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Kanādas premjerministrs Džastins Trudo atkāpjas no amata. Ukrainas Bruņotie spēki aktivizējušies ieņemtajā Krievijas Kurskas apgabala teritorijā. Somi meklē vainīgos, kas sabojāja Somijas un Igaunijas elektrības savienojumu 2024. gada nogalē. Aktualitātēs analizē politologs Andis Kudors un Latvijas Radio žurnālists Uldis Ķezberis. Džastins Trudo aiziet pats 6. janvārī Kanādas premjerministrs Džastins Trudo paziņoja par savu demisiju un arī atkāpšanos no Kanādas Liberālās partijas vadītāja posteņa. Partijai nu jāizraugās jauns līderis un valdības galva, kas nav viegls uzdevums, jo, kā norāda Kanādas politikas eksperti, harizmātiskais Trudo esot padarījis liberāļus par izteikti ap līderi centrētu partiju, pie tam nav parūpējies par stabilu kandidātu sava darba turpināšanai. Lai nodrošinātu netraucētu procesa norisi, Kanādas Parlamenta darbība ir apturēta līdz 24. martam. Džastins Trudo stājās pie Liberālās partijas stūres 2013. gadā, kad partija jau astoto gadu bija opozīcijā, un sekmīgi aizvadīja to līdz uzvarai 2015. gada vēlēšanās. Kopš tām viņš nemainīgi bijis Kanādas valdības galva, tiesa, pēc 2019. gada vēlēšanām tā bija mazākuma valdība. Ap 2022. gada vidu liberāļu galvenie konkurenti – Konservatīvā partija – reitingos pirmoreiz pārspēja valdošo spēku, un kopš tā laika viņu pārsvars tikai audzis. Šobrīd, ar nepilniem 45% pret 20%, tas ir jau vairāk nekā divkāršs. Galvenais sabiedrības neapmierinātības iemesls ir pēdējos gados strauji augusī dzīves dārdzība, sevišķi pārtikas un mājokļu cenu kāpums, bez tam pailgajā varas periodā Trudo uzkrājis arī dažus reputācijas „melnumus”. Un, nepārprotami, aizejošā premjera politisko likteni ietekmējis arī Trampa faktors. Kanāda kļuvusi par vienu no jaunievēlētā Savienoto Valstu līdera ārpolitisko verbālo izlēcienu objektiem, it kā pus pa jokam deklarējot, ka tai jākļūst par ASV 51. pavalsti, un jau pilnā nopietnībā piesolot pamatīgus ievedmuitas tarifus, kas varētu draudēt Kanādai ar jaunām ekonomiskām problēmām. Premjerministra Trudo mēģinājumi stabilizēt situāciju, personīgi tiekoties ar Trampu, izraisījuši negatīvu reakciju viņa paša valdībā. Tiek spriests, ka šie kontakti bijuši viens no galvenajiem premjera domstarpību cēloņiem ar viņa vietnieci un finanšu ministri Kristiju Frīlendu, kura negaidīti demisionēja decembra vidū. Frīlenda esot uzstājusi uz stingrāku Kanādas stāju attiecībās ar vareno dienvidu kaimiņu. Tā nu Džastins Trudo, nenoliedzami viens no spilgtākajiem mūsdienu politiķiem, nolēmis pamest premjera amatu pats, pirms viņu no tā izmet nelabvēlīgā konjunktūra. Ukraina cīnās Svētdien, 5. janvārī, Ukrainas Bruņotie spēki aktivizējās ieņemtajā Krievijas Kurskas apgabala teritorijā, vairākos virzienos pārejot pretuzbrukumā. Kā ziņo avoti kā vienā, tā otrā frontes pusē, ukraiņi plaši izmantojuši radiosignālu slāpēšanu, lai paralizētu Krievijas lidrobotu darbību. Krievija jau paziņojusi, ka ukraiņu spēku virzība apturēta, uzbrucēju kaujas tehnika iznīcināta, tomēr šī Ukrainas spēku aktivizēšanās tai nepārprotami ir nepatīkams pārsteigums. Ukrainas prezidents Volodimirs Zelenskis pirmdien videouzrunā paziņoja, ka Krievijas spēkiem tiek nodarīti nopietni zaudējumi un Ukraina turpina paturēt savā kontrolē buferzonu Krievijas teritorijā. Krievija gan turpina spiedienu Ukrainas austrumos. Tā paziņojusi, ka ir ieņēmusi Kurahoves un Toreckas pilētas Doņeckas apgabalā, par kurām jau vairākus mēnešus notiek intensīvas kaujas. Sevišķi svarīga esot nozīmīgā transportmezgla Kurahoves sagrābšana, kas ļaušot ātrāk izvērst uzbrukumu atlikušajai Doņeckas apgabala daļai. Tomēr, saskaņā ar Ukrainas puses ziņoto, tās spēki joprojām atrodas abās pilsētās un turpina cīņu. Tikām pirmajā jaunā gada nedēļā Krievija turpinājusi raķešu un lidrobotu triecienus Ukrainas civilajai infrastruktūrai, kuros vairāki cilvēki gājuši bojā, vairāki desmiti ievainoti. Savukārt Ukrainas Jūras spēki paziņojuši, ka to palaistiem lidrobotiem izdevies iznīcināt vai bojāt divas Krievijas pretgaisa aizsardzības sistēmas „Pancir” un vienu zeme-gaiss raķešu sistēmu „Osa” okupētajā Ukrainas Hersonas apgabala daļā. Jūras „huligānu” medības Somu līcī 7. janvārī Somijas policija paziņoja, ka ar Zviedrijas Jūras spēku palīdzību no dzelmes Somu līcī izcelts enkurs, kas, domājams, piederējis ar Krievijas naftu pildītajam tankkuģim „Eagle S”, kuru somu krasta apsardze arestēja decembra nogalē. Ar Kuka salu pundurvalsts karogu kuģojošais peldlīdzeklis tiek turēts aizdomās par to, ka mērķtiecīgi vilcis enkuru pa grunti, saraujot Igaunijas un Somijas elektrotīklu savienojumu un četras globālā tīmekļa savienojuma līnijas. Ja tīmekļa savienojumi jau atjaunoti, tad augstsprieguma kabeļa remonts prasīs vairākus mēnešus. Bez tam aizdomas raisa arī „Eagle S” krava, kas, pēc visas spriežot, varētu būt sankcijām pakļautie Krievijas naftas produkti, respektīvi, šis kuģis acīmredzot pieder tā dēvētajai „Krievijas ēnu flotei”. Decembra vidū divpadsmit valstis – Vācija, Lielbritānija, Polija, Nīderlande, piecas Ziemeļvalstis un trīs Baltijas valstis – vienojās par pasākumu kompleksu šīs „ēnu flotes” apkarošanai. Tā kā zemūdens komunikāciju bojāšana uzskatāma par sabotāžas aktu, pret kuģa komandu un īpašnieku, kādu Apvienotajos Arābu emirātos bāzētu kompāniju, ierosināta krimināllieta; komandas locekļiem noteikts aizliegums izbraukt no Somijas. Tāpat Somijas un Igaunijas policija turpina izmeklēt ļoti līdzīgu gadījumu, kad, domājams, pa grunti vilkts Ķīnas kravas kuģa enkurs bojāja gāzesvadu starp Somiju un Igauniju un vairākus telekomunikāciju savienojumus. Kā norādījusi Somijas puse, attiecīgās Ķīnas institūcijas sadarbojoties ar izmeklēšanu. Kas attiecas uz domājamo sabotāžas pasūtītāju, proti, Kremli, tad tas izteicies, ka notikušajam ar Krieviju neesot nekāda sakara. Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.

In deze aflevering van de SOMI podcast duiken we in het indrukwekkende boek Hotel Mogadishu van Ayaan Abukar. Ayaan, geboren in Somalië en opgegroeid in de diaspora, neemt ons mee op haar persoonlijke reis van vertrek, terugkeer en zelfontdekking. Samen onderzoeken we de complexe thema's van identiteit, het gevoel van ‘thuis' en de impact van haar ervaringen op haar kijk op Somalië en haar eigen plek in de wereld. Wat betekent het om in de diaspora te leven? Hoe verandert je blik op je afkomst wanneer je terugkeert naar je geboorteland? En hoe ga je om met de worsteling tussen twee culturen? Ayaan's verhaal is een krachtige reflectie op verbondenheid, cultuur en de zoektocht naar een eigen plek in de wereld. Luister mee naar deze inspirerende aflevering en ontdek hoe de reis van Ayaan je kan helpen nadenken over jouw eigen ervaring met identiteit en thuis.

「ポストモーテム＝事後検証」と題された本セッションでは、『未解決事件は終わらせないといけないから』をはじめとした、10年間の作品開発の過程でSomi氏が考えたゲーム制作の方式や、ゲームに関する哲学が語られました。

Somu rakstnieces Kristinas Karlsones īsromāns "Līdz zemes malai" tulkotājas Maimas Grīnbergas (attēlā) prātā bijis jau sen, bet laikam tieši tagad pienācis īstais brīdis, lai tas piedzīvoju tulkojumu un izdevumu latviešu valodā izdevniecībā "Aminori". Par savu debijas romānu "Līdz zemes malai" Kristina Karlsberga saņēmusi Somijas prestižāko literatūras balvu, pamatojumā teikts, ka "šim romānam ir valdzinoša valoda, intriģējošs sižets un groda struktūra. Grāmatas niansēm bagātos teikumus gribas pārlasīt atkal un atkal. Romāns atklāj nezināmu vēsturi un ģeogrāfiju, un tā savādā, noslēpumainā noskaņa neatlaiž". 19. gadsimta Sibīrija, kur somi dodas laimi meklēt, ir maz aprakstīta laiktelpa, bet tāds fakts bija, savukārt Karlsones romāna varoņi gan ir fikcija - somu students Lennarts Falks, ārsts Gancs, Petrovi, Tēvs Spiross un vārdā nenosaukts ķīnietis… Raidījumu atbalsta:

The challenges of being a woman in medicine and a woman treated by the medical system are real. Dr. Somi Javaid shares her experience working in gynecology and sexual health, opening HerMD, and the dire need for better education, representation, and resources for women's health.Dr. Somi shares the challenges of balancing motherhood, working at a medical practice, and being a part of a broken healthcare system, which led her to quit her job. Though a frustrating trajectory, this path led her to open HerMD, an incredible comprehensive women's healthcare practice specializing in menopause, sexual health, and advanced gynecology. We discuss the major issues in women's healthcare today, which consistently result in a lack of funding and disparity in research. The need for education is critical. Most women don't know the difference between perimenopause and menopause, how their bodies change after pregnancy, or that hormones are good for them! We then talk about normalizing libido fluctuations, pelvic floor health, and testosterone therapy. Reducing the stigma around sexual health and women's healthcare conversations is deeply important work!Topics Covered:Quitting medicine to open HerMDThe state of women's health and sexual healthcarePerimenopause and menopause symptomsSex is an intimate conversationWomen's health double standardTestosterone therapyConfusion around hormones Guest Info Instagram: @somijavaidmdWebsite: drsomi.comWebsite: hermd.comFollow Me:Instagram: @afinehuman Shop Dame: dame.com This podcast was produced by The Wave Podcasting

Stāsta mākslas zinātniece, Latvijas Mākslas akadēmijas docente Helēna Demakova Vai zini, kāds sakars Somijas Ziemas karam pret PSRS un Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejam KIASMA Helsinkos? Deviņdesmito gadu vidū somus pārņēma milzu dusmas. Tauta mobilizējās, un pirmajās dienās tika savākti 40 000 paraksti. Tad parādījās vairāk parakstu. Somi bija sašutuši, viņiem neraksturīgi un temperamentīgi kaislības sita augstu vilni. Dusmu avots bija slavenā amerikāņu arhitekta Stīvena Holla lēmumi, būvējot jauno laikmetīgās mākslas muzeju Helsinkos ar simbolisko nosaukumu KIASMA. Pat deviņdesmito gadu sākumā, kad Somiju skāra dziļa finanšu krīze, ļaudis šo krīzi pacieta stoiski. Toreiz bija apdraudēta viņu labklājība, bet ne identitāte, kā KIASMA gadījumā. 1998. gadā, kad muzeju KIASMA atklāja, biju klāt preses konferencē, kad Stīvens Holls izstāstīja, kā viņam gāja ar lieliskās ēkas būvniecību. Vēlāk par to lasīju ievērojamā somu mākslas kritiķa un pedagoga Mikas Hanulas promocijas darbā, kas bija veltīts somu identitātes struktūrai un veidolam. Bet viss kaislību stāsts aizsākās 1992. gadā. Togad tika nolemts, ka Somijas Nacionālas galerijas sastāvā esošais muzejs Ateneum piešķirs vienu stāvu topošam laikmetīgās mākslas muzejam. Jaunā muzeja ēkas vēl nebija, bet sākās krājuma veidošana un tika radīta jauna struktūrvienība. Starp citu, tieši šādu modeli ir izvēlējusies pašreizējā Latvijas Republikas Kultūras ministrijas vadība. Pēc kāda laika tika izsludināts starptautisks konkurss par ēkas arhitektu, un viens redzams somu politiķis bija atradis asprātīgu veidu, kā ēku finansēt. Konkursā uzvarēja jau pieminētais amerikānis Stīvens Holls un tad sākās nedienas. Kad viņš prezentēja savu projektu pasūtītājiem, viņa maketā bija redzams, ka viņš vēlas par dažiem metriem pārvietot maršala Manerheima skulptūru, kura atradās topošajā būvlaukumā iepretim Somijas parlamentam. Tautas sašutums bija neizmērojams. Vai šis amerikānis vispār zina, ko somiem nozīmē maršals Manerheims?! Vai viņš zina to, ka Manerheims vadīja, organizēja somus pret PSRS pārspēku cīņās 1939. un 1940. gadā, ko vēsture pazīst kā Ziemas karu? Vai amerikānis kaut ko zina par Manerheima līniju, pie kuras pēdējā posma krievi apstājās? Vai viņš zina, ka pat zaudējot Karēliju un dažas citas teritorijas, Somija saglabāja savu valstisko neatkarību un valsts iekārtu? Stīvens Holls tajā preses konferencē vaļsirdīgi pateica, ka tikai pēc milzu trača patiesi uzzinājis par Somijas visu laiku populārākā cilvēka, maršala Manerheima nozīmi somu sabiedrībā. Viņš saprata, ka maršalu Manerheimu nedrīkst pārvietot pat dažus centimetrus. Interesanti, ka var notikt tā, ka stereotipi par kādu no tautām, ko šķietam zinām labi, izrādās virspusēji. Mūsdienu Somijā, it sevišķi, ja blakus ir tas pats milzu kaimiņš, kas mums, un par kuru mēs nezinām, kurā brīdī tas sāks uz mums velties, Somijas identitāte vairs nav tikai sauna, “Kalevala”, Sibēliuss, Ziemassvētku vecītis, Nokia un vēl daži lieliski jaukumi. Maršala Manerheima gars ir dzīvs, somu vēlme ir neatkāpties no viņa mantojuma ne par centimetru.  

