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Amy is joined by one of D.C.'s foremost generational talents — multi-instrumentalist, activist, and bandleader Alex Hamburger. She will perform throughout this weekend (March 29-30) in residence at the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. Buy tickets at StrangeWomanRecords.com.This episode was recorded in November 2023.The Turnaround Podcast is a production of Strange Woman Records and Lyla Jenifer Productions in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Amy K Bormet and Jessica Boykin-Settles. Amy K Bormet, executive producer. Lyla Maisto, publisher and podcast producer. Rachel Cara, artistic editor. Theme song written by Amy K Bormet and performed by Bormet, Karine Chapdelaine, and Angel Bethea. "What the F" performed by Amy K Bormet and Alex Hamburger.Interviews made possible in part by the DCHumanities Community Culture & Heritage Grant. © 2025 Strange Woman Records / Lyla Jenifer Productions. More information on our project is available at StrangeWomanRecords.com.

295: Unlocking Marketing Mastery for Nonprofits (Kirsten Suto Seckler)SUMMARYThis episode is brought to you by our friends at Armstrong McGuire & Associates. Check them out for your next career opportunity, help finding an interim executive, or to find your next leader. Are you struggling to align your nonprofit's marketing efforts with fundraising goals while staying true to your mission? Marketing can feel daunting, but mastering it is crucial to driving impact and building deeper donor connections. In episode 295 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, Kirsten Suto Seckler shares her expertise on leveraging marketing to elevate nonprofit impact. With over 20 years of experience, Kirsten discusses the critical differences between nonprofit and for-profit marketing, emphasizing storytelling and mission-driven engagement. She highlights how strategic alignment between marketing and fundraising creates a stronger donor pipeline, while also providing practical tips on building brand awareness, measuring success, and fostering thought leadership. Drawing from her work at Shatterproof and Special Olympics, Kirsten offers actionable strategies to create authentic messaging and reach diverse audiences, helping nonprofit leaders take their organizations to the next level.ABOUT KIRSTENKirsten Suto Seckler is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer for Shatterproof, a national nonprofit working to reverse the addiction crisis in America. She uses her expertise in marketing and communications to drive social change, focusing on science-based interventions and reducing addiction stigma. At Shatterproof, Seckler leads initiatives like the Treatment Atlas, a platform to help families find quality addiction treatment, and a national campaign to end addiction stigma. She also oversees mass-market fundraising efforts and brand alignment. Previously, Seckler spent over 20 years at Special Olympics International, serving as Chief Brand and Communications Officer. She led global campaigns that elevated the organization's brand to nearly 200 countries, reaching 6 million athletes. Her accomplishments include organizing 11 World Games and establishing a global broadcast partnership with ESPN. Seckler has taught Integrated Marketing at Georgetown University since 2013 and previously worked in marketing at Kraft and as a journalist. She was named to PRWeek's Health Influencer 30 Class of 2022 and honored by Washington Women in Public Relations. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and a Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Management from Georgetown University.EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCES Ready for your next leadership opportunity? Visit our partners at Armstrong McGuireTuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom'Have you gotten Patton's book

Connect with Sandra Wasko-FloodSandra Wasko-Flood is an artist, poet, teacher and founder of the national non-profit organization: Living Labyrinths for Peace. Elizabeth Bishop is responsible for the publishing of this, her first book of art and poetry.Wasko-Flood received a BA from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in English, and a Standard Secondary Teaching Credential from California State College, Los Angeles. After teaching Junior High School for three years, she became disappointed with the school system, and became a full time artist. She chose artistic luminaries with whom to study wherever she lived: at UCLA, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, and UNM Taos.Specializing in printmaking and art/technology labyrinths, as director of the printmaking center at the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA, she invited Keith Howard to teach his new safe etching methods there. She then taught Safe Etching as well as Monotype printmaking, one of the first to update this form of one copy prints, at her home studio in Alexandria, VA.An