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“I think creativity really is a function of trying to solve a problem from a new and different perspective. And that new and different perspective does not have to be new or different to the world. In fact, it most likely won't be..”In this episode, I talk to Noah Askin, a professor at the University of California's Merage School of Business. Noah has spent nearly a decade teaching and directing executive development programs at the INSEAD Business School in France, which has been heralded as the business school for the world. In the past month, I have received numerous messages from listeners asking me to do an episode on the topic of creativity. As a result, I immediately thought of inviting Noah to the show. I asked him to join us to talk about this important topic of creativity and also its importance in relation to leadership and innovation.You'll hear Noah share his ideas about creative problem solving, developing creativity within an individual even if they think they have none, what restricts adults from being creative, and how we can go about becoming more creative within organizations.In this episode:Why creativity is such an important trait in leadersLowering the stakes and expectations of creativity in order to embrace itDeveloping creativity as an adult and what inhibits thisHow creativity relates to innovation within organizationsThe tolerance of failure: taking risks and learning from them.And more!Power Presence Academy: Practical Wisdom for Leaders is the go-to podcast for anyone who leads. Your host is Janet Ioli, leadership and human development expert, sought-after coach and advisor to global executives, and former executive with experience in four Fortune 100 companies. She helps leaders ground themselves with confidence, connection, and purpose and learn to lead with Less Ego, More Soul.Resource Links:Noah Askin is the Assistant Professor of Teaching Organizations & Management at UC-Irvine's Merage School of Business. His teaching and research topics include networks and networking, creativity (especially in music and the creative industries), leadership, organizational culture, organizational design for innovation, driving change, and managing your status. He continues to direct INSEAD's Product Management Executive Program and Leading for Results, one of the flagship open enrollment leadership programs.If you want to become more grounded, confident, and aligned with your deeper values in just 21 days. Check out my book Less Ego, More Soul: A Modern Reinvention Guide for Women.If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.  Select “Listen in Apple Podcasts,” then choose the “Ratings & Reviews” tab to share what you think.  Connect with today's guest on LinkedIn: Noah AskinConnect with Janet Ioli:Website: janetioli.comLinkedin: Janet IoliInstagram: @janetioliJanet is the founder of Power Presence Academy. She helps leaders ground themselves with confidence, connection, and purpose and lead with Less Ego, More Soul.

The Accelerators (Drs. Anna Brown, Matt Spraker, and Simul Parikh) host Clinical Geneticist Dr. Elizabeth Chao, Director of Medical Genetics at UC Irvine and Vice President and Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory Director at Ambry Genetics for a discussion about medical genetics in the oncology clinic and beyond!  We start by discussing practice models for clinical geneticists and then spend some time discussing the role of genetic testing in pancreatic cancer care. We then discuss genetic testing more generally and what the future holds for the field. Our discussion concludes with Liz sharing her training path, which started in #RadOnc, to a very successful career.  Here are some things that were discussed during the show: Publication of the PALB2 pancreatic cancer susceptibility geneNCCN Guidelines for genetic/familial high-risk assessment: breast, ovarian, and pancreaticUK NHS 100,000 Genomes ProjectAmbry Genetics - The Care ProgramPodcast art generously donated by Dr. Danielle Cunningham. Intro and Outro music generously donated by Emmy-award winning artist Lucas Cantor Santiago.The Accelerators Podcast is a Photon Media production. 

EPISODE #72 - Hey there, before we get started we want to let you know about an incredible 4-week online program—we call them Studio Circles—that we're launching in the Yes Collective, with the first live session on May 13th. This Studio Circle is all called "Creating Authentic Relationships." We designed this powerful 4-week live program to teach you the fundamentals of Authentic Relating. Each week, in our 90-minute live online sessions, we're going to dive into new relationship ideas and skills, and then we get to practice them together. We guarantee you there is no better way to super boost every single relationship in your life. And you don't have to take our word for it! The last authentic relating studio circle we did was with a group of licensed therapists—people who do relational work for a living. And they loved it. In their testimonials, they called it "transformative," "impactful," "nourishing," "surprisingly deep but safe," and "a lot of fun." We'll be doing Studio Circles on new topics each month - in June we'll be doing one on Highly Sensitive People and one on Internal Family Systems. Details belowOne of the inspirations for this Studio Circle is the practice of Circling. It's a close cousin of Authentic Relating but Circling is more meditative and slightly less structured. Today's guest is a world-class Circling facilitator and relationship coach. Her name is Cathy Courtenay, and Justin met her at an amazing retreat in Sedona last year. She helped lead the most beautiful Circling session on the final day of the retreat and it absolutely blew everyone away. Cathy has been on a path of personal and spiritual growth for most of her life. She brings her heart and deep listening skills to everything she does. Her range of experience with dance, somatic bodywork, marketing, parenting, Relational Coaching (RLT Certified), and facilitating the Circling Method gives her a unique ability to cultivate authentic, meaningful relationships with her clients and students and she meets them right where they are.Her greatest strength is creating a safe space that allows others to be with things that feel difficult, to stand fully in what's real for them and to ultimately experience true transformation. Her warmth and love evoke the full expression, truth, and authenticity of those she serves.On this podcast, we talked with Cathy about what Circling is and how it was discovered, how it creates deep relationships, how it builds greater self-awareness, and what it's like to go to a Circling event. If you care about creating deeper relationships in your life then you're going to love this episode with the wise and wonderful Cathy Courtenay. CATHY'S LINKS:Cathy Courtenay's website: https://www.cathycourtenay.comCathy Courtenay's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathycourtenay/YES COLLECTIVE LINKS:Link to join Yes Collective: https://home.yescollective.app/When you join Yes Collective, you automatically gain access to all of the live Studio Circles. Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health.

Podcast Year of the Peer with Michael Lane About the Episode Date: May 3, 2023 Episode 21: Year of the Peer with Michael Lane Summary Have a listen to our latest episode with Michael Lane, M.A. Ed., NCPS, who works in Fairfax, Va. as the Division Director for Recovery Services. In this episode, we discuss Michael's journey as a peer from homelessness to becoming a strong and effective peer leader making a big impact through his work at the Fairfax Falls Church Community Service Board. We also discuss his work in the arts which led him to create the concept "Year of the Peer" which, in turn, inspired the 2023 state-wide celebratory movement of the same. Michael Lane, M.A., NCPS, is the Division Director of Recovery Services at the Fairfax Falls Church Community Service Board in Fairfax, Va. He holds a Bachelors in Drama from UC Irvine as well as a Masters in Organizational Learning and Effectiveness from University of the Pacific. In addition, Mr. Lane holds several certifications which include WRAP Facilitator and Certified Wellness Works Trainer .

Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, visits the podcast to discuss Phillip Guston, the PMC and cultural institutions. She is the author of Virtue Hoarders (2021). https://cliuanon.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/bureaucatliu https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virtue-hoarders

April 28, 2023. Henry Klassen, MD, PhD, co-founder of jCyte and clinical researcher at UC Irvine, talks to host Ben Shaberman about jCyte's clinical trial results and future plans for developing its cell-based therapy for preserving vision caused by retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome, and related retinal conditions.

EPISODE #71 - Before we begin, we want to tell you about about a brand new way to build connection, personal growth, and modern spirituality into your life. Starting in May, Yes Collective is launching brand new 4-week, live online workshops called Studio Circles. Each Circle focuses on cutting-edge, transformational practices and ideas that help you connect to others more authentically, grow personally and professionally, and tap into profound moments of spirituality in your daily life. These four-week, live workshops are led by the top psychologists, therapists, and coaches, some of whom you've heard on this podcast. To join, all you need to do is become a member of Yes Collective by going to https://home.yescollective.app/. If you're already a member, then you can join right here: https://home.yescollective.app/spaces/11007464/content. Our first Studio Circle, starting on May 8th, is on learning the skills of authentic relating and circling to create deep, meaningful relationships. I'll be leading it with the help of licensed clinical psychologist, Alicia Wuth. Sign up today for full access to Yes Collective and join us in May!Ok, on to the podcast! So, we've been wanting to have more conversations around modern spirituality. And Last November we spent the whole month talking about the power of spirituality but we don't just want to relegate it to one month. So, we reached out to licensed clinical psychologist, Jordana Jacobs to talk about modern spirituality in a therapeutic context. Jordana currently practices in New York City and has years of experience treating patients there. She completed her predoctoral internship at Bellevue Hospital Center and postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. She also trained at various other major hospitals, including Memorial Sloan Kettering and Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, gaining experience working with a diverse range of patients, including people diagnosed with terminal illness, substance users, and emerging adults. Although she considers herself a generalist, she writes, speaks, and leads retreats on the relationships between love and death, which was the primary focus of her dissertation. Her aim is to help people accept inevitable mortality, so that they may live and love more fully. Learn more about Jordana's work here: https://www.drjordanajacobs.com/In this episode, we dive deep into the topic of modern spirituality, how Jordana came to recognize spirituality in her own life as well as her professional practice, how love and death are cornerstones of any spiritual practice, and how she helps her patients get closer to their own spirituality. So, without any further ado, I'm thrilled to present the wise and wonderful Jordana Jacobs. Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, an Internal Family Systems practitioner, and a conscious dance DJ. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the

Arash Kheradvar, UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering, is co-principal investigator on a project to study congenital heart defects. As part of the National Science Foundation-funded initiative, Dr. Kheradvar invited local area high school students into his laboratory on the UCI campus. The students got first-hand exposure to cardiovascular research activities, experts in the field and the latest medical research technologies. The outcome was a group of students well-prepared to pursue further education in biomedical engineering.

