Podcast appearances and mentions of susan elliott

February 19, 2025 - Join us for a program on deterrence and readiness with Major General Jason R. Armagost, who is the Commander of Eighth Air Force and the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. "The Mighty Eighth" is responsible for the service's bomber force and airborne nuclear command and control assets, encompassing approximately 24,000 Airmen across six installations, and proudly operating more than 150 E-4, B-1, B-2, B-52 and T-38 aircraft.  Major General Armagost will discuss deterrence and readiness amid escalating threats including challenges posed by North Korea, China, and Iran as well as how the U.S.'s bomber force operates across the globe.  This program is moderated by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) president and CEO Susan Elliott and produced in collaboration with the NCAFP.  For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/item/1961-nuclear-deterrence-and-readiness-amid-escalating-threats-with-usaf-major-general-jason-r-armagost

Send us a textAfter a divorce, many of us expect the worst of our emotional struggles to be over. But, as I've come to understand through my own journey and conversations with others, the first relationship after a divorce can bring a heartbreak that's unexpected and uniquely f*cking painful.In this episode, I dive into why this post-divorce heartbreak can feel even more intense than the divorce itself. I explore the emotional layers involved, from unresolved trauma to the pressures we put on ourselves to find happiness again. Most importantly, I discuss ways to navigate this pain and use it as a catalyst for healing and growth.I hope you take something away from the episode, and please, if you do enjoy it, please please please help a gal out and rate and review the episode! Thank you

Susan Elliott, Junior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie to discuss The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas and in particular, the interactions between the KKK and the Kansas Methodists. 

Why preferred equity for commercial deals is strategic todayHow preferred equity works in real estate investingPreferred equity vs. traditional debt investmentsPros and cons of investing in preferred equity projectsReal estate cycles and the opportunities they present The Life & Money Show Spotlight: Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now?Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDFannie MaeFreddie Mac To check any of our existing open investment opportunities, simply visit https://goodegginvestments.com/deals/ and if you're interested in investing alongside Annie and Susan, let them know by taking the survey at https://goodegginvestments.com/pref-equity-survey. Visit our official blog at https://goodegginvestments.com/blog/, where we compiled a range of valuable resources for unique opportunities, and go to our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@GoodeggInvestments, to find a collection of informative videos on preferred equity and more about the world of real estate. CONNECT WITH US To connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook. To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club. Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)-- Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

How to use your home to help you reach your investment threshold Useful tips when you're renting out your primary residenceHome Exchanges: How it works, its benefits, and common tenant inquiriesCreative ways to leverage your assets for additional income The Life & Money Show Spotlight:Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now? Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDThe Nuts and Bolts of Real Estate Crowdfunding with Susan ElliottAirbnbRokuHomeExchangeAmazon.comTuroOutdoorsy If you want more insights about our company, we have compiled our complete track record in one convenient location. To access a copy of this track record, kindly visit https://goodegginvestments.com/trackrecord. Additionally, you can explore our other investment options by visiting https://goodegginvestments.com/deals/. ABOUT SUSAN ELLIOTTAfter a decade as an international whitewater kayak instructor, Susan discovered the hidden world of performing and non-performing notes and their incredible wealth-building potential. Susan thrives on communicating intimidating and detailed plans to anyone. She accredits this skill to years as an adventure guide and a river restoration engineer. From presenting an exact financial model to leading a team down a remote river canyon, she seeks to connect with individuals in a way that helps them realize their strengths.Today, she helps connect investors with amplified returns through note partnershipsand investments so they never have to become a landlord. Susan also co-manages asuite of short-term rental properties in the epic Columbia River Gorge. CONNECT WITH SUSANWebsite: Goodegg InvestmentsInstagram: @sheseeksflow CONNECT WITH USTo connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook. To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club. Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)-- Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

When Susan Elliott's mother was at home on hospice, she was cared for by her husband and adult children. These primary caregivers received a great deal of support from hospice, and yet – as Susan says, “There were gaps." Susan's experience is not unique. In fact, many of us will find ourselves in this exact situation one day. How can we learn more now, in order to set ourselves up for when it happens? What are the gaps, and how might they be filled? For more information on Best Life Best Death please visit our website at ⁠⁠www.bestlifebestdeath.com⁠⁠ Follow us on our social channels to receive pertinent and helpful resources on death, grieving, and more at: Facebook: ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/bestlifebestdeath⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠www.instagram.com/bestlifebestdeath⁠⁠

Mindsets and how it can impact your ability to take actionSignificance of being in your peak state and how to achieve itHow to leverage your peak state and overcome fear for massive successWhy you should visualize your success in uncertain timesThe immense value of making your move in developing healthy habits The Life & Money Show Spotlight:Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now? Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDTony RobbinsUnleash The Power WithinYouTube Link: Priming: the daily habit Tony Robbins uses to boost his brainYouTube Link: 10 minute- Tony Robbins Priming If you want to get a hold of case studies and track records of our actual performance on all our exited deals to date, just go to, https://goodegginvestments.com/trackrecord/ If you are interested and ready to invest, now's your chance to invest alongside Annie and Julie through our newest investment opportunity, the Goodegg Wealth Fund II. Learn more by visiting https://goodegginvestments.com/fund2. ABOUT SUSAN ELLIOTTAfter a decade as an international whitewater kayak instructor, Susan discovered the hidden world of performing and non-performing notes and their incredible wealth-building potential. Susan thrives on communicating intimidating and detailed plans to anyone. She accredits this skill to years as an adventure guide and a river restoration engineer. From presenting an exact financial model to leading a team down a remote river canyon, she seeks to connect with individuals in a way that helps them realize their strengths. Today, she helps connect investors with amplified returns through note partnerships and investments so they never have to become a landlord. Susan also co-manages a suite of short-term rental properties in the epic Columbia River Gorge. CONNECT WITH SUSANWebsite: Goodegg InvestmentsInstagram: @sheseeksflow CONNECT WITH US To connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook. To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club. Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)-- Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

Why financial anxiety persists despite having a stable jobWhat is a river engineer?Non-performing notes: What they are and their advantagesPractical tips for first-time real estate investorsPros and cons of real estate syndicationsImportance of daily meditation The Life & Money Show Spotlight:Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now? Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONEDLoopNetRedfinZillowHomeschooling: Prepare Your Children for Their FutureAmerican WhitewaterWaking Up | App Store and Play Store ABOUT SUSAN ELLIOTTAfter a decade as an international whitewater kayak instructor, Susan discovered the hidden world of performing and non-performing notes and their incredible wealth-building potential. Susan thrives on communicating intimidating and detailed plans to anyone. She accredits this skill to years as an adventure guide and a river restoration engineer. From presenting an exact financial model to leading a team down a remote river canyon, she seeks to connect with individuals in a way that helps them realize their strengths.Today, she helps connect investors with amplified returns through note partnerships and investments, so they never have to become a landlord. Susan also co-manages a suite of short-term rental properties in the epic Columbia River Gorge. CONNECT WITH SUSANWebsite: Goodegg InvestmentsInstagram: @sheseeksflow CONNECT WITH USTo connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook.To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club.Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)--Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