ardent feminist since college days, she was a founding member of the Washington Women's Arts Center, the Washington Printmakers Gallery, the International Labyrinth Society and the founder of the Women's Art Spirit group (discusses art and spirituality), and Living Labyrinths for Peace.She discovered labyrinths from a seminal experience in the Great Kiva Civic/Ceremonial Center in Chaco Nature National Historical Park, NM, in which she saw figures of all races and cultures ascending an underground spiral, to do a Dance of Peace on the Kiva floor, and ascend a spiral to the skies. Afterwards, she went straight to a book store and found newly published book on labyrinths. She knew a labyrinth belonged in that kiva. Returning to her Washington DC studio, she was inspired to create “Dance of the Labyrinth:” computer programmed light box image faces of people and animals (Life), mummies (Death) and icons (Spirits) that lit up to your steps.Due to an invitation from the Washington Performing Arts Society, (WPAS), based at the Kennedy Center, she conducted her “Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace” workshops in local schools. Inspired to change the school system, she related the labyrinth to all subjects or intelligences. In her soon to be published book—“The Labyrinth Instructors Handbook,” she will receive contributions from teachers in every field.This teaching experience led her to co-directing the Labyrinth Society's first project: “Labyrinths for Peace: 2000,” a labyrinth demonstration for inner peace on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Shortly afterwards, she founded Living Labyrinths for Peace (LL4P). This national organization, has the mission to inspire healing and transformation within and among people through labyrinth creation and education. Its goal is to establish a permanent LL4P center based on her vision in Chaco's Great Kiva to unite peoples of all cultures, races and beliefs.You are invited to view her art and LL4P websites:www.waskoart.comwww.livinglabyrinthsforpeace.orgContact Sandrawaskoart@gmail.comConnect with Host Terry LohrbeerIf you are a Boomer and feel you would make a great guest please email Terry with your bio and any other info you would like to share at: terry@kickassboomers.comConnect with Host Terry LohrbeerFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2658545911065461/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylohrbeer/Instagram: kickassboomersTwitter: @kickassboomersWebsite: kickassboomers.comTerry's editing company:Connect to Premiere Podcast Pros for podcast editing:premierepodcastpros@gmail.com LEAVE A REVIEW and join me on my journey to become and stay a Kickass Boomer!Visit http://kickassboomers.com/ to listen to the previous episodes. Also check us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Email terry@kickassboomers.com

Show SummaryOn today's episode, we're featuring a conversation with Navy Veteran and military spouse Melissa Washington. Melissa is the CEO of the Women Veterans Alliance, Women Veterans Giving, and publisher of Women Veterans Magazine. Provide FeedbackAs a dedicated member of the audience, we would like to hear from you about the show. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts about the show in this short feedback survey. By doing so, you will be entered to receive a signed copy of one of our host's three books on military and veteran mental health. About Today's GuestMelissa Washington, Navy Veteran, Founder & CEO: Award-winning advocate, speaker, author, entrepreneur, CEO, publisher, Radio Show Host, and proud Navy veteran Melissa A. Washington wears many hats. Yet woven throughout her diverse pursuits is a mission of service—and a passion to empower her fellow women veterans.The daughter of a Bronze Star Army Vietnam War veteran, Melissa grew up in San Francisco's East Bay. Fiercely independent as a child, she spent many afternoons in her family's video store, developing an early sense of business acumen. That enterprising spirit continued into her teenage years when Melissa began training for a career in early childhood education while still in high school.But something else sparked in Melissa just as she was finishing her certification. Seeking to expand her world and serve her country, the 18-year-old enlisted in the Navy, spending three years on active duty and five years in the reserve. She did a 6-month "Med Cruise" and a 6-month "West Pac" deployment during her active duty. That formative experience set her life on a completely new trajectory—not only taking her across the globe and teaching her vital lessons but also introducing Melissa to her husband and, ultimately, inspiring her to transform thousands of lives. In the mid-nineties, she chose to leave the Navy early, having witnessed the burdens that come with a dual-service family. While her husband would remain in the Marine Corps for 21 years, Melissa embarked on a new path, earning her bachelor's degree in business management. She followed