Die burundische Künstlerin betina quest mag bei ihrem Namen die Kleinschreibung bevorzugen – musikalisch jedoch tritt sie in große Fußstapfen: Nichts weniger als die Neuinterpretation eines Nina Simone-Songs bietet sie mit ihrer aktuellen Single "Four African Women" an. Für das "Update" des ursprünglich 1966 als "Four Women" erschienenen Liedes ging sie dabei gewissermaßen einen Umweg, und griff auf eine textlich überarbeitete Fassung zurück, welche die afroamerikanische Jazz- und Pop-Sängerin Somi 2014 veröffentlichte. Als eine "Hommage an Nina Simone und Somi und auch eine Hommage an jede schwarze Frau, deren Identität und Geschichte die Welt, in der wir heute leben, prägt" versteht betina quest nun ihre ganz eigene Version des Stücks. Diese fügt dem ausdrucksstarken Text über "die vielschichtigen Erfahrungen afrikanischer Frauen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Widerstandskraft gegenüber Unterdrückung" ein neues, kongeniales musikalisches Fundament aus Afro-Soul und elektronischen Elementen hinzu. Ihrem (Künstlerinnen?-)Nachnamen entsprechend, sieht sie sich dabei als Fragende, Suchende, mit einer klaren Aufgabe: "Ich finde, dass Black Womanhood mit einer Verantwortung verbunden ist. Und zwar mit der Verantwortung unsere Geschichten zu erzählen, generationsübergreifendes Trauma zu heilen und uns gegenseitig zu feiern."

Die burundische Künstlerin betina quest mag bei ihrem Namen die Kleinschreibung bevorzugen – musikalisch jedoch tritt sie in große Fußstapfen: Nichts weniger als die Neuinterpretation eines Nina Simone-Songs bietet sie mit ihrer aktuellen Single "Four African Women" an. Für das "Update" des ursprünglich 1966 als "Four Women" erschienenen Liedes ging sie dabei gewissermaßen einen Umweg, und griff auf eine textlich überarbeitete Fassung zurück, welche die afroamerikanische Jazz- und Pop-Sängerin Somi 2014 veröffentlichte. Als eine "Hommage an Nina Simone und Somi und auch eine Hommage an jede schwarze Frau, deren Identität und Geschichte die Welt, in der wir heute leben, prägt" versteht betina quest nun ihre ganz eigene Version des Stücks. Diese fügt dem ausdrucksstarken Text über "die vielschichtigen Erfahrungen afrikanischer Frauen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Widerstandskraft gegenüber Unterdrückung" ein neues, kongeniales musikalisches Fundament aus Afro-Soul und elektronischen Elementen hinzu. Ihrem (Künstlerinnen?-)Nachnamen entsprechend, sieht sie sich dabei als Fragende, Suchende, mit einer klaren Aufgabe: "Ich finde, dass Black Womanhood mit einer Verantwortung verbunden ist. Und zwar mit der Verantwortung unsere Geschichten zu erzählen, generationsübergreifendes Trauma zu heilen und uns gegenseitig zu feiern."

Die burundische Künstlerin betina quest mag bei ihrem Namen die Kleinschreibung bevorzugen – musikalisch jedoch tritt sie in große Fußstapfen: Nichts weniger als die Neuinterpretation eines Nina Simone-Songs bietet sie mit ihrer aktuellen Single "Four African Women" an. Für das "Update" des ursprünglich 1966 als "Four Women" erschienenen Liedes ging sie dabei gewissermaßen einen Umweg, und griff auf eine textlich überarbeitete Fassung zurück, welche die afroamerikanische Jazz- und Pop-Sängerin Somi 2014 veröffentlichte. Als eine "Hommage an Nina Simone und Somi und auch eine Hommage an jede schwarze Frau, deren Identität und Geschichte die Welt, in der wir heute leben, prägt" versteht betina quest nun ihre ganz eigene Version des Stücks. Diese fügt dem ausdrucksstarken Text über "die vielschichtigen Erfahrungen afrikanischer Frauen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Widerstandskraft gegenüber Unterdrückung" ein neues, kongeniales musikalisches Fundament aus Afro-Soul und elektronischen Elementen hinzu. Ihrem (Künstlerinnen?-)Nachnamen entsprechend, sieht sie sich dabei als Fragende, Suchende, mit einer klaren Aufgabe: "Ich finde, dass Black Womanhood mit einer Verantwortung verbunden ist. Und zwar mit der Verantwortung unsere Geschichten zu erzählen, generationsübergreifendes Trauma zu heilen und uns gegenseitig zu feiern."

Die burundische Künstlerin betina quest mag bei ihrem Namen die Kleinschreibung bevorzugen – musikalisch jedoch tritt sie in große Fußstapfen: Nichts weniger als die Neuinterpretation eines Nina Simone-Songs bietet sie mit ihrer aktuellen Single "Four African Women" an. Für das "Update" des ursprünglich 1966 als "Four Women" erschienenen Liedes ging sie dabei gewissermaßen einen Umweg, und griff auf eine textlich überarbeitete Fassung zurück, welche die afroamerikanische Jazz- und Pop-Sängerin Somi 2014 veröffentlichte. Als eine "Hommage an Nina Simone und Somi und auch eine Hommage an jede schwarze Frau, deren Identität und Geschichte die Welt, in der wir heute leben, prägt" versteht betina quest nun ihre ganz eigene Version des Stücks. Diese fügt dem ausdrucksstarken Text über "die vielschichtigen Erfahrungen afrikanischer Frauen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Widerstandskraft gegenüber Unterdrückung" ein neues, kongeniales musikalisches Fundament aus Afro-Soul und elektronischen Elementen hinzu. Ihrem (Künstlerinnen?-)Nachnamen entsprechend, sieht sie sich dabei als Fragende, Suchende, mit einer klaren Aufgabe: "Ich finde, dass Black Womanhood mit einer Verantwortung verbunden ist. Und zwar mit der Verantwortung unsere Geschichten zu erzählen, generationsübergreifendes Trauma zu heilen und uns gegenseitig zu feiern."

Piše Jože Štucin, bereta Mateja Perpar in Igor Velše. Eden zadnjih, če ne res poslednji družbenokritični pesnik brez dlake na jeziku, a z dlako v juhi zbirke Dvomovinska lirika, je brez dvoma Andrej Rozman Roza, »rdečak«, znajo ugotoviti »rumenčki«, »pisanček«, bodo dahnili ateistični verniki levice, za nas, ljubitelje frajgajsta in vesoljnega duha, ki odpira obzorja prapoka, ognja, ki je zanetil vse, kar obstaja, pa je Andrej Rozman Roza predvsem kremenit ulični gledališčnik, v zasedi tudi poet, ki pije kri vsakršni oblasti ... Knjiga je izšla pri Gogi, kako lucidno, v založbi, kjer so dogodki doma, kjer ima poezija domicil. Tehnično gledano: zbirka je dogodek v mestu Gogi, ki pa ga za potrebe razumevanja lahko preimenujemo v mesto Slovenija. Pesnik se je tu iz neznanega razloga udomačil, njegovo poreklo sega »od bodeče žice pa do Planice, / s piranske Punte v Lendavske gorice« in postal je vaščan te drobne skupnosti, mil in prijazen gromovnik, ki vizitira okolje, ga secira in ponuja v ogled, pa obenem resignirano ugotavlja: »Ko sem hodil skozi mesto / na en siv in mrzel dan, / tisoče ljudi sem srečal, / a je vsak od njih bil sam.« Seveda je pesnik levičar, kakopak, pesnik je napreden pes, ki laja tudi na gospodarja. Mogoče piše z desno roko, tega ne vemo, je pa liberalno bitje, ki se zaveda moči besede, kritik tistih, ki besedo ukradejo in jo postavijo v usta oblasti; pesnik, čista duša, ki zre v svet kot nekakšen ježek, ves napičen in naboden od iskrivih misli, ki »vsakršni vladavini prava« zre v oči in brezkompromisno recitira: »ker greste se demokrate, / nas še za vas je sram, / da tko žaljivo teptate vse, ki so proti vam, / zato je čas, da greste stran.« Citat je nedvomno politično motiviran, nekaj, kar je v srčiki vsake revolucije, a je obenem tudi maska rdeče smrti, glasnik zatona sveta, ki je z rdečo barvo krasil prihodnost in je smrti nadel rdeč obraz. Seveda tu od vsega zastavljenega ne bo nič, ker je glasnik zgolj pesnik, bitje s krili, ki lebdi v sanjah. Ja, pesniku se taka politična aktivacija gotovo ne bo splačala, izplačala se mu tudi ne bo nikoli, »saj v tržno svobodo smo šli / in žejni čez vodo prišli / ker nas je prnesu naš novi idol / hkrati čez in okol«. Upanje se mu kaže edino v verzih in rimah, v dovtipih in umnih klicajih, rad pa je tudi politično bridek, vsakič sproti človeško uravnotežen, a v dani situaciji, ko oblast znova in znova prevzemajo lažnivci in prekucanti, se naivno oprime upanja: »Vsak človek je dragulj / že zdej, / če priložnost dobi, / da zažari (...) ker moč je u nas že zdej.« Ne, ne, šarca, mitraljezíkovo puško, je u(s)meril v zrak in krogle ne bodo pokosile političnih veljakov, ne, svet bo politično cvetel naprej do bridkega konca, ko se bo na nebu pojavil napis: Opusti vsako upanje, ki vstopaš, tvoja domovina je dvomovina in moto sveta je eno samo upanje na konec: »Dvomim, / da je bila / na začetku / beseda. / Prepričan / pa sem, / da je bila / na začetku / konca.« Mimo ljudi hodi pesnik, mimo človeka, še več, odmaknjen je od pesnika-človeka, ki bo v tej navezi zgolj kolateralna škoda kulturne politike, je pa vštric, o, ja, prekleto vštric z vsem. ON je z nami, bi pozivali samotarji. Tam tavajo politikanti, tam se gnetejo povzpetniki, zrak je očiščen resnic, povsod ena sama spletka in laž, a na ulici, tej žlahtni materi vsakdanjosti, se drenjajo navadni ljudje, tako rekoč mimoidoči osebki, po zraku frčijo ptiči, na odru življenja se barve mavrice zmešajo v rozasto, tako, ki zajema vse odtenke ... A omenjena pozicija je samo en del zbirke Andreja Rozmana Roze Dvomovinska lirika. Pesniku se zdi pomembnejša skrb za slovenski jezik. Poigrava se s purističnimi brusi, ki znajo jezik zamoriti do neuporabnosti. No, če tu kot bralci vklopimo sociolingvistični čut, se spet pokaže v ozadju – politika. Vseeno kakšna, jezikovna, nacionalna, komunalna, medčloveška, domovinska ... vedno udari ven politika, ki je (smo šli preverit, glede na bogatijo interpretacij, ki se vsujejo iz Frana) poplava pomenov (...) del življenja. Človek, bralec poezije, se s temi formulacijami težko sooči. Naj obvelja prva, kjer slovar pravi, da je to »urejanje družbenih razmer, odločanje o njih s pomočjo države in njenih organov«. Ampak dajmo na stran ta državotvorni aspekt. Tu ni ne konca ne kraja debat, tema se ne more kosati s poezijo, če odmislimo, da je svet pogosto samozadosten tudi brez parlamenta, besedne hiše, kjer se veliko govori in malo pove. Roza o tem ve vse, njegovih stališč pa ni mogoče kar tako staliti v vodeno lužico. Gremo torej od začetka. Roza je aktivist non plus ultra ... Zavzeto se postavi na vogal in kliče resnico, kliče poštenje in pravico. Tam recitira vsem v brk, vsak, ki se mu približa, bo deležen njegove kose, ki kosi samo z besedami, ubija muhe s pikami in vejicami, klati neumnosti z narodovega drevesa in sakramensko resno upa, da bo slišan. Seveda ne bo; zgolj v omejenih dozah pri enakomislečih, to je za prmejduš res, se mu pa zna zgoditi, da se bo opletalo z besedami na njegov račun. Somišljeniki bodo rekli, da je preveč radoživ in metaforičen, nasprotnikom se bo zdel klovnovski in politično neškodljiv, bratje in sestre po besedi pa mu bodo zamerili predvsem popise dnevnopolitične krajine, ki že po naravi nima neke vrednosti. Le-ta, kot vemo, je krajše sape kot muha enodnevnica, ki ji vsak mrzel piš lahko skrajša življenje na hip in trenutek. Ampak vsi se bodo strinjali, Roza je en sam, unikaten poet in gledališčnik, ki svetu nastavlja zrcalo, četudi se v njem pogosto ogleduje le sam.

