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Chase and Sarah Gibson of Grooveberries frozen yogurt shop in Idaho join the show to talk about how they have used their business to celebrate and honor Charlie in the wake of his death, despite a wave of threats and harassment for doing so. They share why they stood firm and talk about using their business to support their local Club America chapters. Then Sean Davis breaks down the path to winning the midterms and why he's so annoyed with Senate Republican leadership over the SAVE Act. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. On tonight's edition of Obbligato on APEX Express, which focuses on AAPI artists, musicians, and composers in the classical music world, host Isabel Li is joined by LA based performer and composer Richard An, who plays and creates new avant-garde music, usually with the ensemble House on Fire, and his music has been performed by the LA Phil and the Calder Quartet to name a few. Join us in our conversation, exploring the possibilities of avant-garde music, raising questions regarding Asian identities in the classical music world, and Richard's insights on art making during a time when Trump's cuts to the NEA are affecting artists and institutions nationwide. Featured Music: Sonatrinas: https://richardan.bandcamp.com/album/sonatrinas i got the electroshock blues: https://rasprecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-the-electroshock-blues   RICHARD AN (b.1995) is a performer and composer, born and raised in Los Angeles. Richard plays new music – usually with House on Fire – co-founded the tiny backpack new music series, and has performed with Monday Evening Concerts' Echoi Ensemble, Piano Spheres, The Industry and on Bang on a Can's LOUD Weekend. Richard plays piano and percussion, and has been known to sing, conduct, and teach. Richard's music has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Calder Quartet, HOCKET, C3LA, and more. His music has been released on CMNTX Records. Richard has a BM in Composition from USC and an MFA from CalArts. He is on faculty at the Pasadena Waldorf School, Glendale Community College and Harvard-Westlake. He plays taiko and tabla, and makes YouTube videos. Learn more about Richard's work on his website: https://richardanmusic.com/ Richard's social media: https://www.instagram.com/richardanmusic/ If you are in LA and want hear Richard's work, he's playing with House on Fire at the Sierra Madre Playhouse on August 17! https://www.sierramadreplayhouse.org/event/richardan2025   Transcript Opening: [00:00:00] APEX Express. Asian Pacific expression. Community and cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices, coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board the APEX Express. 00:00:46 Isabel Li Good evening and welcome back to a new episode of Apex Express on KPFA, 94.1 FM. We are bringing you an Asian and Asian American view from the Bay and around the world. I'm your host, Isabel Li, and tonight is a new edition of Obbligato, which explores AAPI identities and classical music. Tonight I'm joined by LA based performer and composer Richard An, who plays and creates new avant-garde music, usually with the ensemble House on Fire, and his music has been performed by the LA Phil and the Calder Quartet to name a few. Join us in our conversation, exploring the possibilities of avant-garde music, raising questions regarding Asian identities in the classical music world, and Richard's insights on art making during a time when Trump's cuts to the NEA are affecting artists and institutions nationwide. 00:01:41 Isabel Li Welcome to the show. Welcome to APEX Express, Richard. My first question for you is how do you identify and what communities would you say that you're a part of? 00:01:50 Richard An My name is Richard An I use he/him pronouns and I'm a second generation Korean American. My parents are both Korean. My dad came from Busan, which is a large city in South Korea, and my mom was born in Seoul and then moved to South America and then made her way up to Los Angeles where they met. And as for identity, like, I think Korean American would be the most accurate one. This is and I think an ever evolving part of first of all my identity and the way that it intersects with my practice and also I think that's the case with many Asian American artists, I mean artists from immigrant families, you know, the the matter of your identity, especially if you feel more distanced from it for one reason or another, is like an unsolved question for everyone like there is no one answer. That works for people and that's a thing that me people like myself I think will be exploring for our entire lives. When I introduce myself to people, I say that I'm a classical musician. And at the very core of it, that is true. That's not a lie. And I am, you know, a part of the classical music community in Los Angeles. But as time goes on, I have noticed and realized. That I tend to align myself more with like the avant-garde and experimental contemporary music communities of Los Angeles, which has certainly an overlap with the classical community, both in practice and historically, but yeah, I I would say those are the sort of two biggest ones, classical musicians and experimental avant-garde, contemporary musicians, whatever label you want to use for that. 00:03:47 Isabel Li Yeah. Some of our listeners might not know what avant-garde music entails. Can you — how would you describe avant-garde music to someone who might not be as familiar with this particular movement? 00:03:57 Richard An Yeah. So avant-garde music, a sort of flippant and joking way to to talk about it is ugly music or music. You know, my dad, for example, wouldn't like, but I think. It's music that either interfaces with elements or confronts facets or issues in music that aren't typical of other kinds of music. The music that you might hear that is labeled of on guard might be noisy or dissonant or uncomfortable, or any kind of, you know, adjectives that are synonyms for noisy or ugly, but I have come to love that kind of music, you know 1. Because of the the kind of questions that they might ask about our perceptions of music and two, because I guess one way to put it is that to be a classical musician, you need to be in a practice room for many hours a day for many years and go to what is unfortunately a college, which is usually very expensive and I guess for lack of a better term, paywalled for like you need to have the kind of resources that allow you to attend a four year undergrad and then a two year masters and then a three-year doctorate. But avant-garde music, contemporary music, experimental music doesn't necessitate that kind of thing. Often those musicians do have a background that gives them some amount of, you know, virtuosity or facility in an instrument. But like some of the best experimental musicians. Alive and some of the best ones that I know have no, like extensive training in a particular instrument and some may not have a degree in music at all. And that's one thing that I in like that separates it from classical music is that. 00:05:44 Richard An Classical music can be, unfortunately a little bit exclusionary. I don't think by any one specific design, but the fact that you need so many hours and very specific instructions from a mentor that necessitate that kind of relationship. But experimental music, I think does a little bit better job of diversifying or making it feel more equitable. 00:06:12 Isabel Li That's a great point, actually. One of my questions following up with that was what do you think is possible with this genre, which you kind of mentioned earlier with perhaps how this genre makes classical music a little bit more equitable for those who are interested in this field. In your experience, composing, what do you think makes the genre special, and how do you go about it? 00:06:35 Richard An One thing that I've noticed about being involved in the sort of contemporary experimental avant-garde music sphere is that it makes me a better listener, and I think other people who attend these concerts will agree. Like for example a large part of this kind of music is drone or repetition or, you know, like long spans of unchanging sound. And if the the sound that is being produced at face value is not changing, well then what do you notice about it? What do you grab on to and one of the most, I think, gratifying experiences is listening deeper and realizing that, ohh, even though you know for example this piano playing two notes for 30 minutes might not like the instructions will say to do the same thing for 30 minutes, but your experience as a human being will certainly change over those 30 minutes, even if the the notes are not like you will notice the slight fluctuations in the way that someone is playing, you will notice the beating patterns in the pitches on an instrument that may not be perfectly in tune, you will note other ambient sounds, you will note like you will notice so much more about the world when you are confronted with the kind of music that you know. You can say it forces you to listen to these sounds but also invites you to listen to these things. And I think that's really, really special. That's not to say that that can't happen with other kinds of music. Or even with classical music. Surely you know there are many, many ways to listen to everything. But I've noticed this within myself. When I listen to long, repetitive drone based music that it really opens my ears and makes me a more active participant as a listener. 00:08:30 Isabel Li It's a great point actually. Part of my work– because I studied music, history and theory in college– was how music can engage various listeners to participate. Have you composed anything that perhaps engages the listener in this more of a participatory setting? 00:08:47 Richard An Yeah. So I guess in order the some of the stuff that I've done to engage the audience, I guess both literally, and maybe more figuratively is, I wrote a piece last year for the Dog Star festival, which is a a contemporary and experimental music festival that is actually happening right now, at the time of this recording. It's a multi week long festival that focuses on music of this type that was founded by people in the sort of CalArts music world. But I wrote a piece for that last year for three melodicas, which are these basically toy instruments that look like keyboards, but you blow into them and you blowing air through these makes the sound happen. It's basically like if you cross a harmonica and a piano together. But I I wrote a piece for three of these, playing essentially the same notes. And because these instruments are pretty cheap, and they're often considered toys or, you know, instruments for children, they're not tuned to the exact way that, like a piano or a vibraphone or an expensive instrument might be. But I wanted to use that for my advantage. For example, if I play an F# on one melodica the same F# on another melodica will not be exactly the same and playing those two pitches together will produce what's known as a a beat or beat frequency. Which is, you know, a complicated, you know, mathematic physics thing, but basically 2 notes that are really, really close, but not quite together will create a kind of third rhythm because the the pitches are so close. Like, for example, if if I play an A at 4:40 and another A at 441, you will notice that difference of 1 Hertz inside of your ears. And that's a really cool phenomenon that happens explicitly because you were there listening to the piece. They don't happen necessarily, you know, like in, in recorded formats like, it's a very difficult thing to capture unless you are in the room with these instruments. And the fact that we had this audience of, let's say, 40 people meant that all forty of these people were experiencing these beat frequencies and another really cool factor of this is depending on where you are located in the room. With the way that the beats will sound in your ears are different and purely by the fact of acoustics like a wave bouncing off of the wall over on your left, will feel really different if you are closer or further from that wall. So not only do the audiences ears themselves, you know, invite these this this participation, but the pure physicality of each listener means that they will have a very slightly different experience of what the piece is, and again like this will happen in any concert. If you're at a classical show, if you're at a rock show if, if you're further from the stage, if you're further to the left or right, you will get a slightly different position in the stereo field that the musicians are playing in, but pieces like what I wrote and many others that exist emphasize this kind of like acoustic phenomena. That is really, really fascinating to listen to. 00:12:23 Isabel Li That's fascinating. And to get a sense of Richard's work, we'll be hearing coming up next. The short excerpt from his album Sonatrinas. This is the duo excerpt performed by Wells Leng, Katie Aikam, Kevin Good and composer Richard An himself. [COMP MUSIC: Sonatrinas (Excerpt: Duo)] 00:17:38 Richard An And so the back story for this piece is this was written for one of my recitals at CalArts. I was planning on playing this piece by Michael Gordon called Sonatra, which is a really, really beautiful and difficult piece for solo piano that I gave myself as an assignment, which I was not able to do with the amount of time. And, you know, like I just didn't give myself enough time to do this thing, so I still had this program of several pieces written with the idea of having this Michael Gordon Sonatra in the middle, but now that that sort of middle part was gone, there was a bunch of pieces about a piece that didn't exist. So in order to fill that hole, I wrote this piece called Sonatrinas which is a cheeky nod to the Michael Gordon Sonatra, but also to the fact that each part of this is kind of a diminutive Sonata form. Everything has a sort of ABA– here's some idea. Here's a different idea, and now we go back to that first idea. Every single part of this has a little bit of that in it. 00:18:51 Isabel Li Yeah, that's fascinating. Even the name itself reminds me of Sonata form in classical music, where it's kind of like an ABA section. As you sort of talked about earlier. And it's really cool that you're adapting this in a more avant-garde context. This is a reminder you're listening to Apex Express. Today we are interviewing composer and musician Richard An. 00:19:12 Isabel Li I think the general question that I have next is can you tell me a bit about what drew you to music and how you got your start in music, how you got introduced to it and what things have inspired you over the years? 00:19:24 Richard An Yeah. So a real quick sort of, I guess, history of my involvement with music is that I started piano lessons when I was pretty young, either three or four years old. I continued that until I was 12 or 13. I decided I really wanted to become a musician. I started taking composition lessons with this composer, AJ McCaffrey, who is really responsible for a lot of what I know and my successes, if you can call it that. He got me into a lot of the music that I am into now and set the foundation for what I would study and what I would write he was one of the instructors for this program called the LA Phil Composer Fellowship program, which back when I was a participant from 2011 to 2013, was a program hosted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic that took 4 high school age students every two years. And you know, they they taught us, you know, everything. How a young composer needs to know how instruments work, how to write a score, how to talk to musicians, how to do everything that a that a composer needs to learn how to do and at the end of this program, after the two years the young composers write a piece for the at the LA Philharmonic. So I was extremely lucky that by the age of 17 I was able to write a piece for orchestra and get that played and not just any orchestra, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, you know, undisputedly one of the best orchestras in the world. Right. And then after that I I went to USC for my undergrad and then went to CalArts for my masters. And then here we are now. And that those are sort of the like, you know if someone writes a biography about me, that's what we'll be, you know, involved in the thing. But I really started to develop my love for music in my freshman and sophomore year. In high school I I started to get into more and more modern composers. I started to get into more and more noisy things and a lot of this coincided actually with the passing of my mother. She died when I was 14 and you know that in any human the death of a parent will cause you to reevaluate and rethink aspects of your life. Things that you thought were certainties will not be there anymore. So for me, I stopped taking piano lessons and I sort of went headfirst into composition and which is why my degrees are specifically in composition and not piano. Had my mother's passing not happened, you know, who knows what I would be doing now? Maybe I'm not a composer at all. Maybe I'm not into avant-garde music at all, but because things happen the way that they did, I suddenly took a quick turn into avant-garde music and my involvement there only grew more and more and more. Until you know where I am today, I'm almost 30 years old, so I've been listening to and a participant of this music for maybe 15 years or so and I'm quite happy. 00:22:43 Isabel Li That's awesome to hear. 00:22:45 Isabel Li And perhaps a testament to Richard one's very versatile compositional style and avant-garde music coming up next are three pieces from his album i got the electroshock blues. There are five pieces in the album in total, but we will be hearing three of them. The first one called “feeling, scared today,” the second one, “pink pill,” and the fifth one, “la la.” [COMP MUSIC: i got the electroshock blues: 1. “feeling, scared today”, 2. “pink pill”, 3. “la la”.] 00:36:41 Richard An Earlier last year, I released a collection of live recordings under the title of I got the Electroshock Blues. Electroshock Blues is a song by the band Eels I encountered at a pivotal moment in my life. This was right around the time that my mother passed and this record and this song is heavily centered in grief. The main musician in the Eels, Mark Oliver Everett, was dealing with the passing of multiple family members and people who were close to him so it hit me in just the right way at just the right time. And because of that, this song specifically has stayed with me for many, many years. I found myself coming back to the contents of this song as I was composing and all the pieces on this album, of which there are 5 heavily take material from this song, whether that's words, chords, the melody. I really, you know, take it apart, dissect it and use those as ingredients in the pieces that I have written here and all of these are live recordings except for the first piece which was recorded in my studio. I just sort of overdubbed the parts myself, and there are credits in the liner notes for this album, but I just want to say that. The first piece which is called “feeling, scared today,” was originally written for the Hockett piano duo, which is a duo comprised of Thomas Kotcheff and Sarah Gibson. Sarah Gibson was a really close friend of mine who passed away last year and now this piece which in some way came out of a feeling of grief now has renewed meaning and another facet or aspect of this piece is centered in grief now. Because this was dedicated to Thomas and Sarah. Yeah. So these pieces are all derived from this one song. 00:38:57 Isabel Li That's a beautiful response. Thank you so much. Kind of following along your background and how you got to where you are. How do you think your identity has informed your work as a composer and musician? And this could be– you can interpret this in any way that you wish. 00:39:11 Richard An Yeah, this is a really interesting question. The question of how my identity interfaces with my music. In my art, particularly because no person's answer is quite the same, and I don't necessarily have this figured out either. So for a little bit of I guess for a little bit of context on me, I'm second generation Korean American, but I've never been to Korea and I never went to Korean school. My parents never really emphasize that part of my education. You could call it assimilation. You can call it whatever, but I think they valued other aspects of my growth than my explicit tie to Koreanness or, you know my specific identity as a Korean or Korean American, and because of that, I've always felt a little bit awkwardly distanced from that part of my identity, which is something that I will never be completely rid of. So in in a world and the field where whiteness is sort of the default part you know, particularly because you know, classical music does come from Europe, you know, for hundreds of years, like all of the development in this particular kind of music did happen in a place where everyone was white. So because of that background of where I come from and where my musical activity comes from, whiteness has been the default and still feels like it is. So me looking the way that I do as, an obvious not white person, as a person of color will always have a little bit of an outsider status to the thing. And with that comes the question of what are you bringing to classical music? What do you bring to the kind of music that you're creating? Like for example, the most I think the most well known East Asian composers are people like Toru Takemitsu or Tan Dun, people who will interface with their Asianness, in many different ways, but that often involves bringing, for example, a Japanese scale into your classical composition, or bringing a Japanese instrument into your classical composition. Those are, you know, examples of of of pieces by Toru Takemitsu, and other, you know, very successful. Asian American composers now may do similarly. Texu Kim is maybe someone who can also give insight into this, but nothing about me feels explicitly Korean, maybe besides the way that I look. And besides, the way that I grew up a little bit like I've never been to Korea. What right does that give me as a Korean, to for example, use a Korean instrument or use a Korean scale? I've never studied that music. I've never studied that culture. I in in some arguments I would be guilty of cultural appropriation, because I, you know, have not done the work to study and to properly represent. And for example, like Pansori, if I were to use that in any of my music. 00:42:46 Richard An But then the the the difficult question is well, then who does have the right? Does being Korean give me all the license that I need to incorporate aspects of my identity? And if I am not Korean, does that, does that bar my access to that kind of music forever? Another way of looking at this is, I've studied North Indian Classical Hindustani music for a while. I've played tabla and and studied that music at CalArts and I really, really love playing tabla. It's it doesn't make its way into my composition so much, but it is certainly a big part of my musicianship and who I am and, like, but am I barred from using ideas or aspects of that music and culture and my music because simply for the fact that I am not Indian? Many musicians would say no. Of course you've done your homework, you've done your research. You're doing due diligence. You're you're representing it properly. And many people who study this music will say music cannot go forward if it's not like the innervated and continued and studied by people like me who are not explicitly South Asian or Indian. That's an example of the flip side of this of me using or representing the music from a culture that I am not a part of, but again, am I really Korean? I've never been there. I wasn't born there. I speak the language conversationally. But this is an extremely long winded way of saying that I feel a tenuous connection to my Korean this my Korean American identity that hasn't been solved, that isn't solved and probably will never be completely solved. But I think that's exciting. I think that's an evolving aspect of my music and will continue to be that way as long as I continue to be involved in music and as as long as I continue to write. 00:45:05 Isabel Li Yeah, absolutely. That's a wonderful response. Actually. I was, as I was studying different types of world music and learning how people kind of borrow from different cultures. There is this always, this kind of question like ohh, like which types of musical elements from which cultures can I incorporate and obviously the aspects of personal identity definitely play into that a little bit. And part of my senior thesis in college was studying AAPI artists in classical music, and specifically that there are a lot of Asian-identifying musicians in the classical music world. But as you kind of mentioned earlier, I think classical music is very much still like grounded in whiteness and has this kind of air of elitism to it just because of its roots. How do you think this kind of identity intersects with the classical music world? And forgive me if you've already kind of talked about it before, but it's an interesting juxtaposition between like, for example, musicians who identify as AAPI or Asian in this kind of genre that is very– it's very associated with whiteness. Could you kind of talk about the dynamics of how these two aspects of like culture kind of interplay with one another? 00:46:26 Richard An Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, there are ways that I personally feel like I intersect with classical music with reference to my identity, and that also plays with the sort of cultural expectations, like there are stereotypes of Asian musicians, of Asian classical musicians. But there are not necessarily the same the same kind of stereotypes with white classical musicians. A very dominant like stereotype that you'll run into is the young Asian prodigy who practices 10 hours a day and may therefore be labeled as mechanical or unfeeling or, you know, are involved in in this a lot. So much so to the fact to the to the point where to excel an Asian American classical musician or as an Asian classical musician, in general, seems to always carry that stereotype. Like you know, Seong-Jin Cho's success as a pianist may not necessarily be attributed to his musicianship or his skill as a pianist. Because he is an Asian person, an Asian guy. Like how much of his success is because of the perceived tiger mom-ness that he might have existed under? How much of it is attributed to the same type of stereotypes that are labeled like that that label the five year old pianist on YouTube that that is clearly better than I am? Like some of these stereotypes help and some of these don't, but the I think it's undeniable that they exist in a way that doesn't in a way that doesn't carry for white people in the classical music sphere. And I think part of that is that classical music is still rooted in its Eurological identity. I think I'm using that correctly. That's an idea from George Lewis. Eurological versus Afrological. The context that I'm using Eurological right now is specifically in reference to George Lewis, who is a composer, trombonist, and musicologist who, I think coined the two terms to differentiate the roots of different styles of music, and you know, I haven't read enough to confidently say, but classical music is Eurological by example and like jazz would be Afrological by an example and the contexts in which they develop and exist and grew up are fundamentally different, which is what makes them different from each other. And again like this needs a little bit more research on my part. 00:49:23 Richard An Yeah, and because the classical music is so rooted in this thing, I don't believe that the stereotypes that exist for Asian classical musicians exist for white people. And I think that is something that will naturally dissipate with time, like after another 100 years of Asians, and, you know, people of color in, you know, every country in the world, with their continued involvement and innova otypes will disappear like this. You know, it may require certain concerted efforts from certain people, but I do believe that after a while these things will not exist. They'll sort of equalize right in the same way. That the divisions that we make between a Russian pianist and a French pianist and a German pianist, though you know people still do study those things like those aren't really dividing lines quite as strong as an Asian composer or an Indian composer might be. 00:50:27 Isabel Li Thank you for that perspective. I think it's, I think these are conversations that people don't kind of bring up as much in the classical music world and it's great that, you know, we're kind of thinking about these and probably possibly like opening some conversations up to our listeners hopefully. And so my next kind of pivot here is as you know with our current administration, Trump has canceled millions of dollars in National Endowment of the Arts grants, and it's been affecting arts organizations all over the nation. And I was kind of wondering, have you been affected by these cuts to arts programs and what kinds of advice would give upcoming musicians or composers in this era? 00:51:07 Richard An Yeah, that's a yeah, that's a big thing. And like, you know, changing day by day, right. So the Trump administration's effects on my life as a musician is simultaneously huge and also not really that much. So in one way these grant cuts have not affected my personal musical life because I haven't ever received a government grant for any of my arts making. So in one way like my life is the same, but in many, many, many other ways it has changed. Like I am involved with and I work with concert series and organizations and nonprofits that do rely on NEA funding and other government arts based funding. And if they have less money to fund their next season, that means certain projects have to be cut. That means certain musicians have to be paid less. That means certain programs have to change, especially if these funding cuts are aimed towards DEI or quote and quote, woke programming like that is, you know this that will by design disproportionately affect people of color in this field, which already you know, like is in a Eurocentric urological tradition like this is already something that people of color don't have a head start in if the funding cuts are aimed at certain types of programming that will disadvantage already disadvantaged groups of people, well then I don't know, that's even–we're starting even later than other people might be, and you know, like, if a musicians, if a person's reaction to this is despair, I think that's reasonable. I think that is an absolutely, like that's an appropriate reaction to what is fundamentally an attack on your voice as an artist. But I I have for as long as I can, you know, I have always worked under the impression that I will have to do the thing myself, and that's in the piece of advice that I give for a lot of people. You shouldn't necessarily wait for this ensemble to come pick you to play or or to to, you know, commission you to write a piece if you want to write the piece, you should do it and figure out how to put it on yourself. If you want to perform you know music by a certain composer, you should do it and then figure out how to do it yourself. That certainly comes from a place of privilege, like I can do this because I have enough work as a musician to be able to pay for the the passion projects it comes from a place of privilege, because I live in Los Angeles and the resources and musicians and other people who I would like to collaborate with live here, so you know, completely acknowledging and understanding that I I do believe that it's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. I think if you're a young musician and are feeling some despair about these funding cuts and you know the many, many, many other transgressions against humanity by this current administration. 00:54:38 Richard An I recommend you just go out and do it yourself. You find your people, you find your community, you pull favors, you work long nights and you do it and the reward will firstly be the good you're putting out into the world and then the the art you're making. But also this will be paid in kind by the community you're building, the musicians you're working with. And the the connections you make like you know I I have, I am currently conducting this interview from a studio space that I am renting out in Pasadena that I have built over the last two years that I do all of my rehearsals and my performances in, and that I, you know, host rehearsals and performances for other people, and this cannot happen and could not have happened without the goodwill and help and contribution from other people. When I say go out and do it yourself, I'm not saying that you as a human being are alone. I'm saying you don't need to wait for institutional approval or permission to go out and do these things. Get your friends and do them themselves. And my optimistic belief is that the support and the work will follow. 00:55:53 Isabel Li Richard, thank you so much for sharing your perspectives and your voice on this show today. And thank you to our many listeners of KPFA on tonight's episode of Obbligato on Apex Express. Which focuses on the AAPI community of the classical music world. There were some inspirational words on arts and arts making by Richard An musician and composer based in Los Angeles. 00:56:18 Isabel Li Please check our website kpfa.org to find out more about Richard An and his work as well as the state of the arts during this period of funding cuts. 00:56:29 Isabel Li We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world, your voices and your art are important. 00:56:41 Isabel Li APEX Express is produced by Ayame Keane-Lee, Anuj Vaidya, Cheryl Truong, Jalena Keane-Lee, Miko Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar and Swati Rayasam. Tonight's show was produced by Isabel Li. Have a great evening. The post APEX Express – 8.7.25 – Obbligato with Richard An appeared first on KPFA.

