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The Farsight Institute is a nonprofit research and educational organization that is dedicated to understanding the remote-viewing phenomenon through the process of scientific experimentation. Remote viewing is a controlled and trainable mental process involving psi (or psychic ability). It is used to transfer perceptual information across time and space. Remote-viewing procedures were originally developed in laboratories funded by the United States military and intelligence services and used for espionage purposes.BioCourtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling. He began his teaching career as a college calculus instructor in Africa before moving on to teach nonlinear differential and difference equation modeling in the social sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan.He has published numerous books on applied nonlinear mathematical modeling in the social sciences, including two new volumes, one on applied differential equation systems (2007) and another on graph algebra (2008), a new graphical language used for modeling systems. He also has an interest in political music, and has recently published a book on the subject.Independent of his work as a college professor, he is the Director and founder of The Farsight Institute a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to the study of a phenomenon of nonlocal consciousness known as "remote viewing." He published a book titled "Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception." In this book he analyzes data and develops a new theory that explains the remote-viewing phenomenon as a consequence of superposition formation on the quantum level.https://farsight.org/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH5CGN8Q/ https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

The Farsight Institute is a nonprofit research and educational organization that is dedicated to understanding the remote-viewing phenomenon through the process of scientific experimentation. Remote viewing is a controlled and trainable mental process involving psi (or psychic ability). It is used to transfer perceptual information across time and space. Remote-viewing procedures were originally developed in laboratories funded by the United States military and intelligence services and used for espionage purposes.BioCourtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling. He began his teaching career as a college calculus instructor in Africa before moving on to teach nonlinear differential and difference equation modeling in the social sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan.He has published numerous books on applied nonlinear mathematical modeling in the social sciences, including two new volumes, one on applied differential equation systems (2007) and another on graph algebra (2008), a new graphical language used for modeling systems. He also has an interest in political music, and has recently published a book on the subject.Independent of his work as a college professor, he is the Director and founder of The Farsight Institute a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to the study of a phenomenon of nonlocal consciousness known as "remote viewing." He published a book titled "Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception." In this book he analyzes data and develops a new theory that explains the remote-viewing phenomenon as a consequence of superposition formation on the quantum level.https://farsight.org/ https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast

What's the real deal with cannabis use among young people? Thankfully, we have graduate students Madeline and Sam from Washington University St. Louis here to provide insight on college students' current attitudes and opinions about cannabis. Listen as they break down how the conversation has shifted, plus the varying levels of knowledge and use of the substance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're bringing you the individual interviews from the LIVE taping of the Gill Connections podcast from the 2023 USTFCCCA Convention. Check us out again this year on December 16th at 6pm est on ⁠YOUTUBE ⁠or at the Gill Athletics booth in Orlando.

Tony Rodrigues is a 20 year tour experiencer, author of the autobiography Ceres Colony Cavalier and its sequel, Project starmaker. He Hosts Weekly meetups through “Talks with Tony,” a Patreon Group focused on Disclosure, consciousness expansion, and remote viewing. has created a Memory recall course for others who suspect they may have been involved in similar programs. Tony's website:

In this segment of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses a story of a St. Louis transgender that is de-transitioning. This person's partner was the whistleblower for Washington University St. Louis' gender affirming care situation.

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark and the crew discuss Israel being attacked by Iran this meaning. What comes next? Mark is then joined by Scott Jennings, a 97.1 Political Insider, a CNN Political Contributor, and a former special assistant to President Bush and Senator McConnell. They discuss his take on tonight's vice presidential debate and the Cardinals "reset" press conference. He then discusses a story of a St. Louis transgender that is de-transitioning. This person's partner was the whistleblower for Washington University St. Louis' gender affirming care situation.

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark and the crew discuss Israel being attacked by Iran this meaning. What comes next? Mark is then joined by Scott Jennings, a 97.1 Political Insider, a CNN Political Contributor, and a former special assistant to President Bush and Senator McConnell. They discuss his take on tonight's vice presidential debate and the Cardinals "reset" press conference. He then discusses a story of a St. Louis transgender that is de-transitioning. This person's partner was the whistleblower for Washington University St. Louis' gender affirming care situation. In hour 2, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses some sad celebrity deaths to occur recently, the latest music anniversaries, and more. Mark is then joined by Daniel Flesch, a Scholar with The Heritage Foundation. He discusses Iran launching a ballistic missile attack on Israel. How will Israel respond? Will this lead to World War III? He is then joined by Bill Michaels, the host of Bill Michaels Sports Talk Network. They discuss the death of Pete Rose, the legacy he leaves behind, and more. In hour 3, Mark is joined by Dave Strom, the associate editor of HotAir.com. Strom shares his thoughts on how he believes Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will do in tonight's Vice Presidential Debate. Fred Boddimer is then joined by Reverend Franklin Graham, the CEO and President of Samaritan's Purse, and the son of Reverend Billy Graham. They discuss the relief efforts in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene. To conclude the show, Mark discusses College Football moving closer and closer to a super conference. He then plays the Audio Cut of the Day.

A few years ago the "Creation Community" lost a great spokesman, Dr. David Menton.  Professor for decades in Washington University (St. Louis) Medical School, and part of Answers In Genesis, his expertise in biological systems is greatly missed.  Dr. Scripture interviewed Dr. Menton in 2019; what we discussed is still totally relevant.

This episode is sponsored by Ash Law. Estate planning might not be the start of a fun conversation, but it's an important one for parents. Our interview with Alyssa Hodges, who you may remember from our episode on divorce, talks about everything moms need to know, including why Taylor Swift needs a trust not a will! Alyssa wrote an article for us on estate planning. She writes, "We teach our kids to look both ways when crossing the street and to wash their hands (stomach flu fear lives #RentFree in my head). We teach them not to talk to strangers and to be aware of their surroundings. We worry about the immediate dangers. But we have to cover the long-term dangers, too." Meet Alyssa Hodges Alyssa Hodges is a KC-based family law and divorce attorney. She earned her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and is pursuing a master's in tax law at Washington University St. Louis School of Law. She has two young children and is a published author. Ms. Hodges has been on Law Review, the Dean's List, and a competitive negotiations team. She's been an active member of MothersEsquire since 2018 and WealthCounsel since 2020. In 2021, she became a columnist for Above the Law. Ms. Hodges enjoys preparing for trial and being in the courtroom. However, she believes collaboration is almost always better than leaving a decision up to a judge who doesn't know her client or her client's family dynamics. Connect with Megan and Sarah We would love to hear from you! Send us an e-mail or find us on Instagram or Facebook!        

Welcome back to the Distinctly Detroit Podcast. On today's episode, we have Nancy A. Parker, the executive director of the Detroit Justice Center. She earned her B.A. in Sociology and African American Studies from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Washington University - St. Louis School of Law. Nancy has successfully represented Black Lives Matter protesters against the City of Detroit and the police department for unconstitutional civil rights violations and worked with community partners to end the surveillance technology called ShotSpotter. Nancy, the mother of two young daughters, desires to continue her advocacy for social justice and civil rights for years to come. The DDP welcomes Nancy A. Parker!

Courtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Independent of his work at the university, he is also a leading scholar on the subject of "remote viewing" as it is done using procedures that were developed by the United States military, or procedures that are derivative of those methodologies.Academic Background: Courtney Brown received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling. He began his teaching career as a college calculus instructor in Africa before moving on to teach nonlinear differential and difference equation modeling in the social sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan. He has published five peer-reviewed books and numerous articles on applied nonlinear mathematical modeling in the social sciences.Remote-Viewing Background: Dr. Brown is the Director and founder of The Farsight Institute (www.farsight.org), a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to the study of the phenomenon of nonlocal consciousness known as "remote viewing." He is also the CEO of the streaming service, FarsightPrime.com, which is the largest venue of public projects featuring remote viewing anywhere. He has published peer-reviewed research on this subject in premier scientific outlets, and has spoken internationally at a host of prestigious venues, including various universities, as well as at respected gatherings of physicists. His recently published book on the subject, Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception, is the only book of its kind where the science of remote viewing is developed with respect to highly structured data-collection methodologies of the kind utilized by the U.S. military. In this book he analyzes data and develops a new theory that explains the remote-viewing phenomenon as a consequence of superposition formation on the quantum level.Extraterrestrial Interests: Courtney Brown has a keen interest in extraterrestrial life, especially technologically advanced extraterrestrial life active in the Earth and near-Earth environment. His interests involve both physical evidence and remote-viewing evidence. Regarding physical evidence, Dr. Brown is involved in teaching people how to reliably make video recordings of extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has demonstrated that such spacecraft exist in enormous numbers, and can be found overhead, all day, virtually everywhere on Earth. The spacecraft are nearly all using stealth technology to hide their presence and activities, but modern camera technology can overcome this to a large extent. The necessary requirements are to shoot video in 4K or better, 120 fps, using infrared. Details of the exact methods can be found HERE. Examples of UAP/UFO videos taken using these methods can be found on Dr. Brown's Instagram page: courtneybrownfarsight. He has a special interest in encouraging university audiences to adopt these methods and to publish their own videos of such UAP/UFO activities, thereby encouraging colleges and universities to modernize their curricula.Other Activities: Courtney Brown is an avid filmmaker, photographer, and digital artist. He has produced a number of documentaries involving the subjects of remote viewing and extraterrestrial life, as well as having written two best selling books on these subjects. Courtney Brown has long been active in performance and theater. He has acted in lead roles in a number of television series and films in the United States and Africa, playing Dr. Livingston in Suzi na Chuma as well as Sir John Kirk in Sultan Bargash, both of which were full-season television shows in Swahili. In the past, he sang regularly in the Atlanta area as a baritone soloist of sacred music, and some of his recordings have been featured on various websites in the United States and Africa. Dr. Brown also has an interest in political music and has published a book on the subject.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-dreams-talk-radio--2788432/support.