April 20 is Chinese Language Day but perhaps more importantly, 4/20 is also Lima Bean Respect Day, National Banana Day, and National Cheddar Fries Day. Is there anything else that signifies this day? While you ponder that question, I’ll tell you that this is Charlottesville Community Engagement, a program back from a brief break and ready to get going with another year of information as it flows. On today’s program:Charlottesville City Council gets an update on what environmental staff are doing to plan for climate actionFatalities on Virginia roads reached a 14-year high in 2021Andy Parker concedes in the 5th District race to be the Democratic nomineePaul Goldman explains in writing to a federal judge why he thinks a House of Delegates race must be run this year And the Virginia House of Finance advances a bill to provide a three month period where fuel haulers would not have to pay a tax to the state of Virginia First shout-out goes to the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority for e-waste collection dayIn today’s first subscriber supported public service announcement, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority wants you to know about Electronic Waste Collection Day coming up on April 23, 2022. Residents of both Albemarle County and Charlottesville have the opportunity to drop off old electronics from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ivy Material Utilization Center. Permissible items include computers, printers, VCRs, stereos and televisions and people can dispose of up to ten items. Only two tube-style monitors or televisions per person! You must register in advance online where you will be give a time slot. Registration is limited to 110 people per hour. Visit rivanna.org for more information.Crashes reached 14-year high in Virginia in 2021Nine hundred and sixty-eight people died on Virginia roads last year. That’s the highest number in 14 years, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Fatalities were up in several categories including speed-related crashes, pedestrians, motorcyclists, young drivers, and bicyclists. The acting commissioner of the DMV is urging people to slow down, wear seat belts, and avoid distractions. “Vehicles and roadways are safer than they ever have been, yet we continue to lose lives to senseless crashes,” said Linda Ford, who is also Governor Glenn Youngkin’s highway safety representative. “Do your part to help.”Last year’s numbers in Virginia are part of a national trend toward higher fatalities in 2021 when over 31,000 people died across the United States in the first nine months. The full data for the whole country will be available later this year. 2022 might be worse than 2021. So far this year, 245 people have been killed on Virginia roadways, which is a 12 percent increase over last year. Parker concedes Democratic nomination to ThroneburgA candidate who failed to get a thousand signatures to be on the Democratic ballot in the June 21 primary has conceded to the only one who met that threshold. Andy Parker made his announcement via Twitter on Monday.“I was looking forward to a spirited primary and campaign against [incumbent Bob] Good but did not meet the technical requirements to be on the primary ballot,” Parker wrote in the tweet. Parker’s daughter was murdered on live television while doing a report from Smith Mountain Lake in 2015, along with her colleague. The default nominee, Josh Throneburg, noted this in his statement on Parker’s concession. "Andy is a person who rose from the ashes of his tragic personal loss and dedicated himself to a life of public service,” Throneburg wrote in a statement. “He was a tireless advocate who wanted to shield other families from the terrible grief he experienced, and I know his mission doesn’t end with this race.” First-term incumbent Bob Good faces Dan Moy in the Republican convention to be held on May 21 at Hampden Sydney College in Prince Edward County. That’s right in the middle of the new Fifth District as drawn by two Special Masters appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court last year to complete the redistricting process. Goldman files new motion arguing for oral arguments in suit to force 2022 Delegate electionWhen the statewide primary is held on June 21, will there be candidates for the House of Delegates on the ballot? Richmond attorney Paul Goldman hopes so and filed a new document on Monday arguing why Judge David Novak should not dismiss the case. To recap, Goldman filed suit against the Virginia Board of Elections last year asserting that their certification of the 2021 election was unlawful because the districts were based on the 2010 Census. Goldman argues that action violates the principle of “one person, one vote” because some legislative districts are much larger than others. “The old House District 87 ranked as the most populated with 130,192 inhabitants,” Goldman writes on page seven. “Old House District 75 ranked as the least populated with 67,404 inhabitants.” The response goes into detail in its claim that this deviation is unconstitutional and deserves a remedy in the form of an election this year based on the new districts. At heart, Goldman argues that none of the current members of the House of Delegates are in legally valid districts, citing the Cosner v. Dalton case that forced a House of Delegates race in 1982. (learn more on Wikipedia)Virginia’s Solicitor General has until April 25 to respond to Goldman’s response. Second shout-out goes to a Charlottesville Jazz Society event this weekendIn today’s second subscriber-supported shout-out, the Charlottesville Jazz Society is partnering with the Front Porch and the Tom Tom Festival to host musician Joel Harrison and Free Country this upcoming Saturday. The free show will feature the guitarist, composer, and vocalist with the touring band of Adam Larrabee on guitar, Stephan Crump on bass, and Jordan Perlson on drums. The timeless, haunting melodies of this music anchor the flights of improvisation that the band creates anew every night. The tour is funded in part by South Arts through the auspices of the Doris Duke Fund and the Jazz Road initiative. For more information, visit frontporchcville.org! Charlottesville City Council briefed on climate actionEarlier this year, the nonprofit group Community Climate Collaborative waged a campaign to get Charlottesville City Council to push staff toward meeting the city’s greenhouse gas emission goals. On July 1, 2019, Council adopted a goal of reducing community-wide gas emissions by 45 percent of 2011 levels by 2030, and to be carbon neutral by 2050. Council had an hour-long work session on the issue on Monday. Kristel Riddervold, the city’s environmental sustainability and facilities development manager, led off the discussion.“The city of Charlottesville has had an active climate program since 2007 when it committed to reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions by joining the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement,” Riddervold said. (watch the update)Riddervold said the City reaffirmed that commitment by also joining the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, which offers resources for both reduction of gasses and adaptation to changing weather patterns. “We use the terms climate action to be the umbrella for both of these areas of focus,” Riddervold said. The presentation covered what work has been underway since the July 2019 goal was endorsed by Council. Riddervold said there have been stumbling blocks to preparing a specific climate action plan, and that includes the adoption of a new Comprehensive Plan. She also said going through several city managers during that time has been an issue, as has been the loss of top management in city government.“I for example have been serving not only as the environmental sustainability manager, but also since mid-2018, the facilities development manager, and have been pulled into a variety of roles and responsibilities,” Riddervold said. The city is currently taking applications for a climate program specialist to assist with planning and action. The job closes April 29, if you know of anyone. “What we are looking at now is a reboot of focused effort to bring this process back on the rails and to get back on the same page,” Riddervold said. Riddervold acknowledged the frustration on the part of climate groups and she asked for their support going forward.Susan Elliott, the city’s climate protection manager, said a climate hazard assessment is complete, a climate vulnerability assessment is underway, and the adaptation plan will be ready for review next year.“In parallel with these planning activities on these two tracks, we are also still delivering a program aimed at supporting and achieving greenhouse gas emissions across our community,” Elliot said. “What we have seen when we look at our emissions community-wide is that approximately 95 percent of emissions are coming from the community outside of our local government control and about five percent are from our municipal operations.” About 30 percent comes from residential, 30 percent comes from transportation, and 30 percent comes from commercial uses. That will inform where government resources will go. “This includes supporting and funding energy efficiency improvements including hundreds of home energy assessments annually, helping to find gap fill measures so that our low-income houses are as eligible for as many utility-funded programs as possible, providing EnergySmart home rebates, [and] the Commercial and Clean Energy Loan Fund,” Elliott said.Other recent initiatives:This month, the city hired CMTA Energy Solutions to review public buildings to see how energy and water usage could be reduced (press release)Charlottesville Area Transit is conducting a study of how vehicles might transition to alternative fuels Charlottesville participated in an urban heat island study last summer (press release)Lower occupancy in city buildings due to the pandemic lead to less water and energy use (press release)This morning, the city also released two public surveys to help inform future planning efforts. One is a climate action survey and the other is a climate vulnerability survey. Both will close on May 20. Youngkin’s bill to temporarily eliminate gas tax advances The Virginia General Assembly is in special session but have not had much action. Yesterday, the House of Delegates Finance Committee heard testimony of a bill sent down from Governor Glenn Youngkin that would waive the state motor fuel tax from May 1 to July 31. “The purpose for this bill is to help cut the cost for Virginia families and fight the price of gasoline that has increased 48 percent in the last 12 months,” said Delegate Tara Durant (R-28). “This uses unanticipated transportation revenues to provide Virginians much needed tax relief.”Under the bill, the tax would be restored to half-strength in August and September before going back to normal in October. Speaking to the bill, Transportation Secretary Shep Miller talked about its fiscal impact. “The revenue impact for the FY22-24 budget that I am responsible for is about $470 million,” Miller said. “That’s about a 12 percent reduction in the motor fuels over the 26 month period in question. The total [Commonwealth Transportation Fund] collections during that same period is about $14 billion. So this represents about a three percent reduction in the CTF collections during that period.”Democrats are skeptical that any of the reduction in the tax will translate to lower prices at the pump because consumers don’t actually pay the tax. Here’s Delegate Vivian Watts (D-39).“I wanted to make sure that the patron was aware that the gas tax is collected when the tanker truck fills up,” Watts said. “There’s no guarantee at all that when I fill up my tank that if there’s no gas tax charged that I’m going to benefit from this.” Delegate Sally Hudson (D-57) said many in the state want to invest more in transportation. “When I hear from Virginians, I hear them tell me that they think our transportation infrastructure or even behind, that the roads are too crowded, their commutes are too long, the buses are infrequent and unreliable,” Hudson said. “We have nothing approaching modern commuter trains.” Durant said no existing projects would be cut, but this would just lower the amount of funds available in exchange for tax relief. Testimony against the bill came from Virginians for Better Transportation, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Virginians for High Speed Rail, the Old Dominion Highway Contractors Association, the New Virginia Majority, the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Commonwealth Institute, and the Virginia Association for Commercial Real Estate“This coalition includes some pretty strange bedfellows,” said Trip Pollard of the Southern Environmental Law Center. Testimony in favor of the bill came from a series of individuals representing small businesses or speaking to their own pain.“I’d rather spend the money than have the government spend the money,” said Colonel Courtney Whitney, who served in the Youngkin campaign. Democrats on the committee sought to introduce a substitute that would issue a direct tax relief to Virginians for each registered motor vehicle, but the effort failed. On voice vote, the motion to advance the bill passed and it will now move to the House Appropriations Committee. No meetings are currently scheduled. Support Town Crier Productions through Ting!Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. If you decide to proceed to make the switch, you’ll get:Free installationSecond month of Ting service for freeA $75 gift card to the Downtown MallAdditionally, Ting will match your Substack subscription to support Town Crier Productions, the company that produces this newsletter and other community offerings. So, your $5 a month subscription yields $5 for TCP. Your $50 a year subscription yields $50 for TCP! The same goes for a $200 a year subscription! All goes to cover the costs of getting this newsletter out as often as possible. Learn more here! This is a public episode. 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February 15, 2022 - Join us for the second edition in our Global View series, a discussion with Yale University Elihu Professor of History Odd Arne Westad on the subject of his book Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations, hosted jointly with the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP). The discussion is moderated by Korea Society Board Chair Ambassador (ret.) Kathleen Stephens, and introductions are provided by NCAFP president and CEO Ambassador (ret.) Susan Elliott and Korea Society president and CEO Tom Byrne. This program will be live webcast for a virtual audience. Please RSVP to receive the viewing link by clicking the button below. There will also be a limited in-person audience by invitation only. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/item/1553-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations

