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Being out of routine doesn't have to mean being out of range—but it does require a more intentional approach, especially when it comes to managing blood sugars. So in today's episode, we're sharing 3 tips to help you keep your blood sugars more stable with food, even when you're outside your kitchen. Whether it's a vacation, a golf trip, a bachelorette weekend, a backyard barbecue, or a shift from school to summer break for your child with T1D, these changes can make nutrition and blood sugar management more complex. We're here to remind you that it's not about being perfect—it's about making progress, staying intentional, and learning your patterns so you can move from a reactive to a proactive mindset. The #1 thing we hope you take away from this episode is that feeling good about your blood sugars while living with freedom and flexibility is absolutely possible.Quick Takeaways:Lauren's top three tips for keeping a stable blood sugar when she's out of routine How to identify your Minimum Viable Carb Count (MVC) Living in a place of possibility versus limitation (and how to get there) Being strategic with meal and snack/treat times to prevent BG spikes Mindset shifts that are crucial for managing T1D out of your routine Timestamps:[02:43] #1. Defining your ‘MVC' [07:32] #2. Time the treats [09:10] When you feel like T1D has made you the “no person” (or parent)[10:19] “Living more in possibility versus limitation" [10:43] #3. Giving yourself permission slips [13:34]  “If you feel like you are trying too hard to blend in…” What to do now: 1. Want to learn how to navigate diabetes distress with more clarity and support? Register here for our free webinar featuring Dr. Molly Tanenbaum, a clinical psychologist from Stanford University Medical School.2. Follow me @lauren_bongiorno and @riselyhealth on Instagram to stay in the loop when new episodes drop.3. Apply for coaching and talk to our team so you can reclaim the life you deserve. 4. If you want to hear another episode like this: Listen to #75 (5 Tips for Optimal Blood Sugars When You're Out of Routine) 

In this episode of RAPM Focus, executive editor Steven Cohen, MD, discusses the September 2024 publication of “Current state of the pain medicine match: perspective and an eye to the future,” with Meredith Barad, MD, Anuj Aggarwal, MD, and Lynn Kohan, MD. This letter explores the rationale behind reassessing the NRMP's utility for pain medicine, examining historical and current trends, and considering the implications of withdrawing from the match. Despite a recent decline in applicants and an increase in unfilled positions, the APPD advocates for continued participation in the match. The match ensures equitable and stable recruitment, preventing the chaotic pre-match environment of competitive, early offers. Data from similar specialties highlight the pitfalls of non-match systems, such as increased applicant pressure and reduced program visibility. The APPD supports maintaining the NRMP match while implementing reforms like preference signaling to address evolving challenges. The APPD aims to preserve the match's benefits and ensure a stable future for pain medicine fellowship recruitment. Dr. Barad is a clinical associate professor in anesthesiology (pain) and neurology at Stanford. She is the co-director of the Stanford Facial Pain Program and focuses on headache and facial pain. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated from Stanford University Medical School in 2003. After her internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA, she went on to a neurology residency and pain fellowship at Stanford. She is board certified in neurology, headache, and pain. She is the associate division chief of education and program director for the pain fellowship. She is the current president of the American Pain Program Directors. She serves as the chair of the headache and facial pain special interest group for the American Academy of Pain Medicine and is on the editorial board of Pain Medicine. Dr. Aggarwal is a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology and the associate program director of the pain medicine fellowship at Stanford University, where he specializes in headache and orofacial pain. In addition to his work in pain medicine, he helps lead the teaching of medical students serving as director of pharmacology and as associate director for the Science of Medicine.  Dr. Kohan is a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Virginia. She is the division chief and the chronic pain program director. She serves on the board of directors for national pain societies including ASRA Pain Medicine. *The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice, and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner's judgement, patient care, or treatment. The views expressed by contributors are those of the speakers. BMJ does not endorse any views or recommendations discussed or expressed on this podcast. Listeners should also be aware that professionals in the field may have different opinions. By listening to this podcast, listeners agree not to use its content as the basis for their own medical treatment or for the medical treatment of others. Podcast and music produced by Dan Langa. Find us on X @RAPMOnline, LinkedIn @Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, Facebook @Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, and Instagram @RAPM_Online.

Nephrologist Manjula Tamura discusses the downsides of kidney dialysis, especially for old or frail patients. Her field has set its sights on offering alternatives, including supportive medical management without dialysis, dialysis in increments, wearable artificial kidneys, and transplanted kidneys from genetically modified pigs – in addition to advances in preventive care that can help humans avoid kidney failure in the first place. Dialysis can extend life, she says, but it is a lifestyle change. The goal is to ensure that every patient's choice aligns with their values and life goals, Tamura tells host Russ Altman in this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast.Have a question for Russ? Send it our way in writing or via voice memo, and it might be featured on an upcoming episode. Please introduce yourself, let us know where you're listening from, and share your quest. You can send questions to thefutureofeverything@stanford.edu.Episode Reference Links:Stanford Profile: Manjula Kurella TamuraConnect With Us:Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything WebsiteConnect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / MastodonConnect with School of Engineering >>> Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / FacebookChapters:(00:00:00) IntroductionRuss Altman introduces guest, Manjula Tamura, a professor of medicine and nephrology at Stanford University Medical School.(00:02:58) The Kidney's Vital RoleThe kidney's role and why its failure is life-threatening.(00:04:51) Causes of Kidney FailureThe leading causes of kidney failure in developed countries.(00:07:58) Kidney TransplantationThe feasibility, barriers, and supply challenges of kidney transplantation.(00:09:50) The Dialysis ProcessHow hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis work and patient experiences.(00:14:07) The Evolution of Dialysis TreatmentThe history of dialysis and how Medicare's expansion influenced its use.(00:18:48) Study Design: Emulating Clinical TrialsUsing VA electronic health records to simulate trials on dialysis.(00:25:31) Findings: Survival vs. Time at HomeThe trade-offs between extended survival and reduced time at home.(00:27:02) Quality of Life and DialysisMeasuring quality of life impacts through electronic health records.(00:30:32) The Future of Kidney TreatmentsInnovations like xenotransplantation and wearable artificial kidneys.(00:33:04) Conclusion Connect With Us:Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything WebsiteConnect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / MastodonConnect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook

Review of Dr. Casey Means' Good Energy In her book, Good Energy, Dr. Casey Means explores the complex relationship between our metabolic health and the quality of energy we experience in daily life. Dr. Means is an ENT surgeon that graduated from Stanford University Medical School before eschewing it all to dive into the world of disease prevention. Drawing from her background in integrative medicine and her deep understanding of metabolic science, Dr. Means presents a compelling case for why energy levels are not merely a factor of rest and diet, but a direct reflection of how well our cells are functioning on a biochemical level. And this is the key, the understanding of the biochemistry of the why! In today's modern world, so many of us feel sluggish, fatigued, or burned out, and the causes are often elusive. We live in a time where external stressors, processed foods, environmental toxins, and sedentary lifestyles disrupt our body's ability to produce and regulate energy efficiently. Dr. Means calls for a paradigm shift in how we view energy: it's not just about getting more sleep or drinking another cup of coffee. It's about restoring the metabolic health of our cells to optimize the energy they generate.....plus a literature review and a recipe. Enjoy, Dr. M

Send us a Text Message.Generation Z faces profound challenges, grappling with both a surge in behavioral health diagnoses and a deep-seated distrust of the healthcare system.Research from the Walton Family Foundation reveals that 42% of Gen Z individuals struggle with depression and feelings of hopelessness, a rate nearly twice as high as that observed in Americans over the age of 25.How can we bridge the gap between the growing need for mental health support and the effectiveness of available treatments?In this episode of HealthBiz Briefs, Sarah Adler, founder and CEO of Wave, explores how emerging technologies and societal shifts have created a distinct mental health crisis for Generation Z and discusses innovative solutions to meet this generation's unique needs.

Welcome to Bible Bedtime. Tonight I will read Acts 14. After that, I will read Psalm 43 & 44 and finish with the Lord's Prayer and my own prayer of dedication.Our email is BibleBedtimePodcast@gmail.com, or you can join us on Facebook!You can send a small donation to us on Venmo @Biblebedtime. Here are the links your nerdy friend Dana talked about in the show:The Huberman Lab podcast: the host is a professor at Stanford University Medical School (so he's the real deal!) The episode is the April 3 episode, which is the first of several about sleep.The free quiz you can take to find out your ideal sleep timing. This site doesn't ask for your personal information or anything. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/biblebedtime. While there is no expectation of your support, if you feel led to bless me with a small contribution in any amount, it would mean the world to me. Your gift will help offset the costs of producing and distributing Bible Bedtime worldwide. You can leave a love offering at https://plus.acast.com/s/biblebedtime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. On the podcast we discuss life since we last spoke 2 years ago, how to restore faith in public health, his historic 1A case being heard by SCOTUS on March 18,  being named in the Twitter files, meeting with Elon Musk, having dinner with Thomas Sowell and much more. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SHARE THIS PODCAST!!! Video Version of Show Rumble- https://rumble.com/v4hj3rx-coffee-and-a-mike-episode-762-with-dr.-jay-bhattacharya-train-of-death.html   Follow Dr. Jay Twitter- https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Substack- https://www.illusionconsensus.com/ Great Barrington Declaration- https://gbdeclaration.org/   Follow Me Twitter/X- https://twitter.com/CoffeeandaMike Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/coffeeandamike/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeandaMike/ Truth Social- https://truthsocial.com/@coffeeandamike Gettr- https://gettr.com/user/coffeeandamike Rumble- https://rumble.com/search/all?q=coffee%20and%20a%20mike Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-a-mike/id1436799008     Support My Work Venmo- https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3570365208987017385&created=1658667789.4661531&printed=1 Website- www.coffeeandamike.com Email- info@coffeeandamike.com  

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. During the Covid pandemic, Dr. Bhattacharya co-wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a “focused protection” approach in pandemic policy. His public stance against “lockdowns” won him both plaudits and criticism from policymakers, lawmakers, academics, and scientists. ACTA's Steven McGuire interviews Dr. Bhattacharya on his experience of being in the eye of the COVID public health policy storm and the light it casts upon the state of free expression in higher education.

Our culture is based in fear and shame, but in this episode of Linda's Corner, Don Goewey explains how we can break free from these societal programs and experience child-like joy, peace, and freedom.   Don managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, was awarded an excellence in medicine citation from the American Medical Association, pioneered an approach for overcoming catastrophic life events, and is the author of the best seller “The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain.”  Don and his work have been featured on the Today Show, CNN and NPR.  You can reach Don at his website https://theendofstressbook.com.Some of the highlights Don shares:FMRI scans of Tibetan monks show how to shift the brain to experience more peaceMeditation for just 5 minutes a day is enough to alter brain functionSuccess doesn't equate to happiness (but happiness can lead to success)We live in a fear based society - how does that affect our beliefs and actions?Where do feelings of "not good enough" come from?What is stress?What resource do we overlook when we're dealing with stress?The role of the amygdala in our fear responseOur amygdala can't tell the difference between real or imagined dangerHow do ads affect us? (research shows they make us feel bad about ourselves)How acceptance neutralizes stressHow neuroplasticity reverses the stress response and prunes the "fear center"Research shows that only 4% of people feel happy and freeHow awareness brings peace and freedomAre you actively making yourself miserable?Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failureFocusing on what you don't have brings miseryFocusing on what you have to be grateful for brings joyHappiness doesn't come from the world (it comes from within)We're not broken.  We're not a problem that needs to be fixedEverything you need is already inside of youGet in touch with your emotions, but don't "identify" with them And more Please share, subscribe, leave a rating and review, visit the Linda's Corner website at lindascornerpodcast.com and/or follow on youtube, facebook, instagram, and pinterest @lindascornerpodcast. Thanks!Also please visit the Hope for Healing website at hopeforhealingfoundation.org for free resources to increase happiness, build confidence and self esteem, improve relationships, manage stress, and calm feelings of depression and anxiety. 

Would you like to age gracefully and understand the influences that societal judgment and cultural pressures have on beauty and cosmetics? In this episode of "We Should Talk About That," host Jessica Kidwell engages in a conversation about anti-aging and aging gracefully with Dr. Carolyn Chang, an aesthetic plastic surgeon and vice chairman of plastic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center. Dr. Chang shares her expertise and educates listeners on fighting the natural signs of aging while emphasizing the importance of natural results. The discussion also touches on the concept of anti-anti-aging. Tune in to gain insights and explore the possibilities of embracing the aging process.More About Dr. Carolyn Change:Dr. Carolyn Chang is a San Francisco aesthetic plastic surgeon and Vice Chairman of plastic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center. She is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is also a member of the Communications Committee for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Chang graduated with a Bachelor of Science with honors from Stanford University and received the Deans Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. She did her general surgery and plastic surgery training at Stanford University Medical Center. She completed an additional advanced surgical fellowship at New York University, and a second year of further specialization under the guidance of Dr. John Q. Owsley, one of the pioneers of the modern SMAS facelift. Dr Chang is an invited lecturer both locally and nationally on a wide range of topics in the field of aesthetic surgery. She is a long-time resident of the Bay Area and is committed to the betterment of her community through her active philanthropic involvement and as a patron of the arts. Dr. Chang lives in San Francisco with her husband Patrick and their children, James and Jemma.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolynchangmd/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-chang-83106526/Support the showKeep up with all things WeSTAT on any (or ALL) of the social feeds:InstagramThreads : westatpodFacebookLinkedInTwitterHave a topic or want to stay in touch via e-mail on all upcoming news?https://www.westatpod.com/

Thanes Vanig, MD, AAHIVS, talks with us about advances in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Chief Medical Officer of Spectrum Medical, Dr. Vanig opened his practice in 1998 after graduating Magna Cum Laude as a King's Scholar from Mahidol University Medical School in Thailand, completing his Internal Medicine residency at Harvard Medical School, and receiving his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases from Stanford University Medical School. Internationally recognized in HIV Medicine, he speaks, publishes, and advises regularly. Dr. Vanig serves on the City of Phoenix Fast Track Cities Initiative and is a leader for the Maricopa START (State of Arizona Rapid Treatment) Program, immediately linking newly diagnosed HIV patients to care. Arizona Physician Podcast is a production of Maricopa County Medical Society. Hosted by John McElligott.

Abraham Verghese is an American physician and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Vice Chair of Education at Stanford University Medical School. He is also the author ... The post FHC #94: Abraham Verghese on ‘The Covenant of Water' and the practice of medicine appeared first on Fixing Healthcare.