This month on Episode 47 of Discover CircRes, host Cynthia St. Hilaire highlights three original research articles featured in the March 31 issue of Circulation Research. We'll also provide an overview of the Compendium on Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease published in the April 14 issue. Finally, this episode features an interview with Dr Elizabeth Tarling and Dr Bethan Clifford from UCLA regarding their study, RNF130 Regulates LDLR Availability and Plasma LDL Cholesterol Levels.   Article highlights:   Shi, et al. LncRNAs Regulate SMC Phenotypic Transition   Chen, et al. Bilirubin Stabilizes Atherosclerotic Plaque   Subramaniam, et al. Mapping Non-Obvious cAMP Nanodomains by Proteomics   Compendium on Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Hi, and welcome to Discover CircRes, the podcast of the American Heart Association's Journal, Circulation Research. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire, from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, and today I'm going to share three articles selected from our March 31st issue of Circulation Research and give you a quick summary of our April 14th Compendium. I'm also excited to speak with Dr Elizabeth Tarling and Dr Bethan Clifford from UCLA regarding their study, RNF130 Regulates LDLR Availability and Plasma LDL Cholesterol Levels.   So first the highlights. The first article we're going to discuss is Discovery of Transacting Long Noncoding RNAs that Regulates Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype. This article's coming from Stanford University and the laboratory of Dr Thomas Quertermous. Smooth muscle cells are the major cell type contributing to atherosclerotic plaques. And in plaque pathogenesis, the cells can undergo a phenotypic transition whereby a contractile smooth muscle cell can trans differentiate into other cell types found within the plaque, such as macrophage-like cells, osteoblast-like cells and fibroblast-like cells. These transitions are regulated by a network of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, and these mechanisms govern the risk of disease.   The involvement of long non-coding RNAs, or Lnc RNAs as they're called, has been increasingly identified in cardiovascular disease. However, smooth muscle cell Lnc RNAs have not been comprehensively characterized and the regulatory role in the smooth muscle cell state transition is not thoroughly understood. To address this gap, Shi and colleagues created a discovery pipeline and applied it to deeply strand-specific RNA sequencing from human coronary artery smooth muscle cells that were stressed with different disease related stimuli. Subsequently, the functional relevancy of a few novel Lnc RNAs was verified in vitro.   From this pipeline, they identified over 4,500 known and over 13,000 unknown or previously unknown Lnc RNAs in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells. The genomic location of these long noncoding RNAs was enriched near coronary artery disease related transcription factor and genetic loci. They were also found to be gene regulators of smooth muscle cell identity. Two novel Lnc RNAs, ZEB-interacting suppressor or ZIPPOR and TNS1-antisense or TNS1-AS2, were identified by the screen, and this group discovered that the coronary artery disease gene, ZEB2, which is a transcription factor in the TGF beta signaling pathway, is a target for these Lnc RNAs. These data suggest a critical role for long noncoding RNAs in smooth muscle cell phenotypic transition and in human atherosclerotic disease.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              The second article I want to share is titled Destabilization of Atherosclerotic Plaque by Bilirubin Deficiency. This article is coming from the Heart Research Institute and the corresponding author is Roland Stocker. The rupture of atherosclerotic plaque contributes significantly to cardiovascular disease. Plasma concentrations of bilirubin, a byproduct of heme catabolism, is inversely associated with risk of cardiovascular disease, but the link between bilirubin and atherosclerosis is unknown.   Chen et el addressed this gap by crossing a bilirubin knockout mice to a atherosclerosis prone APOe knockout mouse. Chen et el addressed this gap by crossing the bilirubin knockout mouse to the atherosclerosis-prone APOE knockout mouse, and used the tandem stenosis model of plaque instability to address this question. Compared with their litter mate controls, bilirubin-APOE double knockouts showed signs of increased systemic oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, as well as hyperlipidemia. And they had higher atherosclerotic plaque burden.   Hemeatabolism was increased in unstable plaques compared with stable plaques in both of these groups as well as in human coronary arteries. In mice, the bilirubin deletion selectively destabilized unstable plaques and this was characterized by positive arterial remodeling and increased cap thinning, intra plaque hemorrhage, infiltration of neutrophils and MPO activity. Subsequent proteomics analysis confirmed bilirubin deletion enhanced extracellular matrix degradation, recruitment and activation of neutrophils and associated oxidative stress in the unstable plaque. Thus, bilirubin deficiency generates a pro atherogenic phenotype and selectively enhances neutrophil-mediated inflammation and destabilization of unstable plaques, thereby providing a link between bilirubin and cardiovascular disease risk.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              The third article I want to share is titled Integrated Proteomics Unveils Regulation of Cardiac Monocyte Hypertrophic Growth by a Nuclear Cyclic AMP Nano Domain under the Control of PDE3A. This study is coming from the University of Oxford in the lab of Manuela Zaccolo. Cyclic AMP is a critically important secondary messenger downstream from a myriad of signaling receptors on the cell surface. Signaling by cyclic AMP is organized in multiple distinct subcellular nano domains, regulated by cyclic AMP hydrolyzing phosphodiesterases or PDEs.   The cardiac beta adrenergic signaling has served as the prototypical system to elucidate this very complex cyclic AMP compartmentalization. Although studies in cardiac monocytes have provided an understanding of the location and the properties of a handful of these subcellular domains, an overview of the cellular landscape of the cyclic AMP nano domains is missing.   To understand the nanodynamics, Subramanian et al combined an integrated phospho proteomics approach that took advantage of the unique role that individual phosphodiesterases play in the control of local cyclic AMP. They combined this with network analysis to identify previously unrecognized cyclic AMP nano domains associated with beta adrenergic stimulation. They found that indeed this integrated phospho proteomics approach could successfully pinpoint the location of these signaling domains and it provided crucial cues to determine the function of previously unknown cyclic AMP nano domains.   The group characterized one such cellular compartment in detail and they showed that the phosphodiesterase PDE3A2 isoform operates in a nuclear nano domain that involves SMAD4 and HDAC1. Inhibition of PDE3 resulted in an increased HDAC1 phosphorylation, which led to an inhibition of its deacetylase activity, and thus derepression of gene transcription and cardiac monocyte hypertrophic growth. These findings reveal a very unique mechanism that explains the negative long-term consequences observed in patients with heart failure treated with PDE3 inhibitors.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              The April 14th issue is our compendium on Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Disease. Dr Heidi Noels from the University of Aachen is our guest editor of the 11 articles in this issue. Chronic kidney disease is defined by kidney damage or a reduced kidney filtration function. Chronic kidney disease is a highly prevalent condition affecting over 13% of the population worldwide and its progressive nature has devastating effects on patient health. At the end stage of kidney disease, patients depend on dialysis or kidney transplantation for survival. However, less than 1% of CKD patients will reach this end stage of chronic kidney disease. Instead, most of them with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease will prematurely die and most often they die from cardiovascular disease. And this highlights the extreme cardiovascular burden patients with CKD have.   The titles of the articles in this compendium are the Cardio Kidney Patient Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, and Therapy by Nicholas Marx, the Innate Immunity System in Patients with Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease by Carmine Zoccali et al. NETs Induced Thrombosis Impacts on Cardiovascular and Chronic Kidney disease by Yvonne Doering et al. Accelerated Vascular Aging and Chronic Kidney Disease, The Potential for Novel Therapies by Peter Stenvinkel et al. Endothelial Cell Dysfunction and Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Heidi Noels et al. Cardiovascular Calcification Heterogeneity in Chronic Kidney Disease by Claudia Goettsch et al. Fibrosis in Pathobiology of Heart and Kidney From Deep RNA Sequencing to Novel Molecular Targets by Raphael Kramann et al. Cardiac Metabolism and Heart Failure and Implications for Uremic Cardiomyopathy by P. Christian Schulze et al. Hypertension as Cardiovascular Risk Factor in Chronic Kidney Disease by Michael Burnier et al. Role of the Microbiome in Gut, Heart, Kidney crosstalk by Griet Glorieux et al, and Use of Computation Ecosystems to Analyze the Kidney Heart Crosstalk by Joachim Jankowski et al.   These reviews were written by leading investigators in the field, and the editors of Circulation Research hope that this comprehensive undertaking stimulates further research into the path flow of physiological kidney-heart crosstalk, and on comorbidities and intra organ crosstalk in general.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              So for our interview portion of the episode I have with me Dr Elizabeth Tarling and Dr Bethan Clifford. And Dr Tarling is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine in cardiology at UCLA, and Dr Clifford is a postdoctoral fellow with the Tarling lab. And today we're going to be discussing their manuscript that's titled, RNF130 Regulates LDLR Availability and Plasma LDL Cholesterol Levels. So thank you both so much for joining me today.   Elizabeth Tarling:             Thank you for having us.   Bethan Clifford:               Yeah, thanks for having us. This is exciting.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              I guess first, Liz, how did you get into this line of research? I guess, before we get into that, I should disclose. Liz, we are friends and we've worked together in the ATVB Women's Leadership Committee. So full disclosure here, that being said, the editorial board votes on these articles, so it's not just me picking my friends. But it is great to have you here. So how did you enter this field, I guess, briefly?   Elizabeth Tarling:             Yeah, well briefly, I mean my training right from doing my PhD in the United Kingdom in the University of Nottingham has always been on lipid metabolism, lipoprotein biology with an interest in liver and cardiovascular disease. So broadly we've always been interested in this area and this line of research. And my postdoctoral research was on atherosclerosis and lipoprotein metabolism. And this project came about through a number of different unique avenues, but really because we were looking for regulators of LDL biology and plasma LDL cholesterol, that's sort of where the interest of the lab lies.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Excellent. And Bethan, you came to UCLA from the UK. Was this a topic you were kind of dabbling in before or was it all new for you?   Bethan Clifford:               It was actually all completely new for me. So yeah, I did my PhD at the same university as Liz and when I started looking for postdocs, I was honestly pretty adamant that I wanted to stay clear away from lipids and lipid strategy. And then it wasn't until I started interviewing and meeting people and I spoke to Liz and she really sort of convinced me of the excitement and that the interest and all the possibilities of working with lipids and well now I won't go back, to be honest.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              And now here you are. Well-   Bethan Clifford:               Exactly.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              ... congrats on a wonderful study. So LDLR, so low density lipoprotein receptor, it's a major determinant of plasmid LDL cholesterol levels. And hopefully most of us know and appreciate that that is really a major contributor and a major risk for the development of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. And I think one thing people may not really appreciate, which your study kind of introduces and talks about nicely, is the role of the liver, right? And the role of receptor mediated endocytosis in regulating plasma cholesterol levels. And so before we kind of chat about the nitty-gritty of your study, could you just give us a brief summary of these key parts between plasma LDL, the LDL receptor and where it goes in your body?   Elizabeth Tarling:             Yeah. So the liver expresses 70% to 80% of the body's LDL receptor. So it's the major determinant of plasma lipoprotein plasma LDL cholesterol levels. And through groundbreaking work by Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein at the University of Texas, they really define this receptor mediated endocytosis by the liver and the LDL receptor by looking at patients with familial hypercholesterolemia. So those patients have mutations in the LDL receptor and they either express one functional copy or no functional copies of the LDL receptor and they have very, very large changes in plasma LDL cholesterol. And they have severe increases in cardiovascular disease risk and occurrence and diseases associated with elevated levels of cholesterol within the blood and within different tissues. And so that's sort of how the liver really controls plasma LDL cholesterol is through this receptor mediated endocytosis of the lipoprotein particle.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              There's several drugs now that can help regulate our cholesterol levels. So there's statins which block that rate limiting step of cholesterol biosynthesis, but there's this new generation of therapies, the PCSK9 inhibitors. And can you just give us a summary or a quick rundown of what are those key differences really? What is the key mechanism of action that these therapies are going after and is there room for more improvement?   Bethan Clifford:               Yeah, sure. So I mean I think you've touched on something that's really key about the LDR receptor is that it's regulated at so many different levels. So we have medications available that target the production of cholesterol and then as you mentioned this newer generation of things like PCSK9 inhibitors that sort of try and target LDL at the point of clearance from the plasma.   And in response to your question of is there room for more regulation, I would say that given the sort of continual rate of increased cholesterol in the general population and the huge risks associated with elevated cholesterol, there's always capacity for more to improve that and sort of generally improve the health of the population. And what we sort of found particularly exciting about RNF130 is that it's a distinct pathway from any of these regulatory mechanisms. So it doesn't regulate the level of transcription, it doesn't regulate PCSK9. Or in response to PCSK9, it's a completely independent pathway that could sort of improve or add to changes in cholesterol.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              So your study, it's focusing on the E3 ligase, RNF130. What is an E3 ligase, and why was this particular one of interest to you? How did you come across it?   Elizabeth Tarling:             is predTates Bethan joining the lab. This is, I think, again for the listeners and those people in training, I think it's really important to note this project has been going in the lab for a number of years and has really... Bethan was the one who came in and really took charge and helped us round it out. But it wasn't a quick find or a quick story. It had a lot of nuances to it. But we were interested in looking for new regulators of LDL cholesterol and actually through completely independent pathways we had found the RNF130 locus as being associated with LDL cholesterol in animals. And then it came out in a very specific genome-wide association study in the African American care study, the NHLBI care study. And so really what we started looking at, we didn't even know what it was.   Elizabeth Tarling:             So we asked ourselves, well what is this gene? What is this protein? And it's RNF, so that's ring finger containing protein 130 and ring stands for really interesting new gene. Somebody came up with the glorious name. But proteins that contain this ring domain are very characteristic and they are E3 ubiquitin ligases. And so they conjugate the addition of ubiquitin to a target protein and that signals for that protein to either be internalized and/or degraded through different decorative pathways within the cell. And so we didn't land on it because we were looking at E3 ligases, we really came at it from an LDL cholesterol perspective. And it was something that we hadn't worked on before and the study sort of blossomed from there.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              That's amazing and a beautiful, but also, I'm sure, heartbreaking story because these long projects are just... They're bears. So what does this RNF130 do to LDLR? What'd you guys find?   Bethan Clifford:               As Liz said, this is a long process, but one of the key factors of RNF130 is it's structurally characteristically looked like E3 ligase. So the first thing that Liz did and then I followed up with in the lab is to see is this E3 ligase ubiquitinating in vitro. And if it is going to ubiquitinate, what's it likely to regulate that might cause changes in plasma cholesterol that would explain these human genetic links that we saw published at the same time.   And so because the LDL cholesterol is predominantly regulated by the LDL receptor and the levels of it at the surface of the parasites in the liver, the first question we wanted to see is does RNF130 interact in any way with that pathway? And I'm giving you the brief view here of the LDL receptor. We obviously tested lots of different receptors. We tested lots of different endocytose receptors and lipid regulators, but the LDL receptor is the one that we saw could be ubiquitinated by RNF130 in vitro. And so then we wanted to sort of go on from there and establish, okay, if this E3 ubiquitin ligase, is it regulating LDL receptor? What does that mean in an animal context in terms of regulating LDL cholesterol?   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah, and I guess we should also explain, ubiquitination, in terms of this receptor, and I guess related to Goldstein and Brown and receptor mediated endocytosis, like what does that actually mean for the liver cell and the cholesterol in the LDLR that is binding the receptor?   Bethan Clifford:               So yes, ubiquitination is a really common regulatory mechanism actually across all sorts of different cells, all sorts of different receptors and proteins. And basically what it does is it signals for degradation of a protein. So a ubiquitin molecule is conjugated to its target such as in our case the LDL receptor and that ubiquitin tells the cell that this protein is ready for proteasomal degradation. And that's just one of the many things ubiquitination can do. It can also signal for a trafficking event, it can signal for a protein to protein interaction, but it's most commonly associated with the proteasomal degradation.     Cindy St. Hilaire:              So in terms of... I guess I'm thinking in terms of PCSK9, right? So those drugs are stemming from observations in humans, right? There were humans with gain and loss of function mutations, which caused either more or less of this LDLR receptor internalization. How is this RNF130 pathway different from the PCSK9 activities?   Elizabeth Tarling:             Yeah, so PCSK9 is a secreted protein, so it's made by hepatocyte and actually other cells in the body and it's secreted and it binds to the LDL particle, LDL receptor complex, and signals for its internalization and degradation in the proteasome. So this is not ubiquitination event, this is a completely different trafficking event. And so the RNF130, actually what Bethan showed, is it directly ubiquitinates the LDL receptor itself, signaling for an internalization event and then ultimately degradation of the LDR receptor through a decorative pathway, which we also define in the study.   So these are two unique mechanisms and actually some key studies that we did in the paper were to modulate RNF130 in animals that do not have PCSK9. And so in that system where in the absence of PCSK9 you have a lot of LDR receptor in the liver that's internalizing cholesterol. What happens when you overexpress RNF130? Do you still regulate at the LDL receptor? And you absolutely do. And so that again suggests that they're two distinct mechanisms and two distinct pathways.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              That was one thing I really loved about your paper is every kind of figure or section, the question that would pop up in my head, even ones that didn't pop in my head were beautifully answered with some of these really nice animal models, which is never an easy thing, right? And so one of the things that you brought up was difficulty in making one of the animal models. And so I'm wondering if you could share a little bit for that challenge. I think one thing that we always tend to hide is just science is hard and a lot of what we do doesn't work. And I really think especially for the trainees and really everyone out there, if we kind of share these things more, it's better. So what was one of the most challenging things in this study? And I guess I'm thinking about that floxed animal.   Elizabeth Tarling:             Yeah, so I'll speak a bit about that and then I'll let Bethan address because she was really the one on the ground doing a lot of the struggles. But again, we actually weren't going to include this information in the paper. And upon discussion and actually prompted by the reviewers of the paper and some of the questions that they asked us, we realized, you know what? It's actually really important to show this and show that this happens and that there are ways around it.   And so the first story is before Bethan even arrived in the lab, we had purchased embryonic stem cells that were knockout first condition already. And so this is a knockout strategy in which the exon of interest is flanked with lots of P sites so that you can create a flox animal, but also so you can create a whole body knockout just by the insertion of this knockout first cassette.   Elizabeth Tarling:             And so we got those mice actually in the first year of Bethan joining the lab. We finally got the chimeric mice and we were able to stop reading those mice. And at the same time we tried to generate our flox animals so that we could move on to do tissue-specific studies. And Bethan can talk about the pain associated with this. But over two years of breeding, we never got the right genotypes from the different crosses that you need to do to generate the flox animal.   And it was actually in discussions with Bethan where we decided we need to go back. We need to go back to those ESLs that we purchased five years ago and we need to figure out if all of the elements that the quality control step had told us were in place are actually present. And so Bethan went back and sequenced the whole locus and the cassette to figure out what pieces were present and we found that one of the essential locks P sites that's required for every single cross from the initial animal was absent and therefore we could actually never make the mouse we wanted to make.   And so that's sort of just a lesson for people going down that route and making these tools that we need in the lab to answer these questions is that despite paying extra money and getting all of the sort of QCs that you can get before you receive the ESLs, we should have gone back and done our own housekeeping and sort of a long journey told us when we went back that we didn't have what we thought we had at the beginning. And that was a real sticking point as Bethan can-   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah. And so you know you're not alone. My very first postdoc that I did, I went with a mouse that they had also bought and were guaranteed that it was a knockout and it was not. And it is a painful lesson, but it is critical to... You get over it.   So Bethan, maybe you can also tell us a little bit about what are the other kind of next things you tried? You pivoted and you pivoted beautifully because all the models you used I thought were quite elegant in terms of exactly asking the question you wanted to ask in the right cells. So can you maybe explain some of the in vivo models you used for this study?   Bethan Clifford:               Sure, there are definitely a lot. So I mean I think Liz sort of encapsulated the trouble we have with the knockout really succinctly, but actually I want to just take this moment to sort of shout out to another postdoc in the Tarling lab, Kelsey Jarrett, who was really instrumental in the pivoting to a different model. So for the knockouts when we sort of established we didn't have exactly what we thought we did and then to compound that we also weren't getting the DeLiAn ratios breeding this whole body knockout.   We wanted to sort of look at a more transient knockout model. And that's where Kelsey really stepped in and sort of led the way and she generated AAV-CRISPR for us to target RNF130 specifically in the liver. And that had the added beauty of, one, not requiring breeding to get over this hurdle of the knockout being somewhat detrimental to breeding. But it also allowed us to ask the question of what RNF130 is doing specifically in the liver where the liver regulates LDL receptor and LDL cholesterol.   And so that was one of the key models that really, really helped get this paper over the finish line. But we did a whole barrage of experiments, as you've seen. We wanted to make sure... One of the key facets of the Tarling lab is whenever you do anything, no matter what you show Liz, it will always be, "Okay, you showed it to me one way, now show it to me a different way." Can you get the same result coming at it from different ways? And if you can't, why is that? What is the regulation behind that? And so that's really what the paper is doing is asking the same question in as many ways as we can accurately and appropriately probe what RNF130 does to the LDR receptor.   So we tried gain of function studies without adenovirus overexpression. We tried transient knockdown with antisense oligonucleotides, and then we did, as I said, the AAV-CRISPR knockdown with the help of Kelsey and our whole body knockout. And then we also repeated some of these studies such as the adenovirus and the ASO in specific genetic backgrounds. So in the absence of PCSK9, can we still regulate the LDL receptor? And then we also, just to really confirm this, in the absence of the LDL receptor, do we see a difference? And the answer is no, because this effect was really dependent on that LDL receptor being present. So there was a big combination.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              It was really nice, really a beautiful step-wise progression of how to solidly answer this question. But a lot of, I think, almost all you did was in mice. And so what is the genetic evidence for relevancy in humans? Can you discuss a little bit about those databases that you then went to to investigate, is this relevant in humans?   Bethan Clifford:               I think Liz might be better off answering that question.   Elizabeth Tarling:             And I think this sort of pivots on what Bethan was saying. So when we had struggles in the lab, it was a team environment and a collaboration between people in the lab that allowed us to make that leap and make those next experiments possible to then really answer that question. And to be able to include the antisense oligonucleotides required a collaboration with industry. We were very lucky to have a longstanding collaboration with Ionis, who provided the antisense oligonucleotides.   And for the human genetics side of things, that also was a collaboration with Marcus Seldin, who was a former postdoc with Jake Lusis and is now our PI at UC Irvine. And what he helped us do is dive into those summary level databases and ask from that initial study in the NHLBI care population, do we see associations of RNF130 expression in humans with LDL cholesterol with cardiovascular outcomes. And so one database which I would recommend everybody use, it's publicly available, is the StarNet database. And it's in the paper and the website is there. And that allowed us to search for RNF130.   Elizabeth Tarling:             And what it does is it asks how RNF130 expression in different tissues is associated with cardiometabolic outcomes and actual in CAD cases and controls, so people with and without heart disease. And we found that expression of RNF130 in the liver was extremely strongly correlated with the occurrence of cardiovascular disease in people with CAD. So in cases versus controls. And then we were also able to find many other polymorphisms in the RNF130 locus that were associated with LDL cholesterol in multiple different studies.   And I think the other message from this paper is this, unlike PCSK9 and unlike LDR receptor itself, which are single gene mutations that cause cardiovascular disease, there are many sub genome-wide significant loci that contribute to this multifactorial disease, which is extremely complex. And I think RNF130 falls within that bracket that those sort of just on the borderline of being genome-wide significant still play significant biological roles in regulating these processes. And they don't come up as a single gene hit for a disease, but combinatorialy they are associated with increased risk of disease and they have a molecular mechanism that's associated with the disease. And so that's what Marcus helped us do in terms of the human genetics is really understand that and get down to that level of data.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah. Yeah, it really makes you want to go back and look at those. Everyone always focuses on that really high peak and those analyses, but what are all those other ones above the noise, right? So it's really important.   Elizabeth Tarling:             I think it's really hard to do that. I think that's one where people... Again, it comes down to team science and the group of people that we brought together allowed us to ask that molecular question about how that signal was associated with the phenotype. I think by ourselves we wouldn't have been able to do it.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah. So your antisense oligonucleotide experiments, they were really nice. They showed, I think it was a four-week therapy, they showed that when you injected them expression of RNF130 went down by 90%. I think cholesterol in the animals was lowered by 50 points or so. Is this kind of a next viable option? And I guess related to that, cholesterol's extremely important for everything, right? Cell membrane integrity, our neurons, all sorts of things. Is it possible with something that is perhaps really as powerful as this to make cholesterol too low?   Elizabeth Tarling:             I think that what we know from PCSK9 gain and loss of function mutations is that you can drop your plasma cholesterol to very low levels and still be okay because there are people walking around with mutations that do that. I think RNF130 is a little different in that it's clearly regulatory in a homeostatic function in that it's ubiquitously expressed and it has this role in the liver to regulate LDL receptor availability, but there are no homozygous loss of function mutants people walking around, which tells us something else about how important it is in potentially other tissues and in other pathways. And we've only just begun to uncover what those roles might be.   So I think that as a therapy, it has great potential. We need to do a lot more studies to sort of move from rodent models into more preclinical models. But I do think that the human data tell us that it's really important in other places too. And so yeah, we need to think about how best it might work as a therapy. If it's combinatorial, if it's dosed. Those are the types of things that we need to think about.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah, it's really exciting. Do you know, are there other protein targets of RNF130? Is that related to my next question of what is next?   Elizabeth Tarling:             I mean, so I should point out, so Bethan unfortunately left the lab last year for a position at Amgen where she's working on obesity and metabolic disease. But before she left, she did two very, very cool experiments searching for new targets or additional targets of RNF130. Starting in the liver, but hopefully we'll move those into other tissues. And so she did gain of function RNF130 versus what loss of function we have of RNF130, and she did specific mass spec analysis of proteins that are ubiquitinated in those different conditions. And by overlaying those data sets, we're hoping to carve out new additional targets of RNF130. And there are some, and they're in interesting pathways, which we have yet to completely test, but definitely there are additional pathways, at least when you overexpress and reduce expression. Now, whether they turn out to be, again, bonafide in vivo, actual targets that are biologically meaningful is sort of the next step.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              Yeah. Well, I'm sure with your very rigorous approach, you are going to find out and hopefully we'll see it here in the future. Dr Elizabeth Tarling and Dr Bethan Clifford, thank you so much for joining me today. I really enjoyed this paper. It's a beautiful study. I think it's a beautiful example, especially for trainees about kind of thoroughly and rigorously going through and trying to test your hypothesis. So thanks again.   Elizabeth Tarling:             Thank you.   Bethan Clifford:               Thank you very much.   Cindy St. Hilaire:              That's it for the highlights from the March 31st and April 14th issues of Circulation Research. Thank you for listening. Please check out the Circulation Research Facebook page and follow us on Twitter and Instagram with the handle @CircRes, and #DiscoverCircRes. Thank you to our guests, Dr Liz Tarling and Dr Bethan Clifford.   This podcast is produced by Ishara Ratnayaka, edited by Melissa Stoner, and supported by the editorial team of Circulation Research. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire, and this is Discover CircRes, you're on-the-go source for the most exciting discoveries in basic cardiovascular research.   This program is copyright of the American Heart Association 2022. The opinions expressed by speakers in this podcast are their own, and not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association. For more information, visit ahajournals.org.  