SojuTalk is back at it again as we discuss releases from Fromis 9, Somi, and Lightsum! As always, the Crew keeps you up to date with all the recent Kpop News/Events. And you know we gonna get hype as we declare this week's Spice King and give our State of the Nation!!!  Links ◆Email - sojutalkpodcast@gmail.com ◆Discord - discord.gg/3rb74x4 ◆Patreon - patreon.com/sojutalk Timestamps ◆Intro - 0:00 ◆Big New Releases - 1:20 ◆Spice King - 34:20 ◆Show Winners - 39:25 ◆News - 42:22 ◆Afterhours - 1:18:42

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: bop from Dick Griffin; Thad Jones & the Prestige All-Stars; saxophone virtuosity from Nicole Glover; Baka polyphony; polyphonies from. the Solomon Islands; from South Africa: T. Y. Boys, Mahlatini & the Mahotella Queens, and Somi; Kerfala Brothers & Bonga (from Angola); Johnny Dyani solo; Louis Moholo's Viva la Black; Mahmoud El Idrissi (Moroccan pop singer/composer); Haja El Hamdaouia (Moroccan vocalist); Eva Salina perfroms Bajramoviç; Karen Barca Quartet;   and of course, much, much more!! Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19138871/Conference-of-the-Birdshttps://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19138871/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com  

Somi doesn't normally go through her husband's things, but their house has been so cluttered, she's going to lose her mind. From the back of their closet, she comes across old VHS tapes and a VHS player that she doesn't recognize. Home movies, old memories? She pushes the tape in and presses play. The screen lights up. It's a bed and two naked bodies. Her husband… and another girl laying next to him. There are words written all over both of their bodies in thick marker, words like ‘Prince' and ‘King.' Then Somi sees the blood. The girl has a long slice down her private area; she's bleeding, trembling, completely terrified. The male—her husband's voice—snaps at the girl, “Endure it even if it hurts.” Then he proceeds to SA her. Somi is frozen—but her mind is in overdrive—she can't shake the feeling that she knows the girl—she can't place a name but she recognizes the girl's face. It was the same one on the missing posters in town. The girl in the video was the little, 8-year-old girl that had gone missing a year ago. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are joined by Somi Umolu, an accomplished corporate lawyer, consultant, and entrepreneur, who will also be a panelist at the upcoming JD Alternatives panel for the Break Into Law School Conference this June. Somi shares her journey from working in big law to exploring various entrepreneurial ventures, leveraging her law degree to create a fulfilling career. Learn about the value of mentors, the courage needed to make career transitions, and the importance of building a life that feels good, not just looks good. See how a legal mentor can change your life.

On this episode of Wellspringwords: The Podcast, Nkem sits with old friend, artist, and art curator Somi Nwandu to share a conversation on mental wellness, creative wellness, and spiritual nourishment. The topic of mental wellness is still associated with shame and stigma, despite how mainstream it seems to be. Nkem and Somi candidly and with compassion share their experiences, journeys, and hopes for personal and community exploration around the subject. Some of the themes they discuss are: navigating shame, guilt, and comparison in the creative wellness journey; living between worlds as an artist and the importance of cultivated Light; creating a network of Life in community, and so much more. Tune in and enjoy! Be sure to share this episode with loved ones and friends. Any insight into mental health issues is valuable to our collective human experience.Use code PODCAST20 for 20% off your single 1-1 coaching session. Let's extract the wisdom and magic of your creative expression together.Let us know what this episode brought to mind or heart for you in a podcast review, on Instagram, or via email at bewell@wellspringwords.love. Be well!View this episode's complete shownotes on our website here: www.wellspringwords.love/podcast------------Find Somi here:@sominwanduSeason 2 episode with Somi: Art as Your Interpretation of Life + Living in Fulfillment with Somi Find Wellspringwords here: www.wellspringwords.love/ @wellspringwords ------------Find Nkem here: www.bynkem.co/ @naturallyfree123 ------------Don't forget to rate, review, share and subscribe! Want to show more love? Leave us a tip to support this growing platform. :)

A firm believer that mindset is key to weight loss and maintenance, clinical psychologist Dr. Rose Huber plays a crucial role in mentally preparing bariatric surgery patients for their transformative journeys.Dr. Huber creates a welcoming environment where patients can be themselves, allowing her to understand the life stressors that impact their relationship with food.When she's not preparing Dr. Reza Keshavarzi's bariatric surgery patients for surgery, Dr. Huber is running her own pre-surgical psychology practice, SoMi, helping patients and surgeons across Florida and Texas.To learn more about Dr. Rose HuberFollow Dr. Huber on Instagram @somipsychologyABOUT MEET THE DOCTOR The purpose of the Meet the Doctor podcast is simple.  We want you to get to know your doctor before meeting them in person because you're making a life changing decision and time is scarce. The more you can learn about who your doctor is before you meet them, the better that first meeting will be. When you head into an important appointment more informed and better educated, you are able to have a richer, more specific conversation about the procedures and treatments you're interested in. There's no substitute for an in-person appointment, but we hope this comes close.Meet The Doctor is a production of The Axis. Made with love in Austin, Texas.Are you a doctor or do you know a doctor who'd like to be on the Meet the Doctor podcast?  Book a free 30 minute recording session at meetthedoctorpodcast.com.

SummaryIn this video, Somi Arian shares what it takes to build a billion-dollar company. Learn about scalability, agencies, and more! If you're wondering how to make your business successful, this video is a must-watch!TakeawaysWhen starting a business, think about what people want and how you can provide it to them in a more efficient way than your competitors.Building a personal brand on LinkedIn involves creating valuable content, listening to what resonates with your audience, and associating with industry experts.Even with limited resources, it is possible to build a good enough personal brand by taking risks, being consistent, and focusing on content creation.The choice between running a bootstrapped company or a venture-backed unicorn depends on personal preferences and the stage of life one is in.Investors should consider the potential of female founders and not let biases or polished pitches overshadow their potential for success.Chapters00:00 Trailer01:30 Who is Somi Arian 06:30 Understanding Scalable vs Non-Scalable Businesses11:30 Why agency business are not scalable 14:50 Competing in the SaaS Market18:40 Building a Network of VCs and LPs20:20 Building Successful Businesses in Different Verticals23:55 Giving People What They Want26:25 Building a Personal Brand on LinkedIn31:35 Building a Personal Brand on a Limited Budget37:07 Choosing Between a Bootstrapped Company and a Venture-Backed Unicorn40:19 EndingConnect with Mudassir

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Greg & Shaun Borowsky are songwriters and music producers from South Africa, signed to Sony Music Publishing New York. Together, the brothers have been the creative producers and writers behind some of South Africa's biggest SAMA-winning artists, having earned a Grammy Award Nomination, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Naledi Award, a Loerie Award Nominations, Metro FM Best R&B Award Nomination, and a Channel O Africa Best R&B Award Nomination. Bongi Duma wrote additional music and lyrics for Mandela and is an accomplished performer composer and arranger and can currently be seen on Broadway in The Lion King. He has worked with the likes of Miriam Makeba, Angelique Kidjo, Somi, Michael Frenti and many more.

Celebrating Black History Month: Oscar Peterson, Molly Johnson, Big Miller, Wes Montgomery, Sélène Saint-Aimé, Rhoda Scott, Lakecia Benjamin, Lionel Loueke, Reuben Rogers & Eric Harland, Somi, Sargeant X Comrade, Afrika Mamas, Jah'Mila, seed., and Johnathan BlakePlaylist: Oscar Peterson - Soft WindsMolly Johnson - Whatever Lola WantsBig Miller, featuring Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Phil Woods, Ben Webster, Plas Johnson, Kenny Burrell, Jim Hall, Jimmy Jones, Red Mitchell, Elvin Jones, Jo Jones & Mel Lewis - Five O'Clock BluesWes Montgomery - Blue 'N' BoogieSélène Saint-Aimé - Arawak UhuruRhoda Scott - Blue LawLakecia Benjamin - TraneLionel Loueke, featuring Reuben Rogers & Eric Harland - SkylarkSomi - Lakutshon'ilangaSargeant X Comrade - StagesAfrika Mamas - Uzitshela Ukuthi UyaziJah'Mila - Liberskaseed., featuring Mr. Ekow - Interplanetary MigrationJohnathan Blake - Passage

Welcome to Perimenopause WTF! Today we are talking about Fertility, Perimenopause, & Beyond. Essential insights every 35+ millennial should be aware of. Dr. Somi Javaid & Dr. Asima Ahmad broach the topic of what every millennial should know and ask about perimenopause. Knowing what to expect will prevent women from being caught off guard. The truth is that women today do now know enough about this topic, so listen in to get empowered & informed!  We never hold back so neither should you! Send in a voice message question:  Perimenopause WTF! brought to you by perry!  perry is a safe space for connections, support, new friendships and occasional laughs during the menopause transition. It's a #1 perimenopause app where you will meet other warriors who understand.  Sharing experiences will help to feel ‘normal' again. No, you're not crazy and no, you are not alone. With our network of wonderful menopause experts, we have gathered an abundance of  evidence-based knowledge, articles, podcasts and a new book: The Perry Menopause Journal. To learn more visit: www.heyperry.com https://perry.app.link/perimenopausewtf The Perimenopause Journal Are you looking for a meaningful way to prioritize your well-being during this crucial phase of your life? Do you crave self-care practices tailored specifically to the ups and downs of perimenopause? The journal offers: 1️⃣ Thoughtful Prompts: 2️⃣ Progress tracking: 3️⃣ Evidence-based knowledge  4️⃣ Community Support To grab a journal visit:  heyperry.com/theperrymenopausejournal or amzn.to/3Nt1YYR

In this episode of Money Tales, our guests are Lynne Twist and Sara Vetter. Lynne and Sara call themselves “work wives” who run the Soul of Money Institute and the Pachamama Alliance. They observe that society perpetuates the myth of scarcity—insisting there's never enough time, money, love, or fulfillment. Lynne and Sara work each day to challenge that automatic and unconscious assumption. In our conversation, they unpack the implications of living in a society where the economy often takes precedence over ecology. Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling, award winning book "The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life”, and her newest book, “Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself”. Over the past 40 years Lynne has worked with over 100,000 people in 50 countries in the arenas of fundraising with integrity, conscious philanthropy, strategic visioning and having a healthy relationship with money. Her clients include Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, the International Unity Church, Charles Schwab, United Way, The National Black theater of Harlem, Harvard University and others. A sought-after speaker, she has presented for the United Nations Beijing Women's Conference, State of the World Forum, Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Governor's Conference on California Women, among others. A recognized global visionary, Lynne has been an advisor to the Desmond Tutu Foundation, and The Nobel Women's Initiative. Lynne is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the "Woman of Distinction" award from the United Nations. Lynne is a co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance — a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture. In addition, Lynne serves on a number of nonprofit boards including the Fetzer Institute, The Institute of Noetic Sciences, Bioneers, Conscious Capitalism and Women's Earth Alliance. From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, Lynne's on-the-ground work has brought her a deep understanding of the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in. Sara Vetter is the Business Development Director of the Soul of Money Institute and is a coach, consultant, workshop leader, keynote speaker and strategist. She is also the Major Gift Fundraiser for the Pachamama Alliance. Sara has had experience in advertising, marketing and sales with several magazines including LA Magazine and the Disney Channel. Sara has been coaching, consulting and leading workshops with SOMI Author and Founder Lynne Twist since 2001. She has become a key player in all the initiatives of the institute. Her leadership doubled business revenues in recent years and also significantly expanded revenue for Pachamama Alliance. Sara is an experienced SOMI facilitator of workshops, fundraisers, journeys and retreats. She also leads several of the Pachamama Alliance Transformational Educational programs. Sara has played a leadership role with the Nobel Women's Initiative, she has co-led delegations to Dharamsala, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia. As the major gift fundraiser for the Pachamama Alliance, Sara has led and participated in more than 19 delegations and immersion trips to the Amazon Rainforest. She has raised millions of dollars for the Pachamama Alliance and the Nobel Women's Initiative and is a consummate fundraiser.