Happiness Solved with Sandee Sgarlata. In this episode, Sandee interviews Don Joseph Goewey. Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello. Don has also worked at Stanford University Medical School, ran a regional emergency medical services system, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the AMA's Excellence in Medicine metal. He has worked with some of the most stressful situations on earth—with people facing terminal illness, parents struggling with the loss of a child, prisoners serving life sentences, and refugees of the genocidal war in Bosnia struggling with extreme post-traumatic stress. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, and is the editor of A Year with Anthony De Mello by Anthony De Mello. Anthony De Mello was a Jesuit priest born in Bombay, India, in 1931. He is regarded as one of the foremost spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, respected widely for his groundbreaking and enduring work that integrates Western and Eastern spirituality. De Mello founded the Sadhana Institute in India and is the author of the bestselling masterpieces Awareness and The Way to Love, along with eleven other books that have been translated into twenty-one languages and have sold more than two million copies worldwide. His large body of work continues to have impact beyond his untimely death in 1987. Some of our era's most acclaimed spiritual teachers have acknowledged the liberating and elevating impact of De Mello's practical spirituality, including Rhonda Byrne, Eckhart Tolle, Neil Strauss, Adyashanti, Thomas Moore, and Paulo Coelho. Visit the De Mello Spirituality Center website at demellospirituality.com. Connect with Don: https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter/  Connect with Sandee www.sandeesgarlata.com Podcast: www.happinesssolved.com www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata www.twitter.com/sandeesgarlata www.instagram.com/coachsandeesgarlata  

Compassion takes empathy one step further because it harbors a desire for all people to be free from suffering, and it's imbued with a desire to help. In this enlightening episode, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy is joined by the esteemed Author and Clinician Communication Coach Catherine Schweikert. Together, they delve deep into the transformative power of compassion and its profound effects on our well-being, particularly in combating burnout.Catherine has practiced medicine for the last 22 years. She has witnessed, over time, an increase in dissatisfaction with the practice of medicine and an increase in burnout among both her and her colleagues.  Her inspiration comes from their struggles and passion for bringing competent, compassionate care to all their patients without sacrificing themselves. She began her journey as a clinician communication coach.  This role gave her great insight into the struggle to maintain their passion for medicine. She began to investigate and understand her struggles and barriers to giving and receiving compassion personally and professionally. Through writing, she found Pragmatic Compassion. Pragmatic Compassion is the concept that compassion needs heart and wisdom to be effective. She started to dive into how our psychological world affects our physical world.She began a Ph.D. in psychophysiology, studying how our mind affects our well-being. Through these experiences, she was encouraged to share her insights more formally.  She wrote The Compassion Remedy: How to Leverage the Psychophysiological Benefits of Compassion to Beat Burnout, Renew Relationships, and Enjoy Greater Well-Being. Through writing this book, she was accepted into Stanford University Medical School's Center for Compassion and Altruism and Research (CCARE) program of Applied Compassion. It was here that she developed, with the support of Stanford, a program for hospitals to apply the scientifically proven and research-based aspects of compassion. She did this to improve, first and foremost, the clinician's grounded, compassionate base so that they may be strong and vital enough to help their patients heal without giving away their vitality. Learn more about Catherine:Website: http://www.pragmaticcompassion.org/Preorder a copy of her book: http://www.worldchangers.media/catherine-schweikert-the-compassion-remedyShow notes:[2:05] How did Catherine come to write her book?[4:21] Compassion fatigue[12:05] Compassion fatigue or exhaustion?[17:25] The limitation of self-judgment on self-compassion [21:32] Join The Radical Happiness For Practitioners Program to rediscover happiness within your profession and life. Check out https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/radicalhappiness[22:56] The concept of equanimity[28:27] Fierce compassion[33:12] Where does compassion fall in healing relationships?[38:49] The Compassion Remedy[39:23] Where to find Catherine[41:10] What is her definition of happiness?[42:27] OutroIf you would like to connect with Tarryn directly to find out if Radical Happiness is right for you, please use this link to connect with her one-on-one:https://calendly.com/drtarrynmaccarthy/complementary-prosperity-and-possibilities-chatSign up to Radical Happiness and become the Happiest Practitioner: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/radicalhappinessPlease join my Facebook group: Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click 

Episode 79 of Ask Dr Jessica discussing Eating disorders with Dr Shelly Bar.  Dr Bar is an internal medicine doctor with a specialty in treating Eating Disorders.  In our conversation, we discuss ways to prevent, manage and support disordered eating.  How should parents best discuss weight with our children? Do the words we use matter? Should we weigh or children? We discuss all of these questions and more!Dr. Bar was previously a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical School.  She carries a subspeciality degree in Adolescent Medicine from Stanford.  Dr. Bar completed her Eating Disorder and Young Adult Specialty at Stanford's Lucile Packard Hospital.  Dr. Bar is skillful in providing medication management for her patients who are also addressing co-morbid depression and anxiety.  She enjoys  collaborating with her patients, their family and their team to support their choice for recovery.   Dr. Bar has two primary offices in Los Angeles and Newport where she is seeing patients for the medical management of their eating disorder concerns and co-morbid conditions. She is also able to treat clients via telemedicine in other parts of California. To contact Dr Bar, please check out her website:https://www.shellybarmd.com/Dr Jessica Hochman is a board certified pediatrician, mom to three children, and she is very passionate about the health and well being of children. Most of her educational videos are targeted towards general pediatric topics and presented in an easy to understand manner. Do you have a future topic you'd like Dr Jessica Hochman to discuss? Email Dr Jessica Hochman askdrjessicamd@gmail.com. Dr Jessica Hochman is also on social media:Follow her on Instagram: @AskDrJessicaSubscribe to her YouTube channel! Ask Dr JessicaSubscribe to this podcast: Ask Dr JessicaSubscribe to her mailing list: www.askdrjessicamd.comThe information presented in Ask Dr Jessica is for general educational purposes only. She does not diagnose medical conditions or formulate treatment plans for specific individuals. If you have a concern about your child's health, be sure to call your child's health care provider.

Waking Up Take away: You are responsible for freeing yourself of the program. Bio: Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony DeMello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed The Center for Attitudinal Healing, the institute founded by Gerald Jampolsky M.D., which pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, which is based on breakthroughs in neuroscience that facilitate the shift in mindset that changes brain structure to quiet stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that predicts greater success and happiness in life Prior episode: https://richersoul.com/ep-249-stop-fixing-yourself-with-don-joseph-goewey/ Highlights from this episode: Don shared about what's been going on with Anthony DeMelo's Foundation The awareness to be able to constantly challenge There are a lot of things in life that are simple to do, but doing simple is hard It's hard to find a completely fulfilled person https://www.demellocommunity.com/   Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom!   Thanks for listening!   Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/  Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes  If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul   https://www.facebook.com/richersoul http://richersoul.com/ rocky@richersoul.com  Some music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast  Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

Dr Goldman was recently named Chairman of the CALECIM® Professional Medical Advisory Board. As such he is on a lecture tour of Asia. Mitchel P. Goldman, MD started practicing medicine in 1986. He is a world-renowned, double- board certified dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon, recognized by the American Board of Dermatology and the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. A graduate of Boston University and Stanford University Medical School, Dr. Goldman is recognized for pioneering research on multiple laser techniques. He is a volunteer clinical professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego, Honorary Professor of Dermatology for the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the founder and Medical Director of Cosmetic Laser Dermatology. Dr. Goldman is considered a leading expert in laser surgery and resurfacing, liposculpture, sclerotherapy, laser closure of varicose veins, dermal filling treatments, Botox®/Dysport®/ Xeomin® therapy, photorejuvenation, and photodynamic therapy. He is the Director of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/skincareanarchy/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/skincareanarchy/support

What is the difference between creativity and innovation? What does it take to find your superpowers? How can you become open to embracing failure to learn and grow? Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program at Stanford, has spent a large part of her career answering questions like these, while studying and teaching creativity, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Tina has a PhD in neuroscience, and we speak with her about how her background influences the way that she approaches these topics. We also discuss how to approach creativity in a corporate environment, and why being a good listener is an underrated superpower that many of us can cultivate. Bio Dr. Tina Seelig is Executive Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars and Emeritus Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford School of Engineering. She teaches courses on leadership, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford. In 2014, Dr. Seelig was honored with the SVForum Visionary Award, and in 2009 she received the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education. She also received the 2014 MS&E Award for Graduate Teaching, the 2008 National Olympus Innovation Award, and the 2005 and 2019 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Seelig earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in 1985 where she studied Neuroscience. She has worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation, and was the founder of a multimedia company called BookBrowser. She has written 17 popular science books and educational games. Her books include The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of twelve games called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her three newest books, published by HarperCollins are What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, inGenius, and Creativity Rules.

Part 2 of 2: This is a fantastic discussion with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. Jay has also been an outspoken critic of lockdowns and promoter of having public discussions or debates about science and health policy (you know, like the good ole days!). Unlike other podcasts, we focus on how we can fix the current problems in our health system and how we can make a better future for everyone. He also co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which he describes as his "least original" work of all-time.Watch Part I of this episode!Show Notes: Follow Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Twitter Watch the full episode on Rumble Watch the full episode on YouTube Share this podcast! - https://jsk.transistor.fm ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Part 2 of 2: This is a fantastic discussion with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. Jay has also been an outspoken critic of lockdowns and promoter of having public discussions or debates about science and health policy (you know, like the good ole days!). Unlike other podcasts, we focus on how we can fix the current problems in our health system and how we can make a better future for everyone. He also co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which he describes as his "least original" work of all-time.Watch Part I of this episode!Show Notes: Follow Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Twitter Watch the full episode on Rumble Watch the full episode on YouTube Share this podcast! - https://jsk.transistor.fm ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is a fantastic discussion with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. Jay has also been an outspoken critic of lockdowns and promoter of having public discussions or debates about science and health policy (you know, like the good ole days!). Unlike other podcasts, we focus on how we can fix the current problems in our health system and how we can make a better future for everyone. He also co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which he describes as his "least original" work of all-time. Follow Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Twitter Watch the full episode on Rumble Watch the full episode on YouTube Share this podcast! - https://jsk.transistor.fm ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This is a fantastic discussion with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. Jay has also been an outspoken critic of lockdowns and promoter of having public discussions or debates about science and health policy (you know, like the good ole days!). Unlike other podcasts, we focus on how we can fix the current problems in our health system and how we can make a better future for everyone. He also co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which he describes as his "least original" work of all-time. Follow Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Twitter Watch the full episode on Rumble Watch the full episode on YouTube Share this podcast! - https://jsk.transistor.fm ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Fixing myself has been something I was conditioned at such a young age to always look for the problems in things.  I grew up and was raised to be a perfectionist.  It has its perks but definitely comes with a lot of negatives.   Many years later, I realized I didn't have to fix anything about myself.  I had to see that I was perfect for who I was and in the part of my journey of where I am at.   With my guest, Don, we discussed these concepts of why we truly don't have to fix ourselves and learned more about what we can do to accept who we are, and learned methods of how to live a more fulfilled life.   Who is Don Joseph Goewey? Don Joseph Goewey is the Executive Director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for the works of Anthony De Mello. Don is the editor of a new book entitled Stop Fixing Yourself / Awake Up, All is Well, based on Anthony DeMello's practical spirituality (released by Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster in April, 2021).    Don is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your  Brain. He spent six years directing a think tank that integrated breakthroughs in neuroscience into a psycho- spiritual model for rewiring the brain to extinguish stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that enables a human being to flourish. The model has been successfully applied in high pressure work environments like Cisco and Wells Fargo helping people elevate their experience of work and of life in profound and measurable ways.   Previously, Don managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events, which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine citation by the American Medical Association.   How to Connect with Don? Website: https://www.demellospirituality.com/ Twiter: https://twitter.com/DeMelloCenter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/demellocenter/   -------------------------------------------------   Connect with Dr. Vic... Website: www.EmpowerYourReality.com Facebook: www.Facebook.com/drvicmanzo Instagram: www.Instagram.com/drvicmanzo LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/drmanzo TikTok: www.TikTok.com/@drvicmanzo   To visit Dr. Vic's Book on Amazon, check out the link below: https://amzn.to/3y6Bxir   About Dr. Vic... I'm Dr. Vic Manzo Jr., a Business Mindset Coach, Self-Mastery Expert, Influential Author, Inspirational Speaker, and the host and creator of The Mindful Experiment Podcast and The Mindful Chiropractor Podcast.   I help business owners shift their mindsets to unleash their potential and manifest their dream life.   I go deeper to uncover their beliefs, blocks, behaviors, habits, and patterns of thinking that prevent them from living the life or creating the business they like to experience.    From there, I use a box of tools to help reprogram the mind, reshift focus, teach spiritual truths and bring quantum physics into the mix to unveil their true potential and then, make that a reality.   If you are ready for a breakthrough and want to achieve your dream life without the sacrifice, grind, and hustle while increasing your fulfillment in life, let's jump on a 30-minute FREE coaching call.  Click the link to schedule today! www.CallWithDrVic.com    

Millions have been inspired by Dan Levitin's books, four of which were bestsellers, including "This Is Your Brain On Music," which has been translated into 27 languages. (His full bio is below) And even so…the celebrity neuroscientist and multi-million-book-selling author has a side hustle...making and producing music. Dan released his second full-length record - "Sex and Math" - in late 2021, following his own research which became the subject of his book "Successful Aging." Prior to being a world-renowned Neuroscientist focusing on how music positively affects the brain, Daniel was an award-winning musician and music producer. Dan has contributed to records by Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, and Stevie Wonder. Even the haunting, mega-hit song “Somebody I Used to Know” by Gotyé was mixed based on Daniel's creative input. He is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, bass, guitar and vocals), and has performed with Sting, Mel Tormé, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Neil Young, Rodney Crowell, Bobby McFerrin (with whom he co-wrote two songs), Victor Wooten, Tom Scott, and members of the Steve Miller Band. Mega Opera star Renée Fleming liked one of his songs so much that she asked him to sing it with her at a virtual Kennedy Center performance in 2020. Listen to the full interview here or watch the video interview on YouTube @ConnectedCarolineShow Links: W: Daniel Levitin FB: @Daniel.LevitinT: @DanLevitinIG: @DanielLevitinOfficialDan Levitin BioDaniel J. Levitin is an award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity and creativity. Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been featured over 1800 times in the popular press, including 17 articles in The New York Times, and in The London Times, Scientific American, and Rolling Stone. He is a frequent guest on NPR and CBC Radio and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNN. His TED talk is among the most popular of all time. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind and Successful Aging (published in the UK as The Changing Mind), as well as the international bestseller A Field Guide to Lies (also published as Weaponized Lies). A popular public speaker, he has given presentations on the floor of Parliament in London, to the U.S. Congress, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He has consulted for a number of companies including Apple, Booz-Allen, Microsoft, the United States Navy, Sonos, Philips, Sony, Fender, and AT&T. Dr. Levitin earned his B.A. from Stanford in Cognitive Science, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon, and and completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley in Neuroimaging and Perception. As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar, vocals and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten and Tom Scott. Levitin has produced and consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and on the films Good Will Hunting and Pulp Fiction, and has been awarded 17 gold and platinum records. Levitin taught at Stanford in the Departments of Computer Science, Psychology, History of Science, and Music, and has been a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth, and UC Berkeley. He is currently the Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, San Francisco, California, and James McGill Professor Psychology, Neuroscience and Music at McGill University.

In this “Giants in Plastic Surgery” episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Gregory Buncke MD talks to us about independent training facilities, how patient care lies at the center of his joy as a Plastic Surgeon, and the legacy of his father, Harry Buncke, as an innovator of microsurgery. Read a free, recent PRS Global Open article by Dr. Buncke and co-authors Sonu Jain MD, Jason Nydick DO, Fraser Leversedge MD, Dominic Power MD, Joseph Styron MD PhD, and Bauback Safa MD—“Clinical Outcomes of Symptomatic Neuroma Resection and Reconstruction with Processed Nerve Allograft”: https://bit.ly/DeepCutsBuncke Dr. Greg Buncke is a plastic, hand, and microsurgeon and Assistant Professor at Stanford University Medical School and UCSF in California. He received his MD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University and did a fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at the Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, where he remains in practice. Dr. Buncke is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Surgery of the Hand. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of several societies, including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Buncke has published numerous articles related to a wide variety of plastic, hand and microsurgery topics. Your host, Dr. Vimal Gokani, is a senior Specialty Registrar in plastic surgery in London, England. This episode was produced & edited by Dr. George Adigbli, an Academic Specialty Registrar in plastic surgery in Oxford & Aylesbury, England. #PRSGlobalOpen #DeepCutsPodcast #PlasticSurgery #GiantsPlasticSurgery

Dr. Shelly Bar, MD Virtual Orthostasis and heart rate  Growth charts and determining appropriate weight in growing kids.   Bone growth is an important consideration.  Open weights vs blind weights.   Besides weight, how do we measure progress?    Dr Bar's Seasonings:  *Dr Charles Wibbelsman  *Breathing through it, finding the lesson in the ‘mess up'  Bio:  Dr. Bar is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical School. She carries a subspeciality degree in Adolescent Medicine from Stanford. Dr. Bar completed her Eating Disorder and Young Adult Specialty at Stanford's Lucille Packard Hospital and through experience in the eating disorder unit at El Camino Hospital. Dr. Bar developed a protocol at Facebook Wellness Center for young adults managing the medical effects of their eating disorders and supported her patients in treating depression and anxiety. She currently works with university students at Stanford Vaden Health Center. Dr. Bar's passion is in supporting her patients to effectively address the medical complications of eating disorders and disordered eating.    The code for 10 dollars off the clinician portal access is bethharrell  The registration price will drop from $49 to $39 with your code.   The clinician portal access link is below: https://store.myclearstep.com/orders/clinicians  With your host Beth Harrell   

Don Joseph Goewey is the Executive Director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange and author of "Stop Fixing Yourself" "Wake Up, All is Well" and "The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain". Find out how to rewire your brain to extinguish stress and be happy in today's episode. What is the key message from your book, Stop Fixing Yourself? What do you mean when you say, "All Is Well Even When Everything's a Mess"? What is the relationship between neuroscience and happiness? What is Happiness As Your Natural State. How can you access it even if you are feeling anxiety, fear and depression? Don Joseph Goewey Don Joseph Goewey is the Executive Director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for the works of Anthony De Mello. Don is the editor of a new book entitled Stop Fixing Yourself / Awake Up, All is Well, based on Anthony DeMello's practical spirituality (released by Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster in April, 2021). Don is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain. He spent six years directing a think tank that integrated breakthroughs in neuroscience into a psychospiritual model for rewiring the brain to extinguish stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that enables a human being to flourish. The model has been successfully applied in high pressure work environments like Cisco and Wells Fargo helping people elevate their experience of work and of life in profound and measurable ways. Previously, Don managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events, which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine citation by the American Medical Association. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform. The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals. Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

Dr. Anna Lembke is the Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. In this episode of Watching America, she talks about her book, “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence,” an instant bestseller. Listen to this riveting conversation about how the relentless pursuit of pleasure in the modern age paradoxically leads to increased pain and suffering.

