. Yeah, when was that? Oh, gosh, it was probably in, I would say 1999 or 2000   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 55:42 Yeah. But it took you and Karen to, kind of, you know, push back and say, Hey, for people to, you know, I mean, literally, open their eyes and say, Oh, huh, yeah. We need to make sure this is accessible, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 55:57 And there's still many examples of that today. It's, it is. It's all about education. It's all about awareness raising, you know, which is important to do well for you, you you do a lot of different things. How do you maintain a work life balance? You must have some time when you rest a little bit. I would think,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 56:19 you know, a bit, but I think, you know, I've been very fortunate in that I love sports. I very much see my work as a social justice kind of issue, although, you know, at times I think I should be doing, maybe I should be doing other things, you know, that, have, you know, so called greater importance, like climate change and whatever else. But, you know, again, I'm very fortunate that I found this even later in life. So it's, it's not a question of Sure, there are times when I feel really tired and, you know, kind of beat up. But when I get on the playing field and I'm coaching athletes, you know, there's nothing else kind of going on in the world at all. And so I think, you know, I know, you know, that focus really gives me a lot of energy. Um, you know, and to to see children in the in our school program, you know, who then come to another program and I say, Oh my gosh. You know, we're making an impact. They really get it. So that kind of thing really keeps me going. You know, this is a seven day a week job. I mean, there's no doubt about it. And look, I'm a co founder, and so, you know, I'm, we're still building to make this sustainable. So it's not a it's not something that really weighs on me in that, oh, I need to take, I need to go out and rest now, because, look, when I'm coaching, I'm also exercising, you know, yeah, and so it's not where I'm sitting at a desk. But, I mean, there are times when I do, when I write brands, but so I, you know, I feel fine with the way things are. Yes, you know, I need to hire more staff to help out. But for me, this was all it's very positive that, you know, I can be an entrepreneur, I can be a coach, and I and I feel like I'm hoping you know others and my all my small part of of the world. So your question is relevant, but it's also a little bit irrelevant too, right? Because I just, yeah, I just, I just do well,   Michael Hingson ** 59:07 I would also submit, you know, is climate change really more important? I mean, it is very important, but some people have the gift to do that, right? And so the other side of it is that making society more aware of important issues is, in its own way, just as important. Yeah, and you, you seem to do it very well, so I wouldn't denigrate it a whole lot. I think it's extremely important to do what you're doing. And, yeah, go   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 59:34 ahead. No, no, no, it is. But you know, given who I am and interested in the world of ideas and all that. I mean, I do you know think about these other things too. Sure. I know that, you know. I know that, especially with the children and with the adults that you know, making somewhat of a difference. So, yeah, if   Michael Hingson ** 59:55 people want to reach out and learn more about SoCal adaptive sports, maybe communicate. With you, maybe become involved and so on, whether it's here or in other parts of the country. How do they do that? Yeah, so or other parts of the world for that matter, because we do have initiatives outside the US too. Yeah,   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 1:00:13 because of our name, I do have people reaching out from other parts of the country, that's for sure. And I'm, you know, I'm still connected, obviously, with people in India on the call. But so SoCal adaptive sports.org is our website,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:27 so it's S, O, C, A, L, adaptive sports.org   Michael Rosenkrantz ** 1:00:33 Okay? Or, you know, my emails might get SoCal adaptive sports.org so you know, feel free to reach out, happy to advise you wherever you live, connect you with resources wherever you live. And yeah, again, just, you know, join us. It's a growing community, a growing family. And yeah, we are making a difference.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:02 And I think that's as much as anyone can ask for. Make a difference, make it a better world. Gee, Who can argue with that? Well, I want to thank you again for being with us. This has been fun, and I really enjoyed the discussion. And if you ever want to come back and talk more about it, and talk more about things that are happening and progress you're making, you are always welcome to to come visit us. So thank you for doing that, and I want to thank you all for listening to us today. This has been a lot of fun, and it's been very educational. I've learned a lot, and I love that. I always love to learn. When people come on and visit with us, I hope that you found it interesting and useful as well. I'd love to hear your thoughts. You are welcome to reach out to me at Michael H, i@accessibe.com that's M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, E.com, or go to our podcast page, which is www dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, that's m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, O, N, wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. We value your ratings highly and value your input and your thoughts, so please feel free to let us know, please feel free to rate us wherever you're listening to us, and if you know of any guests and Mike you as well. If you know of anyone else who you think we ought to have on as a guest, on unstoppable mindset, always looking for more people, please reach out to us and let us know. 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Send us a textThrough this beautifully emotional and incredibly raw conversation with Dre Lakin, a gifted choreographer, dancer, author and activist, we explore the paradox of finding gratitude in adversity. Dre's journey with Addison's disease has transformed her perspective, teaching her to treasure life moment by moment and revealing the mysterious duality of complete surrender—painfully challenging yet profoundly sustaining. Dre brilliantly and courageously unveils her emotional and physical struggles in her memoir, Damage Control: Memoirs of a Rockette. Known for her brilliant performances on Broadway, she opens up about her silent battle with Addison's disease, a condition that touches every aspect of her life. She shares for the first time her near-death experience (NDE) earlier this year that blew open everything she had known about what her faith and Spirit could do. Her story offers a powerful reflection on the resilience of the human spirit, heart, mind and body and the incredible strength and miracles found through divine intervention.You can learn more about Dre Lakin at damagecontrolfordancers.com and @dre.lakin on Instagram.Learn more about, book a session with or contact India Leigh at indialeigh.com

As a 13-year Rockette, Liz Sousek knows a thing or two about what it takes to make it in the Big City. Dive deep into the dreams and dedication of a professional dancer. 3:30 The Nutcracker 8:00 Off to NY 11:26 Thick skin 12:49 Save the last dance  15:55 Becoming a professional dancer  21:37 Commitment of a Rockette  28:36 From boys to Barre 32:00 Growing out of the grind 36:14 Teen mom 37:15 Less is more Follow us on IG! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@twodumbbellblondes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@lifewithcoach_lo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kadistine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @lizsousek Find us on YouTube! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@twodumbbellblondes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.twodumbbellblondes.com Audio Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brandon Sass