with a decade-long career in corporate recruiting and human resources, working with such entities as Nissan, Oracle, Tickets.com, Randstad, and the 2002 Winter Olympics.But in 2009, amid The Great Recession, Melissa was laid off. Despite the setback, she relied on her military training—which taught her to be adaptable and resourceful—and her innate sense of resilience. Above all, Melissa saw an opportunity to reinvent herself once again.Initially, she held LinkedIn workshops from her dining room table, imparting her vital knowledge to others. Soon, she was hosting larger workshops, which eventually grew into speaking engagements with hundreds of attendees. In 2011, she established Melissa Washington, Inc., a consulting service catering to businesses and individuals that incorporates LinkedIn for research, recruiting, job seeking, and collaboration. After four years at LinkedIn, where Melissa managed global meetings, she returned to her entrepreneurial roots. But this time, she focused on her fellow women veterans. A natural networker, Melissa initially sought to connect with her peers outside of traditional veterans' organizations. Yet, the more meetups she planned, the more she realized the need for a dedicated support system for women veterans. In 2015, what started as a local meetup turned into Women Veterans Alliance—a global organization that seeks to empower and positively impact the lives of women veterans. Three years later, she established the nonprofit wing of WVA, Women Veterans Giving. Both entities offer women veterans opportunities to gain valuable career experience and successfully integrate back into civilian life. WVG also helps fund women veteran-owned businesses, which other organizations often overlook. To date, they have awarded over $20k to women in veteran-owned businesses. In 2016, created and produced the first "Women Veterans Unconference."  Developed The Beyond Call of Duty Award Honoring Sgt Nicole Gee to honor and recognize the women in our communities. In 2021, Melissa expanded her role in the community by co-founding Women Veterans Magazine—the first publication of its kind to address the issues affecting women veterans and provide them with local and national resources. Aside from serving as CEO of WVA and WVG and publisher of Women Veterans Magazine, Melissa stays busy as an in-demand public speaker whose topics range from Maximizing Impact to Unlocking the Power of Purpose. She speaks regularly at conferences and events around the country and has spoken at over 100 events—presenting for the likes of Marriott, the Urban League, Blue Diamond, and IMEX America. Melissa has also appeared on the Dr. Phil Show and the Lifetime Channel's The Balancing Act, as well as on SiriusXM, iHeartRadio, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, among others.Additionally, Melissa is the author of Get Back to Work: Smart & Savvy Real-World Strategies to Make Your Next Career Move (FriesenPress, 2014). And Unstoppable: Being Fierce, Fearless & Unf*ckwithable in Life and Business, based on her experiences with WVA, which offers practical advice on creating a meet-up group and becoming an influencer within one's community (Brave Healer Productions, 2022).A longtime resident of Northern California, Melissa was a 2011 recipient of the Sacramento Business Journal's prestigious 40 Under 40 award and was among the Journal's Women Who Mean Business honorees in 2017. She has also been recognized by the National Association of Women Business Owners with an Outstanding Women Leader Visionary Award and received the 2016 Soroptimist Ruby Award, which recognizes women helping women. In 2019, she received the Center for Women Veterans' Trailblazer Award.   In 2022, she received her first Federal Appointment to the Small Business Administration Advisory Committee on Veteran Business Affairs (ACVBA).   In 2022, Thrive Causemetics Inc. featured a "Melissa" Warm Sienna Sheer Strength Hydrating Lip Tint to honor her infinite impact on the community.   In 2023, she started Veteran.Events to provide event services to the veteran and military community. Outside of work, Melissa enjoys spending quality time with her husband, Jarrod, and daughter, Maya. In addition to being an avid genealogist, Melissa loves vacationing with her family—particularly trips that involve a beach.Her grandfather, a WWII Army Air Corps/Air Force Veteran who received the Bronze Star and Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters, served in the 509th Bomb Squad AC in the Eastern European Theater with 37 missions over Germany.Her husband is a retired Marine who served in combat in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).Links Mentioned in this Episode Women Veterans Alliance Web SitePsychArmor Resource of the WeekFor this week's PsychArmor resource of the week is the PsychArmor course, Women Veterans Series. This four-part video series dives into their history, triumphs, and unique challenges from the Revolutionary War to present day.  You ...

