Podcasts about susan richards

When life's storms brew, where do we find refuge? Susan Richards' story unfolds like a canvas of resilience, her impressionistic art narrating a tale of tranquility born from trials. On this Art Coaching Club podcast, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Susan, who's not just a painter but a weaver of peaceful sanctuaries through her work. She delves into her personal transformation, illustrating how the fusion of life's toughest moments with her creative process resulted in artwork that does more than just hang on a wall—it provides solace and inspires fortitude.Ever wondered how the brushstrokes of an artist could turn a living space into a haven of calm? Susan's serene palette is the answer, and in our heart-to-heart, she unravels the relationship between the vibes of her art and the ambiance they craft. Her candid insights into the art business reveal the importance of authentic connections and the art of attracting an audience that truly resonates with her vision. It's a conversation that paints a picture not only of Susan's journey but also of the delicate balance between creating for passion and navigating the commercial tides.Our episode treads further down the path of Susan's artistic and business milestones, shedding light on the power of relationships in catalyzing success. From the coastal whispers of North Carolina to the soulful echoes of Alabama, Susan shares how her roots have shaped both her art and her approach to marketing. By setting flexible goals and embracing the ebb and flow of growth, she offers an inside look at the business of beauty and the joy of expanding her team—allowing her art to touch more lives while fostering budding talents. Join us for this enriching blend of creativity, strategy, and a personal journey that resonates with anyone who's ever sought solace in the brushstrokes of life.Learn more about Susan through her Instagram and website. Support the showWant to learn more? Join our newsletter!

Summary:Sapient Insights Group is a women-owned, research and advisory firm that is the proud organizer behind a massive annual HR technology survey that seeks to shed light on HR professionals' relationships with existing and emerging technologies. Representing Sapient Insights in this episode are Susan Richards (Founder & Managing Partner) and Teri Zipper (CEO & Managing Partner).In this episode, Susan and Teri talk about the changing of the guard that HR may soon experience with its newer and younger practitioners joining the workforce. Chapters:[0:00 - 9:22] IntroductionWelcome, Sapient Insights Group!Today's Topic: Why the Next Generation of HR Practitioners may be ready to revamp HR[9:23 - 19:05] How the world at work for HR is about to changeNew HR practitioners are asking “why” oftenHow AI regulations will affect the workforce[19:06 - 27:55] How will the next generations of HR practitioners challenge existing systems?Who will be responsible for both the good and the bad of AI in HR?The push for empathetic HR[27:56 - 34:53] Where to employees and companies stand on ESG?How employees feel about ESGWill newer employees fight for more of a focus ESG?[34:54 - 37:11] ClosingThanks for listening!Quotes:“The next generation of HR professionals, who didn't grow up in a compliance environment, [will make] a push toward empathetic HR.”“[In a survey we conducted that] had participants from all walks of life—all backgrounds, all races, all education levels, and all employment levels— . . . everybody was concerned about how an organization treats the environment.”Resources:Sapient InsightsContact:Susan's LinkedInTeri's LinkedInDavid's LinkedInPodcast Manger: Karissa HarrisEmail us!Production by Affogato Media

On this episode, Pete and Julie welcome Sapient Insights Group Founder and change management expert Susan Richards to the show to discuss her passion for helping organizations manage the change and organizational impact associated with navigating complex HR transformation journeys.   First, and fresh off the road from UKG Analyst Day in Boston and the annual Payroll Org Payroll Congress…the “Super Bowl of Payroll” in Denver, Colorado, Pete shares his thoughts and highlights on each! The group then discusses why change management is often undervalued and first to go in transformation budget cuts, why you shouldn't overlook the impacts of a high-quality, well-planned change management program, and how to manage change in a global and increasingly hybrid workplace. Connect with Susan: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/susansapientinsights Sapient Insights Group: www.linkedin.com/company/sapient-insights-group www.SapientInsights.com Connect with the show: LinkedIn: ⁠http://linkedin.com/company/hr-payroll-2-0⁠  Twitter: ⁠@HRPayroll2_0⁠ ⁠@PeteTiliakos⁠ ⁠@JulieFer_HR⁠