"If you have nobody, you have yourself." Lillian ColonWhen Lillian Colon shared that phrase above with Rob Scheer when he interviewed her recently, there was a pause in the conversation as those words hit home. Reflect on them for a moment.On today's episode of Fostering Change, Rob interviews Lillian Colon, who spent more than a decade in a strict New York City orphanage because her father “thought it would be best” to separate from the mother she adored. With restrictions all around her, she strove to be someone better than anyone ever believed she could. Lilly never knew the care and loving attention of a stable family, but she didn't let obstacles and family tragedies stand in the way of her dreams.As a child, after the nuns who ran the orphanage took her to Radio City Music Hall to see the famed “Rockettes, “Lilly was driven to become a dancer. A graduate of New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts (if you've ever seen the movie Fame,” you'll understand), Lillian became the first Latina Rockette. Lillian achieved so much more in her career, having performed with some of the great names in Hollywood and on Broadway, including the legendary Chita Rivera. Most recently, she was the oldest dancer in the Hollywood adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights!” We celebrate this achievement on the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month.Lillian shares all this in her memoir Lilly: The First Latina Rockette. This is a truly lovely conversation with a wonderful, good human. We know you will enjoy her growing-up stories and her performance success.To find out more about what Lillian is up to, please visit her website: https://www.lilliancolon.com/ You can purchase her book here: https://www.lilliancolon.com/product/lilly-book/Thank you for listening! Of course, if you have any questions or comments about today's episode or a suggestion for a guest for Fostering Change, please reach out to us at info@comfortcases.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, Chryssie Whitehead discusses: Her 25 year career across film, television and theater Making her Broadway Debut in the 2006 Revival of A Chorus Line and being part of the accompanying documentary “Every Little Step” Navigating rejection in the entertainment industry  Discovering the acting bug and the importance of staying true to oneself  Her experiences with depression and mental health, and how she found healing through therapy and medication Creating and performing her show, 'In My Own Little Corner,' which aims to normalize conversations around mental health The unpredictable nature of an acting career, including her experience on Grey's Anatomy  Chryssie Whitehead is an artist, author, director, choreographer, educator, mentor and producer who began her career as a Rockette. She made her Broadway Debut in the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line as Kristine, which was also captured in the hit documentary, Every Little Step. She is also heard on the cast album in "Sing" with Tony nominated actor, Tony Yazbeck. She then joined the international tour of Fosse, played Kitty and understudied Velma in Broadway's Chicago, performed alongside Neil Patrick Harris in Company at Lincoln Center, and danced on Paul McCartney's international tour. Chryssie's film and television credits include Stephen Spielberg's West Side Story, Revenge of the Bridesmaids with Raven Symone, Grey's Anatomy, and being the dance double in Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles.  Chryssie is the Co-founder and Co-Director of Broadway Arts Community and its non-profit sister, Broader Than Broadway where she serves as a mentor and coach. She is currently on tour with her autobiographical play with music, In My Own Little Corner: My Moods, My Mom, and Me, as author, artist and lead producer, seeking to normalize conversations around mental health. Follow along on Chryssie's journey: @chryssiewhitehead Transcript available on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/storyproject/support

Send us a textIn this episode, Kelly is joined by Marco Abbiati! He is a New York City Christmas tour business owner, he is from Italy, lives in Luxembourg and is a New York city enthusiast.Join them as they talk about how they met. Marco tells Kelly about how he started his social media platform. Seeing that there could be space to fill with pages about New York City during the holiday season. They then talk about the weather. They tell you how you should pack for your trip, Kelly gives the secret to not getting sick, and Jae talks about New York City Christmases of the past and his experience with having a White Christmas in New York.Marco remembers the exact day he asked Kelly to join him on his business venture of creating the Dyker Heights Christmas lights tours! They talk about how those tours came to be and Kelly's excitement doing them every year.  They talk about the Christmas tree lighting ceremonies: Tips for the best ways to experience them, good information on what to do if you want to experience the lighting without all of the crowds, and the best places to go to see all of the amazing trees that New York City has to offer. Kelly tells Marco where he likes to take people during his tours to see the best Christmas decorations and displays. Seeing the Rockettes, The South Street Seaport, And all of the Manhattan Christmas markets.Finally, Kelly asks Marco about the holiday tours that he runs. They tell listeners what they can expect if they book the tour for their trip. They give times for the tour, the length, exactly where they are going and for how long. Kelly talks about how they've become a family and how much he loves giving facts about New York City during Christmas as he's on the bus traveling to and from Brooklyn.Marco tells Kelly about his new tour, "My Christmas Morning in New York" It takes place in Manhattan and ends with an exclusive reservation at Papillon, which is famous for it's Christmas decorations. But above all else; Marco Abbiatti is a New Yorker!Kelly Kopp's Social Media:@NewYorkCityKoppMarco Abbiatti's Social Media:@MyChristmasinnewyorkcity

Welcome to the Monthly Weird with Rockette Fox! Each month on the last Tuesday, Rockette Fox will showcase things that are fantastically strange! It's a great tine to see and hear about weird things and hang with Rockette! Tune in on the Cybernation Uncensored twitch channel and share your thoughts and ideas! Join us! Calling all game masters, players, edgerunners, choombas, wastelanders, vault dwellers, spice traders & space folders! We have a very active community for Cyberpunk, Fallout, Dune & more! If you're looking to join a game, run a game, network, learn something new, contribute an idea, chat or just hang out, we have the home for you! Check out the ttrpg related options below and be sure to say hello! https://discord.gg/VJv4FPC https://www.twitch.tv/cybernationuncensored https://twitter.com/CNUncensored https://www.patreon.com/CybernationUncensored https://www.youtube.com/cybernationuncensored/join https://www.instagram.com/cybernationuncensored/ https://www.facebook.com/CyberNationUncensored https://www.facebook.com/groups/2951164338265802 Explore our website! https://www.CybernationUncensored.com/ We're a brand dedicated to everything and anything Cyberpunk, dystopian and scifi! We stream live Cyberpunk RED, 2020, Fallout 2D20 & Dune 2D20 gameplay, a Game Master Tips series, Deep Dive series, Night City Live series and a GM Round Table series on the Cybernation Uncensored youtube and twitch channels! We discuss everything and anything Cyberpunk, including but not limited to 2020, RED, 2077, fallout & dune on our Cybernation Uncensored podcast! We also have a Cybernation Uncensored community blog, discord and group! Join us and let's network and have fun! We have a passion for creating Cyberpunk genre content and would really appreciate your support! Sound & music by Syrinscape https://syrinscape.com/ Because Epic Games Need Epic Sound Complete list of credits here: https://syrinscape.com/attributions/ #weird #strange #talkshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cybernationuncensored/support

Carl Robbins is the Senior Pastor at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. He has served on the boards of crisis pregnancy centers, Christian schools, and seminaries. He has spoken to college groups, medical school forums, state legislative groups, seminary chapels, and church conferences. His special passion is training pastors in developing countries, from Hungary and Bulgaria to Brazil and Peru. Check out his sermons here, and Table Talk articles here. Special thanks to Nathan Clark George for our opening and closing instrumental. Nathan serves as the Pastor of Worship alongside Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC. You can access Nathan's fantastic catalog here.