www.livinglabyrinthsforpeace.org The spirit behind Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a 501c(3) a non profit organization, is artist, poet and teacher, Sandra Wasko-Flood. She gives great thanks for the gifts she received from her space scientist father, whose parents came from Russia; and her elementary school teacher and socialite mother, whose parents emigrated from Prague, Czechoslovakia. Born in Flushing Long Island, NYC, her dad was weather forecasting for Pan Am and got a job in Lisbon, Portugal, where she attended first grade. Returning to the U.S. after three years, they moved from coast to coast, he always getting a better job. When her dad was weather forecasting for Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles, she got her BA in English from UCLA and a Secondary teaching credential from the California State College in Los Angeles. Her first job was teaching English at Nobel Jr. High School. After three years, she quit teaching after being encouraged to become a full time artist by Gordon Nunes at UCLA. Rather than getting an art degree, she chose the right teachers with which to study wherever she lived. In 1969, she married Michael T. Flood, PhD, inorganic chemist, whose first job was with the National Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She so loved the Brazilian culture, especially the Carnival. She did portraits of the Brazilian people. Taking private lessons from Marie Augusta Kaufman, she discovered she liked print making the best. Wherever she lived she found the best print making teachers with which to study and was introduced to the new Safe Etching methods by Keith Howard. She gave lessons in safe etching and monotype printmaking in her Alexandria, VA studio. Her art portrayed major archetypes: owl and snake, masks, totems, cycles, spirals labyrinths, and the peacock through whose eyes we see the creation of the universe. Her recent book: “The Labyrinth Path to Light and Peace” includes lots of poems and art having to do with Peace among People, Animals, Nature and the Universe. Having written poetry since a child, she is now working on an anthology of her poetry.In 1981, she became a founding member of the Washington Women's Arts Center, and in 1985, she founded the Art Spirit Group in Washington DC, which still meets until this day to discuss the relationship between art and spirituality. In 1991, she sat in the center of the Great Kiva at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Sitting in the Great Kiva, she envisioned ceremonial dancers from all races, cultures and beliefs, peacefully ascending an underground spiral to do a labyrinth dance in the kiva, and ascending a spiral under a space dome to the sky. This visionary experience led her to a book by Sig Lonegren: Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses.In 1998, she become a founding member of the International Labyrinth Society. She went on to create an interactive labrinth art/technology installation, “Dance of the Labyrinth,” symbolizing a peaceful dance of opposites for our times. Here visitors experience computer programmed light sequences: walk on light box images, see rotating wheels and pillars, and phosphorescent mulch glowing like moonlight. When she asked this labyrinth where it wanted to be, it told her four times in the U.S. Capitol. This led her to talk with Barbara Wolanin, the Curator of the Capitol Collection and to put a Labyrinths Demonstration for Inner Peace, the first project of the International Labyrinth Society on Capitol Hill in the year 2000. For two weeks, people from all over the world walked labyrinths for peace. In the year 2005, she formed the non-profit Living Labyrinths for Peace.

Culture-bearer, historian, and vocalist... Dr. Karen wears a lot of hats in D.C. She sits down with Jess and Amy at the Washington Women in Jazz Festival for an hour of live music and conversation. Our deep and unyielding gratitude to Dr. Karen Wilson-Ama'Echefu for joining us. More on Dr. Karen at drk-echefu.life. Special thanks to the National League of American Pen Women for hosting us at the historic Pen Arts Building in downtown D.C.The Turnaround Podcast is a production of Strange Woman Records in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Amy K Bormet and Jessica Boykin-Settles. Amy K Bormet, executive producer. Lyla Maisto, managing editor and podcast producer. Graziella Gulli, intern. Theme song written by Amy K Bormet and performed by Bormet, Karine Chapdelaine, and Angel Bethea.Interviews made possible in part by the DCHumanities Community Culture & Heritage Grant. © 2024 Strange Woman Records. More information on our project is available at StrangeWomanRecords.com.

First aired July 28, 2022A bunch of stitchin' women in a Washington Women's Correctional Facility who have put their knitting needles to good use - helping the chickens who helped them in jail, plus some other unusual animals who find themselves behind bars.  Support the Show.Intro/Outtro music: Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan LiebowiczInterstitial Music: MK2Additional music: Freesound.com, Pixabay.org Instagram: @EggAndNugget (chicken stan account) or @MelissaMcCueMcGrathWebsite: BewilderBeastsPod.comSupport the Show and get stuff! Patreon.com/BewilderbeastsPodYour host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)

Carla Fowler, MD PhD is the Founder and Managing Director of THAXA Executive Coaching, Inc., a boutique executive coaching firm that leverages the best ideas from performance science to help global leaders. Graduating magna cum laude from Brown University and holding both an MD and a PhD from the University of Washington, Carla's journey showcases her multidisciplinary expertise and unwavering commitment to excellence. As an angel investor with a focus on med tech and biotech, she has built a diverse portfolio of over a dozen investments. Additionally, Carla engages in social impact initiatives with organizations such as Social Venture Partners, Seattle Rotary Club, Washington Women's Foundation, Alliance of Angels, and the Keiretsu Forum. In this episode… Performance science shows us how combining different skills can lead to amazing results. Whether in sports, business, or everyday life, we can achieve incredible results when we combine skills like creativity, strategy, and communication. How can you tap into the diversity of talents around you and within you to open doors to fresh opportunities and transformative breakthroughs? Executive coach Carla Fowler believes that embracing diverse interests and skills, coupled with strategic focus and resilience, can lead to transformative career opportunities and personal growth. She emphasizes principles like brutal focus, relishing uncertainty, self-awareness, adaptability, and confidence in navigating career transitions as keys to personal power. To find what truly makes you happy in life, you must deviate sometimes from traditional career trajectories and empower yourself to pursue your passions. In this episode of the Lead Like a Woman Show, Andrea Heuston sits down with Carla Fowler, MD PhD, the Founder and Managing Director of THAXA Executive Coaching, Inc., to talk about performance science and how it can help us in our daily lives. Carla discusses repurposing your skills and capabilities, her top three performance science principles, and how to harness personal power in our lives.