On the FF side of things, we start with the fate of Galactus and Frankie Raye, and we end with the beginning of a Dr. Doom story ("Too Many Dooms!"). Both fine issues. But in the middle we have one of the best FF issues ever, and certainly one of the signature issues of John Byrne's run - #245 "Childhood's End." It's Byrne's thesis statement on Susan RIchards, The Invisible Girl. What makes her special, powerful, indispensible? It is demonstrated masterfully in this tale, where Susan takes on a mysterious enemy so powerful he dispenses with Reed Ben and Johnny with little more than a thought. Two Milksops up! On the correspondence side, we get into some corrections on more Will Hines factual errors, a request for a no-prize (denied, for the first time ever) and a discussion of the inimitable Forbush Man. __ SHOW INFORMATION Twitter: @ScrewItComics Instagram: @ScrewItComics Email: ScrewItComics@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Subscribe: Spotify

From August 30, 2022 - Susan Richards is a dynamic director of Information Security concentrated in compliance, project management, application development, and database administration. She is skilled in IT Strategy, Management, Compliance Assurance, and Risk Management including HITRUST, NIST and ISO security frameworks. She is also very involved in the information security community, including ISSA chapter leadership and has this year started a local HITRUST chapter - plus we discuss election integrity! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/virtual-ciso-moment/message

Susan Richards is a dynamic director of Information Security concentrated in compliance, project management, application development, and database administration. She is skilled in IT Strategy, Management, Compliance Assurance, and Risk Management including HITRUST, NIST and ISO security frameworks. She is also very involved in the information security community, including ISSA chapter leadership and has this year started a local HITRUST chapter - plus we discuss election integrity! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/virtual-ciso-moment/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/virtual-ciso-moment/support

In this episode, we celebrate Mother's Day! We talk about our own moms and how they inspired us. Chris and James also share how their wives are also inspiring as mothers. We then launch into spotlighting our list of great pop culture moms. The show derails at the end and turns into an episode about The Batman, but we end strong, wishing all moms a very Happy Mother's Day. 00:00 We start the show by sharing memories we have about our own mothers and the influence they have had on us. Chris and James also talk about how they admire their wives as mothers. 16:20 We start our discussion of pop culture moms, moms of superheroes, moms who are superheroes, and moms in movies and TV. We mention Martha Kent, Aunt May, Ellen Ripley, Susan Richards, Rainbow Johnson, Edith Bunker and many many more. 1:06:40 We wrap up the show with our recommendations. This leads to a massive derailment when James mentions that he recently watched The Batman and our Mother's Day Special turns into a review of the movie.

Summary:Pam Jeffords is a Senior Partner at Sapient Insights Group who leads the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice. She has over 25 years of experience in the industry and is a member of the Global Leadership Council for Colorado State University College of Business, an advisory board member for University of Denver Colorado Women's College, and a Limited Partner in The JumpFund whose mission is to invest in women-led startups. Pam has also served as Chair of Women United for the Mile-High United Way where she received the prestigious Frances Wisebart Jacobs award for philanthropy. We're also joined by Susan Richards and Danielle White!Susan Richards is the Founder and CEO of Sapient Insights Group. For more than 25 years, Susan has been consulting in areas of change management, organizational effectiveness, M&A, HR strategy, technology, and operations. Her focus is on helping clients improve business performance by aligning their human capital programs and practices with business strategy. Danielle White is Collaborative Solutions' EVP of Global Business Strategy. She brings over 20 years of HR transformation experience from commercial and public sector industries. She uses her subject matter expertise to lead corporate thought leadership, go-to-market strategy, and engagement strategy. In this episode, Pam, Susan, and Danielle talk about how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging has changed over the years and how it might change in the years to come. Chapters:[0:00 - 3:12] IntroductionWelcome, Pam Jeffords!Today's Topic: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging[3:13 - 13:27] How People Approached DE&I in the PastAttempts at devising “tomorrow solutions” and long-term solutionsHow DE&I outside the workplace affected DE&I in the workplace[13:28 - 32:16] What does DE&I Look Like Today?How differences in employee feedback creates DE&I gapsWhy job architecture informs DE&I successes and pitfalls[32:17 - 41:52] The Future of DE&IDeveloping true data-driven strategiesThe importance of helping HR practitioners become better business people[41:53 - 43:45] Final Thoughts & ClosingThank you for listening!Quotes:"I did an exercise with a group of people who were very angry with their leadership and asking, ‘Where's the diversity?' I asked, ‘How many of you in this room were hired by way of employee referrals?' Almost all of them raised their hand. I said, ‘That's why we don't have diversity.' Because we're reling heavily on employee referrals and we're referring people that look like us. So, if we want to do this differently, go outside of your network. Seek out people, refer them in, and that's the only way we're going to have diversity.” “When you talk about equity and opportunity, it's giving everybody equal access. And what we find is that feedback is probably the number one thing where we see the biggest gaps in who's getting it—[and the same can be said about] career guidance.”Contact:Pam Jeffords LinkedInSusan Richards LinkedInDanielle White LinkedIn Production by Affogato Media