This week our guest is the incomparable Mark Sleboda! You can find me and the show on social media by searching the handle @DrWilmerLeon on X (Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd All our episodes can be found at CTDpodcast.com.   Transcript: Dr Wilmer Leon (00:48): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon. I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they occur in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historical context in which most events take place. During each episode of this podcast, my guests and I will have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between current events and the broader historic context in which they occur. This will enable you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode, we will discuss the recent belt and road form for international cooperation. Recently, over 500 people were killed as a result of an Al Ali Arab Hospital bombing in Gaza. And the US has provided Ukraine long range attack s missiles for insight into this. Let's turn to my guest. He's a Moscow based international relations and security analyst, mark Sloboda. Mark, let's connect some dots. Mark Sleboda (01:58): Pleasure to on connecting the dots. Dr Wilmer Leon (02:02): So Russian President Putin recently went to Beijing to participate in the third Belt and Road forum for international cooperation. Mark, how significant was this meeting? Mark Sleboda (02:17): Yeah, so I think that this meeting was significant for a number of reasons. First, for President Putin on a personal situation, it is the first time that he has left Russia since the Wess pushed international criminal court charged Vladimir Putin with the crime of helping families and caretakers in East Ukraine move their own children out of the range of Kiev regime artillery that had been bombing them for the last 10 years, also known as abducting children, which evidently is a crime when Russia does it in a time of conflict, but is not a crime when the US does it, when they move thousands of children out of Afghanistan and many thousands of children out of Vietnam in a previous generation of conflict. But besides that, the Russian Chinese relationship bilaterally, I think is probably the most important bilateral relationship for both countries. And both presidents seem to have a good working relationship, often described as a friendship and a deep understanding with each other. (03:47) And each time one of the others has been reelected to their positions. The first country that they go to is each other's, and I think that is a symbolic sign of the relationship, how important it is with each other's countries. But in a wider perspective, this Belt and Road Forum summit, it is actually the 10th anniversary of China's launching of the Belt and Road Project with the goal of which is to build deep infrastructure all along certain geographic pathways along a lot of what could have been considered the old Silk Road to facilitate trade and connections between the countries of this part of the world. And this is something that China does wherever it goes and does business is build infrastructure because it considers that as a long-term investment, not only in the process of conducting trade, but of helping their trade partner develop to a level where they can better trade with each other. (05:09) So physical infrastructure, but also schools, hospitals, things like this. Now a lot of Russian and Chinese and many other countries, leaders have done a lot about talking about the construction of a new, more multipolar, fairer and more equitable world order. And this would stand, I think, in contradiction and an obvious opposition to the current rules based orders. We make the rules, we give the orders of US led Western global hegemony, but in this emerging, shall we say, nascent being born multipolar world order, there are several countries that come to the fore as the first among equals, but certainly China and Russia, our foremost political drivers amongst that. And China stands of course head above the rest if only in terms of their population and their economic strength, which by many measures already exceeds that of the United States. And if there is a meeting and a display of this alternate world order of which China is playing such an important part, a China centric world order, if you want to call it, that was on display in this Belt and road summit. (07:00) It was a bringing together of all the countries participating in this physical implementation of a more multipolar world order. The only Western leader in attendance, very interestingly is the right wing prime minister of Hungary, the foreign policy black sheep, victor or Bond who has refused to participate in the West's proxy war in Ukraine. And its existential economic war of sanctions weaponizing its control of the global financial and economic architecture against Russia, primarily from a Hungarian national interest perspective rather than any great love of Russia or the Russian president, which is I think a position that most people would agree is something that should be something that every world leader should aspire to, that they put their own nation's interest and people above all others. Although in the current world that's not even specific. It's not, we know that it's not the case. Dr Wilmer Leon (08:25): Just asked Olaf Schultz in Germany that question you mentioned each time gee and Putin get elected, we keep hearing from Western narrative, particularly from Biden authoritarians, authoritarians G is an authoritarian, Putin is an authoritarian, can just briefly explain the fact that they're elected, they don't control their elections. They have different electoral processes than we do. They have different democratic constructs than we have, but that doesn't mean that they're authoritarian. Mark Sleboda (09:14): Yeah, I mean this is a label that is tapped on essentially to any country now that lies outside of US-led western global hegemony that does not align itself and does not meet the West's self-reflective standard of what democracy looks like. And it really, it is a way of exerting moral superiority. The idea that we are both morally and systemically superior than those people over there who are our adversaries in a different time. It was communists of course, and there have been other labels in history and certainly labels are applied to the Western countries. They are imperialists. They are hegemons. This is a standard othering device. I live in Russia, I immigrated to Russia from the United States, and I have lived here for most of two decades. And I have to be honest, after having some experience as a volunteer for the US Democratic Party, I find that politics in Russia on a whole is no more or less substantive than the democratic nature beneath the sheets of politics in the United States. I don't want to go out of the way to make it seem like it's a democratic utopia or anything like that far from it. But on a whole, knowing the warts inside and out of political systems in US and Europe and now Russia, I think that over in a general context that they're expressed themselves roughly equally. There is Dr Wilmer Leon (11:18): Politics plus they also reflect the intricacies of their cultures. And so I was having a conversation with some folks a couple of days ago and I said they were, oh, well G is an authoritarian. And I said, well, I've seen polls from Harvard and Princeton and some other western universities that show like 96% of Chinese people like their government. And I think it was 87% of Russians polled like their government support government. So if it's working for them, then who in the world am I to say that it's not good, it's not right, or what we have is better. I know Joe Biden would love to see 60% approval rating, let alone 96% approval rating. Mark Sleboda (12:15): Yeah, I think not only approval of the current government, but I've seen similar polls that asking peoples of different countries whether they think they live in a democracy and quite overwhelmingly, certainly over the 50% margin, the people of Russia feel they live in a democracy and certainly the people in China do as well to an even greater degree. Again, it doesn't look like western liberal democracy, but perhaps you could consider it of a more technocratic bureaucratic nature. But as you point out, there is a thousand multi-thousand year history of Chinese bureaucratic constructs that they are laying their future and their choices on top of. Meanwhile, in the United States, people generally feel that they don't live in a democratic system, that their government is not responsive to their needs and interests. And you could say that that is, oh, I mean all the people in Russia and China are ignorant. (13:35) They don't know the real situation of what they live and what we live in. And I got to tell you, Russian people, even Chinese people, despite the great Chinese firewall, their coordinate of the internet generally have a far higher degree of reading and understanding western media than the other way around. That is they hear our perspective and thoughts, but as Westerners, you quite often don't hear at least on your own media unless you go actively looking for it, the opinions and perspectives of other countries. So I think that assumption that all the people over in that other part of the world, they don't live in a real democracy and that they think they do is only a sign of how brainwashed and ignorant they are compared to us enlightened people on the shining city on the hill. That is a hallmark of the supremacist ideology of exceptionalism that unfortunately has come to dominate not American political culture, but I think far more important, the American political elite, the ruling class. And that has disastrous consequences for us foreign policy and the world. Dr Wilmer Leon (15:05): You are absolutely right. I've been to Iran twice and was very blessed to lecture at probably somewhere between 10 and 15 universities throughout the country. And as I traveled throughout Iran, I was amazed at how well informed the questions that these students asked me. They were right on it, man, in terms of an understanding of the politics of the moment. And again, the questions that they asked me were spot on. It indicated that they were going beyond the rhetoric, they were going beyond the talking points. And it was shocking to me how well-informed in spite of the wall that you talk about in terms of the internet, they were on point, man. Mark Sleboda (16:11): Yeah, I think it's interesting that this label is applied to adversaries like Russia and China, Russia, which has opposition parties and elections. They don't do very good right now because since the economic catastrophe of the nineties, I think the Russian population has been more united in their political vision of a path out of that and forward and retaking what they see as their place in the world after the self dissolution of the Soviet Union. That will not last forever. And a lot of people question whether it will last after Putin at all. But there is opposition political structures. The biggest opposition political party in Russia is the communist party of the Russian Federation, which polls generally somewhere around 15% of the population. And in foreign policy, it must be said, they largely agree with the current government of Vladimir Putin, but in domestic issues, they constantly fight for the Duma for things that leftist parties always fight for, more social benefits, more spending on education and medicine and other things. And if anything, I think probably the communists would probably, if they were leading the country, would probably take a more hard line foreign policy position than the current government. I think that when the US Dr Wilmer Leon (18:02): Speak to that, because a lot of people listening this will say, wait a minute, a harder line than Vladimir Putin. Oh my God. You can't get a harder line than that when the people making those observations have never listened to the man, have never read any of the speeches that he's given. And so they, again, he's evil, he's insane, all of these, he's a dictator, all of these kinds of things. Mark Sleboda (18:36): Yeah. Again, the fact that they don't hear what Vladimir Putin has to say for himself because the western media specifically does not reproduce it for them. And I have to say that Russian media does this. I mean, there are still government funded projects in Somi that translate word for word western articles in print media and televised and put it out there for Russians to listen to, not only from the United States and Europe, but from all over the world. That tradition doesn't exist on the west. It's not that it is banned, although in some cases in Europe, Artie and Sputnik are banned, aren't they? Or everything is done to take them off the airwaves as is done in the United States, and of course not just with RT and Sputnik, but now with press TV from Iran. And there are calls of course to do the same to the Chinese CCTV and now even Al Jazeera in the current climate because as the state media arm of Qatar, they are now seen as being anti-Israeli. (19:55) So a very similar phenomenon is now taking place. And in a previous conflict, there was very much the same argument being made about Al Jazeera over the situation in Iraq. So this rears its head regularly, but why is the authoritarian label not linked to actual authoritarian countries? That is dictatorships, that are politically geopolitically allied with the United States, right? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, these are states that are starting to diversify their foreign policy. Saudi joining Brix and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a dialogue partner and identifying China as their most important trade partner, but still they are very much linked to the United States, and certainly they have been for decades. Qatar has a giant US army base, similarly in Kuwait, the UAE. Why are the actual monarchic oligarchic dictators of these countries not referred to as authoritarian? Because the label is more about oppositional geopolitical alignment than it is in domestic, Dr Wilmer Leon (21:27): Domestic government leadership, Mark Sleboda (21:29): Any real assessment of their domestic political system. And I have to Dr Wilmer Leon (21:34): Say mbss is chopping heads. I mean Mark Sleboda (21:38): Literally as a chopping more than heads, these bones aren't sorry. Right. As a veteran, well, I'm both a military, a US military veteran and shall we say a veteran of the US political system with all the warts that the US political system has with its systemic suppression of third party movements. And I'm talking, I mean Americans don't even know this for the most part, but their own two parties of power, the Republicans and Democrats regularly sue third parties to keep them off the ballot, right? I mean, they regularly go to court every election cycle to keep them off the ballot and the whole structure of 50 separate elections and the intricacies run by the party in power, either the Republicans or the Democrats in the state does everything possible to prevent the emergence of any other voice than those two and the electoral college and the eternal problems with campaign finance and lobbying. But Americans somehow feel their political systemic superiority so strongly that they don't even think when their political and media elites judge the political system of another country. And as far as most Americans reflexively are concerned, they think they are the only democratic country on earth and the only good people, which is really kind of another iteration of we are the chosen people of God, political meme throughout history. Dr Wilmer Leon (23:35): What is more authoritarian than not having a presidential primary in a system that is based on primaries? What is more of a dictatorship than imposing Joe Biden upon Democrats instead of holding a primary look at what the Democrats did to Bernie Sanders during the Hillary Clinton campaign, hence Julian Assange's email leaks, which demonstrated all the machinations that the Clinton campaign went through to see to it that Bernie Sanders could not become the Democrat nominee. What is more authoritarian than that? Mark Sleboda (24:28): I got to tell you. Dr Wilmer Leon (24:31): Am I right? Mark Sleboda (24:32): Yeah, you're absolutely right. And I don't want to go too much myself into US domestic politics because Dr Wilmer Leon (24:40): I just raised that Mark Sleboda (24:40): As examples myself from that. I don't want to cast stones. I don't necessarily feel that it's my place to, but I'm actually a confession. I'm originally from Scranton, Wilkesboro, Pennsylvania. That's where I was born. Anyway, that's also Joe Biden's hometown, where he was born. And I distinctly remember the video. I mean, I was too young at the time to remember it politically, of course, but I've seen the videos of Joe Biden running for Congress admitting open, right, that the system is corrupt, that corrupt people are elected to office, and that at the time, the only reason he wasn't corrupt is because he wasn't given the money by the oligarchs, by the rich of the country that he had asked for because he was too untested of yet, but that if he was, he would've taken, I mean, I think there is no greater condemnation of the US political system than admissions like that coming from the very seat of the president, or I mean, shall we take the words of prior presidents Jimmy Carter coming right out and saying, America is no longer a democracy. It is an oligarchy. Dr Wilmer Leon (26:11): You mentioned that President Putin went to China for the conference and that this was the first time that he had left the country in quite a while. That to me speaks volumes in how comfortable he must be in the midst of the Russia, Ukraine conflict. His country is at war, and he feels comfortable enough to leave his go to China for a couple of days. That to me says that he's comfortable not only in his position domestically, but he's also comfortable in his country's position internationally. Mark Sleboda (26:59): Yeah, I don't think Putin does. He perfectly understands, I think as a leader what he knows and what he doesn't know. And he has made it quite clear that he does not micromanage his generals in the conflict and in the intervention, the special military operation as they call it in Ukraine, the intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict that has been going on for a decade. Also, of course, neither Russia nor China, nor it must be said, or the United States or India, are signatories to the Rome statute of the international criminal court. So that is not an issue on the trip. In fact, when the international criminal court tried to bring charges against the US, US leaders and military leaders for crimes, alleged crimes, yeah, committed in Afghanistan, in Iraq, they sanctioned the court, they sanctioned the judges, they sanctioned the prosecutor, they threatened to remove funding from the United Nations. They put arrest warrants out for the judges and the prosecutor until the issue was withdrawn. From my understanding is there were even threats made against the families and lives of Dr Wilmer Leon (28:44): SDA was the judge. Yes. I don't remember her first name, but her last name is sda, and her family was sanctioned and threatened. Mark Sleboda (28:54): Yes. So I don't place any credits to that. And one of the reasons I don't place any credits on these charges is anything more than an instance of geopolitical capture of a un institution, which unfortunately happens far more often than it should. But my full disclosure, my wife is from Crimea, which is considered, at least according to the us, to still be part of Ukraine. And we have family all over East Ukraine, and there are some 5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia. And that is a side of that conflict. The fact that there has been a civil conflict in that country since the openly US backed overthrow of the government there in 2014 is the internal divide in that country. And again, I know Americans think that through their propaganda bubble of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the ancient three networks and Fox and CNN, that they have a better idea what is going on in Ukraine than most Russians do. No, they don't because there are 5 million Ukrainians living in Russia who tell them all the time on tv, in media and in person because of how much families are interrelated on both sides of the border, they know far, far more about what is happening and has been happening politically in that country, not only for the last year or two, but of course going back decades. And it is the height of hubris, I think, to think otherwise. Dr Wilmer Leon (30:48): Switching gears a bit, recently, over 500 people were killed as a result of the Al Ali Arab Hospital bombing in Gaza. And we are seeing this escalation of the conflict in occupied Palestine. As I've been listening to President Xi, as I've been listening to President Putin, they have been trying to find a way to first of all bring about a ceasefire and second of all, negotiate a settlement. I listened to Joe Biden talk about peace, but all he really seems to say is we back Israel a hundred percent. We'll provide more weapons into the region, but we need to have peace. So Mark Sleboda (31:44): Go ahead. Joe Biden has also said, you don't need to be Jewish to be a Zionist. And I think Dr Wilmer Leon (31:49): And has said very clearly that he is a Zionist Mark Sleboda (31:52): And has said that if Israel did not exist, then the United States would have to create it to pursue its interests in the Middle East because it serves such as a convenient platform for the US projection of power into the Middle East. Dr Wilmer Leon (32:11): Wait a minute, lemme throw one more in there. Tony Blinken said the last time that he was in the region, he said, I am not only here as a Secretary of state, I am here as a Jew. So forget independent thinking. Forget being a neutral arbiter here in a Jewish state. That sounds more like imperialism and Mark Sleboda (32:38): Neocolonialism than anything. Mark Sabota. Yeah. Tony Blinken also by the way, mentioned that his family were originally from Russia and that they left the country, his grandfather because of pilgrims in Russia. And I'm really interested in the timing of pilgrims and his grandfather because certainly in the distant past there were pilgrims against Jews in Russia as there were many countries, but within the lifespan of his grandfather, it would make me really seriously question that characterization and feel he's inflating his family's political disagreements within the country. But that certainly also says in the current tensions with Russia in Ukraine and the proxy war there, that he also has a personal ax to grind as do so many people driving US foreign policy on the region like Victoria Newland, whose own family is originally from Ukraine, so there is that as well. But Putin, the Russia has already put forward at the UN Security Council a resolution calling for immediate ceasefire, and this was shot down by the US and Western countries with the US saying that the resolution could not, they couldn't vote for it because it did not criticize Hamas enough, which is obviously the most important thing when you're trying to craft a ceasefire to stop people from actively killing each other. (34:24) Russia and China have been in lockstep on their calls from this. They to a certain extent have been trying to be neutral in the sense that they are refraining from, I think overt criticism of one side or the other in the interest of attaining that ceasefire. Brazil, by the way, also put forward a UN security council resolution calling at least then for humanitarian ceasefires. And that was actually vetoed by the United States as well as France and the UK in lockstep there. Russia and China have been clear, while they don't support the tactics of Hamas, they feel that this is just the latest consequence of a long-term policy of a pretense of a peace process while backed by to the hilt by the us. Israel goes about its process of what it calls settlers, which is a policy of ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine, of the Palestine. (35:41) America, of course, does not recognize the state of Palestine, Russia and China both do, and they think they've made it clear that this is a result of the West, the world, but most importantly the West because they're not do it, not recognizing the Palestinian state, not granting its sovereignty and its own borders, and its right, of course, to defend its own country and borders and people a right that they extend to Israelis, but not to Palestinians. Because you'll hear from multiple US politicians and political elite that they don't believe that the Palestinians are a people to, which I would say you really, really need to go visit Gaza or the West Bank then. And Americans also seem to not understand, and I'm not so sure it would make a difference, maybe it would that a third of the Palestinians are actually Christians. I mean, would that help their perception, help them get past the inherent Islamophobia involved in the issue? (36:54) I don't know, but maybe people should point that out to them that it might help the situation some. But yeah, Russia and China have been quite clear net. Putin has talked to Netanyahu. He has also of course talked to the Palestinian leader, ABAs in the West Bank, and his government has been in contact with Hamas and the other political factions in Gaza. He's also been nonstop on the phone with every major Arab and other world leader that has interests in this conflict, Iran, Hezbollah the like. And he has been trying to do his best towards trying to come to some kind of sane cessation of hostilities. But instead, what we get obviously from the Biden administration, from the eu, the Western countries in general, is they have obviously given a green light to Israel to do a ground operation in Gaza. And Israel has demanded of the, it's a city of some more than 2 million people that has been rightly called the world's largest concentration camp or an open air prison with walls built around it. The real solution is the recognition of the Palestinian state, and that's the only way to relieve the pressure of the people in Gaza. Dr Wilmer Leon (38:59): One of the things that I found incredibly telling and quite a contrast was as Tony Blinken was on his Middle Eastern tour talking to US allies, the foreign minister of Iran was on his tour of the region talking to Iranian allies. In fact, lemme take a step back. When Trump assassinated Qem soleimani, the revered Iran in general, Iran said, we will retaliate. And a lot of people thought that that meant, oh my goodness, well, over the next few days, Iran's going to do something and Iran didn't do anything. Now we've got Tony Blinken, he was on his trip. Joe Biden was there on his trip, and at the same time, the Iranian foreign minister was talking to Iranian allies, and now the Iranian foreign minister has come out and said, Israel, your time is up. Talk about what an even height, another escalation of this conflict could mean in the region and what it could mean in the world. Mark Sleboda (40:21): Yeah, there was an interesting article out yesterday in the Financial Times where an anonymous US official acknowledged that as a result of the US and the rest of the West, so wholeheartedly backing Israel in this to the degree that they have, and this obvious green light for the ground operation, which is a ethnic cleansing of Gaza, of the Palestinian population, ordering 1 million people to get out of the way. Of course it's an impossibility, where would they go is the most obvious question, even if you were able to order a million people at a time to leave their houses. But there is an alignment of global sentiment and forces, political forces going on the financial Times. This US official and the Financial Times laments that as a result of this, that this is incredibly damaging to us influence in what the US usually likes to call the global south, where if you think of the West, you think of the rest and he says they will never listen to us again. I mean, if they were already, then we've lost them, not just the Islamic world, but more broadly. And because of the recent reproach month between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the normalization of diplomatic relations, thank Dr Wilmer Leon (42:18): You, China. Mark Sleboda (42:19): Yeah. It's brokered by China and not all peaches and cream. But the last week saw the first direct phone call between the president of Iran and the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, and they both agreed, they expressed a common position on what is happening in Palestine, in Gaza, and is what Israel is doing and how unacceptable it is. And that is already an amazing geopolitical change. Like the world has shifted, and I have to constantly ask myself, is this real right that the world has changed so much? And there's a saying attributed to Lenin that decades pass and nothing changes. And then at other times in weeks, decades pass decades of change ensue. And we're I think, living in one of those periods, one of those latter periods now where things are changing so fast and we Dr Wilmer Leon (43:37): Minute, wait a minute, a minute. Because to that point again, China helped to broker the reproach mon between the Saudis and the Iranians and the United States was in the process of brokering a reproach mon between the Saudis and Israel, and then Hamas attacks Israel and the Saudis say out Israel, that conversation we were about to have, let's put that on hold because that decade of change has taken place in the matter of a day. Mark Sleboda (44:17): Yeah, Saudi Arabia was really looking for under, shall we say, a newly foreign policy mature Moham bin Salman, who has obviously changed himself a lot in recent years from what he was when he first came into power as the heir to the ailing king who has really been running the country. He is looking for a multi-vector foreign policy with a minimal amount of conflict. So he wanted to have the foreign policy options with bricks, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but it doesn't mean that he wanted a complete severance of relations with the United States either. And since the Trump administration, the US has been pushing very, very hard on their policy of trying to get Arab countries to recognize in Israel and to normalize relations, diplomatic relations, and others, which would also be tantamount to accepting Israeli occupation of large parts of Palestine and ever increasingly more so, you can see where the Palestinians probably regarded a normalization deal being pushed by the US between Saudi Arabia and Israel as an existential issue for them. (45:55) Because as by many standards, the most important Sunni Islamic country, because of its holding not only of world's energy reserves with oil, but also the two holy mosques, the way Saudi Arabia goes, the rest of the SUNY Arab world would inevitably follow, and that would end any hope of Arab support for them if this deal went through. It. Also, by the way, the sweetener is a security guaranteed deal with Saudi Arabia, which would effectively elevate Saudi Arabia in security technical terms to the status of the relationship between the US and Israel, IE preferential deals on weapons systems, access to more advanced military technology, full access to intelligence training. Everything that the US provides now to Israel would also be provided at the same level, the same prices and so forth, more or less to Saudi Arabia. That was the sweetener of the deal, and I believe that Hamas' motivation in the, they killed civilians. I mean, there's been a lot of, I think, obvious beheading of babies. That's Kuwaiti incubator, baby type disinformation ized to, but that's not to excuse that they use terrorist tactics. They killed civilians. On the Dr Wilmer Leon (47:36): Other hand, wait a minute, and don't forget the Russian killing of babies in the Ukraine, the women's hospital that wasn't a women's hospital. Mark Sleboda (47:48): That is I think, a case for the point, again, for the way the US wages information war mostly against its own people, which is another fascinating at a rabbit hole to go down. But I mean, it's not to say that Israel doesn't routinely kill, I mean, on an essentially daily basis, Palestinian civilians through its process of settling, ethnic cleansing, political Dr Wilmer Leon (48:18): Oppression, it bulldozers, villages, indiscriminately arrests, detains people without charge, and basically Mark Sleboda (48:29): Regularly summarily executes people who resist that, Dr Wilmer Leon (48:34): Right? Mark Sleboda (48:35): So anyway, I believe that Hamas' primary motivation in launching this attack, a wasting military resources that they had spent years building in secret plans that they had. The timing of this tells me that it was to prevent that Saudi Israeli reproach month deal being pushed by the US from going through, because they saw it as existential for them. And if that was the goal, then it has been successful because as a result of Saudi's disproportionate response to, if Israel had said, we are going to do a targeted anti-terrorist operation in Gaza against the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad leadership who were responsible for this, and the people who carried it out, I think there would've been a very different global reaction to this. If instead we didn't have Israeli leaders saying that we're going to destroy Gaza, that we're going to wipe Gaza off the face of turn it to Dr Wilmer Leon (49:54): Dust, Mark Sleboda (49:54): Dust, and that all Palestinians civilians are the enemy. We heard that from Naftali Bennett. That would've been a very different situation. And there is, I think a much more substantial reaction, not only from the usual suspects, we've heard that from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Sufi, sorry, the Shia organization there. That is demonized wrongly in this particular case because it doesn't use terrorist tactics by the US and Israel, and no country in the world really outside the West as a terrorist organization that if Israel goes a ground operation and begins cleansing Gaza, then Hezbollah will open up a second front war on the Israeli north, and then there will be a two. Iran has voiced very similar that prospects that if the Israeli government's atrocities against the Palestinian people, which as a result right now are approaching 4,000 dead, which by the way is almost four times the number of people that the Hamas' operational s of flood attacks killed four times. (51:35) So obviously proportionality is not an issue when it comes to Israel, but that Iran would feel the need to intervene. We've heard even further, surprisingly, from the government of Jordan and the king of Jordan, right? Not called authoritarian by the way, but because he was educated in Oxford, I mean, he's largely regarded across the Arab world as a western puppet, as a western aligned Arab leader with a very large Palestinian refugee population, and a people who feel very close to that situation. Jordan has come out and said that if Israel looks set to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza as they appear to be planning to do, then Jordan would consider it an act of war. Which I mean, that totally surprised me coming from the modern. Now, a lot of it is probably motivated out of self-interest of the Jordanian king. If I don't react the way my people want me to, they will overthrow me in order to be able to do something. (52:53) But regardless of his personal motivations for it, it is certainly something I did not expect. And if Jordan does, so other countries around will become involved, and then there's the prospect of other countries or say Hezbollah as an organization becomes involved, that the US becomes involved. The US has two aircraft carriers. Well, the second one's steaming on its way to the Israeli coast right now, as well as a marine amphibious expedition ships with some at least 2000 Marines. And Joe Biden has kind of, I don't know on some type of idiotic loop reel, been saying about Hezbollah and Iran don't even, as it shovels tens of billions of dollars of emergency military support of crucial military supplies into Israel. And Biden is calling for 10 billion in military emergency, military or financial aid, sorry to be transferred as well. Russia is sitting there. Russia has military bases in Syria, naval base, several other military bases where it helped prevent a US backed jihadi overthrow of the Syrian government there with the us it must be said, still illegally occupying eastern Syria, east of the river, Syria's oil fields and wheat fields, and Turkey still sitting in northern Syria with a hundred thousand Jihadists still on its payroll. (54:46) But Russia has these military bases in Syria, and it sees the US just down the coast a little bit with two aircraft carriers. And Putin has asked the question, what are you going to do with those two aircraft carriers? And they're resulting fleets, Hezbollah seriously. And Putin was obviously expressing that he doesn't believe that. So Putin ordered that Russian jet fighters, they're most modern variants, fifth gen fighters will now be patrolling the Black Sea, the extent of it with al hypersonic long range missiles that have a range of a thousand kilometers. And he very directly pointed out that fired from the Black Sea that those missiles can hit US aircraft carriers where they're sitting in the Eastern Mediterranean and again, hypersonic. Hypersonic, yeah. So very, very hard to shoot down, if not impossible. And he said, this is not a threat. This is a response. (56:03) And basically he is saying, if you attack Syria, and it has to be said that Israel has already bombed Damascus airport very heavily again, and they've been shelling Southern Lebanon, if you attack our military bases in Syria, then will take out your aircraft carriers, right? I mean, you see where this spiral of escalation is leading, right? Israel goes into Gaza, Hezbollah, maybe Iran go in, Israel conducts cleansing operations in Gaza and Jordan and probably half of the rest of the Arab world join in. They join in, and the US joins in the US attacks Syria as part of this, because Iran power projects through Syria, Russia has bases in Syria. Russia bases get attacked. Russia attacks the US boom. We're in World War III in another conflict, right, that is going on simultaneously with ripple effects from the geopolitical tension and the conflict going on in Ukraine. So all of this has me feeling very much as my used to say, as a long tailed cat in a room full of Dr Wilmer Leon (57:22): Rocks, rocking chairs, and I want to reiterate hypersonic missiles. That means that Joe Biden has basically sent two targets for Russia to attack. Mark Sleboda (57:40): Now, Russia is not going to just attack American aircraft carriers Dr Wilmer Leon (57:45): World Mark Sleboda (57:46): War ii realize. No, I realize that it's meant as a deterrent, Dr Wilmer Leon (57:50): Which, so what is a deterrent that does not deter? Mark Sleboda (57:55): That's a good question. Unfortunately, I think Russia has seen several red lines be crossed in the recent years with the US escalation in Ukraine and hasn't responded, which has led numerous White House officials to say outright, we don't believe in Russian red lines. That means that we can keep poking the bear. And no matter what they do, they won't respond because they fear a nuclear conflict more than we do. That is, well, it's more than madness. It is the death of mad. It is the death of mutually assured destruction, which takes us back to a very early Cold War era that we should all be afraid of. Dr Wilmer Leon (58:44): Just really quickly, we have just about two minutes left, and I'm glad you made that point, because whether it's Ukraine, whether it's Syria, whether it is the Black Sea, the United States seems to continue to believe a, when Vladimir Putin or when Xi Jinping says something, they don't mean it. And when they make a commitment, they will not honor it. And what I have come to see over the years is they don't bluff. They don't play, they don't joke. We got a minute. Mark Sleboda (59:22): Yeah. So how to mesh that difference between, I think demonstrable reality and what the US ruling administration as seeing as their politicized reading of their opponents, that does not match up with reality. That's a recipe for disaster, Dr Wilmer Leon (59:46): Really. Wow. Well, I want to thank my guest, mark Sloboda. Mark, thank you for joining me today. Mark Sleboda (59:54): Thanks for having me, Dr. Leon. It's been an honor and a pleasure to be on the show. Dr Wilmer Leon (59:58): Thank you, mark. Big shout out to my producer, melody McKinley. Thank you so much for joining the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wimer Leon. This is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history, converge talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter on connecting the dots. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share my show, follow me on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. I'll see you next time. Until then, treat each day like it's your last, because one day you'll be right. I'm Dr. Wier Leon. Peace and Blessings. I'm out.