Why do we need to sleep? Keith Hengen, assistant professor in the department of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, delves into our brain to find the answer. Keith Hengen was born and raised in Concord, NH, and was first introduced to neuroscience at Bates College. From there, Keith went directly to grad school […]

Today we talked with F-Plus Trio!   F-PLUS is a violin, clarinet, and percussion trio committed to collaborating with today's most exciting composers to establish a diverse repertoire for their unique instrumentation. Formed in 2016 at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the ensemble has performed all over the country, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Ear Taxi Festival, the International Clarinet Association "ClarinetFest," and the New Music Gathering. F-PLUS has premiered over 35 new works since its inception, including commissioned works by Chen Yi, Chicago Symphony Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, Grawemeyer-winner George Tsontakis, Emma O'Halloran, Gemma Peacocke, Perry Goldstein, Matthew Ricketts, and Charles Peck, among many others. The ensembled has been the recipient of commissioning grants and additional funding from the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, New Music USA, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Irish Arts Council and the New Zealand Arts Council. F-PLUS is committed to working with the next generation of composers and performers, and has held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Delaware, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Washington University (St. Louis), University of Texas-Austin, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke, UNC-Wilmington, and Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, Stony Brook, Duke, and Illinois State Universities.    With F-Plus we discussed how you can commission music in college and form chamber ensembles that continue after you all graduate. Follow F-Plus on all their social media to stay up to date with their performances and projects!   https://www.fplusmusic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/fplusmusic/ https://www.youtube.com/fplusmusic https://www.facebook.com/fplusmusic    

Courtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Independent of his work at the university, he is also a leading scholar on the subject of "remote viewing" as it is done using procedures that were developed by the United States military, or procedures that are derivative of those methodologies.Academic Background: Courtney Brown received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling. He began his teaching career as a college calculus instructor in Africa before moving on to teach nonlinear differential and difference equation modeling in the social sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan. He has published five peer-reviewed books and numerous articles on applied nonlinear mathematical modeling in the social sciences.Remote-Viewing Background: Dr. Brown is the Director and founder of The Farsight Institute (www.farsight.org), a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to the study of the phenomenon of nonlocal consciousness known as "remote viewing." He is also the CEO of the streaming service, FarsightPrime.com, which is the largest venue of public projects featuring remote viewing anywhere. He has published peer-reviewed research on this subject in premier scientific outlets, and has spoken internationally at a host of prestigious venues, including various universities, as well as at respected gatherings of physicists. His recently published book on the subject, Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception, is the only book of its kind where the science of remote viewing is developed with respect to highly structured data-collection methodologies of the kind utilized by the U.S. military. In this book he analyzes data and develops a new theory that explains the remote-viewing phenomenon as a consequence of superposition formation on the quantum level.Extraterrestrial Interests: Courtney Brown has a keen interest in extraterrestrial life, especially technologically advanced extraterrestrial life active in the Earth and near-Earth environment. His interests involve both physical evidence and remote-viewing evidence. Regarding physical evidence, Dr. Brown is involved in teaching people how to reliably make video recordings of extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has demonstrated that such spacecraft exist in enormous numbers, and can be found overhead, all day, virtually everywhere on Earth. The spacecraft are nearly all using stealth technology to hide their presence and activities, but modern camera technology can overcome this to a large extent. The necessary requirements are to shoot video in 4K or better, 120 fps, using infrared. Details of the exact methods can be found HERE. Examples of UAP/UFO videos taken using these methods can be found on Dr. Brown's Instagram page: courtneybrownfarsight. He has a special interest in encouraging university audiences to adopt these methods and to publish their own videos of such UAP/UFO activities, thereby encouraging colleges and universities to modernize their curricula.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gary-s-night-dreams-talk-radio-show--2788432/support.

U.S. workers who belong to a union fell last year to 10%, marking only a slight decline from 10.1% a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.But experts say if there was a year to expect the unionization rate to increase, it was 2023, which saw successful walkouts by Hollywood actors and writers, service employees, autoworkers, and healthcare professionals.This week, Delaware Public Media's Kyle McKinnon sits down with Jake Rosenfeld – a sociology professor at Washington University-St. Louis who recently wrote about labor union rates – for more on union efforts and membership going forward.

In this series, we explore the art of raising healthy, happy kids through insightful conversations with experts in mental health, sports psychology, and nutrition. From practical balanced diets to nurturing emotional intelligence, our goal is to empower a positive and nourishing environment for children.    My first guest in this series is Brittany! She has brought her expertise to school settings, community health clinics, and is currently serving as a therapist and case manager for Washington University-St. Louis. Brittany also wears the hat of a play therapist at a local private practice. Brittany provides valuable insights into the realm of youth mental health, offering thoughtful tips and expert advice.   What you'll hear in this episode: [1:32] How did you decide to work in the mental health field? [5:00] Can you explain the concept behind gentle parenting and what it looks like? [11:35] How can parents implement changes? [17:45] What are some common signs of mental health challenges to look for in young kids? [25:40] Where does social media and screen time affect children's process of growth? [32:54] What are some tools and skills parents can do to improve youth mental health?    * Connect with Brittany Mitchell Bud to Bloom Play (Younger youth) Washington University - St Louis (Older youth 13-24)   *Submit your question to be answered on the podcast: https://www.jilliantedesco.co/podcast   *Connect with me on IG @jilliantedesco   *Order your copy of my book, Owning the Wait, now! jilliantedesco.co

This episode is sponsored by Ash Law. In today's episode, we are talking about divorce and separation — something that can be overwhelming if you are going through it. We discuss choosing legal representation, anticipated timelines, expense and revisiting your estate plan. Alyssa Hodges is a KC-based family law and divorce attorney. She earned her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and earned a master's in tax law (Tax LLM) at Washington University St. Louis School of Law. She has two young children and is a published author. We hope that moms going through divorce or separation find this episode to be informative, comforting and empowering.  Thank you to Our Episode Sponsor Missouri Family Law Attorney Alyssa S. Hodges has a knack for finding optimal solutions to her clients' complex problems in each of Alyssa's practice areas; family law and estate planning. Alyssa handles family law matters including pre-nuptial agreements, divorce, modifications of parenting time, and child support. After achieving a Tax LLM in January 2023, Alyssa's extensive knowledge of the tax code provides clarity to financial arrangements made during pre-nuptial and divorce negotiations. As you seek to protect those you love, and the assets you've built over a lifetime, Alyssa's estate planning strategies can help you get peace of mind. Wills and Trusts are the foundational tools that Alyssa deploys to ensure your legacy is preserved. Alyssa has some great resources on her webpage here. Follow her on Instagram here. Connect with Megan and Sarah We would love to hear from you! Send us an e-mail or find us on Instagram or Facebook!        

Hello and welcome to the Women Leaders in Sports Podcast... I am your host, Patti Phillips. Today, we have a special episode on the Deputy Mindset that was recorded during our 2023 National Convention that took place in October.  We will hear from these four talented women shaping their organizations as great Number 2's: Carrie Michaels, Senior Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator at Shippensburg University Heather Owen, Deputy Athletics Director and SWA at Stanford University Jill Redmond, Deputy Commissioner at Missouri Valley Conference Summer Hutcheson, Senior Associate Athletic Director  Internal Operations and SWA at Washington University St. Louis During these candid Ted Talks, you will hear what it means to be in the deputy role from several different perspectives- as each one has impactful insights. You're really going to love Carrie's unique list of the “Deputy Dirty Dozen”. Make sure to stay on until the end to gain insights from the open and honest discussion between the audience and panelists during the Q&A. Let's dive into the mindset of a deputy....and remember, We Are Women Leaders.

Courtney Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1982 in political science with an emphasis on mathematical modeling. He began his teaching career as a college calculus instructor in Africa before moving on to teach nonlinear differential and difference equation modeling in the social sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory University, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books on applied nonlinear mathematical modeling in the social sciences, including two new volumes, one on applied differential equation systems (2007) and another on graph algebra (2008), a new graphical language used for modeling systems. He also has an interest in political music, and has recently published a book on the subject. Independent of his work as a college professor, he is the Director and founder of The Farsight Institute (www.farsight.org), a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to the study of a phenomenon of nonlocal consciousness known as "remote viewing." He recently published a book titled "Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception." In this book he analyzes data and develops a new theory that explains the remote-viewing phenomenon as a consequence of superposition formation on the quantum level.

The funder of this project, along with all other products of the Mid-America PTTC is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Although funded by SAMHSA, the content of this recording does not necessarily reflect the views of SAMHSA.  Stefan Denson is an experienced independent contractor in the field of civil rights. He is retired from public service. He has served on the board of various nonprofit organizations which have focused in the areas of higher education, civil rights, and community service. Working as a facilitator and trouble shooter between a university computer team and a federal civil rights enforcement agency, Stefan helped the parties develop a computer program using elements of artificial intelligence. Stefan's professional pursuits are guided by his personal interests. This includes a strong interest in the field of media literacy where Stefan has assisted in co-authoring a revision of the textbook on Media Literacy (Approach to Media Literacy, 3rd Edition, M.L. Sharpe). Stefan is a graduate of Washington University – St. Louis with a master's degree in legal studies. Dr. Silverblatt is Professor Emeritus of Media Communications at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages, Dictionary of Media Literacy, Approaches to Media Literacy, International Communications, Approaches to Genre Study, and Handbook of Media Literacy, as well as numerous articles focusing on the topic of Media Literacy. He is a Founding Member of DIMLE. A seasoned, life-long communications practitioner and devoted professional community connector and volunteer, Jessica Z. Brown-Billhymer has been advocating for citizens to be mindful media consumers and creators, for more than 25 years. She is founder and president of Gateway Media Literacy Partners Inc. (GMLP), a regional nonprofit focused on helping community make sense of media in the digital age, and originator of the first annual Media Literacy Week in the nation. Brown-Billhymer and partners devote time and expertise to community media literacy education, and to uniting a variety of institutions in efforts to promote the virtues of sustained media literacy education. Brown-Billhymer and fellow media literacy champions have always contended, media literacy can lead to greater agency and a more educated, critical-thinking and empowered citizenry. Digital International Media Literacy Education: https://dimle.org Gateway Media Literacy Partners: https://www.gmlp.org  SAMHSA offers free, downloadable publications and tip sheets, as well as mobile apps for youth, teens, and young adults on topics such as substance misuse, common mental health conditions, and coping with disasters and other traumatic events. https://www.samhsa.gov/prevention-week/voices-of-youth/substance-use-prevention-resources-youth-college-students Interested in sharing your story in a digital format. SAMHSA has a How-to Guide for Digital Story Telling to support the recovery and healing of self and other through messages of hope. This guide can help you plan, organize, and make a digital story. It includes helpful, easy-to-use resources for each stage of the process. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaigns/brss_tacs/samhsa-storytelling-guide.pdf

When Megan Kenyon's niece was born it propelled her on a journey of exploring the messages she received from the church about being a woman, culminating in an art showcase featuring the church experiences of 22 women across generations and denominations. The findings were remarkable (but probably not surprising). Find photos of the showcase mentioned in this episode on our Instagram HERE. Megan Kenyon is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in St. Louis. Her practice focuses on storytelling relating to evangelical experience, investigating through visual images and written texts the complexities of Christian practice, church history, and spiritual abuse. A life-long Christian, Megan's experiences with a variety of evangelical and mainline denominations and organizations, as well as many homeschool networks in Missouri, deeply informs her work. Megan is a recent grad of Washington University St. Louis' Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art program, and has shown at a variety of St. Louis galleries, including the Kranzberg and the Kemper Museum. Working in collaboration with other evangelical women, Megan is currently creating a body of work that will debut in a show called The Women's Chapel at Intersect Arts Center in December of 2023.REGISTER FOR RETREATCONUncertain is a podcast of Tears of Eden, a community and resource for those in the aftermath of Spiritual Abuse. If you're enjoying this podcast, please take a moment to like, subscribe, or leave a review on your favorite podcasting listening apparatus. You can support the podcast by going to TearsofEden.org/supportTo get in touch with us please email tearsofeden.org@gmail.comFollow on Instagram @uncertainpodcast