Today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out is for the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Campaign, an initiative that wants you to grow native plants in yards, farms, public spaces and gardens in the northern Piedmont. The leaves have started to fall as autumn set in, and as they do, this is a good time to begin planning for the spring. Native plants provide habitat, food sources for wildlife, ecosystem resiliency in the face of climate change, and clean water.  Start at the Plant Northern Piedmont Natives Facebook page and tell them Lonnie Murray sent you!On today’s show:Charlottesville City Manager resigns, citing personal and professional attacks from Nikuyah WalkerThe Charlottesville Economic Development Authority reauthorizes a performance agreement with the Piedmont Housing Alliance for the redevelopment of Friendship CourtCharlottesville moving forward with planning for climate adaptation The Charlottesville Economic Development Authority has reauthorized a performance agreement with the Piedmont Housing Alliance for a loan for the redevelopment of Friendship Court. Piedmont Housing Alliance would pay the money back through the incremental tax revenue the city would get from a more intense residential development. Here’s Economic Development Director Chris Engel. (staff report)“Typically, our performance agreements are done to encourage business development, job creation, capital investment that creates office space or an industrial building,” Engel said. “In this case, the public good if you will is the rehabilitation and addition of not public housing, but affordable housing that would be owned and managed on a long term basis by the Piedmont Housing Alliance.” The city is currently considering using this tool to finance improvements to Stribling Avenue. This is also the same mechanism that was proposed by the owner of the skeleton Landmark hotel. In this case, the 11.75 acre property is assessed at $8.185 million this year, which yields $77,714 in property taxes for the city. When the first phase of redevelopment is completed, the value is projected to be over $20 million, which Engel said would bring in an additional $190,000. Piedmont Housing Alliance would get that increase through a transfer from the Economic Development authority. “This is a very complicated, complex deal to get this to all come together,” Engel said.This is separate from the nearly $16 million in capital funds city taxpayers will contribute to all four phases of redevelopment. Under this agreement, Piedmont Housing Alliance would collect the funding up to $6 million.“There’s not a profit making opportunity here for anybody but it’s an opportunity to see additional affordable housing added to the city again and an old site that needs rehabilitation,” Engel said. The EDA approved the reauthorization with little debate. The original agreement was written up by former city attorney John Blair before he became the acting city manager after former city manager Tarron Richardson resigned. Engel said the Piedmont Housing Alliance is ready to begin construction. Their website has not been updated with information about redevelopment since last October when a December start-date for construction was expected. More information as it comes in. Charlottesville’s efforts to create a Climate Adaptation Plan move forward this month with a community forum to get input on potential threats from more extreme weather patterns. The October 25 event will be the first steps for the city to complete a Climate Vulnerability Assessment. “As part of the city’s climate action effort, it has committed to developing a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to prepare and respond to our changing climate,” said Susan Elliott, the city’s climate protection program manager..Participants are being asked to review a webinar recorded on October 7 where representatives from ICLEI described Charlottesville’s projected climate hazards and gave an overview of the process. Another pre-forum webinar will be held on October 15. (register) The Community Forum on October 25 will begin at 5:30 p.m. (register)Charlottesville City Council will have to appoint someone to serve as City Manager as of Monday, November 1. The five-member elected body held an emergency closed session Tuesday afternoon to discuss “Urgent Personnel Matters.” “I move that we accept the resignation of Chip Boyles, effective October 29, 2021 per the letter that he has sent to Council,” said City Councilor Heather Hill as she read a motion coming back from closed session. Council voted 5-0 to accept the resignation, but there was no sense of who would take over as city manager. There are two deputy city managers who were hired by Boyles, both of whom have a collective tenure of seven months. Ashley Marshall has been Deputy City Manager for Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion since May and Sam Sanders has been Deputy City Manager for Operations since August. Before we get back to Boyles, there was also news of another person leaving city government. In an earlier motion, Hill disclosed the departure of the city’s Information Technology department, Sunny Hwang. He’s served in that position since September 2018 according to his LinkedIn profile, which has not yet been updated. There are also vacancies at the tops of the parks department and the public works department. Back to Boyles. Boyles was hired in January to replace John Blair, who served as interim city manager after Dr. Tarron Richardson resigned in September. In his resignation letter, Boyles said he had been hired to help the organization get back on its feet after a “time of turbulence and organizational instability.” “This success was disrupted with my decision to to change the leadership of the City Police Department,” Boyles wrote. “I continue to support my decision taken on this matter, but the vitriol associated with this decision of a few vocal community members and the broken relationship with Mayor Walker have severely limited my ability to be productive towards the goals of City Council.”Boyles said personal and professional attacks from Walker and others were beginning to hurt his mental health. He resigned to protect himself and his family. To recap, Boyles terminated the contract of Chief RaShall Brackney on September 1, 2021, triggering a ferocious outcry from Walker. She spent much of the September 7 meeting using her privileges as Mayor to force a conversation about the topic. For context, go back and listen to the September 8 edition of this newsletter. The soundbites for the read of the newsletter today come from the October 4, 2021 meeting of Council, and the last hour or so of the meeting. The agenda listed a formal discussion of the matter at the conclusion of other business. Boyles defended his decision, which was his alone to make under the city’s charter. Boyles’ explanationBoyles said Brackney had moved the department toward being a more just and fair system, but said surveys conducted by the Police Benevolent Association indicated low morale.“It became to me evident that some type of change needed to be made that while we had been making strides in one area, the implementation into the department itself was in jeopardy,” Boyles said. That soundbite comes from about an 11 minute explanation that Boyles gave. For some more background, I refer you to the August 20 “response from the city” to those PBA surveys. The statement also describes the resignations of two members of the SWAT team and the termination of a third. (read the statement)What followed were questions from the rest of the Council. Councilor Michael Payne said he was concerned about the timing of the incident.“It has to be stated that, one, the PBA is an organization that is one that is not friendly to reform,” Payne said. “Those organizations across the country are not friendly to officers being disciplined and held accountable for mistreatment.” Vice Mayor Sena Magill said she wanted Boyles to write down his vision for the city.“I have seen the team that you are building in City Hall and I believe that you are focused on a team that wants to bring Charlottesville into 21st century practices on a lot of things including a teamwork environment,” Magill said.Councilor Heather Hill.