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Dr. Somi Javaid is the Founder and Lead Chief Medical Officer of HerMD, a passionate team on a mission to make women's healthcare exceptional by educating, advocating for, and empowering patients to take control of their health concerns. She is a board-certified OB/GYN, leading women's sexual health thought leader, menopause advocate, and mother who has defied all odds to build her dream and fulfill a mission to care for women. Dr. Javaid has been featured in Forbes, Vogue, Well+Good, InStyle, Parents, Refinery29, Mashable, Adweek, and Popsugar. In August 2020, Dr. Javaid spoke about Gender Bias and the Female Sexual Health Revolution on the TEDx mainstage, and in January 2021 she was featured in Women on Top for her work as a trailblazer and pioneer in women's sexual health. ⁠She is a true menopause maverick, and a benevolent disruptor changing healthcare for women!  If you want to know more about options for getting access to an insurance based model that puts gynecology, menopause, and sexual health under one umbrella, Dr. Javaid is the leading this charge nationwide.  HerMD is a unique evidence-based model aiming to repair that provider-patient relationship with experts in menopause and sexual healthcare.    When they saw patients from 35 states and 3 countries, they knew they had to scale!  On the episode, we talk about The HerMD Founder Journey Dr. Javaid's personal journey with her mother's health as a medical student FemTech / Gender Bias in medicine (changing the status quo) / Barriers to care; how did we get here?  A 2019 survey found that 45% of females didn't think their healthcare professionals took their pain seriously Studies have found that in the emergency department, men wait an average of 49 minutes before receiving pain medication, while women wait an average of 65 minutes Nearly 95% said it was important or very important to be trained to manage menopause Fewer than 7% felt prepared to “manage women experiencing menopause”  20% of respondents reported they had zero menopause lectures during their residencies.  Lack of specialized care means less effective treatment options are offered to patients, leading to poorer outcomes. Key callouts: (Certain barriers underpin the disparities: provider bias, underrepresentation in clinical research trials, lack of access to education, lack of female decision-makers in key spaces, lack of funding) Provider Training - Mayo Clinic HerMD Model Her MD: What makes it different? : More time- 40-60 minutes with providers who are expertly trained in menopause and sexual healthcare  Patients are invited to be  a part of a community and a partner in their care and have a place if adverse events/side effects occur Robes!!!!  Lighting!!!    Her MD University   Her MD University: What is it? A “classroom-to-clinic” experience offering enhanced educational opportunities for both HerMD healthcare professionals and patients alike. HerMD University embraces various educational clusters administered in a multidisciplinary fashion to ensure, above all, the most up-to-date and evidence-based treatment options and optimal health outcomes for HerMD patients. Botox for Vaginismus - NAMs research  95% of participants reported improvement in vaginismus symptomatology 88% reported successful intercourse  95% of participants reported subjective improvement in their overall GSM symptomatology 90% of participants reported improvement in their symptoms (incontinence)  Botulinum Toxin (Botox®) for the Treatment of Vaginismus Utilizing Advanced, Innovative Technologies To Improve Symptoms Associated with Sexual Health and Menopause Conditions LGBTQIA+ Care - creating safe and inclusive spaces  Sexual health care + survivorship 43% of women suffer from some type of sexual dysfunction In 2021, 25.8% of Americans reported having no sex at all in the past year Sexual health is a state of well-being (physically, mentally, emotionally) with respect to sexuality; Sexual health is a basic human right and can support overall health/wellness and enhance quality of life. Sexual Health Care - What is it and why is it important / breaking down the biopsychosocial model of care / brain as the biggest sex organ.   For more information and to book an appt. https://hermd.com/   For more on Dr. Somi Javaid and Her MD Instagram - @HerMDhealth & @somijavaidmd TikTok - @HerMDhealth & @somijavaidmd Youtube - @hermdhealth Linkedin - @hermd & @somi-javaid-md-6834461a1   Disclaimer:  CLITEROLOGY is for general information and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine in any way.  CLITEROLOGY does not constitute professional health care services or medical advice. No doctor/patient relationship is formed as a result of this podcast. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The content of CLITEROLOGY is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard getting medical advice for any such medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any conditions.  