In this episode we speak with Don Joseph Goewey about rewiring our brain to cope better with stress. Don is the Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello and the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain. Don spent six years directing a think tank aimed at integrating breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychology. From this work, he innovated a model for changing brain structure to extinguish stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that enables a human being to flourish. The success of the model in helping people end stress in high pressure workplaces like Cisco Systems and Wells Fargo has been unprecedented. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Learning Points: • Why we need to embrace our emotions • How our response to stress and fear wire our brains • Why true change comes from acceptance Social Media: Website: https://www.demellospirituality.com/ Twiter: https://twitter.com/DeMelloCenter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter Instagram https://www.instagram.com/demellocenter/

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. On the podcast we discuss writing the Great Barrington Declaration, how Twitter is a resource for connecting people, how to restore faith in public health and more.    PLEASE LIKE SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE  Social Media https://twitter.com/drjbhattacharya?s=21 Great Barrington Declaration https://gbdeclaration.org/    

In this Episode of The GRID, host Chris Kuhlmann examines the Barrington Declaration, a document published by numerous highly educated, highly experienced doctors and scientists that spells out a public strategy for managing the pandemic and the nation back to recovery from COVID-19; comparing the credentialed leadership offered in the declaration to the leadership and credentials of Dr. Anthony Fauci.   CREDITS Host: Chris Kuhlmann Written by: Chris Kuhlmann Produced by: Shaun Griffin Music composed by JD Kuhlmann Art: Shaun Griffin Sound: Chris Kuhlmann and Shaun Griffin Sponsor: Score and Splice, JD Kuhlmann ScoreandSplice@gmail.com Visit us at www.kingdompatriot.us and check out our Vision Video   SHOW NOTES - Fauci and the Barrington Declaration www.gbdeclaration.org   As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.   Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.   Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.   Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.   As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.   The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.   Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.   Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.   By the way, those are not my thoughts, those are the thoughts of the Great Barrington Declaration. It was signed at American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Authored by 3 physicians and co-signed by 43 individuals worldwide. While many pulling the puppet strings would have you believe that medicine and science are 100% unified in the approach the US has taken, that is far from the truth.   I'm not talking about mere intellectual lightweights either. Here's the quick bios on the 3 authors:   Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.   Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.   Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.   What about the co-signers? Again, 43 cosigners from 9 countries?   Canada 2 England 11 Germany 6 India 1 Israel 5 New Zealand 2 Scotland 4 Sweden 2 US 10   43     What about their expertise, surely these couldn't hold a candle to Dr. Fauci, the Allergy & Immunology expert? Wrong again.   Professor of Genetics 1 Pediatrics 1 Clinical Ethics 1 Vaccine development 1 Hypertension Researcher 1 Mathematician 1 Education & Prevention 1 Hygiene & Environmental Medicine 1 Informatics 1 Biomedical Data Science 1 Malaria Researcher 1 Cellular Biology 1 Biophysicist 1 Structural Biology 1 Human Geography 1 Genomics 1 Medical Statistics 1 Autism Provider 1 Virology 1 Finance 1 Oncologist 2 Statistical Modelling 2 Biomedical Consultant 2 Infectious Disease Expert 3 Biostatistics 3 Microbiology 4 Public Health/Policy 4 Research/Scientist 4 Immunology 5 Medical Psychology/Psychiatry 6 Physician 10 Professor or Assoc. Prof of Medicine 10 Epidemiology 11     It's about time a group of physicians and experts unified to present common sense recommendations.   So what do you think? Does the Great Barrington Declaration deserve consideration given than 43 docs from 9 countries with expertise in 33 different areas have signed onto it?   Do you think it holds merit in the COVID world we live in?   Oh, I just realized, I forgot to read the very last line of the declaration. Silly me.   Here's what it says: On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States. You might have guessed this anyway because of the reference to vaccine development.   That's right, this wasn't written last week, it was written in the early fall of 2020, more than 16 months ago. Yet the principles in it are as applicable today as they were then.   Clearly, this group is pro-vaccine and still they are against general universal lockdown policies. These aren't the pundits on CNN or MSNBC or the NY Times, these are disease experts, physicians, professors, scientists, and researchers that have dedicated their lives to this type of work.   Here we are in 2022 and the information we continue to learn through court cases, FOIA requests, emails, etc., is that what has and is going on behind the scenes is more dark and sinister than we would like to believe. That's not really the subject of this podcast. I don't even have time to go into the latest news that it's likely American funds were used in part to create the COVID19 virus.   The reason we are even talking about this is because states, particularly blue states are doubling down on their lockdown policies. California, NY, vaccine passports and the ability to even move around to and fro as an American is being limited. This just cannot be. There's a reason that these states are losing congressional seats as large numbers of families are retreating to Florida, Texas and other states that have a more pro-freedom outlook on current state.   However, I digress. I think it is imperative anytime we do a podcast to also look at the biblical perspective when possible?   What has the Lord called us to do? Well certainly he has called us to seek him with all of our hearts? The challenge is that Leaders who are making public policy are often not like-minded in faith.   Did you know that Fauci just received the Humanist of the Year Award? That's right, the American Humanist Association just awarded him October 2021 with the Humanist of the Year Award for 2021 and I quote “Dr. Fauci embodies humanist values, including his steadfast commitment to science, his demonstrated empathy and compassion for others and his overall direct approach,” AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt told Religion News Service in an interview. “He has demonstrated how powerful science and human values can be in saving lives over the past year. If there was ever an appropriate humanist of the year, he is it.”   In 2003, Dr. Fauci said that “I look upon myself as a humanist. I have faith in the goodness of mankind.”   And that's why we should be worried, because the mankind he speaks of, the leaders in our government, those who pull the strings of policy and regulations have shown to be ever void of a belief in Christ and scripture.   What does the bible say about the goodness of mankind? Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”   This is a major construct of the difference view-points of mankind. One reason that we cannot rely on the “goodness” of mankind is that goodness is defined by the individual, right and wrong have become so morally relative that literally it changes with the election of every new leader.   This is why we need Christ. I'm pro-freedom, pro-democracy, and I'm not pro or anti vaccine. But when the leaders are desperately void of Christ it is impossible for Jeremiah 17:9 to not apply. Our hope is in Christ, we desperately need him because of our wicked hearts.   So our faith has to be in Christ and not the government, not the great Barrington Declaration. I believe in the declaration, subscribe to it's philosophy, but my hope is found in Christ.   Folks, we need Jesus more than ever. I'm not talking about we need Jesus to come and deliver us, that's a given. I'm talking that Fauci, our government, myself, all of us need Jesus because of our wicked hearts.   I'm also going to do something that I've never done before on this podcast. I'm going to pray for our key leaders, specifically, President Biden, VP Harris, and Anthony Fauci.   Lord, we are all desperately wicked because our hearts are inclined to selfishness, sinfulness, and self-preservation. It's not just true of our leaders, it's true of the human condition. Yet today, let us walk humbly as we lift up our leaders. We pray Father, that you would move on the hearts of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. We ask that you move on their hearts not to deliver us or produce an outcome that we desire, but we ask that you move on their hearts for two reasons 1) That they might become children of God and inherit your kingdom, that they would know your grace, your mercy, and that you would do a mighty work on their hearts to your glory. 2) We pray you would give them the supernatural Christ influenced wisdom to lead this nation in a way that glorifies you. To lead in a way that points to Christ in everything, that they would become ambassadors for you willingly or not. We pray this in the name of Jesus.

I attended the STAT Summit last week and heard the heart-wrenching story told by Charles Johnson, who is the founder of 4Kira4Moms, which is a group dedicated to improving maternal health equity. Charles's family is African American. After a planned C-section, his otherwise-healthy wife died an avoidable death because 10 hours after the clinical team was alerted that she had internal bleeding—10 hours later—they got around to wheeling her into surgery. At that point, she had three liters of blood in her abdomen. She bled out and died, leaving her newborn infant motherless. This all went down at a large, incredibly well-respected integrated delivery network. One of the biggest issues in healthcare today … well, there are many issues, so maybe I should start again. One of the biggest issues in healthcare that is going to be discussed on this podcast today is how to engage those patients or members or employees or consumers who might need our healthcare industry to work better on their behalf. This is especially a problem (a well-known problem) when we consider those patients who our healthcare system in so many ways does not serve well: many minority patients, Black people, other people of color, the LGBTQ community, people who do not speak English as their first language. These patient cohorts emerge on the other side of our healthcare industry sporting patient outcomes that are even worse than our usual not-so-great average patient outcomes.   In this healthcare podcast, we're gonna talk about a new coalition formed by Walmart and six other employers, plus Included Health, which is the combined entity of Grand Rounds and Doctor On Demand. (They merged recently.) So, there was a coalition that was formed. It's called the Black Community Innovation Coalition, and in short, it's a new virtual-care program aimed at combating health disparities among African American workers. I wanted to learn more about this coalition, so in this episode I'm speaking with Ian Tong, MD, about the aforementioned Black Community Innovation Coalition—the how and also the intent. Dr. Tong is the chief medical officer over at Included Health and also a clinical assistant professor and adjunct faculty in the medical school at Stanford. One reason I was so intrigued is that the Black Community Innovation Coalition leverages ERGs (employee resource groups) in a way I thought was different. If you're unfamiliar, ERGs or, as I said, employee resource groups, used to be called employee affinity groups. Many big companies have them. These ERGs bring together groups with shared identities, shared experiences, shared interests. What I thought was worth contemplating if you're interested in improving health equity, health outcomes … through these existing ERG organizations, it might be possible to pull the healthcare system and these patients closer together to create healthcare benefits and care delivery models that are designed with them in mind. So, what I think might be actionable to others relative to this coalition and its methodology is the best practice of building the engagement mechanism into the design of the initiative. So often it's an afterthought if you think about it. We build the thing, and then we wonder how to “market” it—like the “marketing” is this separate and sequential function. It's not. And marketing is also probably a limiting misnomer. This is especially true, though, when contemplating minority populations for a whole bunch of reasons that we get into in this conversation. So that's number one: Build the engagement mechanism into the program design. But here's number two: Consider the engagement mechanism relative to existing channels of engagement, re: ERGs or otherwise. Other links on the show include: Rebecca Etz, PhD (EP295) talking about some best ways to measure primary care quality. The Harvard Implicit Bias Test You can learn more by checking out the Implicit Bias Test, the CDC REACH site, and includedhealth.com.  Ian Tong, MD, is chief medical officer at Included Health (formerly Doctor On Demand and Grand Rounds Health). In this role, Ian leads all clinical care delivery, including clinical products and service lines, clinical quality, and practice performance of the clinical staff. Prior to Doctor On Demand, Ian held leadership roles including chief resident of Stanford Internal Medicine and co-medical director of the Arbor Free Clinic. He also founded and was medical director of The Health Resource Initiative for Veterans Everywhere (THRIVE), honored with the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service to Homeless Veterans in 2008 by the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs. A national collegiate champion in rugby at the University of California at Berkeley, Ian was named to the All-American Team in 1994. He graduated from Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English, then earned his medical degree from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed residency and chief residency at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and is currently a clinical assistant professor (affiliated) at Stanford University Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine. Ian has dedicated his career to improving equity in, and access to, high-quality care. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. 04:33 What is the Black Community Innovation Coalition? 05:06 Who are the partners behind the Black Community Innovation Coalition? 06:23 How is the Black Community Innovation Coalition focusing on patients? 08:05 “If you take a one-size-fits-all approach to your employees, that is not going to be adequate or complete.” 08:56 How the Black Community Innovation Coalition is incorporating engagement into its core foundation. 13:18 “There's a great deal of hesitancy around engaging care, and there's a high level of avoidance.” 15:26 EP338 with Nikki King, DHA.16:34 “The technology is not making that experience worse. It's a bad experience, and it's broken already.” 23:27 “I feel very strongly that everyone should probably have a virtual primary care clinician.” 27:20 EP295 with Rebecca Etz, PhD.28:15 “We really want to pay attention to that encounter being the best encounter possible because that … might be the only chance you get to engage that patient.” 29:00 Why is virtual care important for self-insured employers? 32:08 “We cannot afford to have low-value encounters.” You can learn more by checking out the Implicit Bias Test, the CDC REACH site, and includedhealth.com.  @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth What is the Black Community Innovation Coalition? @Driantong discusses community health initiatives on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth Who are the partners behind the Black Community Innovation Coalition? @Driantong discusses community health initiatives on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth How is the Black Community Innovation Coalition focusing on patients? @Driantong discusses on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth “If you take a one-size-fits-all approach to your employees, that is not going to be adequate or complete.” @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth “The technology is not making that experience worse. It's a bad experience, and it's broken already.” @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth “I feel very strongly that everyone should probably have a virtual primary care clinician.” @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth “We really want to pay attention to that encounter being the best encounter possible because that … might be the only chance you get to engage that patient.” @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth Why is virtual care important for self-insured employers? @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth “We cannot afford to have low-value encounters.” @Driantong discusses the Black Community Innovation Coalition on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #healthcareinitiatives #pophealth Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! 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“What you are aware of, you control. And what you're unaware of controls you.” - Don Joseph Welcome to this episode of Tactical Friday! In today's episode, Don Joseph brings us to the practical steps we can take in recognizing our triggers, establishing a healthy viewpoint with our emotions, and ultimately, finding our way to fulfillment. Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, which is based on breakthroughs in neuroscience that facilitate the shift in mindset that changes brain structure to quiet stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that predicts greater success and happiness in life.   [00:01 - 00:41] Opening Segment If you have a platform and you want to create content that DELIVERS, go over tohttp://knightly.productions/ ( knightly.productions)! For the first part of my interview with Don, tune in to last Monday's episode    [00:42 - 12:12] Tactical Steps to Getting Unstuck - On the Way to Success Getting unstuck Recognize how your brain is wired to perceive demands. Short-lived satisfaction or suffering Ridding the dysfunctional program The way there is awareness to establish control. Targeting the thoughts and and painful emotions Get to know what's going on inside you to find out what sabotages your happiness and peace. Repressing and identifying emotions Get past them by going through them. Allow yourself to feel. Step back for objectivity Do not say I am depressed, fearful, etc. Everything passes, especially emotions Allowing peace, happiness, and relief Feeling the connection is fulfilment that is already within you   [12:31 - 14:36] Closing Segment   Connect with Don (links below)  Visit his website for more materials, check out his book on Amazon, and more!  Closing words    Key Quote/s:  “We are programmed to lean into that, to let that fear have its way with us. And you know, when that happens, you expend a whole lot of energy coping with these negative emotions by expanding even more energy by trying to rearrange the world around you.” - Don Joseph “There you are in the middle of the torment...acknowledging it may not be reality, and watching it as it passes. And when it does pass, you're free. So relax into feeling free, let your mind be quiet. Observe the peace, and the happiness, the joy, the sense of joy, the sense of relief that arises in you all by itself without you having to do anything. Coming up right behind it is this feeling of connection with all that is, that's fulfillment. That's why seeking fulfillment and the outside world doesn't work. It's already in you, you're already fulfilled. It doesn't come from the outside, it's your natural state.” - Don Joseph Reference https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Fixing-Yourself-Wake-Well/dp/1582708363 (Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well by Anthony De Mello) Connect with Don Visit his website at https://www.demellospirituality.com/ (https://www.demellospirituality.com/). Catch him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter/ (https://www.facebook.com/DeMelloSpiritualityCenter/). Follow his Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/demellocenter/ (https://www.instagram.com/demellocenter/).    Did you love the value that we are putting out in the show? LEAVE A...