“We’re not condoning any of the behaviors that were rightfully dealt with in the police department and that we are committed to a very way of policing in the city of Charlottesville,” Hill said. In his comments on October 4, Councilor Lloyd Snook referred to a closed session from mid August after the disciplinary actions described in the statement were made. “When Chief Brackney explained to use in closed session on August 16 I believe it was what the evidence was of the SWAT team officers conduct, showed us a few snippets of video,” Snook said. “Every Councilor in the room, every senior management person in the room was satisfied with the chief’s decision.”Snook said the City Manager has the right and power to fire the police chief.“The only issue for us quite frankly is whether we fire the city manager for firing the police chief,” Snook said. On October 4, Snook said the answer was no.But for Mayor Nikuyah Walker, the answer was not no. Walker’s cross-examinationWalker used her time to ask Boyles a series of pointed questions, including this one about internal surveys. “How did you arrive from looking at the survey that the Chief was the issue based on those surveys,” Walker asked.“Most of the survey was built around the command staff and answers were regarding the individual command staff but it was just an overall leadership from both the questions that were included in the survey and then the chance for the officers to comment,” Boyles said. Let’s skip ahead a little to another section.“So these issues arose and you didn’t afford her a conversation to talk with her about the issues that you had come to learn and create a plan with her to rectify those issues,” Walker said.“I did,” Boyles said. “And one of our meetings after a lot of this started becoming evident, I asked her about preparing a plan to try to address some of these items. The response was that a plan wasn’t needed and what did I have in mind to put into a plan.”Boyles said that was not his area of expertise. Let’s skip ahead. Walker quoted from the September 17 op-ed Boyles wrote for the Daily Progress.“So, in the immediacy of the decision in the op-ed piece that you wrote that the CPD was ‘gripped in chaos’,” Walker said.“Yes, it was my understanding that some of the leadership positions were not going to be staying if Chief Brackney were staying,” Boyles said. This line of questioning continued. Walker said her information said only two of six members of the command staff were set to leave. “So, you consider two of six people to be chaos?” Walker said. “No, I think it extends beyond,” Boyles said. “It’s the statements from the survey of people looking for other jobs, wanting to be out of the police department. There is no smoking gun in this.”Walker went through many of the comments and read through them out loud. She also wanted to pin down Boyles on what conversations he had with regional leaders about policing issues. Boyles said those were conversations were private and in confidence.“Okay, Chip, so since all of these people are secretive and you think that’s okay, because what you want us to do on whether or not you want to stay here or not based on some random conversations we had without talking to you about?” Walker asked.”That’s a decision you all will make,” Boyles said. “As I stated earlier, I’m here to fulfil the direction of Council. I took this job knowing. I think I’ve even stated for me there’s a job evaluation every other meeting. I accept that.”The questioning continued. At one point, there was to have been a press conference after the release of the August 20 statement.“And then, Chief Brackney arrived at a meeting, right, Chip? And you had changed course by that time that there’s no longer going to be a press conference,” Walker said.“Yes,” Boyles responded. “We had a disagreement over wanting to show the videos that you all saw in your closed session.” A little later on in the cross-examination, Councilor Hill brought a specific incident related to how former Police Chief Brackney responded to feedback. Go back to the tape to learn more about that but Walker asked Hill to read the email in question. “Okay, do you want to pull that email up?” Walker asked“I’m happy to find it, but I don’t think it’s necessary right now,” Hill said. “I’m just saying you are trying to pick specific examples. I don’t want to go down this path with you.”“I’m not,” Walker said, her voice rising. “I was open to whatever you all presented. I asked and allowed you all you to talk first because I’m just trying…”“We were trying to be respectful,” Hill said. “Excuse me?” Walker asked.“We were trying to be respectful of the process,” Hill said. “This is not the appropriate forum to get into all of this.”“You were not trying to be respectful of any process,” Walker said. “I have been on this Council and I know how you operate.”“I’d like for us to move on,” Hlll said. The conversation went back to that meeting after the August 20 press release. Boyles explained the dynamic that was leading him to make a decision. “That meeting was a good indication similar to what Councilor Hill was just talking about when we began to disagree over the videos and other issues, Chief Brackney just left the meeting which again gave me concern of being able to work with that type of interaction, with that type of relationship,” Boyles said. Boyles acknowledged that Brackney had told him that she had felt targeted by members of the community as well as internally. “My knowledge of that comes from what she’s told me and I certainly believe it to be true,” Boyles said. Walker was clear she was not going to let Boyles forget his decision to terminate Brackney. “I can go on about every city manager that has been here, and you are never going to, I told you this, Chip,” Walker said. “You’re never going to live past this decision.”Soon after, Walker quoted from the book White Rage to make part of her point and chastised her fellow Councilors for trying to control her.“Have I made 100 percent of the right decisions?” Walker asked. “No. Have you all made 100 percent of the right decisions? No. You haven’t. But again, your white gaze gets to determine who wins in a situation like this.”Earlier this year, Walker wrestled with whether to seek a second term before announcing in May she would be a candidate. She withdrew from the race on September 8, citing the racism of her fellow Councilors. Walker raised no campaign funds this year. The conversation on October 4 continued, and the rest of the discussion is available to watch.  Now it’s perhaps a better use of our time to think ahead to Council’s next meeting on October 18, as well as the four regular meetings of the year. Two new Councilors will join in January when Walker and Hill’s terms are up. Who will be the city manager? Who will be mayor? Who will be running the city This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Susan Elliott. Susan loves helping women build wealth and get more time back with real estate investing. After a decade spent as a whitewater kayak guide and Engineer, she had her own financial breakthrough that led her to real estate investing and inspired her to build a business that helps others access these opportunities without being landlords. Susan is committed to helping others build multiple income streams, and live life the way they want to live it.   Susan and I dish on:   The need for financial literacy and financial stability to expand our businesses Investing in mortgage notes as a strategy to build wealth and serve the world Why partnering with someone well acquainted with this field is vital to your success How to be in your feminine while navigating a male dominated field of business like Real Estate Investing   Purchase your copy of Love Based Feminine Marketing: The Art of Growing a 6-Figure Business Without Hustle, Grind, or Force, TODAY!!!   Subscribe now so you'll never miss an episode and leave us a review. It really helps us know which content is most important to you.   Join our Feminine Marketing Magic Facebook Group  with your host, Julie Foucht. This is a community of women dedicated to connect, support and celebrate each other in growing businesses that honor their Divine Feminine and will their bank accounts abundantly   Resources mentioned:   Purchase Love-Based Feminine Marketing    The Goddess Network of Investors   Susan's Free Gift: Field Guide to Note Investing can be grabbed here. **Contact Susan Elliott via Facebook or https://flowstateinvesting.com/**   **Connect with Julie Foucht via Facebook or email at https://juliefoucht.com/**