Crisis Management in the Wealth Space Lawyers, Accountants, Wealth Advisers and other advisers – are used to dealing with difficult situations all at the heart of their specialty.  But often, the advice the clients need goes past the wealth arena . . . . How do you help them when you hear situations like this? My son shows no drive and won't get up from bed- My daughter is cutting herself- My brother just got his second DUI this year and is running the business into the ground- The trustee of my trust has missed filing taxes and is making mistakes- What do you do when you are the first point of contact, but out of your expertise?  What happens when the family is in crisis and devastating wealth impacts are in view? What happens when it's not in your business model or expertise to deal with this part of the family's issues? How do you do the right thing by your client and yourself? JANE MINTZ is the person to help us deal with this gaping hole in the wealth management industry. Jane is an internationally respected pioneer who has spent 20 years working with individuals and families around crises related to addictive illness, mental health, and life concerns. Best known for her work as a concierge strategist guiding clinically complex individuals and their families through extraordinary challenges, she is also a noted thought leader, industry consultant, educator, and speaker who has garnered international recognition. Jane has extensive experience working with family businesses and private family wealth offices so that the dysfunctions of today do not destroy the legacies of tomorrow.   Jane is a Licensed Professional Counselor with multiple dimension training credentials in high acuity clinical clients. She is a Laurel School graduate (Cleveland, OH) with degrees from Washington University (St. Louis, MO) and John Carroll University (Cleveland, OH).  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6s4CX5W9qxMtXwRRbBOtUi?si=zvatryXoRUadZirFtJJO4w Outline Jane, in a couple of sentences, what do you do as Professional Counselor- How is your expertise applied to the wealth space? (Family Businesses and Wealth Offices/Trustees) Crisis What constitutes a crisis? What is the difference between a crisis and a mistake (or “growing pains”)? How does a financial advisor, coworker, wealth manager know when to intervene? What are we looking for signs and symptoms that someone needs help:   Misspending  Not showing up for appointments  Missed deadlines  Disruption in workplace  Missed work  Inability to participate in large planning matters  The Intersection of Being a "Fiduciary" and Getting a Client the Help They Need? What is a fiduciary relationship?  vs. Human Ethics? When do human ethics supersede fiduciary ethics?  How can a clinical strategist be a key collaborator in bridging the gap between the two?    What does a professional counselor do?   What happens when a client is introduced to to a Counselor?    What are reasonable expectations?  For the family? For the Adviser? What does progress look like?  How do you set up the structures for long term success? Where does the Adviser fit in that process? How do we stay in touch and how do listeners find you? JANEMINTZ.COM Books Mentioned . . . . https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319  "Frazer Rice is an employee of Next Capital Management, LLC. This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, nor does it reflect the opinions of Next Capital Management. Any opinions represented in the show are Frazer's individually and not an endorsement of the guest." https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Actually-Intelligent-Decision-Making-1-ebook/dp/B07FPQJJQT/

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jonathan Losos about the evolutionary story of cats. They discuss how cats are semi-domesticated and similar around the world. They talk about how cats meow and purr to humans and less so with other cats. They discuss the sociality of cats, feral cats, and the evolutionary history of cats. They talk about the five different groups of cats, where cats originate from, different breeds of cats, genetics, where they roam, the future of cats and many other topics. Jonathan Losos is an evolutionary ecologist who studies rapid evolution, ecology, and phylogenetics. He has his PhD from the University of California and taught at Harvard University for over 10 years. Currently, he is a professor at Washington University (St. Louis) and is the founder of the Living Earth Collaborative. He is the recipient of the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award, and the David Starr Jordan Prize. He is the author of numerous books including the most recent book, The Cat's Meow. Website: https://biology.wustl.edu/people/jonathan-lososTwitter: @jlosos This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades and environmental crises just continue to compound. All this Tesla driving, green-roofed corporate headquarters, and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities of color continue to suffer the worst consequences. Jenny Price is an ardent advocate for increasing public environmental access, activism, and effectiveness in solving the myriad of challenges we face. She joined us in 2022 to talk about her latest book, 'Stop Saving the Planet, An Environmentalist Manifesto' [https://www.jennyjjprice.net/stop-saving-the-planet]. Its message is that environmental advocates must do better. She suggests a plan with 39 steps to get to cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change. Buy the Book: https://www.jennyjjprice.net/stop-saving-the-planet# Jenny Price is a writer and public artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School at Washington University-St. Louis. She tells stories about the environment and public space, and deploys a wide variety of public arts and humanities formats to do so. Her writings include Stop Saving the Planet: An Environmentalist Manifesto (2021); Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America; “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” and other essays; op-eds in the NY Times and LA Times; and her not-quite advice column “Green Me Up JJ.” She has created, co-created, and sometimes stumbled into public art projects to work for environmental justice, as well as to de-privatize essential public spaces. She has co-founded the LA Urban Rangers collective, led tours of the concrete LA River, designed the alternative Nature Trail in Laumeier Sculpture Park, co-launched the "What Are You Doing?! (stop saving the planet!)” video series, and co-created the popular Our Malibu Beaches mobile phone app. Jessica Aldridge, Co-Host and Producer of EcoJustice Radio, is an environmental educator, community organizer, and 15-year waste industry leader. She is a co-founder of SoCal 350, organizer for ReusableLA, and founded Adventures in Waste. She is a former professor of Recycling and Resource Management at Santa Monica College, and an award recipient of the international 2021 Women in Sustainability Leadership and the 2016 inaugural Waste360, 40 Under 40. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://wilderutopia.com/ecojustice-radio/stop-saving-the-planet-an-environmentalist-manifesto-ep-125/ Support the Podcast: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Hosted by Jessica Aldridge Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Episode 125 Photo credit: Igor Heifetz

Jane Eigner Mintz, MA, LPC, is the CEO and Chief Clinical Strategist of her international consultancy firm, Realife Intervention Solutions, LLC, offering strategic direction for addiction, mental health, and life concerns. A veteran treatment provider and thought leader in the addiction and behavioral health industries, Jane authored The Field Model of Intervention, the first-ever clinical model of intervention now in use by practitioners and organizations across the United States and the United Kingdom. Best known for her work as a concierge strategist guiding clinically complex individuals and their families through crisis, she is also a noted industry consultant, educator, and speaker who has garnered international recognition.   Jane is a Licensed Professional Counselor with multiple dimension training credentials in high acuity clinical clients. She is a Laurel School graduate (Cleveland, OH) and holds degrees from Washington University (St. Louis, MO.) and John Carroll University (Cleveland, OH).       What You'll Learn ●      What holds us back from reaching out? ●      How to deal with the sense of shame. ●      Defining and handling narcissism. ●      The importance of asking for help.   Timestamps ·       [04:45] Why Jane got into this space. ·       [10:05] How to know what you're looking at. ·       [14:51] What holds us back from reaching out? ·       [22:36] The sense of shame. ·       [32:12] Defining narcissism. ·       [38:05] When is Cannabis over the line? ·       [43:03] The importance of asking for help.   Memorable Quotes ·       “If your gut is off, something's off.” – Jane Mintz [10:11] ·       “Shame is the most gripping force that anybody can combat.” – Jane Mintz [23:49] ·       “If you think you can outrun addiction, you're sorely mistaken.” – Jane Mintz [44:10] ·       “Secrets live in the dark.” – Jane Mintz [48:28]   Resources: Chris@chrisyonker.com   Social Media LinkedIn.   Websites www.janemintz.com. Email: jane@janemintz.com.

This month on JHLT: The Podcast, the JHLT Digital Media Editors review two studies from the February issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation—and bring in a couple of experts to help them make sense of some new technology.   First, the editors explore a pre-clinical study entitled “The dynamic cellular landscape of grafts with acute rejection after heart transplantation,” which comes from Kong and colleagues at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.   Single cell technologies are emerging as non-biased techniques to discover novel biological pathways in a variety of pre-clinical models and in human tissue both in health and disease. To help the editors—and you!—understand single cell approaches and this study, JHLT editors Ben Kopecky, MD, PhD and Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, from the Washington University St. Louis, appear in the episode to explore the methodology and what the study tells us.   Second, the editors welcome author Sam Rayner, MD from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, to discuss the paper by Hirsch and colleagues, “Circulating markers of inflammation and angiogenesis and clinical outcomes across subtypes of pulmonary arterial hypertension.”   When considering differences in pathophysiology of the subtypes of PAH, changes in biomarkers in angiogenesis and inflammation may provide useful insights and potential therapeutic targets. The authors of this study prospectively looked at 33 biomarkers of angiogenesis and inflammation in a cohort of patients across various PAH etiologies, and made correlations to clinical outcomes.   Follow along at www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, log in at ishlt.org/journal-of-heart-lung-transplantation.  Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.    

Don't miss this week's episode as Dr Jasser looks at the bizarre case(s) of what appears to be fabricated hate crimes that a prominent San Diego's is Imam recently reported to his hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, despite no confirmation from law enforcement, and no direct interviews with the Imam. The bigger story is that typical Islamist groups like CAIR have exploited his fiction and will not hold him accountable. Zuhdi asks, when will American Muslims clean their own house, and expose the corruption of Imams like Ibn Farooq who tarnish the reputation of all American Muslims? This week, Zuhdi also discusses the chaos among the leadership of the global Muslim Brotherhood and what it means to global security. Lastly, a professor at Washington University-St. Louis medical school, exemplifies, the oppressive tactics spreading through medical academia in America, with regards to the education (indoctrination) of critical race theory among students.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Listeners (you) chose this August interview with Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Dr. Berg talked about her Boston Review article "Freedom, not Benefits: Sex Workers are the Vanguard of Labor. The Left ignores them at its own Peril." We also feature an somewhat new Past inside the Present, present this week's Question from Hell!, and then also give you this week's much needed Hangover Cure.

Hear the last part of our interview with Dr. Frederick 'Fritz' K. Hilton, of the University of Louisville Medical School. This time he discusses his career as both a scientist and an artist. To hear the first two installments of our talk with this fascinating scientist visit: https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/bench-talk-a-life-of-art-and-science-dr-frederick-k-hilton-part-1-nov-21-2022 and https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/bench-talk-early-in-vitro-ferilizaton-frederick-hilton-part-2-december-sky-dec-5-2022?in=wfmp-forward-radio/sets/bench-talk-the-week-in-science#t=0:00 . To view some of his paintings: https://www.koreartgallery.com/fredrick-fritz-hilton Also, hear about 'Slow Birding' from Dr. Joan Strassman of Washington University-St. Louis. Thanks to the Groks Science Radio Show and Podcast for this excerpt: https://grokscience.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/slow-birding/ ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science' is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadi…ef=page_internal

While respiratory infections occur year-round, there is a significant increase in these infections during the fall and winter months (cold and flu season) when people tend to spend more time inside. It is important for parents and caregivers to understand the difference between common respiratory infections and treatment options. Dr. Tara Neumayr, a Washington University- St. Louis Children's Hospital Pediatric Critical Care Physician and Pediatric Nephrologist, can discuss the most common winter respiratory viruses, their symptoms, and how to know when to seek help.

