Podcasts about Southeast Missouri State University

In this episode of the CX Innovators podcast Judy Mottl, editor of Retail Customer Experience, talks with Dr. Steven Stovall, Ph.D., associate professor of management at Southeast Missouri State University, on how the Gen Z consumer is impacting the retail customer experience strategy.Stovall is former corporate executive who managed a global sales team overseeing $7.5 billion in annual revenue and has continued his entrepreneurial pursuits, starting a restaurant, an antique resale business and a hops farm. His unique combination of academic expertise and real-world business ownership makes him a compelling voice on how brands can effectively navigate changing consumer values.

Dr. Jeremy Loenneke received his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Oklahoma, where he was mentored by Dr. Michael Bemben. Dr. Loenneke previously received his Master's degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Southeast Missouri State University, where he was mentored by Dr. Joe Pujol. Dr. Loenneke is a member of the American Physiological Society and the American College of Sports Medicine. He also serves on the editorial boards of many publications, including Sports Medicine, AGE, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, and the Journal of Applied Physiology. Dr. Loenneke's study focuses on the adaptations of skeletal muscles to exercise in the presence of blood flow limitations. His latest study has provided answers to numerous critical methodological and safety problems about the use of blood flow restriction. Loenneke is the director of the Laboratory of Applied Physiology Kevser Ermin and his research group focuses on skeletal muscle adaptations to exercise with and without blood flow restriction. He is a member of the American Physiological Society and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. Work with RAPID Health Optimization Links: Jeremy P Loenneke on Instagram Anders Varner on Instagram Doug Larson on Instagram Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

In this special episode from the American Marketing Association conference, Carrie sits down with Claire Skelton, Assistant Director of Content Marketing at Southeast Missouri State University, and Nikki Peters, Design Manager at the same institution. They discuss the impact of leadership lessons, the value of continuous learning, and the excitement of their first AMA conference. If you're a higher education marketing professional or someone stepping into leadership roles, their experiences will resonate deeply.Key TakeawaysContinuous Learning Fuels Leadership Growth: Claire and Nikki emphasize that leadership is an ongoing journey, not a destination.Collaborative Development Strengthens Teams: Completing leadership courses together allowed them to reflect, share insights, and grow as leaders.Flexibility in Leadership Matters: Tailoring leadership styles to individual team members is a game-changer.Networking and Shared Experiences Are Priceless: The conference provides a unique opportunity to connect with peers facing similar challenges and to explore innovative solutions.First-Time Attendees Should Take the Leap: The advice is simple—if you're debating attending next year, go.The Power of Shared Leadership Development Claire and Nikki shared how the Lessons in Leadership course shaped their approach to managing teams and fostering collaboration. By taking the course together, they identified each other's strengths and weaknesses, creating a space for vulnerability and growth. Weekly meetings became a cornerstone of their development, offering a chance to reflect on insights, identify areas for improvement, and brainstorm how to adapt their leadership styles to meet the needs of their diverse teams.This collaborative approach highlights an essential takeaway: leadership growth is amplified when it's shared. Leaders who hold themselves and others accountable can create meaningful change for their teams and organizations.Situational Leadership and Self-Awareness A key insight from the course that resonated with Nikki and Claire was the importance of situational leadership. Nikki explained how tailoring her approach based on the unique needs of her team members and projects allowed her to adapt more effectively. Flexibility, she noted, is a critical skill for navigating the fast-paced challenges of higher education marketing.Claire highlighted the importance of self-awareness, particularly around communication. Recognizing tendencies, such as unintentionally interrupting others, and making a conscious effort to listen more effectively, helped her grow as a leader. Both agreed that leadership is as much about personal reflection as it is about team management.First-Time Conference Experiences and Advice Both Claire and Nikki expressed excitement about their first AMA conference and the wealth of knowledge it offers. With sessions on branding, leadership, CRM strategies, and social media tactics, they are eager to return to their teams with actionable insights. For Nikki, rebranding at their institution provided a timely opportunity to absorb fresh perspectives on guiding her team through significant changes.The networking opportunities were another highlight. Meeting peers at the welcome reception and engaging with vendors gave them a sense of belonging in a larger professional community. Their advice to first-time attendees: “Go for it.” The energy, shared challenges, and inspiring ideas make it an invaluable experience. - - - -Connect With Our Co-Hosts:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaSeth Odell https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethodell/https://twitter.com/sethodellAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Generation AI and Confessions of a Higher Education Social Media Manager.Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Attend the 2025 Engage Summit! The Engage Summit is the premier conference for forward-thinking leaders and practitioners dedicated to exploring the transformative power of AI in education. Explore the strategies and tools to step into the next generation of student engagement, supercharged by AI. You'll leave ready to deliver the most personalized digital engagement experience every step of the way.Register now to secure your spot in Charlotte, NC, on June 24-25, 2025! Early bird registration ends February 1st -- https://engage.element451.com/register

Send us a textOn today's episode we have Coach Luke Sheidecker. Luke has served as Assistant Director or Director of Basketball Operations at Southeast Missouri State University (on the men's side) and at Southern Illinois University, where he transitioned to the women's side. He's also been an assistant coach at Indiana State University and head coach at Shawnee Community College, where he led one of the biggest turnaround seasons in NJCAA Women's Basketball history—going from 0-27 to an incredible 30-3, winning both the Great Rivers Athletic Conference and Region 24 titles. Currently, Luke is the head coach at Wabash Valley College, where he's coached over 50 players who have gone on to play at the four-year level, with more than 35 advancing to NCAA DI programs. Earlier this year, he was named the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) Coach of the Year for two-year colleges.On this episode we discuss:Where the junior college recruiting process beginsThe number of student athletes he recruits each yearThe different levels of junior collegesWho junior college is appropriate forQuestions you should ask junior college coaches when on visitsHow to find a junior college coach who will help you get to the next levelCommon misconceptions of junior collegesImportance of finding a coach that can coach youGetting the right people in your circleAnd much more!Wabash Valley College WBB "X"Wabash Valley College WBB Recruiting QuestionnaireWhen you work with me you can expect a 360-degree player development plan designed specifically for young female basketball players. The comprehensive program includes a skills assessment and action plan, basketball IQ and mental toughness development, injury prevention, and personalized guidance through the college recruiting process.If this sounds interesting, let's have a conversation - sign up for a free Consultation Today!Check out Hoops Through Life on: Hoops Through Life WebsiteXInstagramFacebookIf you have any questions for me or our future guests email el@hoopsthroughlife.com

Aisha Foy is an NIL Coach who support athletes in building their brands, achieving their goals, and positioning them for NIL opportunities through her NIL Consulting Program, Major NIL Success. She is the author of the book, “Success is My Major”. Aisha began her coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State University in 2016, She was also the Director of Recruiting for Kentucky Women's Basketball from 2018 – 2023.Aisha played her college basketball at Radford University where she was an NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee, Female Senior Leader of the Year & earned the Established Leader Award.On this episode Mike & Aisha delve into the intricacies of branding and personal marketing for athletes in a compelling conversation. With her extensive background in collegiate basketball and a keen understanding of the evolving landscape of athlete representation, Aisha emphasizes the importance of seeing oneself beyond athletic identity. She advocates for the idea that athletes must cultivate their personal brands to maximize their NIL opportunities. This episode highlights Aisha's journey from a player at Radford University to a successful NIL educator and consultant, where she helps athletes navigate the intersection of sports and personal branding. Through workshops, boot camps, and one-on-one coaching, she trains athletes to articulate their stories, build confidence, and engage with their audiences authentically. Aisha's insights reveal that effective branding is not just about social media presence but involves a deeper understanding of self-worth and marketability, fundamentally reshaping how athletes can leverage their platforms for personal and professional growth.Follow us on social media @hoopheadspod on Twitter and Instagram and be sure to check out the Hoop Heads Podcast Network for more great basketball content.Get ready to take some notes as you listen to this episode with Aisha Foy, NIL Coach and Founder of Major NIL Success.Website – https://successmajor.kartra.com/page/9qJ175Email – aishafoy@gmail.comTwitter/X - @NIL_CoachIshVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballOur friends at Dr. Dish Basketball are doing things a little differently this month with $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish Rebel+, $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish All-Stat+, AND $3,000 Off the Dr. Dish CT+ during their first ever Semi-Annual Sales Event. Shop now and have your team more ready for the upcoming season than ever before.Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%GameChangerIntroducing GameChanger, a free app that provides you with data to make strategic coaching decisions and to deliver memorable moments to your team and its fans. Engage your players, empower your coaching...

Send us a textHaley Schwantz From Fayetteville, AR. University of Arkansas BS Crop Science and University of Wisconsin MS in Plant Pathology. Currently based out of Oregon county with University of Missouri Extension as Agronomy Specialist but still living in Arkansas close to the state line. Abby WardMy name is Abbey Ward, I'm the Private Land Conservationist for Oregon and Shannon Counties with the Missouri Department of Conservation. I'm originally from High Ridge, MO in Jefferson County, MO. I graduated with a Bachelors In ecological sciences from Southeast Missouri State University and have over 6 years of experience working with wildlife conservation.To follow American Roots Outdoors Podcast:https://www.facebook.com/groups/448812356525413To learn more about American Roots Outdoors:https://americanrootsoutdoors.com/https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRootsOutdoors/To follow Alex Rutledge:https://www.facebook.com/americanrootsalex/To follow Wayne Lach:https://www.facebook.com/wayne.lach.5To follow Mike Crase:https://www.facebook.com/mike.crase

NIL Educator and Consultant, Aisha Foy, joins Glenn on the field for the next edition of the Field Goals Spotlight.  Aisha shares her basketball journey of leading her High School to a State Championship and how playing AAU basketball in the Boo Williams Basketball Summer League, which is now the largest AAU basketball clinic and tournament in the state of Virginia, led to her receiving a basketball scholarship to Radford University, earning Radford's Senior Leadership Award, being selected Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, and securing a nomination for NCAA Woman of the Year.  She also discusses her time as a Basketball Grad Assistant with Southeast Missouri State University and Director of Recruiting for the University of Kentucky's Women's Basketball program and how she orchestrated one of Kentucky's top 10 recruiting classes that led to an SEC Championship.  Aisha also shares how her volunteerism and passion for sports led to coaching and supporting high school and college athletes in building their brands, achieving their goals, and positioning them for NIL opportunities through her NIL Consulting Program, Major NIL Success. Support the showFollow Field Goals:Twitter | https://twitter.com/myfieldgoalsInstagram | https://instagram.com/myfieldgoalsFacebook | https://facebook.com/fieldgoalsWebsite | https://www.myfieldgoals.com

Can you Build Muscle without Heavy Lifting? Join Dr. Gabrielle Lyon as she sits down with Dr. Jeremey Loenneke, an associate professor of exercise science at the University of Mississippi and one of the world's leading experts in blood flow restriction (BFR) training. They discuss the science behind skeletal muscle adaptation, how BFR can help you get stronger without heavy weights, and why muscle growth and strength aren't always the same thing.Dr. Loenneke shares insights on how BFR works—using low loads to trigger muscle adaptation and growth—and the potential benefits for recovery, rehabilitation, and even everyday training for those wanting to avoid joint strain. They also explore some fascinating phenomena like cross-education, where training one side of your body can strengthen the other side.Key Highlights:The basics and benefits of blood flow restriction trainingHow to build muscle with low weight loadsThe difference between muscle growth and muscle strengthPractical applications of BFR in both sports and rehabilitationDon't miss out on these expert insights that can transform your approach to exercise and recovery. Let's take your fitness knowledge to the next level!Who is Dr. Jeremey Loenneke?Dr. Jeremy Loenneke is an Associate Professor of Exercise Science at The University of Mississippi within the School of Applied Sciences. He received his MS in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Southeast Missouri State University and his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Oklahoma. He is the director of the Kevser Ermin Applied Physiology Laboratory and his research group's primary focus is on skeletal muscle adaptations to exercise with and without the application of blood flow restriction. His recent work has also focused on addressing whether or not muscle growth contributes to changes in strength with exercise. Dr. Loenneke is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the American Physiological Society. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and is an Associate Editor for PLOS One, Peer J, and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. He also serves on the editorial board for Sports Medicine and Medicine and Science in Sports and ExerciseJoin my all new 6 Week Forever Strong Bootcamp - https://bit.ly/3ZwQda7 Apply to become a patient - https://drgabriellelyon.com/new-patient-inquiry/ Join my weekly newsletter - https://institute-for-muscle-centric-medicine.ck.page/2ed23e2860 Get my book - https://drgabriellelyon.com/forever-strong/This episode is brought to you by :Zocdoc - Book your First Appointment! - https://zocdoc.com/DRLYONMUD/WTR - Code DRLYON for $20 OFF - https://mudwtr.com/drlyonPaleovalley - Code DRLYON for 15% OFF First Order! - http://paleovalley.com/DRLYONNeeded - Code DRLYON for 20% OFF - https://thisisneeded.com/DRLYONFatty15 - Code DRLYON for 15% OFF - https://fatty15.com/DRLYONFind me at:Instagram: @drgabriellelyonTik Tok: @drgabriellelyonFacebook: facebook.com/doctorgabriellelyonYouTube:...