What are some ways to diversify? If you are wanting mailbox money and love the syndication model, you might want to look at new ways to diversify and create faster high returns. Susan Elliot breaks down a great strategy. flowstateinvesting.com

What a cool concept to be able to help people from losing their homes while also creating passive income quickly without having to worry about toilets, tenants, termites, cabinets, rehab or remodels. This is mailbox money the way banks themselves creative explosive wealth. flowstateinvesting.com

After a decade spent as a whitewater kayak instructor, raft guide, and adventure traveler, Susan found real estate investing, specifically Non-Performing and Performing Notes. She immediately saw the potential to rapidly accelerate her toward her full-time adventure family goals. She also loves that Note Investing allows her to help keep people in their homes. Of course, it took grinding away as a landlord and short-term rental property manager for her to see the light (the light of no tenants, toilets, or termites).With her partners at Flow State Investing, Susan targets Non- Performing note assets that have the potential to re-perform, helping homeowners stay in their homes, and providing the highest returns for her partnership. Susan guides investors in this process, focusing on education, communication, and community. She helps others find their financial flow. Once a guide, always a guide.She thrives on communicating intimidating and detailed concepts to anyone. She accredits this skill to years working as an adventure guide as well as a Water Resource Engineer. From creating and sharing a detailed financial model to leading a team down a remote river canyon, she seeks to connect with individuals in ways that help them get their money working harder - so they can get out.What we discussed:Why is real estate investing less work than being a landlord?What is note investing?What is more valuable time or money?What an abundance mindset means.How white water rafting is an analogy to life.What she learned from paddling the world's toughest rivers.What her fitness regimen is.What does flow state mean?To learn about real estate notes:https://flowstateinvesting.com/field-guide/To contact Susan Elliot go to...https://flowstateinvesting.comFor more information go to...https://linktr.ee/rebeccaewhitmanTo learn where you are in/out of BALANCE, take this FREE quiz:https://newyearnewyousummit.com/quiz​​

Having a healthy relationship with nature has benefits to our careers and well-being. This is what Susan Elliott will talk about in this episode. Susan's story begins with a decade of traveling to rivers all over the world as a river guide and elite whitewater kayaker. While prioritizing epic experiences and building the international community, she failed to acknowledge the importance of financial security. She then became a River Restoration Engineer and a landlord but still did not find the freedom and financial confidence she knew was essential to living the adventurous life she wanted for her family. She then discovered Note Investing and the flexibility, risk mitigation, and positive impact potential that came with it. She founded Flow State Investing and helps to create wealth for her investors, her team, and the homeowners she works with.  In today's episode, Susan shares how she is impacting people's lives through note investing and the significance of the human-nature relationship. [00:01 - 08:01] Opening Segment We introduce Susan to the showSusan's backgroundHow she started in real estate investingHaving an abundance mindset[08:02 - 18:31] Impacting People's Lives Through Note Investing   Susan talks about note investingHelping people deal with financial anxietyImpacting people's livesWomen empowerment in real estate investingAdvantages of being in an all-women spaceGrowing confidenceDiversification in the workspace[18:32 - 25:01] The Human-Nature RelationshipWhy the human-nature relationship is importantWorking with natural forcesSusan on teaching KayakingWhat Susan loves about the real estate industryThe human aspect of real estate investing[25:02 - 32:21] Closing SegmentSusan answers the Adventurous FourHow you can connect with SusanMemorable Quote:“That moment in someone's life where they have a home, and they're able to keep it, ripples into future generations, too, for generational wealth. It is a very important moment in someone's financial life to be able to keep their home for their own stability and comfort level into retirement… It's a pivotal moment for someone's life.”  - Susan ElliottConnect with Susan via her email, Instagram, and LinkedIn!Resources mentioned:Flow State InvestingFlow State Investing on InstagramFlow State Investing on FacebookFlow State Investing on LinkedIn--Until next time...Explore More. Adventure Awaits.Please subscribe and leave an honest review. We would truly appreciate it.How do you want to create an impact in your world?Check out Adventurous REI and our social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.Michael on LinkedInSuzy on LinkedIn   Invest with us! Start here. 

There are many ways you can diversify your investment portfolio in real estate. And, among them is through notes investing. In this episode, we speak to Susan Elliott of Flow State Investing and she elaborates how note investing can be a good option for you to build financial stability.Before discussing notes investing, Susan tells us about her unique background. She shares her experience of paddling whitewater rivers all over the world and becoming a real estate investor. Susan details how she found out about note investing and how she is helping investors add notes to their portfolios to build wealth. Susan describes notes investing as the lending side of real estate. She says it is a good way to grow your savings and be able to put it into a hard asset. She tells us how note investing is also about helping a family's home not to be foreclosed. Click the play button now and find out how you can start investing in notes!