Welcome back to She2.0, where we keep it real about life, hormones, and everything in between. Today, we're diving into a topic that so many women struggle with—menopause. Joining us is Sarah Gibson, Founder of Vitality Health Matrix, who knows firsthand just how challenging this phase of life can be. After shedding 4 stones during her own perimenopause journey, Sarah has dedicated herself to helping other women overcome similar struggles with expert advice and powerful insights. In this episode, Sarah opens up about navigating the emotional and physical rollercoaster that menopause brings. She's sharing five game-changing hormone hacks that could make a world of difference for you. But what really sets Sarah apart is how she breaks down what these hormonal imbalances feel like—helping you recognize what your body might be telling you. Whether you're battling brain fog, low energy, or stubborn weight gain, Sarah's practical tips and actionable advice will leave you feeling empowered. Sarah's personal journey led her to uncover five key hormonal imbalances that can dramatically affect our health and well-being. By addressing these imbalances, Sarah regained her vitality and founded Vitality Health Matrix, a practice that has since helped nearly 1,500 women reclaim their energy, confidence, and shed stubborn weight. Why does this matter? Well, nearly 70% of women experience weight gain during menopause. Plus, 80% report frustrating symptoms like brain fog, low energy, and sleep disturbances—yet only 12% manage to find a healthcare provider who can help. Hormonal shifts can also increase the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, and mental health struggles, making it all the more important to get the right support. Tune in to hear Sarah share her powerful insights to help you feel like yourself again. This is one episode you won't want to miss!