Temperature check! A healthy sex life is a crucial barometer for your overall health. If you are experiencing painful sex, pelvic floor issues, lack of lubrication and arousal, and biggies like vaginismus, lichen sclerosis, and bladder leaks, stop what you're doing and listen to today's show. Women's sexual health pioneer and founder of HerMD, Dr. Somi Javaid, downloads on the latest in sexual wellness high-tech. Think vaginal Botox, lasers, and microneedling, and more. Yup! New solutions for age-old problems exist; this show gets you up to speed! Bonus! Does menopause's hormonal roller coaster have you sprouting unwanted hair? Hear about advances in laser hair growth. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT acertainagepod.com FOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn GET INBOX INSPO: Sign up for our newsletter AGE BOLDLY We share new episodes, giveaways, links we live, and midlife resources CONTACT US: katie@acertainagepod.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Question: What would jazz music sound like if it had been born in a country without patriarchy; taught without bias and performed on a stage with radical inclusivity? That's what jazz titan Terri Lyne Carrington says is the foundation behind Berklee College of Music's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Terri Lyne is the founder and artistic director of the Institute and a professor at Berklee, her alma mater. In this episode of Strictly Jazz Sounds, I spend time with Terri Lyne Carrington, getting deep into this question along with how to lift women and nonbinary individuals in this historically male dominated industry, creating a new bandscape that reveals the multitude of different voices in jazz. Terri Lyne is a drum major for women and nonbinary individuals in the jazz ecosystem. She's also a highly successful drummer/percussionist, a bandleader, composer and producer, an artistic director of a couple of organizations, a writer with two books, and an educator. On Terri Lyne's website, she displays many photos of the extraordinary talent that she met through her musician father's friends. You see her standing between drummers Roy Haynes and Tony Williams; Art Blakey is sitting on the floor next to Terri Lyne while she plays the drums; another has Buddy Rich next to her while she's on the drums. Not your typical teenager's hangout of friends nor upbringing experiences. She readily acknowledges her home environment was one of privilege and enriching for a young prodigy. Terri Lyne dedicates her life to reaching back to today's young women and nonbinary individuals bent on changing the faces of jazz, on and behind the bandstand. We most certainly spend time on her 2023 Grammy winning album New Standards Vol. 1 on the CANDID label and the related book “New Standards Vol. 1: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers,” published by Berklee Press. Two tracks of music from the album are included in this episode. The personnel for the album: Terri Lyne Carrington-drums/percussion; Kris Davis-piano; Linda May Han Oh-bass; Nicholas Payton-trumpet; and Matthew Stevens, guitar.  Uplifted Hearts by Shamie Royston; featuring Ravi Coltrane-tenor sax; Val Jeanty-electronics; Elena Pinderhuges-flute; Negah Santos-percussion; and Shadrack Oppong-spoken word. Throw It Away by Abbey Lincoln; featuring: Somi-vocal; Melanie Charles-vocal; and Negah Santos-percussion. Terri Lyne Carrington's portfolio is extensive, bold, and rich. If you are unfamiliar with it, I encourage you to check it out and listen to her music in her discography. The next episode of Strictly Jazz Sounds will be in early 2024. I'm taking some medical time off until then. This is the first year of this podcast. Thanks so much to all my guests and to you for making this a great year for me. If you have not subscribed, do so. You'll be one of the first to know when a new episode is released. Support live jazz wherever you are. Be safe. Steve Braunginn Thanks to CANDID Records for the music. Photo of Terri Lyne Carrington by Michael Goldman

Deanna Elstrom is a veteran brand marketer, brand strategist, and consumer insights specialist. She started her own consulting business, Somi Insights, three years ago where she combines her love of branding with a fascination of how culture influences human behavior. The Japanese consumer is a key area of Deanna's expertise where she led two major agencies before starting Somi Insights.  We discuss the the Japanese name "Somi" which she coined, we learn the big difference between "insights" and "findings", great examples of how culture influences behavior in Japan, a cultural analysis into why Japan is ranked #58 on the Global Happiness Index, and stories of her first experience in Japan as a teenager and how this  crafted her Japan journey. Other topics we cover:The meaning of "Somi", a made-up Japanese wordJapan and the dilemma of happinessThe difference Somi Insights brings to the Japan marketFindings vs. Insights explanation with examplesOmotenashi and Sustainability balanceShe questions my Japan kitchenware market "insights"  Interesting Japan beauty market discoveries Her favorite untranslatable Japanese word = Yoroshiku OnegaishimasuThe Japanese and Western interpretation of what "home" is"The researcher is the consumer voice, keep the consumer voice as a superpower"  Somi Insights home page: http://somiinsights.comDeanna Elstrom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanna-elstromJapan Adventures via Camper Van = Dream Drive: https://www.dreamdrive.lifeUse the code word "ZEN" to receive discounts