This month on Episode 41 of Discover CircRes, host Cynthia St. Hilaire highlights four original research articles featured in the September 30 and October 14 issues of Circulation Research. This episode also features an interview with Dr Kory Lavine and Dr Chieh-Yu Lin from Washington University St. Louis, to discuss their study, Transcriptional and Immune Landscape of Cardiac Sarcoidosis.   Article highlights:   Tian, et al. EV-Mediated Heart Brain Communication in CHF   Wleklinski, et al.  Impaired Dynamic SR Ca Buffering Causes AD-CPVT2   Masson, et al. Orai1 Inhibition as a Treatment for PAH   Li, et al. F. Prausnitzii Ameliorates Chronic Kidney Disease   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Hi, and welcome to Discover Circ Res, the podcast of the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation Research. I'm your host, Dr Cynthia St. Hilaire from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, and today I'm going to highlight articles from our September 30th and October 14th issues of Circulation Research.                                           I'm also going to have a chat with Dr Kory Lavine and Dr Chieh-Yu Lin from Washington University St. Louis, and we're going to discuss their study Transcriptional and Immune Landscape of Cardiac Sarcoidosis. But before I get to the interview, I'm going to highlight a few articles.   Cindy St. Hilaire: The first article I'm going to share is Extracellular Vesicles Regulate Sympathoexcitation by Nrf2 in Heart Failure. The first author of this study is Changhai Tian, and the corresponding author is Irving Zucker, and they are at University of Nebraska. After a myocardial infarction, increased oxidative stress in the heart can contribute to adverse cardiac remodeling, and ultimately, heart failure. Nrf2 is a master activator of antioxidant genes, suggesting a protective role, but studies in rats have shown its expression to be suppressed after MI, likely due to upregulation of Nrf2-targeting microRNAs. These microRNAs can also be packaged into vesicles and released from stressed heart cells.   Now, this group has shown that rats and humans with chronic heart failure have an abundance of these microRNA-containing EVs in their blood. In the rats with chronic heart failure, these extracellular vesicles were found to be taken up by neurons of the rostral ventrolateral medulla, RVLM, wherein the microRNA suppressed Nrf2 expression. The RVLM is a brain region that controls the sympathetic nervous system, and in the presence of EVs, it is ramped up by sympathetic excitation. Because such elevated sympathetic activity can induce the fight or flight response, including increased heart rate and blood pressure, this would likely worsen heart failure progression. The team, however, found that inhibiting microRNAs in the extracellular vesicles prevented Nrf2 suppression in the RVLM and sympathetic activation, suggesting the pathway could be targeted therapeutically.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        The next article I want to highlight is titled, Impaired Dynamic Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Buffering in Autosomal Dominant CPVT2. The first author of this study is Matthew Wleklinski, and the corresponding author is Bjӧrn Knollmann, and they are at Vanderbilt University.   Exercise or emotional stress can prompt the release of catecholamine hormones, which induce a fast heart rate, increased blood pressure, and other features of the fight or flight response. For people with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or CPVT, physical activity or stress can cause potentially lethal arrhythmias. Mutations of calsequestrin-2, or CASQ2, which is a sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-binding protein, is a major cause of CPVT, and can be recessive or dominant in nature.   For many recessive mutations, disease occurs due to loss of CASQ2 protein. This group investigated a dominant lysine to arginine mutation in this protein, and found by contrast, protein levels remain normal. In mice carrying the mutation, not only was the level of CASQ2 comparable to that in control animals, but so, too, was the protein's subcellular localization. The mutation instead interfered with CASQ2's calcium binding or buffering capability within the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The result was that upon catecholamine injection or exercise, the unbound calcium released prematurely from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, triggering spontaneous cell contractions. In uncovering this novel molecular etiology of CPVT, the work provides a basis for studying the consequences of other dominant CASQ2 mutations.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        The next article I want to highlight is from our October 14th issue of Circulation Research, and the title of the article is ORAI1 Inhibitors as Potential Treatments for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. The first author is Bastien Masson, and the corresponding author is Fabrice Antigny, and they're from Inserm in France. In pulmonary arterial hypertension, the arteries of the lungs become progressively obstructed, making it harder for the heart to pump blood through them, ultimately leading to right ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure. A contributing factor in the molecular pathology of pulmonary arterial hypertension is abnormal calcium handling within the pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Indeed, excess calcium signaling causes these cells to proliferate, migrate, and become resistant to apoptotic death, thus leading to narrowing of the vessel.   This group now identified the calcium channel ORAI1 as a major culprit behind this excess signaling. Samples of lung tissue from pulmonary arterial hypertension patients and a pulmonary arterial hypertension rat model had significantly upregulated expression of this channel compared with controls. And in patient pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells, the high ORAI1 levels resulted in heightened calcium influx, heightened proliferation, heightened migration and reduced apoptosis. Inhibition of ORAI1 reversed these effects. Furthermore, in pulmonary hypertension model rats, ORAI1 inhibition reduced right ventricle systolic pressure and attenuated right ventricle hypertrophy when compared with untreated controls. This study indicates that ORAI1 inhibitors could be a new potential target for treating this incurable condition.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        The last article I want to share is titled Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii Attenuates CKD via Butyrate-Renal GPR43 Axis. The first author of this study is Hong-Bao Li, and the corresponding author is Tao Yang, and they are from the University of Toledo.   Progressive renal inflammation and fibrosis accompanied by hypertension are hallmarks of chronic kidney disease, which is an incurable condition affecting a significant chunk of the world's population. Studies indicate that chronic kidney disease is linked to gut dysbiosis. Specifically, depletion of lactobacillus bifidobacterium and faecalibacterium, prompting investigations into the use of probiotics. While supplements including lactobacillus and bifidobacterium have shown little effectiveness in chronic kidney disease, supplementations with F. prausnitzii have not been investigated.   Now, this group has shown in a mouse model of chronic kidney disease that oral administration of F. prausnitzii has beneficial effects on renal function, reducing renal fibrosis and inflammation. This bacterial supplementation also produced the short chain fatty acid butyrate, which was found to be at unusually low levels in the blood samples from the CKD model mice and from chronic kidney disease patients. Oral supplementation with this bacterium boosted butyrate levels in the mice, and in fact, oral administration of butyrate itself mimicked the effects of the bacteria. These findings suggest that supplementation with F. prausnitzii or, indeed, butyrate could be worth investigating as a treatment for chronic kidney disease.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Today I have with me Dr Kory Lavine and Dr Chieh-Yu Lin from Washington University St. Louis, and we're going to talk about their paper, Transcriptional and Immune Landscape of Cardiac Sarcoidosis. This is in our September 30th issue of Circulation Research. Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to speak with me today.   Chieh-Yu Lin:             Thank you for inviting us. It's a great honor to be here today.   Kory Lavine:               Thank you.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Really great paper, ton of data, and hopefully, we can pick some of it apart. But before we get into it, I actually want to just talk about sarcoidosis generally. I know it's a systemic inflammatory disease that has this kind of aggregation of immune cells as its culprit, and it can happen in a bunch of different organs. It's mostly in the lung, but it's also, like you're studying, in the heart. Can you just give us a little bit of background? What is sarcoidosis, and how common is cardiac sarcoidosis?   Chieh-Yu Lin:             Well, this is actually a great question, and I'll try to answer it. You actually capture one of the most important kind of features for sarcoidosis. It happens in all kind of organ system, mostly commonly in lung, in lymph nodes, but also in heart, spleen, even in brain, or even orbit, like eyes. It's really a truly multisystemic disease that has been characterized by this aggregate of macrophages, or myeloid cells, with scattered multinucleated giant cells, as the name implies, have multiple nuclear big, chunky, cells that form an aggregate. That's kind of like a pathognomonic feature for sarcoidosis, whether it's happening in lung, in the heart. When any organ system, a lot of studies has been done, but as of now, a very clear pathogenesis or mechanism has been, I would say, still pretty elusive, or still remain quite unclear, despite all the great effort has been made in this field. The other thing is that a lot of the studies actually focusing on pulmonary sarcoidosis for good reasons. Actually, that's one of the most common manifestations. For cardiac sarcoidosis, although it's only effect in probably, I would say depends on the data, 20% to 30% of the outpatient that with sarcoidosis, with or without lung involvement. It's actually carry a very significant clinical implications as of matter that the presentation of cardiac sarcoidosis can be devastating and sometimes actually fatal. Some of the study actually show that cardiac sarcoidosis actually higher, up to 80%, just because the first presentation's actually, unfortunately, sudden cardiac death. That's why Kory and I, we teamed up. I'm a cardiothoracic pathologist, so in my clinical practice I see specimens and samples from human body, from patient suffer from sarcoidosis, both in lung, lymph node, and heart. Kory is an outstanding heart failure, heart transplant cardiologist, see the other end, which is the patient care. This disease, specifically in heart, its presentation and its pathogens in heart, really attracts our attention.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Do we know any or some of the potential causes? Why it would start, maybe in a different patient population, but also in the heart versus the lung? Do we know anything about that process?   Kory Lavine:              We know nothing about it. Sarcoid has no known etiology. There's been thoughts in the past that it may be driven by infection, the typical pathogens or autoimmune ideologies, but really, there's little data out there to support those possibilities. Right now, the field's wide open. The other challenge is we don't really have a good way to treat this disease, so a lot of the therapies available are things like steroids, which can have some effect on the disease but carry a lot of risk of complications. The other agents that we sometimes use to lower the doses of steroids, things like methotrexate and azathioprine, are only modestly effective.   These are really the motivation for Chieh-Yu and myself to pursue this. We don't really know what causes the disease, and we don't really have very good treatments. We really wanted to take the first step, that's to study the real disease, and understand what are the pathologic cell types that are present within the granuloma, which is these aggregation of immune cells that Chieh-Yu was speaking about.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        What is actually happening at the beginning of this disease? These granulomas form, and then what is the pathological progression in the heart? What goes on there?   Chieh-Yu Lin:             This is actually another great question that I will say there's not much that has been discovered because, especially in human tissue, every time we have a sample, it's actually a kind of time point. We cannot do a longitudinal study. But in general speaking, very little is known about how it's initiated because it will need to accumulate to a certain disease burden for this to have a clinical symptom sign and be manifested, and then being clinically studied. We do know that in both heart and lung after treatment of progressions, it's usually in, a general speaking, going through a phase from a more proliferative means that it's creating more granulomas, more  inflammatory cell aggregate, to a more fibrotic phase. Means that sometimes you actually see the granuloma start to disappear or dissipate, and then showing this kind of dense collagen and fibrosis. That has been commonly documented in both lung and heart sarcoidosis. The other things is that very difficult to study this disease that we do not have a great animal model, so we cannot use animal model to try to approximate or really study the disease pathogenesis. There are several animal models they try to use microbacteria or infectious agents, and these infectious agents can create morphologically similar granuloma, per se, but just like in human body. For instance, patients suffer from TB in their lung, biopsy will show this. But clinically, these are two very distinct disease entities, even though they look alike. Even in the heart, one of the conditions that we study in our paper is giant cell myocarditis, as the name implying having multinucleated giant cells granuloma. It looks really alike under microscopy for pathologists like me, but their clinical course in response to treatment is drastically different. This type of barriers and in the current limitations of our study tool makes, as Kory just said, this is really a wide open. We just know so little despite all the effort.