Hi and a warm welcome to Episode #47 of The Elevate Business Podcast.  We have the pleasure of introducing you to Susan Richards who has worked firsthand as a virtual CFO across industries for the past decade.As co-founder of numbercrunch, she's combining her entrepreneurial spirit and accounting experience to empower businesses through strategic financial guidance and support. Susan also supports the Ottawa business community as the Co-Chair of the board of Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards. Susan is a past Director at Kanata North Business Association and Equal Voice and advisor at AmbiSHEous. We are excited to hear her business insights. For more on Numbercrunch: https://www.numbercrunch.ca/

In honor of Mother's Day, we have recorded a bonus episode where we speak with our moms, Susan Drew, Melissa Luke, and Susan Richards! Intro music: “The Wanakee Song” written by Joshua the Storyteller and performed by Luke Riedlinger. Additional music composed and performed by Luke Riedlinger.

Today's guest is Susan Richards, CPHQ, CCS, CPC, CRC, COMA, CPC-I, CDEO, CEMC, who served as the director of clinical documentation for Humana Medicare Advantage from 2020-2021. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today's featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS' premier training for CDI specialists. Trusted by hundreds of CDI specialists as the go-to source for CDI education, this course defines the role of CDI specialists and provides comprehensive training on their responsibilities. Improve your CDI know-how with ACDIS-endorsed best practices for medical record review and compliant physician querying. This class is taught live in a convenient virtual setting. Get the same small classes and personal touch and interaction we provide in the classroom! Specifically, participants learn about MS-DRG methodology, including how MS-DRGs are assigned and how documentation affects code assignment and sequencing. This is a rich, deep experience that includes discussion with CDI boot camp instructors regularly featured on the ACDIS Podcast. To learn more or to register, click here! (http://ow.ly/7gbK30rvtrZ) In the News: “A roadmap for value-based payment in 2030,” from Healthcare Innovation (http://ow.ly/K1NZ30rCSyl)   ACDIS update: Register for the ACDIS Conference, October 25-28, in Dallas, Texas! (http://ow.ly/1jQp30rB3Lq)  

I’m excited to bring you this special bonus episode of Punk Rock HR, in which I speak with a woman in HR who I really respect, Susan Richards. She’s the CEO and founder of Sapient Insights Group and, above all else, describes herself as a “people fixer.” Susan and I talked about how investments in technology can help counter employee burnout, as well as the importance of focusing on well-being as part of the employee experience. Listen to our conversation and find out how HR leaders can take the lessons we learned in 2020 with them into the future.

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Please don't miss this episode! Harrison sat down with Ministry Partner and counselor Susan Richards to talk about anxiety and worry and some super practical tips that may help you or someone you know. After we recorded, she even let us know that she would love to continue the conversation if anyone listening needs an […]

Please don't miss this episode! Harrison sat down with Ministry Partner and counselor Susan Richards to talk about anxiety and worry and some super practical tips that may help you or someone you know. After we recorded, she even let us know that she would love to continue the conversation if anyone listening needs an […]

This episode of the Make the Future podcast on equity, diversity and inclusion features: Dr. Jacques Beauvais, host of the Make the Future podcast, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa, uOttawa alumnus, Master’s ʾ87 and Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics ʾ85 Thusha Agampodi, co-host, Engineering Manager at Magnet Forensics Susan Richards, FCPA, FCMA, Virtual CFO and Managing Partner at numbercrunch inc. Oliver Fisher, SVP Engineering at FreshBooks

Quote by Susan Richards, Virtual CFO & Managing Partner at numbercrunch inc. Excerpt from episode 4 of season 2 of University of Ottawa's Faculty of Engineering's Make the Future podcast.