Meet our guest this episode, Aimee Bernstein. Aimee has worked to help people become better persons for 40 years. She grew up in the New York City area. She will tell you of some of her challenges as a youth and how she grew out of them. Aimee spent several years as a dancer and then decided to secure a college degree in Music.   Her life has definitely been one of self-exploration and discovery. After obtaining her music degree she sang as part of the front act for several famous people. One day, however, her father told her that she needed to get a career. She did. She chose to adopt a counseling career and has never looked back.   Aimee used all her knowledge of psychology and counseling to eventually start her own company and coaching program. During the pandemic she also created a course which is available to anyone today who wants to begin to create within themselves their own art of discovery and self-awareness. She also has written a book which is available as you will see in our notes.   About the Guest:   Aimee's passion and purpose is to help individuals, teams and organizations unleash their potential_.  She is an executive and life coach, psychotherapist, organizational consultant, trainer, and keynote speaker with over forty years experience. Her work liberates people from limited mindsets, behaviors and energy habits in order to successfully navigate disruptive times. She helps them decrease resistance to change, build their dream team, and generate a resilient culture based on shared ownership which supports high performance and well-being.   Aimee is a thought leader in stress reduction and wellness cultures. Her book Stress Less Achieve More: Simple Ways to Turn Pressure into a Positive Force in Your Life (AMACOM) guides leaders and their teams in using pressure- the energy of change, to develop self-mastery , high performance and creativity while raising consciousness. The book is available in English, Arabic and Mandarin. It was voted one of 17 inspiring books to read by Thrive Global.   As President of Open Mind Adventures, Aimee's clients have included such companies as Chanel, The Port of Singapore, Colgate Palmolive, The Ritz Carlton, and Microsoft as well as numerous nonprofit organizations, and municipalities.   Aimee is the creator of The Roar of the MORE, a virtual interactive mind/body/energy training and coaching series. The program helps you clarify who you are becoming, identify the limited beliefs, behaviors and energetic habits that hold you back, and using energy mastery skills, guides you to _embody the upgraded, more conscious version of who you really are. Her approach is a blend of the energy principles and practices of aikido, which she has trained in for forty years, psychology and meditation,   Aimee received her Master's degree in counseling from Boston University and interned at Mass. General Hospital under the auspices of Harvard Medical School. While there she trained under Dr Matt Dumont, then Commissioner of Mental Health for the State of Massachusetts. Aimee has been listed in Who's Who in American Women.   Ways to connect with Aimee:   Facebook:   www.facebook.com/aimee.bernstein9 **                        www.facebook.com/OpenMindAdventures   LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aimee-bernstein-289597/   Tik tok: aimeebernstein637   Instagram: instagram.com/aimeebernstein/   Twitter: twitter.com/aimeebernstein   About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes:** Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Greetings once again and welcome to unstoppable mindset. Today we get to interview Aimme Bernstein, Aimme has a passion to help people, among other things unleash their full potential. And Amy is an organizational consultant trainer and a keynote speaker with over 40 years of experience in all of this and oh my gosh, that sounds almost like me. I won't ask you how old you are. But Aimme, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Aimee Bernstein ** 01:52 Thank you so much. And I'm not telling you how old I am.   Michael Hingson ** 01:58 So there you go, well, that's okay. 40 years is a lot of experience. And some people would say, well, that means you're old enough that you're getting more in toward the senior world. And it's interesting, it just popped into my head to ask about this, that, unfortunately, I see so many times that people think that as people getting are getting older, they really don't have as much value in the corporate and the whole structure of things. And they tend to be ignored a lot more than probably they should because people don't recognize the incredible vast amount of experience that C seniors bring that other people haven't figured out yet or gotten to yet, don't you think? Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 02:41 I actually agree. I think that what we know as seniors is that what worked yesterday doesn't necessarily work tomorrow. And because we've been through transitions in life, and we've seen how we've grown and change and how the organization's have grown and change to I mean, when I came in organizations were just autocratic, you know, then they started talking about, oh, we'll be authentic and transparent and stewardship and stuff like that, you know, well, they haven't achieved it. 100%, you know, we see is, we see the road a little clearer, because we've been down and, and the other thing is, I think that I am in, I am better than I've ever been in my life. I think I'm wiser, I think I am. I have more to offer. I'm more connected to my soul than my ego and my ego like I was when I was very young. So yeah, I do think that organizations sometimes pass us by. And what I've discovered is what comes to me is mine, what doesn't come to me is not mine. So   Michael Hingson ** 04:00 well. And the the other thing about it is that what we bring, especially if we work at it is a significant historical perspective to whatever, so that when we work at a company, and if we've worked at other companies throughout our lives and so on, we bring a lot of historical perspective that can help companies and younger leaders, if they would, but listen, but they think well, but your tool, so you really don't have any value anymore, which is so untrue.   Aimee Bernstein ** 04:33 Yeah, well, so far. I haven't. I haven't really dealt with a lot of that yet. We'll see what happens over time. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 04:46 Well, that's of course, something that just remains to be seen well as a consultant and as a coach. People seek you out. So that helps a lot also, of course,   Aimee Bernstein ** 04:57 yeah, it's been very much for me, it's spin very much word of mouth. So, you know, I worked with Sports Authority, the Vice President of HR for Sports Authority liked my work and when she went to Dolce and Gabbana, she took me with her. Then she went and Intel to lunch with a girlfriend who was the vice president of HR for Chanel. So all of a sudden, I'm working for Chanel. You know, it's always been like that for me. So we'll see what the future brings. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 05:26 well, it's, that's a good thing. And it's a good reputation to have that people seek you out and common, will invite you to come and be a part of what they do.   Aimee Bernstein ** 05:38 Yes, I think the other thing is that when I was 30, I was very interested in it was the woman's movement I was very interested in or what is power. And in this country, you learn about power in corporations or in politics. So I went into corporations and started working with them. At this point in my life, it's not that I know 100%, but I know pretty well, power. You know, I've, I've studied it experientially, and informationally for years. So I'm pretty comfortable there. Now my real interest is in helping people evolve their consciousness, because I see that the world's consciousness is changing. And consciousness is energy, energy has a frequency, the frequency has has sped up in order to unravel the old for the new to be born. And in the process, it's breaking down the old, right, so you see it all around us, whether it's, you know, systems, cultures, conflicts, wars, you know, whatever. And I want to be there for the leaders of tomorrow, who want to make a better world.   Michael Hingson ** 06:56 Well, how overall, do you think it is changing?   Aimee Bernstein ** 07:01 I see that I mean, I, I, I sense that as the consciousness increases, that there'll be more of a sense of the greater good, I don't mean, that is 100%. You know, but you know, we're in a system where politicians oftentimes are ego driven, where people are ego driven in the sense of, I have to get mine before you could have yours. I think that I think that it's going to be a little more compassionate, I see women 35 to 55, you know, that age, that group of women as because they have some experience, as they step into more of their power, I believe that they're going to be some of the leaders that lead us into the new world, because they're more willing to be compassionate to, to work with others to, you know, they see things in a in a different way. It's not just my way or the highway. If I'm right or not, who knows, you know?   Michael Hingson ** 08:15 Well, we will see, it's, it's interesting right now, it's still very much in a lot of ways, men controlling a lot of things. And there are some challenges there. Do you see men in any way, becoming more compassionate, becoming more open to what we have to look out for the other person? As much as we do ourselves? Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 08:35 you know, I have a new friend, a guy named Shaun Harvey, that is actually doing that work with men. He has a company called warrior compassion. And he's helping men become more compassionate, you know, so they, it's, you know, what I see is that we all have male and female in us. So obviously, I'm a woman, you know, I'm more female. But I have a male quality. And me, I think that, you know, as little boys, men, oftentimes were told not to show their feelings don't look weak, don't be vulnerable, that kind of stuff. And I think men are beginning to recognize that it's okay, that in fact, that's part of their strength. And someone like Shawn is helping them do that. So I do think that change is going to happen in both women and men.   