“Stop fixing yourself. You know, we spend our whole lives trying to fix ourselves getting nowhere. There's nothing to fix.” - Don Joseph Welcome to another week of Tactical Leader! In today's episode, we have our guest, Don Joseph. He shares his story that triggered the biggest downfall yet became the same springboard to further self-awareness. From this discussion, it shows that deep understanding of oneself, acknowledging the pain points, allowing emotions to conquer and letting it pass, and finding the right outlets by choice are the true indicators of holistic growth, and ultimately, fulfillment. Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress: Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, which is based on breakthroughs in neuroscience that facilitate the shift in mindset that changes brain structure to quiet stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that predicts greater success and happiness in life.   [00:01 - 03:23] Opening Segment If you have a platform and you want to create content that DELIVERS, go over tohttp://knightly.productions/ ( knightly.productions)! Get to know Don Joseph Committing his life to helping people navigate the way to live happier, more fulfilled lives Starting out as a carpenter   [03:24 - 17:20] Our Life Events that Trigger the Awakening of Our Better Selves Soft skills on effective leadership Emotional intelligence is undervalued yet the most significant indicator of paving the way towards fulfillment. How we are programmed in life The concept of success had been crafted by society, but it does not equate to fulfilment. Identifying what's truly important Stress is not simply from outward events - it is happening in you. Identifying stressors to understand our reactions Turn of events towards growth Don talks about losing his job and being diagnosed with a critical illness Realizing that the crippling fear was worse Getting over emotional turmoil is a great feat but know that it shall pass. Recognizing what is being made up in your head Do not underestimate the power of attitude. [17:21 - 33:11] Demystifying the Paradigms of Success, Brokenness, and Awareness Showing up more available to people The quality of your life experience is determined by your relationship with people. Becomes the number one factor to success Redefining the meaning of success The truth is that success doesn't come from the outside world, but within us. The dangers of external validation Recognize that you are not broken. You are not some problem to be solved. Understanding to drop false beliefs A tap on the shoulder from the Universe Awareness is not difficult, we just do not want to feel the distress and disconnection. Steps to awareness   [33:12 - 41:29] Closing Segment   The legacy Don wants to create: Given the opportunity to be loving instead of fearful, chose to be loving Connect with Don (links below)  Visit his website, Linkedin, and more!  Join us for Tactical Friday!   Key Quote/s:  “Peace has eluded them [some ‘successful' people], their relationships aren't as fulfilling and aren't as loving as they could have been, their whole focus has been on, you know, making their mark in the outside world. And they really recognize that, you know, success is important, but their happiness, their peace of...

What does it mean to wake up? Wake up from what? Wake up TO what? What if everything you need is already present, right now. Would that change anything you are doing? Listen in to today's guest, Don Goewey, sharing wisdom developed over a lifetime of spiritual work.Don Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, the official archive for the works of Anthony DeMello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed The Center for Attitudinal Healing, the institute founded by Gerald Jampolsky M.D., which pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain.Where listeners can find the book and the special free offer: stopfixingyourself.comFind Don Goewey at:  https://www.demellospirituality.com/Find Laurie Seymour at https://thebacainstitute.com/ .If you are enjoying our show and you'd like to spread the love, please subscribe, download, comment, and tell your friends and family about us. We want to thank you for your continued support. We really appreciate it! Check us out on Facebook at the link below or by searching "Wisdom Talk Radio"https://www.facebook.com/wisdomtalkradio What's Your Creative Innovator Style? (QUIZ)We are each designed to create differently. Without knowing your unique style, you could be doing the opposite of what you need to fast-track your vision from idea to manifestation. Click here to take the quiz now: Creative Innovator QuizSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/wisdom-talk-radio/donations

Marc L. Paulsen, M.D. is a graduate of Brandeis University and Stanford University Medical School. He received his training at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He is the author of two new fiction books The Last Generation to Die and Wasteland. - www.stancepublications.com Now listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Marc L. Paulsen, M.D. is a graduate of Brandeis University and Stanford University Medical School. He received his training at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He is the author of two new fiction books The Last Generation to Die and Wasteland. - www.stancepublications.com Now listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Marc L. Paulsen, M.D. is a graduate of Brandeis University and Stanford University Medical School. He received his training at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He is the author of two new fiction books The Last Generation to Die and Wasteland. - www.stancepublications.com Now listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Marc L. Paulsen, M.D. is a graduate of Brandeis University and Stanford University Medical School. He received his training at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He is the author of two new fiction books The Last Generation to Die and Wasteland. - www.stancepublications.com Now listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

Stop Fixing Yourself   In this episode, Don Joseph Goewey talks about rewiring your brain from major stress reactions by using awareness.   Take away: Awareness is absolutely a powerful change agent for human beings.   Action step: Begin to use awareness   Money Learnings: Don learned from growing up to a family that came from doing very well to being very poor.   Bio: Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony DeMello. Previously, Don directed a human performance firm that consulted with Fortune 100 companies to alleviate employee stress and elevate people's experience of work and life. He has also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and headed The Center for Attitudinal Healing, the institute founded by Gerald Jampolsky M.D., which pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events and which in 2005 was awarded the Excellence in Medicine metal by the American Medical Association. Don is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, which is based on breakthroughs in neuroscience that facilitate the shift in mindset that changes brain structure to quiet stress reactions and amplify the higher brain function that predicts greater success and happiness in life   Highlights from this episode: Link to episode page   Deprogramming the false beliefs out of your mind Rewiring your brain from major stress reactions by using awareness Who is Anthony Anthony de Mello? Don talks about the book he edited ‘Stop fixing yourself' Why does society program people to habitually undermine their own happiness and blame themselves for it? What does spirituality mean? The 4 liberating truths What being silent does for us https://www.demellospirituality.com/your-gift-for-pre-ordering-stop-fixing-yourself/ https://www.demellospirituality.com/   Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom!   Thanks for listening!   Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/   Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes   If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul https://www.facebook.com/richersoul http://richersoul.com/ rocky@richersoul.com   Some music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast   Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

How do you grow in power? I asked this question of my friend, Tracy Evans. She is a Stanford University Medical School trained Physician Assistant. Her answer adjusted my perspective completely. I trust it will do the same for you. Before entering the mission field, Tracy served in the U.S. Army and overseas as a Medical Officer for embassies and the Peace Corps. Through these credentials, Tracy has secured long-term resident visas in Muslim and Communist countries typically closed to missionaries. In country, she builds medical clinics and schools which in turn facilitate evangelism, discipleship and church planting. Tracy is now ministering in Mozambique, Africa. During the last 17 years in Africa, her team has planted 22 churches and provided daily nutrition and life-saving medical care for more than 7,000 at-risk orphaned babies, many with AIDS. iReachAfrica has also hosted leadership seminars for government officials and pastoral training, while building and operating schools for children, a vocational training center for adults, literacy programs and a prison ministry. The goal is bring all of Mozambique to Jesus Christ by pioneering and developing communities of Christian disciples. Find out more about Tracy at iReachAfrica.org. My family has personally supported her work for years and I encourage you to do the same if you want your donation dollars to be FRUITFUL! If you listen to this and sense a stirring to GO, then reach out to her via the website or email info@iReachAfrica.org. The story of Tracy's life (so far!) is published as Outrageous Courage. Grab a copy for yourself and another to give away. Available on Bethel Store or Amazon  

Lead author, Dr. Philip Mease, MD, Director of Rheumatology Research at the Swedish Medical Center/Providence St. Joseph Health and Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses new data from the Phase 3 DISCOVER-1 and DISCOVER-2 studies published in "The Lancet Rheumatology" (July 2021) on the efficacy of guselkumab on axial symptoms in patients with active psoriatic arthritis. Up to 70% of PsA patients experience axial symptoms. #TREMFYA #PsoriaticArthritis Philip J Mease, MD, is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Rheumatology Research at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA. Dr Mease's clinical practice is based at Seattle Rheumatology Associates. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University Medical School, and he completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington's School of Medicine, where he also served as chief resident and fellow in rheumatology. Dr Mease conducts clinical trials on emerging therapies for rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and lupus. He also conducts research in disease state metrics and is the co-chair of three working groups for OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials) on psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and single-joint assessment, as well as a member of the Soluble Biomarker working group. Dr Mease is a founding organizer and President of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis), a member of SPARTAN (Spondyloarthritis Research & Treatment Network), and a member of TREG (The Rheumatology Education Group). He has published 18 book chapters and nearly 400 journal articles.

This week we revisit our conversation with Josh Makower, who was recently selected as the new Director of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Josh is the Founder and Executive Chairman of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator. He is also a General Partner at NEA and leads the MedTech/Healthtech practice. He also serves at the Stanford University Medical School as an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and is Co-Founder of Stanford's Biodesign Innovation Program. He received an MBA from Columbia University, an MD from the NYU School of Medicine, and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Have the Architects of the Covid-19 Pandemic Lost Touch with Reality?   Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, May 28, 2021   As the pandemic wages into its second year, two diametrically opposing movements have consolidated in defiance against each other. The dominant contingent, represented by Biden, Congress, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and the mainstream media, has decided that any citizen who refuses a Covid-19 vaccine is a de facto enemy of the state. “Ultimately,” Joe Biden declared during another gaff remark about the status of the government’s vaccination campaign, “those who are not vaccinated will pay – end up paying the price.” Despite the dubious claims that the mRNA vaccines are approximately 95 percent effective, the unvaccinated therefore mysteriously pose a health risk to the vaccinated. Consequently, any punitive actions the federal and state governments undertake, including encouraging the social media to publicly shame and censor voices of caution and reason, are justified.    In an effort to marginalize and socially victimize Israeli citizens who have postponed or refused vaccination, Netanyahu and his right-wing Knesset supporters passed a bill permitting personal information and data about unvaccinated citizens to be shared across government agencies and civil institutions.  Israel was named by Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla as the “world’s lab” for the company’s Covid-19 vaccine roll out. Contrary to the government’s response to criticisms, the unvaccinated are theoretically second-class citizens, branded with a “scarlet letter” depriving them of full engagement with Israeli society, including going to a restaurant, attending a movie, concert or athletic event. Many are unable to shop or go to work.  Even the staunch pro-Zionist New York Times indicated the government’s policies are “moving in the direction of a two-tier system for the vaccinated and unvaccinated.”    An analysis comparing Israeli Covid-19 infection and vaccine-related deaths conducted by Dr. Herve Seligmann, an Israeli-national at Aix-Marseille University of Medicine’s Faculty of Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases, concluded that the Pfizer vaccine has caused “mortality hundreds of times greater in young people compare[d] to the mortality from coronavirus without the vaccine, and dozens of times more in the elderly, when the documented mortality from coronavirus is in the vicinity of the vaccine, thus adding greater mortality from heart attack, stroke, etc.”  Seligmann and his co-author Haim Yativ have referred to Netanyahu’s draconian policies with unsafe experimental vaccines as a “new Holocaust.”  A civilian organization, the Israeli People Committee, which includes many health professionals, released a devastating report on the number of injuries and deaths resulting from Pfizer’s vaccine.  It was during the peak of the government’s vaccination campaign that Israel experienced its highest mortality rate, especially among those between 20 and 29 years of age. The Committee reported, “26 percent of all cardiac events occurred in young people up to the age of 40, with the most common diagnosis in these cases being myositis and pericarditis.” Other adverse vaccine reactions included infarction, stroke, miscarriage, impaired blood circulation and pulmonary embolisms.   Nevertheless, Israel has become the poster child for far more than serving as Pfizer’s experimental laboratory for human ferrets. It also models a caste society of haves and have nots, the rewarded and the repressed, the vaccine-anointed and the untouchables, as strategized by the World Economic Forum’s future technological proposals in its Great Reset. Netanyahu is has seemingly fully bought into Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and it’s re-visioning of the very definition of the human species. Last October, during the WEF’s “Great Reset” virtual session, Netanyahu appeared with Colombia’s far-right president Ivan Dugue – polled as the least popular president during that nation’s history -- and Rwanda’s war criminal Paul Kagame, along with executives in the biotech and financial industries, to advocate on behalf of the Forum’s mantra that the pandemic is an “opportunity” to further mobilize global digital infrastructure systems, including Covid-19 vaccination verification via microchip technology.   Now we are witnessing Canada, the UK and the US aggressively mimicking Israel’s heavy-handed policies to establish full-spectrum social control and make efforts to implement a post-modern, technologically driven caste system. Although Biden stated he does not support a federal mandate on vaccination passports, it has been left to the individual states to decide. Democrat-controlled states, notably New York, are issuing vaccine passports as a ticket to allow the vaccinated to return to a new normal. Republican governors on the other hand have been quick to denounce them, and in the case of Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana and Texas to executively ban them altogether. Hopefully some of the bans will challenge many of the over one hundred private colleges and universities that decided to require students to be vaccinated before returning in Fall.   The mainstream corporate-Democrat media, led by the New York Times, Washington Post, the Daily Beast, US News & World Report, CNN, NPR and MSNBC spew volleys of baseless propaganda that the vaccines are effective and wholly safe. However, thousands of medical school professors, physicians and researchers worldwide are challenging this non-consensual assumption. They regularly point out that there is no reliable science to justify any such claims. This raises the question: what are the vaccines effective against? Surely not contracting SARS-CoV-2; thousands of fully-vaccinated people are testing positive with the infection. The CDC has reported “seven percent of those [vaccinated] who have been infected have been hospitalized and 74 have died.”   Government efforts to reach a fictitious herd immunity threshold will inevitably come at a great cost to human life. More recent studies suggest that an exceedingly large percentage of Americans should technically be exempt from Covid-19 vaccines.  The University of Michigan published a recent analysis in JAMA Network Open suggesting that three percent of vaccinated Americans taking immune-weakening drugs have an increased risk of hospitalization. The study is grossly conservative and undermines the breadth of the problem. The researchers only analyzed patients with private insurance, under the age of 65, and who were only prescribed immunosuppressive steroids, such as corticosteroids and prednisone. Other immunosuppressive drugs such “selective immunosuppressants” and calcineurin and interleukin inhibitors were seemingly excluded from the Michigan analysis. Thirty-three percent of the American population was therefore excluded from the study because, according to the CDC, only 66.8 percent of the population has private health insurance. New York University researchers reported in the British Medical Journal that a third of patients receiving methotrexate and TNF-inhibitors for immune-mediated inflammatory illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis fail to achieve sufficient antibodies from the Pfizer vaccine. We are certain this will be found equally true for many other medications if or when studies are conducted.    The CDC’s belief that only 4 percent of Americans are immune-compromised is a misleading under-estimation. The agency’s defining criteria is narrow and limited to HIV/AIDS and cancer patients, inherited genetic diseases, and patients who have undergone organ transplants and are prescribed immunosuppressive drugs. On the other hand, there are over 100 different autoimmune conditions, including type-1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, blood cancers, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid and other types of arthritis, psoriasis, IgG4 disease, Hashimoto’s and Addison’s diseases, celiac disease, etc. These additional individuals, who account for over 50 million Americans, have malfunctioning immune systems that increase their susceptibility to both severe SARS-CoV-2 infections (if left untreated during its early stage) and a higher probability of vaccine adverse reactions.    Consequently, a very conservative 17 percent of Americans are at greater risk from either viral infection or vaccine injury or death. This also excludes tens of millions of adults (30 percent) and children (40 percent) with chronic allergies and many of the over 89,000 cancer patients diagnosed annually and prescribed chemotherapeutic drugs. Every year, nearly two-thirds of all Americans require emergency medical care from allergic reactions alone.  Furthermore, those with certain immune weaknesses are less likely to generate sufficient vaccine-induced antibodies thereby making Covid-19 vaccination ineffective.    Especially disturbing is that the clinical trials the FDA relied upon for Emergency Use Authorization for the past five months of the vaccination campaign were based upon enrollment of healthy participants. Only recently are clinical trials either underway or in recruitment to test the vaccines on participants with weakened immune systems, including small children and infants, and on pregnant women. In the meantime, millions of immunosuppressed people diagnosed with autoimmune conditions or pre-existing comorbidities, from young to old, are being indiscriminately injected. Given the CDC’s previous track record of reckless vaccination policies, upon these trials’ completion, we will surely see vaccination forced upon every infant carelessly. This has been a policy enacted so far on the elderly, the sickly, the immune-compromised, pregnant moms, and the rest of the nation. It is not irrational, therefore, to suspect that past and present Covid-19 trials have been conducted with malice of forethought and with the unconditional approval of our federal health officials.    During the pandemic, the rapid ascent of our vaccine-addicted culture’s mantra of “vaccination at any cost” truly borders on medical malfeasance and criminal negligence. The overriding emphasis on vaccination and near total disregard for implementing very simple preventative measures to inhibit infections from progressing in severity. If our health policymakers were wise men and women, alternative treatments such as ivermectin, hydroxycholoroquine, and more recent inexpensive off-patent drugs, which have been shown to be highly effective for early stage treatment and being widely prescribed elsewhere in the world, would be permitted and encouraged without reservation. There would be no reason to wait for a novel drug costing thousands of dollars per patient to arrive.  And we still await that magic bullet drug because the previous one, remdesivir, was faulty blank. This is just another example of the institutionalized pathology that infects our health agencies.    There is no convincing science to support our federal officials belief that a previously infected person requires a Covid-19 vaccine to acquire immunity. In fact, more recent research indicates the opposite and goes directly against the intellectually fetid arguments of the now disgraced financier Bill Gates that every person on the planet should be vaccinated without exception. Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary has put forth the evidence that “natural immunity works.” Makary notes that it is only the rare instance when a person is being re-infected. Washington University School of Medicine reported this month that even mild Covid-19 infections induce long lasting antibody protection. The study’s lead researcher Dr. Ali Ellebedy stated,   "Last fall, there were reports that antibodies wane quickly after infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, and mainstream media interpreted that to mean that immunity was not long-lived… But that's a misinterpretation of the data. It's normal for antibody levels to go down after acute infection, but they don't go down to zero; they plateau. Here, we found antibody-producing cells in people 11 months after first symptoms. These cells will live and produce antibodies for the rest of people's lives. That's strong evidence for long-lasting immunity."   The information we were fed to downplay natural immunity was wrong at best, and more likely a lie, in order to further persuade the public into the importance of the vaccines to return their lives to normal. Another study appearing in this month’s Journal of Infectious Diseases found that “SARS-CoV-2 specific immune memory response [following infection] persists in most patients nearly one year after infection.” The Covid-19 vaccines can’t make the same promise. In fact, more reports show that  fully vaccinated persons are becoming infected.    But it gets worse.     The pro-vaccine argument wrongly assumes that anyone who refuses the Covid-19 vaccines is therefore anti-vaxxer. We would argue it is rational caution in the face of a national healthcare system indebted to the pharmaceutical industry and that is rapidly losing public trust. Likewise, if a doctor is successfully treating hundreds of patients without a reported death with cheap, effective drugs, she or he is canceled and ridiculed as a quack. Instead of open dialogue and debate, those who challenge the Medical Church Scientific are censored by Google and from all social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. This is despite the impeccable credentials of many medical professionals abiding by the precautionary principle and who dare to challenge Anthony Fauci and the global vaccine czar Bill Gates, whose faux philanthropy is nothing less than another profitmaking enterprise like Microsoft.    Conflicts of interests, both financial and non-financial, are endemic in our medical system. Therefore it becomes increasingly more difficult to trust any clinical study or government policy that is based upon flawed evidence submitted by a drug maker that fails to undergo a thorough independent and impartial review by qualified medical experts. There is a clear psychological reason for this. Many psychologists have pointed out over the years that “cognitive bias,” “motivated reasoning” and the heuristics driving the evaluation of clinical trial data and the subsequent institutional regulatory review and decision-making are deeply contrary and undermine the entire evidence-based criteria that should oversee what drugs, vaccines, medical devices, therapeutic protocols should be recommended or approved for use upon the public.     The late Scott Lilienfeld, a professor of psychology at Emory University, writes, “Clinicians are subject to the same errors in thinking that affect virtually all people. In particular, practitioners must be wary of (a) the misuse of certain heuristics (e.g., availability, representativeness) and (b) cognitive biases (e.g., confirmation bias, hindsight bias) in their everyday work.” Although Lilienfeld is singling out clinical physicians, it applies more rigorously and accurately to the pharmaceutical presidents, CEOs and chief science officers overseeing vaccine development who have stock prices to reach and shareholders to please.  Cognitive bias equally plagues the entire executive hierarchy at the CDC, NIAID, FDA and HHS who are beholden to the gaping revolving door between these agencies and private industry and their revenues. Writing about the deep ethical concerns behind bias in our medical institutions, Dr. Thomas Murray, President of the Hastings Center, states, “For scientists on a panel of the Food and Drug Administration, for example, it isn’t immediately clear to whom they owe their primary loyalty.”  Such biases, Murray believes, have completely destroyed the credibility of the World Health Organization.     The fact that rates to reproduce medical clinical trials are so poor, according to behavioral economist Susann Fielder at the Max Planck Institute, is that “cognitive biases may be a reason for that.”  It also explains why Stanford University Medical School professor John Ioannidis argues, “most published research findings are false,” and “an estimated 85 percent of research resources are wasted.” Junk science based upon bias should also include every vaccine application submitted to the FDA for regulatory approval, since the vaccine companies are privileged to cherry-pick whichever trials they want to submit to create the most promising portfolio.    One could review all of the official decisions made during the past 17 months – by Anthony Fauci, Trump and Biden and the naïve stances in both political parties – and should easily observe the frailties of cognitive bias and repeated contradictions throughout. None whatsoever are reliably truthful. And of course, cognitive bias leads to cognitive dissonance, such as denying that one has a bias or resorting to flagrant rejection and disparagement in order to avoid any scientific data that conflicts with one’s unfounded beliefs.   We now live in a nation of medicine by bureaucratic decree rather than by immunological science. This is postmodern cultism at its worst because it hides behind the veneer of being scientific. And it has the full support of a political technocracy that can ordain authoritarian laws. There is a dire need for a collective epiphany. All of us are experiencing the pandemic as a failed experiment orchestrated by institutions that have lost touch with reality. And it has been a very deadly experiment due to the extraordinary incompetence of our medical-degreed bureaucrats. Sadly the decades of institutional ineptitude has had to reach national and perhaps global awareness at this time when the powers that possess every technological tool at their disposal to conduct wide surveillance, pass undemocratic and draconian laws with full impunity, and control the fenced sheep within the mainstream media. Attachments area