In this episode, we discuss the songs we just can't get enough of–whether they're new releases or just new to us–from some of our faves in the K-pop industry. This episode will cover Fast Forward by Jeon Somi, Bubble by STAYC, and One More Time by BBGIRLS. Stay tuned because we got you covered with the K-bops. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/idoltalkpod/support

Our internal research reveals that customers leveraging Highspot Training & Coaching report a 22% increase in average deal size. So, how can you optimize your training and coaching efforts to impact business results and gain buy-in for enablement from your executive leaders? Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi and welcome to the Win Win Podcast. I'm your host, Shawnna Sumaoang. Join us as we dive into changing trends in the workplace and how to navigate them successfully. Here to discuss this topic is Chelsey Groh, director of enablement and training at Motus. Thanks for joining, Chelsey! I'd love for you to tell us about yourself, your background, and your role. Chelsey Groh: Thank you, Shawnna. Thanks for having me. I’ve been specifically dedicated to enablement and training for about the last three years at Motus. Prior to that, it’s been some sort of version of my role. We all know that enablement is always an evolving force and it looks different at every organization. The last three years it’s been the main focus of what I do on the day-to-day. I am the director of learning and enablement at Motus. We’re a reimbursement company and prior to that, I’ve had about 15 years of SaaS experience in sales. SS: Well, Chelsea, thank you so much for joining us. It sounds like you’ve had a fantastic journey in your enablement career, and I know that you’re about a year into your journey with Highspot. I would love for you to tell us a little bit about that journey so far, and in particular, what were some of the pain points you were experiencing before Highspot? CG: Prior to Highspot, we were seeing a lot of problems in getting things in a really dedicated space that was highly accessible from an enablement perspective, not even just for our selling roles, but across the organization. We were looking for something that we could easily report on and create a combined space that as we move our enablement journey forward at Motus, encompasses everything that we’re doing. One of the things that really attracted us when we were looking at Highspot, as simple as it sounds, was the fact that we could seamlessly move everything over from SharePoint and correct our versioning issue in the blink of an eye. I’d love to tell you that it was this big masterful plan, but it was all made up of the smallest details that paint us on a day-to-day basis that made Highspot a no-brainer for us. SS: Well, I still love to hear that all of those details definitely add up. How have you been able to solve some of those challenges since you’ve implemented Highspot? CG: Some of the big things that we’ve been able to solve are number one, we finally have an eye on exactly what our sellers are using day in and day out and what’s productive from that usage. The other thing that we’re able to do is create a streamlined message across Motus as opposed to really every department being siloed and creating their own and marching with that. We’re finally starting to see this congruent message across the way that we’ve so longed for, especially with the evolving product lines and things that we have going on. Motus isn’t what it was even a year ago. We’re constantly growing. What we’ve been able to do and able to accomplish within Highspot is to create an environment where people can onboard successfully and quickly. We’ve seen a more cohesive voice across the way, but we’ve also seen an environment where people are hungry and eager to get in and actually see the data that’s available that comes with a platform like Highspot. SS: I love hearing that. You actually shared with your Highspot team that the platform is actually now a core part of your tech stack. As I mentioned in the introduction, your C-suite is fully bought in on its value. What are your best practices for gaining buy-in from your executive stakeholders? CG: To be honest, it comes from a fundamental point of how we run our shop here at Motus. We do everything with the utmost business needs to come front and forward. I think anytime you’re championing an initiative like this, you have to start from the top. Whenever we purchased Highspot, it wasn’t something that we just looked at and said, yes, these services are sellers. We looked at a long-term strategic vision across the business and how it could expand. We saw that Highspot could service those needs. Having the executive level buy-in that early and really being able to tell that story and show how it demonstrates to accomplish those business initiatives has allowed us to continue that excitement and that buy-in from the top down. I would say it’s just as simple as that. Including them at the beginning and really showcasing how it solves those business needs. There are a lot of times that we put in these features and how wonderful it’s going to be for our people and things like that, but when we actually take a step back and tie it to what we’re really supposed to be accomplished within the business, it just makes sense. SS: Wonderful. Now, what is your advice for continuing to prove the impact of enablement on the business and then communicating that impact to your executive leaders? CG: When it comes down to it, we’re all about how we can impact the revenue to the organization and tie it back to those business needs as I discussed before. It’s also about really speaking the language of the C-Suite and what matters to them. We want to create a highly repeatable process so that our outcomes are not only sustainable but predictable. Translating those training initiatives and how they tie to specific business KPIs and the metrics, and also tying the activity in Highspot and how those contribute to those, it’s not just a cost, but it’s that strategic alignment that we talked about before. Really building a case and showcasing how we can tie to those measurements. How we can create that repeatable process, but also speak the language of the C-suite of what matters to them? SS: I think those are key points and great advice. One area where you’ve already begun to see amazing results with Highspot is through training and coaching. In fact, you achieved 83 percent active participation. I’d love to understand from you, from your perspective, what good training and coaching look like. CG: I have to attribute a large amount to my team with Maggie and Somi. Maggie is our senior training manager and Somi is our instructional designer. I have a highly impactful team that is able to address the vision of what we’ve come up with in collaborating with the business need that allows an output that is not only engaging for someone who’s participating in the learning or the enablement but also takes into account the actual need that it’s fulfilling. I think the biggest reason we see such high adoption is number one, that executive buy-in that we’ve talked about, kind of is this trend across the podcast. Anytime you have a champion from the top down, of course, you’re going to see higher completion rates. It’s important to the business. They are also going to be vetted in that effort. Number two is creating meaningful material. I often hear people saying, well, who doesn’t love training? Just create a training for it. Everyone would love to be enabled. Everyone would love to learn more. That’s not always the case. There’s so often that we throw training or enablement at that thinking that that’s going to be the solution, but being very thoughtful in that process and really understanding what you’re creating what that expected outcome is, and what you want to achieve. If you don’t have an expected outcome and you don’t know what you expect to get from that, there’s no point. Just stop. SS: I couldn’t agree more. How do you go about using Highspot to deliver more effective training and coaching? CG: Well, I think what I like most about Highspot is the fact that we’re not limited to even just your traditional LMS. Training and Coaching is a wonderful platform and we have the ability to build out not only aesthetically pleasing training, but we have the ability to coach and train through other avenues as well. Training and coaching, of course, we use for onboarding. We build out these wonderful learning paths that are meaningful to the individual that’s participating, but going beyond that, we have sales plays and all of these wonderful opportunities to educate our people on the process and build out that understanding that I think comes full circle. I think that’s one of the things that whenever we look at the training and coaching platform and we look at Highspot as a whole it’s not just the opportunity for one-off learning. It’s the ability to build more. SS: I love that. Now, in the last few months, you’ve also seen a 32% increase in course completion in Highspot, which again is fantastic. What are your best practices for motivating rep engagement in your training and coaching programs? CG: That’s hard sometimes. We have a lot of reps at varying skill levels and at some point reps go, I know it. I’ve got it. I’m top performing. I’m the president’s club. I’m a peak performer. I’ve got it all. One of the things that we’ve really focused on in the last couple of years is creating an environment where learning is not only a part of what we do, but it’s a fundamental part of our culture, and we want to expand on those talents. There’s so much of that that contributes to our course completion average, but not only that, with that openness and that vulnerability that we are expecting from our people. They’re hungry to learn. There’s so much more that people don’t understand that we often overlook. I think in this role and go, gosh, nobody’s going to want to do this. We’ve already asked for their time in the last month, things like that. Many people are looking to consume more knowledge and want to have those growth opportunities within their roles. It comes from things like this. I think when it’s communicated and it’s part of your strategy, you get people more excited to get in and complete those learnings. SS: I love that. Now, one thing I wanted to make sure I got a chance to chat with you about was a recent thread that you shared on LinkedIn about best practices for training sales leaders. Why is leadership training so important and how does that differ from rep training? CG: I often like to joke that they’re not all that different, but they are. Well, let’s start with the first part of that question. The reason that sales leadership is so important is that if you don’t have buy-in from the leaders in enablement, we’re not allowed to be with our sellers day in and day out. That coaching is sustained by their sales leaders, so if we do not take the time to actually get them up to speed on the initiative and the expected outcomes and how they are supposed to be holding their people accountable and really the measurable outcomes for the business, it’s a wasted opportunity. It’s something that you’re going to see great success out of potentially for like the first 90 days, and then you’re going to see it fizzle. When we don’t take the time to bring our sales leaders up to speed, specifically on their skills that they need as leaders, but also within whatever initiatives we’re enabling on you’re not going to see continued success and you’re going to find yourself beating your head up against the board a lot trying to spin up these expected outcomes. Again, you find yourself really frustrated. I think the second part of that is, yes, your leaders are at an elevated learning level. That’s why they are where they are. It’s not so much about teaching them the fundamental skills so much as it is aligning the process that you’re teaching along with the information that’s going out as well. So often we get really comfortable with our leadership teams and I mean, I’m guilty of it as well here where we’re finally getting an ebb and flow where they’re like, we trust you put out whatever, and then we put out whatever and then your sellers are stuck learning and wondering why their leaders aren’t keeping up. You have to keep it as an important and crucial part as you roll out these new initiatives. SS: Absolutely. You hit on something there because as you said, a key part of equipping sales leaders for success is ensuring that they’re prepared to then coach their teams. How do you train and prepare leaders to be effective coaches? CG: That’s a really loaded question. The way that we are training our coaches today to be effective is not only addressing the KPIs and the metrics that they’re holding their teams to but also how to really encourage and motivate their people at an individual level. We do a lot of different things here at Motus. We utilize Gong, we utilize Highspot, and we also utilize a tool called Predictive Index that is issued by our PeopleOps team. Understanding how to access your people on a level that makes sense to them, but also, how do I coach and what does that look like here at Motus? We need to utilize our tools appropriately. One of the big initiatives that we’ve actually taken on this quarter is we’re getting really heavily involved in Gong and Highspot and really understanding how to utilize those scorecards and meeting notes and some of the great features that have also come out in Gong to enhance our coaching experience for our sellers. The hope is not only to create more effective coaches, but it’s also to create reps that are comfortable with assessing their own skills. To us, that creates a stronger team and it also allows our leaders to get back into some of the details and some of the more fundamental aspects of their roles as a leader. SS: I love that, Chelsea, last question for you. As you continue to leverage Highspot as a growth lever for your company, what is the value that you envision enablement having for the organization as a whole beyond sales? CG: In utilizing Highspot for our entire organization, as we expand our enablement efforts into the organization from customer success to product development, whatever it might be our well-equipped team needs better outcomes across the board. In order for us to create those better outcomes and really understand what that looks like, it starts at the beginning. You hear this trend of everboarding, right, which is essentially ongoing enablement. It goes beyond onboarding, and by having everyone in one system and enabling the org across the way and streamlining that communication and that voice, that’s going to give us the business outcome that we’re looking for and I believe in a much more rapid pace than what we could have ever expected. It’s about fostering that culture of learning and development and enablement that we talked about earlier but making sure that it permeates every department. We started at sales and I think I left that out of my intro. I started in sales enablement at Motus and now I’m over enablement for the entire org here. That just goes to show you how important it is to have that streamlined focus and voice across the way that’s going to provide a valuable and meaningful impact in those changed behaviors that you’re looking for at an org-wide level. SS: Well, again, congratulations on a fantastic trajectory there at Motus. Chelsea, thank you so much for joining this podcast. CG: Thank you for having me. SS: To our audience, thank you for listening to this episode of the Win Win Podcast. Be sure to tune in next time for more insights on how you can maximize enablement success with Highspot.

Somi Arian the founder of InPeak, an innovative platform enabling creators and businesses to build using AI and blockchain functionalities. She is an award-winning filmmaker whose documentary, "The Millennial Disruption," won several international awards. She is also the author of Career Fear and how to beat it. She was also honored by LinkedIn who recognized her with their Top Voices Award. Somi joined us on the show to talk about her upbringing, her leadership journey, and her advice for other leaders. She also talked about the fact that she sits at the convergence of many different transformational technologies and how leaders need to navigate a changing technology landscape.  —------------ Learn To Lead is brought to you by Abilitie a leadership provider of experiential learning. Abilitie's simulations and leadership programs have inspired over 55,000 professionals in more than 30 countries over the last three years. To learn more about Abilitie and about our host Matthew Confer, visit the links below: Abilitie Leadership Development - https://www.abilitie.com The Learn To Lead Podcast - https://www.abilitie.com/learn-to-lead-podcast/  Host Matthew Confer: -      LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewconfer/ -      Twitter - https://twitter.com/MatthewConfer -      Matthew's TEDx Talk on Decision Making - https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_confer_before_you_decide_3_steps_to_better_decision_making  Make sure you subscribe to our show to ensure you get our next episode when it is released.