This episode is inspired by a full day of learning at the Gem Conference event in Ottawa in January 2020, called The Vision Sessions. I was lucky enough to be a speaker and facilitator at the event, but also felt so called to create this episode which pours into all of my biggest takeaways from the hours I spent off-stage.  MASSIVE thanks to Lana Dingwall, Amanda Cockburn, Meghan Johnston, and Susan Richards for their teachings which lead to today’s episode about setting intentional goals that work for you and your business. In this episode, I’m pouring into some thoughts about healthy vs. unhealthy goal setting, the mindset shift that helped me better understand my emotional response after failing to achieve a goal, and some insight into dreaming so big that you get laughed at — spoiler: that’s how you know you’re doing it right. Enjoy and consider this a re-listenable episode because it is jam-freaking-packed with good stuff that you may need to hear a few times for it to really sink in. See you on the next ep! xo Find out more about Gem Conference on instagram @gemconference Find out more about Laura Kelly: @laurakelly.co // www.laurakelly.co

In this episode of Beginner Women, Susan joins host Katharine Cornfield to talk about financial literacy for female founders, diversity and inclusion within organizations, and the value of real-life role models and storytelling when it comes to piquing interest in a career path.Episode Highlights:Recognize that girls and young women aren’t behind when it comes to understanding money – they already have what they need to succeed.Discover the link between business models and capital streams, and why these building blocks matter.Learn what it takes to drive organizations forward through diversity and inclusion and what it means for building the workforce of the futureFor more from ambiSHEous™ and the Beginner Women Podcast, follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @ambiSHEous or receive updates straight in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.Recommended ResourcesNumbercrunchGivopolyInvest OttawaambiSHEous™ StartUp Self™ SessionsInvest Ottawa’s Gender Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines

Not long ago healthcare IT systems were information silos, safely isolated inside a payer’s or provider’s data center. The greatest threat to IT security was the unlikely inside job. Fast forward to 2019, and HIT systems are increasingly enmeshed across corporate, government, vendor, and even consumer boundaries. Information is flowing between multiple on-premise and cloud data centers; among vendors, software services, and APIs; and often across the public Internet. The threat landscape healthcare organizations must mitigate today is greater, more complex, and evolving faster than ever. But while the IT world we work in gets more challenging by the day, the disciplines and how to manage the environment have also improved dramatically. Practices such as HITRUST certification and SOC audits are helping IT teams evaluate their organizations and ensure adherence with the highest security protocols and standards. On today’s show, Bob Hoover, Vice President of Change Healthcare Consulting, discusses the state of IT security and where HITRUST, SOC 2, and enterprise risk management fit in with Haddon Bennett, Chief Information Security Officer at Change Healthcare; and Rusty Fancher and Susan Richards, Program Directors of Enterprise Information Security at Change Healthcare. Here's what they hit on. HIPAA compliance, HITRUST’s controlled framework, and SOC 2: What’s the difference? (03:05) A top-down approach to establishing enterprise information security governance, policy implementation, and performance measurement (08:48) Resources and skill sets required to build, troubleshoot, and manage enterprise information security programs (13:22) Establishing an information security mindset (18:46) Which way to go: Comparative benefits and a rationale for choosing either SOC 2 audits and reports or HITRUST certification (23:32) Instituting sound security policies and procedures, risk assessments, and data protection regulations (30:33) SOC report types and HITRUST scoring models (36:32) How to assess HITRUST certification value for an organization (38:15) Episode Resources Bob Hoover’s bio Haddon Bennet’s bio Rusty Fancher's bio Susan Richards’ bio Consulting Resource Center Change Healthcare Consulting Services Show Resources  SUBSCRIBE to the podcast using any podcatcher or RSS reader Download the audio and listen offline Get the iOS app Get the Android app Suggest or become a guest Contact Change Healthcare

Today’s author interview guest is Susan Richards Shreve, author of More News Tomorrow. A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter’s quest to understand her mother’s mysterious death. On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives […]

Susan Richards Shreve, author and former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to discuss her new book More News Tomorrow (out June 4 from W.W. Norton). Caitlin Malcuit also chats about Sesame Street’s 50th anniversary. To learn more about Susan Richards Shreve, visit her official website.  Today’s episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and OneRoom.

Comic book talk is back! Join Matt Johnson, Chris Gullo and Graig Knowlton  for a weekly "table for 3" on comic books and the culture around them! Listen in as all three give their different takes, points of view, and interests in an all new, all original podcast. Reed Richards. Susan Richards. Johnny Storm. Ben Grimm. Together, they are the Fantastic Four. The Original Fantastic Four. Marvel's First Family. While many have filled in roles from time to time; Ant-Man, She-Hulk, Black Panther, and many others, the identity of the original 4 can never change or be replaced. Matt and Graig discuss the lineage of the Fantastic Four, and what the first family means to them. The Franchise has survived numerous failed movie attempts, hurting it's popularity over the last 15 years, but with Disney's acquisition of Fox, and the regaining of their properties, the Fantastic Four and their deceptively great Rogue's Gallery should regain their former glory as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would certainly hope. Theme music by Kevin Bennett - Instagram: 8thavebeats Find us on the web and social media: BICBP-RADIO.com InstagramMatt Johnson                @maverickmattmultimediaChris Gullo                    @chrisgulloGraig Knowlton             @instaaslamm The Panel Discussion @thepaneldiscussion