UFOs were big news in 1973. Besides the Pascagoula and the Coyne incidents, there were flaps all over the United States. One in Piedmont, Missouri, got started that year in late February with UFO reports involving cars stalling and radio interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor, Harley D. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau. Rutledge became fascinated to the point that he put together an investigation team of scientists, arranged funding, and ended up spending more than seven years observing unexplained lights while collecting data and photographs. In late 1973, he gave a presentation of what he and the group had gathered up to that point at the fall meeting (attended by John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Network) of the Missouri section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Rutledge finally published a book describing the investigation titled Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena in 1981. Read moreBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/podcast-ufo--5922140/support.

Welcome to the Financial Freedom and Wealth Trailblazers Podcast! In this episode, we'll discuss the journey that many real estate professionals dream of but few dare to take: transitioning from a successful real estate agent to a thriving real estate business course creator. John Mayfield received his real estate license in 1978 at the age of 18. John has been a practicing broker since 1981 and has owned and operated as many as three offices in Southeast Missouri during his real estate career. John has taught pre and post-license real estate courses since 1988. John has earned the ABR®, ABRM, CRB, CIPS, e-PRO®, GRI, RENE (Real Estate Negotiation Expert) Military, and SRS designations throughout his real estate tenure.  John is a licensed broker in Missouri, Indiana, and Florida. John is also a 1983 Graduate of Southeast Missouri State University for undergraduate studies in business and a 2015 REALTOR® University Master of Real Estate Program graduate.  John's professors awarded him the Capstone Award for his thesis paper from REALTOR® University.   John has earned both REALTOR-Associate and REALTOR of the Year from his local board and received the 2014 Richard A. Mendenhall Leadership Award from Missouri REALTORS and the REBI Hall of Leaders Award in San Francisco, CA, at the NAR Conference.  In 2020, John received the prestigious DREI (Distinguished Real Estate Instructor) from the Real Estate Educators Association. John was also elected by the DREI membership to the DREI Board in 2023 for a three-year term. John has spoken to thousands of real estate professionals in over 25 countries throughout his speaking career.  He is the author of eight books and creator of the “5-Minutes Series for Real Estate Agents,” Cengage Learning, with thousands of copies sold. He also co-authors “21 Mistakes Real Estate Brokers Make and How to Avoid Them,” Acclaim Press with Corky Hyatt.   During his Global career, John has been elected President of the World Council of Brokers (FIABCI Organization) twice and received the association's prestigious Medal of Honor Award twice for his continued service.  He continues to work with FIABCI to this day and remains active and close to many of his colleagues worldwide. This year, 2024, John was asked by ThinkProp, a Dubai and Abu Dhabi-based real estate training institute that offers diverse courses and partnerships with the government and is certified by the DMT in Abu Dhabi as an instructor, to help train their real estate brokers. Connect with John here: https://www.facebook.com/john.mayfield https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndmayfield/ https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalRealEstateSchool https://www.instagram.com/realestatetechguy/ https://x.com/johnmayfield Grab the freebie here:https://businesstechguy.lpages.co/start-a-new-career/ =================================== If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends. Thanks for watching the Financial Freedom and Wealth Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com. Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers.  Request to join here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators QUICK LINKS:  APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-application GET MORE CLIENTS: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/client-acquisition-accelerator-pdf DIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/ JOIN OUR FREE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators

One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a “Godfearer” once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israel's scriptures.  In Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testament or patristic evidence exists to substantiate such a claim. Moreover, Smith suggests by means of a cognitive linguistic analysis of insider and outsider terms in Luke and Acts, as well as their author's attitudes toward the Torah and intricate knowledge of Jewish festival celebrations, that these books were more likely to have been written by an individual enculturated in “a Jewish setting … among the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora” (p. 233). Smith joined the New Books Network to discuss this revision of his Ph.D. thesis, our ability to know an ancient author through their textual remains, and why it would be inappropriate to interpret Luke's full-throated embrace of the Gentile mission as an indicator of his non-Jewish identity. Joshua Paul Smith (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, 2021) teaches presently at Southeast Missouri State University. His research interests include literary and cognitive approaches to New Testament texts, as well as early Jewish and Christian identity formation. He is currently working on a short book on Acts for a general audience, and conducting research for an article that applies social network analysis to named characters in Luke and Acts. Additionally, he serves as Managing Editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, publishing book reviews on a wide range of topics related to the study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins. Rob Heaton (Ph.D., University of Denver, 2019) hosts Biblical Studies conversations for New Books in Religion and teaches New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christianity at Anderson University in Indiana. He recently authored The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon (Lexington Books, 2023). For more about Rob and his work, or to offer feedback related to this episode, please visit his website at https://www.robheaton.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a “Godfearer” once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israel's scriptures.  In Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testament or patristic evidence exists to substantiate such a claim. Moreover, Smith suggests by means of a cognitive linguistic analysis of insider and outsider terms in Luke and Acts, as well as their author's attitudes toward the Torah and intricate knowledge of Jewish festival celebrations, that these books were more likely to have been written by an individual enculturated in “a Jewish setting … among the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora” (p. 233). Smith joined the New Books Network to discuss this revision of his Ph.D. thesis, our ability to know an ancient author through their textual remains, and why it would be inappropriate to interpret Luke's full-throated embrace of the Gentile mission as an indicator of his non-Jewish identity. Joshua Paul Smith (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, 2021) teaches presently at Southeast Missouri State University. His research interests include literary and cognitive approaches to New Testament texts, as well as early Jewish and Christian identity formation. He is currently working on a short book on Acts for a general audience, and conducting research for an article that applies social network analysis to named characters in Luke and Acts. Additionally, he serves as Managing Editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, publishing book reviews on a wide range of topics related to the study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins. Rob Heaton (Ph.D., University of Denver, 2019) hosts Biblical Studies conversations for New Books in Religion and teaches New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christianity at Anderson University in Indiana. He recently authored The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon (Lexington Books, 2023). For more about Rob and his work, or to offer feedback related to this episode, please visit his website at https://www.robheaton.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a “Godfearer” once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israel's scriptures.  In Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testament or patristic evidence exists to substantiate such a claim. Moreover, Smith suggests by means of a cognitive linguistic analysis of insider and outsider terms in Luke and Acts, as well as their author's attitudes toward the Torah and intricate knowledge of Jewish festival celebrations, that these books were more likely to have been written by an individual enculturated in “a Jewish setting … among the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora” (p. 233). Smith joined the New Books Network to discuss this revision of his Ph.D. thesis, our ability to know an ancient author through their textual remains, and why it would be inappropriate to interpret Luke's full-throated embrace of the Gentile mission as an indicator of his non-Jewish identity. Joshua Paul Smith (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, 2021) teaches presently at Southeast Missouri State University. His research interests include literary and cognitive approaches to New Testament texts, as well as early Jewish and Christian identity formation. He is currently working on a short book on Acts for a general audience, and conducting research for an article that applies social network analysis to named characters in Luke and Acts. Additionally, he serves as Managing Editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, publishing book reviews on a wide range of topics related to the study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins. Rob Heaton (Ph.D., University of Denver, 2019) hosts Biblical Studies conversations for New Books in Religion and teaches New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christianity at Anderson University in Indiana. He recently authored The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon (Lexington Books, 2023). For more about Rob and his work, or to offer feedback related to this episode, please visit his website at https://www.robheaton.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a “Godfearer” once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israel's scriptures.  In Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testament or patristic evidence exists to substantiate such a claim. Moreover, Smith suggests by means of a cognitive linguistic analysis of insider and outsider terms in Luke and Acts, as well as their author's attitudes toward the Torah and intricate knowledge of Jewish festival celebrations, that these books were more likely to have been written by an individual enculturated in “a Jewish setting … among the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora” (p. 233). Smith joined the New Books Network to discuss this revision of his Ph.D. thesis, our ability to know an ancient author through their textual remains, and why it would be inappropriate to interpret Luke's full-throated embrace of the Gentile mission as an indicator of his non-Jewish identity. Joshua Paul Smith (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, 2021) teaches presently at Southeast Missouri State University. His research interests include literary and cognitive approaches to New Testament texts, as well as early Jewish and Christian identity formation. He is currently working on a short book on Acts for a general audience, and conducting research for an article that applies social network analysis to named characters in Luke and Acts. Additionally, he serves as Managing Editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, publishing book reviews on a wide range of topics related to the study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins. Rob Heaton (Ph.D., University of Denver, 2019) hosts Biblical Studies conversations for New Books in Religion and teaches New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christianity at Anderson University in Indiana. He recently authored The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon (Lexington Books, 2023). For more about Rob and his work, or to offer feedback related to this episode, please visit his website at https://www.robheaton.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biblical-studies