Susan Elliot, CMO of Flow State Investing, joins us to discuss her journey into real estate investing, an overview of Note Investing, and much more. Connect with Susan at https://flowstateinvesting.com/      

Join Daniel Nickles and Chris Thompson with their guest Susan Elliott of Flowstate Investing. They talk about what notes are, note investing, performing and non-performing notes, and how notes greatly diversify investing strategies. In this episode, Susan shares how her expertise with kayaking equipped her with skills she was able to transfer to real estate investing. Particularly with notes –a niche that has helped her team discretely provide impact and value to persons and families. Where buyers struggle to pay their mortgage, Flowstate Investing comes in to purchase notes, refinancing strategies, restructure payment plans, etc. For Susan, being a notes investor is almost like being a bank. In this episode you will learn: From river engineering to real estate note investing. How my former role helped me with real estate – on skills and nature. What is a note, and why note investing? The pros and cons of note investing. What to expect when investing in notes. About Susan Elliott: After a decade spent as an international whitewater kayak instructor, Susan discovered the hidden world of Performing and Non-Performing Notes and their incredible wealth-building potential. With Flow State Investing, she helps other investors get more time back and build passive cash flow to pursue their bucket list instead of the next rung in the career ladder. Susan thrives on communicating intimidating and detailed plans to anyone. She accredits this skill to years working as an adventure guide as well as a River Restoration Engineer. From presenting a detailed financial model to leading a team down a remote river canyon, she seeks to connect with individuals in a way that helps them realize their own strengths. Today, she helps connect investors with amplified returns through Note partnerships and investments so that they never have to become a landlord (a role she also currently plays and is strategizing her exit plan). Susan also co-manages a suite of Short Term Rental properties in the epic Columbia River Gorge.   Connect with Susan Elliott on: Website:              https://flowstateinvesting.com/ LinkedIn:             https://www.linkedin.com/company/flow-state-investing/ Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/flowstateinvesting                                 https://www.facebook.com/smhollings Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/flow.state.investing/ https://www.instagram.com/sheseeksflow/ Email:       susan@flowstateinvesting.com   Connect with Two Smart Assets on:   Website:              https://twosmartassets.com/ Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/TwoSmartAssets/ Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/twosmartassets/ YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5b8x2o3ByaPBcz5Lkev7uw   ✅Check out our free apartment syndication sample deal: https://twosmartassets.com/sample-deal-form  

Travel Writer Susan Elliott recently went on what she describes as "the most amazing journey at night you'll remember forever!" - plus she reckons the coldest thing you will experience is the glass of champagne in your hand while heading south towards Antarctica and the Aurora Australis 'Southern Lights'.

Susan Elliott and Jenn Sanford join Deirdre and Kathleen to talk about being conservative in 2021. What do you do when the party no longer represents you? What do you do when it no longer represents the majority of Canadians? You start a podcast, guest on podcasts, of course :) Early access and uncensored episodes available on patreon at politicalRnD.

Note investing is considered the secret realm of real estate, which is all about earning money by dabbling into the industry's paperwork. In today's world, where passive income starts to gain a lot of importance, what can you do to start involving yourself in this flourishing field? Lisa Hylton brings Susan Elliott of Flow State Investing to share the most important strategies in note investing, particularly with non-performing ones. She discusses how to make the best returns out of such deals even without guarantees, the right way to assess non-performing notes, how it can diversify your portfolios, and which type of investor is the best to partner with. Susan also shares how they bring opportunities to many people in note investing through their work at Flow State Investing, where she serves as its CMO.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Level Up REI Podcast Community today:lisahylton.comTwitterInstagramFacebookLinkedInYouTube

Intrepid travel writer Susan Elliott chased the Aurora Australis

In this show...+ 01'58" - WANNA SEE THE OUTBACK BY AIR? - Susan Elliott, Travel WriterHave you always wanted to see the great outback of Australia but don't have the time or suitable driving skills or a 4WD for the journey? Then you just might enjoy one of several trips with 'Outback By Air'... plus you might even get to sit next to cricket legend Glenn McGrath, co-owner of 'Outback By Air'!. https://outbackbyair.com.au/To find out what it's all about we spoke with longtime friend and Travel Writer Susan Elliott whose article in the Feb/Mar '21 issue of Outback Magazine details even more...https://www.outbackmag.com.au/+ 12'14" - DREAM WEAVER - Dave Kirk"Follow your dreams!..." That's exactly what Dave Kirk reckons is the 'secret' to a happy life - and that's just what he's done too.We met Dave & his lovely wife Marie at the Cool Waters Caravan Park in Cairns FNQ. Kaye was out walking one afternoon and heard someone playing guitar - pretty well as it happens!...Given her curiosity and love of music she went and checked it out and the rest of the story is in this podcast with Dave. From 'hitting the road' at the tender age of 14 to writing and recording several CD's Dave has an awesome story to tell.+ 20'33" - HOTSEAT PRACTICE SESSION / AUSSIE TRIVIA…. Do you reckon you could win a million dollars on Eddie McGuire's Millionaire Hotseat seen on CH9 every day?... Well we've created the Hotseat Practice Session just for you… here's our question… with four options.+ 21'13" -ONE LAZY SUNDAY - Glenn & Kelly WarrenYou never know who you'll meet on the road or what they are doing unless you ask right?... And on one of our early trips heading north when we thought we'd caught up with the famous 'blonde nomads'!... we were WRONG!!... but Glen & Kelly Warren and their 4 gorgeous kids have another equally fascinating story about their passion for caravanning which they've now turned into a successful business called One Lazy Sunday…+ 27'35" - ALL ABOUT GLENROWAN CARAVAN PARK - Kylie Cleal Although we're currently travelling full-time, when we started getting ourselves ready for this on-going adventure we purposely started to check out some of the more interesting places to stay. Sometimes it's a showground or Free Camp somewhere and at other times a caravan park.Like the one at Glenrowan – the Glenrowan Tourist park – just 2 Km's off the Hume highway about 2 hours from Melbourne – But what's special about this park is where it's located… Glenrowan. Famous for being the place of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand! – Brian managed to sit down with the park manager Kylie Cleal to find out more...+ 33'44" - HOTSEAT PRACTICE SESSION AnswerDid you pick the right answer??

Have you always wanted to see the great outback of Australia but don't have the time or suitable driving skills or a 4WD for the journey? Then you just might enjoy one of several trips with 'Outback By Air'... plus you might even get to sit next to cricket legend Glenn McGrath, co-owner of 'Outback By Air'!.To find out what it's all about we spoke with longtime friend and Travel Writer Susan Elliott whose article in the Feb/Mar '21 issue of Outback Magazine details even more...

Susan Elliott-Bocassi currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Brighter Children funding schools in Kenya, Honduras, Colombia and India. Prior to this, Susan served as Vice President – General Manager at Bluestem Brands where she grew e-commerce and turned around a down trending business. She began her career at Warner Bros. and has held various planning and merchandising roles at Casual Male, J.Jill and Federated Merchandising Group. Susan holds an MBA from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts. She resides in Greenwich, CT (her hometown) with her wife and children. Listen along as she talks about how she fell into the nonprofit sector, and what she's learned in her career.