oday's topic is the neuroplasticity of the brain and how we can use it to take charge of our own thought processes.  Cinthia opened today with a quote usually attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.”  We see the problems that occur with repeating behaviors that are not working, but what about our thoughts?  Our brains create what are called “neural nets,” or networks of brain cells that learn to fire in succession in response to outside stimuli; these are often compared to superhighways in the brain.  This creates habits of thought that we often do not even notice because we are so used to them.  For example, the phone rings, and you see a particular name on the screen.  What thoughts go through your head automatically?  The stimulus happens, the thoughts begin… and, before you know it, you are traveling down that old familiar superhighway with its familiar assumptions and other habits of thought.  And every time you travel the highway, it gets reinforced, becoming more entrenched and powerful in your brain and your life.  Thus, our brains create these “crazy-fast” reactions to stimuli, but we can take control of this process and retrain our brains to respond differently. Sarah Gibson has written about this concept with the old computer-inspired idea of GIGO: “Garbage in, garbage out.”  We can, she emphasizes, decide what ideas to feed ourselves.  We can decide which thoughts to dwell on.  We can reroute the garbage truck, so to speak, and actively work to take the “trash” out of our brains.  We can create bypasses to help us stop traveling the superhighways that are not helping us.  God made our brains to work for us, not against us.  Are you a lazy thinker?  Challenge your own thoughts and feelings.  Update and maintain your own roads.  Take responsibility for the roads you travel.  Clean up the negativities, the lies, the assumptions.  Reroute the garbage truck.  All of this is easier to say than to do, but it is well worth the work. First, start to notice the neural nets that exist for you.  In what areas do you quickly find yourself starting down a familiar thought/feeling/reaction path?  Cinthia discussed her own struggle with mental “superhighways” related to an eating disorder that began early in her life; for her, there are still triggers to follow a mental track related to fears of being fat, triggers she has to consciously and intentionally resist.  We may have perceptions about why other people do what they do, and our thoughts on this reinforce our judgments and assumptions about others.  Some people have superhighways related to fears of trusting anyone.  Sometimes we think we know what will happen in a situation because we believe that is what “always” happens, but we may actually be overgeneralizing.  What are your superhighways?  What are your triggers to jump on those ramps, and what thoughts and feelings occur in response to those triggers?  Once you identify some patterns, the first thing to do is learn to pause.  To continue our superhighway analogy, pull your mental “car” over into a safe spot and take a minute to examine what just happened and where you are now headed.  Question your immediate emotional response.  Seek different information.  Find out what else there is to know.  Clarify with the person who made a comment; what did they mean by that?  Remember, our brains create these “crazy-fast” reactions based on emotional response.  Remember, feelings are very real, but they are not always true.  Don't believe everything you think! We can retrain our reactions, but it is also important to recognize that some superhighways in our minds are so entrenched that we may struggle with them for a very long time, just as Cinthia described still having to resist eating-disordered thoughts decades after she has stopped living as an eating-disordered person.  Especially when we are dealing with roads that were formed when we were young or roads that were formed through trauma or deep wounding, roads we have traveled for years or as a way to avoid other painful roads, there may always be a first reaction, an impulse to get on the “ramp” toward the series of thoughts and behaviors the brain has learned to enact in response to parts of life. The brain may still go to the old road automatically, but, remember, you can teach your brain to hit the brakes before heading down the superhighway.  Work on construction of the new bypass system.  Every time you travel the old roads, you make them stronger, but every time you take yourself down a new path, you help to construct and strengthen that new route.  We have more control over our own thoughts than we give ourselves credit for. One thing that can help us as we try to build new roads is a back-to-basics approach toward what is important.  This approach stresses simplicity, focuses on the essentials, and proactively moves us toward the things that make the most difference.  It helps us do what matters instead of getting bogged down in unnecessary complexity.  If you think simplifying life could help you, consider these practical steps: Identify the things that add unnecessary complexity, busy-ness, and overwhelm to your life and work. What really matters to you, and what hijacks your time and energy away from those things? Create a plan to reduce or eliminate those things. (This may involve some grief and loss.) Identify things that are most efficient and effective, the things that make the most difference toward helping you accomplish what really matters. Create a plan to maximize those things. Put boundaries in place to protect these changes. Cinthia shared several verses from Proverbs that offer simple principles we can use to identify what is helping or hurting us, including Proverbs 10:9, 10:17, 14:15, 16:25, 27:6, and 27:12.  She also offered some questions to ask ourselves, such as the following:  Have I considered the possible outcomes for my course of action, or am I just excited about an idea and hoping that it works?  Do I think I am the exception to a rule in some area?  Sometimes we need to relearn basic truths about God in order to be able to let go of things that are getting in the way of what is best for us.  God's heart is never geared toward depriving us or taking away what is truly good; He wants the best for us.  But sometimes we hold on to what we think is best, and it keeps us from enjoying the gifts He really wants to give us.  So find some verses or sayings and implement them into your life.  Remind yourself of what you know.  Don't just let life happen to you.  Be committed to yourself—to your actual good, not your immediate gratification.  The more committed you are to yourself, the less it will take to maintain and care for yourself over time. 