Brian T. Hervey serves as the vice chancellor for University Advancement and Alumni Relations and the president of the UCI Foundation at the University of California, Irvine. He provides leadership over all aspects of the university's fundraising programs, alumni relations and development initiatives. Before his appointment as vice chancellor, Brian served as associate vice chancellor for UCI Health Advancement.Prior to joining UCI, Brian led successful multimillion dollar fundraising campaigns at Scott & White Healthcare Foundation as its vice president for philanthropy and communications. In this role, he supervised staff in the areas of major gift development, communications and planned giving for the Baylor Scott & White Health Central Division, which included 14 hospitals and over 65 clinics in central Texas. Previously, he was director of institutional advancement at Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) College of Medicine.Brian holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Texas A&M University. He is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and a Certified Gift Planning Professional (CGPP). Additionally, Brian served as the chair for development on the institutional advancement steering committee for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and has presented at conferences on advancement topics for the AAMC, Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) and Council for Advancement and Support of Higher Education (CASE).

This week, Alex sits down with Dr. Michele Goodwin, who walks us through the history of American laws restricting reproductive rights for women, from involuntary reproductive servitude in the times of slavery to denying pregnant women access to life-saving healthcare today. Michele Goodwin is an acclaimed bioethicist, constitutional law scholar, and prolific author who serves as the Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine, where she directs the Center of Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She serves on the executive committee and national board of the American Constitution Society and previously on the executive committee of the ACLU, and she was the first woman to be elected Secretary General of the International Academy of Law & Mental Health. She is the author/editor of six books, including Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. She ranks among the most cited professors in the field of bioethics, and is a sought after public commentator, having been featured in print, radio, and television news. Dr. Goodwin is also the Executive Producer of Ms. Studios, and host of the podcast, On The Issues with Michele Goodwin. Connect with Michele! Instagram: @michelebgoodwin Website: michelebgoodwin.com Follow us on: Instagram: @obsessedwiththebestpod YouTube: Obsessed With The Best TikTok: @obsessedwiththebestpod Take advantage of our discount codes! BetterHelp Use code: OBSESSED at checkout for 10% off your first month of virtual therapy! www.betterhelp.com Ombre Lab Use code: OBSESSED at checkout for $30 off your first at-home gut health test! www.ombrelab.com BeautyCounter Shop with us at beautycounter.com/obsessed and we'll gift you free beauty samples with your purchase! For first-time shoppers, enter code: CLEANFORALL20 at checkout for 20% off your first order! K.Ferrara Color Use code: OBSESSED15 for 15% off your clean nail polish or hand cream order! www.kferraracolor.com Plant People Use code: obsessedwiththebest at checkout for 15% off your purchase of Doctor-formulated, regenerative plant and mushroom supplements from Plant People! https://www.plantpeople.co Avani Derm Spa Skincare Get 10% off ANY Avani Derm Spa store product with code: obsessed10 at checkout! Visit dermspastore.com Shop Obsessed With The Best Merch! https://obsessed-with-the-best.creator-spring.com/ Contact us at obsessedwiththebestpod@gmail.com with any questions, comments, and product or guest suggestions! Support us by supporting our host network, DimlyWit Productions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we explore:What is trauma?How sexual trauma impacts an individualWhy we need a somatic approach to healingHow trauma-informed yoga supports survivors of sexual traumaThe importance of trauma-informed training for yoga teachersThe challenges Zabie has overcome to offer her workTools & resources for survivorsZabie Yamasaki, M.Ed., RYT (she/her) is the Founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga which is an organization that offers trauma-informed yoga to survivors, consultation for universities and trauma agencies, and training for healing professionals. Zabie has trained thousands of yoga instructors and mental health professionals and her trauma-informed yoga program and curriculum is now being implemented at over 30 college campuses and trauma agencies including the University of California (UC) system, Stanford, Yale, USC, University of Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University.Zabie received her undergraduate in Psychology and Social Behavior and Education at UC Irvine and completed her graduate degree in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs at The George Washington University. Her work has been highlighted on CNN, NBC, KTLA 5, and The Huffington Post.Zabie is widely recognized for her intentionality, soulful activism, and passionate dedication to her field. She is a trauma-informed yoga instructor, resilience and well-being educator, and a sought after consultant and keynote speaker. She has worked with thousands of survivors to support them in their healing journey, ground them in their own worthiness and remind them they are inherently whole. Zabie centers survivors in her work, and provides them with tools to help uncover trauma imprints, support the healing process, create balance of the nervous system, and lessen the grip that past experiences of trauma may have on the heart.She is a survivor, mother, partner, daughter, sister, friend, and activist. She has received countless awards in victim services and leadership, including the Visionary in Victim Services award from one of the largest rape crisis centers in California and the Voice of Courage Award from Exhale to Inhale. She is the author of the book and affirmation deck published by Norton: Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion.Website: zabieyamasaki.comInstagram:  @transcending_trauma_with_yogaFacebook: Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga __To join the Sun & Moon Community Membership: https://sunandmoonsoberliving.com/membership/Follow @sunandmoon.soberliving on InstagramDisclaimer: The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. 

Today, we sit down with Dr. Michelle S. Min, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at UC Irvine's School of Medicine. As a professional that specializes in dermatology-rheumatology, Dr. Min deals with a wide range of skin disorders – from psoriatic disease to lupus… Dr. Min graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine in 2016, and since then, she has continued to refine her role as both a clinician and researcher of dermatology. Wondering how her work has developed over the years? Tune in now to see for yourself! Offer: Magnesium is integral for 600+ biochemical processes in the human body. The common misconception is that consuming more magnesium will automatically improve health and well-being. The truth is that there are various forms of magnesium, each of which is essential for a variety of physiological processes. Most people are inadequate in all forms of magnesium, while even those considered "healthy" typically only ingest 1 or 2 kinds. Consuming all 7 of magnesium's primary forms is the key to accessing all its health benefits.That's why we packed 7 forms of 450mg of elemental magnesium into each serving of  Wild Mag Complex. One dose a day is all you need. Learn more and grab a bottle today at WildFoods.co. Use code GENIUS for 10% off your order.   Jump into the conversation now to learn about: What dermatology is, and how Dr. Min got interested in it. The most tricky types of skin disorders that dermatologists deal with.  How drug-triggered rashes are treated. How technological advancements make dermatological practice easier. Want to find out more about Dr. Min and her work? Click here now! Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