Don Joseph Goewey is the executive director of the Center for Spiritual Exchange, which is the official archive for all the works of Anthony De Mello. Don has also worked at Stanford University Medical School, ran a regional emergency medical services system, and headed an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events which was awarded the AMA’s Excellence in Medicine medal. Don has worked with some of the most stressful situations, with people facing terminal illness, parents struggling with the loss of a child, prisoners serving life sentences, and refugees of the genocidal war in Bosnia struggling with extreme post-traumatic stress. He is the author of several books including the Amazon bestseller, "The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain" and is the editor of the book, "Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All is Well" by Anthony De Mello. Visit www.demellospirituality.com & http://donjosephgoewey.com. Listen to the new Om Shanti album by Sister Jenna on Spotify. Visit www.americameditating.org. Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple or Android.

I continually update an article like this. There are also corrections and other links added to this message.  Scriptural and natural truth is coming at you right now that will change your perspective on what is going on spiritually. God did not send the Coronavirus or any other virus for that matter. COVID-19 has come to America because of an immense open door to the enemy. The truth is that Covid-19 was never as bad as espoused by the media. Yet, many capitulated, and many churches are still closed.  Sin and the anti-God and anti-Bible stand of a large part of America have set the country up for plagues, but especially the weak and false plagues. These are a part of what the antichrist spirit is attempting to do in the land. They are a part of the man of sin or lawlessness and his lying signs and wonders! See 2 Thessalonians 21-12 below. Lying signs and wonders are a part of the man of sin’s mode of operation (modus operandi). These are a large part of his bag of tricks. Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NASB) The antichrist man that opposes everything of God and His Word, the one that will force a one world government and religion won’t be able to show his ugly head until the true and real Church is removed from the earth. Though that is true, we are seeing the antichrist spirit demonstrating great deception in the earth. Covid-19 is the tip of a humongous iceberg of lies and deceptions that has spread into all the earth. Nevertheless, Satan has used the Covid mess to stop the church, restrict evangelism, impede laying hands on the sick, stop the preaching of the gospel message, have altar calls, and so on. That is the biggest lie he successfully spread into most parts of the world. The rest of Satan's plan is an attempt to remove human rights, make people subservient to governmental orders, shut down small businesses, restrict people’s movement and travel, and bring people to their knees before a tyrannical false god called Covid-19. Any way you slice and dice it, COVID-19 mandates came because of darkness growing in the land. They are not here because of faith, repentance, prayer, and DOING the Scripture. The mandates found an entrance because of a lack of being doers of the Word (James 1:22) in the churches of America and around the world! If all the churches would have stood against the lies of the devil and refused to close, America and other countries would not have suffered all the mess of lockdowns, curfews, social distancing, useless masks, and the rest of the perverted mess! The reality is this: many churches will never reopen, and those that do will find out that their former congregation has fizzled away or gone elsewhere! Watch some of the mega churches when they start opening back up. Their congregations will be gone or greatly decreased and never return! Church buildings are already going up for sale all over the country. Watch what happens! So what is the truth regarding all this Covid-19 supposed pandemic that is really a non-pandemic? What do we need to know now? You really MUST hear these Canadian doctors and medical professionals reject the closures, lockdowns, quarantines, and masks. It’s epic! https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/03/10/canadian-doctors-speak-out-against-government-covid-restrictions-masks-and-vaccines-not-needed/ At the end of their monumental article, listen to the 11 minute video presentation in line with everything I have been telling you about this whole Covid mess. Also listen to this video on what doctors are saying from other countries. Wow! https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/doctors-around-the-world-issue-dire-warning-do-not-get-the-covid-vaccine/ The lies the world has been subjected to are massive. Yet, the mainstream media continues to dish out their lies and deception with great swelling words of fearful stupidity, and a large portion of the world has swallowed them hook, line, sinker, the fishermen, and the boat! I personally read dozens of medical studies on the use of masks and found out a few shocking things: *Masks are useless at stopping viruses from infecting a person wearing one, and from stopping the virus from escaping the mask if someone is infected. Keep in mind the fact that all viruses are much smaller than the microscopic openings in the material used for masks. *Masks hinder the intake of air for breathing and hinder the exhaling of carbon dioxide. That means that what you are rebreathing under the mask is partly carbon dioxide (a waste product that is unbreathable) and not the nitrogen/oxygen air you need to live! That contributes to the diminished function of a lot of internal organs! There is evidence that surgeons have decreased mental acuity after 4-6 hours in the operating room after using a surgical mask. The real losers here are the little children being forced to wear masks for hours a day. What do you think oxygen deprivation together with carbon dioxide inhalation is doing to their developing brains and internal organs? It is criminal. *Studies indicate that continual use of masks will have a detrimental effect on the immune system and will contribute to infections in the gums and lungs. Look at this article: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mask-mouth-dentists-warn-prolonged-use-of-masks-leading-to-poor-oral-hygiene See this video by Dr. Lee Merritt on the falsehoods of masks: https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/custom_videos/mask-myths Here is another article from a surgeon on the falsehood of the general population wearing masks: https://principia-scientific.com/surgeon-destroys-myth-if-masks-dont-work-why-do-surgeons-wear-them/ Shrinkage is coming to America and around the world by continually being masked up. ALL compliant, clueless, mask-wearing-men need this info right now! Are they doing this purposely to the male population to feminize them by shrinking their manhood?  https://nationalfile.com/study-chemical-that-causes-penile-shrinkage-found-in-face-masks/ That should make every real man reading this to cringe and rush to remove their penis-shrinking masks! If you are OK Mister Moron with becoming more girlie, and you have no issue with your manhood shrinking, then go ahead and wear your death-to-manhood mask! Watch these interviews with Dr. Richard Urso, an ophthalmologist from Texas with drug development background that has a lot of medical training under his belt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4BfPl2EzMI https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/conservativebusinessjournal/id/17376962 These are by no means a complete catalog of doctors, nurses, and clinical studies that prove the world has been subjected to myths, outright lies, and falsehoods being spread by the mainstream media, giant social media outlets, and governments. The medical profession is slowly but surely rising up against all the lies of Covid-19, and they are coming from different countries around the world.  I wore the masks for a very short time to go into some stores at the beginning of this whole mess, but quickly removed them, repented, and have refused to wear them except on rare occasions. As an example, I wore one when I had to enter a government building to get a license plate and registration for a vehicle. I took it off once inside and no one said a thing to me, so I left it off. I go everywhere mask-less and refuse to social distance. Occasionally, I have been refused entry or service without a mask. It happened at one of my favorite stores, “Bass Pro-Shop”, so, I haven’t returned since! Other places, I simply ignore posted signs, and disregard any worker asking me if I have a mask or offering me one. If asked, I say emphatically, “No!” and just keep walking. Generally, they leave me alone. If they ask, I will tell them masks don’t work and are detrimental to one’s health. Also, I ask if they are a Christian. If they are, I can tell them what they are doing and yielding to. You say, “What are people yielding to?” Don’t you get what Satan is trying to implement even now? He is trying to fast-track the beast system of the antichrist! 16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:16, 17 NASB) You can't buy or sell is coming at some point. Already, Gov. Inslee of the state of Washington stated in an interview that people would not be able to buy groceries unless they were vaccinated! People of God, we are at a crossroads here. We must stand up and resist the devil. Look, I understand that employees at many businesses are stuck with wearing masks or they risk losing their employment. I feel for you and your predicament. I understand that businesses can require patrons to wear a mask or ask them politely not to enter or to leave the premises. I understand they can do that legally. They have the right of admission. I think it's time for Christian workers to seek employment elsewhere or start their own businesses. In some countries, and in some local socialist governments (NYC and others), they are beginning to implementa an ID card to prove you have been vaccinated or you can’t go to a business or eat at a restaurant. That is just like wearing the emblem of the beast! The same has been done with mask wearing. In many places you can’t buy or sell unless you have on a mask! Wow! If that doesn’t sound like preparation for the antichrist's one-world government in training, then I don’t know what would!  For the record, I WILL NEVER BE VACCINATED! Check this article written about Dr. Andrew Kaufman and then on the same page watch a 55 minute interview with Dr. Kaufman: https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/censored-dr-kaufman-they-want-to-genetically-modify-us-with-covid-19-vaccine-loses-his-job-and-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-resist/ Have you read about all the crap that is in those vaccines? Have you read about all the deaths and massive side effects from all the vaccines around the world? See the data in this article related to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a U.S. Government funded database that tracks injuries and deaths caused by vaccines:  https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/1739-dead-as-cdc-adds-another-200-recorded-deaths-this-week-following-covid-experimental-vaccines/ There are medical reasons why vaccines should never be fast tracked. You better wise up. Vaccines modify DNA permanently. Did you know that over 52,000 medical professionals worldwide have now signed on to the Great Barrington Declaration (see their website: https://gbdeclaration.org/) calling into question the draconian Covid 19 policies, procedures, and vaccinations? https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/covid-has-caused-tens-of-thousands-of-medical-doctors-and-scientists-to-wake-up-to-corruption-in-the-medical-industry/ Did you know that the Barrington declaration was originally signed in the US Otober 4, 2020 calling for the stop to the Covid-19 nonsense presented by the news media and our own government, both nationally and locally? The three original signers were not lightweights! They are: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. All these and I didn't even tell you about the 44 co-signers that were also very qualified physicians and medical professionals! Over 52,000 medical scientists and practitioners have signed on, and the medical professionals are coming forward with the truth all over the globe! Quit believing the lies from the communist mainstream news media and those that have a vested monetary interest in the vaccines, like big pharma and miniature doctors. Don’t believe the miniature man, the medical gnome Fauci (Rodney Howard Browne had a gnome made of him, and it is hilarious!). Don't pay attention to that person that buys his clothes in the children’s section (a favorite description of Fauci by RHB) that is supposed to be the authority on these medical things nationally, but Fauci is lying through his teeth to the American people!   Some airlines are pursuing having a vaccination passport to prove you are subservient to the system, and some countries are beginning the process to implement them for any form of travel. Even the nation of Israel has fallen to this “vaccination passport” nonsense and requiring forced vaccines but look at what's happened: https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/israelis-cry-out-to-the-world-to-stop-mandatory-covid-injections-as-lawsuit-is-filed-in-international-criminal-court-over-nuremberg-code-violation/ Don't forget to watch the associated video and Rabbi Weissman's reasons he won't take the vaccine. Here is the original article from Rabbi Chananya Weissman: 31 Reasons Why I Won’t Take the Vaccine. I agree with him 1000%! It makes no difference that he is not a Christian! I say that for all my prejudiced Christian brethren! He is right about this. I understand that some of his points have to do directly with what is going on in Israel, but we see the same nonsense in the U. S. A., so it is appropriate and timely here. There are not 1 or 2 reasons to NOT take the vaccine, but a solid 31 reasons you should not submit to vaccination! Read them and learn them well. It's an essay, and all easily verifiable.  Here is another important article by the New York Teachers For Choice: https://nyteachersforchoice.wordpress.com/2020/09/20/top-10-reasons-why-a-covid-vaccine-should-not-be-mandatory/ Mandatory vaccines, as clearly stated in this article above, or forcing people to get vaccinated, is a direct violation of the Nuremberg Code that was established after WW2 to counteract Nazi policies and practices! We need to oppose forced vaccinations NOW, spiritually, physically, and politically!  These are all signs of the times where the antichrist system is being pushed to set things up for the still future man of sin or lawlessness. Remember all the churches that closed when the Covid mess started? Did you know churches are opening up as vaccination centers? They subjected themselves to a lie and a huge deception with masks, social distancing and much more, and now they are serving as death and injury distribution centers! Church, it is time to repent! America, it’s time to repent! It is time to humble ourselves, pray, seek to please the Lord, repudiate any sinful practices and heresies so the Lord will respond from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land, yes, even from the tyrannical socialists and false pandemics! (2 Chronicles 7:13, 14) All the capitulating churches and pastors in the land need to repent for closing their churches! They received and implemented government orders that were contrary to Scripture. Nowhere in the New Testament are we told to shut down our churches when the government decides we should. It tells the exact opposite! We are never to forsake the assembling of ourselves together (Hebrews 10:25), and much less as we see the day of the Lord's return approaching. The Church of the Lord Jesus also has a GREAT commission that didn't expire with the so-called pandemic, or better stated, “lying plandemic.” (Mark 16:15-19; Matthew 28:18, 19) Most churches shut down operations without so much as a whimper. Why? Because most were not following the Scripture and obeying it. They were dead or close to dead anyway! What really shocked me was how most evangelical, word-of-faith, prophetic, Pentecostal, and independent Spirit-filled churches shut down immediately upon orders from their local government. I am not including here the dead denominational churches. They all closed. I am referring here to all the supposedly Bible-believing and Word-doing churches. I am specifically referring to all the churches that said they believed in God’s healing power and espoused it as part of their church doctrine! What happened to the following Biblical instructions when churches closed? 14 Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up—and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. (James 5:14-16 NET) You can’t anoint anybody via internet, and you can’t lay hands on them for healing either! “In my Name (Jesus)… they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover!” (Mark 16:17, 18) You can’t baptize in water any new converts, and you can’t have communion via video chat! Most churches capitulated, submitted to, surrendered, and agreed with local authorities instead of agreeing with God and His Word! “We must obey God rather than people!” was how the Church leaders in Acts responded to calls from governmental leaders (those in authority) to stop what they were doing in the Name of Jesus. (See Acts 5:29, and also Acts 4:19.) We follow the laws of the land UNTIL they violate the Scripture! Then, we follow God’s Word regardless of the consequences. The church in America (and around the world), almost unanimously, demonstrated how weak, pusillanimous, and sissified they really were. Instead of being the triumphant church, churches were wusses. Instead of suffering persecution and jail time if necessary, they took the route of disobedience to God.  There were a few exceptions in the United States, and a few pastors were arrested, fined, or jailed for refusing to bow down to the idol of Covid-19, but they were regrettably VERY few and far between. For a couple of years  before the “pandemic” in my area in southwest Florida, I assisted a well-known Word-of-Faith church. I won’t mention their name or location because I still hope that the pastor and church repent publicly. They need to. I have great respect for their ministry. When the so-called pandemic hit, they folded like a deck of cards and shut their doors just like all other weak and sissified churches. I was shocked and despaired temporarily. I couldn’t believe it. That church preached Scripture accurately every Sunday and Friday, but when the test came, they fell for the lies of the devil like every other church in the area. I am talking about a church that had miracles, signs, and many manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They believed in God's healing power and taught it profusely but capitulated to government mania over a so-called pandemic just like all other churches did. What a tragedy. Sadly, even after they opened, they opened to masks with all the trimmings of believing a lie; social distancing, alcohol wipes, and disinfecting agents. As far as I’m concerned, they are still closed because they are still under bondage to the lies of the enemy. Where is that mighty church that believed and taught God's healing and miraculous power? They are gone UNLESS they repent! They will be with little to no anointing unless they repent. I left that church and won't go back not even for a visit, UNLESS they repent. The only two churches that remained open in Southwest Florida (that I know of) because they believed in the power of the Holy Spirit and healing were the River Church in Tampa with pastor Rodney Howard Browne (https://www.revival.com), and the Foundation Church in Englewood (https://www.foundationchurchfl.com) with pastor Tom Laipply. Much of what I am saying and writing here are things these ministers have mentioned or spoken about. I am truly thankful to God for these ministries sharing the truth of God's Word and the truth about Covid, socialism, and government. The links and other comments are from my research.  Don’t miss the Sunday services and rebroadcasts of the River church (revival.com) or the Foundation Church, and the Tom Laipply podcast! Get them all and listen to them closely through their websites. Listen to the Tom Laipply podcast through Apple podcasts, Rumble, and others. Pastor Laipply is powerful in the Word and has a clear handle on all the lies being perpetrated in the government and so on. Powerful stuff, and he doesn’t mince words! If you are the emotional and sensitive type, you will not like him. You were probably from the group of idiot Christians that voted for the demoncrat party and all its baby butchering candidates because you thought Trump was too harsh! If you love the truth, you will love Pastor Laipply’s fiery teaching every Sunday and his no B.S. podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tom-laipply-podcast/id1508562859 https://rumble.com/c/tomlaipply https://blubrry.com/tom_laipply/archive/?pi=1 https://podcastrepublic.net/podcast/1508562859 Redundancy is necessary for his podcast because it has been banned on some social media sites. Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are controlled by a socialist agenda that restricts and removes freedom of speech. They deny our Constitutional right according to the First Amendment that guarantees all Americans freedom of speech! That each one of their platforms censors conservatives is not even in dispute anymore. The oligarchs of technology don't want us to question their devil inspired narrative. They want us to conform to the mainstream media’s talking points and the lying government narrative, or they will censor you or ban you. We refuse to bow down to their false god of lies and deception, and we will not conform to their world view! We will not conform to this world but we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds to the truth! (Romans 12:2) Frankly, I will not go to or visit CCC’s (coined by Tom Laipply), "Covid Caving Churches"! Guess where I go to church now? Guess where I send my tithes and offerings? These two churches and these two alone! No others need apply!  As a side note, Pastor RHB published two books that address the Covid and socialist mess the country finds itself in. I suggest you get every one of his books and read them, particularly The Phantom Virus and Socialism under the Microscope. Go here: https://store.revival.com All the Covid-caving Christians need to repent! Pastors that yielded to the lying, antichrist, anti-Great Commission, and unconstitutional government demands, need to repent for their heretical actions! They need to repent for submitting to government idolatry and allowing them to rise above the orders and commands of the Lord Jesus in Scripture! I heard pastor Tom Laipply say something to this effect first, and it resonates in the Spirit as being the absolute truth! To help with repentance, now I give you the following list of my short studies on repentance. It is time to face the truth and repent. God gives grace to the humble but resists the proud that refuse to repent of their sins! See 1 Peter 5:5, Proverbs 28:13, and 1 John 1:7-10. I've gone to these Scriptures when I've sinned and received forgiveness and cleansing by the Blood of Jesus. The time for repentance is now! Don't think for a moment that you closed your church publicly in disobedience to God's Word, and that now you are going to open without public repentance because it will not work. You closed publicly and declared government as your Lord by obeying it instead of obeying the Bible, and now you must repent publicly to gain your footing and place back in God and the anointing. The humble get this. The proud will refuse to repent to their own demise.  Access the first message with the podcast button below, but I give you the links to all of them here in order, starting with Part 1: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/q2dz2i/Repentance-_Part_1-REV.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/uwz5c9/Repentance-_Part_2REV.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/99ifp4/Repentance-_Part_3REV.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dfea9s/Repentance-_Part_4REV.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/h3xq8q/Repentance_Part_5_REV_2020.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x2ukz5/Repentance_part_6.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xg76p5/Repentance_Part_7.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bc9w6n/Repentance_Part_8.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/kxne52/Repentance_Part_9.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/889xtz/Repentance_Part_10_REV.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fla92h/RepentancePart119u30j.mp3 Be mightily and overwhelmingly blessed with the truth from God’s Word and the truth about the ongoing lying plandemic! We must take a stand. The protests against all of this nonsense is going on all over the world.  There is a complete media blackout on these protests going on worldwide. The lying, stinking, fake media says nothing about it!! Look at this video of just ONE day of protests against the overreach and removal of our human rights by tyrannical governments. Please pardon the profanity on one placard. I didn't record any of these. I don't support profanity though I do support edgy and VERY tough language if it gets the message across! I am in 100% in agreement that we must stand and refuse to bow down to the world's falsehoods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXXgPHyPFE Look at all the protest videos under the hashtag "wewillallbethere"  https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wewillallbethere . We are not alone!  