Send us a Text Message.In the second part episode on the Turing Way, I meet with contributors like Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson - who were part of the original team - as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Steele who joined later.Through these conversations I hope to show how the Turing Way transitioned from being an online guide for reproducibility and open science to a thriving community with members across the globe. https://book.the-turing-way.org/index.html the home page of the Turing Wayhttps://edsbook.org/welcome.html The environmental data science book https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/ NASA's Transform to Open Science project home pagehttps://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/ Emergent Strategy a book by Adrienne Brownhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhdf6 Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Jo Freeman's article on Tyranny of Structurelessnesshttps://mybinder.org Binder project homepagehttps://jupyter.org Jupyter project homepagehttps://2i2c.org 2i2c homepageI would like to thank the Turing Way and the Alan Turing Institute in the UK for their patience, time and kind support. Support the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

A group of New Hampshire National Guard soldiers are in Eagle Pass, Texas to assist with that state's border control efforts. New Hampshire Bulletin's Annmarie Timmins is reporting from the southern border in collaboration with NHPR. We talk with her about what she's seen this week. And a joint investigation from NHPR and APM Reports has found that New Hampshire's Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut has used his office repeatedly to elevate conservative complaints against the education system. That's despite his pledge to keep the job nonpartisan when he took over in 2017. NHPR's Sarah Gibson shares her reporting.

Editors - Inbal B. Lessner ACE and Ben Kaplan STORMY editors Inbal B. Lessner, ACE and Ben Kaplan each brought their considerable experience in unscripted storytelling to this timely and unique perspective of a woman who dominated the headlines throughout and following the presidency of Donald Trump. Directed and produced by Sarah Gibson, STORMY follows Stormy Daniels as she navigates being a mother, artist, and advocate working hard to reinvent herself following the Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal.  Judd Apatow serves as an executive producer under his Apatow Productions banner. INBAL B. LESSNER, ACE Inbal B. Lessner, ACE is an Emmy-nominated and Eddie-winning producer and editor. Prior to her work on STORMY, Inbal was most well-known for such true crime hits as Starz' Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (2020) and Netflix's Escaping Twin Flames (2023), both of which she co-created alongside her filmmaking partner Cecilia Peck.  As executive producer, showrunner, and editor, Inbal steered both shows towards nominations for Best Edited Documentary (Non-Theatrical) at the ACE Eddie Awards, nabbing a win for the latter. She was previously Eddie-nominated for her work on the "Can We All Get Along" episode of CNN's The Nineties (2017). Inbal has worked in the cutting rooms of directors such as Davis Guggenheim, Nancy Schwartzman, R.J. Cutler, Kelly Duane, Tricia Regan, Jeremy Simmons, and Tracy Droz Tragos, as well as Natalie Portman's feature directorial debut. A member of the AFI Conservatory faculty, she has also been a Visiting Professor of Film Editing at UNCSA Film School and is a mentor in the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program. BEN KAPLAN A multi-award nominated documentary editor with over a decade of experience in the edit suite, Ben has worked on projects for CNN, Peacock, ABC/Hulu, Viceland and MAX.  When he's not cutting docs, he's usually cutting up ingredients in the kitchen, perfecting his favorite dishes. Editing STORMY In our discussion with STORMY editors Inbal B. Lessner, ACE and Ben Kaplan, we talk about: Making the most of the Miro board "If you can't sum it up, you must cut it out". Motorboating your way to authenticity Deconstructing one documentary for another Stringing together the spine of the story The Credits Visit ExtremeMusic for all your production audio needs Check out the Frame.io blog for an enhanced transcription of The Rough Cut. Watch the ACE Invisible Art - Visible Artists Panel Hear editor Inbal B. Lessner ACE discuss cutting SEDUCED: INSIDE THE NXIVM CULT Learn all about what's new with Avid Media Composer Subscribe to The Rough Cut podcast and never miss an episode Visit The Rough Cut on YouTube