Michael Hingson ** 09:26 Yeah, we'll, we'll see how it goes. I hope it does lead to more of a trusting environment than we're used to. And I think, I would think probably to some degree, both men and women, but certainly a lot with men that we don't trust. And we're taught not to trust even though we we do mostly like to be in a pack with other other people and so on. It isn't that we like to be an island ourselves, although I think there are any number of us who think that we did it all and we didn't know don't need anyone else. And that just isn't true. But I would hope that we're leading the way to establishing a little bit more of a trusting environment and interesting world. Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 10:12 I hope so, too. I hope so, too. It takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable. Yeah. You know, I'm not talking about vulnerability in terms of stupidity, you know, so you don't want to be vulnerable to someone who has harm wants to harm you. But to be vulnerable, particularly like with your employees who work for you, you know, that's a strength, you know, they you you model that, or to be vulnerable with your family? Or your friends? Yeah. Well, so,   Michael Hingson ** 10:46 yeah, we will? Well, it certainly sounds like the voice of experience. I'm talking to hear. Back to that. Tell us a little bit about the early AMI growing up and all that stuff that kind of got you started on the road where you are? Yeah.   Aimee Bernstein ** 11:05 I would say that the experience that I had as a little young girl was that I couldn't handle pressure. When I would hear my parents yell or be on the tennis court, and I'm dealing with too much physical pressure. I would have an epileptic seizure I had at all. I grew out of Petit mall when I was like 13 or so. But in those years, I just couldn't handle the pressure. My parents recognizing that I had dance talent ended up sending me to Marjorie Marshall School of Dance in the Bronx. Marjorie Marshall was the mother of Penny and Gary Marshall, seers and directors. And Marjorie was a stage Mother, you know, she at least it was the time of the Rockettes, you know, and she wanted these little girls to be mini rock rock hats. So she put a lot of pressure on us. But instead of having a seizure, I would just open and align and merge with this energy of pressure. And I was free, it was like I was a ball of motion, a ball of energy in motion it I was so happy, joyous, I didn't understand why in one situation, pressure was an enemy. And while another situation pressure was my ally, until I was in my 20s. And I met a teacher named Robert Nadeau, who's in eighth done Aikido master. Aikido is a martial art, and they call it the martial art of love or peace. It's about the resolution of the harmonious resolution of conflict. Well, I didn't give a squat about Aikido martial art. But I had experiences with this guy, I had met him through friends of mine, and I had experiences with him that I couldn't, I couldn't understand why I was having these experiences. You know, I've always to my imagination, but I kept having them with him. So I ended up going to study with him. And what I learned in the process was that pressure was the energy of change. And then there was a universal law, which says, Whenever there's a job or task to do energy comes into your system in the amount needed to do the job. Now, I understood that because, you know, I had been a dancer, I was a singer I used to perform for like 1000s of people, you know, and you feel that rush of energy before you went on stage. Similarly, when I give a speech in a corporation, you feel that energy, right, your legs get shaky. Okay, you run away, same thing. Well, what he taught was instead of resisting it, or forcing your will, instead of collapsing, Oh, I'm such a victim, Why is life treating me so bad? Instead of staying in your head and making bleep nothing was happening, you know, oh, you're cool. You're going with the flow. You know, he taught you how to open and align and merge with this energy. And when you did, what happened, what it would enhance your performance, your creativity, and raise your states of consciousness, your level of consciousness. So, learning how to deal with pressure has been life changing for me? Because it taught me how to open up to finer versions of myself. In other words, we all have different versions of ourselves, even in the course of the day. You know, there's the usual Michael Right, you know, let me say it this way, as usual, Amy   Michael Hingson ** 14:53 Michaels fine, too. It's okay. There's the usual Michael. Okay,   Aimee Bernstein ** 14:57 so usual Amy. Let's go Okay, and she gets along pretty well. And she gets her work done and all of that stuff, you know. And then there's every once in a while, Amy shifts, she reacts or something happens. And she shifts to a smaller version of herself where she can react and say things or do things that she wishes she could take back, then there is this version of AB that is just amazing. She's open, she's big things come out of my mouth, that I don't even know that I know. You know, it's like I'm channeling it by performance is extraordinary. You know, I'm intuitive, like you can't imagine I'm creative. Like you can't imagine, you know? Yeah, well, the same is true with all of us, all of us. We all have those places of being extraordinary. You know, my friend Felice, when she gives us a presentation, she owns the room, my friend, Jeff, when you sit in the car, doesn't matter who is trying to, you know, get in front of him or cut him off, or whatever, he just is king of the road, you so calm, my mother used to pick up a crying baby, and the kid would immediately stop crying. We all have those places in us. The thing is, we don't know how we got there. So they remain extraordinary moments. What nado taught was how to shift to a upgraded version of yourself so that the extraordinary became more ordinary, you know how to call it in? That was life changing? You know?   Michael Hingson ** 16:27 Do you think that speaking of pressure, a lot of the pressure that we feel, is really self imposed, and that there are reasons for that   Aimee Bernstein ** 16:41 there is the pressure of the situation. So if it's a small little situation, you know, there's a little bit of pressure, if it's a huge situation, big situation, there's a whole bunch of pressure. So there's that. And then we can either, then there is our reaction to that pressure. So some people, what they do is they go in their heads, and they start analyzing and telling stories, that's, that adds more pressure to it, you know, it doesn't help the situation harms it. So we end up if you close down to it, or you start telling stories, or stay in your head with it, you're going to feel discomfort, distress, and overtime, if you keep doing that disease,   Michael Hingson ** 17:25 I am in the process of finishing a book, actually, it's written and it's in the hands of the publishers, and they're doing what publishers do. But it's a lot about controlling fear and learning to control fear. And one of the things that I read a lot as I prepared and began writing this book is that oftentimes fear exists in our lives, because we really don't know how to control it. And we, in fact, become just afraid of so many things, or because it's uncertain, we're afraid of it, or for any number of reasons. And we fear so many things that really are irrelevant. There's nothing and no reason to be afraid. But we become afraid until we really can stop and analyze what is going on in our lives. And recognize a Why am I afraid of that? Because it has nothing to do with me. I   Aimee Bernstein ** 18:24 will I agree with you that we certainly make it worse by all the stories that we tell, let's see, my trading was different. My training was, instead of just being aware or trying to be rational, you know, I learned that insights don't necessitate change. If they did, everybody would get their their New Year's Eve resolution Smit, you know, what I learned is to get out of my head and into my mind body learns that control begins when you give it up. Because control is the ego trying to protect itself. And as soon as you shift into your mind body, you can open to that flow. And when you open to the flow, that becomes an easy journey. You know, it moves you in the right directions. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 19:24 and I'm not at all saying that. Controlling fear is about just being rational. I don't expect people to become Mr. Spock. But rather, that you learn to use as you would call it your mind body, that you learn to look at yourself and spend time interest. Well, practicing introspection, practicing, understanding yourself and raising that awareness that helps you recognize that you don't need To be so afraid, what you can do is use what we call fear as a very powerful tool to help you function better and it can help steer you.   Aimee Bernstein ** 20:09 Yes, yes. I mean, I agree with you my formula is self awareness plus presence or mind, body and body, you know, embodiment stuff, creates the skillful action or the transformation. So, um, yeah, I agree with you, I see fear as energy coming into the system. And what we do is we close down to it, then I experienced so on my solar plexus gets tight, right, that's the place of fear most you know, and I lose my grounding, I lose my center, I lose. So I just go in my head, and I get, you know, more stories more. I make it worse. So yeah, I agree with a view that self awareness is important to aspect to understand, you know, the patterns and no, I don't need to do that, and all that kind of stuff. And then you get to make the true shift, you need to go back into your mind body. So, I mean, I, I've seen it both ways. I used to live with the Grammy Award winning pianist, and you put the man in front of the piano, and he was just extraordinary. You take him away from the piano, and he was needy, and had a lot of issues in life, kind of very tough time. On the other hand, I've seen people who were so brilliant in awareness, self awareness, but it's all ideas. It's all information. They don't know how to actually live in that. So, you know, Facebook pages, you see all this wisdom, the spiritual wisdom, but you know, I don't believe that everybody is actually there's nothing and you know, so you need both. You do.   