Evie and Leah talk about the Huskies pulling off a win vs #11 USC, and anticipate a homestand against the ranked mountain schools --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/husky-podcast/support

All eight, sit ready… ROW! A call you may hear from one in the 9th seat. Hudson decided to bring on one of the best and most successful coxswains in the history of American Rowing, Mary Whipple! On this week's episode on For Stars Podcast, we dive deep into the connection one has with their crew, taking the lessons you learn from crew into your family life and the workforce, but most important, truly loving what the sport has to offer to it's participants, and fighting for what you want both in sports and ordinary life. Mary competed in three Olympic Games, winning Gold in 2008 & 2012 in the Women's Eight, and Silver in 2004 at the Athens games. Winning five world championships (‘02, ‘06, ‘07, ‘10, and ‘11) she cemented herself as a LEGEND. A Sacramento Native, Mary coxed with her twin sister, Sarah, at Capital Crew up until college where she joined the University of Washington Women's Rowing Team, winning a National Title in 1999, 2000, and 2001, as well as a victory from the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in the year 2000.Mary has stepped into the role as a Sports Broadcaster, announcing over several NCAA Women's Rowing Championships, and being the founder of the “9th Seat” an organization set on giving young coxswains a chance to learn how to improve one's skills in the saddle through knowledge and confidence.This episode is extremely insightful, so sit back and tune into what Mary & Hudson dive into!Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyXeno Müller - Elite Rowing Coach Make your rowing dreams real! Use Code “FORSTARS” for $200 OFF on your desired training package!Pocock Racing Shells Pocock Racing Shells has been building boats for America's fastest crews since conception in 1911.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

On the third episode of The Turnaround Podcast, co-hosts Jessica Boykin-Settles and Amy K Bormet welcome local drummer extraordinaire Angel Bethea. A first-call drummer on the D.C. scene, Bethea has appeared at numerous Washington Women in Jazz events over the past decade, including the festival's trip to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. Like both of our hosts, Bethea is an alumnus of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. It was a treat to have her on the show. The Turnaround Podcast is a production of Strange Woman Records in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Amy K Bormet and Jessica Boykin-Settles. Amy K Bormet, executive producer. Lyla Maisto, managing editor. Graziella Gulli and Ella Manners, interns. Theme song written by Amy K Bormet and performed by Bormet, Karine Chapdelaine, and Angel Bethea. Interviews made possible in part by the DCHumanities Community Culture & Heritage Grant. © 2023 Strange Woman Records. More information on our project is available at strangewomanrecords.com.

Biggi Vinkeloe: http://biggivinkeloe.org/ Amy Melissa Reed: https://sites.google.com/view/amymelissareed/Strange Woman Records: https://strangewomanrecords.com On the second episode of The Turnaround Podcast, co-hosts Jessica Boykin-Settles and Amy K Bormet welcome Biggi Vinkeloe and Amy Melissa Reed. Vinkeloe (based in Sweden) and Reed (based in California) have both contributed to The Turnaround Magazine and appeared at the Washington Women in Jazz Festival, and their new record "Cedar Smoke" is now available via Strange Woman Records. They discuss their musical backgrounds, the significance of migration and indigenousness within their shared artistic journey, and the importance of cultivating intentional and inclusive spaces.The Turnaround Podcast is a production of Strange Woman Records in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Amy K Bormet and Jessica Boykin-Settles. Amy K Bormet, executive producer. Lyla Maisto, managing editor. Graziella Gulli and Ella Manners, interns. Theme song written by Amy K Bormet and performed by Bormet, Karine Chapdelaine, and Angel Bethea. Interviews made possible in part by the DCHumanities Community Culture & Heritage Grant. © 2023 Strange Woman Records. More information on our project is available at strangewomanrecords.com.