In today's Hot Topics, the co-hosts discuss the fiery exchanges among lawmakers at the GOP-led Biden impeachment hearing Wednesday and the consequences of relying on a man for money as a "stay-at-home girlfriend." In an exclusive interview, Stormy Daniels is joined by “Stormy” filmmaker Sarah Gibson to share her continued concerns for her safety six years after her legal battle with former President Trump began and says she's "absolutely ready" to testify against him in his hush money case. Supermodel and wellness advocate Gisele Bündchen serves up a collection of her favorite dishes to eat with her family from her new cookbook, “Nourish.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is part 5 of our new Sound Judgment quick-hit series on six storytelling strategies for hooking your audience and keeping them with you. This one can mean the difference between ho-hum content and stories that your audiences will talk about. And I'm betting that you give it hardly any thought, if you think about it at all. What is it? Stick around to find out.  Part 5 features Michael Osborne and Amit Kapoor of the podcast Famous & Gravy, New Hampshire Public Radio senior podcast editor Katie Colaneri, and Sarah Gibson, a New Hampshire Public Radio reporter who produced the segment "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum" for This American Life. Apply the six storytelling strategies for creating unforgettable content to your own work!  Sign up for our interactive, virtual Hook Your Audience & Keep Them Coming Back workshopThursday, March 14, 2024By developing skills from story structure to scene-making, suspense to specifics, you'll learn to create or improve the show, story, article or speech that expresses what you want to express, captivates the people you want to reach, and achieves quality and depth you can be proud of. You'll move from likes and follows to building trusted, engaged relationships with your audience. These practices work separately and together to ratchet up both the substance and the "wow factor" of your content, no matter the platform.Did you miss Part 1 on Sound Vision? Listen here. Be sure to follow Sound Judgment so you don't miss the next bite-sized episodes on: Part 3: ScenesPart 4: SurprisePart 5: SuspensePart 6: SpecificsAll of these segments — each around 10 minutes or less — will come together soon for a full episode on How to Hook Your Audience and Keep Them Coming Back. You won't miss a thing if you sign up for my Sound Judgment newsletter, which includes the popular hands-on segment "Try This in Your Studio," kudos to creators who are lifting up the art and business of audio storytelling, news about the show, and useful resources. "Six S" Storytelling ResourcesShows and storytellers mentioned in this series: Bone ValleyCohosts: Gilbert King and Kelsey DeckerMarketplaceJohn Barth, Creative Media LLCThe 13th Step, an award-winning documentary series on sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment Reporter: Lauren ChooljianStory Editor: Alison MacadamNew Hampshire Public RadioDaily Creative Host: Todd HenryProducer: Joshua GottFamous & GravyCohosts: Amit Kapoor & Michael OsborneThe Rich Roll PodcastHost: Rich RollGuest: Charles DuhiggBook: Supercommunicators by Charles DuhiggCrime Show"Paging Dr. Barnes"Host & Executive Producer: Emma CourtlandKatie ColaneriSenior Podcast EditorNew Hampshire Public RadioKelly Corrigan WondersTell Me More with Kelly Corrigan"Bryan Stevenson""Samantha Power" Host: Kelly CorriganThis American Life"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum"Reporter: Sarah GibsonChameleon: Wild BoysHost: Sam MullinsFull Sound Judgment episodes featuring these storytellersBone Valley: How to Make a True Crime Podcast That Makes a Difference (Gilbert King, Kelsey Decker)The Host Defines the Brand with John BarthHow to Make Serious Topics Fun with the Hosts of Famous & Gravy (Amit Kapoor, Michael Osborne)Cinematic Storytelling with Crime Show's Emma CourtlandHow to Pitch an Audio Documentary and the Unusual Origin of a This American Life Story (Katie Colaneri)The Art of True Curiosity with Kelly Corrigan of Kelly Corrigan WondersHow to Make Listeners Breathless for More with Wild Boys' Sam Mullins     Improve your storytelling Check out our popular workshops on interviewing, story editing, story structure, longform narrative, audience engagement, scriptwriting and more. Hire Elaine to speak at your conference or company. Subjects include: Communicating for Leaders; Communicating about Change; Mastering the Art of the Interview; Storytelling Skills; How to Build Relationships through Storytelling, and more. Discover our strategic communication services and coaching for thought leaders using storytelling tools to make the world a better place. Serving writers, podcasters, public speakers, and others in journalism & public media, climate change, health care, policy, and higher education. Visit us at www.podcastallies.com. Subscribe to Sound Judgment, the Newsletter, our twice-monthly newsletter about creative choices in audio storytelling. Connect:Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram✉️ Email Elaine at allies@podcastallies.com

Our fourth S in the 6S framework for hooking your audience and keeping them with you is surprise. It's the left turn when we're expecting a righthand one that makes us listen. It's the twists and turns of an involved, high-stakes plot that we love, or the ending of the movie or the novel that we didn't predict. As New Hampshire Public Radio Senior Podcast Editor Katie Colaneri says, it's the "holy shit" moment. Part 4 features Katie Colaneri, NHPR reporter Sarah Gibson and her This American Life Story, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum," and Kelly Corrigan of the PBS show Tell Me More and the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Apply the six storytelling strategies for creating unforgettable content to your own work!  Sign up for our interactive, virtual Hook Your Audience & Keep Them Coming Back workshopThursday, March 14, 2024By developing skills from story structure to scene-making, suspense to specifics, you'll learn to create or improve the show, story, article or speech that expresses what you want to express, captivates the people you want to reach, and achieves quality and depth you can be proud of. You'll move from likes and follows to building trusted, engaged relationships with your audience. These practices work separately and together to ratchet up both the substance and the "wow factor" of your content, no matter the platform.Did you miss Part 1 on Sound Vision? Listen here. Be sure to follow Sound Judgment so you don't miss the next bite-sized episodes on: Part 3: ScenesPart 4: SurprisePart 5: SuspensePart 6: SpecificsAll of these segments — each around 10 minutes or less — will come together soon for a full episode on How to Hook Your Audience and Keep Them Coming Back. You won't miss a thing if you sign up for my Sound Judgment newsletter, which includes the popular hands-on segment "Try This in Your Studio," kudos to creators who are lifting up the art and business of audio storytelling, news about the show, and useful resources. "Six S" Storytelling ResourcesShows and storytellers mentioned in this series: Bone ValleyCohosts: Gilbert King and Kelsey DeckerMarketplaceJohn Barth, Creative Media LLCThe 13th Step, an award-winning documentary series on sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment Reporter: Lauren ChooljianStory Editor: Alison MacadamNew Hampshire Public RadioDaily Creative Host: Todd HenryProducer: Joshua GottFamous & GravyCohosts: Amit Kapoor & Michael OsborneThe Rich Roll PodcastHost: Rich RollGuest: Charles DuhiggBook: Supercommunicators by Charles DuhiggCrime Show"Paging Dr. Barnes"Host & Executive Producer: Emma CourtlandKatie ColaneriSenior Podcast EditorNew Hampshire Public RadioKelly Corrigan WondersTell Me More with Kelly Corrigan"Bryan Stevenson""Samantha Power" Host: Kelly CorriganThis American Life"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum"Reporter: Sarah GibsonChameleon: Wild BoysHost: Sam MullinsFull Sound Judgment episodes featuring these storytellersBone Valley: How to Make a True Crime Podcast That Makes a Difference (Gilbert King, Kelsey Decker)The Host Defines the Brand with John BarthHow to Make Serious Topics Fun with the Hosts of Famous & Gravy (Amit Kapoor, Michael Osborne)Cinematic Storytelling with Crime Show's Emma CourtlandHow to Pitch an Audio Documentary and the Unusual Origin of a This American Life Story (Katie Colaneri)The Art of True Curiosity with Kelly Corrigan of Kelly Corrigan WondersHow to Make Listeners Breathless for More with Wild Boys' Sam Mullins    Improve your storytelling Check out our popular workshops on interviewing, story editing, story structure, longform narrative, audience engagement, scriptwriting and more. Hire Elaine to speak at your conference or company. Subjects include: Communicating for Leaders; Communicating about Change; Mastering the Art of the Interview; Storytelling Skills; How to Build Relationships through Storytelling, and more. Discover our strategic communication services and coaching for thought leaders using storytelling tools to make the world a better place. Serving writers, podcasters, public speakers, and others in journalism & public media, climate change, health care, policy, and higher education. Visit us at www.podcastallies.com. Subscribe to Sound Judgment, the Newsletter, our twice-monthly newsletter about creative choices in audio storytelling. Connect:Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram✉️ Email Elaine at allies@podcastallies.com

Today's topic is the neuroplasticity of the brain and how we can use it to take charge of our own thought processes.  Cinthia opened today with a quote usually attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.”  We see the problems that occur with repeating behaviors that are not working, but what about our thoughts?  Our brains create what are called “neural nets,” or networks of brain cells that learn to fire in succession in response to outside stimuli; these are often compared to superhighways in the brain.  This creates habits of thought that we often do not even notice because we are so used to them.  For example, the phone rings, and you see a particular name on the screen.  What thoughts go through your head automatically?  The stimulus happens, the thoughts begin… and, before you know it, you are traveling down that old familiar superhighway with its familiar assumptions and other habits of thought.  And every time you travel the highway, it gets reinforced, becoming more entrenched and powerful in your brain and your life.  Thus, our brains create these “crazy-fast” reactions to stimuli, but we can take control of this process and retrain our brains to respond differently. Sarah Gibson has written about this concept with the old computer-inspired idea of GIGO: “Garbage in, garbage out.”  We can, she emphasizes, decide what ideas to feed ourselves.  We can decide which thoughts to dwell on.  We can reroute the garbage truck, so to speak, and actively work to take the “trash” out of our brains.  We can create bypasses to help us stop traveling the superhighways that are not helping us.  God made our brains to work for us, not against us.  Are you a lazy thinker?  Challenge your own thoughts and feelings.  Update and maintain your own roads.  Take responsibility for the roads you travel.  Clean up the negativities, the lies, the assumptions.  Reroute the garbage truck.  All of this is easier to say than to do, but it is well worth the work. First, start to notice the neural nets that exist for you.  In what areas do you quickly find yourself starting down a familiar thought/feeling/reaction path?  Cinthia discussed her own struggle with mental “superhighways” related to an eating disorder that began early in her life; for her, there are still triggers to follow a mental track related to fears of being fat, triggers she has to consciously and intentionally resist.  We may have perceptions about why other people do what they do, and our thoughts on this reinforce our judgments and assumptions about others.  Some people have superhighways related to fears of trusting anyone.  Sometimes we think we know what will happen in a situation because we believe that is what “always” happens, but we may actually be overgeneralizing.  What are your superhighways?  What are your triggers to jump on those ramps, and what thoughts and feelings occur in response to those triggers?  Once you identify some patterns, the first thing to do is learn to pause.  To continue our superhighway analogy, pull your mental “car” over into a safe spot and take a minute to examine what just happened and where you are now headed.  Question your immediate emotional response.  Seek different information.  Find out what else there is to know.  Clarify with the person who made a comment; what did they mean by that?  Remember, our brains create these “crazy-fast” reactions based on emotional response.  Remember, feelings are very real, but they are not always true.  Don't believe everything you think! We can retrain our reactions, but it is also important to recognize that some superhighways in our minds are so entrenched that we may struggle with them for a very long time, just as Cinthia described still having to resist eating-disordered thoughts decades after she has stopped living as an eating-disordered person.  Especially when we are dealing with roads that were formed when we were young or roads that were formed through trauma or deep wounding, roads we have traveled for years or as a way to avoid other painful roads, there may always be a first reaction, an impulse to get on the “ramp” toward the series of thoughts and behaviors the brain has learned to enact in response to parts of life. The brain may still go to the old road automatically, but, remember, you can teach your brain to hit the brakes before heading down the superhighway.  Work on construction of the new bypass system.  Every time you travel the old roads, you make them stronger, but every time you take yourself down a new path, you help to construct and strengthen that new route.  We have more control over our own thoughts than we give ourselves credit for. One thing that can help us as we try to build new roads is a back-to-basics approach toward what is important.  This approach stresses simplicity, focuses on the essentials, and proactively moves us toward the things that make the most difference.  It helps us do what matters instead of getting bogged down in unnecessary complexity.  If you think simplifying life could help you, consider these practical steps: Identify the things that add unnecessary complexity, busy-ness, and overwhelm to your life and work. What really matters to you, and what hijacks your time and energy away from those things? Create a plan to reduce or eliminate those things. (This may involve some grief and loss.) Identify things that are most efficient and effective, the things that make the most difference toward helping you accomplish what really matters. Create a plan to maximize those things. Put boundaries in place to protect these changes. Cinthia shared several verses from Proverbs that offer simple principles we can use to identify what is helping or hurting us, including Proverbs 10:9, 10:17, 14:15, 16:25, 27:6, and 27:12.  She also offered some questions to ask ourselves, such as the following:  Have I considered the possible outcomes for my course of action, or am I just excited about an idea and hoping that it works?  Do I think I am the exception to a rule in some area?  Sometimes we need to relearn basic truths about God in order to be able to let go of things that are getting in the way of what is best for us.  God's heart is never geared toward depriving us or taking away what is truly good; He wants the best for us.  But sometimes we hold on to what we think is best, and it keeps us from enjoying the gifts He really wants to give us.  So find some verses or sayings and implement them into your life.  Remind yourself of what you know.  Don't just let life happen to you.  Be committed to yourself—to your actual good, not your immediate gratification.  The more committed you are to yourself, the less it will take to maintain and care for yourself over time. 