Michael Hingson ** 21:54 Talk is cheap. And I remember hearing once I'm a fan of old radio shows, and one of the best comedians, that ventriloquist was Edgar Bergen and his, his sidekick, Charlie McCarthy. And oftentimes, I heard people say, Edgar Bergen really just didn't know how to, to talk to people. And so he did it through Charlie. And when in a workout, I guess I'll write for him. But I hear exactly what you're saying he had to do it through Charlie, as opposed to just doing it himself. Yeah. On the other hand, he made a good career out of it. So quite a quite abiding sense of humor and, and a really great sense of humor. So So where did you go to college?   Aimee Bernstein ** 22:47 I went to Hunter College in New York, part of the New York City chain of college in New York. And I went I was I was 16 when I went to college, and my manager found me. He used to sing with his son. And he was he was a clarinetist for the Tommy Dorsey band. So he found me singing, he liked me. So he had my parents sign a contract where he would pay my manager. So when I went off to college, he insisted that I was going to go in for politics. He insisted that I get my degree in music, which I did. You know, and then I went, and I got my masters later, but not in music, in counseling psychology. So,   Michael Hingson ** 23:40 what do you think about having gotten a bachelor's in music? Was that okay? Do you? Are you happy with that? Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 23:47 uh, you know, my first job was working as a music teacher in the Bronx in a ghetto. And what I discovered was that I cared more about the kids and what they were going through, and when they knew who Beethoven was. So that ended up moving me to, you know, going into psychology.   Michael Hingson ** 24:13 So well, and that's, that's fine. Um, you, you sent that and you sensed that you obviously had something to contribute to, to helping other kids, which is, of course, part of your goal that we talked about at the beginning that you'd like to help others.   Aimee Bernstein ** 24:31 Yeah. Yeah, I believe that everything that happens in life is for your higher good. So all of that music stuff was great. You know, I had wonderful when I went off to when I left that job, I went off to college. I, I I ended up going to California and I ended up being in a rock gospel band with 20 singers and five backup singers, backup players and two tap dancers. And we did Ron, Jack, Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Grateful Dead and ROM das and Krishna Das. It was a great time of life. Just fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, you know, until my father sat me down with his big cigar and said to me, you're either gonna get married or get a career. I said, Okay. So I went, and I got my masters. You know, it all worked out fine.   Michael Hingson ** 25:22 So how long ago was that? Oh,   Aimee Bernstein ** 25:25 too long ago.   Michael Hingson ** 25:30 Did you move back to New York? Um,   Aimee Bernstein ** 25:32 no, I didn't. I stayed in California for 18 years. And then I moved back to there. When I moved to Florida. My parents were getting older. And I felt like I needed to be there, which was a good thing a year and a half later, my father feel so it was all worked out.   Michael Hingson ** 25:49 Well, it did. And has he passed now or?   Aimee Bernstein ** 25:53 Yeah, my father passed a long time ago. And my mother did too. So your   Michael Hingson ** 25:57 mom did too. Yeah, both of my parents did in the 1980s. And I miss them a lot. And my wife of 40 years just passed last November. But I as I tell people, you know, I gotta be a good kid and behave, because I'm sure that she's monitoring. And if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. No doubt in my mind. Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 26:20 I believe that too.   Michael Hingson ** 26:24 I always thought that Karen was was smarter than I was. So sometimes things would pop out. That just little nuggets of wisdom that that I never thought of, and I'm not surprised at that. So I'm sure she's monitoring. And you know, I'll just do my best to be a good kid. Yeah, keep the cat happy, which is the biggest goal in life just as well. So you. So you got a degree in counseling. And what did you do with that? Exactly.   Aimee Bernstein ** 26:54 I was actually, you know, again, things worked out great. I wanted to go into, they had different groups in master's degree, were, like, interned in different groups. So one group was the existential group, which was very big at that time. Existential counseling, I knew they were climbing mountains and doing all kinds of things. And I wanted to get into that group, and they were all filled. So I got into the behavioral group. And it was a blessing. I got my training from Ed MassGeneral hospital, under the auspices of Harvard Medical School, studied under Matt Dumont, Dr. Mike Dumont, who was the commissioner of Mental Health for the state of Massachusetts at that time. So I had a fabulous education. When I was done, and I was you know, as, as the intern, I what I was doing was addictions counseling. So I learned a lot about how to deal with people with addictions. And one of my first clients was manic depressive. You know, I learned a lot on the job that way, came back once I was done there, I ended up going out to California. And again, and I worked as an addiction counselor for a number of years, until I got done with that. And then went into employee assistance, programming. And then started my own school, which was the living art school, teaching people about this energy work that dealing with stress and pressure and all that. And then changed once again in when I became interested in empowerment, and I started the Women's Development Company, which was the first mentoring company for women out in California. It's all it's been all arrived, you know, one thing led to another. Now, where   Michael Hingson ** 28:50 are you now?   Aimee Bernstein ** 28:52 Now? I am.   Michael Hingson ** 28:55 Where do you where do you live now?   Aimee Bernstein ** 28:58 Where do I live now? I live in South Florida. Okay, so you're in Florida. Yeah. You know, until I get a clue about where I need to move. Next unit. I've been here a long time. I'm ready to go. But yeah, I'm not sure where that would be. Somebody   Michael Hingson ** 29:13 sent me a video last week commercial for Antarctica, but   Aimee Bernstein ** 29:18 no, no.   Michael Hingson ** 29:19 I pointed out that I'm not gonna go there. There's no Costco. There's no target. It's a little bit colder than I like, so I'm sticking where I am. I'm fine in Victorville. California gets cold enough here. Yeah, too, too cold and too many other things that don't exist in Antarctica. So we're not going there. Yep. Yeah. Well, so today, it seems to me. We have a lot of stuff going on. We have a spike in mental illness divisiveness, of lack of trust, and we talked about even the weather What the heck is going on?   Aimee Bernstein ** 29:59 Well, I kind of mentioned at the beginning, I believe that the consciousness of the world is changing. And I think people can't handle that kind of frequency that increased frequency. They don't recognize that it's an increased frequency. They just feel pressure. So, you know, there's more fentanyl deaths and, and shootings, mass shootings. I mean, you know, I don't have to tell you, you watch the news, you know, but yeah, we are. But the good part is, this is an opportunity for each one of us to evolve our consciousness, you know, so it's I am, I've been going through this myself over the last few years. And I had a dream, where I'm looking at my computer, and there's a red curtain opens. And there are people inboxes, and they're singing. And I call my mother over who is deceased, you know, in this life, I call her over in the dream. And I said, Mom, I can't believe that I created this is it amazing. And in the morning, I heard part of the song. When the message from your core tells you, you owe more, don't shrink, don't think, believe it, when the message from your soul tells you who you are home, don't shrink, don't think the LI they did. And that's when I created the roar of the more mind body energy training and coaching series. It was all the work that I've been showing executives over all these years. And I put it together in a package and wanted to give it to the public. So that was a huge shift for me. And it was my way of helping those who are ready to evolve who go yeah, this is an opportunity for me, I'm done with the old, it's not that the old was bad. I'm just done with it. I want more those who sent the more than worth, the more   Michael Hingson ** 32:09 well, it is an evolutionary process. And it gets back to introspection and, and everything else. And the more we think about what we do each day, what worked, what didn't work. And I don't like to use the word failure, because it's got a negative connotation that it doesn't need to have. But what worked, what didn't work, the stuff that worked? Could we make it work better? The stuff that didn't work? What's the deal with it? And what do we do about it? It's all about what we choose to do about learning about how to move forward. And we seem to not like to teach that I know that we just don't seem to do too much teaching of introspection and self analysis at all, which is extremely unfortunate, because we're our own best teachers, and we just don't tend to want to do that.   