Fighting Camel fans will find it difficult to believe that it's been 27 years since Janice Washington arrived in Buies Creek, all the way from Slidell, Louisiana. Over the next five years, she played a pivotal role in some of Campbell women's basketball's greatest moments – including the program's first-ever NCAA postseason berth. Following graduation, Janice spent a total of nine seasons on Coach Wanda Watkins' staff – helping lead the Camels in the ASUN and the second Big South Conference era. Along the way, she set school records, earned all-conference honors, and served on the student-athlete advisory committee. And she recently returned to The Creek – taking a rare break from her head coaching duties at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania – to take part in Wanda Watkins Day festivities. In the next installment of Tales from the Creek, Janice talks with Stan Cole about how she arrived at Campbell, life in Buies Creek, how she moved into coaching and more.

Karen chats about what salary negotiations look like from the hiring side.Karen Naumann, APR, PMP, is a multifaceted, seasoned practitioner with more than 25 years of communication experience. She is an educator, executive, and author with a focus on national security. In 2023, she was selected as project manager for a U.S. Army strategic communications and outreach contract focused on prevention, resiliency, and readiness. After successfully shepherding the Army through a directorate consolidation and standing up PM practices, she focused on her role as an adjunct instructor and course developer in Crisis Communications at West Virginia University, where she instructs active military, earning a graduate degree. Additionally, in 2023, she consulted for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, Labor (DRL), Office of Policy Planning, and Public Diplomacy (PPD). Her work focused on international human rights and democracy country reports.In 2022, she worked in South Korea as a Senior Strategic Communication Planner and Team Lead in support of the four-star-led UN Combined Forces Command at U.S. Forces Korea, where she developed communication strategy recommendations for command-wide and Republic of Korea allies.She was a Sr. Instructor at the U.S. Department of Defense's Information School for several years, where she had the privilege of training hundreds of public affairs officers for the United States fleet and field in topics ranging from Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking to Strategic Foresight and Issues Management and Disinformation. She was also an in-house subject matter expert, contributing to evolving Information as a DOD joint function. Before this, she was an executive at an established D.C. public relations firm. She has also worked in communication and digital diplomacy for the Government of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel to the Southwest United States. On behalf of the Government of Israel, she led strategic communication efforts in a six-state region. Naumann is Accredited in Public Relations (APR). By earning her APR, she has demonstrated her commitment to excellence and the highest ethical standards. She also holds a PMP from the Project Management Institute. Additionally, she graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) with a bachelor's degree in communication. Later, she received a master's degree in communication at the University of Houston. Her graduate studies focused on crisis communications.Naumann is an active member of the National Press Club and sits on the Board for Washington Women of PR. | As a communications professional with a background in defense and diplomacy, I believe that working and educating in the interest of the United States of America's national security and for democracy worldwide is essential. | The award-winning communicator is frequently tapped as a speaker and facilitator for conferences and, events on topics ranging from Cognitive Biases and Crisis Communications to Strategic Communications and Persuasion. She is also a frequent contributor to national publications and a published author in public relations. Her innovative approach to military public affairs analysis can be found in Intercultural Public Relations. karen.naumann@live.com | 281-750-1001 Sign up for one of our negotiation courses at ShikinaNegotiationAcademy.comThanks for listening to Negotiation with Alice! Please subscribe and connect with us on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Dawgman's Kim Grinolds sat down with Washington women's basketball coach Tina Langley and went in depth on her philsophy on building a program and what she expects from her team this season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the first episode of The Turnaround Podcast, co-hosts Jessica Boykin-Settles and Amy K Bormet discuss their shared backgrounds in D.C. including their time at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Howard University, and the Washington Jazz Arts Institute; their experiences as women in the jazz scene, including their recollections of the first years of the Washington Women in Jazz Festival; and, finally, their vision for the podcast. Featuring a performance of Jessica's original piece Lament.The Turnaround Podcast is a production of Strange Woman Records in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Amy K Bormet and Jessica Boykin-Settles. Amy K Bormet, executive producer. Lyla Maisto, managing editor. Graziella Gulli, intern. Theme song written by Amy K Bormet and performed by Bormet, Karine Chapdelaine, and Angel Bethea. Interviews made possible in part by the DCHumanities Community Culture & Heritage Grant. © 2023 Strange Woman Records. More information on our project is available at strangewomanrecords.com.