One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a “Godfearer” once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israel's scriptures.  In Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testament or patristic evidence exists to substantiate such a claim. Moreover, Smith suggests by means of a cognitive linguistic analysis of insider and outsider terms in Luke and Acts, as well as their author's attitudes toward the Torah and intricate knowledge of Jewish festival celebrations, that these books were more likely to have been written by an individual enculturated in “a Jewish setting … among the Hellenistic Jewish diaspora” (p. 233). Smith joined the New Books Network to discuss this revision of his Ph.D. thesis, our ability to know an ancient author through their textual remains, and why it would be inappropriate to interpret Luke's full-throated embrace of the Gentile mission as an indicator of his non-Jewish identity. Joshua Paul Smith (Ph.D., University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, 2021) teaches presently at Southeast Missouri State University. His research interests include literary and cognitive approaches to New Testament texts, as well as early Jewish and Christian identity formation. He is currently working on a short book on Acts for a general audience, and conducting research for an article that applies social network analysis to named characters in Luke and Acts. Additionally, he serves as Managing Editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar, publishing book reviews on a wide range of topics related to the study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins. Rob Heaton (Ph.D., University of Denver, 2019) hosts Biblical Studies conversations for New Books in Religion and teaches New Testament, Christian origins, and early Christianity at Anderson University in Indiana. He recently authored The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata: From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon (Lexington Books, 2023). For more about Rob and his work, or to offer feedback related to this episode, please visit his website at https://www.robheaton.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Mentor Moments Season Three Story Moments: Everyone has a story to tell. This episode features Leslie Quarles. She is a dedicated rehabilitation and disability advicate who has just about done it all in her career. Enjoy getting to know her a little bit more! Leslie is a Training Associate on the Missouri Employment First team. She provides training and technical assistance to service providers and TCMs in Missouri to improve employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Leslie's previous experience includes employment services and quality assurance, as a Director for MERS Missouri Goodwill Industries and as a Program Surveyor for Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International. Leslie has previously served on the board of Best Buddies Missouri and the Generation Listen Council with St. Louis Public Radio. She currently volunteers with the Alumni Advisory Board for the Tri Delta chapter at Southeast Missouri State University, assisting in the areas of community relations and DEI, as well as serves on the planning committee for the annual Brain Injury Association of Missouri conference. She also actively participates in Gateway Nexus, a networking platform for providers and employers.  www.communityinclusion.org www.apse.org Welcome to Mentor Moments, the podcast where distinctive journeys shape the individuals we become. Join us for engaging counseling conversations that delve deep into personal journeys while focusing on pressing professional issues. In this season of Mentor Moments, we're honored to feature remarkable individuals who not only introduce you to the world of rehabilitation counseling but also tackle current topics and issues that matter. Each episode invites you into the minds of our guests as they share their unique perspectives. Follow us at: Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mentor.momentsMRA@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Instagram: @mentor.moments Website: https://www.mraeasternchapter.com/maryvillerc

Welcome back to another episode of The Drive & Dish NBA Podcast, hosted by Justin Cousart (@JustinContheAir) & Kevin Rafuse (@rafusetolose). This episode, Kevin is joined by special guest Adam Criblez (@adamcriblez), professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University & author of Tall Tales and Short Shorts to discuss his newest book, Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks & Their City. The guys discuss how Adam's last book gave inspiration to this one & discuss their favorite Knicks players & memories from the late 70's-80's. As the Knicks continue their series against the Sixers, the pair also discusses why New York will always gravitate towards the Knicks. Finally, a look at the city itself from that era & Kevin & Adam's favorite 80's hip-hop records. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts & watch the show on YouTube!Purchase Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks & Their City here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773938/kings-of-the-garden/

Season 2- Episode 32 On this episode, the Bergfeld Family shares the history the DeMolay organization, the many life and social skills that are learned, the annual conventions that are hosted, how DeMolay helps young men build their resume, and the importance of peer to peer mentoring.⁠⁠ What is DeMolay? Youth Leadership | Missouri DeMolay (modemolay.org) ⁠⁠ The Bergfeld family has been involved with DeMolay since 2012.  Outside of DeMolay, Drew is a student at Southeast Missouri State University, studying Secondary Education.  He hopes to become a language arts and speech/theatre teacher.  Lisa is a soon-to-be retired French teacher, hoping to move into homeschooling in the St. Louis area.  Jack has been in civic service for the last thirty years.    They believe that DeMolay is a good fit for the homeschool community, since the core values include love & respect for family, a belief in God, and patriotism.   For more information, please visit beademolay.org or visit their chapter's Facebook page Allegiance DeMolay.   Homeschool Yo Kids Podcast shares organic conversations that promote confidence, a growth mindset, and are filled with inspiration and good energy. Sharing stories from the classroom, their home learning journey, and other reflections and life experiences, come grow and learn with Jae. Homeschool Yo Kids Organization is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides families with tools to aid unconventional learning experiences, helping to create a positive home learning environment. In addition to this, we are missioned to help families in traditional schools build a healthy collaborative relationship between the school and home. Visit our website!! https://www.homeschoolyokidsexpo.com/Follow us on IG:@homeschoolyokids@homeschoolyokidspodcastJoin our FB Group: Homeschool Yo Kids Jae is a former public-school teacher, now homeschooling her 2 little people. She is the founder of the 501c3 nonprofit, Homeschool Yo Kids Organization. Join Jae as she chats with homeschool families, homeschool resource providers, and others that support the homeschool community on this journey of 'reimagining what learning looks like'. Introduction Song- ChrisNTeeb -Expect- Manifestation 2*⁠⁠⁠⁠‎The Manifestation 2 by Chris-n-Teeb on Apple Music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Manifestation 2 - Album by Chris-n-Teeb | Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠chrisnteeb.com⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/homeschoolyokids/support

This week I'm reading from Paul Blake Smith's book 'President Eisenhower's Close Encounters: An Investigation into Eisenhower's Secret Agreement with Extra Terrestrials'.How do past U.S. presidents avoid global panic? Create a secret agreement with visiting extraterrestrials.This well-researched, nonfiction book will give you a detailed, logical look at the most exciting presidential saga ever. Follow along with researcher/author Paul Blake Smith as he pieces together an explosive puzzle, which reveals that President Eisenhower met with friendly aliens, and that other American presidents likely renewed Ike's secret agreement with the visitors, who remain aloof to this day, to avoid triggering social chaos.BioPaul was born in Cape Girardeau's Southeast Hospital, raised in town, and educated by the Cape public school system. He was a four-year Mass Communications Major with an English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. Paul's grandfather, Randolph P. Smith, was a 50-year-practice attorney in Cape, and was also a judge, plus the town's City Attorney for ten years. Paul's father was his grandfather's paralegal assistant, having been educated in Cape, at SEMO, and at Washington University Law School. Paul's mother was a longtime school teacher in nearby Scott County, where some feel the 1941 UFO crash occurred, just outside of Cape's city and county borders. Today, Paul lives and works in western Missouri, working on other books and movie screenplays.Paul has been the featured guest on numerous radio shows, such as the internationally syndicated "Coast To Coast A.M." and "Unexplained Phenomenon Radio," plus a podcast from England and one from France. He's also been written about in newspapers in southeast Missouri and the subject of YouTube interview videos with journalist Linda Moulton Howe as well as some online podcasted shows.https://www.mo41.info/Amazon link http://tinyurl.com/3jdwa3efhttps://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

This week I'm talking to Paul Blake Smith about his book 'President Eisenhower's Close Encounters: An Investigation into Eisenhower's Secret Agreement with Extra Terrestrials'.How do past U.S. presidents avoid global panic? Create a secret agreement with visiting extraterrestrials.This well-researched, nonfiction book will give you a detailed, logical look at the most exciting presidential saga ever. Follow along with researcher/author Paul Blake Smith as he pieces together an explosive puzzle, which reveals that President Eisenhower met with friendly aliens, and that other American presidents likely renewed Ike's secret agreement with the visitors, who remain aloof to this day, to avoid triggering social chaos.BioPaul was born in Cape Girardeau's Southeast Hospital, raised in town, and educated by the Cape public school system. He was a four-year Mass Communications Major with an English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. Paul's grandfather, Randolph P. Smith, was a 50-year-practice attorney in Cape, and was also a judge, plus the town's City Attorney for ten years. Paul's father was his grandfather's paralegal assistant, having been educated in Cape, at SEMO, and at Washington University Law School. Paul's mother was a longtime school teacher in nearby Scott County, where some feel the 1941 UFO crash occurred, just outside of Cape's city and county borders. Today, Paul lives and works in western Missouri, working on other books and movie screenplays.Paul has been the featured guest on numerous radio shows, such as the internationally syndicated "Coast To Coast A.M." and "Unexplained Phenomenon Radio," plus a podcast from England and one from France. He's also been written about in newspapers in southeast Missouri and the subject of YouTube interview videos with journalist Linda Moulton Howe as well as some online podcasted shows.https://www.mo41.info/Amazon link http://tinyurl.com/3jdwa3efhttps://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

New representatives chat with Prof. Vanessa McCaffrey about how they heard about CUR Chemistry and why they decided to get involved. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Sarah Shaner from Southeast Missouri State University and learn about her science and goals for her participation in CUR. Dr. Shaner's website: https://semo.edu/people-directory/faculty-staff/shaner-sarah.html To learn more about CUR Chemistry, visit: https://www.cur.org/membership-community/divisions/chemistry-division/

Paul Blake Smith Cape Girardeau Missouri UFO Crash Paul Blake Smith was born and raised in Cape Girardeau Missouri, we're in April 1941 his grandfather was a judge and his father a schoolboy, Paul was a four-year mass communication major in English minor at Southeast Missouri State University, he has written six published books including the recent bestseller President Eisenhower's close encounters in 2020

 In this episode, we are excited to be sponsored by some fantastic partners who share our commitment to community, health, well-being, and community. Our sponsors include: www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn, Everest Counseling, Bullpen Sports Grill, Reynolds Landscaping and Lawncare. Sponsored by: www.BetterHelp.com/TheBarnCoach Jeromy McDowell appears courtesy of SEMO athletics.https://semoredhawks.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Southeast Missouri Redhawks football team, representing Southeast Missouri State University, boasts a rich history and a commitment to excellence on the gridiron. Competing in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level, the Redhawks have earned a formidable reputation. Led by Head Coach Tom Matukewicz, the Redhawks have experienced notable success in recent years. Offensive Coordinator Jeromy McDowell's offense strategic prowess has propelled the team to three OVC titles, with the offense consistently breaking school records, showcasing an up-tempo and versatile spread offense. The team's commitment to player development is evident in the numerous All-OVC selections and All-Americans. Standout players like Geno Hess, Zack Gieg, and Paxton DeLaurent have not only earned individual accolades but have also contributed to the team's collective triumphs. The Redhawks' dedication to an adaptable and dynamic style of play, incorporating elements like the Run-Pass Option (RPO) and spread option plays, keeps opponents on their toes. With a history that includes record-breaking offensive performances and a focus on creating mismatches, the Southeast Missouri Redhawks football team continues to be a force to be reckoned with in the competitive landscape of college football. Semo Redhawks Crewneck https://amzn.to/47AWna2 Semo MOM https://amzn.to/46qDWDN Semo shirt https://amzn.to/3ukrlEU Semo Pennant www.betterhelp.com/TheBarnhttp://www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn http://www.betterhelp.com/TheBarnThis episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

You've probably heard that eating fish can be very good for you. But, did you know that there's a vegetarian-type diet that is focused primarily around eating fish and seafood? It's called the pescatarian diet. Today, Rob and Sandra interview author, Cara Harbstreet, RD, about the pescatarian diet and what it enTAILS