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Yeah. I'm guessing based on this granuloma information, to start with, the obvious question you went after is going after the immune cell populations that possibly contribute to sarcoidosis. To do this, because you have the human tissue, you went for single cell transcriptional profiling, which is a great use of the technology. But what biological sources did you use, and how did you go about choosing patient? Because the great thing about single cell is you can do just that, you can look at however many thousands of cells in one patient. But how do you make sure or check that that is broadly seen versus just a co-founding observation in that patient?   Kory Lavine:               We use explanted hearts and heart tissue from patients that underwent either heart transplantation or implementation of LVADs. It's a pretty big hunk of myocardium, and we're lucky to work with outstanding pathologists both at WashU, JU, as well as our collaborators at Duke. Between the two institutions, we're able to pull together a collection of tissues where we knew there were granulomas within that piece of tissue we analyzed. You bring up an important challenge. You need to make sure the disease and cause of the disease is present in the tissue that you're analyzing, otherwise you'll not come up with the data that really is informative.   Chieh-Yu Lin:             Kory beautifully answered the question, but I just wanted to add one little thing, and that's also why we use various different modalities. Some of them is more inside you, like the NanoString Technologies' spatial transcriptomic. You can visualize and confirm that we are studying the phenomenon that has been described for sarcoidosis, and then using multichannel immunofluorescence to validate our sequencing data, to complement such limitations of certain technology.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Especially, I feel like with this diseased tissue that it's such a large tissue, there's so much information, it's really hard to dig in and figure out where the signal is. This was a wonderful paper for kind of highlighting, integrating all these new technologies with also just classical staining. Makes for great pictures as well. How does this cellular landscape of cardiac sarcoidosis compare to a normal heart? What'd you find?   Chieh-Yu Lin:             This is a great question. Compared to normal heart, we have been talking about this accumulation of macrophages with scattered multinucleated giant cells. For the similar landscape, first and foremost, you do not see those type of accumulations in brain microscopy or by myeloid markers in the heart. Although, indeed, in even normal heart tissue we have rest and macrophages. It just doesn't form such morphological alterations. But then we dive deep into it, and then we found that from a different cell type perspective, we realized that the granuloma is composed by several different type of inflammatory cells, with most of the T cells and NKT cells kind of adding periphery. The myeloid cells, including the multinucleated giant cells also, are kind of in the center of the granuloma of the sarcoidosis. Then, we further dive in and realize that there are at least six different subtype of myeloid cells that is contributing to the formation of this very eye-catching distinctive granular malformations, and to just never feel first off and foremost, of course, is those multinucleated giant cells that is really distinct, even on the line microscopy] routine change stand.   And then we have a typical monocyte that's more like a precursor being recently recruited to the heart, and we finally sent the other four different type of myeloid cell that carry different markers, and then improving the resident macrophages. Especially for me as a pathologist, I'm using my eye and looking at stand every day, is actually these six type of cells, myeloid cells, actually form a very beautiful special kind of distribution with the connections or special arrangement with all different type, kind of like multinucleated giant cell in the middle, flanked by HLA-DR positive epithelioid macrophages, kind of scatter, and then with dendritic cells and a typical monocyte at the peripheral, and then resident macrophage kind of like in the mix of the seas of granuloma information. All these are distinct from normal heart tissues that does carry a certain amount of macrophages, but just don't form this orchestrated architectural distinct structure that's composed of this very complicated landscape.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Those images, I think it was figure six, it's just gorgeous to look at, the model you made. One of the questions I was thinking is there must be a significance between these cells that are on the periphery and those that are in the center of this granuloma. Do you have an idea or can we speculate as to are some more cause and some more consequence of the granuloma? Were you able to capture any more information about maybe the initiating steps of these from your study?   Kory Lavine:              That's a great question, and a question the field has had for a long time. Now, we know there's different populations of cells. The single cell data allows us to understand what are the transcriptional differences and distinctions between them to gain some insights. One thing that we do know from the field is that disease activity correlates with mTOR activity within these granulomas. We took advantage of phospho-S6 kinase staining as a downstream marker of mTOR activity, and Ki-67 is a marker of self proliferation.   Which of these populations within the granuloma might be most active with respect to mTOR and respect to proliferation? If you ask most people in the field, they would jump up and say, "It's the giant cell in the middle." We found that that's not actually the case at all. It's the macrophages that surround the giant cell, the ones that are HLA-DR positive, the epithelioid macrophages, and the ones that are SYLT-3 positive that are scattered around them. That's really interesting and could make a lot of sense, and leads to hypothesis that perhaps activation mTOR signaling within certain parts of the granuloma might be sufficient to set up the rest of the architecture. That's something that we can explore in animal models, and are doing so to try to create a cause and effect relationship. Cindy St. Hilaire:        Yeah, and I was actually thinking about this, too, in relation to kind of the resident macrophages versus infiltrating macrophages or even just infiltrating immune cells. Do you know the original source of the cells that make up the granuloma? Is it mostly resident immune, or are they recruited in?   Kory Lavine:               We can make predictions from the single cell data where you can use trajectory analysis to make strong predictions about what the origin of different populations might be. What those analyses predicted is that the giant cells and the cells that surround the giant cells, the HLA-DR positive and SYLT-3 positive macrophages, come from monocytes. That's the prediction, and, of course, resident macrophages do not. However, that prediction has to be tested, and that's the beauty and importance of developing animal models. The wonderful thing today is we now have genetic tools to do that. We can ask that question.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        I don't know. Maybe you don't want to spoil the lead of the next paper, but what kind of mouse model are you thinking about trying?   Kory Lavine:               Yeah. First of all, let me talk about the tools that are available, because they're published in Circulation Research, of course. We have a nice tool to specifically mark, track and delete in tissue resident macrophages using a CX3CR1 ERT pre-mouse, and taking advantage of the concept that tissue macrophages don't turn over from monocytes and turn over from themselves. We can give tamoxifen to label all monocytes macrophages in Dcs with that CRE, and then wait a period of time where only the resident macrophages remain labeled. We can use that trick to modulate mTOR signaling as a first step, and ask whether mTOR signaling is required in that population. We've now developed a new genetic tool to do the same thing in just recruited macrophages.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        What was the most challenging aspect of this study? There's a lot of moving parts. I'm sure probably the data analysis alone is challenging, but what would you say is the most challenging?   Kory Lavine:               I think you alluded to this early on, but the most challenging thing is collecting the right tissues to analyze, and that's not a small feat or a small effort here. All the technologies are a lot of fun, and everything works so well today compared to many years ago when we trained, so it's an exciting time to do science. The most challenging and time-consuming component was assembling a group of tissues that we could do single-cell sequencing on between our group and our colleagues at Duke, and then creating validation cohorts that we did across several different institutions, including our own as well as Stanford. That team effort in building that team is the most important, challenging, and honestly, enjoyable part of this.   Chieh-Yu Lin:             I cannot agree more what Kory just said. I think that that's the challenging and the fun part, and that we're very fortunate to really have a great team to tackle this questions in multiple from multiple institute. I just want to add one more thing that, particularly for me as a cardiopathologist, one of the hardest things is I've known how to look or diagnose sarcoidosis for years, but seeing the data emerging that is so complicated and then beyond my reliable eyes in understanding, it's kind of mentally very challenging but very fun to really open and broaden the vision. It's not just how it looks like just giant cells in macrophages.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        What do you think about in terms of diagnostics or even potential therapies? How do you think this data that you have now can be leveraged towards those objectives, whether it's screening for new cell types that are really key to this granuloma formation versus therapeutically targeting them?   Kory Lavine:              This study opens new doors, and right now, diagnosis of sarcoids islimited by trying to biopsy, which, in the heart, is limited by sample bias. You certainly can biopsy the wrong area because you don't know whether a granuloma is in the area or not. We do do some cardiac and other imaging studies like FDG-PET scans, which are helpful but are not perfect, and each of them has their individual limitations. One of the beauties of our study is it identifies new markers of macrophage populations that live within the granuloma, many of which are unique to this disease.   That suggests that there's maybe an opportunity to develop imaging tracers that can identify those populations more specifically than our current PET imaging studies do, which rely simply on glucose uptake. It also opens up the possibility that we may able to take blood samples and identify some of these cell types within the blood, and have more simple testing for our patients. I think in terms of therapy, you alluded to it earlier, these concepts about mTOR signaling, that could be a new therapeutic avenue that needs to be rigorously explored in preclinical models. We're lucky already to have very good mTOR inhibitors available in clinical practice today.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        Obviously, opening new doors is amazing because it's more information, but often a good study leads to even more questions to be asked. What question, or maybe what questions, are you guys going to go after next?   Chieh-Yu Lin:             Well, that list is very long, and then that's actually the exciting thing about doing this research. There's no bad questions, in some sense. All the way from diagnosis, management, monitoring, therapeutic, how we predict where the patient can respond, that's the whole clinical side. Even the basic science side, we still haven't really answered the question, although our data suggests where that multinucleated giant cells coming from. It's very eye catching. How do they form, even though our data suggests it's from the recruited macrophages. But that's still a long way from the recruited macrophage,  monocyte to that gigantic bag of nuclei in the very fluffy cytoplasm.   And then, how the granuloma, as we discussed earlier in this discussion, really initially from a relatively normal background myocardium to form this disease process. There are just so many questions that we can ask. There are, of course, several fronts that we would like to focus on. Kory already nicely listed some of them. First and foremost is actually to establish animal model to enable us to do more details in mechanistic studies, because human tissue, as good as it is, it's kind of like a snapshot, just one time point, and it really limits our ability to test our hypothesis. Animal model, certainly, is one of the major directions that we are going forward, but also the other side, like more clinical science also to develop novel noninvasive methodologies to diagnose and to hopefully monitor this patient population in a better way.       Cindy St. Hilaire:        Well, it's beautiful work. I was actually reading this paper this weekend at a brunch place just next door to my house, and the guy sitting next to me happened to see over my shoulder the title and said that his father had passed away from it. This is hopefully going to help lots of people in the future, and really help to make the models that we need to ask, "What's happening in this disease?" Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me, and congratulations on what seems to be a landmark study in understanding what's going on in this disease.   Chieh-Yu Lin:             Thank you so much. It's a pleasure.   Cindy St. Hilaire:        That's it for our highlights from the September 30th and October 14th issues of Circulation Research. Thank you so much for listening. Please check out the Circ Res Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram with the handle @CircRes, and hashtag Discover Circ Res. Thank you so much to our guests, Dr Kory Lavine and Dr Chieh-Yu Lin from Washington University St. Louis. This podcast is produced by Ashara Retniyaka, edited by Melissa Stoner, and supported by the editorial team of Circulation Research. Some of the copy texts for highlighted articles was provided by Ruth Williams. I'm your host, Dr Cynthia St. Hilaire, and this is Discover Circ Res, your 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 of the American Heart Association. For more information, please visit ahajournals.org.  