Schools across the country, and here in the Granite State, continue to face pressure to remove titles that have LGBTQ+ characters or deal with mature themes. Now, the New Hampshire Department of Education is getting involved in book banning debates. New Hampshire's updated climate change plan is due early next year. Granite Staters gather to give their input. We talk about these stories and more on this edition of the New Hampshire News Recap with NHPR's Sarah Gibson and Mara Hoplamazian.

The conservative media organization PragerU won state approval last month to offer online classes to high school students in New Hampshire. Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut has publicly supported PragerU, but he's also been active behind the scenes. Catholic Medical Center in Manchester recently announced that they could become part of Tennessee-based hospital giant HCA Healthcare. What could this deal mean for patients. We talk about these stories and more with NHPR's Sarah Gibson and Paul Cuno-Booth.

And it's this time of the year again, when the RSE communities meet for their annual gathering. The UK RSE Society held its annual conference in the Welsh city of Swansea this year. And in this episode you'll hear from a range of different participants and presenters. Here they are in the following orderJamie Quinn (University College London and trustee of the Society until this year) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/advanced-research-computing-centre Gael Varoquaux from Inria and Scikit-learn in France https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ Neil Chue Hong from the Software Sustainability Institute https://www.software.ac.uk Sarah Gibson from https://2i2c.org Hannah Williams from the UK Health Security Agency https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk Rich Pitts from Oracle Research https://www.oracle.com/uk/research/ Milo Thurnston from https://fairsharing.org Becky Smith from the organising committee https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/conference-committee/ Presentations have been streamed and should be accessible soon.Support the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Come on down for a fun conversation with John Ealer, executive producer, and Sarah Gibson, director and showrunner, of The Game Show Show. Their four-part docuseries from Toronto's Cream Productions premieres Wednesday, May 10 on ABC and continues Wednesday nights throughout May. Episodes look at the evolution of TV game shows from their radio roots to the big money series such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Deal or No Deal. The series also looks at how competition and dating shows have  become more popular in the 21st century. There is also a discussion of the game show scandals of the 1950s. Also: why is it that Canadians such as Alex Trebek, Howie Mandel and Monty Hall seem to make great game show hosts? Mr. Ealer has a generous theory.All that plus John and Sarah's favourite TV theme songs, including the one used years later by George for his answering machine on Seinfeld.

Large crowds showed up at the State House this week to push back on a number of Republican-sponsored bills that advocates say would curtail the rights of LGBTQ youth. The proposals include bills that would restrict access to gender-affirming care and updated versions of a so-called parental rights bill that failed to pass last year. NHPR's Sarah Gibson and Paul Cuno-Booth have been following these proposals.

New Hampshire Democrats picked up a seat in the House this week following a special election in Rochester narrowing the chamber's already slim Republican majority. And state lawmakers met this week in Concord to vote on a number of bills. It's all politics on this edition of the New Hampshire News Recap with NHPR's Sarah Gibson and Josh Rogers.

In this 4th episode of our ByteSized RSE mini series, we'll talk about Continuous Integration and Deployment. Both of each play an essential part in today's software development practices and can help you in your engineering tasks. There are a number of tools available for this to get you started, and they are listed below. In addition to that, check out Martin Fowler's block post as well as the code review pyramid links. After a brief introduction to the topic, I will be talking to Sarah Gibson from 2i2c. Sarah and I talked about JupyterHub in an episode last year. In this episode she talks about how important Continuous Integration and Deployment are in her daily workTools (not an exhaustive list - there is more):https://github.com/features/actions GitHub actions. https://about.gitlab.com/features/continuous-integration/ CI with GitLabhttps://www.jenkins.io/ Jenkinshttps://www.travis-ci.com/ TravisBlogs and other links:https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html Martin Fowler's blog on Continuous Integrationhttps://www.morling.dev/blog/the-code-review-pyramid/ Code Review Pyramid by Gunnar Morlinghttps://github.com/sgibson91 - Sarah Gibson's web-sitehttps://2i2c.org/ International Interactive Computing Collaboration, the company helping you built your Jupyter Hub infrastructure.Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/ ByteSized RSE link to Imperial CollegeSupport the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Sarah Gibson joins us along with David Ariew for our annual holiday show. Sarah gives us info on her work on Marvel and Pixar Movies. Ariew tells us about his latest NFT Project.

Top national Democrats are meeting to decide which states should lead off the 2024 presidential primary. What could this mean for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation pride? New numbers from the New Hampshire department of education show an increase in enrollment at the state's public charter schools. At the same time, the trend of declining school enrollment continues overall across the state. NHPR's Josh Rogers and Sarah Gibson join Morning Edition host Rick Ganley for this edition of the N.H. News Recap.

Top national Democrats are meeting to decide which states should lead off the 2024 presidential primary. What could this mean for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation pride? New numbers from the New Hampshire department of education show an increase in enrollment at the state's public charter schools. At the same time, the trend of declining school enrollment continues overall across the state. NHPR's Josh Rogers and Sarah Gibson join Morning Edition host Rick Ganley for this edition of the N.H. News Recap.

Top national Democrats are meeting to decide which states should lead off the 2024 presidential primary. What could this mean for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation pride? New numbers from the New Hampshire department of education show an increase in enrollment at the state's public charter schools. At the same time, the trend of declining school enrollment continues overall across the state. NHPR's Josh Rogers and Sarah Gibson join Morning Edition host Rick Ganley for this edition of the N.H. News Recap.

Do you welcome feedback, or do you shy away from it out of fear of what you might hear? Sarah Gibson is an Executive Coach, Vistage Chair, and Communication expert, and she joins the show today to talk about gratitude in a very specific way: how to look at feedback as a gift that can accelerate meaningful change within your organization. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3G629WJ

We all want to maintain good health as we get older. Aging is not, in and of itself, a disease. However, aging is the major risk factor for developing many major chronic diseases. Learn what Dr. Nicholas Perricone tells us about taking care of our physical, mental, and cognitive health as we age. Learn more about healthy aging, hormone balance, and energy levels with Sarah Gibson.

The first official complaint against a teacher for violating New Hampshire's so-called "divisive concepts" law has been filed with the state. The state is defending the law in court as a group of public school employees argue it has had a chilling effect on classroom discussions. State health officials are encouraging Granite Staters to get their flu shot and an updated COVID booster shot this fall. They say this could be the worst flu season in several years. We talk about those stories and more on this edition of the New Hampshire News Recap with NHPR reporters Sarah Gibson and Paul Cuno-Booth.

On episode ninety-four of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I spoke with Sarah Gibson about her conversion to Catholicism. This is part one of our conversation. Biography:Sarah Gibson is an Associate at Targeted Victory and lives in the DC metropolitan area. This is a Good Catholic Podcast. Use code GOTTA for 20% your order.Check out  The Catholic Company for all your Catholic merchandise needs! Use code GOTTA for 20% off your next purchase!If you enjoyed this episode, please give provide a review and make sure to subscribe!