Aimee Bernstein ** 33:04 Yeah, I agree. I mean, we you know, it's, it's certainly not something people learn in school, counseling for it or whatever. But, yeah, there's a lot of life skills that we just don't teach. You know, I mean, being introspective is one of them that certainly, well, being in general, you know, what I eat and how I move and all of that, how I talk, how to deal with conflict, you know, how do we do? How to what is self care? You know, all that stuff. We don't talk about no school?   Michael Hingson ** 33:41 Well, or anywhere, really. We are we   Aimee Bernstein ** 33:44 I'm teaching that nonprofit organizations why? And I'm teaching at a couple of corporations. But it's all new. Nobody talks about self care 10 years ago, this is all new stuff that self care is on everybody's lips. Yeah. But it's not institutionalized. That's the thing. It's, you know, like, during the pandemic, a good boss will call you up and say, How you doing, you know, oh, and you tell him a little bit, but you're not going to tell them the whole deal. Because if you tell a man I'm really stressed out, he's gonna think, Oh, she can't handle the pressure. So she's not promotable, right? Yeah. And it's like, I had one vice president of HR got a new job for a big company that was you know, real into productivity, performance, all this kind of stuff, major corporation. And he said to me, and I liked this guy, he's smart, he's good with people. He's great at his job. Six months in or so nine months, and he said to me, Amy, I'm really stressed. I said, Look, why don't you create a self care plan? And, you know, do it for a few months till you see some results and you're feeling better, and then announce it to your staff and I You know, maybe make a video or have a call with them or whatever, tell them about your plan and ask everyone to make a plan for themselves. You know, then you're modeling it. He said no. And I understood because he didn't want people to think that he couldn't handle it tough enough that he wasn't. So until we can, leaders can institutionalize it by modeling. You know, yeah, we do a little bit of it, certainly not enough. We   Michael Hingson ** 35:30 just can't seem to be able to get past this idea that we have to be tough and macho. And I think it's more men than women. But it happens all the way around. And we just seem to not want to be able to recognize that there are a whole lot more aspects to our lives than we'd like to admit.   Aimee Bernstein ** 35:53 Yeah, I agree. I mean, there I saw some research a few months ago, where they said that women who have the same success Records as the men in corporations, and maybe even a little better, will not get promoted as fast because they don't have that top kind of edge to them, that that the man has, and that's considered leadership.   Michael Hingson ** 36:18 And it's not, but it is considered leadership. Yes, that's right. That's right. And the reality is, it's different characteristics and different abilities and different capabilities. Yeah, and that's just as much leadership and we don't tend to, to to deal with it. People have asked me actually, somebody asked me last week, what do I get out of doing all these podcasts? And I thought it was a fair question nobody's ever asked me before. But I had made up my mind a long time ago, that, for me, if I'm learning at least as much as anybody else who listens to the podcast, that I'm getting something out of it. And one of the biggest things that I have learned, and I've mentioned it a few times, although not quite in this context, is that for many years, I would talk about listening to speeches, as as I, as a public speaker would travel and speak. And I always record and listen to speeches later. And as I said, I'm my own worst critic, because no one's going to be tougher on me than I am. But I learned along the way that actually, I'm the only one who can teach me anything. And teachers can provide information, but I'm the only one who can teach me and I have to want to learn it and teach it to myself. And what I have started saying literally this year, which is I think, probably the biggest thing that I've learned, doing two and a half years of podcast is I my own best teacher, forget my own worst critic. That's negative I my own best teacher. And that's really what I think, is a major paradigm shift that a lot of people ought to do is not worrying about being tough on themselves. How do I learn? And how do I connect respect and respect and in respects, introspection, but how do I learn and grow? And that's what we just tend not to do. But we all are our own best teachers.   Aimee Bernstein ** 38:13 Yeah, I, I agree that the only one that can ultimately teach me is me, you know, it's me that's going through the experience. It's me that's allowing things. And yet I see that I am blinded. At times, I am blinded. I, I just all I don't know it also, I respective you know, and when I meet people who can show me things, point out things that I hadn't seen or hadn't recognized or hadn't experienced, that's even better experience. Wow, that's just like that just, that just opens the door for me that, you know, takes me to a whole other place. So I think it's both, you know, it's me, I have to, I have to go through it myself. I have to want it. And yeah, and I need people to show me the way sometimes.   Michael Hingson ** 39:09 At the same time, the reason you're able to do that, though, is that you've taught yourself to be open to looking for new experiences and looking for new ideas and concepts and attitudes. And yeah, there can be some times that you can be close to that, but I would bet more often than not, you've chosen to learn to be open. Yes.   Aimee Bernstein ** 39:32 That's my company is called to open minded ventures.   Michael Hingson ** 39:35 There you go see exactly.   Aimee Bernstein ** 39:39 Yeah, yeah. Because, you know, I recognize that I mean, you get the spiritual leaders who give you these absolute truths. We are all one. We are all love. You know, I am God and you are God. Now, I mean, I agree. The man you live in there 24/7 I don't think so. You know, we're still human beings and human bodies and, you know, so you have these experiences, and then you shift back to a more material, physical plane, you know, I, I, I'm curious, my teacher said something to me, that shifted my shifted me in a way that was huge. I've always believed that my main purpose in life was to help others, you know, to, in whatever way help people them evolve, help them get off drugs, help them whatever it was, you know. And what he said to me was your main purpose in life is for yourself to return to self. You know, and for those who might not understand it's we all have different versions of ourselves that operate at different dimensions. And then there is the true self or soul, right? And over the course of your lifetimes, you're learning things, you're just you know, you're getting rid of certain karma, you're having certain experiences, right? You're growing, evolving, okay? And the next life, hopefully, you do a little bit better or whatever. And overtime, you know, that's the, that's the game. He said, That's the journey. He said, When he said that, to me, it was like, it was so clarifying to me, you know, to be able to align my perceptions, my energy to that, that self, that true self. So then when I'm making a decision, you know, that's my that's, that's how I make it you know, I asked myself, is that is that for my is that Will that get me to my true self more? Does that align me to my true self? Or is that my ego? Because I got an ego. We all got egos. Right. So yeah, anyhow, that was, I'm not sure why I'm sharing this with you. But it was very life changing for me.   Michael Hingson ** 42:06 We've been talking about this shift in consciousness that's going on, what do we need to know, in our lives, for this shift in consciousness to help us,   Aimee Bernstein ** 42:16 you need to know how to how to open align and merge with pressure, the energy of change, because the pressure is only gonna get greater. And if you open and align to it, what happens is your human energy system, okay, so we all have an energy system, right? guy goes to war, he cut his arm off, it gets amputated, right? He still feels pain in the arm. Initially, we all have an energy body. Okay, what we need to do is align the energy body, your energy, human system, to the universal system. Einstein said, That's where all creative ideas. So we know that for example, when you you know, where did the best idea when do you have the best ideas? Oh, when you're when you're in the shower? Oh, when you're when you just wake up? Oh, after sex? Oh, you know, when you're very relaxed, that's when the great ideas come? Well, what we need to learn is how to open and welcome this energy of change this pressure so that we can align our human systems with the universal so that we begin to pick up these creative ideas, this energy flow that will lead us into a better world.   Michael Hingson ** 43:40 It all still gets back to us being open to doing that. But that's exactly what we need to do. Yes.   Aimee Bernstein ** 43:49 We're finding more people or I mean, it is no, it's no big surprise to me that, you know, I don't know how many years ago, 10 years, 20 years ago, mindfulness comes in. When I was 20 years old, nobody talked about my nobody talked about mindfulness, the only people I mean, I was in a group of people studying Aikido. Yeah, we were meditating. We were doing all that we were studying energy work. You know, we call it energy training at that time. But we were a very small group of people doing that, you know, mindfulness is just like getting, it's every day kind of stuff.   Michael Hingson ** 44:26 We call it it is, but I think a lot of people don't really understand that they use the word they throw it around. But I do agree that more and more people are learning about what mindfulness really means and how to become more mindful in their own lives. Yeah, it's it's a process.   