On this Tuesday topical show, Crystal chats with ChrisTiana ObeySumner about their campaign for Seattle City Council District 5. Listen and learn more about ChrisTiana and their thoughts on: [01:06] - Why they are running [04:49] - Lightning round! [12:20] - What is an accomplishment of theirs that impacts District 5 [16:09] - City budget shortfall: Raise revenue or cut services? [21:48] - Public Safety: Alternative response [26:58] - Victim support [35:53] - Housing and homelessness: Frontline worker wages [39:25] - Climate change [43:28] - Transit reliability [46:58] - Small business support [52:48] - Childcare: Affordability and accessibility [56:33] - Difference between them and opponent As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find ChrisTiana ObeySumner at @votechristiana.   ChrisTiana ObeySumner ChrisTiana ObeySumner is a Black, queer, non-binary, and multiply disabled person, community organizer and activist. They are CEO and principal consultant of Epiphanies of Equity LLC -- A social equity consulting firm that particularly specializes in social change, intersectionality, antiracism, and disability justice. For two decades, they've dedicated their life and career to amplifying the importance of social equity – defined as the lifelong work of deconstructing inequitable sociological impacts and products such as policies, institutions, cultures, biases, and constructs; and facilitating strategic and embodied pathways towards the construction of equitable processes, accountability structures, and outcomes.    Resources Campaign Website - ChrisTiana ObeySumner   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review show and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Today, I am excited to be welcoming to the program candidate for Seattle City Council District 5, ChrisTiana ObeySumner. Welcome! [00:01:02] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Thank you so much for having me - I'm so excited. [00:01:04] Crystal Fincher: Well, I'm excited to have you. And just starting off, I'm wondering what made you decide to run? [00:01:11] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I get asked this question a lot - you know, it's, the best way I can put it is this. I have been engaged in some sort of civic, politics, social equity since I was a small child. My grandmom was a Black Panther, my family was always very opened and talked a lot about what it meant to be - you know, if not you, who, if not now, when - sort of things. And especially growing up in a family who was chronically unhoused or homeless - a lot of folks who were disabled, a lot of folks who under-resourced - most of my family is in Camden, New Jersey, in Philadelphia area. And so, and for me being autistic as an 80s child, so the ADA did not really help as much. There was always sort of a need and a early exposure to what it meant to advocate, to speak up for yourself, to speak up for others, to really call out inequity when you see it, to get into good trouble. And that has really been the through line of my life and my life's work - I have done that as a youth leader, I've done that for Mad Pride - especially in Louisville, Kentucky. I've done that in terms of homeless and housing unstable youth, especially in colleges - I came here to Seattle in 2010 to go to Seattle University, where I became Commuter Student rep and Non-Traditional Student representative for those reasons. I've worked in direct social services at DESC, Compass Housing Alliance. I did my AmeriCorps at Full Life Care for Harborview. My first work-study job here was in the Office of City Clerk where I learned how to read policy. I started my business, Epiphanies of Equity, in 2018, right after the running for the transparency seat in 2017, where I came second to Kirsten Harris-Talley. And since then has worked with over 250 businesses, governments and organizations across the country - obviously concentrated here - where we have specifically been working for social equity, for policy advocacy, for disability justice. Essentially when humans are human-ing with other humans, we know that certain human things happen - how can we work towards a society where humans are working towards equity? And through all of this work - additional to the co-chair Disability Commission and Renters' Commission - I'm putting all of this resume out here to say, I have approached a lot of the work, especially since being here in Seattle, from a lot of different angles. And especially in the last few years, has really heightened where I've worked with a lot of folks in the city and beyond - this is the next natural step towards that work. And so when the incumbent or the previous councilmember, Councilmember Debora Juarez, announced that she was not going to run, I must've gotten - between Gluttonous Eating Holiday and the 1st of the year - got somewhere between a dozen and a half calls from folks who were just like - So, you heard, right? Open seat, you gonna run? And I really thought about it for a while 'cause I'm a wonk - of the Hacks & Wonks, I'm the wonk part of that - and I just really wanted to go to the policy piece and I decided, you know what, let's give it a shot. So here I am. [00:04:47] Crystal Fincher: And here you are. Well, at this point, we're gonna switch up this interview a little bit and add an additional element that we haven't added before - a lightning round. Just