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I met Kenny Aronoff through LinkedIn and thought he would be a fairly interesting podcast guest. Boy, was I wrong! Not fairly interesting, but incredibly interesting and fascinating.   As you will learn, Kenny was named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 100 drummers of all time. In his biography, you will see a partial list of the people and bands that have benefited from his talents.   You will get to hear how he eventually decided to start playing modern music. This story is one in a million and it, I must say, captivated me right from the outset. I hope it will do the same for you. I do hope you enjoy it. I'm not going to give it away. Listen and see for yourself.     About the Guest:   Kenny Aronoff is one of the world's most influential and in demand session and live drummers. Rolling Stone Magazine, in fact, cited him as one of the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” and Modern Drummer named him #1 Pop/Rock Drummer and #1 Studio Drummer for five consecutive years. The list of artists he's worked with on the road and/or in the studio reads like a who's who of the music industry, and includes:    John Mellencamp, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Sting, The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Gibbons, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Bob Seger, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Jon Bon Jovi, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Steven Tyler, Dave Grohl, Chris Cornell, Garth Brooks, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge, Keith Urban, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Beyonce, Mick Jagger, Slash, Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Martin, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, Celine Dion, Lenny Kravitz, Vince Gill, The Buddy Rich Big Band, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland, Hans Zimmer and many others.    With a style of playing that combines power and finesse, his unique and versatile sound has been instrumental on over 60 Grammy-nominated or awarded recordings representing over 300 million in sales, with more than 1300 that were RIAA certified Gold, Platinum or Diamond.    Kenny's winning approach to drumming and to life has given him the ability to sustain a successful career for over four decades.                                                                                                                                     In addition to performing and creating amazing music, Kenny is an inspirational speaker.He talks about Living Your Life by Your Purpose, Teamwork Skills, Innovation, Creativity, Hard Work, Self Discipline, Perseverance, and staying Relevant in your career and life.  Striving to always be better have been the tools that have kept Kenny at the top of his game for over four decades.     Author is the most recent addition to his long line of credits.  Sex, Drums, Rock ‘n' Roll! The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business (Backbeat Books, November 15, 2016). This is not about sex; it is about the same passion that drives us all to be the best we can be doing what we love with those with whom we want to share our talents.    How to Connect with Kenny:   IG   https://www.instagram.com/kennyaronoff/   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KennyAronoffOfficial   Twitter  https://twitter.com/AronoffOFFICIAL   Linkedin   https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennyaronoff/   TicTok  https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=kennyaronoffofficial&t=1660858209914   Website    https://kennyaronoff.com   Youtube https://www.youtube.com/kennyaronoffofficial   Uncommon Studios LA  https://uncommonstudiosla.com         About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Welcome once again to unstoppable mindset. I get to do something today. I have not done on this podcast before. But I've been looking forward to it for quite a while. I get to talk to a real live still absolutely functioning incredible man who is also a musician Kenny Aronoff has been a drummer for four decades he has played with basically anyone that you can imagine, although I'm going to try to stump him with one in a second here. But he's played with all of the people in the who's who have music no matter who they are. And and I'm so really excited to have the chance to talk with with him today. So Kenny, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Kenny Aronoff  02:08 Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.   Michael Hingson  02:11 All while stump you right at the outset. Have you ever played with George Shearing   Kenny Aronoff  02:14 is that the guitar player who   Michael Hingson  02:16 does know George Shearing was a blind jazz pianist? He died?   Kenny Aronoff  02:20 Okay, I know. I'm thinking is that your is another guy had a close name? No, I never did. Well, there   Michael Hingson  02:25 you go. Oh, well, I found one. Well, I don't know he had a trio that he worked with. But I don't know how much he worked with a number of people primarily he played on his own. So it's not too surprising. But that's okay. But Stevie Wonder John Mellencamp Mellencamp. And have you ever. Oh, I gotta ask Have you ever played with Michael Buble? A.   Kenny Aronoff  02:51 Singer, I think he came onstage for one of these big events. Well, I play with everybody. I think I did play with Michael Boulais. He was one of the guests shows we were honoring whoever was, you know, I'll play with 25 artists in one show. Yeah. Might have. He may have been paired up with somebody else singing. Yeah. So I think I did.   Michael Hingson  03:11 Well, you know, we finally got to see him in Las Vegas. He's been my wife's idol for a long time. And I don't I enjoy him too. He's He's a singer who is saying the Great American Songbook, a lot of the old songs and all that. And he was in Vegas earlier this year. And so we got to go see him. And we actually really were very fortunate because we, we were escorted in early because my wife was in a wheelchair. And so they brought us in. And then the Azure came about five minutes before the show started and said, I've got two tickets that haven't been used down in the orchestra pit and they said I could give them to someone. Would you guys like them if the seats accessible? So of course, we said, Sure. Well, it was and we ended up being 18 rows from the stage, actually two rows in front of his family. And we got to see it was it was great. It was a wonderful concert. So   Kenny Aronoff  04:04 yeah, he's very, very talented. He's created his own niche in his own style. And that's a hard thing to do.   Michael Hingson  04:09 It is. But but he has done it. Well with you. Let's start like I love to start. Tell me a little bit about growing up and where you came from, and all that kind of stuff. Well, I   Kenny Aronoff  04:19 grew up in a very unique little town in western Mass, a group and like an old country farmhouse in the hills of Western Massachusetts to be whatever town was Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Maybe 3000 people but what was unique about that town, it was basically a slice of New York City. I mean, New York City was three hours away. Boston was two hours away. And there was a lot of arts. A lot of you know you had theater people there you had the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the next town over Atlanta, Lenox mass, which is three miles away. You had, you know, Sigmund Freud's protege, Erik Erikson, the wintertime Norman Rockwell, the illustrator lived in our town and he I used to go over to his house and me my twin brother. We I think we were in second grade. We should still cigarettes from him. We had a, you know, let's see. Norman Mailer was the next house down for me when you couldn't see anybody's houses where I lived. It was all woods and fields. But Norman Mailer, the great writer was right down the street from me. Another eighth of a mile was a Patty Hearst used to live in the house which they she had rented from the Sedgwick family, which is where Edie Edie Sedgwick came from that family. Down the bottom of the hill was a summer stock theatre where a lot of actors would come up from New York to get out of the city. So I met like, you know, people like Franklin Joe of Faye Dunaway and Bancroft, Arthur Penn, the movie director lived in our town, and so he would direct some place there. Goldie Hawn, which Dreyfus, they went on and on it. And this, this seemed normal to me. I didn't realize Daniel Chester French, who, whose was the sculptor, who did you know, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, he he at one point did our area. And when I went to Tanglewood, which is the most elite student orchestra in the country, if not the world, took me four years to get in there. But it's won by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They only take seven percussionist in the whole world, when you when you audition, I literally failed three years in a row. And in my fourth attempt, I got in, but on that property is Nathaniel Hawthornes house. And he wrote The Scarlet Letter. I mean, I can just go on and on this area was just an extraordinarily extraordinary place to grow up with it was so many arts and intellectual people. But the thing that was amazing about this town was that it didn't matter. If you had money or had lots of money, everybody, you know, houses one locked keys were left in cars. It was a community. It was a it was a community where people support each other. So it's a great place to grow up.   Michael Hingson  07:13 That's one of the things I've always liked about Massachusetts. I lived in Winthrop for three years back in the well, late 1970s, early 1980s. But I always enjoyed the camaraderie and it was really hard to break into the community. If you were from the outside and I was viewed as an as an outsider, though I worked as hard as I could to, you know, to try to be involved. But if you weren't from there, it was really tough. By the same token, people were very kind to me, so I can't complain a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty good. And I was you actually beat me to the question I was going to ask you if you had ever made it over to Tanglewood. I never got to go up in here the symphony in in the winter in the summer. But I did needless to say get over to hear the pops on several occasions and and that was fun. And there's nothing like the Boston Pops. There's other than a Boston Symphony for that matter, either.   Kenny Aronoff  08:13 Well, I got to perform timpani on that stage. And with Leonard Bernstein, conducting Sibelius Fifth Symphony Orchestra, which is a feature of the timpani in and it's, it was incredible. So you know, my parents saw Easter dragged me to the concerts I didn't really want to go. And I ended up then being in we actually did Fourth of July with Arthur Fiedler. And apart from mingled in with   Michael Hingson  08:40 the half shell. Yeah. So you went to school, went to high school and all that, how long did you live there?   Kenny Aronoff  08:48 Well, I lived in non stop until I was 18. After 18, I went to one year at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which is about an hour down the road. And then I transferred Well, what I did was I got into the Aspen School of Music, one by Julliard after my freshman year. And that's where George gave me the professor of Indiana University School of Music, now called the Jacobs School of Music. He was a he went to the percussion department at the school and this is the number one school of music in the country, if not the world. Yeah. And I wanted then I liked this guy. He was so deep. He was more than just a percussionist. He's a philosopher and a well rounded man. Anyway, I wanted to follow him and go to Indiana University. You have to realize I mean, Indiana was the best school and so I wanted to be in that school. And I demanded an audition up there and he tried to talk me out of it. Try to come back in January and will audition then. Then I said, Absolutely not. I want to audition. Now. I don't want to come to Indiana University, from the Aspen School of Music. It was a summer program. I convinced him I did audition, you had to audition for four different departments to get in. And it just so happened that they had people from four different departments that are you teaching up there like brass, woodwinds, violin percussion. And I auditioned, got in and spent four years at Indiana University. Now, that's when I started to spend more time away from home. Because you know, I was gone. You know, I come home for Christmas and summer, but that was pretty much it. Yeah. And it was an incredible education.   Michael Hingson  10:35 What? So, you, as you said, were dragged kicking and screaming to concerts and so on What changed your mind?   Kenny Aronoff  10:46 When I started to actually study classical music and start to perform in orchestras, I, I appreciate every style of music, and especially if it's done, right. And I've really, really enjoyed classical music. I mean, it was even though when I was a kid, and once rock'n'roll came out, it was like, you know, how was the classical music, but it was still on the soundtrack. To my upbringing, my parents had classical music and jazz on the turntable. They were from New York City. And that was very popular in that that time for them. So I didn't most keep the kid I had too much energy to sit and watch a concert, but performing it, you know, it was a different story. And then I became really good, eventually got into the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra after I graduated Indiana University. And I actually turned it down, which was a shock to everybody. Because I'd spent five years becoming great at classical music. And I turned it down. Because I mean, and thank God I did is because I was following my heart, my deepest desires, my bliss, or your, you know, whatever you want to call it, I wanted to still be in rock bottom open. Now, let me back up a little bit when I was 10 years old, playing outside of that country farmhouse. And there was nothing to watch on TV back then. There was no case not   Michael Hingson  12:12 much more now, either. But yeah, with the so what year was that?   Kenny Aronoff  12:17 That was 19. I want to say 1950 1963 or 64. And maybe mom yelled at me, my twin brother come in the house. And we were like, Oh my God, what do we do wrong? You know, like, we thought we'd done something wrong. And what it was that we come running across the lawn, and we'll get to the family room, she's pointed a black and white RCA TV set with the rabbit ears to get better reception. And on TV. Also never, you know, for guys playing rock and roll music, you know, electric cars and bass, that long hair, and I don't know who they are. But I heard rock and roll on radio, but I'd never seen it live. And I. I mean, I was at that very split second, I realized what my purpose in life was before I even knew what those words meant. And I just knew I wanted to be doing that. I wanted to be part of that. I want to be part of a team of guys that's playing music, like they are and I said to my mom, who are these guys said, Well, they're the Beatles, The Beatles, I want to be in the Beatles call him up, get me in the band. And give me a drum set. I don't want to play piano anymore. Anyway, she obviously didn't call the Beatles up and didn't get me a drum set. So that was where I was really blown away and realize this is what I want to do. So when I turned on the Jews from Symphony Orchestra, I turned out certainty for possibility or turns down certainty for you know, complete uncertainty. And that was that one we wanted to it's what Yeah, to do. Exactly. And thank God, I followed my heart because obviously it paid off. But it was a struggle, man, it was like took a long time for me to eventually run into a guy like John Mellencamp, who he took a chance with me, and then took a long time for me to, you know, plan a song, play a drums on a song that got on the record, you know, when I first got in the band that I had only and the reason why I got in the middle of combat is because I got the last record that they had, and they were looking for a drummer, and I just memorized everything that all these other drummers did on the record. And well, in that case, it was just wondering what but they I memorize him he played in so I won the audition. And five weeks later, we were making a record in Los Angeles. And I realized that you know, or the producer basically fired me after two days, because I had no experience with making records, you know, to get songs on the radio to be number one hits, and I was devastated. You know, I was like hey, but I played with Bernstein and Bernstein and didn't matter. I had No experience. I didn't understand the value of teamwork the level of it's not about me it's about we it's not about what I'm playing. It's about what can I play to make that song getting the right record that will eventually be played on radio and become a one hit single.   Michael Hingson  15:18 Usually got to add value.   Kenny Aronoff  15:21 Well value to the team   Michael Hingson  15:22 that was the most that's what I mean by adding Yeah,   Kenny Aronoff  15:25 yeah. Because you know, when you try to be great at anything, it's all about you. It's all about me. But to be Tom Brady are a great you know, a leader and be a great you know, do something great for the team. It is about the team. It's not about you serve the band, serve the song serve, whoever's in there. You know, serve, what can I do to get that song to be elevated to be a number one hit single? Because if you if you become an if you have a number one hits, surely you're gonna make millions dollars. It's the way it was when I was a kid.   Michael Hingson  16:00 So for you starting out more doing the I oriented kinds of things, but then moving to the we mentality, which is essentially what I hear you say, how did your style change? How did you change? How did it affect what you did?   Kenny Aronoff  16:17 Well, I wasn't thinking about just what I want to play. I was thinking about what can I do to get this song on the radio so in and I had to think about how I can be the greatest drummer I can be for John Cougar Mellencamp songs. So I started don't my plane down and made it simple and started to simplify what I was doing. And that really worked. I started this into Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater, Bad Company, groups, where the drummers were playing with authority. They had they pick the right beat, they kept time, they made it groove. But ultimately, it was to make those songs that song better, you know, and that's what I started changing. I simplified my playing. And I remember thinking, Man, I gotta learn to love this. Because if I don't love this, I'm gonna suck at this. If I suck it this, this, just get another drummer. And so I had to learn how to pivot into serving songs serving the artists.   Michael Hingson  17:15 Did you ever meet Buddy Rich? Absolutely. I've kind of figured, or that other great drummer Johnny Carson.   Kenny Aronoff  17:23 And never met Johnny Carson.   Michael Hingson  17:25 I remember I remember watching a Tonight Show where the two of them Oh, yeah. Did drums together?   Kenny Aronoff  17:32 Oh, it was incredible. But he was tribute record. And that was an such an honor. Playing you know, to to blazing. Well, one was the medium tempo song, big swing face, which was title of an album, and the other was straight, no chaser blazing fast. And it was it was a very meaningful experience for me.   Michael Hingson  17:54 You know, and clearly, you respect that and just listening to you. You, you respect that, that whole mentality and you're approaching it with a humility as opposed to just being conceited, which is, which is great, because that really is what makes for a good team person.   Kenny Aronoff  18:15 Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, once again, at that point, I understand a student serving, you know, serving the song serving the artist, serving you know, whoever, whatever it is, what can I do to be great?   Michael Hingson  18:28 That's cool. So you know, you, you've done that you say you started playing, so was your first maybe big break in the whole rock world with John Mellencamp, or Yeah, it happened after you turn down the Jerusalem symphony.   Kenny Aronoff  18:45 Well, after a turn on juicing shift and went home, I started practicing eight hours a day, seven days a week at my parents house, I humbly moved back home, and still didn't know how I was going to break into the Rock and Roll scene. And after a year, I after a year, I decided to move to Indiana and start a band with a bunch of guys and somebody and one of their dads invested a lot of money into getting as a band truck lights, PA, and the business model was to write songs, get a record deal, record those songs, and then go on tour. And after three years, we didn't get a record deal. And I was like, Man, I don't know what what I'm going to do. So I decided I was going to move to New York City, which is one of the top three centers of the music business. And I ended up a week before moving to New York City. I have lunch with the singer songwriter, woman Bootsy Allen, who asked me what I was doing. I said you have gone to New York. Are you going to crush it good luck. And they said you know there's a guy in town I don't know if you've heard of him is John Coogan guy. He's on MTV, this new network and he's made records, you know, who is this? Yeah, for whatever. I wasn't a big fan of his music. It was very basic. And at that point, I was born to technique and chops, which is something you know, usually when you're young, you're like, you want to do more as more. But she said, yeah, man, he's they just got off tour, they were opening up for kiss. And he fired his drummer last night. And I was like, what, and I was in my head of going thinking the meaning of a god, that's records touring, MTV, oh, my God, this this is like being in the Beatles. This is what I dreamed about. I went running out of the restaurant, went to a payphone and called up books, there was no cell phones, and I call up my buddy Mike, and in the band and said, Look, I hear you might be looking for a drummer that got audition. He said, Call me back in two weeks, and we're going to try to sort some things out. And eventually, I do get a call, oh, he called me back. And I did audition. And long and short of it is I, I won the audition, because I prepared intensely practicing six, eight hours a day, trying to learn all the drum parts that were on the last record, a winning audition. And five, we say well, now Nellie making the record which I got fired on, as I mentioned,   Michael Hingson  21:20 then what happened after you got fired?   Kenny Aronoff  21:23 Well, that was crucial. That was a life changing moment, when John said, with a producer, I thought it was John, but it was a producer wanted to get this record done. And I had no experience making records. So he wanted to get it done in eight weeks, which is not a very long time to go toward a new band and do overdubs, get vocals and mix and master. So he wanted to bring in his drummers. And when we had a band meeting, and I kind of knew I could tell something wasn't right, my my spidey sense that something's not right. We had a band meeting and John told me I'm not playing on the record. And the words came out of my mouth and life changing. And he said, You go home at the end of the week, I said, No friggin way. Am I going home. And I remember the band looking like Oh, my God. Can't believe K Dick. Because you know, John was pretty tough guy is pretty tough. And so they felt what's gonna happen next. See what happened was happening there. As I was overwhelmed. I felt like a loser. I felt like a piece of crap. I felt like just I was every negative thing sad, you know, depressed, and I was bummed. He was stealing my purpose, my whole deepest desires. My whole reason that I'm alive. He was taking that for me. I just said, There's no way and I told them, I'm not going home. And that'd be like me telling you, you're fired. And you go, No, I'm not. I'm like, Dude, you're fired. And like, No, I'm not. And What don't you understand about the words you're fired? So I just, I mean, I am. I said, Well, due to my studio drummer, what? And he goes, Well, yeah, but you're not playing on the record. And I started scrambling, I said, Well, I'll go in the studio and watch these other drummers play my drum parts on your record, and I'll learn from them and I'll get better. And that's good. Fuchs, I'm your drummer. He was silent, didn't say a word. Shit. We're okay. You don't have to pay me, I'll sleep on the couch. And then he said, perfect. And that's what happened. And that was a life changing moment. Because if I had gone home, who knows what would have happened, maybe you've gotten another drummer. So that was a jaunt. To me in my autobiography, sex, drugs, rock and roll, he was saying, Wow, he really respected me for that, at that moment, he didn't realize I had that, you know, that I cared that much. And I would, you know, stand up to him and demand to be there. And he respected me for that. So how, yeah,   Michael Hingson  24:02 how much of it was ego and how much of it was really following your heart at that moment?   Kenny Aronoff  24:07 It was more about fear. And about following my heart, okay. No, I was like, I see what you mean about ego. I didn't want to go back home and I would have been ashamed to go back home and, and but but the fear of losing this gig and the fear of the unknown and what comes next was making me want to fight for what I had.   Michael Hingson  24:31 Yeah, um, you know, when there are a lot of people who are excellent in their fields, and they think very highly of themselves, which is fine, except that really detracts from the the team orientation which I know you understand full well. And so, it it's great to hear that it was really more following your heart and really you wanting to do the right thing. and having the courage of your convictions?   Kenny Aronoff  25:03 Well, yeah, I mean, I didn't see any other way out. And I've been banging my head trying to make it for four years after turning down the Jerusalem symphony orchestra. And I was 27. And I thought, Man, I don't know any options. So I want to do this, if I'm going to make this happen. And, you know, if I look back at my life, when I'm passionate about something, I make it happen, you know, it's easy to get along with me, I'm a great team player. But there is definitely a point where I will like, draw a line in the sand. And I might be very nice about it. But um, you know, I this is, I will fight for what I want. And it's usually backed by passion, and desire, and when anything is backed by passion, desire, or purpose, or bliss, or whatever you want to call it, you know, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna get what you want, and it's gonna be hard for people to convince you otherwise. And so yeah, that's pretty much, you know, when John was taking away my, my job, I saw no other options, and I'm seeing torn MTV, regular TV, and making records. And being part of a band that I truly believe was gonna make it and I was like, that, there's no way I was going to just lay down, you know?   Michael Hingson  26:29 Are you a person who reacts to things knee jerk reaction, although they may very right, or would you say that somehow you've internalized and when you make a decision, is because you've really thought it through, which doesn't mean that you have to take a long time to do it. But do you? Do you think that you are the kind of person who when you say, I'm going to do this, it's the right thing to do, is because you've really thought it through?   Kenny Aronoff  26:55 Well, it's both I mean, there's a lot of things I do, because I have thought it through. But there's no question that at any given moment, if something comes across my table, and it strikes me from a place of my heart, not my brain, but my heart, and my passion, I will react. And that's when I'll use my brain to maybe observe and ask questions. But many times I've said Yes, before even, you know, get deep into asking questions when something blows me away, and I'm excited. Paul McCartney called me up and said, I want to make a record with you. I mean, it would just be a mad automatic. Yes. You know, it before it find out no, we're gonna make it in Siberia. And there's no heat in the building or something. And I mean, I'm just gonna say Yes, right away, because it's Paul McCartney. And now Yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson  27:53 Yeah. I mean, that would make sense. But you've also, you've met him, you know, him, you've learned to trust too. So it's not like it is an unintelligent decision to just immediately say, yes.   Kenny Aronoff  28:07 Yeah, I guess with pa Yeah, of course. But I mean, you know, take somebody else, you know, I don't know. Somebody. That I don't really know that well. Sure. You know, and I would if it's the right person, I'm gonna go Yeah, right away.   Michael Hingson  28:23 Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. But still, and the if it's the right person, part of it is very relevant, it still means that you've done some thinking about it. One of the things I love in listening to you tell the stories is like with John Mellencamp, you really said look, I want to learn now, if I'm if I'm your drummer, and there's a problem with this record, and all that, then I want to learn what I need to do. So it will happen again. And the real great part about it is that you say I want to learn, I love people who are always interested in learning and becoming better and don't think so highly of themselves that they don't have anything else to learn.   Kenny Aronoff  29:03 Well, no, that's true. You know, I've I won't mention names, but I remember going up to a very, very famous singer. And I remember saying I could see he was frustrated, trying to explain what he wanted me to do. I got off the drumset when went up to him, I said, Listen to there's nothing I can do. You know, uh, you just have to be very specific about what you want me to do. And I will do it. Because I can do it. And I want to learn I want to be great. I want to and when you're working for an artist, you're in a place of service. So I want to get it I know I can get it. There was just a disconnect for for for the explanation. And that took took a while to work out but the bottom I saw his frustration, but I was trying to let him know dude, I can do anything you want. I'm capable. And I meant.   Michael Hingson  29:55 Again, the operative part is it sounds like you worked it out.   