On episode ninety-three of the Gotta Be Saints Podcast, I spoke with Sarah Gibson about her conversion to Catholicism. This is part one of our conversation. Biography:Sarah Gibson is an Associate at Targeted Victory and lives in the DC metropolitan area. This is a Good Catholic Podcast. Use code GOTTA for 20% your order.Check out  The Catholic Company for all your Catholic merchandise needs! Use code GOTTA for 20% off your next purchase!If you enjoyed this episode, please give provide a review and make sure to subscribe!OSV TalksCatholic Talks to Get the Church TalkingListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

We all want to maintain good health as we get older. Aging is not, in and of itself, a disease. However, aging is the major risk factor for developing many major chronic diseases. Learn what Dr. Nicholas Perricone tells us about taking care of our physical, mental, and cognitive health as we age. Learn more about healthy aging, hormone balance, and energy levels with Sarah Gibson.

Panelists Georg Link | Richard Littauer | Dawn Foster | Willem Jiang | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. Elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software, or short CHAOSS Project, to wherever you like to listen. Today's episode is a shared podcast between Sustain and CHAOSS. We have six panelists to talk about maintaining open source and we'll also do a quick update from a previous episode and talk about what has changed and what maintaining open source looks like today. The panelists we have are Georg Link, Richard Littauer, Dawn Foster, Willem Jiang, Amanda Casari, and Ben Nickolls. Download this episode now to find out much more, and don't forget to subscribe for free to this podcast on your favorite podcast app and share this podcast with your friends and colleagues! [00:00:38] The six panelists introduce themselves. [00:04:04] Richard details more about what Sustain is, Georg and Dawn explain CHAOSS and what's going on there, and Amanda shares what she likes about CHAOSS. [00:13:15] Dawn talks about the kind of community members CHAOSS has, Willem tells us about the Asia community, and Ben shares his views on the Sustain community. [00:19:22] Georg asks if there's been any updates on the funding situation in open source and if anything has changed there and Ben updates us. [00:22:34] When thinking about resources, who gets paid, how money flows, and how we identify when help is needed, Amanda wonders how that's changed in the last few years in the CHAOSS community. [00:25:09] Richard shares from his angle what he's seen about what has changed in the past two years in open source. [00:27:09] Ben shares his views on the supply chain conversation about who is making money in open source. [00:29:06] Since security is such a hot topic, Georg asks if we're prepared in all the open source projects to really focus on this topic or if we have to upskill everyone, and we hear Ben's thoughts on this. [00:31:02] Richard explains how you can get involved in Sustain happenings that are going on, and Georg and Dawn inform us about some projects, working groups, and other things going on with CHAOSS. [00:39:17] Find out where you can get involved with Sustain and CHAOSS. Spotlight [00:34:21] Georg's pick is meeting with an online local group and doing cool things together. [00:35:06] Richard's pick is going on a super long hike and buying a hydration pack (CamelBak Pouch). [00:35:56] Dawn's spotlight is GraphiQL. [00:36:34] Ben's spotlights are taking care of Swifts on his roof, and the book, Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky. [00:36:55] Amanda's pick is the book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. [00:38:03] Willem's pick is ApacheCon Asia 2022. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Sustain Podcast (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project Twitter (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Community Participate (https://chaoss.community/participate/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) Ford Foundation (https://www.fordfoundation.org/) Georg Link Twitter (https://twitter.com/georglink) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Dawn Foster Twitter (https://twitter.com/geekygirldawn) Willem Jiang Twitter (https://twitter.com/willemjiang) Amanda Casari Twitter (https://twitter.com/amcasari/) Ben Nickolls Twitter (https://twitter.com/BenJam?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Sustain Podcast-Episode 65: CHAOSS and Sustain: A Joint Podcast (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/65) Ecosyste.ms (https://ecosyste.ms/) xkcd (https://xkcd.com/2347/) Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (The White House) (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/) Sustain 2021 Event Report (https://sustainoss.org/assets/pdf/Sustain-In-2021-Event-Report.pdf) Mozilla-Open Source Archetypes: A Framework For Purposeful Open Source May 2018 (https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MZOTS_OS_Archetypes_report_ext_scr.pdf) SonarQube (https://www.sonarqube.org/) CamelBak Crux 3-Liter Water Reservoir (https://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-Crux-Reservoir-Set-Blue/dp/B01LA5FCJ2/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_7KXBhCoARIsAPdPTfjbp84atlITCdNAL5gP7kt8BFwPzg9TcouW3yKU019aOaPtTeB5wmkaAmvTEALw_wcB&hvadid=410016279262&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9010767&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9439371394441572640&hvtargid=kwd-324558368114&hydadcr=9380_11541651&keywords=camelbak+pouches&qid=1659732626&sr=8-2) GraphiQL (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/querying-data/running-queries-with-graphiql/) [Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky by Sarah Gibson](https://www.amazon.com/Swifts-Us-Life-Bird-Sleeps/dp/0008350663/ref=tmmpapswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-emily-nagoski-phd-and-amelia-nagoski-dma/) ApacheCon Asia 2022 (https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2022/) [Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal](https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862/ref=sr11?crid=XK0VVY8QW60A&keywords=nadia+eghbal&qid=1659813710&sprefix=%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1)

Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. Elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software, or short CHAOSS Project, to wherever you like to listen. Today's episode is a shared podcast between Sustain and CHAOSS. We have six panelists to talk about maintaining open source and we'll also do a quick update from a previous episode and talk about what has changed and what maintaining open source looks like today. The panelists we have are Georg Link, Richard Littauer, Dawn Foster, Willem Jiang, Amanda Casari, and Ben Nickolls. Download this episode now to find out much more, and don't forget to subscribe for free to this podcast on your favorite podcast app and share this podcast with your friends and colleagues! [00:01:19] The six panelists introduce themselves. [00:04:45] Richard details more about what Sustain is, Georg and Dawn explain CHAOSS and what's going on there, and Amanda shares what she likes about CHAOSS. [00:13:56] Dawn talks about the kind of community members CHAOSS has, Willem tells us about the Asia community, and Ben shares his views on the Sustain community. [00:20:04] Georg asks if there's been any updates on the funding situation in open source and if anything has changed there and Ben updates us. [00:24:14] When thinking about resources, who gets paid, how money flows, and how we identify when help is needed, Amanda wonders how that's changed in the last few years in the CHAOSS community. [00:26:34] Richard shares from his angle what he's seen about what has changed in the past two years in open source. [00:28:33] Ben shares his views on the supply chain conversation about who is making money in open source. [00:30:36] Since security is such a hot topic, Georg asks if we're prepared in all the open source projects to really focus on this topic or if we have to upskill everyone, and we hear Ben's thoughts on this. [00:32:27] Richard explains how you can get involved in Sustain happenings that are going on, and Georg and Dawn inform us about some projects, working groups, and other things going on with CHAOSS. [00:40:42] Find out where you can get involved with Sustain and CHAOSS. Spotlights/Value Adds (Picks) of the week: [00:35:46] Georg's pick is meeting with an online local group and doing cool things together. [00:36:31] Richard's pick is going on a super long hike and buying a hydration pack (CamelBak Pouch). [00:37:21] Dawn's spotlight is GraphiQL. [00:37:59] Ben's spotlights are taking care of Swifts on his roof, and the book, Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky. [00:38:21] Amanda's pick is the book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. [00:39:29] Willem's pick is ApacheCon Asia 2022. Panelists: Georg Link Richard Littauer Dawn Foster Willem Jiang Amanda Casari Ben Nickolls Sponsor: SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) Links: CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project Twitter (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Community Participate (https://chaoss.community/participate/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Sustain Podcast (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Ford Foundation (https://www.fordfoundation.org/) Georg Link Twitter (https://twitter.com/georglink) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Dawn Foster Twitter (https://twitter.com/geekygirldawn) Willem Jiang Twitter (https://twitter.com/willemjiang) Amanda Casari Twitter (https://twitter.com/amcasari/) Ben Nickolls Twitter (https://twitter.com/BenJam?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Sustain Podcast-Episode 65: CHAOSS and Sustain: A Joint Podcast (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/65) Ecosyste.ms (https://ecosyste.ms/) xkcd (https://xkcd.com/2347/) Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (The White House) (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity/) Sustain 2021 Event Report (https://sustainoss.org/assets/pdf/Sustain-In-2021-Event-Report.pdf) Mozilla-Open Source Archetypes: A Framework For Purposeful Open Source May 2018 (https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MZOTS_OS_Archetypes_report_ext_scr.pdf) SonarQube (https://www.sonarqube.org/) CamelBak Crux 3-Liter Water Reservoir (https://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-Crux-Reservoir-Set-Blue/dp/B01LA5FCJ2/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_7KXBhCoARIsAPdPTfjbp84atlITCdNAL5gP7kt8BFwPzg9TcouW3yKU019aOaPtTeB5wmkaAmvTEALw_wcB&hvadid=410016279262&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9010767&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9439371394441572640&hvtargid=kwd-324558368114&hydadcr=9380_11541651&keywords=camelbak+pouches&qid=1659732626&sr=8-2) GraphiQL (https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/querying-data/running-queries-with-graphiql/) [Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky by Sarah Gibson](https://www.amazon.com/Swifts-Us-Life-Bird-Sleeps/dp/0008350663/ref=tmmpapswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592377/burnout-by-emily-nagoski-phd-and-amelia-nagoski-dma/) ApacheCon Asia 2022 (https://www.apachecon.com/acasia2022/) [Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal](https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862/ref=sr11?crid=XK0VVY8QW60A&keywords=nadia+eghbal&qid=1659813710&sprefix=%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1) Special Guests: Amanda Casari, Benjamin Nickolls, Richard Littauer, and Willem Jiang.