Susan Richards is an entrepreneur, accountant, and the Co-Founder of two highly successful businesses - Numbercrunch, Inc., and Givopoly. Numbercrunch is a forward-thinking accounting support company focused on helping startups and small and mid-sized enterprises manage their business finances through Virtual CFO, accounting, and bookkeeping services. Keep Reading >> In 2012, she founded Givopoly, an online gift delivery marketplace in Ottawa, Canada that provides local customers and organizations with cost-effective, fun Employee Rewards and Recognition products. Susan has previously served on the boards of several organizations, including the CMA of Ontario, Equal Voice, and the Advisory Board for Algonquin College. Today, she is a proud volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards as well as an advisor at AmbiSHEOus. Susan joins me today to share how she pursued her personal interests while working in an organization, the lessons she learned throughout her childhood about entrepreneurship, and how Numbercrunch and Givopoly initially began. She explains the difference between “growth mode” and “expansion mode” as it relates to building your business and how she finds balances her time, energy and creativity while juggling her career and personal life. She also explains why she believes it's critical for more women to have a seat at the boardroom tables and what we need to do to help women achieve this goal.   “There is absolutely an open mind to getting women on boards. What there isn’t is a nudge.” - Susan Richards   Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast: How her family and childhood experience encouraged her entrepreneurial spirit. The most powerful lessons she has learned about entrepreneurship. How she pursued her personal interests while working within an organization. The biggest insights and takeaways she has learned while working with startups. How Numbercrunch got started and how it has grown to achieve success. Lessons she has learned from transitioning from a CFO role to a CEO role. How Givopoly started. The difference between “growth mode” and “expansion mode.” How she balances her time, energy, and creativity while juggling her career and personal life. Why she believes it’s critical for women to have a seat on startup boards. What she believes businesses and organizations need to get more women on board seats.   Susan Richard’s Top 3 Success Tips for Fierce Feminine Entrepreneurs: Have a partner. Give a lot of thought to your business model. Serve a need - not a want.   Fierce Leadership Quotes: “Kill it at the job you’re doing. Make yourself so valuable to that company that they will give you more and more trust. You can be the role you want to be in that organization.” - Susan Richards “I came to the realization that if I’m going to do intense professional - I need to do intense personal. It all kind of balances against each other.” - Susan Richards “There are great organizations now that are helping to train women and make them aware of large board positions, but in parallel to that, we can just tap each other on the shoulders and get us in the right room and make people aware.” - Susan Richards     Triple Down on Your Personal Brand Are you ready to grow your business, increase your impact, and build a powerhouse personal brand? Learn how to build a powerhouse personal brand that can help you open new doors of opportunities for your business and career. Grab our free whitepaper: 7 Unconventional Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand. Head over to EleanorBeaton.com/Brand to grab your copy of this powerful whitepaper and begin your journey to impact the world!   Grab Your Ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop! Are you ready to ramp up your leadership skills, have more confidence in your instincts, cope with criticism and lead with conviction? Are you ready to unleash your inner-CEO and authentically position yourself in a category of ONE? Join me in Toronto, Canada on November 2-4 for the Power. Presence. Position. Workshop - the 3-day workshop designed to help you up-level your power, presence, and position within your business or organization. Grab your ticket to the Power. Presence. Position. 3-Day Workshop today!   Dial Up Your Impact, Influence, and Income in 2018       Are you ready to take your leadership and influence to the next level in 2018? Join the Impact & Influence Leadership Lab for Women with Eleanor Beaton – the world’s premier leadership training and implementation program designed specifically for female leaders! This is a 8-week mentoring program for professional, ambitious women in business who are ready to take their leadership skills to the next level and truly step into their power. Visit the Leadership Lab for Women website to see all of the amazing content, tools, and services you will receive by registering today to claim your seat at the table!     Love the show? Let us know! Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know!  