This week we welcome The Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society! The Ozarks Greater Bluegrass Society is a Springfield based organization commited to preserving, and promoting Bluegrass and traditional music in the Ozarks through education and exposure or local Missouri Bluegrass groups. The group coming to perform with us is comprised of: David Maravilla-Giutar, began his pursuit of bluegrass in the late 70's. He assisted in forming the band, Second Wind, whose personnel included Rhonda Vincent, and later, Alison Krauss. Afterward, David was invited to join Alison in her band, Union Station, to enter the 1988 S.P.B.G.M.A International Band Contest, which they won. David is the President of GOBS. Leevon DeCourley-Bass, grew up in rural southeast Missouri near the community of Arab. He attended college at Southeast Missouri State University during which time he worked with bands such as The Men of the Week and Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass. Leevon now makes his home in Crane, Missouri with his wife Kadee along with their son Walker and soon to be DeCourley Baby #2, due in March. Leevon is working to bring bluegrass to the forefront in the Crane area through events such as Bluegrass on the Backstage at the Crane Broiler Festival and other jams and events throughout the area. Leevon is the Vice-President of GOBS. Gil Turk-Banjo, grew up on a farm in the Springfield area, Gil says,I starting playing banjo when I was about 13 and after I discovered Earl Scruggs, I was totally obsessed. I found gobs at about the same time and it was instrumental, no pun intended, in helping me grow as a bluegrass musician. I met so many wonderful people through gobs who helped me a lot, chief amongst those were Roy and Betty Jo Craft, with whom I played in my first band. Gil currently play in two bands, Missouri 65 and Ozark Mountain Five, the former on banjo and the latter on mandolin. Gil is 21 and out of college. Gil currently does landscaping for Ryan Lawn and Tree, but hopes to be a conservation agent soon. Gil is a board member with GOBS. Mark Withers-Mandolin, started playing mandolin and guitar at age 13. He played with his dad Luther and uncle Russell's bluegrass band, The Bluegrass Ramblers, for several years, playing numerous shows with Jim & Jesse, The Lewis Family and Bill Monroe. Mark also fronted his own band for years, and for almost 20 years co-hosted a bluegrass gospel program, Believers Bluegrass, with close friend Gene Reasoner, and was emcee and stage manager at the Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival for 37 years. Mark is the Executive Director of GOBS. Bill Gage-Fiddle, started playing fiddle at 7 but found bluegrass about 20 years ago. Early bands Bill played with include The Roving Gamblers, South 14 and JC Bonds. Bill is one of the founding members of Big Mill and has played fiddle with them for over 10 years. Bill also plays mandolin for George's Creek. He lives near Harrison AR. Bill is a member of GOBS. For more information, call 417-880-0343 or www.GoBluegrass.org.

Is your institution not a “fit” for the current direct admission vendor partnership opportunities? Could you have a population of student data that would allow you to create an “in-house” direct admissions program? In this power episode with Lenell Hahn, Director of Admission at Southeast Missouri State University, discover how she has led her team in leveraging Element451 to automate creating applications for their early college credit student population. Discover how SEMO used this idea to creatively bring the opportunity to hundreds of students already in their database.This Episode is Sponsored by our friends at Element451: Element451 is an advanced student engagement CRM, providing higher ed institutions with a competitive admissions advantage from recruitment to enrollment through the use of AI, student behavior data, and modern marketing automation.Learn more about Element451About the Enrollify Podcast Network The Enrollify Podcast is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too!  Our podcast network is growing by the month and we've got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam-packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional. Our shows feature a selection of the industry's best as your hosts. Learn from Jaime Hunt, Allison Turcio, Day Kibilds, Dustin Ramsdell, Terry Flannery, Jaime Gleason and many more. Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours. 

Paul was born in Cape Girardeau's Southeast Hospital, raised in town, and educated by the Cape public school system. He was a four-year Mass Communications Major with an English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. Paul's grandfather, Randolph P. Smith, was a 50-year-practice attorney in Cape, and was also a judge, plus the town's City Attorney for ten years. Paul's father was his grandfather's paralegal assistant, having been educated in Cape, at SEMO, and at Washington University Law School. Paul's mother was a longtime school teacher in nearby Scott County, where some feel the 1941 UFO crash occurred, just outside of Cape's city and county borders. Today, Paul lives and works in western Missouri, working on other books and movie screenplays.Paul has been the featured guest on numerous radio shows, such as the internationally syndicated "Coast To Coast A.M." and "Unexplained Phenomenon Radio," plus a podcast from England and one from France. He's also been written about in newspapers in southeast Missouri and the subject of YouTube interview videos with journalist Linda Moulton Howe as well as some online podcasted shows.Websitesa-argusbooks.commo41.infoBooksMO41: The Bombshell Before Roswell3 Presidents - 2 Accidents: More MO41 UFO Crash Data and SurprisesPresident Eisenhower's Close EncountersThe Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter

This week the I am reading from Dr. R Craig Hogan's book 'Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt You Will Never Die' and Paul Blake Smith's book 'The Nixon-Gleason Alien encounter: An Investigation into Nixon's Secret Meetings with Extra Terrestrials'.Dr. R. CraigYou are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary physical experience. Your purpose for being here is to learn lessons, grow in love and compassion, and enjoy life. When you graduate, you will go on to new, exciting experiences, but you will never see endings again as you see them on earth now. People you love will be with you on your new adventures, forever.This book contains the proof from 15 areas of evidence!Communication from people living in the life after this lifeQuantum mechanicsNear-death experiencesPsychotherapist discoveriesTrance medium communication with people in the next lifeVoice recordings of people alive in the next lifeAppearances of people long after their bodies have diedTraining people so they have their own afterlife communicationsDream appearance of people whose bodies have diedNear-death experiencesMental medium communication with people in the next lifeCommunication with those in the afterlife through automatic writingProof our minds are not in our brains, so we continue to live after the brain diesThe evidence will prove to you that you have a unique purpose for being in Earth School, and you will graduate to go on to a glorious life in the life after this life with all your loved ones. You will never die.BioR. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading experts on the greater reality, death, and the afterlife. He serves as Seek Reality Online's senior resident expert. He is the author, co-author, or editor of eight books containing information about the life after this life , afterlife communication and Craig is the co-founder and president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Afterlife Research and Education Institute, Inc. (AREI). For more than a decade he has headed his own experimental home Circle of the Masters of Light.Amazon link http://rb.gy/zrh0dhttps://seekreality.com/https://afterlifeinstitute.org/Paul Blake Smith Under the cover of night, on February 19th, 1973, another U.S. President witnessed extraterrestrials. President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip.As established in Smith's previous work, President Eisenhower's Close Encounters, this meeting was reminiscent of and perhaps even predicated by similar visits made by the president's predecessors, as well as others in the American government and entertainment industry. This in-depth book will attempt to separate fact from fiction. These events were carried off without the public learning the hushed facts and data connecting the two different presidential administrations...BioPaul Blake Smith was born and raised in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where in April 1941 hisgrandfather was a judge and his father a schoolboy. Paul was a four-year Mass CommunicationsMajor & English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. He has written six publishedbooks, including the recent best-seller “President Eisenhower's Close Encounters” and "MO-41: The Bombshell Before Roswell".Amazon http://rb.gy/byoichttps://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/pastlivespodcast

This week I'm talking to Paul Blake Smith about his book 'The Nixon-Gleason Alien encounter: An Investigation into Nixon's Secret Airbase Meetings to View Extraterrestrials'.Under the cover of night, on February 19th, 1973, another U.S. President witnessed extraterrestrials.President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip.As established in Smith's previous work, President Eisenhower's Close Encounters, this meeting was reminiscent of and perhaps even predicated by similar visits made by the president's predecessors, as well as others in the American government and entertainment industry. This in-depth book will attempt to separate fact from fiction. These events were carried off without the public learning the hushed facts and data connecting the two different presidential administrations...BioPaul Blake Smith was born and raised in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where in April 1941 hisgrandfather was a judge and his father a schoolboy. Paul was a four-year Mass CommunicationsMajor & English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. He has written six publishedbooks, including the recent best-seller “President Eisenhower's Close Encounters” and "MO-41: The Bombshell Before Roswell".Amazon http://rb.gy/byoichttps://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