Aimee Bernstein ** 44:45 It is a process, the product The problem is that you know, I was talking to a guy who is a mindfulness teacher, and he's, he's a big hoo ha in in South Florida. He's very good at what he does. Now And he was saying that what he finds is people will take a mindfulness class. And maybe they'll even you know, but then then they're done. It's like I've done it. Yeah, that's what I learned is you don't get to Carnegie Hall without practice, practice, practice, right? You need to keep doing I have, I have 10 years on the mat. In Aikido, I have 40 years studying with the same energy teacher, you know, practice, practice, practice. So yeah, these people who they do it, and then they're, they're ready to do another something else. It's It's Lady Gaga, shallow, shallow.   Michael Hingson ** 45:36 Well, again, it's all about I'm my own best teacher, and just taking the class is only the door that opens to give you access to the information. It's a question of what you do with it. Yes, yes. You wrote a book called Stress Less achieve more, which is great. And you distinguish between stress and pressure? Tell me about that, if you would,   Aimee Bernstein ** 45:59 yeah, pressure, as I said, was the energy of change coming into your system to help you deal with the situation? Stress is the resistance to that energy. Now, there have been, there's one woman who speaks about how you deal with it, and she has you strike a pose to be able to handle it. And yes, that works. But that's something that is imposed. You know, rather than me tapping into me becoming so expert, at sense feeling that I can move with the flow easily. Am Am I being Am I making sense? You are? Yeah, it's like I had this, I had this experience when I was younger, I was at the eye, every year, they'd have an aikido retreat. And they have a talent show at the end of the aikido retreat. So you know, you're practicing Aikido for seven days, day and night, blah, blah, okay, now they have the talent show. So I sang the rose. And I practiced and practiced and practiced, I had it down, and I had a woman who was the pianist, and, okay, I go to sing the song, I start singing it. And I remember the words, I remember the tune, but it's coming out differently than how I practiced it. Like, the phrasing is different, and I get really scared, I can't call a do over, you know, I gotta keep going. So I just kind of go with it. At the end of the song, my teacher runs over to me, picks me up, and like, hugs me. And I realized what that was about was, the pressure was so big, the energy was so big in that performance, that I couldn't control it in the way that I had practiced it, I just had to let it go. And in letting it go, it went with there was a flow that was even better than what I had practiced. And my teacher saw that he's he, he saw and experienced that flow in me. And that's why he came over to, you know, hug me congratulate me. I think that we need to learn how to opening to I mean, I keep repeating myself, I don't I don't mean to, but opening to that flow is enormous, enormous it is to learn how to do that to let go to to let go of the control to soften and surrender with it, to move with it, to analyze to see, you know, the idle, the analysis of it, is to recognize when you make a decision, and you're doing action, what is the ripple effects of that action? We don't usually consider it. So for example, I used to live on a lake, bunch of houses on a lake, and one of the homeowners complained that there was weeds growing. So with the Association and all its wisdom came and chopped down the weeds. Problem solved, right? No, until the snakes that were so used to being in the weeds came on the land. So then the homeowners association had to go get someone to catch the snakes problem solved, right? No, because now the rats had nothing to eat. So they came they came back on the land. You know, what I learned and what I teach and stress less achieved more, is an inner map for aligning with that energy of change, so that when you making a decision, right, you are moving with the flow, you're not just going off on your great ideas about things. It   Michael Hingson ** 50:13 all comes from dealing or from a standpoint of dealing with change, and doing your best to recognize or not, which is what happened it with what you're describing, people didn't anticipate very far ahead at all. No,   Aimee Bernstein ** 50:28 no, they know. And most people don't they do it action. Oh, that's a great decision, but they don't see how it affects people. Yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 50:38 You know, you talk a lot about the whole issue of the way to relieve stress is to eat sleep, ate at least eight hours a day, have a good support network and so on. But in your book, you say that often, that's not really enough. Can you kind of explain a little bit more about that? Yeah,   Aimee Bernstein ** 50:59 the way that we have it down is we have to do something more in order to relieve stress. Now, I'm all for meditation, yoga, all that kind of stuff, you know. So yes, keep doing it. However, what I've learned is, you need to let go of that, which is creating the stress. So you need to learn to settle your energy down. You know, when three guys are coming to attack you, all right. You can't go meditate, you can't go to yoga, you can't do anything, you got to be there, immediately. You're gonna get a huge rush three guys that come in to attack you. Yeah. You know, if you everything in the universe is to beat, the waves come in, the waves go out the sunrises, sunsets, if you're on the highway, someone cuts you off you go. Right, the energy comes out. What we don't teach people is how to settle it down. Once you settle it out, see people want to be happy, they want to be high. You know, oh, I want awareness. I want to be happy joy. But that's all great. Except that's only half of it. You need a foundation of grounding. The tree with the biggest, deepest roots is the tree that's going to still stand with the hurricane force winds. We need it's the same thing for us. We need to settle that energy down and grounded lead ground so that we can under stand another person under stand we sent under them. Right not it's not an MMA, it's not a mental process, understanding. It's sensing under them so that we sense what they're feeling what what's going on with them. Right. As you learn to ground and settle your energy down, which comes through practice, there is a new confidence that begins to happen just like you throw a stone into the into the water and it spreads out ripples out. When you ground your energy. It's going to it's going to, you gotta get a spread that happens, it spreads out. So what you'll start feeling is more spacious, you know, you'll feel more empowered, you'll feel more confidence, which is what people want. It's not a mind game. It's a experience of grounding and opening and spreading, radiating like the sun.   Michael Hingson ** 53:40 And you have to feel it and you have to let it in. Yes. That's why I know when I started speaking, and occasionally people still ask, but when I started speaking, people said, Aren't you afraid to get up and speak in public? You know, we, you don't know what the audience is doing? You got to be afraid, aren't you? And I never have been afraid of speaking in public. But when people started to ask me that, I remember a few times thinking, gee, am I supposed to really be nervous when I got to get up and speak? And when I got up and spoke after some of those things started to to to enter my mind. I went Wait a minute, this this is not what you do. You have been enjoying it the audience's have been enjoying you don't get nervous about something. There's not some need to be nervous about. What I did learn, though, was more techniques about how to analyze how the audience was reacting to what I said. So I thank people for asking me the question, but not for the reason that they thought but I have never, and it was a volitional decision. I've never felt fear of public speaking because I I also realized early on, I don't talk to an audience, I talk with an audience. And that's what I should be doing.   Aimee Bernstein ** 55:06 Yes, yeah. So just and   Michael Hingson ** 55:10 and, you know, that's, that's really kind of the way it ought to be.   55:13 Hmm.   Michael Hingson ** 55:15 Well, what's your formula for personal transformation? How do we get people to move toward what you're describing?   Aimee Bernstein ** 55:27 You have first you have to, you know, the formula is the self awareness plus the embodiment creates the transformation, all that, but in order to do that, you have to meet them where they are, you know, you need to make a blend with them and see the world from their perspective, which means that you need to take off your own shoes in order to stand in theirs. And when you can see the seat of truth, then you can begin to lead them in another direction, because now you're, you're in harmony with them, you know, now, they have the choice and the right to say no, right? I had, I was working with this, the senior vice president of a world class business, a cosmetic company. The first day I worked with him, I, I did some energy, work with him. And he was a guy that was a very good man had a couple of daughters. So when he worked with the women of his team, he ended up being a benevolent patriarch. So instead of them solving problems among themselves, Daddy would come in and help them solve the problem. Alright, so I did this energy stuff with him. And he saw his pattern. And I said to him, in order to create your dream, Team change has to happen. Change begins with you. You have to you have to change first. He left, and he told me later, he was pissed off. How dare I say that to him? You know, because most consultants will tell you what you want to hear. They want the job. But I don't do that. So, you know, but then he went home. And he thought about it. And he said, you know, she's right. And I worked with this guy for six years. Until he retired. I, I think that by making the blend and telling them the truth, and then they make the decision, just like you said, you know, do I open to it? Do I want to change? Is there more for me? Do I have the strength? The the willingness to go through it? You know, if they say yep, okay, now you're on a roll.   Michael Hingson ** 57:50 So, you you've been coaching people for quite a while. And during the pandemic, you created a new series, right?   