Do you still have some Holiday shopping to do? Today’s Patreon-fueled shout out is for you to check out a curated gift guide from local Charlottesville Black-owned businesses. There’s all kinds of possibilities, such as crafts and gifts from The Hive as well as skin care products from North Shea. Find out more in the link in the newsletter.In today’s show:Virginia’s Electors confirm the Commonwealth’s vote for President-elect Joe Biden election Charlottesville Planning Commission gets an update on the Cville Plans Together folksCharlottesville is developing a Climate Action PlanA very brief update on Smart ScaleOn the day after the first COVID vaccines were administered in the United States of America, the Virginia Department of Health reports another 3,160 new cases. The seven day average for positive cases is now at 3,654. The seven-day average for positive PCR tests is at 11.2 percent statewide. In the Blue Ridge Health District, there are another 40 cases reported today and the seven-day average is 73 new cases a day. There has been another COVID-related fatality in Nelson County, bringing the total to 85. The University of Virginia will make a final decision by January 15 on whether to return to school for in-person instruction, but are operating under the assumption classes will begin on February 1. UVA Today reports that top officials sent an email to students, staff and faculty notifying them of requirements. *Virginia’s 13 electors cast their vote for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris yesterday in a hearing held on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates. Ellen J. Scott of Manasass was one of them and made these remarks before the official vote. “The afternoon of April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, marked the end of the most divisive era in our nation’s history and the healing began in Virginia,” Scott said. “Though not perfect, and fraught with broken promises, there emerged a people determined to hold America to its espoused and its Constitutional declaration that all men are created equal.” Scott also mentioned the election of the grandson of enslaved people, Doug Wilder, as Virginia’s governor in 1990, as well as Virginia’s vote for Barack Obama in 2008. “Now, Virginia has helped to elect Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris,” Scott said. “Harris, the first woman and the first Black president of the United States. As we exercise our role as electors, let us never forget that we are heeding the words of Lincoln to bind up our nation’s wounds.”The final nationwide electoral count was 302 votes for Biden and Harris and to 232 for the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. * It has been almost a year since the consultant Rhodeside & Harwell was hired to complete Charlottesville’s Comprehensive Plan and create an affordable housing plan. The city’s Planning Commission got an update last week on where the housing plan stands from the project manager of the Cville Plans Together initiative. “We’re revising the plan now and we’ll have a revision in the coming month or so and the plan right now is to have a conversation with Council in January and then hopefully work towards some sort of endorsement by Council of the plan,” said Jennifer Koch of Rhodeside & Harwell. The next step is for Council to be presented with the draft plan early next year. Their endorsement will allow the consultant team to move ahead with revising the Comprehensive Plan to include specific language that will lead the city to implement its principles. For instance, if there is to be more residential density, the plan needs to say so. That in turn will inform the new zoning code that the Cville Plans Together initiative is also intended to deliver. While the public comment period for this revision is closed, you can still review the materials on the Cville Plans Together website. Review and revision of the Comprehensive Plan has been underway since early 2017. In February 2019, Council opted to hire a consultant to finish the work begun by the Planning Commission. Koch said the Cville Plans Together work did not start from scratch. “We are working from draft chapters,” Koch said. “We’re not starting from zero here so the thought is that we don’t want to go back. We want to move forward from where you all left off.”One of the topics discussed by the Commission was the status of a future Land Use Map. “The Comprehensive Plan Land Use chapter contains the Future Land Use Map which incorporates some of the land use goals that are in the plan but also is a long-term strategy for land use in the city,” Koch said. “It often is sort of the basis for some zoning adjustments but the future land use map is also often a longer term vision for land use that zoning may be.”Commissioner Gary Heaton, who was appointed in October 2018, said the University of Virginia’s role needed to be taken into account.“Where the city ends and the University of Virginia begins, our land use map should reflect how we envision the future of the city as it pertains to the effect of the University on the city,” Heaton said. He added that he has been a planning commissioner in other university towns including Blacksburg.“These are places that also have been heavily affected by the University,” Heaton said. “If the city could someone get out in front of there could be ways to address affordable housing.” On March 10, the University of Virginia announced it would build up to 1,500 affordable units on land it or its real estate foundation owns. The topic came up at a meeting of the Regional Housing Partnership last week. Colette Sheehy is the Senior Vice President for Operations at UVA. “We have now restarted that initiative, more probably coming in January, but we are trying to get back on track,” Sheehy said. On Friday, the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the UVA Board of Visitors approved the schematic design for the new School of Data Science on Ivy Road, just to the west of the former site of the Cavalier Inn. It will be the first academic building constructed in the area of the Ivy Road Master Plan. “The four-story facility will include four ‘smart’ classrooms, faculty offices, and a variety of meeting and research areas that will provide essential learning, research, and administrative spaces to support the SDS,” reads the packet for the meeting. “The programs will interface with industry and other external partners in a “corporate commons” providing opportunities for the exchange of ideas.”The current land use map adopted by Council in 2013 depicts the area as “mixed use.” Disagreements about the future land use map are one reason the Comprehensive Plan process stalled and the consultant was hired. A longer version of this story as well as a podcast version will be published later today for paid subscribers, and released to the general public in a few days time. *In October, Charlottesville City Council announced the city would follow Albemarle in writing an action plan to help meet the locality’s climate protection goal. Specifically, the target is to reduce carbon emissions 45 percent by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050. The Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted such a plan on October 8. Last night, the city held the first of two workshops to kick off the creation of the plan. Susan Elliott is Charlottesville’s Climate Protection Manager. She said that in 2017, Council signed off on a statement objecting to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.“This is not the first commitment the city of Charlottesville made,” Elliott said. “The first one was actually the U.S. Mayor’s Agreement on climate back in 2006 which is what spurred the city to create the climate protection program in 2007.”In 2019, Council agreed to a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030, and to be carbon neutral by 2050. There is also a corresponding plan to adapt to changing weather patterns with higher temperatures. “We also heard from the community that they don’t want us to waste time by reinventing the wheel,” Elliott said. “They want us to build on what we’ve done. They want us to build on what their peers have done. They want us to work regionally so that we are building on existing systems for funding, for development, and for cooperation.”Emissions can be traced to residential, commercial and transportation sources. The plan will identify steps to address each. You can watch the recorded webinars on the city’s website. *We’re about a month away from when the Virginia Department of Transportation releasing the scores for the latest round of Smart Scale. Smart Scale is a process where localities submit projects that are then ranked according to a series of metrics. Submissions were due in August. Chad Tucker is with the Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment and he briefed the Commonwealth Transportation Board last week. “It’s been a long six months but we’re almost there, thankfully,” Tucker said. “There are 405 total applications that were submitted by applicants.Fifteen projects were submitted by either Albemarle, Charlottesville or the TJPDC. They are:US 29 and Fontaine Ave Interchange Improvement Hillsdale Drive South Extension - $29.7 million Hydraulic Road and US 29 - $24.6 million107 Park and Ride Lot -  $2.6 millionRt. 29 Shared Use Path - Carrsbrook to Seminole Lane - $6 million Rt. 29/Fray’s Mill/Burnley Station Intersection Improvements-  $9.6 million5th Street Hub and Trails - $6 millionWest Main Streetscape Phase 3 – 8th St NW to Roosevelt Brown Ave - $7.9 million Preston Ave & Grady Ave Intersection Improvement - $6.1 millionEmmet Street Multimodal Phase Two - $4.5 millionRidge Street Multimodal Improvements - $5 millionAccess Management on US 250 East from VA 20 (Stoney Point Rd) east to Hanson Rd - $11 millionRio Rd/John Warner Parkway improvements Old Lynchburg Rd./5th St. Ext. /County Office Bldg. Intersection Improvements; Albemarle - $8.5 millionRt. 20/53 Intersection Improvements - $7.5MThe Commonwealth Transportation Board will meet again at 9 a.m. on Friday. (agenda)*Tonight, the Albemarle Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposal to redevelop the Red Carpet Inn on U.S. 29 as a mixed-use development with commercial space and in between 80 and 140 units. In the meantime, the existing rooms in the hotel would be used as transitional housing operated by the Thomas Jefferson Coalition for the Homeless (TJACH). For this to work, the project needs a rezoning of a 3.75 acre property.In other meetings:Charlottesville’s Parking Advisory Panel meets at 3:30 p.m. (meeting info)Albemarle Economic Development Authority meets at 4 p.m. (meeting info)Charlottesville’s Sister Cities Commission meets at 4:30 p.m. Last week, City Council agreed to pursue a friendship with Huehuetenango, a city in western Guatemala (meeting info)Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review meets at 5:30 p.m. and will take up an application for an already-approved four-story building at the site of the University Tire on West Main Street. They’ll also have a preliminary discussion on the future parking garage at the corner of Market Street  and 9th street. (meeting info) This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