Stanford University Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is featured in Newsweek Magazine condemning the lockdowns across the United States to fight the virus, calling them the biggest mistake ever made by public health authorities. A new study released by none other than the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ironically appears to bolster Dr. Bhattacharya's claim. Is the truth starting to seep out from the Berlin Wall of lies?

Americans are not very healthy, which is why over seventy percent of adults have one and often two chronic illnesses. Poor nutrition is the number one problem and this is the reason why we have one of the highest COVIC-19 infection rates in the world.Americans are not very healthy, which is why over seventy percent of adults have one and often two chronic illnesses. Poor nutrition is the number one problem and this is the reason why we have one of the highest COVIC-19 infection rates in the world. This is further proof of the findings from the studies done by the University of North Carolina and Stanford University Medical School. The strength of our immune system is directly related to this COVID-19 pandemic, and this is the best place to begin an examination on how each person can begin to improve their own immune system. Today Dr. Bens & Aubrey talk about the latest in COVID research, mutations, what we are seeing develop in those "long haulers," and immune system health & functionality.You can find Aubrey on her website, LinkedIn, or InstagramAnd you can find Dr. Bens on his website

We're all aging, but what do we need to know about successful aging? I reached out to the person who wrote a comprehensive successful aging book, Daniel Levitin, a noted neuroscientist, musician, and author, to find out. I discuss with Daniel Levitin: What led him to write Successful Aging How he defines successful aging Common misconceptions about aging How our brains change as we age What older brains are better at than younger brains The roles personality and mindset play in successful aging What he learned from the Dalai Lama Why you should consider working longer, and even never "retiring" How music can be helpful in successful aging What steps you can take to start to age successfully ________________________ Bio Daniel J. Levitin is an award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity and creativity. Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been featured over 1800 times in the popular press, including 17 articles in The New York Times, and in The London Times, Scientific American, and Rolling Stone.  He is a frequent guest on NPR and CBC Radio and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNN. His TED talk is among the most popular of all time. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind and Successful Aging, as well as the international bestseller A Field Guide to Lies. A popular public speaker, he has given presentations on the floor of Parliament in London, to the U.S. Congress, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He has consulted for a number of companies including Apple, Booz-Allen, Microsoft, the United States Navy, Sonos, Philips, Sony, Fender, and AT&T. Dr. Levitin earned his B.A. from Stanford in Cognitive Science, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon, and completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School and UC Berkeley in Neuroimaging and Perception. As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar, vocals and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten and Tom Scott. Levitin has produced and consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell and on the films Good Will Hunting and Pulp Fiction, and has been awarded 17 gold and platinum records. Levitin taught at Stanford in the Departments of Computer Science, Psychology, History of Science, and Music, and has been a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth, and UC Berkeley. He is currently the Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, San Francisco, California, and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Neuroscience and Music at McGill University. __________________________ Wise Quotes On Personality Factors and Successful Aging "One of the big ones is conscientiousness. It's the biggest single predictor, much more so than socioeconomic status, of how your life is going to turn out at any age. Conscientiousness is a cluster of different things having to do with reliability, dependability exercising due caution, and rule-following, to some degree. A kid who's conscientious isn't going to cross against the light, and so, is less likely to get hit by a bus. An adult who's conscientious is less likely to end up in prison - and an older adult who's conscientious is going to see the doctor when something's wrong. They're actually going to do what the doctor tells them to do. My doctor friends tell me that, you know, 80% of their patients are non-compliant and, but a conscientious person is. So that's the role of personality in all of this.

Shani Robins, Ph.D. pioneered the field of Wisdom Therapy TM in 1998.  He is a licensed Psychologist (PSY18795) by the California Board of Psychology and is the founder and director of the Wisdom Therapy Institute since 2000. He is an instructor at Stanford University Medical School’s Health Improvement and BeWell Programs and the Director of Clinical Training at Sofia University (Institute of Trans-personal Psychology). Dr. Robins received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from UCLA in 1989, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Experimental Psychology from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1996, completed a 2-year National Institute of Mental Health Postdoc at U.C. Irvine in 1999 and a Ph.D. re-specialization in Clinical Psychology in 2002.  He has published and has given numerous clinical workshops, invited talks, scientific conference presentations, and corporate consultations nationally and internationally on Wisdom Therapy TM and its relationships to cognition’s, emotions, stress reduction, relationships, work place effectiveness, coping, emotional intelligence, performance, and organizational consulting.

In this conversation on race I’m joined by Diversity pioneers and original thought leaders Lee Mun Wah and Howard Ross to talk about the current state of diversity, racism and white supremacy in the US today   Howard is known for his cutting edge work on implicit bias and Mun Wah made the ground breaking film on race, Color of Fear.   Key Topics: Origins and current state of the Trump executive order banning diversity and inclusion training in the government and companies that do business with the government. Threats against Howard Ross and his family for his work in diversity, equity and inclusion. The content of the letter suspending Mun Wah’s training with the government calling diversity and inclusion unpatriotic, propaganda and unamerican. Why diversity, equity, inclusion and conversations on race are more important now than ever in the current culture of the US and across the globe. How Black people and others protesting in the name of social justice are being shot, threatened and attacked. Overcoming resistance and fear of diversity, conversations on race and social justice. Whose lives matter? Do white lives matter more than Black lives? Do heterosexual lives matter more than LGBTQ lives The fact that the media doesn’t mention the large numbers of Native American women who have disappeared, the lack of funds to help Native American communities and the high Covid death rate in that community. How issues of racism against LatinX, Asian and other people of color are often neglected, trivialized and ignored. Intercultural Health care disparities that result in higher death rates for Black women during childbirth than white women. Howard and Mun Wah share experiences engaging in dialogues with white supremacists.   Guests Bio: Lee Mun Wah, M.A. Special Education, M.S. CounselingExecutive Director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting   Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folk teller, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He is the Executive Director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. His first documentary film, Stolen Ground, about the experience of Asian Americans, won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary and in 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and work that was seen by many.  His latest film, If These Halls Could Talk, was just released.  The film’s focus is on college students and their experience with racism and other diversity issues in higher education.  Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah’s workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiatives.   Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias.  He is the author of ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in conjunction with SHRM in 2011), and the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias:  Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2014, Second Edition released in 2020).  His latest book, Our Search for Belonging:  How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart, released by Berrett-Koehler in May of 2018, won the 2019 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice.   Howard has specialized in the synthesis of neuro-cognitive and social science research and direct application re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Accessibility work.  His client work has focused on the areas of corporate culture change, leadership development, and managing diversity, inclusion and belonging.  Ross has successfully implemented large-scale organizational culture change efforts in the area of managing diversity and cultural integration in academic institutions, professional services corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and retail, health care, media, and governmental institutions in 47 of the United States and over 40 countries worldwide.  In addition, Howard has delivered programs at Harvard University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School of Business, Duke University and Washington University Medical School and over 20 other colleges and Universities, as well as for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).  Howard served as the 2007-2008 Johnnetta B. Cole Professor of Diversity Professor of Diversity at Bennett College for Women, the first time a white man had ever served in such a position at an HBCU.     Howard’s writings have been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, Diversity Women Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine and dozens of other publications.  He appears regularly on National Public Radio. Howard has served on numerous not-for-profits boards, including the Diversity Advisory Board of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of directors of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, the board of the directors for the National Women’s Mentoring Network, and the Board of Directors of the National Center on Race Amity.  Howard has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2009 Operation Understanding Award for Community Service; the 2012 Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Diversity and Inclusion; the 2013 Diversity Peer Award from Diversity Women Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst Award from Uptown Professional Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst for Change Award from Wake Forest University; the 2015 Medal of Honor by the National Center for Race Amity; the 2015 Trendsetter in HR by SHRM Magazine; and the 2016 Leadership in Diversity Award by the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India.  He was also named an Honorary Medicine Man by the Eastern Cherokee Reservation in N.C. and given Medicine Holder designation by the Pawnee Nation.  Howard has also been honored to serve as a “Contributing Expert” in both 2015 and 2020 to the Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks by the Centre for Global Inclusion.   Howard is also a former Rock ‘n Roll Musician and has taught meditation and mindfulness for more than 20 years, including his role as co-founder and Lead Facilitator for the Inner Journey Seminars.   In 1989, Howard founded Cook Ross Inc., one of the nation’s leading Diversity and Inclusion consultancies.  He sold the company in July 2018 and founded Udarta Consulting, LLC.   Howard keynotes and speaks regularly at Conferences for SHRM, SHRM Diversity, the Forum for Workplace Inclusion, National Association of Corporate Directors , ATD, the World Diversity Forum, and dozens of others.     He can be reached at howard@udarta.com.