Kenny Aronoff  30:00 Well, I've worked out enough, you know, I've done so many big show. I mean   Michael Hingson  30:03 with with that person, you're able to work it out. Oh, that person? Absolutely. Yep. Yeah, that's my point. And so you do, you do explore. And that is, that's a wonderful trading characteristic that more of us should develop. And we should have confidence in ourselves to know what we're capable of and know what we're capable of learning, and then go forward, which is what I'm hearing from you.   Kenny Aronoff  30:32 Yeah, absolutely.   Michael Hingson  30:35 The first time I did a speech in public after September 11, I got a call from a pastor of a church and he said, I want you to come and tell your story he had then I'd been on Larry King Live two weeks before first time I'd ever been on CNN and Larry King Live, but it was again after September 11. And I was used to being in a in a public setting. So it didn't bother me a lot. But this guy calls up and he says, I want you to come and tell your story. We're going to be doing a service to honor all the people who were lost from New Jersey in the World Trade Center. And I said, Okay, I'm glad to do that. And then I said, just out of curiosity, any idea how large the service will be? How many people will be there? And he said, Well, it's going to be outside probably about 6000. You know, I've never done a speech before. And my immediate reaction was, it didn't bother me. Okay, great. Just wanted to know, and I've done some things in church before, and I've, I've talked in some public settings, but not to do a real speech like that. Yeah. But, you know, I knew that it didn't matter to me if it was 6000 or six, four, for me. There were techniques to learn. And over time, I learned that good speakers don't talk to audiences, they talk with audiences, and they work to engage people and, and when the in their speeches in various ways, and it's so much fun to do that. But 6000 It really just worked out really well. And there were other people there. Lisa beamer was there, her husband was Todd Beamer, the guy on flight 93, who said let's roll and, you know, it's a pretty incredible night and I'll never forget it. But you know, you know what you can do and when you really know your capability, but are willing to share it and grow and learn. What more can somebody ask for?   Kenny Aronoff  32:30 Yeah, I mean, I, my thing about being alive on this planet is to get the most value out of this life. I'm not I hope there's something after this, but whether there is or not, the point is to get the most value out of this life when it's very short. So I'm not wanting to sit, I'm just wired that way. I'm not sitting sitting on a couch, just you know, hanging out on a daily basis. You know, I I've played on 300 million records sold. I've toured with some of the greatest bands in the day, as diverse as you know, the highwomen, which is Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson whether James will Richard to Jerry Lee Lewis to the Smashing Pumpkins and Tony Iommi, from Sabbath to Boston Symphony Orchestra and Ray Charles and BB King to sting to The Beatles and The stones. And I feel fortunate that I get to play with so many different people because you get pigeonholed in my business. You're a rock drummer, you're a country drummer, you're this, you're that drummer. So and that that definitely ties into the ability to be able to connect, communicate and collaborate with people because who they want in the room with them. It's not just the most talented musician, it's somebody they want to hang out with. Mellencamp is to say, look at, I need people I get along with, I'm lonely on stage for two and a half hours. While the rest of the time I got to hang out with you guys. So I want people like get along with you. Right? You know, and I get I totally got that. Because the thing is, is that to get what I like about getting the most value out of life is that I'm wired to grow and learn. And the beauty it's a building, you know, a skyscraper, you know, the top only exists because you built the foundation from the bottom, you work your way up and you get, you have to be strong and you build and I don't believe in mistakes or failures. They're just events that get you to the top. And if the words mistakes and failures, bring in negative energy to your body, so I don't even use those words anymore. Everything's an event. Something that doesn't work out the way you want is a learning experience. It's a gift. And I'm like, basically Tom Brady, you know, you're always trying to get into the endzone. If you get if you fumble, you get sacked or whatever. Whatever life is filled with sacks and dropping the ball. He said where are you trying to go? What you Northstar or my North Star is the end zone. So that happened, what did I learn from it? How are we getting in the end zone? And that's where I look at life.   Michael Hingson  35:08 Yeah. Well, and, you know, to to extend your, your thought, I agree about the whole concept of mistakes and failures for me. And people have said it. And I and I firmly agree with, like Zig Ziglar, and others who say that there's no such thing as a mistake. It's a learning experience. And the question is, do you learn from it? And that's the real issue, do you learn from it, and I, I, where, after September 11, I started speaking to people and traveling the country and still do, and enjoy it immensely. But one of the things that I realized over the last three years with the pandemic is that I've never taught people some of the techniques that I learned along the way and used just because they came along, to not be afraid. On September 11, I had developed a mindset that told me that I can observe, I can focus and I don't need to be afraid. So we're starting to actually we're, we just submitted the first draft of a book about learning to control your fear so that you don't be an individual who when something unexpected happens, you let fear as I put it, blind you, you learn how to use that fear to help heighten your senses and direct you. And one of the things that I talk about is the whole concept of how much do you at night take time just to be introspective and look at the day? And what happened today? What what do I learn from this? How could I have done this? I was successful with this, but how could I have been even better? Or this didn't go? Well? Why? And what can I do about it and really think about it, you know,   Kenny Aronoff  37:01 that's good stuff that's very valuable, that says, that's a good way to learn, because you can learn from yourself. And, and, and sometimes we have to repeat things, many, many, many times to finally get the lesson. But if you do what you just said, and you take inventory and what went on that day, you could possibly learn that lesson way quicker.   Michael Hingson  37:24 And I've changed my language a little bit, I used to say that you are you're always going to be your own worst critic. And I realized that's negative. I'd rather say I'm my best teacher, if I allow myself to do it. And that is so true, isn't it?   Kenny Aronoff  37:39 Absolutely. That anything negative, you should throw out the window and pivot it, flip it to the it's always positive. And there's definitely always another narrative. And the positive narrative is always going to serve you better than the negative   Michael Hingson  37:55 always will. There's no great value in being negative and putting yourself down. You can be frustrated by something that didn't go the way you thought, Well, why didn't it? It may very well be that there's a legitimate reason why it didn't work out. But if you figure that out, and you allow yourself to teach you about it, you want to make you won't make the same scenario happen again. You will be successful the next time.   Kenny Aronoff  38:22 Yeah, absolutely. Yep. I totally agree with you on that.   Michael Hingson  38:26 So have you done anything in the music world dealing with rap?   Kenny Aronoff  38:34 I've never been on a rap record. But when you know, I remember being in the Mellencamp band. And that was a long time ago, I left in 96. I remember I was listening to some Snoop Dogg and I was grabbing ideas from those records and bringing it to melachim. That's what we were always encouraged to do. Back then they were budgets long we could make spend nine months making a record. And you could do a whole record sort of way and start from scratch. But I was getting ideas with ideas, loop ideas. I remember making sleigh bells on a song. Super I played sleigh bells on a whole bunch bunch of songs on early records in the 90s. And I copy that and John loved it. It's a different thing. And so yeah, in that regard, I did learn a lot from the rap music.   Michael Hingson  39:22 I've I don't know my my view of rap has always been I think it's a great art form. I'm not sure that I view it in the same musical way that that some people do because it's not so melodic, as it is certainly a lot of poetry and they kind of put poetry and words to to music in the background. But I also believe it's an incredible art form listening to some of the people who do rap. They're clearly incredibly intelligent and they're, they're pouring their hearts out about what they've experienced and what they see sometimes in ways that you don't even hear on regular mute. Music?   Kenny Aronoff  40:01 Oh, yeah. I mean, there's no question that it's, it's a, it's a form of music. It's a reflection of, you know, we're societies that you know, I mean, the arts will always reflect where people are at, and is a huge audience of there's a lot of people that can relate to this whole style of, of music or what rap is. It's a lyrics are very powerful in that they it's mostly centered around a beat and lyrics. And yet a lot of attention is drawn to that, as opposed to just take a band where they have, you know, two guitar players playing melodic lines and the keyboard player melodic line. And there's none of that really going on not not to the extent of of that in rap music. And although some people have added Dr. Dre at a lot of stuff, to the people he's worked with, like Eminem, but still, it's more centered around the voice the person.   Michael Hingson  41:04 And message and the message.   Kenny Aronoff  41:06 Oh, absolutely. The message. But you know, the thing is, is it's you, I guess it's up to everybody decide. You can call it whatever you want. And then it doesn't matter. If somebody's digging it. They did. They don't they don't is that?   Michael Hingson  41:23 Well, it is absolutely an art form. And it's an art form that should be as respected as any. In certainly it is to pardon the pun struck a chord with a lot of people and that's fine. And it's in it's great that there's so much of it going on. So what kind of tours have you been on lately? What kind of music have you done or what's coming up?   Kenny Aronoff  41:46 But I just finished the Joe Satriani tour. He was one of the greatest guitar players on the planet. Because it was just an evening with Joe Satriani. It's a very tech the music is very technical. It was, it was great for me because I was, you know, my, my technique excelled tremendously to play those types of songs. I'm going to Europe with him. See, April, May and how to June for nine weeks doing a thing called G four, which is a camp that he does in Vegas, which will feature the guitar players Eric Carroll, Steve Luthor, Steve Morse, C, Peter Frampton, and a bunch of other people. Basically, when I finished the Joe Satriani tour, I had 85 songs waiting for me to learn. Some of which I recorded my studio, I have a studio called uncommon studios. I tried to push back all the records I was going to make while I was on tour to when I got off tour. I did that and then I just finished doing a show maybe three nights ago with Jim Mercer and the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who's showing his museum is so American collect collectibles as he calls it, a collection snatches musical instruments but it could be like, you know, American cultural type stuff like Abraham Lincoln's handwritten letters, you know, eases Wharton's writings, Muhammad Ali's gloves and belt from the thriller from Manila fight. I mean, it just goes on and on. And so I did a concert with him, but that featured like Kenny, Wayne Shepherd and Wilson from heart, John Fogarty, Buddy Guy, and Stephen Stills, and that was 30 songs. I had to learn and perfect. I write everything out. I know every tempo, I know all the song structure. So my goal is not just a drummer, but it's also to kind of keep everybody in it straight. And in line. We only have 112 hour rehearsal night before and the next day. It's, it's the show, so it's massive preparation. And next week, I'm going to do Billy Gibbons. So this week, on Thursday, I'm gonna do Billy Gibbons, a birthday party at The Troubadour and Swidler no songs, I'm finishing I'm starting to edit my second book. It's a self help book. It's about you know, living your life loud and how important time is in the short life we live. That goes into my speaking world. I have an agent and I do inspirational speaking, I'm mostly corporations. And so that book is kind of like, as a lot of the stuff that's in that speech, but a lot more with a lot of action items and takeaways. I'm just, I just put out a drum book. During the pandemic, a transition to my studio where people send me files, I make records for them, or I play drums on the records. I turned it into a place where new virtual speaking and now I may be launching a very a podcast with I have a whole team that will be you know produced to a director and everything, and I can do that from my studio, I have a wine that just came out. Uncommon wines just won an award. It's a cab serraj. Limited Edition. But yeah, I got a lot going on.   Michael Hingson  45:15 Well, and that keeps you busy. And it's obviously something that sounds like a lot of fun for you.   Kenny Aronoff  45:21 Absolutely. That this point, it's like, if it's not fun, I ain't doing it.   Michael Hingson  45:25 Yeah. Yeah, if you can't have fun, then what good is the world anyway?   Kenny Aronoff  45:32 It's up to you, man. It's up to you. You know, this, you know? We everybody has? Well, most people have options. So, you know, some people, you know, maybe less than others. But, you know, I just said, it's all in your mind. It's a mindset, you know, you can make things better, or more difficult. It is up to you.   Michael Hingson  45:58 And I think you really hit the nail on the head, if you will. Everyone does have options. And a lot of times we have more options. And we think we do we undersell ourselves, we underestimate ourselves, which is why I love doing unstoppable mindset. Because my goal is to help people recognize that, in reality, they probably are a whole lot more unstoppable than they think they are.   Kenny Aronoff  46:20 Yeah, well, exactly. But only you can figure out your power. It's up to the individual. And this is not a mental thing. This is an emotional thing. You have to feel your power. And and I think that's like a thing I call RPS repetition is the preparation for success. And that could be anything, anything you do over and over again, you get better at because you're doing it over and over again. And sometimes it takes longer to get somewhere with one thing then other things, but it's you can't just set it and forget it. You can't just like be successful one day and think that's it for life. No. I used to practice on the Joe Satriani tour, a song called Satch Boogie twice a day. And people go, why may you play that greatest said, because I played every day. And preparing every day? Yeah, playing it at night. That's why it sounds so good at night. And when I don't, then I usually learn a lesson that I need to do that I'm talking about the more technical things, you know.   Michael Hingson  47:24 Sure. Well, and that brings up the question of like, you're preparing to do the event at The Troubadour and so on, how do you prepare? What is it you do to learn the songs? How does all that work?   Kenny Aronoff  47:36 I've read every single note out that I'm going to play. Check out the church right here. For the viewers, I can hold up one sheet of music, very detailed. I write every single note out I got the tempo, and know exactly what to do, then I just drill it. I run through it. I practice the songs. When we're done. I'm going to practice that whole show tonight. Tomorrow, I'll practice it twice. And then Thursday, I'll practice it and then do the show.   Michael Hingson  48:05 Do you record your practice sessions? So you can listen to them? Or do you   Kenny Aronoff  48:10 know that that would be a real? That's a good thing to do? No, I don't. And it's no. That's a good, that's a great way to learn. But it's also time consuming?   Michael Hingson  48:24 Well, it well, it is a but you then get to hear it in a sense from the perspective of listeners.   Kenny Aronoff  48:32 So I do but I will I'm playing I'm listening to Yeah,   Michael Hingson  48:36 I understand. Yeah. And that's why for you, it may or may not be the best thing to do. I know for me, when I do a podcast interview, I will go back and listen to it again. And I do that because I want to see how I can improve it and see easiest way for me to do it. I listened to myself when I'm talking. And I listened to the person who I'm talking with. And I do my best to interpret their reactions and so on. But still, for something like this, I get to learn a lot by going back and listening to it. And as I as I tell everyone I talked with about this, if I'm not learning and it's the same thing with speaking if I'm not learning at least as much as my audience or my guest. I'm not doing my job. Well. Yeah.   Kenny Aronoff  49:27 Well, you don't I mean, there's no question listening to what you do is great. Great way to learn. I'm using is moving so fast and doing so much that just Yeah, I don't have time. But that's no question. I think that's a great way to learn. You know, and when I see myself I feel myself speaking. Oh my god, that's so humbling, right? Yeah. Oh my god. And   Michael Hingson  49:51 it's such a when you're speaking and you're doing an auditory thing like that it probably is best to go back and listen to it. I remember when I was are at the UC Irvine radio station que UCI and was program director. I worked to get people to listen to themselves. And they they would record their shows. So we actually put a tape recorder in a locked cabinet, a cassette machine, and we wired it. So whenever the mic was live, the voice was recorded. And then we would give people cassettes and we would say that you got to listen to it before the next show. Yeah, it was really amazing how much better people were. At the end of the year, some people ended up going into radio because they were well enough. They were good enough that they could be hired and went on to other things. Yeah, and it was just all about, they really started listening to themselves and they realized what other people were hearing. Yeah, no, that's,   Kenny Aronoff  50:51 that's, that's a great, I think that's brilliant. You know,   Michael Hingson  50:56 it's a it's always a challenge. So, so for you. What was the scariest or the, the weirdest show that you ever did or performance you ever did?   Kenny Aronoff  51:10 Well, probably the most one of the more scary moments in my life was when I was 20. Barely 23 And maybe I was still 22 I for my senior recital at Indiana University. You know, I was a performance major. I got you the way we learned how to play melodies and have that type of education because we play violin music or cello music on marimbas. Well, for my seniors I pick the virtuoso Violin Concerto that Itzhak Perlman played as his encore, in his concert I saw when I was a freshman, and so beautiful, but highly technical. And I spent one year, two or three hours a day, learning that one piece one of four pieces on my senior recital. And it was I learned it so well, that my professor won me to audition for concerto competition, and I won, which meant that I performed that piece with the 60 piece orchestra in an opera Hall bigger than the New York met, which is an Indiana University. Now granted, this is the number one school music in the country for classical music. So this is there's no handholding. There's no coddling, there's no trophies. This is like being I want to almost say like being a Navy Seal, especially with my teacher. But that guy helped make me and I was the right student for him become who I am. And the discipline that I learned from was extraordinary. But anyway, I've never, you know, usually when you're a percussionist, you're in the back the orchestra. So this was the hear the rolling the marimba out in front of the this big concert hall. And I'm in the wings, you know, with a tuxedo and I walk out like the solo violinists. And I was crapping my pants in the whole thing was memorized. And oh, man, I was terrified, but I crushed it.   Michael Hingson  53:14 Well, you took control of your fear.   Kenny Aronoff  53:18 I do well, I tend to I tend to take fear and use it as as a not a weapon, but I use it. It'll alternative the power, it is power. But on the other hand, we do have the ability to sabotage ourselves. And that's something is a child would do. Because you have self doubt you're small. everybody around you is big. You've got parents, teachers, coaches, whoever telling you, Kenny, that's wrong, bad, bad, bad. And as a little guy, you know, you're trying to please everybody. Then maybe my teachers saying to me, sometimes when I make a mistake, he'd look at me go, Kenny, are you afraid of success? And I'm like, What is he talking about? But realize that when you're younger, you start to think you're gonna make I'm gonna mess this up. Oh, here it comes. And you do and you do. But now that I'm older, I realize from this, this I hate that so much that I want to be successful so much. I overpower any of those feelings. I'm like, it's more like I got this and I'm gonna get it. And I meet believe it. But I can't tell anybody listening. There's a quick remedy for that. You don't take a pill and all sudden you become that? That's a long talk because I used to think how long am I going to end up being like this why sabotaging myself where your fear takes over. Now, I use my fear as my strength. I don't even know if I want to call it fear. Somebody says you get nervous when you do Kennedy Center Honors or any of these shows. At this point. Hell no. I don't get fearful As I get serious, I'm like in the Superbowl, and I know I can win. But I also know that things will not necessarily go the way you want. Because you're not the only one on that stage. Right? People, it's my job at any moment to be able to adapt, or die. You adapt immediately. You fix it, or you die, and I'm not about dying.   Michael Hingson  55:25 Have you ever had any experiences when you were on stage? And in a sense, you blew it? But then you recovered or anything?   Kenny Aronoff  55:34 Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, what you want to call blow it blowing, to me would be just one note in the wrong places. To me. It's nothing I don't like but the huge. The place I'm in now is I know very, very, very. I know how important is to forget about that. And to stay focused and stay in the game. It's like Tom Brady getting sacked. And his two minute drill to win the game. He gets sacked. He's got to be you can be pissed off for a second but he's immediately focuses on endzone, touchdown, endzone touchdown. One thing I learned from that experience, we aren't run in place that direction, the more we're doing this, you take it and you flip it, it becomes your power. So when something goes wrong, there's a part of me Of course, it's like really pissed off. But I also understand deeply in my gut, that you've got to blow that off and focus on how you're going to be a bad mofo. And I don't talk about my mistakes. A No, I don't have mistakes, I don't talk about the things that don't work out. Because you don't want to talk about them, you're giving it too much power, you just move past it. If somebody brings it up to you, you then can have a discussion. But unless somebody brings it up to you, you just move on, you don't think about it, and you don't dwell on it, because that will weaken you   Michael Hingson  57:00 every time. Absolutely every time. And you know, it's as we said, it isn't No, it isn't a mistake, you you did something, you played a wrong note, but you really spend so much time practicing, you do get it to be and I don't use this as a way to negate it, it becomes very rote. By the time you're playing in the actual performance, you have really worked to make sure that you truly understand what the event is, what the music is that you're supposed to be playing. And you're used to it. I would also wager that no matter how much you practice, when you get up on stage, now you're in a dynamic where you have the whole orchestra or the band or whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if there are times that you adapt on the fly as well.   Kenny Aronoff  57:54 Absolutely you do. I mean thing is, like this concert I just did with all these great artists, they were, you know, people, I have everything written out. But people would drop in courses are dropping parts. And I adapt and I direct, I help people, you know, or if I if I, if there's something I space out or something, I'm very quick at self correcting. And, you know, making it work out.   Michael Hingson  58:22 That's what it should be.   Kenny Aronoff  58:24 That's what exactly that's what it should be. Yeah. And and you, you you will let yourself down, if you get sucked into this bloody ego in, in getting drawn into Oh, woe is me and failure and all that. You got to push that aside, you got to be centered, like, like a Navy Seal or a warrior king, you know, or warrior queen, where you people are looking to lead and looking to you for strength and wisdom. And I want to be that person, I am that person.   Michael Hingson  59:03 And at the same time you also know when you're leading, if you're a good leader, you know when to let somebody else take the lead because they have a skill that works in that particular moment.   Kenny Aronoff  59:15 Absolutely. I call it lead them to lead. Hmm. Help them lead assist them to lead without saying anything. You do this your job to help them feel like they can lead.   Michael Hingson  59:30 So how did you get involved now in starting to do public speaking kinds of things and travel around and do some of that?   Kenny Aronoff  59:38 Well, I wrote an autobiography called Sex, Drugs, rock and roll and people were asking me to speak a little bit. I had done about 30 years of drunk, drunk clinics masterclasses where I would speak it was a show so but to speak. Like we're talking about I had to really work develop a craft it wasn't you know, I I worked to some writers, I built websites and got rid of them got different ones, I went and spoke to an agent and he told me what it really means to be a speaker what you need to do, I did what he told me doing, came back to him two years later, and showed him what I had done. And he was blown away. He said, I want to work with you. So he started, we started working together, and he started telling mentoring me and I started to put together a show. So filmed, you know, and I kept developing it and honing it down. And, and now you know, I've got, you know, teamwork, leadership, innovation, creativity, connecting communication, collaboration, realize your purpose, staying relevant speech. And it's I do perform. During the speech, I have a set of drums there, that's the entertainment part. People want to see me perform, because I'm a drama. But the the message is very powerful. And it's it. It's not just, I mean, I've done this, my success in the music business is a proof of, you know, how to go from this little kid from a town of 3000 to 40 years. Well, not 40 years later, it's a lot years later. And after that, at this point, it's 60 years later, how I became what I had, how they became successful, successful, and they've stayed successful. And a lot of those skill sets. And what I learned in the music business applies to these other businesses I do, which also applies to other people's businesses. So I speak about that. And just to answer your question a little bit more specifically, I just, I put together a show I have an agent, and we've been building off of that. And I just am doing more and more of that.   Michael Hingson  1:01:48 Tell me about your book a little bit.   Kenny Aronoff  1:01:50 Well, sex One immediate the autobiography, the one one,   Michael Hingson  1:01:53 now the firt. Right now, the autobiography The first one.   Kenny Aronoff  1:01:57 Yeah, that's basically my life story. It's about how I came from that middle town of Western Mass Stockbridge and how I went to, you know, how I went from there to where I am now, basically, in a nutshell, and there's all kinds of stories, you know, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Seger, John Mellencamp Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, meeting Bill Clinton, you know, there's a little bit of funny stuff, there's little bit of drama, is a little bit of rock and roll wildness. But the bottom line is the big message that the thread through the whole book is, I've worked my ass off and still working my ass off.   Michael Hingson  1:02:36 And I hear you stay in great shape. I must be from all those beating of the drums.   Kenny Aronoff  1:02:41 It is. But it's also I in my new book, I have the healthy life as a wealthy life, which is a basic eight step program on how to stay healthy, which affects you mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, you know, I won't go through all the details of it. But it's, it's definitely a setup. And you know, I'm aware of what I'm eating. And you know, I'm not perfect, but I'm aware of everything I put on me. So in other words, if I have a day one, eating not as well, as I, as I usually choose to, then I know how to make up for it the next day, and I do exercise every day. And of course, playing the drums. I mean, you're doing a three hour show. You're burning 1000s calories. Yeah. So there's that, you know,   Michael Hingson  1:03:24 which is, which is really pretty cool. And so you're, you're in a profession that keeps you active anyway, which is which is good. You cannot it's hard to tough to, to argue with that, isn't it?   Kenny Aronoff  1:03:38 Yeah. It's great. It's phenomenal. I love that unit.   Michael Hingson  1:03:42 Did you self published the first book? Or did you have a publisher,   Kenny Aronoff  1:03:45 I have a publisher for that was a hell, Leonard backbeats, which is now there now is Rowan and Littlefield did an audio version, this new book I have is is going to be self published. I am working in writing it for the second time. And it will be they have a marketing team. And but I own the book. And I may possibly look for a publisher after that. But this new book is more self help book. It's basically as I think I mentioned earlier, it's taking what I'm seeing in my speech, but with a lot more information, extending you know that information. So people can you know, if they want to hear more about what my my philosop