The tech startup Sanas transforms accented English to a white, midwestern American voice. Sanas contends that this technology can help overseas call center workers who are dealing with racist harassment. But those who have studied call centers and the "white voice" say this only puts a filter over the very problems the technology aims to remedy. We'll talk with experts about intolerance for accented speech, the challenges facing international call center workers and what it means to “sound white. Related link(s): - Sanas, the buzzy Bay Area startup that wants to make the world sound whiter Guests: Sharath Keshava Narayana, Co-Founder & COO, Sanas Joshua Bote, assistant news editor, SFGATE Winifred Poster, adjunct faculty in International Affairs, Washington University St. Louis; author, “Borders in Service: Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres” Tom McEnaney, associate professor of Comparative Literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley

In this episode I start my investigation into the Cold Fusion controversy. In 1989 Pons & Fleischmann announced in a hastily convened press conference, the discovery of a new clean energy source that would revolutionize power grids and save humanity from climate change. They had measured the production of excess heat and neutrons in a room temperature electrolytic reaction using heavy water and a palladium cathode.  It shortly became evident that their claims were not entirely correct. After many attempts it was discovered that their experiment could not be replicated and mainstream science dismissed Cold Fusion as a pathological science. Despite this lack of acceptance, many have continued to try to replicate their work and strike it rich. Now after more than 30 years, a pattern of unexplained anomalous results has emerged from the rubble.  Is there something to the newly renamed Low Energy Nuclear Reactions field?  I'm interviewing an expert who has been involved in reviewing the work in this field since the very beginning. Edmund Storms obtained a Ph.D. in radiochemistry from Washington University (St. Louis) and is retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory after thirty-four years of service. His work involved basic research in the field of high temperature chemistry as applied to materials used in nuclear power and propulsion reactors. He presently lives in Santa Fe where he is investigating the "cold fusion" effect in his own laboratory. An authority in the field he has published 2 books, over 100 papers and four complete scientific reviews of the field over the years. In May 1993, he was invited to testify before a congressional committee about the "cold fusion" effect. In 1998, Wired magazine honored him as one of the 25 people in the US who is making a significant contribution to new ideas. He was awarded the Preparata Medal by the International Society of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science and honored as Distinguished Scientist by University of Missouri. His large collection of literature about LENR was used to create the website www.LENR.org where information about the phenomenon is available. His recent work has focused on understanding LENR and making the effect reproducible. Follow me at www.therationalview.ca Join the Facebook discussion @TheRationalView Twitter @AlScottRational Instagram @The_Rational_View #TheRationalView #podcast #coldfusion #LENR #science #electrolysis #palladium #nuclear #nuclearpower

Emma hosts Dr. Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University St. Louis, to discuss her recent book Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism. Emma hosts Dr. Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University St. Louis, to discuss her recent book Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism. Emma first dives into yesterday's primary results in NY and Florida, walking through the crushing victories of socialists Krysten Gonzalez, Gustavo Rivera, and Jabari Brisport in New York City and Maxwell Frost in Orlando, before looking at real-estate and NYT-backed Dan Goldman's victory despite three progressive candidates passing 10k votes. Then, she's joined by Doctor Heather Berg as they dive right into her class-based analysis of porn and sex work, and how she came to this field of study, walking through the field's historical focus on consumption and representation in the industry despite the intrigue Dr. Berg found in the grey market nature of the work, occasionally being criminalized and always a precarious element of the gig economy, leading her to look to the void of worker commentary on working conditions in the industry. After a brief conversation on the (unsurprisingly) laborious and mundane nature of this labor, and how it departs from other gig industries (much easier to work for oneself), Dr. Heather Berg and Emma walk through the history of porn and sex work in the US, beginning in the 1970s' supposed “golden age” of porn, and why, despite the heralding of pieces like “Deep Throat” and “The Devil in Miss Jones,” the majority of pornographic productions in this era saw lower-budget films with lower-quality working conditions, before the switch to video in the 1980s saw profits soar, with better pay being met with longer work weeks and more hardcore productions meaning greater physical labor (and more anti-porn backlash from Christian fundamentalists). Alongside the video boom, the HIV/AIDS epidemic saw the beginnings of organizing in the industry, as sex workers and porn stars saw themselves at the forefront of the public health efforts, creating their own standards of testing across the industry, leading up to the digital boom of the 1990s, where a mass increase in piracy (largely supported by the production elements of the industry) saw workers' claims to the fruits of their labor start to vanish, with companies like Pornhub springing up to centralize the production with limited redistribution of profits and offering a blueprint for the more clearly “gig” work of Onlyfans that would come about a couple of decades later. Wrapping up, Dr. Berg and Emma tackle the state of the industry today, exploring how the discriminatory policies and pay around certain identities come from the ingrained standards of the late 20th Century, the efforts of organizations such as BIPOC Adult Industry Collective not only to make demands of management but to provide the infrastructure for workers to become completely independent from management, and why the issues around working conditions in sex work and porn are not due to their nature as “sex” but their nature as work. And in the Fun Half: Emma discusses Biden finally being pushed to do the bare minimum to address the student debt crisis (hitting both means-testing and grant-specific qualifiers), before Kowalski from Nebraska shares his take on the 10-20k in relief. Emma and the crew also tackle the brief fall of Andrew Tate, walking through Hasan's debate with him, and James from Fort Worth explores book banning and Christian fundamentalism in schools. Jamaal Bowman has an expert response to the NY Democratic Party pitting progressives against each other, and Denis Prager endorses a Naz-so-bad slogan called the three Ks. Plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Heather's book here: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661926/porn-work/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: Aura: Protect yourself from America's fastest-growing crime. Try Aura for 14 days for free: https://aura.com/majority Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

Christopher Smyser, M.D., M.S.C.I., is the director of the Neonatal Neurology Clinical Program and head of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Section in the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University/St. Louis Children's Hospital, where he is a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Radiology. He also co-directs the Baker Family Fellowship in Neonatal Neurology and Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Program. He is a pediatric neurologist with additional training in neonatal neurology. With a background in biomedical engineering, Dr. Smyser's research focuses on the use of advanced neuroimaging techniques to provide greater understanding of early brain development and the pathway to neurodevelopmental disabilities. He is co-director of the Washington University Neonatal Developmental Research (WUNDER) Laboratory. Dr. Smyser's recent research efforts have centered upon the use of resting state-functional connectivity MRI and diffusion MRI to investigate functional and structural brain development in high-risk pediatric populations from infancy through adolescence. He is currently the principal investigator for multiple NIH-funded longitudinal studies focused upon defining the deleterious effects of prematurity, brain injury and environmental exposures on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric outcomes through development and application of state-of-the-art neuroimaging approaches.Find out more about Chris and this episode at: www.the-incubator.org______________________________________________________________________________________As always, feel free to send us questions, comments or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through instagram or twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. enjoy!This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.

Prof. Dr. Yubraj Sangraula is a Ph.D. Professor of Law, the Executive Director/Principal of Kathmandu School of Law, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nepal, Academic Council Member of Purbanchal University, and an author of many books. He is also a Council Member of the South Asian Institute of Legal Studies and Human Rights (SAILS Forum). Dr. Yubraj Sangraula has taught as Visiting Professor in Several Universities in Asia such as Rajibgandhi National Law University Punjab, Punjab University Law Faculty, Renmin University of China Law School, Chittagong University, and Chittagong, Bangladesh, Guru Govinda Indraprastha University Faculty of Law and Legal Studies, Beijing Communication University, China, Ehime University, Japan, Washington University St. Louis, Georgetown Law Center, USA. In this Podcast, Dr. Yubraj Sangraula and Sushant talk about Nepal's Economy, Laws, Culture, Education, and much more. GET CONNECTED WITH Prof. Dr. Yubaraj Sangroula: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.yubarajsangroula/ Website: https://yubarajsangroula.com.np/

What you believe is what you'll see… Often, the narrative is that we are being held up by limiting beliefs when it comes to achieving the life we envision. Early experiences in life build those beliefs and thoughts, those beliefs and thoughts affect our feelings; feelings become our actions, and actions form our habits. Our habits cement our thoughts. The cycle becomes a pattern. Then, we fall into the egocentric trap that holds us back from achieving our full potential. In this episode, our guest, Dr. Ray Blanchard describes the process by which he helps people spiral back into the source of their fundamental worldviews that dominate their life, make distinctions, create new beliefs, shift into an ecocentric worldview, and realize the life they envision in a whole new positive perspective.  Here's what we've learned from Dr. Ray Blanchard:01:24 How to achieve a breakthrough by shifting one's worldview06:29 Helping people transform their worldview to accomplish what they want in life09:03 How making distinctions help people see deeper through themselves10:29 Describing vs. experiencing14:04 The guiding principles of training that transcends cultures20:46 Transforming from the egocentric to the ecocentric relationship24:10 The overmind that cares about how one's actions affect the world as a whole28:34 How egocentricity sets us up to self-hate, hurt, and self-destruction31:08 The Great Spirit that binds us all together as one35:08 The practice of creating a deep connection with others39:19 How we achieve safety and transformation from within ourselves42:35 What mindful noticing without judgment is 3 Ways People Can Become Stronger and Resilient From WithinIncreasing Endorphins in the Body(42:35 - 45:06) Practice the ability of mindful noticing without judgmentStart to notice your environment, start to notice your own emotions, your own thoughts, your own feelings. Start to notice the interaction between you and other peopleThen, find yourself addressing all these intervening thoughts, and you might find yourself judging.Dismiss the thoughts. Just relax and let it go. So you end judgment 30 Days of Mindful Nature Walks(45:17 - 45:56)When you've started to be mindful and noticing.Take an hour of silent walking in nature.Then get into a few minutes of walking in nature. And then just be mindful and just notice.Do this for 30 consecutive days in a row at sunrise. If you can do it just for a few minutes a day, it would be a profound and life altering experience. Networking(45:57-56:10)Network or work with other people.Share with other people and learn.Let other people share with you. Develop yourself in a personal learning community.When you share things, you become aware and notice. Episode Challenge  Oneness & Connectedness (36:10-36:48)Episode challenge of the week Practice this practice of Oneness and Connectedness with a person who is comfortable with you and is up for it. Do this long enough to take the superficial thoughts out but not long enough to be uncomfortableWith people in your life who you're close to, take a few seconds to look into their eyesTry to look beyond their eyeballs and see through the essence of their beingLook into their heart and into their soul. Let them look into yourself and feel your connection. You will feel the profoundness of this practice.If you try this exercise, let us know and tag us @iamclaudine and Marc Anthony at the @btopodcast.  About the Guest:Dr. Ray Blanchard is an educator, coach, consultant, and internationally acclaimed master trainer. He has personally trained over 300,000 participants, mentored 300 trainers, and coached various top-tier executives and leaders globally. He specializes on:Personal Transformation Training,Leadership Development and Team ManagementLifestyle Coaching and MentoringWealth GenerationHaving distinguished the key factors that generate individual breakthroughs and lasting corporate performance, he uses accelerated learning strategies to open awareness, illuminate purpose, and inspire service to create self-transformation and cultures of care. He holds formal training in Psychology and East-West Philosophy. For over 40 years, he has influenced the personal development industry by designing and delivering premier training in the United States, Canada, South America, Japan, China, New Zealand, and Russia. He is a member of the acclaimed Transformational Leadership Council, the Association of Transformational Leaders, the Evolutionary Business Council, and was knighted in the Order of St. John.A graduate of Washington University (St. Louis) and the University of Oregon, Ray has a relentless passion for ongoing learning and contribution. His signature work was featured in the Heroes Quest wisdom webinars, the Launch Your Dream workshops, the TrainUP trainer development program, and other conscious media productions and documentary films.  Connect with Dr. Ray Blanchard:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrRayBlanchardInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drrayblanch/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrayblanchard/Follow his page: https://www.facebook.com/rayblanchardtrainingsystems Follow the Podcast: Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breakthrough-the-ordinary/id1579129631  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7L6XsP0M87M8CX7AJ2LRS4  Google Podcasts - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9DQ1V1NVR6agAmazon Music - https://q4k0kx5j.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fmusic.amazon.com%2Fpodcasts%2F05bbcd2c-1e6b-4d09-934e-4eac42e12362/1/0100017af9eb75aa-8c17c10b-25b5-4300-b24e-c002d99f89b3-000000/lIGTk2xPKpZbRH-tqg7FXsRKud4=229iHeartRadio - https://iheart.com/podcast/85365975/   Follow Us @thebtopodcast]: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thebtopodcast  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thebtopodcastTwitter - https://twitter.com/thebtopodcastTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thebtopodcastWebsite - https://btopodcast.comContact Us - thebtopodcast@gmail.com   About the podcast: Are you ready to commit to your future self---if you are, Marc Chiaramonte, a creative entrepreneur, coach, and adventure seeker, and Claudine Chiarmonte, psychotherapist, coach & joy creator, are ready to take you on a journey of self-discovery to unlock your highest potential! Join Breakthrough the Ordinary to reveal what awaits you on your next quest of exploration, bringing practical strategies, tools, and secret fairy dust that our guests, coaches, healers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, will be sharing with you! New episodes drop every MONDAY!