Dr. Britney Blair is a licensed clinical psychologist and a board certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist in the San Francisco Bay area. Dr. Blair has extensive clinical and research expertise in behavioral medicine with specializations in sleep and sexual health. She is also a Stanford consultant and is on the adjunct faculty at The Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University Medical School and her predoctoral internship at the VA Greater Los Angele Healthcare System. Dr. Blair received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D Consortium. She is also the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of loverapp, a mobile application designed to address sexual concerns .  Show Note: www.deepintosleep.co/episode/sex-and-sleep  

The guys have a conversation about the coronavirus pandemic, the discourse surrounding conflicting scientific approaches, why certain parts of the country are less inclined to support lockdown measures, and whether or not Bill Gates is actually a supervillain. WHO News release regarding COVAX from August   https://www.who.int/news/item/24-08-2020-172-countries-and-multiple-candidate-vaccines-engaged-in-covid-19-vaccine-global-access-facility   WHO website information regarding COVAX https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax   WHO Says 184 Countries Have Now Joined COVAX Vaccine Program https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/who-says-184-countries-have-now-joined-covax-vaccine-program   Global Justice Now Report on Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation   "The [foundation's] program is not a neutral, charitable strategy for which the world should be thankful that a rich man is deciding to spend his money on good causes," reads the report's introduction. "Analysis of the foundation's programs shows that it has an agenda—it is a specific ideological strategy that promotes neo-liberal economic policies, corporate globalization [and] the technology this brings, and a long outdated view of the centrality of 'aid' in helping the 'poor.'"     https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/gjn_gates_report_june_2016_web_final_version_2.pdf   Article Summary of Global Justice Now Report   “It’s been a quite unprecedented development, the amount that the Gates Foundation is gifting to corporations…. I find that flabbergasting, frankly,” says Linsey McGoey, a professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of the book No Such Thing as a Free Gift. “They’ve created one of the most problematic precedents in the history of foundation giving by essentially opening the door for corporations to see themselves as deserving charity claimants at a time when corporate profits are at an all-time high.”     https://www.nonprofitpro.com/article/report-slams-gates-foundation-for-self-serving-agenda-corporate-ties/     Reddit Q&A with Bill Gates from March 2020 where Gates discusses "digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it."   https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkupg49/   Study published in National Center for Biotechnology Information regarding replacing Alum Salts with Calcium phosphates as adjuvants in vaccines and links to other research regarding the efficacy of using aluminum adjuvants in vaccines.   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27690701/   3 Prominent Epidemiologists discuss new approach to combating virus as a society and working toward herd immunity to save more lives and issue "The Great Barrington Declaration"   Dr Sunetra Gupta is a professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases Dr Bhattacharya is a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations. Dr Kulldorff is a Professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.   https://unherd.com/2020/10/covid-experts-there-is-another-way/?pt

Frank talks with  Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert about COVID and the spikes we're seeing. He also talks with Dr. Robert Fitrakis about electronic voting. Callers run the gamut discussing everything from ear wax to birthday gifts

This week we interview Josh Makower, a General Partner on NEA's healthcare team leading the MedTech/Healthtech practice. Josh is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator that has created eight companies over the past 20 years. Josh serves on the Stanford University Medical School faculty as an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and is Co-Founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation Program. Josh currently serves on the board of directors for a number of Medical Technology companies. Josh holds over 300 patents and patent applications for various medical devices. He received an MBA from Columbia University, an MD from the NYU School of Medicine, and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

As much of the world gears up for a second round of lockdowns, and restrictions on everyday life grow ever tighter, a group of infectious-disease epidemiologists and public-health scientists have come together to propose an alternative. The Great Barrington Declaration was spearheaded by Martin Kulldorff from Harvard Medical School, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford University and Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University Medical School. Michael Avery speaks to Kulldorff and two of the three prominent South Africans who have lent their support to the declaration, financial services entrepreneur Magda Wierzycka – founder of Sygnia – and Nick Hudson of thinktank PANDA.

As much of the world gears up for a second round of lockdowns, and restrictions on everyday life grow ever tighter, a group of infectious-disease epidemiologists and public-health scientists have come together to propose an alternative. The Great Barrington Declaration was spearheaded by Martin Kulldorff from Harvard Medical School, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford University and Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University Medical School. ​ Michael Avrry speaks to Kulldorff and two of the three prominent South Africans who have lent their support to the declaration, financial services entrepreneur Magda Wierzycka – founder of Sygnia – and Nick Hudson of thinktank PANDA.

Marc L. Paulsen, M.D. is a graduate of Brandeis University and Stanford University Medical School. He received his training at University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He is the author of two new fiction books The Last Generation to Die and Wasteland. - www.stancepublications.com

Advocacy takes on different roles in order to empower the voice and impact the lives of people. In today's episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Howard Ross about the past, present, and future of advocacy. Education will always be what inspires change and action will be the driving force. We see it throughout history. "My whole life I've come to realize that if you're going to spend your life shaking the trees, occasionally a coconut is going to hit you on the head."Fighting for the rights of others means fighting for a better society. Howard went to his first Civil Rights at the age of 15 and with over 55 years of advocating for others, you can see that it made a huge impact in his life. He shared with us significant impacts that his family has made when it came to advocacy. Being Jewish during the Holocaust, 43 members of Howard's family were murdered. His own grandfather was living in a village where 100 Jews were killed by Nazis. The emotional impact of what we see, hear, and live through can be the spark to initiate change. It can become a heavy shadow on the families, communities, and generations that are connected to it in some way. We see a huge shift as younger generations are taking the reigns and demanding results in a similar way that we saw Baby Boomers do when they were younger. On one hand, it can make you proud that they have the motivation to do so but on the other, it can be saddening that we are still fighting the same fight.Howard dropped nuggets about we can do better when it comes to understanding and or being part of the current wave of advocates. I stumbled into advocacy because of my personal experiences with homelessness, abuse, molestation, and divorce. Prejudice against a certain group of people usually comes from a disconnect between their story and your own. Howard's nuggets: ~ Remember those that came before you and the life the lived ~ Use the emotional impact as fuel but be strategic ~ Understand that change does not always happen immediately~ Do the research on what you hear~ Protests matter and have their place in initiating change ~ Anger and rage are valid emotions when you feel unheard or mistreated~ NEVER label the majority by the actions of the few This episode will be my most memorable because the current climate of the world is a tough one to navigate. I appreciate the advocates that stand up in the face of fear, miseducation, prejudice, and miscommunication to fight for something bigger than them. I think back to when I first watched movies like Freedom Writers and Lean on Me. It was significant for me because it was a seed of understanding that we each can do something that matters. We each have the power to make an impact. To the advocates who consistently fight for change...we see you! Thank you! Meet Howard Ross:Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world's seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias. He is the author of ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in conjunction with SHRM in 2011), and the Washington Post bestseller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2014). His latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart, released by Berrett-Koehler in May of 2018, won the 2019 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice.Howard has specialized in the synthesis of neuro-cognitive and social science research and direct application re Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Accessibility work. His client work has focused on the areas of corporate culture change, leadership development, and managing diversity. Ross has successfully implemented large-scale organizational culture change efforts in the area of managing diversity and cultural integration in academic institutions, professional services corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and retail, health care, media, and governmental institutions in 47 of the United States and over 40 countries worldwide. In addition, Howard has delivered programs at Harvard University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School of Business, Duke University and Washington University Medical School, and over 20 other colleges and Universities. Howard served as the 2007-2008 Johnnetta B. Cole Professor of Diversity at Bennett College for Women, the first time a white man had ever served in such a position at an HBCU.Howard's writings have been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, Diversity Women Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and dozens of other publications. He appears monthly on National Public Radio. Howard has served on numerous not-for-profits boards, including the Diversity Advisory Board of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of directors of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, and the board of the directors for the National Women's Mentoring Network. Howard has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2009 Operation Understanding Award for Community Service; the 2012 Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Diversity and Inclusion; the 2013 Diversity Peer Award from Diversity Women Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst Award from Uptown Professional Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst for Change Award from Wake Forest University; the 2015 Trendsetter in HR by SHRM Magazine; and the 2016 Leadership in Diversity Award by the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India. He was also named an Honorary Medicine Man by the Eastern Cherokee Reservation in N.C., and given Medicine Holder designation by the Pawnee Nation.Howard is also a former Rock ‘n Roll Musician and has taught meditation and mindfulness for more than 20 years, including his role as co-founder and Lead Facilitator for the Inner Journey Seminars.Howard founded Cook Ross Inc., one of the nation's leading Diversity and Inclusion consultancies. He sold the company in July 2018 and founded Udarta Consulting, LLC.Howard keynotes and speaks regularly at Conferences for SHRM, SHRM Diversity, the Forum for Workplace Inclusion, National Association of Corporate Directors, ATD, the World Diversity Forum, and dozens of others.He can be reached at howard@udarta.com.Social Media Handles (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)Facebook.com/howardjross linkedin.com/howardjrosss

"Even when it was 'normal,' it was really far from normal. It was the illusion of things being static when in fact they were incredibly dynamic. The normal we're looking to go back to is hardly desirable." Where have physical examinations gone? Will house calls ever come back? How has COVID-19 and its hyper-reliance on the internet and computers oddly brought increased closeness between doctors and patients? On this episode, Dr. Verghese and Daniel take a deep dive into the heart of what it means to be a doctor and what it means to be a patient in 2020. Dr. Verghese highlights especially the importance of culture and history and their influence on the way a doctor interacts with a patient. Dr. Abraham Verghese is the author of multiple books, including 'My Own Country: A Doctor's Story,' 'The Tennis Partner,' and' Cutting for Stone.' The physician, born in Ethiopia to Indian parents, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2016. He serves as Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University Medical School.

Dr. Stephen Grinstead sits down with Aaron and talks frankly about children and their pain meds. The opioid crisis is in full swing, but children get injured. Dr. Grinstead gives parents a process to control the meds, the feelings and the response when a child wants "more".Dr. Grinstead is an internationally recognized expert in preventing relapse related to addiction and chronic pain disorders and is the developer of the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. He has been working with chronic pain management, substance use disorders, eating addiction and coexisting mental and personality disorders since 1984. He is also the author of Thank You Adversity for Another Test, Freedom from Suffering: A Journey of Hope as well as several other pain management books including Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders, and the Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide.Dr. Grinstead has a Bachelors Degree in Behavioral Science, a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders (Dr. AD). He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, (LMFT) a past California Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a current Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS). He served on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz Extension Alcohol and Drug Studies Program and also taught at Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley Extension, and Stanford University Medical School and served on the faculty of University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies as well as serving as an Adjunct Professor at Alliant University teaching Masters Level and Psy.D. Students the Treating the Addicted Family System course for the Marriage and Family Therapy track for five years.

Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University Medical School, discusses the latest in Covid-19 treatments and vaccines.

This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.   Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and the Founder of Cook Ross. He is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing Unconscious Bias.  Howard authored the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias:  Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives (published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2014) and ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in conjunction with SHRM in 2011).  His new book, Our Search for Belonging:  How the Need for Connection is Tearing Our Culture Apart, will be published by Berrett-Koehler in 2018. Howard has delivered programs in 47 states and over 40 other countries carrying out the work of Cook Ross. His audience has included hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and major institutions within healthcare, government, and non-profit sectors, in addition to a variety of other industries. He has led programs at Harvard University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School of Business, Duke University, Washington University Medical School, and over 20 other colleges and universities.  From 2007-2008, Howard served as the Johnnetta B. Cole Professor of Diversity at Bennett College for Women, the first time a white man had served in such a position at an HBCU.  He has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, Diversity Woman Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and has been a regular guest on National Public Radio for more than 10 years. Howard has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Diversity Advisory Board of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of directors of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, and the board of the directors for the National Women’s Mentoring Network. In acknowledgement of his significant contributions, Howard was the recipient of the 2009 Operation Understanding Award for Community Service, the 2012 Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Diversity and Inclusion, the 2013 Diversity Peer Award from Diversity Woman Magazine, the 2014 Catalyst Award from Uptown Professional Magazine, the 2014 Catalyst for Change Award from Wake Forest University, and the 2016 Leadership in Diversity Award by the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India. Howard received his Bachelor of Arts in history and education from the University of Maryland and completed post graduate work in leadership and management at Wheelock College. Books on Amazon from Howard Ross: Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance website: https://cookross.com/   Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

As leaders, we have an audience whether it’s through social media, an email list, a congregation, or even our own family. Howard Ross encourages us to re-establish integrity so that we can lead people well and speak up about important issues in a healthy and effective way.   Connect with Howard Ross: https://howardjross.com/ QUESTIONS ASKED: How is our need to belong tearing us apart? What’s our personal responsibility in navigating change? How can we restore hope for this generation?   FROM TODAY’s EPISODE: Being part of something bigger than yourself Changes in agreeing and disagreeing with others Connecting and supporting each other and recognizing unconscious bias RESOURCES: Text us! +1 (501) 214-4307 Join our Private Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/2lPut5A Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/heatherparady   BIO: Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world’s seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias.  He is the author of ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in conjunction with SHRM in 2011), and the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias:  Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2014).  His latest book, Our Search for Belonging:  How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart, released by Berrett-Koehler in May of 2018, won the 2019 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Social Change and Social Justice. Howard has specialized in the synthesis of neuro-cognitive and social science research and direct application re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Accessibility work.  His client work has focused on the areas of corporate culture change, leadership development, and managing diversity.  Ross has successfully implemented large-scale organizational culture change efforts in the area of managing diversity and cultural integration in academic institutions, professional services corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and retail, health care, media, and governmental institutions in 47 of the United States and over 40 countries worldwide.  In addition, Howard has delivered programs at Harvard University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School of Business, Duke University and Washington University Medical School and over 20 other colleges and Universities.  Howard served as the 2007-2008 Johnnetta B. Cole Professor of Diversity Professor of Diversity at Bennett College for Women, the first time a white man had ever served in such a position at an HBCU.   Howard’s writings have been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, Diversity Women Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine and dozens of other publications.  He appears monthly on National Public Radio. Howard has served on numerous not-for-profits boards, including the Diversity Advisory Board of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of directors of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, and the board of the directors for the National Women’s Mentoring Network.  Howard has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2009 Operation Understanding Award for Community Service; the 2012 Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Diversity and Inclusion; the 2013 Diversity Peer Award from Diversity Women Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst Award from Uptown Professional Magazine; the 2014 Catalyst for Change Award from Wake Forest University; the 2015 Trendsetter in HR by SHRM Magazine; and the 2016 Leadership in Diversity Award by the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India.  He was also named an Honorary Medicine Man by the Eastern Cherokee Reservation in N.C., and given Medicine Holder designation by the Pawnee Nation. Howard is also a former Rock ‘n Roll Musician and has taught meditation and mindfulness for more than 20 years, including his role as co-founder and Lead Facilitator for the Inner Journey Seminars. Howard founded Cook Ross Inc., one of the nation’s leading Diversity and Inclusion consultancies.  He sold the company in July 2018 and founded Udarta Consulting, LLC. Howard keynotes and speaks regularly at Conferences for SHRM, SHRM Diversity, the Forum for Workplace Inclusion, National Association of Corporate Directors , ATD, the World Diversity Forum, and dozens of others. 

In this dialogue Dr. Blair and I talk about relationships with sleep and discuss how feelings about bedrooms, beds, and bed-partners can impact the quality of sleep. In our society, there is a stigma against couples that sleep in separate beds. The term ‘sleep divorce' is a socialized term that stigmatizes the practice of sleeping independent of one's partner. Contrary to popular opinion, most research shows that having a bed-partner can impact sleep quality. Some argue that it does have the potential to lead to a calmer state of mind and body; so you might fall asleep in a relaxed state. However it can also lead to a more disturbed and interrupted sleep. Dr. Blair joins me as a sex therapist and a sleep medicine specialist to highlight the importance of a healthy sleep pattern and its great impact on our intimate relationships and sex life. She invites us to look at our bedrooms as sanctuaries that need to be kept away from heavy conversations and stressful activities. She also offers practical tips for individuals and couples, as well as debunks commonly believed myths about sleep. She explains what disturbed sleeping patterns look like and advises when, where, and how to get help. Britney Blair, PsyD, CBSM is a licensed clinical psychologist and is board certified in both sleep and sexual medicine. She is an invited speaker at venues around the globe and has published work in the areas of sleep and sexual medicine for the academic and popular press. Dr. Blair is a Stanford sleep consultant and is on the adjunct faculty at The Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine.Dr. Blair is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Lover, a digital platform designed to resolve sexual problems and optimize sexual wellness. She is also the Founder and Clinical Director at The Clinic, a multidisciplinary practice with locations across the bay area offering in- office and video appointments serving over 3,000 patients living in the State of California.Dr. Blair completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University Medical School and her pre-doctoral internship at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. Dr. Blair received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Joining us today is Dr. Stesha Doku. She is an anesthesiologist who graduated from Stanford University Medical School and is also a Fulbright Scholar. During this episode we are going to cover what to expect before, during, and after surgery. Find the shownotes at otcpodcast.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School and is Acting Deputy Director, Dissemination and Training Division, National Center for PTSD. She’s a leading researcher in the area of disseminating evidence-based therapies. As part of this, she juggles two RO1 research grants from NIMH, working with multiple teams, and having team members scattered across the US and Canada who are conducting research in various settings. She balances all of that with being married with three kids…and carves out time to keep up her running. In today’s episode, we dive into how stays organized with her various projects and how she deals with the messiness of dissemination research that involves intense involvement with front line providers and sites. She also talks about how to vet collaborating organizations in the community and how to look for win-win collaborations for those you work with. We also discuss her perspective on open science and the need to stay nimble when it comes to data collection. You’ll also hear Dr. Wiltsey shares tips for squeezing in time for writing, her tips for finding work-life balance, being led by what is exciting for you, and her advice for graduate students. The opinions expressed by Dr. Stirman on this podcast are solely her own and do not express the views or opinions of her employers.  Some abbreviations mentioned in the episode: CPT – cognitive processing therapy IPV – intimate partner violence DBT – dialectical behavior therapy CBT – cognitive behavioral therapy In this episode, you’ll learn… How Dr. Wiltsey manages various groups and teams across multiple settings How she deals with bureaucracies from multiple organizations How to form teams and foster win-win collaboration How to determine if a site is a good match for your study How to deal with the messy realities of research Wiltsey’s perspective on open research Tips for getting your writing done Tips on work-life balance Wiltsey’s advice for grad students   Tips from the episode On how to how to stay organized across project and teams… Distribute the work. Host once-a-week team calls. Take detailed notes and document all decisions made. Reach out when you need something. Don’t be afraid to tap into the expertise of others. Respect team members’ time. Only pull them in when they’re really needed. On writing... Utilize time on flights. During your writing time, don’t turn on Wi-Fi. If you need to look something up, make a list or leave a comment and do it later. Utilize time in the evenings if the rest of the family is occupied or asleep. Take advantage of the times in the margins of your day.  On work-life balance... Prioritize family dinner. In general, don’t schedule activities for the kids around dinner time. Carve out time for exercise. Only work on weekends if the rest of the family is busy. Take a day or a half-day off Delegation is critical.