I'm continually amazed by the immensity of the world that a small poem can conjure. In just a few lines or words, or even just a line break, a poem can travel across time and space. It can jump from the minuscule to the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. And in these inventive leaps, it can create, in our minds, new ideas and images. It can help us see connections that were, before, invisible.John Shoptaw has conjured such magic with his poem, “Near-Earth Object,” combining the gravity of mass extinction on Earth with the quotidian evanescence of his sprint to catch the bus.John Shoptaw grew up in the Missouri Bootheel. He picked cotton; he was baptized in a drainage ditch; and he worked in a lumber mill. He now lives a long way from home in Berkeley, California, where I was lucky enough to visit him last summer. John is the author of the poetry collection, Times Beach, which won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in poetry. He is also the author of On The Outside Looking Out, a critical study of John Ashbery's poetry. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.John has a new poetry collection coming out soon, also called Near-Earth Object.This episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series, which focuses on a single poems from poets who confront ecological issues in their work.You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!John ShoptawJohn Shoptaw is a poet, poetry reader, teacher, and environmentalist. He was raised on the Missouri River bluffs of Omaha, Nebraska and in the Mississippi floodplain of “swampeast” Missouri. He began his education at Southeast Missouri State University and graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia with BAs in Physics and later in Comparative Literature and English, earned a PhD in English at Harvard University, and taught for some years at Princeton and Yale.  He now lives, bikes, gardens, and writes in the Bay Area and teaches poetry and environmental poetry & poetics at UC Berkeley, where he is a member of the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative. Shoptaw's first poetry collection, Times Beach (Notre Dame Press, 2015), won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and subsequently also the 2016 Northern California Book Award in Poetry; his new collection, Near-Earth Object, is forthcoming in March 2024 at Unbound Edition Press, with a foreword by Jenny Odell.Both collections embody what Shoptaw calls “a poetics of impurity,” tampering with inherited forms (haiku, masque, sestina, poulter's measure, the sonnet) while always bringing in the world beyond the poem. But where Times Beach was oriented toward the past (the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, the 1927 Mississippi River flood, the 1983 destruction of Times Beach), in Near-Earth Object Shoptaw focuses on contemporary experience: on what it means to live and write among other creatures in a world deranged by human-caused climate change. These questions are also at the center of his essays “Why Ecopoetry?” (published in 2016 at Poetry Magazine, where a number of his poems, including “Near-Earth Object,” have also appeared) and “The Poetry of Our Climate” (forthcoming at American Poetry Review).Shoptaw is also the author of a critical study, On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry (Harvard University Press); a libretto on the Lincoln assassination for Eric Sawyer's opera Our American Cousin (recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project); and several essays on poetry and poetics, including “Lyric Cryptography,” “Listening to Dickinson” and an essay, “A Globally Warmed Metamorphoses,” on his Ovidian sequence “Whoa!” (both forthcoming in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination at Bloomsbury Press in July 2023).“Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, though the asteroid also slipped quietly from its colony on its annular migration between Jupiter and Mars, enticed maybe by our planetary pollen as the monarch by my neighbor's slender-leaved milkweed. Unlike it even when the fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere meteorized the airborne rock, flaring it into what might have looked to the horrid triceratops like a monarch ovipositing (had the butterfly begun before the period broke off). Not much like the monarch I met when I rushed out the door for the 79, though the sulfurous dust from the meteoric impact off the Yucatán took flight for all corners of the heavens much the way the next generation of monarchs took wing from the milkweed for their annual migration to the west of the Yucatán, and their unburdened mother took her final flit up my flagstone walkway, froze and, hurtling downward, impacted my stunned peninsular left foot. Less like the monarch for all this, the globe-clogging asteroid, than like me, one of my kind, bolting for the bus.Recommended Readings & MediaJohn Shoptaw reading from his collection Times Beach at the University of California, Berkeley.TranscriptionIntroJohn FiegeI'm continually amazed by the immensity of the world that a small poem can conjure. In just a few lines or words, or even just a line break, a poem can travel across time and space. It can jump from the minuscule to the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. And in these inventive leaps, it can create, in our minds, new ideas and images. It can help us see connections that were, before, invisible.John Shoptaw has conjured such magic with his poem, “Near-Earth Object,” combining the gravity of mass extinction on Earth with the quotidian evanescence of his sprint to catch the bus.I'm John Fiege, and this episode of Chrysalis is part of the Chrysalis Poets series.John Shoptaw grew up in the Missouri Bootheel. He picked cotton; he was baptized in a drainage ditch; and he worked in a lumber mill. He now lives a long way from home in Berkeley, California, where I was lucky enough to visit him last summer. You can see some of my photos from that visit at ChrysalisPodcast.org, alongside the poem we discuss on this episode.John is the author of the poetry collection, Times Beach, which won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in poetry. He is also the author of On The Outside Looking Out, a critical study of John Ashbery's poetry. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.John has a new poetry collection coming out soon, also called Near-Earth Object.Here is John Shoptaw reading his poem, “Near-Earth Object.”---PoemJohn Shoptaw “Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor'sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to the horridtriceratops like a monarchovipositing (had the butterflybegun before the periodbroke off). Not much likethe monarch I met when Irushed out the door for the 79,though the sulfurous dustfrom the meteoric impactoff the Yucatán took flightfor all corners of the heavensmuch the way the nextgeneration of monarchstook wing from the milkweedfor their annual migrationto the west of the Yucatán,and their unburdened mothertook her final flitup my flagstone walkway,froze and, hurtlingdownward, impactedmy stunned peninsularleft foot. Less likethe monarch for all this,the globe-clogging asteroid,than like me, one of my kind,bolting for the bus.---ConversationJohn Fiege Thank you so much. Well, let's start by talking about this fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere that metorizes the airborne rock, which is is really the most beautiful way I've ever heard of describing the moment when a massive asteroid became a meteor, and impacted the earth 66 million years ago, on the Yucatan Peninsula. And that led to the extinction of about 75% of all species on Earth, including all the dinosaurs. This, of course, is known as the fifth mass extinction event on earth now, now we're in the sixth mass extinction. But but this time, the difference is that the asteroid is us. And, and we're causing species extinctions at even a much faster rate than the asteroid impact did, including the devastation of the monarch butterfly, which migrates between the US and Mexico not far from the Yucatan where the asteroid hit. And in your poem, these analogies metaphors parallels, they all bounce off one another. parallels between extinction events between humans and asteroids between planets and pollen, between monarch eggs and meteors between the one I absolutely love is the annular migration of asteroids in the annual migration of monarchs. But in some ways, the poem puts forward an anti analogy a refutation of these parallels you know, you say multiple times things like unlike the, monarch unlike it, not much like the monarch less like the monarch. So So what's going what's going on here? You're you're giving us these analogies and then and then you're taking them away.John Shoptaw The ending of Near Earth Object is a culmination of fanciful comparisons. In this regard it resembles Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. And you probably know this, John, And that poem proceeds—Shakespeare's—through a series of negative similarities, which I call dis-similes. And at the end, the poem turns on a dime in the final couplet, which is, “and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.” Now, I didn't have Shakespeare's poem in mind—probably good—when I wrote Near Earth Object, but I was certainly familiar with it. And my poem goes through a series of far-fetched similarities between a monarch butterfly and the Chicxulub asteroid, we follow the lifecycles of these two and then a third character, the first person I enters the poem comes out the door, and then gets, you know, hit by the asteroid monarch on penisular left foot. That turn at the end, to comparing the asteroid to me, one of my kind, would seem equally farfetched. What can I have to do with the globe-clogging asteroid? Before climate change, the answer would have been nothing. This poem couldn't have been understood, wouldn't have made sense. Now, we're caught out by the unlikely similarity that, you know, humankind has the geologically destructive potential of the life-altering asteroid.John Fiege I love that the idea of that turn partially because it's so much pulls out the power of poetry, and the power of poetic thinking, where, you know, so much environmental discourse is around rationality, of making rational, reasonable arguments about this is how things are, this is how things ought to be. But when you have this kind of turn, you're you're kind of highlighting the complexity, and the complicated nature of understanding these things, which are really complex. And it really, you know, in such a short poem, you can encapsulate so much of that complexity, which I think benefits our ultimate understanding of, of what we're grappling with, with these environmental questions.John Shoptaw Yeah, that's very well put. I think that this poem is a kind of psychological poem as well, and that I'm playing on the readers expectations. And I think the reader probably has less and less faith in this persona, who keeps keeps being lured into these weird comparisons between the asteroid and and the and the monarch butterfly. And then at the end, we're thinking, well, this, too, is absurd. And then we're caught up, like I say, and that's the psychological turn, you know, early on, when people and people still many people doubt. The existence of climate change. It's just  because of a matter of scale. How can we affect Mother Nature, right? It's so big, it's so overwhelming. It does what it wants. We're just little features on this big, big planet. So that it's so counterintuitive. So that's why yes, we grapple and this poem is meant to take you through that kind of experience. That without saying that explicitly, and I think that's something that, yeah, it sets this apart from both the psychological essay and an environmental essay,John Fiege Right the other line I want to pull out of this is slender leaved milkweed. Which I love. and there is a musicality to it. How do you about that? sonorous aspect of the poem and the musicality and the rhythm of it.John Shoptaw Yeah, Thank you for that question. Its one of the ways I beleive that poetry is like music. We do have a musicality and one of the wonderful things about poetry and music is that it it works below the level of meaning. A way a song often does. You know you often will before you even know all the words will get the song. And understand what the song is comunicating and sometimes I am communicating delicacy in slender leaved milkweed. Not only by the image, but by the sound. Its a quiet line. Whereas when I say airborne rock, that's very tight. And very definitive, like globe clogging asteroid or bolting for the bus. These are dynamics that I can play with, and I can accentuate them by changing the rhythms making to very hard plosive as an explosion, you know, b sounds far from each other. And this is something that poetry can do, that prose can't. So well. And that, you know, it's one reason why you have soundtracks and film to help bring things across.John Fiege Yeah, and then in the midst of, of some of these grand images that you have in the poem of like monarch colonies and asteroid colonies, there's also your presence, and the glimpse of them of what seems like a moment in your life, potentially, you run out the door and catch the 79 bus, which goes through Berkeley where you live. And and you encounter a monarch butterfly, which also has a California migration route. The monarch impacts your, as you say, stunned, peninsular left foot. And so now you're shifting the metaphor from human as asteroid to human as Yucatan peninsula, which is the site the site of the impact. And the way you you play with scale. In this poem, I find quite remarkable moving from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars to your foot. And in your peninsular foot makes me feel as if humans are both the perpetrators of the sixth mass extinction, but also one of its victims. And so I was curious, was this moment with the butterfly is something that actually happened? And how do you understand it? In relation to that, you know, this small moment with the butterfly? How do you understand that in relation with the broader context of the poem?John Shoptaw Yeah, thank you. I, I think, one way I proceed. And in poetry, which is something like chance operations that John Cage and poets following John Cage would use as I become very receptive to things happening around me. And if something happens around me while I'm writing a poem, then it gets to come in the poem, at least I am receptive to that possibility. And as I was going for the bus one day, on the walkway, I came across a dead monarch butterfly was very startled to see it. And I thought, Oh, my God, that pet needs to be in the poem, this butterfly has fallen out of the sky like the asteroid. And so and it turned out that the third thing I needed to link our personal, small felt scale with the astronomical and the geological timescale. And it's exactly the problem of scale, both in space and time. I'm constantly zooming in and zooming out. I actually wrote one poem in which I compare this surreal or unreal feeling that we have, if not a knowledge but a feeling of climate change behind the weather as a hit the Hitchcock zoom, where the background suddenly comes into the foreground, right?John Fiege Yeah, and it seems like, you know, the problem of climate change is a problem of scale like, like it's so it's so foreign to our kind of everyday human senses of, of what is danger, and what is something we should be concerned about or care about it. And that problem of scale both, both spatially and temporally. It really prevents us from wrapping our heads around what it means and how to respond.John Shoptaw It does. That's our challenge. I take it as my challenge, for the kind of poetry I write. And I think of of poetry as a science of feelings. And one of the feelings I'm thinking about and trying to understand and work through is denial. You know, people usually think of denial as refusal, you refuse to admit, but look at the facts just face the facts. But as you say, climate is on such a different scale. It's often a problem of incomprehension.John Fiege Yeah, and I think this idea of denialism I mean, we tend to talk about it in very narrow terms of, you know, people of particular political persuasions deny the existence of climate change. And that's one like, very narrow view of denialism. But it really pervades everything in our culture, you know, anyone who eats a hamburger, or flies on a plane, or, or even turns on their, their heat in their house, you know, is is in is kind of implicated in some system of denial. That, you know, ultimately, our societies completely unsustainable. And we have to function we have to move forward, even though even if we know how problematic those various things are. And so just living in the world requires, you know, some sense of denialism.John Shoptaw It does, if you think of the word we commonly used today, adaptation, though, it's really another word for denial. If you see what I mean, we're, we're moving into accepting, partially accepting the reality as it is, so we can live into it. And again, if we think of relativity, flying less, not giving up flying, emitting less, not stopping all the way emissions on a dime, right, but moving as fast as we possibly can, these are things we can do and without being incapacitated by despair. And again, I think, you know, hope and despair are two other very fundamental concepts that poets if they're serious about feeling, can think about and think through and help people we understand.John Fiege Yeah, and I love this idea of impurity that you bring in. Not just with poetry, but, you know, I feel like environmentalism in general is, it's really susceptible to this kind of ideology of purity. And it becomes about, you know, checking all the boxes of, of, you know, lifestyle and beliefs and votes and all kinds of things where solutions, solutions don't come with some kind of attainment of purity. They come with it a shift of a huge section of the way the culture works. And that's never going to be perfect or consistent or anything. It's going to be imperfect, and it's going to be partial, but it can still move.John Shoptaw That's right. So when people say net zero, carbon offsets, recycling, this is all greenwashing. I say, listen to the word all. Yes, there is some greenwashing going on there. There is some self promotion and maintenance of one's corporate profile at work. But there's also good being done. You can recycle aluminum, and you get 90% aluminum back. You can recycle plastic, you get 50% back, but you still get 50% back.John Fiege Well, in the poem, you also give life to what we ordinarily see as inanimate objects. So let me let me reread a section of the poem enticed maybe by our planetary pollen as the monarch by my neighbor's slender leaves milkweed unlike it, even when the fragrant Cretaceous atmosphere media rised the airborne rock, flaring it into what might have looked to the horrid Triceratops like a monarch ovipositing. So in your words, the lifeless, inanimate asteroid is given life and a soul really? Why take it in that direction?John Shoptaw To make it real, to make it real for us. And you will see poets, giving a voice to storms to extreme weather events, seeing things from potentially destructive point of view. And that's what I was doing here is seeing things fancifully from the the meteor's point of view, but I wanted to give that personification to make the link that this is personal. What's happening at this scale, is still personal, it still has to do with us and links with us.John Fiege Yeah, and you wrote this great piece for Poetry Magazine called “Why Eco Poetry” and you bring up these these topics a bunch. And there's one line. I really love, you say, to empathize beyond humankind, eco-poets  must be ready to commit the pathetic fallacy and to be charged with anthropomorphism could could you explain this, this concept of John Ruskin's pathetic fallacy and how you've seen these issues play out?John Shoptaw I think Ruskin had certainly the good sense of what the natural world was. And many artists and poets laziness, when it came to the describing the natural world. storms were always raging, winds were always howling, the words were always that's really what he was getting at. And I appreciate that. You want to make these things real, right. But there is there is a place for pathetic fallacy. But on the other hand, strategically, we often need for that monologue of the lyric poem, to be overtaken by this larger voice, almost like a parental voice from on high, speaking to us and saying, Listen to me, this is real. This is happening. I'm out here. Right? So you've forced me to take over your poem and talk to you about anthropomorphism is, is related phenomenon. And it's it's a word that I, I still find useful and making us really consider and experience the outside world, the world, particularly of other creatures, as they actually are. However, it's a belief it's not a scientific idea. And the idea being that we are ascribing qualities or human qualities to animals or plants, or even inanimate objects, like like meteors. When in fact, when it comes to animals, for instance, we're often identifying qualities behaviors, actions, motivations, we share anyone who owns pets knows pet they have a range of feelings that to say, my dog is happy. My dog is bored. My dog is feeling bad because it feels it's disappointed me in some way, you know, these things are real. And you need to act accordingly to keep things going along. In the canine / human cup, you know, partnership that you have going there.John Fiege Yeah, Descartes must not have had any dogs or cats or ever encountered another animal besides a human in his life.John Shoptaw That's right. It's partly, you know, one feels, how can we know that other world? We shouldn't be so arrogant in our knowledge. And so it seems like we're being modest, and it's a good thing. And we have this anthropological attitude toward the relativity of, you know, consciousness. On the other hand, it's a form of denial, right? anthropomorphism is a form of denial of what we share and poets need to overcome that denial.John Fiege You mean, you mean anti-human anti-anthropomorphism?John Shoptaw Yeah, it's what I know. We don't have the language for it. We don't have that word of the problem.John Fiege Anti-anthropomorphism, it just slips right off your tongue.John Shoptaw That's right.John Fiege Well this point you make about anthropomorphism reminds me really strongly of a story. I've heard Jane Goodall tell many times, she was hired to observe chimpanzees in the wild, and she gave them names. But she was reprimanded by by many in the scientific community, who said, a researcher should use numbers to identify chimps or any other animals they're studying, because scientists must be dispassionate to not confuse animal behavior with human behavior. And she identifies one of her most significant contributions to science as recognizing the individuality and personality and really the souls of non human animals. And that recognition fundamentally changed. Our scientific understanding of chimps and other animals in allow these massive breakthroughs in the field. And you seem to be arguing that with poetry, we're in a similar place in relation to the Earth where we need to find a new language that allows us to empathize more profoundly with the other than human residence of the planet. Does that sound? Does that sound right to you?John Shoptaw Very much, and really, with thinking and realizing that I'm an animal, as a human being. brought on a conceptual paradigm shift for me, unlike anything I've experienced, in my adult life, everything changed. And when I think, what are the animals think about this? How are they dealing with climate change? Etc. It's always revelatory for me to ask that kind of question. I'm looking at a book by Jane Goodall right now on my shelf called the Book of Hope. And something I've been thinking about a lot in relation to this, because animals have not given up and they don't give up until they they have to. An animal with say, a song bird in the clutch of a hawk knows it's over, and you shut down in order to minimize the pain and suffering. They know that, but they know not to do that prematurely. And I think, you know, often we met we think of hope and despair, as antonyms, but they're very intertwined with each other. I mean, the word despair, contains hope. It means that the loss of hope and there as there is a sense of false hope, where you, you keep hoping beyond the point of hope, where reality tells you there's no point in hoping there's also what I would call a premature despair. I don't know if you have run across the Stockdale paradox. I find it helpful. There's a writer on Jim Collins, who talked to Admiral Stockdale who was taken prisoner of war in Vietnam. And he, he survived through seven years and several incidents of torture. And he said, he was asked by Jim Collins, well, who didn't survive? And he said, well, the optimists who said the optimists were saying, Oh, we're going to because we're gonna be led out by Christmas. In the winter that didn't happen and say, Oh, well, we'll be released by Easter. When that doesn't happen and Christmas comes around again. They die. They die of a broken heart.John Fiege Oh, wow. I have heard that in broad terms. I don't remember that story, though. That's great.John Shoptaw Yeah, and the paradox is that you have hope, which is resolute. It's not pie in the sky hope, but it's hope that faces reality. And it's hoped that is more like courage. It's more like resoluteness hope. Hope is not easy. And it does not deny despair, and even allows you to relax for a moment and maybe weep. Maybe you say, Oh, my God, it's over. Before you come back and say, No, I'm still here. I can still help I can do what I can.John Fiege Right, right. Yeah, and I love how you say that. Eco poetry can be anthropomorphic, but it cannot be anthropocentric, which which flips both of these assumptions that are so deeply embedded in our culture.John Shoptaw Now, maybe I could say something about anthropocentrism.John Fiege Yeah, for sure.John Shoptaw It's a word that, I think is maybe in the dictionary now, but maybe not so familiar word, but you know, thinking of everything in the world, a revolving around us and and the universe. We're the universe's reason for being right. That would be the kind of the strongest sense of anthropocentrismJohn Fiege Another another form of heliocentrism.John Shoptaw Yes, that's right. That's absolutely right. That's why I one reason why I, at the beginning of Near Earth Objects, see things for the asteroids point of view, right? To give that kind of scale, but also shifting perspective. On the other hand, lyric poetry is inevitably anthropocentric. We as humans are inevitably anthropocentric. So our moving out of anthropocentrism in poetry is always going to be relative and strategic, and rhetorical and persuasive, never absolute.John Fiege Right and totally. Well, another interesting issue you confront in the article is didacticism and the risks of moralism in eco-poetry. And in talking about this, you evoke two poets. The first is Archibald MacLeish, the renowned modernist poet who wrote "a poem should not mean but be." But then you write, poetics wasn't always this way, for Horace, a poem both pleases and instructs. And I feel like this issue of moralism, and didacticism goes way beyond poetry to encompass environmentalism more broadly. How can a poem please instruct without preaching and being didactic?John Shoptaw Yes, that's, that's a question. Where there's no single answer every poem, for me poses the question differently. And part of the excitement part of the experimental nature of poems is you find a new answer every time to that problem, how not to be preachy, but to leave readers in a different place at the end of the poem, than they were at the beginning. my poem to move people from unlike to less like., if I if I can get them there, in a poem, I have moved him in a way and that's enough for me.John Fiege Well, let's look at the end of the poem. You write less like the monarch for all this, the globe clogging asteroid than like me, one of my kind bolting for the bus? It seems in some ways that you might be settling on an analogy in the midst of of all these intersecting parallels, the asteroid is less like the monarch and more like us, us who have killed the monarchs. Where Where do you feel like the poem lands in terms of making a statement like this and and offering up many conflicting ideas that readers have to contemplate themselves?John Shoptaw What would I say? I think when it comes to guilt or responsibility, as I was saying before, we don't want to think in absolute terms, where I'm as guilty as Exxon, I am not. But I still am right. I am still part of this, this world. That monarch butterfly died naturally after it planted its eggs. Its its, its days, her days were numbered. So, that that is part of this. But yet, I do. I do want to say and this is part of, I think, part of the one of the gestures of poetry in the Anthropocene, the era of climate change, a gesture of saying, I take responsibility, I take responsibility. And this is, this is one of the problems of saying, I give up, you know, there's no point in doing any more. We don't have that option. It's irresponsible to give up to ever give up. So I still, though want to say, even something who that has global potential for damage is connected with me good little me, had taking taking the bus because I'm wondering, I'm one of humankind, and we have this destructive potential. And on the other hand, we have this corresponding responsibility.John Fiege Yeah. And looking back on the title of the poem, it feels as if we, as humans, have what you might call like, a dual contradictory existence? As, as both we're both Earth objects. And we're near Earth objects. Oh, what do you what do you think about that?John Shoptaw Yes, I do. I like that ambiguity. I think, one of the, one of the chances, and the happy accidents of the monarch appearing in my poem, as I was writing it, without planning to have a monarch in it, one of the accidents was to take the monarch also, as a Near Earth Object Near Earth Object is one of these scientific concepts of usually a very large object, like a, like a comet, or an asteroid entering the Earth's gravitational pull. With potentially hazardous effects. But, you know, it can be anything near the earth. And if you take object, also in the title as a goal, my object is to bring us near the earth. not have us simply abstract ourselves, how do we do that - we abstract ourselves by saying, we're special.John Fiege I really like that too, because that also ties into this question of scale. You know, you can be near the earth by being, you know, 1000 miles away. Or you can be near the earth by hovering, you know, centimeters over it. And it can be conceptual to, you can be oblivious to the fact that you live on Earth, or you can be extremely aware that you are of in within and near the earth at all times. Yeah, I really like that. That's beautiful. I love how so many meanings come from this tiny little poem?John Shoptaw Well, may I say I was not in a godlike position with this poem. For me. poems are like gardens and that they're less intended and tended, and they they grow of their own and I just tried to be the best collaborator with the poem that I can and not to ignore when it's trying to tell me something like, I need a monarch in here. Not to ignore that.John Fiege Yeah. Well, can you end by reading the poem once again. I can thank you very much.John Shoptaw Poem“Near-Earth Object”Unlike the monarch, thoughthe asteroid also slippedquietly from its colonyon its annular migrationbetween Jupiter and Mars,enticed maybe byour planetary pollenas the monarch by my neighbor'sslender-leaved milkweed.Unlike it even whenthe fragrant Cretaceousatmosphere meteorizedthe airborne rock,flaring it into what mighthave looked to the horridtriceratops like a monarchovipositing (had the butterflybegun before the periodbroke off). Not much likethe monarch I met when Irushed out the door for the 79,though the sulfurous dustfrom the meteoric impactoff the Yucatán took flightfor all corners of the heavensmuch the way the nextgeneration of monarchstook wing from the milkweedfor their annual migrationto the west of the Yucatán,and their unburdened mothertook her final flitup my flagstone walkway,froze and, hurtlingdownward, impactedmy stunned peninsularleft foot. Less likethe monarch for all this,the globe-clogging asteroid,than like me, one of my kind,bolting for the bus.ConversationJohn Fiege John, thank you so much for joining me today. This has been fabulous.John Shoptaw Thank you, John, for the opportunity. And I love conversing with you.---OutroJohn Fiege Thank you so much to John Shoptaw. Go to our website at ChrysalisPodcast.org, where you can read his poem “Near-Earth Object” and also see some of my photographs of him at his house in Berkeley and find our book and media recommendations.This episode was researched by Elena Cebulash and Brodie Mutschler and edited by Brodie Mutschler and Sofia Chang. Music is by Daniel Rodriguez Vivas. Mixing is by Sarah Westrich.If you enjoyed my conversation with John, please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform. Contact me anytime at ChrysalisPodcast.org, where you can also support the project, subscribe to our newsletter, and join the conversation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.chrysalispodcast.org