EPISODE #70 - We are thrilled to welcome on the podcast the accomplished entertainment executive turned mental health advocate and best-selling author, Tara Schuster. She just released Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way -- an amazing memoir slash emotional healing guide. It's really beautiful and powerful and you don't need to take our word for it. It received glowing endorsements from Glennon Doyle, Adam Grant, Chelsea Handler, Dick Schwartz, the creator of IFS, and many others. In February 2020, Tara released her first book titled Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who Has Been There. The book was a runaway hit -- it was a finalist for Goodreads' Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020; and was selected by Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Goop, Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year on mental health and self-care. Previously, Tara served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central, where she was the executive in charge of one of our favorite shows of all time, Key & Peele.On this episode, we talk to Tara about what it was like to reveal so many intimate details about her life so freely in her books, what it actually means to glow in the effing dark, how emotional healing has transformed her dating life, and of course we get into her drama-infused, stint as a bartender on the Vanderpump Rules Aftershow. You won't want to miss this one!Show LinksTara's official website: http://www.taraschuster.com/Glow in the F*cking Dark: http://www.taraschuster.com/glow Tara's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taraschuster/Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

Tune in to hear all that University of California Irvine program in public health has to offer and learn about the future UCI School of Population and Public Health. [Show Summary] The Master in Public Health (MPH) degree experienced enormous growth since the COVID lockdown. One of the leading and largest programs in public health is offered by UC Irvine, and we are talking to the director of that program today, Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala. Interview with Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, Director of the UCI Program in Public Health and Founding Dean of the future UCI School of Population and Public Health. [Show Notes] Welcome to the 517th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. The challenge at the heart of graduate admissions is showing that you both fit in at your target schools and are a standout in the applicant pool. Accepted's free download, Fitting In and Standing Out: The Paradox at the Heart of Admissions, will show you how to do both. Master this paradox, and you are well on your way to acceptance. Our guest today is Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, director of the UCI Program in Public Health and founding Dean of the future UCI School of Population and Public Health. Dean Boden-Albala, prior to moving to UC Irvine in 2019, served as social epidemiologist at Columbia University and then as professor and senior Associate Dean at NYU. She earned her MPH and her doctorate in Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.  Dr. Boden-Albala, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [1:45] Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be here. Can you give us, just for starters, an overview of UCI's MPH program focusing on its more distinctive elements? [1:52] Sure. So first of all, our MPH degree program was established, oh, almost over a decade ago. 2010.  It was accredited, which is critically important, by the Council on Education for Public Health, CEPH,  in 2012. And it was really the first professional degree of the UCI public health program, and a big component, again, of this envisioned UCI School of Population and Public Health. And I should say that even before we had an MPH program, we have a very large, one of the largest and most diverse undergraduate programs in public health. And so even though the program started about 12 years ago, we have a wonderful public health faculty that has really been doing public health for a longer time than that. And really the aim of the program is to create public health practitioners who really work independently and collaboratively to develop and implement strategies that are really going to reduce the burden of disease and disability globally, locally and globally. And I would say a real distinction is our focus on community and partnering with community. And I think we have some of the best, if not the best, community-based or community-engaged researchers. And Orange County, which is one of the largest counties in the country, is a very diverse county, and a lot of our faculty are working with all different populations in the county. And so that really is, I think, a huge distinctive feature. And when you're working in partnership with communities, automatically your focus is going to be on health equity. And we were doing health equity long before a lot of people were even talking or thinking about health equity. And so that is the foundation – community engaged work, health equity – of what we do. And then you add on top of that incredible work in public health science. And our MPH students and our MPH used to be a small boutique program, 15, 20 students, and it's now grown to over 100 students and growing. And we've been adding faculty since I got here in 2019. Our faculty has tripled. And again, we're bringing in all of these folks whose work really threads this health equity, community work, a lot of work on environmental health disparities. When a lot of other programs in the country about 15 ...