Today, we get to hear about Somi Azubike's testimony, his journey through football, and how he has grown his faith in Christ throughout recent years. Somi plays collegiate football at Kentucky Christian University and you will notice that his testimony is real, and you get a real sense of what it's like to be a collegiate football player nowadays by his story. During our discussion, Somi shares what he has gone through in his personal life and his career as an athlete, and what it means to him to fully rely on God even when the unknown looms ahead. Listen as we talk about some in-depth topics, including: Somi's faith journey to get to where he is todayHow Jesus has impacted how Somi plays sports and lives his lifeAn unbelievable story on finding Kentucky ChristianFinding a balance of the emotions that come with sportHow he would change his journey up until this pointReminding yourself what your identity is inhttps://www.competingforchristpodcast.com/Need encouragement or want to come on the show? Text me: (904) 463-5917 Email me: competingforchristpodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, Liz speaks with Dr. Somi Javaid, OB/GYN, sexual medicine expert, and founder of HerMD. Liz and Somi dive deep into women's health, menopause and perimenopause. They discuss why these crucial conversations have taken time to normalize in both medicine and culture, as well as how Dr. Javaid is empowering women to take control of their well-being. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On today's episode, Jessica hosts Chairman Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas (in their language the Esto'k Gna Somi Se'k[The Human Beings of Texas]). During the interview Juan discusses the tribal erasure in Texas, Spanish and American colonization, and the Border Wall. He also discusses their efforts to protect Garcia Pasture along with other culturally important places from development along the US/Mexico Border by SpaceX and LNG. Garcia Pasture was on the World Monuments Fund's World Monuments Watch List for 2022.TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/77Links Heritage Voices on the APN Garcia Pasture on World Monuments Fund's World Monuments Watch List for 2022: https://www.wmf.org/project/garcia-pasture Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas Donation Page to purchase land and fight oil and gas development on sacred lands: http://www.carrizocomecrudonation.com/donate.html Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria Jr. and His Influence on American Society by Steve Pavlik and Daniel R. Wildcat: https://www.abebooks.com/9781555915193/Destroying-Dogma-Vine-Deloria-Influence-1555915191/plp*more links at https://www.archpodnet.com/hevo/77Contact Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncilArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnetAffiliates Motion Motley Fool Save $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to https://zen.ai/apnfool and start your investing journey today! *$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then current list price. Laird Superfood Are you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to https://zen.ai/thearchaeologypodnetworkfeed1 and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset. Liquid I.V. Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/thearchaeologypodnetworkfeed to save 20% off anything you order.

On today's episode, Jessica hosts Chairman Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas (in their language the Esto'k Gna Somi Se'k[The Human Beings of Texas]). During the interview Juan discusses the tribal erasure in Texas, Spanish and American colonization, and the Border Wall. He also discusses their efforts to protect Garcia Pasture along with other culturally important places from development along the US/Mexico Border by SpaceX and LNG. Garcia Pasture was on the World Monuments Fund's World Monuments Watch List for 2022.TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/77Links Heritage Voices on the APN Garcia Pasture on World Monuments Fund's World Monuments Watch List for 2022: https://www.wmf.org/project/garcia-pasture Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas Donation Page to purchase land and fight oil and gas development on sacred lands: http://www.carrizocomecrudonation.com/donate.html Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria Jr. and His Influence on American Society by Steve Pavlik and Daniel R. Wildcat: https://www.abebooks.com/9781555915193/Destroying-Dogma-Vine-Deloria-Influence-1555915191/plp*more links at https://www.archpodnet.com/hevo/77Contact JessicaJessica@livingheritageanthropology.org@livingheritageA@LivingHeritageResearchCouncilArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnetAffiliates Motion Motley FoolSave $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to https://zen.ai/heritagefool and start your investing journey today!*$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then current list price. Laird SuperfoodAre you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to https://zen.ai/heritagevoices1 and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset. Liquid I.V.Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/heritagevoices to save 20% off anything you order.

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SojuTalk is back at it again as we discuss new releases from Somi, Eunbi, and the BBGIRLS! As always, the Crew keeps you up to date with all the recent Kpop News/Events. And you know we gonna get hype as we declare this week's Spice King and give our State of the Nation!!!  Links ◆Email - sojutalkpodcast@gmail.com ◆Discord - discord.gg/3rb74x4 ◆Patreon - patreon.com/sojutalk SojuTalk vs AI Round 2 Images ◆ https://imgur.com/gallery/1D2yDva Timestamps ◆Intro - 0:00 ◆Big New Releases - 1:38 ◆Spice King - 34:12 ◆Show Winners - 38:51 ◆News - 41:09 ◆Afterhours - 1:03:55

@PermissionToStanPodcast on Instagram (DM us here!) & TikTok! NEW Podcast Episodes every THURSDAY! Please support us by 'Following' & 'Subscribing' for more K-Pop & Anime talk! KCON albums giveaway: NMIXX Expergo & KEP1ER Lovestruck NMET announces "I-LAND 2" with YG's THEBLACKLABEL JEON SOMI EP comeback scheduled Instagram is a FEARNOT? LE SSERAFIM Leniverse: Members playing Horror Games NEWJEANS predicted to join BLACKPINK's honor on Billboard 200 NEWJEANS on IU's show: 'Palette': They are literally Super Shy SHINEE TAEMIN coins new English word: "Everybodyone" BTS V TAEHYUNG shows off his "workout routine" Ryan Gosling sends his love & guitar to JIMIN JUNGKOOK calls out toxic people on his drunk Weverse Live JUNGKOOK cries after watching 'ARMY's Love Letter' STRAY KIDS HYUNJIN finally meets Troye Sivan Troye Sivan gets a lot of love & hate bc of HYUNJIN HYUNJIN becomes global ambassador for Versace TWICE DAHYUN becomes global ambassador for Michael Kors STRAY KIDS at Lollapalooza Paris BANGCHAN talks about his natural curly hair STAY Week July 26 to August 1 SKZ seasonal song will be a summer song: Party Is Not Over" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Elaine Ly is hosting Somi Arian, founder and CEO of InPeak, for a conversation on community building within a token-gated web3 environment. Elaine and Somi will break down what exactly that means for the content creators' economy — and how InPeak features in all of this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

@PermissionToStanPodcast on Instagram (DM us here!) & TikTok! NEW Podcast Episodes every THURSDAY! Please support us by 'Following' & 'Subscribing' for more K-Pop & Anime talk! ENHYPEN ticket sales: AXS also sucks JEON SOMI scheduled for comeback in August Popular variety show Knowing Bros confirms SOMI, EUNBI & STAYC Episode 3 Members of SUPER JUNIOR leave SM NEWJEANS 'Cool With You' MV stars Squid Game heroine HOYEON IVE's not so Pepsi song collab 'I Want' BTS JUNGKOOK solo MV debut: 'Seven' (What a summer banger!) MV star SOO HEE gets a lot of hate from toxic ARMY Also that "EXPLICIT VER" though!! Stay camping out for STRAY KIDS in Lollapalooza Paris An example & explanation of unhealthy extremist "fans": AKGAE & SASAENG HYUNJIN Akgae at China STRAY KIDS fan meet, so cringe! Akgae cross the line: Tries to blind FELIX with laser pointer! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ever wondered what it takes to build a successful business from scratch, or how the rapid evolution of social media and AI is impacting our lives? Buckle up for an electrifying conversation with our guest Dallas Collier – a man of many talents, from being an entrepreneur and MMA coach to a former Iowa State wrestler. Dive into Dallas's dynamic entrepreneurial journey with his company, Collier Consulting and Management, and his groundbreaking work with Somi, a revolutionary social media app that aims to be a game-changer in the digital space.Get a front-row seat to our vivid discussion on the implications of social media and AI on individuals and society. Dallas reveals his insights on the hidden world of algorithms and geographic targeting by social media companies and shares his vision for a more user-friendly social media landscape. We also delve into the future of AI – the opportunities it presents and its potential dangers, especially as Dallas shares his experience of leveraging social media for brand-building and showcasing talents.But that's not all, Dallas takes us on a captivating journey of his life - from his wrestling days at Iowa State to his current passion as an MMA coach. We explore the evolution of wrestling in MMA, shedding light on Dallas's unique coaching approach that blends traditional methods with cutting-edge coaching skills. Explore Dallas's dreams of becoming a head coach and opening a gym in Hawaii, and how he's preparing for it. So, get ready to be inspired, educated, and entertained in this riveting conversation with Dallas Collier.

Dr. Somi Javaid is on a mission to make women's healthcare exceptional by educating, advocating for, and empowering patients to take control of their health concerns. She spills the tea with Anushay on owning our sexual health, embracing the new menopausal woman and more.

Welcome back to Season 3, a Special Episode of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Rich Ting on this week's show. Actor Rich Ting was born in Los Angeles, California and is a 4th generation Asian American. Growing up as an athlete, Ting played collegiate football at Yale University while earning a B.A, and then went on to achieve a dual J.D./M.B.A. degree. Soon after achieving his scholastic goals, he realized that he needed to switch careers and pursue his passion for the entertainment industry and, specifically, as an actor. Ting has appeared on major hit shows: Magnum P.I., NCIS: Los Angeles, Supergirl, Waco, Rush Hour, and Chicago P.D. He has also landed roles on blockbuster films, such as Lone Survivor and Salt as well as the spaghetti Western feature film, No Name and Dynamite, where he plays the lead character of ‘Dynamite Davenport'. Ting is most well-known for playing the iconic character 'Bolo' in the HBO Max drama series Warrior, a television series inspired by the writings and work of Bruce Lee and is unforgettable on Amazon's Season 4 of the critically- acclaimed The Man in the High Castle as 'Captain Iijima', a driven, ambitious young detective in the Japanese Kempeitai. In 2022, Ting has been seen on FX's The Old Man opposite Jeff Bridges on the streaming service Hulu as well as on Netflix's Partner Track where he plays the character of ‘Carter Min', the General Counsel of Min Enterprises. In 2023, Ting will be seen on Apple's Hello Tomorrow as ‘Hikaru Makoto', Disney Freeform's AZNBBGRL as ‘Cody Lim' and will also serve as the Grand Marshal of the 2023 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade and Festival. Ting currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and teacup Maltese, Somi. In addition to working in film and television, he's still active in the martial arts world, loves to travel to exotic places, and is a true foodie at heart. To stay connected with the AHN community, please join our AHN Directory: ⁠⁠https://ahn.community⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asianhustlenetwork/support

The current state of women's healthcare needs an overhaul. We talk to HerMD founder Dr. Somi Javaid about how she is changing the narrative for sexual health, menopause, gynecology, medical aesthetics and more. Show Notes and Links are found: www.hotflashescooltopics.com FOLLOW US ON: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotflashesandcooltopics/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ssWfO0qeZYEIs6TzrKBHQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/657557054765087 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoolFlashes TikTok: @hotflashescooltopics Want to Leave a Review for Hot Flashes and Cool Topics? Here's How: For Apple Podcasts on an iPhone or iOS device: Open the Apple Podcast App on your device. Click on the “search” icon Type into the search bar “Hot Flashes and Cool Topics” and click on the show Towards the bottom, look for “Ratings and Reviews” Click on “Write a Review” and leave us your thoughts and comments! For Apple Podcasts on a computer: On the Apple Podcasts website, go to the search bar and type “Hot Flashes and Cool Topics” After clicking on the show, find the “Listen on Apple Podcasts” button and click on it The “Hot Flashes and Cool Topics” podcast should open on the Apple Podcasts application Keep scrolling on the page until you see “Ratings and Reviews” Click on “See All” If you want to give us a five-star rating, hover over the empty stars! If you want to leave your thoughts and comments, click on “Write a Review”!

Dr. Somi Javaid is a board-certified OBGYN and a pioneer in the women's sexual healthcare space. She is the Founder & Chief Medical Officer of HerMD, an integrated, evidence-based model revolutionizing women's healthcare. The HerMD team is hyper-focused on the underserved specialties of menopause and sexual health. HerMD centers are designed to empower both patients and physicians by providing a safe, welcoming space to discuss all your healthcare needs - shame and stigma-free. Recently, HerMD raised $10 Million in their Series A fundraise to bring their unique healthcare model to patients across the US. JAZZ Ventures led the Series A round. Episode Resources:HerMDLink to purchase:FYLPxWRDSMTH Merch Collaboration*suggestion is to size upDownload this episode of For Your Listening Pleasure wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you follow us on Instagram @foryourlisteningpleasure Click here to listen to the For Your Listening Pleasure Theme Song Playlist on Spotify.To continue the conversation, feel free to DM me at https://www.instagram.com/foryourlisteningpleasure/ or email me at foryourlisteningpleasure@gmail.com.

Once I could feel grounded in an East African context and value who I am in an American context - suddenly it was so apparent that music was where I was supposed to be. The dynamic, ascendant jazz singer Somi has been celebrated for her artistry as much as her activism. She became the first African woman ever nominated in any of the Grammy's Jazz categories last year, and she has performed at the United Nations' General Assembly by invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Somi describes herself as a “East African Midwestern girl who loves family, poetry, and freedom” and yet hers is a story of survival, adversity, and transformation. In this episode, she discusses what happens when a teacher steals your joy, the power of a meditative practice that connects her to her ancestors, and how she is still finding her voice.   References: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Miriam Makeba The Babiito and Bunyoro-Batooro people Curtis Institute of Music ‘Dreaming Zenzile:' Somi Kakoma and Miriam Makeba Zap Mama