Sasha Stogniy, a former valedictorian from Woodstock High School, has been granted a full scholarship to attend the Yale School of Medicine. After receiving offers from other medical schools, Stogniy chose Yale to pursue her dream of becoming a medical doctor. She and her family moved to Woodstock from Ukraine in 2005, seeking advanced medical care for her kidney condition. The care she received from her physicians inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. Stogniy graduated from the University of Georgia with honors in biochemistry and Russian literature. She has worked at Cherokee Women's Health Specialists for the past year and is grateful for the support she has received. Guilt by Association, a new men's fashion retailer in downtown Woodstock, recently had its official grand opening after a soft opening two weeks ago. The store offers clothing options such as shirts, pants, and hats from brand names such as Onward Reserve, The Normal Brand, Meripex Apparel, Rye 51, and Wander North Georgia, as well as other national and local brands. The store also has a designated women's clothing section. The owners aim to create a place for men to hang out, relax, and shop, with chairs, a couch, a large TV, and future events such as bourbon tasting and cigar rolling. The store is located at 460 Chambers St. Suite B in downtown Woodstock. Amehre Morrison, former River Ridge running back and current Southeast Missouri State University player, has announced that he is entering the transfer portal. Morrison, who has four years of eligibility remaining, thanked the SEMO staff for the opportunities he was given in a Twitter post. The Redhawks finished the 2022 season with a 9-3 record. Morrison was named Cherokee County Offensive Player of the Year in 2021 after leading the best offense in program history. He committed to SEMO in December 2021 after a senior season riddled with injuries. The Chick-fil-A Moo've It 5K, hosted by the six Chick-fil-A restaurants in Cherokee County, will take place on August 12 at Etowah River Park. The event aims to raise funds for the Cherokee County Educational Foundation and Cherokee County Special Olympics. The registration fee for the 5K event is $25, and runners that register early will receive a free Chick-fil-A meal with every "early bird" race entry signed up by May 31. The event will feature a family-friendly 5K race, a one-mile "calf run," and a new "nugget roll" for toddlers, as well as music, face painting, and other activities for all ages. A River Ridge High School student named Ashley McMath won first place in the 2023 Congressional Art Competition for Georgia's 11th Congressional District. The contest also saw Cherokee County students winning second and third place. Rep. Barry Loudermilk announced the results and praised the artistic talent in the district. This year, the competition was held in-person at The Downtown Gallery in Cartersville and featured 32 artworks from eight different schools. An independent panel of judges determined the winner. The Woodstock City Council has unanimously approved an annexation and rezoning application from Northside Hospital to build a new medical office building at Ragsdale Road and Highway 92. The 37,500 square foot facility will be built on three vacant parcels, two of which were already in the city limits and zoned for office space and institutional use. The company is planning to hire 60-70 employees at this location. The site plan includes two entrances on Ragsdale Road and a full access entrance to the north, subject to a variance, and an increase in parking spaces from 138 to 176 with six electric vehicle charging stations. Additionally, the council approved a conditional use permit for a tattoo shop and piercing business and a private preschool. Allie Millington, a Woodstock-based author, poet, artist, florist, and educator, is set to release her middle-grade novel, "Olivetti," on March 26, 2024. The book is the first of a two-book deal with Macmillan. "Olivetti" tells the story of a family's typewriter that comes to life to reunite them after a traumatic event. Millington, who discovered textile art during the pandemic lockdown, runs a textile art business, Little Woven Home, and co-founded Floralette Co., a floral design studio. She also works with Marietta Mentoring for Leadership at Marietta Middle School to support youth. For more information, visit her website or Instagram page. For more information be sure to visit https://www.bgpodcastnetwork.com/    https://cuofga.org/   https://www.drakerealty.com/   https://www.esogrepair.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Blake Smith was born and raised in Cape Girardeau Missouri, we're in April 1941 his grandfather was a judge and his father a schoolboy, Paul was a four-year mass communication major in English minor at Southeast Missouri State University, he has written six published books including the recent bestseller President Eisenhower's close encounters in 2020.