Interview by Gary Gunderson   An emergency physician, healthcare executive, and entrepreneur, Larry McEvoy’s diverse perspective renders him an inspiring, design-oriented leader, strategist, advisor, facilitator, and speaker. His extensive track record of real-life strategic and operational results—and a unique facility with ecosystems, neuroscience, social intelligence, and human networks—helps you understand and capacitate entire systems, small and large, to optimize performance, adaptation, and vitality.  He has wide experience in shaping the challenges of our complex times into outstanding results, rapid learning, and energized professional cultures. Larry’s mission is to deepen the vigor, resilience, and sustainability of leaders, the people they lead, and the organizations they create. Particularly focused on the shared work between executives, clinicians, and clinical leaders, Larry’s experience as both a CEO and a clinician deepens his skill in facilitating dynamic shifts in mindset, method, and performance. His background as a strategic innovator and “designer-in-chaos” has led him to increasing work outside of health care as organizations and corporations seek to create value via both stability andrapid reconfiguration in environments of velocity and volatility. His career has comprised the renewal of multiple environments of distrust, stress, and dispirited dynamics.  He focuses on creating a practical approach to the acceleration of systemic shifts in results, adaptation, and professional vitality; the linkage between leadership evolution, stewardship ethic, and business value; and the activation of “positive epidemics” through the understanding and application of complexity principles, network science, and neuroscience.  As one of his clients puts it, “I learn more from him in an hour than I do from anyone else in a year.  His emotional intelligence is off the charts, and his strategic acumen is of the highest order.” From 2008 to 2012, Larry served as the CEO of Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, CO, facilitating a $100 million turnaround, the emergence of a culture of collaboration and commitment, and Memorial’s transformation from an at-risk and unfunded municipal hospital to the threshold of its merger with the University of Colorado Health system. Prior to that he was a senior executive and emergency physician at the Billings Clinic in Billings, MT, from 1995 to 2008. He completed his training in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, in 1995. After earning a BA in English Writing from Carroll College (MT) in 1987, Larry graduated from Stanford University Medical School in 1992. He serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the Center for Creative Leadership and as a Principal at Brenva Group. He is on the faculty of the American Association of Physician Leaders,The Governance Institute, and The Leadership Development Group, and has presented at the Conference Board, The Executive Development Roundtable, and the American Medical Group Association as well as at numerous health care organizations nationwide. He co-founded PracticingExcellence, a web-based professional collegial community which focuses on the clinician experience as the foundation of healthcare performance, patient experience, and meaning.   Most recently he has founded Epidemic Leadership, where he focuses on the executive work of creating organizations of exponential health and vigor—where performance, learning, and vitality rise in parallel and are abundant, infectious, sustained and sustaining.

This episode features Anna Lembke, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School and author of the massively influential book Drug Dealer, MD. Dr. Lembke shares her immeasurable expertise in psychiatry, dual-diagnosis and chronic pain treatment, with a heavy dose of unmitigated truth-telling. Our dialogue is a thoughtful, no holds barred look at: The toyotaization of medicine; the devastating effects of opiate over-prescribing coupled with ineffective chronic pain treatments; the ongoing discontents of addiction and dual-diagnosis treatment; the problems with widespread naïveté about the use of cannabis and CBD; and the inequities and ineffectualness of our health care system. We share knowledge about integrative treatment and the need for psychiatry, psychology and general medicine to embrace it or become irrelevant. I think you’ll find this episode eye-opening, enlightening and timely. Dr. Lembke's website  Drug Dealer, MD TEDx Stanford Lecture Disclaimer: The information in this episode or on groundlessground.com is intended for information and entertainment purposes only, and does not claim to be or constitute therapeutic advice or mental health treatment.

Thanks to pop culture, dopamine is commonly associated with pleasure-seeking and addiction, but its function goes way beyond that. Despite the fact that only about 400 000 out of 10 billion neurons in our brain produce it, the importance of natural dopamine for our survival is tremendous. It is responsible for us making a difference between what is good and what is bad for us, our ability to compare expectations to reality, but also for basic functions like physical movement. And it’s not only survival of humans it has a role in - dopamine systems are something we share with organisms as simple as fruit flies.To find out about dopamine function and current research into it, Kim and Alessia interview professor Ulrik Gether, head of the Department of Neuroscience at Copenhagen University. A trained medical doctor, Gether studied at Copenhagen University and Stanford University Medical School, and is now a leading researcher on neurotransmitters, dopamine in particular. He currently co-manages the project called Attention to Dopamine, an interdisciplinary endeavor aiming to provide better understanding of the relations between dopamine and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Even more importantly, he tells us about practical ways in which we can affect dopamine production to improve our lifestyles - its role in changing habits and how to prevent relapse into old bad habits. Furthermore, we find out about the applications of dopamine in Parkinson’s disease treatment, ADHD, and schizophrenia, and get to peek into the cutting-edge research of dopamine Gether does at his lab at Mærsk Tower, Copenhagen.Kim Baden-Kristensen is the co-founder and CEO of Brain+, a digital therapeutics company that helps people with brain disorders and injuries to recover their fundamental cognitive brain functions and daily life capabilities by using an app-based cognitive rehabilitation platform, which is developed in close collaboration with patients, clinicians and researchers.https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbadenk/ Alessia Covello is a life science IT consultant working in the field of healthcare technology implementation, and advocating for better services for people with brain conditions and learning disabilities.https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiacovello/ Talking points include: 4:13 What is dopamine and why is it important?9:19 Dopamine and addiction - how compulsive behaviors arise, what they do to receptors in the brain, and how to defeat addiction18:44 The power of habit and changing habits: The process of “cue-behavior-reward”21:37 Dopamine and movement - dopamine gets us going22:13 Dopamine in Parkinson's disease (PD) and Parkinson’s treatment28:45 Schizophrenia, dopamine, and related treatments32:42 ADHD, dopamine, and related treatments37:36 Current research on dopamine - what we have learned in the recent years and how42:03 Research in Gether’s lab - genetic factors and dopamine, its relation to early onset Parkinson, effects of drugs, etc.48:06 The future of dopamine research - gene editing and its potential in brain treatmentsDisclaimer:All references to products, companies, and organizations in this podcast and the article that accompanies it are included with the purpose to inform, rather than promote or advertise. The podcast authors do not receive financial compensation

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Pegg Frates, is a physician and certified health and wellness coach. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, as a double major in psychology and biology. Then, she attended Stanford University Medical School where she chose the specialty of Physiatry. Dr. Frates came back to Boston for her internship in internal medicine at MGH and residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. There, she served as chief resident and President of the National Resident Physician Committee for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. During her residency, she performed research on patient and caregiver knowledge and expectations for functional recovery after stroke and published those results in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Finding there was a lack of understanding of stroke basics in both patients and caregivers post stroke, she co-authored a book to help fill this gap. The book is titled "Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke" (2006) Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Frates has trained in many different programs addressing behavior change in order to learn how to empower people to adopt healthy habits, those that prevent stroke and other lifestyle related diseases. This training includes a certification in Motivational Interviewing from UMass, certification in health and wellness coaching, Mind Body Medicine training with Dr. Herb Benson's group, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's group. She has been actively involved with teaching evidence based wellness, healthy habits, stroke prevention as well as lifestyle medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Continuing Medical Education Conferences both nationally and internationally for years. Dr. Frates founded her own wellness coaching company, Wellness Synergy in order to empower individuals and groups to attain their optimal level of wellness. She has developed 12 Steps to Wellness, which has helped people move from sitting on the couch eating potato chips to walking, tracking their steps with pedometers and enjoying fruits and vegetables. She is currently the Director of Wellness Programming at the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Dr. Frates is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Frates has worked in the area of lifestyle medicine for almost ten years. She is the Director of Medical Student Education at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, the faculty advisor for the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School and has directed wellness programs at Harvard College. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Frates created a college level course in lifestyle medicine from scratch. Using all her experience in medicine and coaching along with the latest evidence from the medical literature, Dr. Frates crafted the curriculum, wrote weekly case studies, quizzes, and discussion questions and lectured in two hour classes for 14 weeks in the course Psych E 1037 Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Extension School. Teaching is a passion for Dr. Frates. Dr. Frates talks about shifting the perspective from "expert" approach to what she calls "COACH approach" to wellness and healing - an approach rooted in compassion, openness, appreciation, curiosity and honesty. To learn more please visit: Website: http://wellness-synergy.com Twitter: @BethFratesMD Course Website: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/introduction-lifestyle-medicine/14505

Josh Makower, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates Josh Makower is a General Partner on NEA's healthcare team leading their medtech/healthtech practice. Josh is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator that has created 8 companies over the past 20 years. Notable transactions from the ExploraMed portfolio include NeoTract, acquired by Teleflex in 2017, Nuelle, acquired by Aytu in 2017, Acclarent, acquired by J&J in 2009, EndoMatrix, acquired by C.R. Bard in 1997 and TransVascular, acquired by Medtronic in 2003. On-going ExploraMed/NEA ventures include Moximed, Willow and Exploramed V. In addition to his role at NEA, Josh serves on the faculty of the Stanford University Medical School as a Consulting Professor of Medicine and is Co-Founder of Stanford's Biodesign Innovation Program. Josh currently serves on the board of directors for DOTS Devices, Eargo, ExploraMed, Intrinsic Therapeutics, Moximed, Willow, SetPoint Medical and Coravin. Josh holds over 300 patents and patent applications for various medical devices in the fields of cardiology, ENT, general surgery, drug delivery, obesity, orthopedics, women's health, and urology. He received an MBA from Columbia University, an MD from the NYU School of Medicine, and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Podcast 007: Dr. James Doty Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership As a world-class brain surgeon and Stanford University Medical School professor, Dr. James Doty is nevertheless certain that “the best way of influencing human beings to excel in their jobs is to intentionally […] The post Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

As a world-class brainsurgeon and Stanford University Medical School professor, Dr. James Doty is nevertheless certain that “thebest way of influencing human beings to excel in their jobs is to intentionally and positively affect their hearts.” These surprising words are found in hisNew York Timesbest selling book, “Into The Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest To Discover The Mysteries Of The Brain And The Secrets Of The Heart – and amplify recent medical discoveries that prove the heart plays a far greater role in influencing human behavior than most of us have ever known. Dr. Doty comes on the podcast to explain how the mind and heart are connected – and what this means for the future of workplace leadership. But as the Director of Stanford’s Center For Altruism And Compassion Research – and a physician to employees in the Silicon Valley, he brings surprising insight into what employees truly want and need in exchange for work. And even though companies like Google and Facebook are known as great places to work, Doty’s take isn’t quite as glowing. “What people really need and want,” Doty says, “is love.”  How he landed on this conclusion is the underlying theme of his discussion with Mark.

Podcast 007: Dr. James Doty Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership As a world-class brain surgeon and Stanford University Medical School professor, Dr. James Doty is nevertheless certain that “the best way of influencing human beings to excel in their jobs is to intentionally […] The post Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

Today we catch up with Dr. John T. Kihm of Priority Medicine in Durham, NC. Dr. Kihm's philosophy in medicine sounds and may even look simple: “Take care of the patient.” Don't take this approach for granted. In this day and time, as many will attest, it is a blessing to find excellent medical care. Availability, experience, knowledge, skill, bedside manner, caring—all attributes Dr. Kihm possesses, are important. Dr. Kihm attended medical school and completed his residency at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. He completed fellowships in research and academic general internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC and at Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA. Prior to returning to Durham to engage in private practice internal practice, he held a position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. In the community, Dr. Kihm has volunteered at the Urban Ministries of Durham “Healthcare for the Homeless” shelter. He recently signed-on with Samaritan Health Center, the clinic serving the Durham Rescue Mission. He has personally donated and administered hundreds of flu shots to area school teachers over the years. Dr. Kihm learned to fly 18 years ago in order to reach those on Ocracoke Island, in the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina. He has since flown more than 200 missions to Ocracoke to see patients. He has volunteered at Bahamas Habitat on Eleuthra, Bahamas, and Remote Area Medical Appalachian clinics. He enjoys helping others and believes in giving back to the community. Learn More, visit: Priority Medicine (919) 471-3351 Durham, NC - www.prioritymedicine.com. Resources: www.ConciergeMedicineToday.com www.DocPreneurPress.com www.ForDOCTORSforum.com www.ConciergeMedicineFORUM.com www.DirectPrimaryCare.com

Beth Frates, M.D. is the founder of Wellness Synergy which provides the knowledge, skills and tools needed to empower individuals and groups to reach their optimum health and wellness. She graduated from Harvard University, as a double major in psychology and biology. Dr. Frates attended Stanford University Medical School where she chose the specialty of Physiatry. She came back to Boston for her internship in internal medicine at MGH and her residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Frates co-authored a book, titled Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke (2006) Johns Hopkins University Press. Website: www.wellness-synergy.com Twitter: @BethFrates

 Today’s interview features one of the nation’s foremost hypnotists who is also the associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University Medical School. In this episode, Dr. David Spiegel talks about how hypnosis can help people not only quit smoking and lose weight, but also relieve chronic pain and reduce people’s dependency on medications. David earned his Bachelor’s at Yale College and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1971. His mother and father were psychiatrists and his father started practicing hypnosis just before World War II. David now has more than 45 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control and hypnosis. In addition to his role as the Willson Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford, he is also the director of the Center on Stress and Health and the medical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. David has published 12 books, including one with his father. He has written more than 380 scientific journal articles and 167 book chapters on topics ranging from hypnosis to psychosocial oncology to trauma to psychotherapy. Last year David was featured in Time magazine about the therapeutic uses of hypnosis. In terms of the nation’s escalating opiate problem, David has gone on record saying that hypnosis can and should be used instead of painkillers in many cases. “There are things we could be doing that are a lot safer, cheaper and more effective,” said David, “but we’re not because as a society we have the prejudice that hypnosis is voodoo and pharmacology is science.” David’s research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Dana Foundation for Brain Sciences. David is the past president of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Links:  David Spiegel Stanford profile page "Group Therapy for Cancer Patients" -- http://amzn.to/2wd7c39 "Living Beyond Limits" -- http://amzn.to/2vlTzzZ Show Notes     3:42: Ken and Dawn welcome David to the show. 3:56: Dawn comments on how both of David’s parents were psychiatrists, and how his father started practicing hypnosis just before WWII. She then asks David if it was always his plan to follow in his parents’ footsteps. 4:53: Dawn discusses how David got his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and then decided to attend Harvard Medical School. She asks David why he decided to specialize in hypnosis. 7:26: After graduating from medical school, David made news for refusing pain medication after his operation. Ken asks David to describe what he did. 8:51: Dawn asks David to give an overview of hypnosis. 11:48: David talks about how hypnosis and mindfulness are similar and different. 13:48: Ken asks David if people who are easily hypnotized are also more likely to be able to successfully practice meditation or mindfulness. 14:44: Dawn discusses how she has colleagues that are interested in studying mindfulness for conditions such as PTSD or pain management, but they have had trouble finding funding on these topics. She then asks David who typically funds the work that he does. 15:31: Dawn comments on how David has written about how hypnosis is the oldest western conception of psychotherapies and asks him to give a short historical tour of hypnosis. 20:35: Dawn discusses how David has had more than 40 years of clinical and research experience studying hypnosis, psycho oncology, pain control, psychoneuroendocrinology, and the use of hypnosis in the treatment of PTSD. Specifically,