Aimee Bernstein ** 57:59 Yeah, I did during that. Yeah. Because I, I saw, you know, people weren't getting together and people going through this transformation. And you know, at that time, when I created there wasn't too much going on in terms of transformation. Now more people are talking about it and offering classes and stuff. But yeah, I, I am interested in you know, I did it with I did a, I did a speech for visa pieces mindfulness group. And one of the executives from visa, heard me speak, and she ended up going into the world of the more training. And she told me was life changing. Now when I hear that, I go, that's it. You know, I mean, I did my, that was worth everything that's happened. You know, just to just to get that kind of feedback. Yeah. Yeah. That means a lot to me.   Michael Hingson ** 59:05 I know exactly what you're saying. And when somebody comes along with one of those unexpected compliments or spectacular things, it makes everything worthwhile, doesn't it?   Aimee Bernstein ** 59:20 Yeah, it really does. It really does. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 59:24 tell me if people want to reach out to you learn more about roar of the more or your company and maybe see coaching and so on. How do they do that?   Aimee Bernstein ** 59:35 Yeah, they can go to www dot open mind adventures with an s.com Open mind adventures.com And on the menu bar, you'll see the word the more and there's a video and information and testimonials and you know, it's for people who are not just interested. It's for people who are have committed to themselves who have that self love that say that says, there's another chapter for me, you know, I can sense there's more in me more potential more, whatever it is confidence, love, whatever, you know, and they want it, they are ready for it. Those are the people that I'm looking for that are. And in terms of the coaching and the, I do something called shared ownership for success with corporations where we get people together, and we have conversations that matter. And I did this was one organization that was the Tax Division of a world wide, international accounting firm. And two years later, I just got an email a letter from them, rather, saying that their revenue went up 35%. And people are getting together more and working as an engaged team. So you know, that's on my website to the shared ownership for success crosses. And you know, all you got to do is just, you know, can't fill out the contact form. And therefore you or email me at Aimee at open minded adventures, I spell my name A i m e e  its, French A I, M E. E, at open minded adventures, and I'm very accessible.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:22 There you go, Well, I hope people will reach out, you've offered, I think, a lot of good insights that I hope people will take advantage of, we need to bring more sanity into our world anyway. So I hope that people listen to what you have to say, and that they will take advantage of the many opportunities that you bring, I assume you coach people all over the world.   Aimee Bernstein ** 1:01:45 Yeah, I do. You know, I, I was I did a speech for edge walkers International. I don't know if you know them. But they're an international organization of people who walk the edge between the spiritual and material world, and they tend to be very intelligent people who are doing good things in the world. Someone heard me speak and all of a sudden, I had a coaching client from Dubai. So you know, and I've worked at the Port of Singapore. And so yes, I'm available to whoever you know, is ready for me.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:17 Well, I hope people will reach out. And I want to thank you for being here with us today. And I want to thank you for listening out there. We really appreciate you taking the time to hear what Amy has to say and hearing all of the various parts of our conversation. So thanks very much. We would appreciate you giving us a five star rating wherever you're listening to unstoppable mindset. We value your ratings. And of course, needless to say, Love the five star ratings whenever you can. So please do it. If you want to reach out to me to learn more about some of the what we're doing with the podcasts and also, as I've mentioned, I am a public speaker. So you're welcome to reach out to me at Michaelhi at accessibe.com. That's Michaelhi at accessibe A c c e s s i b e .com. If you want to learn more about our podcast, you can certainly go to www dot Michael hingson.com/podcast Michael Hingson is m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. So Michael hingson.com/podcast and love again to hear from you. Appreciate your ratings. Appreciate all that you have to say. And most important of all, Aimee, we really appreciate you being here with us today and taking the time to give us so many great insights and thoughts.   Aimee Bernstein ** 1:03:34 Thank you, Michael, thank you for inviting me. I appreciate it.   **Michael Hingson ** 1:03:43 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. 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While I'm on a mission to create happier, more successful dancers through positive mental skills, I'm also someone who loves to be inspired by dancers who are living their dreams and are also honest about the hard work it takes to get there. My guests in today's episode are here to do just that and pull back the curtain on their journey from studio to competitive college team to the Radio City Rockettes. Caitlin and Courtney Sullivan, known to many of you as The Sullivan Twins, are here today to share their journey and how their mental skills helped make their dreams happen. They talk about values, content creation, training plans, and, of course, the mindset behind it all. While they are professional dancers and they achieved their dream of being Rockettes, they actually didn't make the cut after their first year auditioning. But their story of resilience and being present in high-pressure situations will inspire you to never give up on your dreams! Follow the show for more great episodes: https://followthepodcast.com/passionfordance Episode Resources: https://chelseapierotti.com/162  

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GDP Script/ Top Stories for May 10th         Publish Date:  May 10th             From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast. Today is Friday, May 10th, and Happy heavenly Birthday to broadcaster Pat Summeral. ***05.10.24 – BIRTHDAY – PAT SUMMERAL*** I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Gwinnett KIA Mall of Georgia. Jackson EMC Foundation Awards $57K To Agencies Serving Gwinnett Lawrenceville Teen Earns Spot in Prestigious Dance Classes in NYC Fallen State Trooper Remembered During Georgia Gwinnett College Commencement Plus, my conversation with d'Floridian owner Jaime Ochoa for the downtown Lawrenceville series. All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe! 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Antje Utgaard IG: https://www.instagram.com/antjeutgaard/?img_index=3 The journey from the Midwest's heartlands to the electric energy of Los Angeles is no small feat, but our latest guest Antje Utgaard makes it sound like a walk in the park. She's a dancer turned martial artist with ambitions that soar as high as her kicks, and she's letting us in on the secrets behind her transition, her stint training with the Rockettes, and her recent plunge into the world of stunts. Prepare to be swept away by tales of her set life, including her brush with a Mike Tyson project, and get the inside scoop on what it really takes to make it in Hollywood's unforgiving landscape. When the conversation shifts to celebrity crushes, it's not your average starry-eyed gossip. We're talking about the kind of crushes that lead to bold DM slides, like that one time I messaged John Mayer, and the quirky possibility of our dads rocking OnlyFans. Our guest doesn't shy away from the complexities of dating in the spotlight—exposing the reality behind those glamorous Instagram photos and sharing the unexpectedly down-to-earth side of athletes sliding into her DMs. As the chat veers into an assortment of memories and musings, we're reminded that life is indeed a wild ride—complete with hot air ballooning adventures, nostalgic trips to family-owned sporting goods stores, and the eclectic thrills of horse racing events. Our guest leaves us with a humorous, yet practical self-defense move that might just come in handy one day. So, buckle up for a rollercoaster of stories that promise to intrigue, entertain, and maybe even teach you a thing or two. --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS --------- (0:00:09) - From Martial Arts to OnlyFans (0:07:34) - Celebrity Crushes and Dating Stories (0:15:02) - Ups and Downs of Life (0:23:21) - Childhood Memories and Entertainment Preferences (0:35:19) - Celebrity DMs and Crushes (0:47:18) - Wild Animal Encounters and Memories Follow Action Junkeez on IG!! ⁠https://www.instagram.com/actionjunkeezpodcast/⁠ Follow Jon Orlando on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/JonOrlando/⁠ Follow George Carmona on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mr_george_carmona/⁠ This is a Podcast Junkeez production recorded out of Sticky Paws Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada.  ⁠https://stickypawsstudios.com⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/action-junkeez/support

Keltie Knight joins the show for the first time and everyone chats about how to break in a new assistant, why the Rockettes had to add fabric to Keltie's  costumes, and the results of last week's speed dating.• • • Want more Jeff Lewis? Click here to sign up for 3 free months of SiriusXM and listen weekdays to "Jeff Lewis Live" at 12pE/9aP and “Jeff Lewis Extended” at 1pE/10aP on Radio Andy Channel 102. Plus, tune into The Jeff Lewis Channel for even more Jeff content streaming exclusively on the SiriusXM app channel 789.• • • Host - Jeff LewisGuests - Keltie Knight & Shane DouglasExecutive Producer - Alyssa HeimrichSenior Producer & Editor - Jamison ScalaPhone Screener – Oscar Beltran

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