Today is UN World Toilet Day. It was started to bring awareness to the billions of people living without access to reliable sanitation facilities. And that can have far-reaching social impact. We learn more from Susan Elliott, a professor at the University of Waterloo, who researches the relationships between environment and health; Mike Crawley, who covers provincial affairs for us, outlines the Auditor General's report that warned that the government is at risk of failing to meet its climate change targets; Malaika Collette, a Grade 12 student from Peterborough, is one of the organizers of Mock COP26 a virtual conference on climate change involving young people from 145 countries; Infection control epidemiologist Colin Furness of the University of Toronto expresses some concern about the large number of people who are being permitted to cross the Canada-U.S. border; Deer carcasses are being abandoned by hunters who can't find anyone to process their kill. Tammy Thurston, who works at a butcher shop in the Lindsay area, explains that the number of qualified butchers has dropped while the demand for their services has increased; Author and historian Carolyn Harris talks about the fourth season of the Netflix series 'The Crown' and how accurate the show is in its depiction of people and events.

This week we are talking to Susan Elliott, who is an Employee Engagement Experience and Wellness Specialist. Susan has a wealth of experience and has held positions as Head of Internal Comms and Employee Engagement with Allied Irish Banks, Head of IC as well as People Engagement for Tesco Bank, and is also a qualified CliftonStrengths coach with Gallup. Susan helps organisations’ employees to connect with their business and play a part in achieving the company’s goals. There are copious amounts of content claiming to define employee engagement. But Susan cuts through to the evidence-based theories of what engagement really is.

Susan Elliott Rink is the CEO of Allinium, a training, consulting, and coaching firm that specializes in working with clients to create an inclusive culture. 

Retired U.S. Ambassador Dr. Susan Elliott tells us that back channel diplomacy is currently going on in ways unimagined by most citizens, through her organization, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. She became the organization’s President and CEO in August 2018. Officially known as Track II Diplomacy, these closed­-door and off­-the­-record conferences provide opportunities for senior U.S. and foreign officials, subject experts, and scholars to engage in discussions designed to defuse conflict, build confidence, and resolve problems, including recent talks on North Korea. Says Ambassador Elliott, “Our organization is playing a critical role at a time when perhaps governments don’t talk to each other, we can help promote dialogue.” Ambassador Elliott gives us an inside look into the world of U.S. foreign policy and the current hot spots in the world from the perspective of her 27-year career in the foreign service, where she rose to the rank of U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan from 2012 to 2015. Dr Elliott also served as Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of the United States European Command, as well as Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The U.S. Response to ISIS attacks in Europe, the role of Special Operations Command Europe, and building deterrence vis a vis Russia with General Gregory Lengyel ( fmr. Commander Special Operations Command Europe) and Ambassador Susan Elliott (fmr. Civilian Deputy, U.S. European Command). 

Eduardo Montes-Bradley and Susan Elliott   document.write(''); We welcomed Susan Elliott Charlottesville’s Climate Protection Program Manager for the Division of Environmental Sustainability. She focuses on community initiatives working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency.… Read More

Sara Villa gives a moving and insightful account of her use of deep listening as a pedagogy of poetry for college students, Susan Elliott explains improvisation as a facet of the inquiry approach to high school teaching, and Stephanie Khoury revitalizes music education at the university level with her approachable and engaging interactive improvisation software. … Continue reading Episode #62 – Pedagogy and Improvisation: Sara Villa, Susan Elliott, Stephanie Khoury →

Sara Villa gives a moving and insightful account of her use of deep listening as a pedagogy of poetry for college students, Susan Elliott explains improvisation as a facet of the inquiry approach to high school teaching, and Stephanie Khoury revitalizes music education at the university level with her approachable and engaging interactive improvisation software. You never knew teaching and learning could be so exciting! This episode of Sound It Out originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM in Guelph Ontario on Tuesday June 20, 2017 at 5pm EST.

Susan Elliott doesn't lead a small country, but she could! Using the same foundational principles that she uses as she leads Great Neck South High School. Listen in to glean valuable leadership nuggets as she talks about "the best job in the world"! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the last FOE Show of the season, the esteemed Susan Elliott drops by to talk about creating Canada's first baseline study of food allergies in Canada. She also talks healthy cities and her favourite movies (incl. Wall-E).

Are you depressed? We get it. Maybe you're down about your weight, or you've recently ended a relationship. Forbes and Charlie urge you to say, “Enough.” Refuse to let yourself feel bad anymore. How? With some tough love from their guests: Dr. Frederic Vagnini, who gives you surefire ways to drop pounds and feel physically radiant, and Susan Elliott, a “breakup coach” and author who forces you to turn your breakup or your malaise into the best thing that's ever happened to you. And in The Good News segment, administrative consultant Julie Perrine tells you why you shouldn't release your social media passwords to potential employers, no matter how bad you need a job.

Are you depressed? We get it. Maybe you're down about your weight, or you've recently ended a relationship. Forbes and Charlie urge you to say, “Enough.” Refuse to let yourself feel bad anymore. How? With some tough love from their guests: Dr. Frederic Vagnini, who gives you surefire ways to drop pounds and feel physically radiant, and Susan Elliott, a “breakup coach” and author who forces you to turn your breakup or your malaise into the best thing that's ever happened to you. And in The Good News segment, administrative consultant Julie Perrine tells you why you shouldn't release your social media passwords to potential employers, no matter how bad you need a job.

Are you depressed? We get it. Maybe you're down about your weight, or you've recently ended a relationship. Forbes and Charlie urge you to say, “Enough.” Refuse to let yourself feel bad anymore. How? With some tough love from their guests: Dr. Frederic Vagnini, who gives you surefire ways to drop pounds and feel physically radiant, and Susan Elliott, a “breakup coach” and author who forces you to turn your breakup or your malaise into the best thing that's ever happened to you. And in The Good News segment, administrative consultant Julie Perrine tells you why you shouldn't release your social media passwords to potential employers, no matter how bad you need a job.

Susan Elliott's career is fascinating; she made a lot of savvy--and gutsy--decisions about the direction of computer technology, and she has a career as an entrepreneur in a field dominated by men.

People become addicts by attempting to fill a hole inside. My first guest is psychotherapist Jeff Ford who specializes in the treatment of addictions of all kinds. My second guest is Susan Elliott, author of Getting Past Your Breakup: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to you. We […] The post Relationships 101 – Breaking Addictions to Media, Pornography and Relationships appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Find out how to "Get Past Your Breakup" and why it could be the best thing for you, as Dr. Michelle interviews author Susan Elliott.