This is an episode so good that I had to mix it twice...Go figure, the file of an episode about Richard Nixon gets  corrupted!Strap yoursellf in for a little history, politics, paranormal and entertainment as we unveil the  President Nixon and Jackie Gleason Alien Encounter.Tonight we talk with investigative author Paul Blake Smith about how Richard Nixon allegedly showed The Honeymooners' Jackie Gleason some aliens. It's a story that sounds too wacky to be true… but could it also be too wild to have been made up?And was Bob Hope involved somewhere beyond a golf course?The truth is not out there ... it's here, right in this episode.ABOUT PAUL BLAKE SMITHPaul Blake Smith was born and raised in MO41's hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He is a product of that city's public school system, and then attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape, where he was a four-year Mass Communications Major with an English Minor. The grandson of a Cape Girardeau attorney of fifty-plus years - and also a U.S. Commissioner, City Attorney, and community leader - Paul is the son of a local paralegal and an educator who worked in the suspected crash area within neighboring Scott County. A fan of American history and popular culture, Paul now lives and works in a city in the western part of the Show-Me State, writing original screenplays and other books on largely historical, nonfiction subjects - including a follow-up to this original fact-based publication. MO41, The Bombshell Before Roswell is his first published book.The Nixon Gleason Alien Encounter will be available in May 2023.  Paul's books can be purchased on Amazon among other venues.To support "Pickleball is Life: Dill with It" go to Seed&Spark here.Newscast interruption background music from Zapsplat.com.SUPPORT THE PODCASTFOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE/REVIEW...On our website at afraidofnothingpodcast.com.BUY ME A COFFEE...Your gracious donation here (https://www.afraidofnothingpodcast.com/support/) will be shouted out in an upcoming episode.WATCH…VIMEO ON DEMAND: Rent the Afraid of Nothing documentary here:Support the show

Paul was born in Cape Girardeau's Southeast Hospital, raised in town, and educated by the Cape public school system. He was a four-year Mass Communications Major with an English Minor at Southeast Missouri State University. Paul's grandfather, Randolph P. Smith, was a 50-year-practice attorney in Cape, and was also a judge, plus the town's City Attorney for ten years. Paul's father was his grandfather's paralegal assistant, having been educated in Cape, at SEMO, and at Washington University Law School. Paul's mother was a longtime school teacher in nearby Scott County, where some feel the 1941 UFO crash occurred, just outside of Cape's city and county borders. Today, Paul lives and works in western Missouri, working on other books and movie screenplays.Paul has been the featured guest on numerous radio shows, such as the internationally syndicated "Coast To Coast A.M." and "Unexplained Phenomenon Radio," plus a podcast from England and one from France. He's also been written about in newspapers in southeast Missouri and the subject of YouTube interview videos with journalist Linda Moulton Howe as well as some online podcasted shows.Websites a-argusbooks.com mo41.infoBooks MO41: The Bombshell Before Roswell 3 Presidents - 2 Accidents: More MO41 UFO Crash Data and Surprises President Eisenhower's Close Encounters

Born in South India, Sri S is a powerful singer and talented songwriter who crafted some of the most fiercely entertaining music anyone can enjoy. His passion for music started in High school, where he took Carnatic music lessons and never looked back. With his eyes fixed on his dream of being a famous musician, Sri S took a bold step and moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Music from the Southeast Missouri State University in Missouri. Apart from perfecting his singing skills, he grasped the art of writing lyrics, composing, and building his songwriting skills. He acquired Music Industry Essentials Online Certification from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in New York to keep up with the fast- transitioning music industry. In addition, he is pursuing a Master of Arts in Music Technology from the University of Central Missouri. Drawing his inspiration from stories of love and romance, he spends most of his free time recording his small ideas and binding them later to form unforgettable melodies. Due to his determination, consistency, hard work, and unique talent, he is set to release his debut album, “She &I.” He embraces life and happiness and uses music to share those values worldwide. Sri S shows much promise at this early stage of his career. Expect him to be one of the next-wave music-makers of the next few years.

Blood Flow Restriction TrainingGuest: Dr. Jeremy LoennekeBio: Dr. Jeremy Loenneke credentials include a Master's degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Southeast Missouri State University, as well as a PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Loenneke is the director of the Kevser Ermin Applied Physiology Laboratory and his research group's primary focus is on skeletal muscle adaptations to exercise with and without the application of blood flow restriction. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the American Physiological Society. He has also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and currently serves on the editorial board for Sports Medicine, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, PLOS One, Peer J, and Journal of Trainology.Links:@jploenneke on Twitter and Instagram

Carson Vincent Heady was born in Cape Girardeau, MO, graduated from Southeast Missouri State University and moved to St. Louis in 2001. He has served in sales and leadership across Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.   Carson is the best-selling author of the Birth of a Salesman series, the first book of which was published by World Audience Inc. in 2010. He released The Salesman Against the World in 2014, A Salesman Forever in 2016 and Salesman on Fire in 2020. He is also featured in Scott Ingram's B2B Sales Mentors: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals.   Carson is a 7-time CEO/President's Club winner across 5 roles at AT&T and Microsoft and National Verizon Rockstar winner. He has been recognized as a top social seller at Microsoft and is consistently ranked in the top 25 sales gurus in the world on Rise Global. He is included among the Top 50 sales authors on LinkedIn.   With over 330K social followers, Carson has also been interviewed on over 30 sales and leadership podcasts, by such luminaries as Jeffrey & Jennifer Gitomer, Jeb Blount, Brandon Bornancin, Sam Dunning, Larry Levine, Darrell Amy, Scott Ingram, Thierry van Herwijnen, Jim Brown, Sam Jacobs, Luigi Prestinenzi, Donald Kelly, Marylou Tyler, George Leith, Pat Helmer, Eric Nelson, Ron Tunick, Jeff Arthur, Mary Ann Samedi, Jean Oursler, Andre Harrell, Marlene Chism, Bill Crespo, Matt Tanguay, Josh Wheeler and Chad Bostick. He has also co-hosted the Smart Biz Show on EG Marketing Radio.   His articles have appeared in several noteworthy publications such as SalesGravy, Smash! Sales, Salesopedia and the Baylor Sports Department S3 Report.   Carson lives in St. Louis, MO, with his wife Amy and daughters Madison, Sidonia and Charlotte.  

Razan Roumany is a medical interpreter who is also trained in remote simultaneous interpretation. Although she specializes in medical interpretation, she has also interpreted for lawyers, teachers, social workers, and even a psychologist in a correctional facility. Having grown up as an Arab-American and hearing her family speak in both French and Arabic is what sparked her passion for interpretation and language learning.  She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she obtained a masters degree in Translation and Interpretation studies. Razan also obtained a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Pre Med (Pre-physician assistant) from Southeast Missouri State University.   She currently works as a Freelance Spanish and Arabic interpreter and a Spanish translator. Her ultimate goal is to work as an Arabic to Spanish simultaneous interpreter.Tune in! Only on the podcast that brings you your stories about our profession. Brand the Interpreter!-----------------------------Connect with Razan RoumanyWebsiteInstagram Thanks for tuning in, till next time!