Prof. Dr. Yubraj Sangraula is a PHD Professor of Law, the Executive Director/Principal of Kathmandu School of Law, Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of Nepal and Academic Council Member of Purbanchal University. He is also a Council Member of South Asian Institute of Legal Studies and Human Rights (SAILS Forum). Dr. Yubraj Sangraula has taught as Visiting Professor in Several Universities in Asia such as Rajibgandhi National Law University Punjab, Punjab University Law Faculty, Renmin University of China Law School, Chittagong University, and Chittagong, Bangladesh, Guru Govinda Indraprastha University Faculty of Law and Legal Studies, Beijing Communication University, China, Ehime University, Japan, Washington University St. Louis, Georgetown Law Center, USA. In this Podcast, Dr. Yubraj Sangraula and Sushant talk about Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and discuss a few of the points listed in the contract. Follow Dr Yubraj Sangraula on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/dr.yubarajsangroula/ Dr. Yubraj Sangraula's Website - https://yubarajsangroula.com.np/

They should have made a movie about Jeff Smith...wait they did...A documentary titled "Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?" He has always been a man on the move. Playing basketball at 5'6" and 100 something bumping up against bigger stronger players, but none of them more tenacious or passionate...has been a metaphor for Jeff's life. He is not afraid to tackle the deemed impossible. He got his PHD. in Political Science from Washington University St. Louis. At 25 years old he co-founded Confluence Charter Schools in St. Louis City that now has over 4,000 students. He ran for Dick Gephardt's open congressional seat against Russ Carnahan in 2004...losing by less than 1%. He was elected Missouri State Senator. Jeff shares the incredible story how everything fell off the cliff with a crazy man car bombing that unbelievably led to the crazy man's connection to Jeff's 2004 campaign...which eventually leads to his best friend wearing a wire to frame him for Federal Election Fraud and Obstruction of Justice....movie stuff. I love how open Jeff is about his life experiences and the prison world. His perspective on life today really hits home. It is good stuff! Jeff wrote the critically acclaimed book "Mr. Smith Goes to Prison." He has even done a TED Talk titled, "Lessons in Business...From Prison." This episode is full of lessons and tips for life. Proud of what this man has accomplished! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jonathan Losos about convergent evolution. They begin by defining convergent evolution and what the role of the environment is for convergent evolution. They discuss the importance of phenotypes and behaviors, speciation, and adaptive radiation. They mention how evolution can work fast using examples from nature. They also talk about evolution in the lab, the LTEE, and E. Coli. They also discuss the future of evolution, life on other planets, and many other topics.  Jonathan Losos is an evolutionary ecologist who studies rapid evolution, ecology, and phylogenetics. He has his PhD from the University of California and taught at Harvard University for over 10 years. Currently, he is a professor at Washington University (St. Louis) and is the founder of the Living Earth Collaborative. He is the recipient of the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award, and the David Starr Jordan Prize. His book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution, can be found here. You can find his work here. 

For an extended version of this interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades and environmental crises just continue to compound. All this Tesla driving, green-roofed corporate headquarters, and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities of color continue to suffer the worst consequences. Jenny Price's latest book, 'Stop Saving the Planet, An Environmentalist Manifesto' [https://www.jennyjjprice.net/stop-saving-the-planet] says, enough already! She suggests a plan with 39 steps to get to cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change. Buy the Book: https://www.jennyjjprice.net/stop-saving-the-planet# Jenny Price is a writer and public artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School at Washington University-St. Louis. She tells stories about environment and public space, and deploys a wide variety of public arts and humanities formats to do so. Her writings include Stop Saving the Planet: An Environmentalist Manifesto (2021); Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America; “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” and other essays; op-eds in the NY Times and LA Times; and her not-quite advice column “Green Me Up JJ.” She has created, co-created, and sometimes stumbled into public art projects to work for environmental justice, as well as to de-privatize essential public spaces. She has co-founded the LA Urban Rangers collective, led tours of the concrete LA River, designed the alternative Nature Trail in Laumeier Sculpture Park, co-launched the "What Are You Doing?! (stop saving the planet!)” video series, and co-created the popular Our Malibu Beaches mobile phone app. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Hosted by Jessica Aldridge Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Episode 125 Photo credit: Igor Heifetz

Welcome to another episode! Dr. David Ballard is an abdominal radiologist serving as an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University St. Louis. He completed his abdominal imaging fellowship at Mallinckrodt and is in his first year as an attending in academic radiology. Dr. Ballard graduated medical school from Louisiana State University Health and completed residency at Mallinckrodt. During radiology residency, he served as chief resident and conducted the annual radiology chief resident survey through the radiology chief resident subgroup of AUR. He has a strong interest in research with over 100 publications and a special interest in 3D printing. He also serves as associate editor for RadioGraphics. The 3D-printing N95 study we mention in Dr. Ballard's interview: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33257256/ Find out more about RadioGraphics here: https://pubs.rsna.org/toc/radiographics/41/6

Adam and Brett sit down and talk about a physical therapist approach of fitness training. Brett sees the other side of fitness training with people hurting themselves by being active and not being smart or people not not being active. Brett is a Rockton local joining our team after a recent move home from Salt Lake City. His football career led him to play NCAA football for Augustana College. He then went on to receive his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Washington University-St. Louis in 2017. Brett has a strong background in strength and conditioning from personal experience in football, but also supported by his Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach (CSCS) certification. He works full-time as a physical therapist and enjoys spending his days off in the gym helping people reach their fitness goals. Enjoy the show!

For decades, higher education has been marketing to a traditional student demographic using the same marketing tactics. However, the learner demographic has shifted and technology has changed the way prospective students expect to receive information.  On this episode, Jon Hinderliter, Director of Marketing and Communications of University College at Washington University St.Louis, talks about adopting 21st century marketing best practices in higher ed to meet the needs of modern learners.

Noah Cohan and John Early who are on the show to discuss their project Whereas Hoops. Noah Cohan is the Assistant Director of American Culture Studies at Washington University St. Louis and is a previous Dear Adam Silver guest from Episode 22 where he joined the show to discuss his book on fandom entitled We Average Unbeautiful Watchers. John Early is an artist and senior lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington university St. Louis. Their collective project Whereas Hoops was created to draw attention to the lack of basketball courts in Forest Park, which is located in St. Louis and is one of the biggest urban parks in the country.....but with all that space, there are still no basketball courts. Noah and John are working collaboratively to highlight this issue within its' proper historical context and hopefully correct it in the long term. Follow Whereas Hoops on Twitter and Instagram. Thank you to John and Noah for coming on and thank you to you all for listening! Please subscribe, share, rate and review Dear Adam Silver wherever you get your podcasts.

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says, enough already! — with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. In Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W. W. Norton, 2021), she challenges you, Exxon, and the EPA alike to think and act completely anew — and to start right now — to ensure a truly habitable future. Jenny Price is a public writer and artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University-St. Louis. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she is co-founder of the public art collective LA Urban Rangers and a co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. She has been a resident artist at MOCA and the Orange County Museum of Art, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University. She is currently working on “St. Louis Division,” a hometown collection of projects about environmental justice. Brian Hamilton is Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter. Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says, enough already! — with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. In Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W. W. Norton, 2021), she challenges you, Exxon, and the EPA alike to think and act completely anew — and to start right now — to ensure a truly habitable future. Jenny Price is a public writer and artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University-St. Louis. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she is co-founder of the public art collective LA Urban Rangers and a co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. She has been a resident artist at MOCA and the Orange County Museum of Art, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University. She is currently working on “St. Louis Division,” a hometown collection of projects about environmental justice. Brian Hamilton is Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter. Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says, enough already! — with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. In Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W. W. Norton, 2021), she challenges you, Exxon, and the EPA alike to think and act completely anew — and to start right now — to ensure a truly habitable future. Jenny Price is a public writer and artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University-St. Louis. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she is co-founder of the public art collective LA Urban Rangers and a co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. She has been a resident artist at MOCA and the Orange County Museum of Art, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University. She is currently working on “St. Louis Division,” a hometown collection of projects about environmental justice. Brian Hamilton is Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter. Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says, enough already! — with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. In Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W. W. Norton, 2021), she challenges you, Exxon, and the EPA alike to think and act completely anew — and to start right now — to ensure a truly habitable future. Jenny Price is a public writer and artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University-St. Louis. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she is co-founder of the public art collective LA Urban Rangers and a co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. She has been a resident artist at MOCA and the Orange County Museum of Art, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University. She is currently working on “St. Louis Division,” a hometown collection of projects about environmental justice. Brian Hamilton is Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter. Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

We've been ​“saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing — all while low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says, enough already! — with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. In Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W. W. Norton, 2021), she challenges you, Exxon, and the EPA alike to think and act completely anew — and to start right now — to ensure a truly habitable future. Jenny Price is a public writer and artist, and a Research Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University-St. Louis. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she is co-founder of the public art collective LA Urban Rangers and a co-creator of the Our Malibu Beaches mobile-phone app. She has been a resident artist at MOCA and the Orange County Museum of Art, and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University. She is currently working on “St. Louis Division,” a hometown collection of projects about environmental justice. Brian Hamilton is Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter. Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This week on Ring of Fire, Jake Rosenfeld, professor of sociology at Washington University St. Louis, joins me to break down the myth that the Democratic Party powers have been clinging to, that the majority minority nation will bring them automatic electoral success. And Heather “Digby” Parton will join us to break down all the biggest headlines of the week. Bonus content you're missing this week, Robert Mackey, senior reporter at The Intercept, about a crew of video journalist who basically provided the fuel to the right wing smearing of BLM over the past year. Become a member today over at rofpodcast.com.