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Dr. Mike helps high achieving Christian men have more intimate marriages. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in Neuroscience from Brigham Young University, attended UCLA medical school and completed psychiatry residency training at UC Irvine. Married in 2005 and having 5 children, Mike and his wife Elizabeth faced significant marriage struggles, including issues with trust, communication and intimacy. As they worked together to rebuild their marriage using Christian principles and the best therapy and coaching practices, they found what REALLY works to create amazing mental, emotional and sexual intimacy in marriage. https://mikefraziermd.com/ WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A STRONG MAN AND WHAT IS A STRONG MARRIAGE? MENTAL HEALTH* DEPRESSION  HOW HAS IT IMPACTED YOUR LIFE?* APATHY  MOTIVATION VS. DISCIPLINE  NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION MANHOOD* WHAT IS THE BIGGEST LEARNING CURVE FOR MEN EARLY IN MARRIAGE? TALK ABOUT THE NEED FOR WOMEN TO HAVE A MANLY MAN/STRONG PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY * WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WISH GUYS WOULD UNDERSTAND MOST ABOUT   CREATING A HAPPY MARRIAGE?   MARRIAGE* TALK ABOUT NON-PHYSICAL INTIMACY   WHY MEN STRUGGLE WITH THIS? * IN YOUR EXPERIENCE TALKING TO COUPLES:  BEST METHOD OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION * BEST WAY TO EARN BACK TRUST?    WHAT DO YOU SAY TO GUYS WHO FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ALWAYS FIGHTING AN UPHILL   BATTLE? *** THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNER: UNCOMMEN: EQUIPPING MEN TO BE THE HUSBAND, FATHER, AND LEADER WE ARE CALLED TO BE. https://www.uncommen.org/ FOLLOW US ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/last_in_line_leadership/ PURCHASE OUR BOOKS AND GEAR: https://last-in-line-leadership.square.site/

EPISODE #69 - This week, Jenny and Justin are thrilled to be joined by Lauren Lovett, an embodied artist coach who is on a mission to support people in their pursuit of embodied empowerment. Lauren started acting on stage at the age of 10, and went on to pursue a BFA in drama from The Juilliard School. After performing in theaters across the country, she eventually realized that her true calling was in teaching and coaching other artists. Today, she is passionate about helping her clients connect with their bodies, hearts, and minds to unlock their full potential.Through her expertise in somatic experiencing, acting, and creative expression, Lauren helps artists cultivate greater awareness, resilience, and joy in their lives. Whether you're a creative professional seeking to deepen your craft, or simply looking to live a more embodied, authentic, and empowered life, Lauren's insights and guidance can help you tap into your innate wisdom and inner resources.In this conversation, we'll explore how Lauren uses somatic experiencing in her work, including the role of the body in emotions, trauma, and creativity; the importance of embodied presence in our daily lives, and the challenges and opportunities of living a fully embodied life. We'll also hear some inspiring stories from Lauren's own journey as an artist and coach, and gain practical tips and tools for cultivating greater presence, purpose, and joy in our lives.So without further ado, let's dive into this conversation with the wonderful Lauren Lovett, and discover how she can help support you on your own journey toward embodied empowerment.Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

Jake and Professor Sides give #CBBPicks on money lines (with spread discussion) and totals for the best #collegebasketball games on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 LESSON PLAN: Texas Southern vs Fairleigh Dickinson, Oklahoma State at Youngstown State, UCF at Florida, Sam Houston State at Santa Clara, Arizona State vs Nevada, UC Irvine at Oregon In case you're new here… https://www.pickswiththeprofessor.com/new/ Join our free March Madness pool on WagerLab! No money is exchanged in the app, but use the allotted points to show off your college basketball prowess and try to take home a top three place for a prize: https://wagerlab.page.link/FvaX Recommended #CBB plays, a money line play for every MLB game, plays for most college football games AND all social media picks (including these) are all tracked on BlackBook Sports: https://www.blackbooksports.com/capper/ProfessorSides. Monthly ($6), weekly ($2), or daily ($1!) subscriptions provide messages when these plays are locked, and all picks are available to be seen after game completion. Or get these same picks on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/pickswiththeprofessor) at the $10/month tier along with ad-free shows and Discord chat access (Note: all tiers include access to the A+ Play of the Day) Find the #BestBet of the day on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickswiththeprofessor Find current season results at https://bit.ly/profcbb2223 and historical picks on the Google Sheets linked on the website homepage (https://www.pickswiththeprofessor.com) Follow the statistics professor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ProfessorSides) or Facebook (https://facebook.com/pickswiththeprofessor) for news and updates Shopping around for the best price can be the difference between a winning and losing season! I encourage listeners to have multiple books at their disposal, so sign up with BetUS (https://bit.ly/betusprof) or with BetOnline (https://bit.ly/profbetonline) if you don't already have an account with them

Head coach Dana Altman previews tonight's NIT tip-off vs UC Irvine, Rob Moseley and Joey Mac talk postseason hoops and the start of spring football practice, and Terry Jonz joins the show previewing the WNIT. #GoDucksSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Philip Topham is an entrepreneur, coach, author, patented inventor, and host of The Savvy Founder podcast. Philip's passion is to help business owners and founders shorten their journey. He is particularly good at helping leaders to develop their personal capacity to build and grow their business. With more than 25 years across startups and corporate roles, Philip has been everything from janitor to CTO/CIO, to the Founder and Chief Everything Officer. He has solved problems others said could not be solved. Philip has built a business from zero to profitability, selling more than $5M to big pharma and changed the way the pharmaceutical industry operates. Philip is an armchair sociologist with peer-review publications in social network analysis and machine learning. He holds a BS in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MBA from Pepperdine University. For more information, click https://askthesavvyfounder.youcanbook.me/ or find Philip on Linkedin.

Greg recaps Tuesday's college basketball results, talk to Brain Rauf of Heat Check CBB about which lower seeded teams can make a run, gauging teams with injuries, & Purdue's region of doom & Greg picks & analyzes EVERY Wednesday First Four & NIT game! Podcast Highlights 3:08-Recap of Tuesday's results 10:51-Interview with Brian Rauf 31:06-DK Nation Pick Fairleigh Dickinson vs Texas Southern 34:26-Picks & analysis for Arizona St vs Nevada 37:20-Picks & analysis for Oklahoma St vs Youngstown St 39:55-Picks & analysis for Alcorn St vs North Texas 43:00-Picks & analysis for Sam Houston St vs Santa Clara 45:59-Picks & analysis for UC Irvine vs Oregon 48:43-Picks & analysis for Central Florida vs Florida 51:27-Picks & analysis for Virginia Tech vs Cincinnati 54:26-Picks & analysis for Utah Valley vs New Mexico 57:12-Picks & analysis for Morehead St vs ClemsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jake and Professor Sides give #CBBPicks on money lines (with spread discussion) and totals for the best #collegebasketball games on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 LESSON PLAN: Texas Southern vs Fairleigh Dickinson, Oklahoma State at Youngstown State, UCF at Florida, Sam Houston State at Santa Clara, Arizona State vs Nevada, UC Irvine at Oregon In case you're new here… https://www.pickswiththeprofessor.com/new/ Join our free March Madness pool on WagerLab! No money is exchanged in the app, but use the allotted points to show off your college basketball prowess and try to take home a top three place for a prize: https://wagerlab.page.link/FvaX Recommended #CBB plays, a money line play for every MLB game, plays for most college football games AND all social media picks (including these) are all tracked on BlackBook Sports: https://www.blackbooksports.com/capper/ProfessorSides. Monthly ($6), weekly ($2), or daily ($1!) subscriptions provide messages when these plays are locked, and all picks are available to be seen after game completion. Or get these same picks on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/pickswiththeprofessor) at the $10/month tier along with ad-free shows and Discord chat access (Note: all tiers include access to the A+ Play of the Day) Find the #BestBet of the day on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickswiththeprofessor Find current season results at https://bit.ly/profcbb2223 and historical picks on the Google Sheets linked on the website homepage (https://www.pickswiththeprofessor.com) Follow the statistics professor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ProfessorSides) or Facebook (https://facebook.com/pickswiththeprofessor) for news and updates Shopping around for the best price can be the difference between a winning and losing season! I encourage listeners to have multiple books at their disposal, so sign up with BetUS (https://bit.ly/betusprof) or with BetOnline (https://bit.ly/profbetonline) if you don't already have an account with them

Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The London Times, CNN, BRAVO, as well as a viral appearance on FOX. She has led rituals, classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, The Hammer Museum, The Getty and many other venues. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals, and the popular Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens. Her book, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly, has been translated into six languages.  On this Episode: Amanda Yates Garcia | @oracleofla Adam Jackson | @adam___jackson  SACRED SONS TRAININGS & EVENTS: THE 33 MASTER-HEART| 12-Months of Collaboration, Council, Community and Contribution  MAUI MANA | A return to the place of origin, the home within, born of the land MAUI (HAWAI'I) : MARCH 29 - APRIL 2, 2023 SACRED SONS EMX | 4-Day Embodied Masculine Experience SAN DIEGO (CA) : MARCH 16 - 19  COCHISE (AZ) : MARCH 23 - 26  TEPOZTLAN (MEX) : MARCH 30 - APRIL 2 SACRED SONS IMMERSION | 2-Day Community Event SAN DIEGO (CALIFORNIA) : APRIL 1 - 2  DUBLIN (IRELAND) : APRIL 29 - 30  CHICAGO (ILLINOIS) | APRIL 29 - 30 BRISTOL (ENGLAND) | MAY 20 - 2 HANOVER (GERMANY) | MAY 27 - 28   CONNECT: Shop | Sacred Sons Apparel & Cacao Website | sacredsons.com   YouTube | Sacred Sons   Instagram | @sacredsons   Events Calendar | All upcoming Sacred Sons Trainings and Experiences!  Music | Ancient Future

In this episode, Troy Campbell joins me to talk about the psychology behind using storytelling for your brand.How do you craft the most engaging story? What are the components of a story that help make it memorable?Troy uses a scientific mind, artistic heart approach to help people create and learn amazing things. He is a behavioral scientist (PhD, Duke University), former marketing professor (University of Oregon), former art, film, and psychology scholar (UC Irvine), professional designer and researcher (Netflix Insights, Disney Imagineering, UnitedHealth), and the chief scientist at On Your Feet.We talk about:[0:00] Intro[2:00] Why Troy approaches his work from a psychology perspective[5:00] The distance between the discovery and the design[8:40] Aligning your brand with the people you're trying to sell to[18:15] Why 'story' matters[22:30] The flaw in the ‘hero's journey'[23:50] The Destiny narrative[31:30] Honing in on emotion [37:25] How to lean on science to be more creative [40:15] The institute of Academics [47:45] How to implement the information shared todayConnect with Troy here:www.troy-campbell.com Connect with Kaye here:Brand Personality Quiz: https://www.kayeputnam.com/brandality-quiz/https://www.youtube.com/user/marketingkayehttps://www.facebook.com/marketingkaye/https://www.kayeputnam.com/

EPISODE #68 - We're thrilled to welcome back clinical psychologist and reiki master, Nadia Torres-Eaton, PsyD, ABPP. It's not too often you get in one person the clinical experience and expertise combined with the openness to alternative healing modalities, which is why we always love learning from Nadia. Currently she privately practices individual and family psychotherapy as well as energy medicine in Santa Ana, CA. We talk about what cycle-breaking means to Nadia, how she helps her clients recognize and break cycles, and how she went through her own massive year-long cycle-breaking journey.Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Joshua Grill, PhD, is a professor at UC Irvine in the departments of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, as well as the director of UCI MIND. Dr. Grill joins Steve to discuss risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, steps people can take to lower their risk and the promising investigational therapies. He also cautions listeners about the prevalence of pseudomedicine for dementia.

Greg recaps Wednesday's college basketball results, talks to Big Waddell of the Field of 68 about the Big Ten Tournament, & Greg picks & analyzes every college basketball game for Thursday! Podcast Highlights 2:15-Recap of Wednesday's college basketball results 11:53-Interview with Greg Waddell 34:01-Start of picks Miami OH vs Toledo 37:08-Picks & analysis for Ohio vs Ball St 39:50-Picks & analysis for Northern Illinois vs Kent St 42:44-Picks & analysis for Buffalo vs Akron 45:16-Picks & analysis for Davidson vs VCU 48:04-Picks & analysis for George Mason vs Saint Louis 50:45-Picks & analysis for St. Joseph's vs Dayton 53:41-Picks & analysis for La Salle vs Fordham 56:52-Picks & analysis for Wake Forest vs Miami 59:24-Picks & analysis for Pittsburgh vs Duke 1:01:43-Picks & analysis for North Carolina vs Virginia  1:04:37-Picks & analysis for NC State vs Clemson 1:07:40-DK Nation Pick St. John's vs Marquette  1:11:38-Picks & analysis for Providence vs UConn 1:14:19-Picks & analysis for DePaul vs Xavier 1:16:40-Picks & analysis for Villanova vs Creighton 1:19:35-Picks & analysis for Rutgers vs Michigan  1:21:51-Picks & analysis for Ohio St vs Iowa 1:24:02-Picks & analysis for Penn St vs Illinois 1:26:46-Picks & analysis for Minnesota vs Maryland  1:30:05-Picks & analysis for East Carolina vs South Florida  1:32:27-Picks & analysis for SMU vs Central Florida 1:34:56-Picks & analysis for Tulsa vs Wichita St 1:37:25-Picks & analysis for Iowa State vs Baylor 1:40:04-Picks & analysis for West Virginia vs Kansas  1:42:56-Picks & analysis for Oklahoma St vs Texas 1:45:53-Picks & analysis for TCU vs Kansas St 1:48:34-Picks & analysis for Mississippi State vs Florida 1:50:47-Picks & analysis for Ole Miss vs Tennessee  1:53:13-Picks & analysis for Arkansas vs Auburn 1:55:55-Picks & analysis for LSU vs Vanderbilt  1:58:47-Picks & analysis for Colorado vs UCLA 2:01:23-Picks & analysis for Washington St vs Oregon 2:04:16-Picks & analysis for Stanford vs Arizona  2:06:38-Picks & analysis for Arizona St vs USC 2:08:56-Picks & analysis for Colorado St vs San Diego St 2:10:45-Picks & analysis for San Jose St vs Nevada 2:13:37-Picks & analysis for UNLV vs Boise St 2:16:16-Picks & analysis for New Mexico vs Utah St 2:18:58-Picks & analysis for UC Irvine vs CS Bakersfield  2:21:02-Picks & analysis for Hawaii vs CS Fullerton 2:23:14-Picks & analysis for UC Davis vs UC Riverside 2:25:03-Picks & analysis for Cal Poly vs UC Santa Barbara  2:27:20-Picks & analysis for Cal Baptist vs Sam Houston  2:29:18-Picks & analysis for Grand Canyon vs Seattle 2:31:34-Picks & analysis for Tarleton St vs Utah Valley 2:33:34-Picks & analysis for Utah Tech vs Southern Utah 2:35:18-Picks & analysis for Western Kentucky vs FL Atlantic  2:37:02-Picks & analysis for Charlotte vs Mid Tennessee  2:38:41-Picks & analysis for Louisiana Tech vs North Texas  2:40:58-Picks & analysis for Rice vs UAB 2:42:56-Picks & analysis for Marist vs Quinnipiac  2:45:44-Picks & analysis for Niagara vs Siena 2:47:59-Start of extra games Prairie View vs Jackson St 2:50:13-Picks & analysis for Alabama A&M vs Southern 2:52:35-Picks & analysis for Morgan St vs Maryland E Shore 2:54:51-Picks & analysis for this Coppin St vs Norfolk St Picks & analysis for Ole Miss vs Tennessee  Picks & analysis for Arkansas vs Auburn Picks & analysis for LSU vs Vanderbilt  Picks & analysis for Colorado vs UCLA Picks & analysis for Washington St vs Oregon Picks & analysis for Stanford vs Arizona  Picks & analysis for Arizona St vs USC Picks & analysis for Colorado St vs San Diego St Picks & analysis for San Jose St vs Nevada Picks & analysis for UNLV vs Boise St Picks & analysis for New Mexico vs Utah St Picks & analysis for UC Irvine vs CS Bakersfield  Picks & analysis for Hawaii vs CS Fullerton Picks & analysis for UC Davis vs UC Riverside Picks & analysis for Cal Poly vs UC Santa Barbara  Picks & analysis for Cal Baptist vs Sam Houston  Picks & analysis for Grand Canyon vs Seattle Picks & analysis for Tarleton St vs Utah Valley Picks & analysis for Utah Tech vs Southern Utah Picks & analysis for Western Kentucky vs FL Atlantic  Picks & analysis for Charlotte vs Mid Tennessee  Picks & analysis for Louisiana Tech vs North Texas  Picks & analysis for Rice vs UAB Picks & analysis for Marist vs Quinnipiac  Picks & analysis for Niagara vs Siena Start of extra games Prairie View vs Jackson St Picks & analysis for Alabama A&M vs Southern Picks & analysis for Morgan St vs Maryland E Shore Picks & analysis for this Coppin St vs Norfolk StSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am so excited to have Dr. Stephanie Fein joining me today on The Egg Whisperer Show podcast. We are talking about a topic that can be quite sensitive: optimizing your fertility through weight loss. There's no better person to talk about this today than Stephanie. She earned her medical degree from UC Irvine, completed her internal medicine residency at UCLA where she also received a master's in public health. She's passionate about weight loss and motherhood and loves to help women optimize their fertility through weight loss. She's sharing her philosophy and perspective on weight loss and fertility, which is to make it guilt-free, deprivation-free, and frustration-free. She is also sharing how weight, insulin and inflammation have an impact on your hormones when you are trying to conceive, and we talk about the connection between IVF success rates and weight loss. Read the article on Dr. Aimee's Website. Get Dr. Aimee's brand new Conception Kit here. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Professor Gloria Mark of UC Irvine joins on episode 384 of the show, where we go into detail on her latest book Attention Span. From Gloria’s bio, “My research area is human-computer interaction (HCI) studying the interplay of technology with individuals, groups, and society. I study how people interact with information technology in their everyday […]

Dr. Mueller is a world-renowned inventor and plastic surgeon based in Beverly Hills, and inventor of  the minimally invasive MyEllevate, a jawline contouring procedure that offers the convenience of minimally invasive technology with long-lasting results approaching those of full surgical intervention. This necklift technology was purchased by Cynosure in 2021 adding it to their globally recognised roster of laser and anti-aging medical devices. Dr Mueller visited Australia late last year to train and  launch MyEllevate in Australia with top Plastic surgeons who now offer the non surgical neck lift  in their practices.After receiving his Medical Degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Mueller completed his general surgical residency at UC-Irvine, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Residency at the University of Southern California. Dr. Mueller is also a visionary inventor, having created two best-in-class medical devices: the ICLED Surgical Suture System, a light guided technology for cosmetic surgery, and the oVio360 Imaging System.This episode provides a deep understanding on how the neck and jawline areas age and the options for treating this area effectively.  Dr Mueller shares his insight into the development of this world first technology to offer a meaningful alternative to face and neck lift surgery and details the procedure, recovery time and what to expect from the results.This episode is in partnership with Cynosure's MyEllevate.https://www.cynosureaustralia.comhttps://www.cynosureaustralia.com/product/myellevate/ Watch the whole episode here:https://youtu.be/cyv0EN27y3ASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With his intersecting disciplines of Asian American studies, the medical humanities, and Christian theology, UC Irvine's Rev. Dr. James Kyung-Jin Lee is uniquely positioned to offer in-depth insights on the human problems of sickness, suffering, disability, and death, especially when seen through the filter of the Christian faith.

EPISODE #67 - Each month in Yes Collective we focus on a central theme that ties together our new therapy tools, podcasts, and conversations. This month, we're focused on cycle-breaking! Cycles are the patterns of behaviors, emotions, and beliefs. There can be inter-generational patterns that get passed down from one generation to the next. There can be personal patterns that have set in over years of coping, defending, and managing one's internal world. Or there can be relational patterns that take root in long-term relationships. Cycle-breaking is the conscious act of freeing yourself from destructive, unhealthy, or disruptive patterns in any area of your life. This week, Jenny & Justin are kicking off March by talking about what cycle-breaking means to them, how it's shown up in their lives, how it shows up for their clients, and some steps they've taken in their own lives to notice cycles they might want to modify, if not break. They also, talk about the amazing guests they have lined up for March. Best-selling author and former Comedy Central executive, Tara Schuster will join them for the March 8th pod, and somatic experiencing coach and author, Lauren Lovett, will join them later in the month. Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

Greg recaps Wednesday's college basketball results, talks to Curtis Rogers of 710 Seattle Sports about the WAC & Big Sky Tournaments along with Thursday's Pac-12 games & Greg picks & analyzes every college basketball game for Thursday! Podcast Highlights 2:02-Recap of Wednesday's college basketball results 14:20-Interview with Curtis Rodgers 31:03-Start of picks FL International vs Louisiana Tech  33:42-Picks & analysis for Rider vs St. Peter's 37:15-Picks & analysis for Manhattan vs Siena 40:21-Picks & analysis for Marist vs Iona 43:48-Picks & analysis for Rutgers vs Minnesota  47:54-DK Nation Pick Michigan vs Illinois 51:43-Picks & analysis for Wichita St vs Houston 55:21-Picks & analysis for Central Florida vs Temple 58:35-Picks & analysis for Quinnipiac vs Fairfield  1:01:27-Picks & analysis for Middle Tennessee vs North Texas 1:05:03-Picks & analysis for FL Atlantic vs Rice 1:07:44-Picks & analysis for Charlotte vs UT San Antonio  1:10:22-Picks & analysis for Arizona St vs UCLA 1:13:06-Picks & analysis for Western Kentucky vs UTEP 1:15:58-Picks & analysis for Stanford vs Oregon St 1:18:48-Picks & analysis for Purdue vs Wisconsin  1:21:46-Picks & analysis for UC Santa Barbara vs UC Davis 1:24:32-Picks & analysis for Memphis vs SMU 1:27:28-Picks & analysis for UC Irvine vs UC Riverside  1:30:32-Picks & analysis for Hawaii vs CS Northridge 1:33:39-Picks & analysis for CS Bakersfield vs Long Beach St 1:36:21-Picks & analysis for Arizona vs USC 1:39:04-Picks & analysis for Washington vs Washington St 1:41:18-Picks & analysis for California vs Oregon 1:43:32-Picks & analysis for Appalachian St vs South Alabama  1:45:31-Picks & analysis for Arkansas St vs Troy 1:47:41-Picks & analysis for Texas State vs Old Dominion  1:50:07-Picks & analysis for UL Monroe vs Georgia So 1:52:08-Picks & analysis for Illinois St vs Northern Iowa 1:54:21-Picks & analysis for Evansville vs Indiana St 1:56:32-Picks & analysis for Valparaiso vs Murray St 1:58:49-Picks & analysis for UIC vs Missouri St 2:01:11-Picks & analysis for Oakland vs Northern Kentucky  2:03:13-Picks & analysis for Detroit vs Youngstown St 2:05:24-Picks & analysi