Lawmakers are looking to finalize a number of bills as we head into the end of the legislative session. That includes measures on redistricting, masks in schools, and an effort to establish a “parental bill of rights” in schools. We get the latest from the New Hampshire State House on this edition of the N.H. News Recap with NHPR reporters Sarah Gibson and Josh Rogers.

We all want to maintain good health as we get older. Aging is not, in and of itself, a disease. However, aging is the major risk factor for developing many major chronic diseases. Learn what Dr. Nicholas Perricone tells us about taking care of our physical, mental, and cognitive health as we age. Learn more about healthy aging, hormone balance, and energy levels with Sarah Gibson.

Mom brain happens to the best of us.  In today's episode we're diving into the complexities of the brain and discussing ways to optimize our mental clarity and eliminate brain fog for good...Resources Mentioned In This Episode:Homeschool CoachingConnect with Sarah Gibson  6 Fixable Causes for your Brain Fog 5 Powerful Supplements Needed in the Treatment for Brain Fog Brain fog Supplements (to get the prescriber code to order prescription-grade supplements)7-day jumpstart get 50% off using the code SIMPLYFREEINGThis Episode Discusses:What is brain fog?How to optimize your sleep to reduce brain fog, even if you get broken sleepCauses of brain fogYour eating patterns and brain fog Simply ways to eliminate brain fogHow to make health and wellness a priority with your kids 

Sarah Gibson is a functional medicine provider and wellness coach that teaches women how to focus on optimizing their health and thrive with aging. She is a busy mom of 4 and can relate so deeply with the daily stresses of "mom-ing" and working, which is why she loves providing support to other women in the same boat. FREE “25 Ways to Boost Energy” Checklist https://sarahgibsoncoaching.com/boost-energy    FREE “Easy Home Movements” Guide https://sarahgibsoncoaching.com/free-movement-guide   7-Day Jumpstart (sale price) https://sarahgibsoncoaching.com/7-day-jumpstart-flash   My Website https://SarahGibsonCoaching.com  

In this episode, I interview Sarah Gibson, the Co-founder and Co-director of DesignByThem, a design house based in Canberra, Australia. DesignByThem is run by designers who are dedicated to creating and producing unique products for design professionals and enthusiasts alike. Products can be seen in any establishment worldwide. Established in 2007, DesignByThem was founded by industrial designers Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis. Sarah has designed a range of furniture, lighting, and accessories as well as curated and developed the work of other fellow Australian designers. The company has been available for over 15 years, obtained 100% growth last year with around 14 FTEs. In business, trust is hard to give. However, Sarah has their way to build trust in the company. She says, “Having a good conversation channel has been really beneficial for our team, it's bringing everyone into the decision-making process and that's been the most genuine way to build trust in our company.” This Cast Covers: A design house that brings together and represents the best in Australian design. Representing the talent of Australian designers in a playful collection of fun and functional furniture and homewares. Creating an independent Australian design brand and platform for local designers to showcase their work. An industrial designer with a passion for business and Australian design. Has designed a range of furniture, lighting, and accessories as well as curated and developed the work of other fellow designers. Making incredible designs of furniture which are good in offices, firms, and businesses. The importance of hiring individuals with a better attitude than skilled ones. Making sure of providing the best quality design and products to their customers. The company is not about designs but also committed to reducing the impact of products on the environment and society. Aiming to do the work in meaningful ways through comprehensive product life cycle thinking. Additional Resources: DesignByThem Making Ideas Happen By Scott Belsky The E-Myth By Michael E. Gerber __________________________ Quotes:  “Give yourself credit, you have to take note of those little successions along the way.” —Sarah Gibson “Success is really enjoying what you do, but also making enough money to enjoy your personal life.” —Sarah Gibson “With consistency, you will create a really loyal base of customers.” —Sarah Gibson “How important it is to have people with a greater attitude than those with skills but by no means have respect.” —Sarah Gibson “Having a good conversation channel has been really beneficial for our team, it's bringing everyone into the decision-making process and that's been the most genuine way to build trust in our company.” —Sarah Gibson __________________________ Music from https://filmmusic.io “Cold Funk” by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com. License: CC by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

This is Part Three of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 24-year-old homeless man David Frooms murdered Sarah Gibson, as she lay in her bed at the RAC Club at 89 Pall Mall, London, SW1. But why? How did he know her, why did he attack her, why did he climb five sets of stairs to find her room inside of a very secure club, and why did he subject her to a four-hour ordeal? Was it personal, revenge or a series of unfortunate circumstances?Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeTo DONATE to CENTRE POINT (directly), click hereSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is Part Two of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 24-year-old homeless man David Frooms murdered Sarah Gibson, as she lay in her bed at the RAC Club at 89 Pall Mall, London, SW1. Buy why? How did he know her, why did he attack her, why did he climb five sets of stairs to find her room inside of a very secure club, and why did he subject her to a four-hour ordeal? Was it personal, revenge or a series of unfortunate circumstances?Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer. FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is Part One of Three of 'Do Not Disturb', the untold story of the murder of Sarah Gibson. In the summer of 1972, 21-year-old Sarah Gibson worked as assistant housekeeper at the RAC Club at 89 Pall Mall, London, SW1. She was quiet, pleasant and she kept to herself. Those who knew her had nothing but kind words to say about her, but on across the night of Sunday 2nd to Monday 3rd July 1972, not only would a sadist assail this veritable Fort-Knox of security and navigate its maze of corridors to access her room, but they would subject this young girl to a truly shocking attack over four torturous hours, which ended in her death. But why?Murder Mile is researched, written and performed by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne of Murder Mile Walks with the main musical themes written and performed by Erik Stein and Jon Boux of Cult With No Name with additional music, as used under the Creative Commons License 4.0 (Attribution) via Free Music Archive and YouTube Music. A full listing of tracks used and a full transcript for each episode is listed here and a legal disclaimer.FOLLOW US HERE:FacebookTwitterInstagramMurder Mile Discussion GroupYoutubeClick here to visit Moggy MetalsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/murdermile. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some schools are having a hard time staying open as they struggle with staffing shortages. The Executive Council has approved the state's purchase of a psychiatric hospital. And at-home COVID tests are soon to be available at a state liquor store near you. We get to those stories and more on this edition of the New Hampshire News Recap with NHPR reporters Sarah Gibson and Todd Bookman.

The year began with the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccinations and renewed hopes. And it's ending with some of the highest coronavirus numbers since the first patient in New Hampshire was identified in March of 2020. To reflect on the year in local news, NHPR Morning Edition host Rick Ganley invited a few reporters whose beats dominated the headlines. Health reporter Alli Fam, education reporter Sarah Gibson, education reporter and Josh Rogers, political reporter, reviewed the defining moments of 2021.

The sky has been full of screaming swifts for months. Where did they go? Find out about the heady heights and swirling sights of swifts in this episode about one of the UK's most spectacular migrating birds.    For info on how to help swifts:  https://swift-conservation.org/ https://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/    Main resource: Sarah Gibson's 'Swifts and Us'   Swift calls: Uku Paal, XC664459. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/664459.

I would like to dedicate this episode to people that test their code in simulation prior to go to the real robot. That is the way guys. If you don't test first on the simulation, you can break the robot or harm somebody with your untested code. So the procedure is always, test on simulation […] The post 93. Using Unity with ROS, with Sarah Gibson appeared first on The Construct.

The second installment of the Dilettantes Special. This one features some of the female cast and crew members who played crucial roles in the creation of the film. Our director, Sarah Gibson, and lead actresses, Samantha Valletta and Lizzie Short, talk about their experience on the set of Dilettantes.

This week on NEXT: We speak with Teresa Mares about her new book, which explores food insecurity among farm workers in Vermont. Plus, we take a look at school funding around our region. We’ll talk with NHPR’s Sarah Gibson about her new series, ‘Adequate,’ and listen to reporting from Connecticut Public Radio’s David DesRoches about private philanthropy in public schools. Finally, we'll discuss protests on Harvard University’s campus fifty years later, and speak with activists about how student organizing has changed since then. It’s NEXT.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Sarah Gibson of Accent Learning and Consulting talks about intergenerational teams. You'll learn what a generation is and the defining events that created the five generations alive today. Learn how generations might clash in the workplace, yet they need each other in order to be the most creative. What You'll Learn The definition of a generation The four types of generations in the workplace today How intergenerational teams might have more conflict and what do to about it How to help your intergenerational team be more creative About Sarah Gibson Sarah Gibson founded Accent Learning and Consulting, LLC in 2004 because it allowed her to share her passion for speaking and teaching practical workplace skills that help individuals and businesses succeed. Since then, Sarah and her team have helped companies understand the impact of workplace communication through a large variety of professional development and leadership classes. Sarah wrote The Zoom Guide to the Generations to help people learn more about the impact of generational pieces in the workplace. She has worked with more than 100 organizations across a variety of industries throughout North America. Beyond her corporate experiences, Sarah has also taught for the University of Wisconsin-Madison evening MBA program and as an adjunct instructor at Madison College, UW-Whitewater and North Dakota State University. Sarah holds a Master's degree from North Dakota State University.   Resources Mentioned in the Episode Free Generational Job Aid by Sarah Gibson Sarah Gibson's website Book - The Zoom Guide to the Generations Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team The Weekly Challenge This week, pay attention to the different generations you work with. What do you notice in meetings and other interactions? Share with your team the job aid from Sarah Gibson and have a conversation about how your different generations show up in your work and interactions. Share in the comment section or send me an email and let me know how it goes.