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In this episode, Curt and Kevin launch into a four-episode deep dive into the world's greatest comic magazine, The Fantastic Four, with a look at three key stories from the 1960s and 70s! First up, it's the book that started it all (and gave birth to the Marvel Universe): Fantastic Four #1! Who are these mysterious figures who answer a strange signal in the sky? Where and how did they get their fantastic abilities? And when bizarre monsters attack atomic plants across the globe, can they stop the reclusive Mole Man from destroying the surface world? Next, it's a race against time in Fantastic Four Annual #6! Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm must brave the outlandish antimatter universe known as the Negative Zone to save the life of Susan Richards and her unborn child. But can they survive the murderous warlord Annihilus and his dreaded Arena of Execution? After that, it's on to the swingin' 70s for Fantastic Four #140-141! Annihilus is back, and he's got Susan and the Richards' young son Franklin in his deadly clutches! To save the universe, Reed Richards pays a terrible price, resulting in The End of the Fantastic Four! Do these fantastic fables have the pedigree to join that First Family of fabulous funnybooks known as … The Comics Canon? Things Discussed in This Episode: Incredibles 2 Has the MCU been trolling us? Jack Kirby at the height of his powers The iffy science of the Negative Zone Reed Richards' bizarre defense of Sue in FF #11 IS this the World's Greatest Comic Magazine? FF#141's cameo in The Ice Storm The problem with following the FF blueprint Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius Black Science Marvel Two-in-One The Terrifics Join us in two weeks as we time-travel into the 1980s for a look at two titanic figures—John Byrne and the world-devouring Galactus—in Fantastic Four #242-244 and #261-262! Until then, please rate us on iTunes, send us an email, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook, and we may read your comments in an upcoming episode. And as always, thanks for listening!

Susan Richards, writer and commentator on contemporary Russia, talks to Michael Berkeley about her fascination with the country and her passion for 20th-century Russian music. Susan's first book, Epics of Everyday Life, was about the euphoric period after the collapse of communism. She travelled all over Russia to try to find out how ordinary people were coping with the discovery that they'd been so comprehensively lied to for so long. Her second book, sixteen years in the writing, was Lost and Found in Russia, and it described the collective nervous breakdown that took place after that. Both books are a testimony to her fascination with the lives of ordinary Russians - and a celebration of friendship. They also include hair-raising encounters with the KGB and the Mafia. A Founding Editor of OpenDemocracy, set up in 2001 to encourage democratic debate around the world, Susan is also the co-founder, with her husband the television producer Roger Graef, of Bookaid, which has sent more than a million books to Russian public libraries. Susan's music takes us on a journey from pre-revolutionary Russia to the early 21st century, with pieces by Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the contemporary composer Sofia Gubaidulina. And we hear music inspired by a Siberian forest, and a singer Susan first met during a hair-raising encounter with the mafia. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Susan Richards Shreve appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5784.

In which The Off-Panelists celebrate that wonderful season of love by getting felt up by elderly men and sending the border patrol after themselves, as The Off-Panel Podcast rings in Valentine's Day with the ultimate form of affection - reviewing nerdy books. Join in as the Sloth, the Spainiard, and the Southerner give seven pretty neats to the closing chapter of Scott Snyder's "Death of the Family" arc in Batman, find themselves reviewing a Ghostbusters comic for some reason, delve into the creepiness of Reed and Susan Richards' first encounter in Fantastic Four, arm wrestle over the latest Demon Knights, and finally - but not the least of all - listening to one of their own reviewing a long-awaited title to come from the podcast's own, John Lees. That's right, folks. We offer our thoughts on THE STANDARD #1, on sale at your local comic shop right now!Download Here!Links of the WeekSuperHarmony: Love for Superheroes (Video)Geoff Johns to Leave Green LanternLove in ComicsWonder Woman Documentary to Air on PBS in April

Sian Williams & Richard Coles with classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes; Mark Lawson and JP Devlin breakfast in Dublin for Bloomsday; Julie Wassmer who discovered the daughter she'd given up for adoption by quite extraordinary coincidence; Dominic Walker, The Bishop of Monmouth, who conducts exorcisms; Susan Richards who was inspired by a damp June village fete to send a million books to Russia; there's a Dublin Crowdscape and former Chancellor Norman Lamont's Inheritance Tracks. Plus the first three parts of the landmark Radio 4 dramatization of James Joyce's Ulysses.Producer: Dixi Stewart.

I made reference to Susan Richards’ book Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in a Deep Heartland in my last post.  I have not read the book, nor can I buy it unless I want to pay extra shipping from England.  Lost and Found has yet to be published in the US.  Too bad.  As […] The post Losing and Finding Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.