Goals. Drive. Adaptability. Passion. Follow through. To start your own business, especially if you are completely changing your career, you need to have a combination of all of the above qualities. Not only does Jamion Berry possess these qualities necessary for him to found the apparel start-up, Execumask, but as a multipreneur executing FIVE business pursuits amid a pandemic, he exemplifies each of these traits to the fullest.   Evident that these characteristics are innate to Jamion's personality, his story of doing whatever it takes to achieve his professional goals begins 20+ years ago. Classmates with host Amy Rowland, he graduated from the small liberal arts school, Kenyon College, with a degree in chemistry. He'd also always aspired to be an engineer. So, Jamion opted to do a partnership program with Washington University St. Louis's engineering department. He graduated with not one, but two—Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.   With his degrees in hand hand, Jamion did not hesitate to push himself out of his comfort zones to achieve his professional goals. When given the opportunity to gain experience with capital and process improvement projects as a project manager for Kraft Foods, he moved from the Midwest to Florida. His vibrant personality and interest in finding ways to “continuously improve” enabled him to excel in this role, in which he was traveling to and making recommendations to increase efficacy at Kraft's multiple southern plant locations. In line with making his dreams a reality, he networked with the right people to move up the corporate ladder as a continuous improvement lead engineer in Atlanta, a city where he'd always wanted to live. Jamion thrived finding ways to better Kraft products' efficiency, procurement, and quality. He especially enjoyed that in this role, he was able to travel globally, adapting to solve international plants' needs.    His drive for learning was not just confined to improving business practices, as he decided to pursue an Executive MBA at Emory University in 2013. Likewise, so that he could pursue his MBA while working full time in his management/engineering role, he needed to adapt his already driven self to leverage unprecedented levels of determination and eagerness. Simultaneously, Jamion also bought a condo and became a landlord/property manager. Despite how demanding it was to be a full-time student, manager, and landlord, Jamion reflects on his time at business school as “one of the best decisions [he] ever made.”    His commitment to personal growth paid off; shortly after graduating from Emory, Jamion received a call from McDonald's to join its executive team, located in Chicago. Jamion had always aspired to live in Chicago, but was only willing to make the move if he could afford to live in the city. As McDonald's new Director of Continuous Improvement, Jamion saw himself as a change agent, building the improvement program “from the ground up.” Between training 1000+ employees and working in Germany, he reflects very positively on this career step. However, it was also at this time that Jamion realized that after 20 years in corporate America, he was ready to transition to a career that allowed him to be his authentic self.    Driven to find a fulfilling career hallmarked by his happiness, Jamion left McDonald's in February 2020-a month before the pandemic. Through reflecting upon “what [he] wanted to focus on… and create,” Jamion realized that he could adapt his interest in men's fashion to fit a growing need in the apparel industry-luxury face masks to match custom pocket squares. With the encouragement of his peers and professional connections, as well as thorough research into the mask market, he founded Execumask. Where many Americans were deterred by the pandemic, he adapted to the situation, following through to become an entrepreneur. Execumask marked the beginning of Jamion's success in pivoting from 20 years in the food production industry to his new saga as a multipreneur.    Not one to settle, Jamion simultaneously pursued his dreams of owning/managing a luxury apartment building. Despite the obstacles in quitting his corporate job and applying for loans in a pandemic, he overcame the odds, opening his building in August 2020. From both not paying rent and garnering an income through his residential building, Jamion is investing in himself so that he can also accomplish his goals of being a public speaker. In mere months, his YouTube channel of motivational videos gained a large following, large enough that it caught the attention of a fellow Kenyon College graduate. She urged him to invest in himself by studying to become a life coach. Jamion is also in the preliminary stages of opening his own consulting firm.   Jamion's story is one of allowing yourself to rise to the occasion to achieve your professional goals. Be inspired by how, for his entire life, Jamion radiated positivity needed to persevere through challenges. The only move that makes sense for Jamion so that he can manifest his happiness and career aspirations. Having the courage to pursue five of your entrepreneurial goals at once? You will be encouraged by Jamion's resilience and energy in this episode to accomplish any (or all) of your ambitions.   A recurring theme in Jamion's interview is “creating your own life.” This episode will motivate you to shape an idea or aspiration you have into reality.   Topics in this episode: Advice on transforming your interests and/or hobbies into a career The importance of both leveraging connections to support your business pursuits, as well as in being open to new ideas or opportunities those in your network suggest How to fully observe/analyze a problem to then create a marketable solution A keen sense on problem solving to accomplish every step in developing a start-up Why visualizing and writing your goals out is key to achieving them How a multipreneur compartmentalizes his very busy day Seeking out relationships and pursuits that are rooted in appreciation

Listen on Spotify| Apple Podcasts|Google PodcastsThe Trillest is sponsored by The Economist! Use our link,economist.com/EV51, to get a 12-week digital subscription for JUST $19 (students) or $25 (general population)!Sia interviews four college students-College seniors Emma Ronzetti and Elizabeth Kim, Washington University St. Louis student Leah Wren Hardgrove, and anonymous Penn student Blue-about their experience being university students who also have a disability. Tune in because this episode is enlightening and informs able-bodied individuals on how to be better allies.Hosted by Sia-Linda Lebbie. Produced by Sia-Linda Lebbie and Evie Artis, and edited by Megan Li and Sia-Linda Lebbie. Outreach assisted by Aba Sankah. Intro, outro, and ambiance music by Kannan Freyaldenhoven: @kj_frey. Podcast art by JordanSemprevivo: @jsemp_art. Follow The Trillest on Instagram:@thetrillest_podcast. Follow Sia on Instagram: @lindalebbie.

Dr. Lenze discusses a clinical trial conducted by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis which evidences the potential that fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, may prevent COVID-19 infections from worsening. This trial is based on recent research that originates from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.   Website: https://stopcovidtrial.wustl.edu/ Phone: 314-747-1137 Email: stopcovidtrial@wustl.edu

Holocaust survivors and several others discuss the 2020 United States presidential election. Guests include: Bronia Brandman, a survivor originally from Jaworzno, Poland, not far from Auschwitz (Oświęcim); David Lenga, a survivor originally from Lodz, Poland; Carol Stulberg, a child of survivors and Senior Advisor for Leadership Giving at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Jake Turx, senior Whitehouse correspondent for Ami Magazine (on Twitter as @JakeTurx); Luzer Twersky, actor in Yiddish and American Theatre and Film (on Twitter as @Twersky); and Sholem Beinfeld, cohost of The Yiddish Voice and Professor of History (Emeritus) at Washington University (St. Louis) as well as Co-Chief Editor of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary. The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / דאָס ייִדישע קול), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com. Air date: October 28, 2020 PSSST: Like our show? Want to show your love? Here's how: rate and review The Yiddish Voice on Apple Podcasts. Thank you!

David is joined by the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Washington University St. Louis, Pat Juckem, to discuss the fall 2020 semester, his coaching journey, UW-Oshkosh's run to the 2018 Final 4, and much more!

A conversation with the Vice President for Advancement at Lander University (SC), Mike Worley, about his career and the state of higher education advancement.With more than 20 years of  experience in philanthropy, Worley became the Vice President for Advancement and Executive director of the Lander University Foundation in October of 2018.  Prior to Lander he served as Senior Associate Vice President for Constituent Relations at Georgia State University, where he led a team of fundraisers and helped steer the university's $300 million capital campaign.Worley also had stints at Washington University (St. Louis), East Carolina University, and Ohio University. He has served in leadership roles with Sisters of St. Mary (SSM) Health Care Foundations and Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in Missouri. He earned a bachelor's degree in Sport Sciences and a master's in Athletic Administration from Ohio University.A native of New Albany, Ohio, Worley is an avid fly fisherman and marathon runner. Connect with Mike on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/advancement/ and instagram at @bearcatphilanthropy.  

Today's discussion features Matt Homann, CEO and Founder of Filament, an organization that designs, facilitates, and hosts collaborative meetings, conferences, off-sites and any type of human collaboration environment, with the objective of enabling meetings to produce measurable results that move organizations forward.For more than 20 years, Matt has been involved in the leadership spaces of designing creative experiences in everything including learning, skill building, collaboration and knowledge delivery. From building in person and virtual spaces that allow people to have better meetings, which he does at Filament today, to using arts to teach business skills, all the way to disseminating hard to explain concepts through illustrations and the drawing of pictures. Matt is an attorney by trade, holding a JD from the Washington University St. Louis School of Law, and not only spent time practicing earlier in his career, but also taught pre-trial practice and procedure as an adjunct professor of law at his alma mater.Matt describes how he's explicitly stitched together the many opportunities in his career in areas like law, with the collection of experiences in creative design thinking type endeavors as a consultant and leader, and his experiences as entrepreneurship building innovative conferences and meeting places. It's clear that Matt is one of the top practitioners in helping people and organizations collaborate better together.Themes of the episode:-How to build useful spaces (in person and now virtually) that allow us to do what we want to do, whether that's creating innovative products, or ideating around cultural transformations-How virtual meetings have translated the same terrible cultural qualities of in person meetings to this new online reality, with intensified challenges of inclusiveness and attentiveness-How Changing the meeting culture comes from the top, and how the status and connection of reporting out to leadership about the organizations direction, has trickled down in our organizations and has formed prohibitive collaboration behaviors don't move business forward-How to have better meetings, and why doing so can make your people up to 40% more effective: from tips like scheduling 47 minute meetings to build gaps in back to back scheduling, and removing ppt and other artifacts away from collaboration time, to asynchronous collaboration and the meaning of what it is to truly prepare for a meeting-How to build better conferences, where networking, learning, and connection isn't as much a serendipitous and ad-hoc condition, but more of a engineered outcome by conference facilitatorsThanks for listening!Ways to contact Matt:Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthomannLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/homann/Resources:Filament: https://www.thefilament.com/The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Getting-Things/dp/B01N51TCT1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GGCYWT8AMD50&dchild=1&keywords=effective+executive&qid=1588683249&s=audible&sprefix=effective+%2Caudible%2C199&sr=1-1So Good they Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/B009CMO8JQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=so+darn+good+they+can%27t+ignore+you&qid=1588683210&sr=8-1The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni: https://www.amazon.com/Motive-Leaders-Abdicate-Important-Responsibilities-ebook/dp/B0851K989D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ECZ0KBANMUS0&dchild=1&keywords=patrick+lencioni&qid=1588599671&sprefix=patrick+lan%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1Learn more at www.thedatabinge.comConnect with Derek:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwesleyrussell/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1c5mzapLZ55ciPgngqRMg/featuredInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drussnetwork/Twitter: https://twitter.com/drussnetworkMedium: https://medium.com/@derekwesleyrussellEmail: derek@thedatabinge.comInterested in starting your own podcast? Some candid advice here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-start-podcast-3-step-gono-go-beginners-guide-derek-russell

Ashley Lautzenheiser is Associate Director of Graduate Admissions at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, where she has been since 2010. Ashley got her bachelor's degree in marketing from Olin in 2009. Her main role is admissions for Wash U's full-time MBA program. Washington University St. Louis Olin MBA Program Highlights 3:12 Admissions 20:04 Financing 32:00 Careers 35:22 Go to http://www.touchmba.com/washington-olin-mba-admissions-interview for a full breakdown of the program's key advantages and fast facts about admissions, financing, and careers at the Olin MBA program.