This week we welcome the Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society! The Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society is a Springfield based organization commited to preserving, and promoting Bluegrass and traditional music in the Ozarks through education and exposure or local Missouri Bluegrass groups. The group coming to perform with us is comprised of: David Maravilla-Giutar, began his pursuit of bluegrass in the late 70's. He assisted in forming the band, Second Wind, whose personnel included Rhonda Vincent, and later, Alison Krauss. Afterward, David was invited to join Alison in her band, Union Station, to enter the 1988 S.P.B.G.M.A International Band Contest, which they won. David is the President of GOBS. Leevon DeCourley-Bass, grew up in rural southeast Missouri near the community of Arab. He attended college at Southeast Missouri State University during which time he worked with bands such as The Men of the Week and Tommy Brown and the County Line Grass. Leevon now makes his home in Crane, Missouri with his wife Kadee along with their son Walker and soon to be DeCourley Baby #2, due in March. Leevon is working to bring bluegrass to the forefront in the Crane area through events such as Bluegrass on the Backstage at the Crane Broiler Festival and other jams and events throughout the area. Leevon is the Vice-President of GOBS. Gil Turk-Banjo, grew up on a farm in the Springfield area, Gil says,I starting playing banjo when I was about 13 and after I discovered Earl Scruggs, I was totally obsessed. I found gobs at about the same time and it was instrumental, no pun intended, in helping me grow as a bluegrass musician. I met so many wonderful people through gobs who helped me a lot, chief amongst those were Roy and Betty Jo Craft, with whom I played in my first band. Gil currently play in two bands, Missouri 65 and Ozark Mountain Five, the former on banjo and the latter on mandolin. Gil is 21 and out of college. Gil currently does landscaping for Ryan Lawn and Tree, but hopes to be a conservation agent soon. Gil is a board member with GOBS. Mark Withers-Mandolin, started playing mandolin and guitar at age 13. He played with his dad Luther and uncle Russell's bluegrass band, The Bluegrass Ramblers, for several years, playing numerous shows with Jim & Jesse, The Lewis Family and Bill Monroe. Mark also fronted his own band for years, and for almost 20 years co-hosted a bluegrass gospel program, Believers Bluegrass, with close friend Gene Reasoner, and was emcee and stage manager at the Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival for 37 years. Mark is the Executive Director of GOBS. Bill Gage-Fiddle, started playing fiddle at 7 but found bluegrass about 20 years ago. Early bands Bill played with include The Roving Gamblers, South 14 and JC Bonds. Bill is one of the founding members of Big Mill and has played fiddle with them for over 10 years. Bill also plays mandolin for George's Creek. He lives near Harrison AR. Bill is a member of GOBS. For more information, call 417-880-0343 or www.GoBluegrass.org.

In the first hour of tonight's Sports Open Line, Matt Pauley once again shares the news of yet another Blues loss- the most recent being the 5-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, marking the team's eighth straight loss…a franchise record. Coach Craig Berube and Ryan O'Reilly's dejected postgame comments are featured to provide a glimpse on what's going wrong and why it's going wrong. Matt is then joined by Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball coach Brad Korn to discuss the team's 64-61 win over South Florida on Monday, recruitment in the age of the transfer portal, and his expectations for the rest of the year. Sports Open Line with Matt Pauley airs weeknights 6-8pm on KMOX. Join the show by calling or texting (314) 436-7900 or by tweeting to Matt @MattPauleyOnAir. Listen live at 1120AM, 98.7FM, or on the free Audacy app.

This is a segment from the first hour of Sports Open Line with Matt Pauley. Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball coach Brad Korn joins the show to discuss the team's 64-61 win over South Florida on Monday, recruitment in the age of the transfer portal, and his expectations for the rest of the year. Sports Open Line with Matt Pauley airs weeknights 6-8pm on KMOX. Join the show by calling or texting (314) 436-7900 or by tweeting to Matt @MattPauleyOnAir. Listen live at 1120AM, 98.7FM, or on the free Audacy app.

Larry Hagner is the creator of The Dad Edge Podcast, featured as one of the top podcasts on iTunes. A graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a background in Health, Wellness, and Nutrition, Larry went on to be the founder of The Dad Edge  Project, a successful organization that is dedicated to helping Dads through various resources. Larry is also a dynamic speaker who has spoken for several churches, men's groups, women's groups, and couples with outstanding reviews.To find out more about Larry Hanger and The Dad Edge Project, click here. On This Episode:– Larry breaks down the 1.5 hour bedtime routine that he and his wife do every night with their kids.– Find out why Larry and his wife don't have sex at night anymore.– Discover how Dad Edge started.– Hear about Larry's troubled relationship with his father.– Find out why Larry left a lucrative job to begin a coaching program.– Vince talks about being transparent with your personal story and overcoming imposter syndrome.– Get the keys to finding your way out of a funk.– Do the little things in your relationship – not just the big things.Key Takeaways:Capture the moments that matter.Trying to get the victory is where the victory is found.Having a tribe is vital.____________________ATTENTION! If you're a serious online fitness or nutrition coach or an aspiring trainer ready to go online… But you lack the strategies, systems and clarity to get to the next level and want to enjoy MORE time off while making money…GIVE ME 2 DAYS AND I'LL SHOW YOU HOW EVEN OUR NEWBIE STUDENTS ARE SCALING TO 10K, 20K AND EVEN 50K MONTHS & BEYOND WITH OUR 100% A.C.C.E.L.ERATOR ORGANIC SCALING SYSTEMS…In Las Vegas, NV on September 16-17, 2022 you'll have the exclusive opportunity to Sit In and Test Drive the next 7 Figure Mastermind themed "The Conversion Immersion" which is designed to give you the best growth, marketing, sales and delivery strategies and systems to  that help you become “recession-proof”.For a limited number of seats you can PICK YOUR PRICE, and instead of paying the normal $1,900 Sit In fee, you can tell us what you think this event is worth to you! Submit a reasonable offer and we'll see you in Vegas. Sign up here:www.7figuremastermind.ca/vegas

In the tradition of comedians who have made the transition from the stage to the screen, such as Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, multi-talented Guy Torry has made the leap to comedic actor with great success. Guy has been seen on BET's Comic View, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Showtime at the Apollo and Russell Simmons: Def Comedy Jam where he made his stand up debut to a national audience. Guy also hosted the enormously successful 52 city comedy tour The Kings of Comedy, which grossed over $37M. He created a unique concept called Phat Comedy Tuesdays which was a weekly showcase for up and coming comedians. This evolved into a weekly spotlight at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip entitled The Guy Torry Show where Guy hosts and produces a comedy showcase featuring an improv comedy troupe. This event was regularly attended by the comedy A-List including Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker and Chris Rock. While attending Southeast Missouri State University, Guy had a curious desire to pursue a career in entertainment. Once in Los Angeles, he landed a job as a production assistant on the Fox comedy Martin. His quick wit captured the attention of the show's writers, producers and eventually the show's star Martin Lawrence. Guy became a contributing writer to the series and had subsequent writing stints on sitcoms such as Minor Adjustments and Moesha. The St. Louis native also received critical acclaim for his work on the small screen starring in the NBC mini-series The 70's, the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and the UPN drama The Strip. He hosted BET's sports talk show Baller, with four-time NBA World Champion John Salley and three-time NFL Pro Bowler Hugh Douglas. Guy has made guest star appearances on television series including Blind Justice, The Shield, One On One, X Files and NYPD Blue. He also supplied his voice on the animated Nickelodeon series As Told By Ginger. Guy has appeared in such feature films as Funny Money, opposite Chevy Chase, Penelope Ann Miller and Chris McDonald, The Last Stand, starring Anthony Anderson, Darrin Henson, Kevin Hart and written and directed by Russ Parr, Dead and Deader, opposite Dean Cain and Susan Ward, and the independent thriller Slow Burn, opposite Ray Liotta, Taye Diggs, LL Cool J and Mekhi Phifer. Guy has also appeared with Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear and Eva Mendes in the 20th Century Fox Film, Stuck on You, and his other film credits include Runaway Jury, Don't Say A Word, Pearl Harbor, Life, The Animal and most notably American History X. Guy is currently performing in comedy clubs across the country, and resides in Los Angeles.

From your mouth to your feet, the hinge that feeds you and puts your socks on. What could go wrong and how to “fix it”.  Join Hand to Shoulder and Dr. Boyd Lumsden, M.D with Hand to Shoulder Center of Wisconsin to discuss several diagnoses of the elbow joint, a surgeon's perspective and recommendations for therapy. Dr. Boyd C. Lumsden, M.D. is one of our very own skilled surgeons who joined Hand to Shoulder Center of Wisconsin in 2004. He is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with a Subspecialty Certification in Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Lumsden provides complete comprehensive care to the upper extremity including the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. He has a special interest in arthroscopic procedures involving the wrist, elbow, and shoulder. Dr. Lumsden is a Missouri native who attended Southeast Missouri State University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School where he was respectfully a part of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. His orthopedic surgery residency program took him to the University of South Alabama and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, WI. He holds a fellowship in Hand, Upper Extremity and Microvascular Surgery from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2003 he was the recipient of the Leonard Marmour Surgical Arthritis Foundation Award. Boyd Lumsden, M.D. is married with two children. His outside interests include fly fishing, hunting, archery, snow skiing, and golf. He is also an active participant in many community events and holds a special association with the Mile of Music, a 4-day summer music festival in Appleton, WI.

Welcome to today's episode I'm your host Justin Hanover, Success coach with fitness revolution.  Before we dive in and bring on today's guest I wanted to share a little about what you can expect to hear and who we have joining us today.Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dan RitchieDr. Dan Ritchie started his fitness career at Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in Fitness and Sports Medicine and then spent a year as a graduate assistant coaching Division 1 athletes. He completed his master's degree in Health & Physical Education at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, where he won the 2002 Thesis of the Year. Since 2007 Dan has owned and operated Miracles Fitness in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he and his staff have trained over 2000 clients. With over 20 years of experience, he has extensive knowledge on training the mature adult market and has equipped people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond to achieve their goals and enhance their functional longevity. Dan was the 2014 PFP Trainer of the Year, and then shortly after he and Dr. Cody Sipe co-founded the Functional Aging Institute.In our conversation Dan hit on some powerful points on serving the baby boomer generation. If serving the demographic with the largest buying power and time availability matters to you then you will find amazing value in this episode.  We got into marketing and understanding what to put out there to attract this demographic to the types of offers that work.  Then if you aren't already serving this demographic Dan shares his functional aging certification and how it will ultimately allow you to serve this population and grow your business.To engage with Dan visit his sites below:WebsiteFacebookThanks for listening!  Don't forget to leave a review!The Needs Assessment:The Free Assessment that Gym Owners Need to Escape the Grind.Want to build a thriving Gym? Don't know what to do next? Get the direction that you need for your business. Instantly receive a specialized snapshot where you are in the Fitness Business Owners Journey. In two minutes you'll know your next big step! Get Assessed.Join our email newsletter for access to over 15 years of fitness business expertise. Get help with every aspect of your business. Marketing, Sales, Finance, Business Strategy, and lots more! Join the Revolution.

Ep. 44 - The Special Operations Section (SOS) is a specialized unit of the White House Branch, Presidential Protective Division. Its duties have long been part of Uniformed Division and White House Police operations. Uniformed Division officers assigned to this group are trained to handle a myriad of special duties and functions at the White House Complex, including conducting the daily Congressional and public tours of the White House and handling events such as State Dinners and official arrival ceremonies for foreign heads of state. Sgt. Eliott G. Nelson, a proud native of Wyandotte County, Kansas City, Kansas, was hired by the United States Secret Service on March 15 th , 2014. Shortly after being assigned to the White House Branch, Mr. Nelson joined the Special Operations Section (SOS), which is responsible for providing access control and screening to guests attending social events or public East Wing tours. After two years, Mr. Nelson worked his way into a leadership role within SOS. Sgt. Nelson received his Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Southeast Missouri State University, where he also became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, Xi Gamma Chapter. Sgt. Nelson received his Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. White House Tours - https://www.nps.gov/whho/planyourvisit/the-white-house-tour.htm Want to join the Secret Service? Click here to start your journey www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=USSS Hosted and Edited by: Cody Starken, Associate Producer and assistant editor: Starr Vazquez Music is “Nova Police” by Hermelin, found here: www.hermelin.bandcamp.com/track/nova-police. The music used in the podcast was altered from the original soundtrack by cutting specific sections of the music to create the intro and outro of the podcast. This work Attribution-Noncommercial-sharealike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US), which license definition is located here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Please visit us at: Twitter@secretservice, Instagram@secretservice, Facebook @UnitedStatesSecretServiceOfficial, YouTube@US Secret Service, and LinkedIn @U.S. Secret Service Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.com and find it at www.secretservice.gov/press/social-media/