quick answer, yes or no, or quick answer questions to level set a little bit. And then we'll get back to our regularly scheduled full-length answers where we can wonk out about everything. So starting off - This year, did you vote yes on the King County Crisis Care Centers levy? [00:05:17] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:05:18] Crystal Fincher: This year, did you vote yes on the Veterans, Seniors and Human Services levy? [00:05:22] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:05:23] Crystal Fincher: Did you vote in favor of Seattle's Social Housing Initiative 135? [00:05:28] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. And Epiphanies of Equity was one of the folks who also tried to endorse it, as well as the JumpStart Tax. [00:05:37] Crystal Fincher: Excellent. In 2021, did you vote for Bruce Harrell or Lorena González for Mayor? [00:05:44] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Lorena González. [00:05:45] Crystal Fincher: In 2021, did you vote for Nicole Thomas Kennedy or Ann Davison for Seattle City Attorney? [00:05:51] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: NTK. [00:05:53] Crystal Fincher: In 2022, did you vote for Leesa Manion or Jim Ferrell for King County Prosecutor? [00:06:03] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I don't remember. I don't recall. [00:06:14] Crystal Fincher: Okay. [00:06:14] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Sorry. [00:06:15] Crystal Fincher: Did you, in 2022 - no, that's totally fine. In 2022, did you vote for Patty Murray or Tiffany Smiley for US Senate? [00:06:23] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Patty Murray. [00:06:25] Crystal Fincher: Do you rent or own your residence? [00:06:27] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I rent. [00:06:29] Crystal Fincher: Are you a landlord? [00:06:30] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:06:32] Crystal Fincher: Would you vote to require landlords to report metrics, including how much rent they're charging, to help better plan housing and development needs in the district? [00:06:41] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes, it's actually part of my platform. [00:06:44] Crystal Fincher: Are there any instances where you would support sweeps of homeless encampments? [00:06:49] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No - not at all, in any form. [00:06:52] Crystal Fincher: Will you vote to provide additional funding for Seattle's Social Housing Public Development Authority? [00:06:57] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:06:58] Crystal Fincher: Do you agree with King County Executive Constantine's statement that the King County Jail should be closed? [00:07:05] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I do believe, yes - I'm abolitionist, so I think all the jails should be closed. [00:07:09] Crystal Fincher: Should parking enforcement be housed within SPD? [00:07:14] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:07:15] Crystal Fincher: Would you vote to allow police in schools? [00:07:18] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:07:19] Crystal Fincher: Do you support allocation in the City budget for a civilian-led mental health crisis response? [00:07:26] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes, if it's civilian-led and it's not further padding SPD budget. [00:07:31] Crystal Fincher: Do you support allocation in the City budget to increase the pay of human service workers? [00:07:36] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Absolutely. [00:07:37] Crystal Fincher: Do you support removing funds in the City budget for forced encampment removals and instead allocating funds towards a Housing First approach? [00:07:46] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:07:47] Crystal Fincher: Do you support abrogating or removing the funds from unfilled SPD positions and putting them toward meaningful public safety measures? [00:07:57] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes, if they're unfilled. [00:07:59] Crystal Fincher: Do you support allocating money in the City budget for supervised consumption sites? [00:08:04] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:08:05] Crystal Fincher: Do you support increasing funding in the City budget for violence intervention programs? [00:08:11] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. As a violence intervention program - I was, I think in my head I was getting, I have them mixed up the two different things - which, when you're talking about them, which one are you talking- [00:08:24] Crystal Fincher: Like community-led violence or organizational-led violence intervention programs. [00:08:28] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Oh! Yes, yes, yes. [00:08:30] Crystal Fincher: Gotcha. [00:08:31] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:08:31] Crystal Fincher: Do you oppose a SPOG contract, a Seattle Police Officers Guild contract, that doesn't give the Office of Police Accountability and the Office of Inspector General subpoena power? [00:08:46] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:08:46] Crystal Fincher: Do you oppose a SPOG contract that doesn't remove limitations as to how many of OPA's investigators must be sworn versus civilian, or police versus non-police? [00:09:04] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Can you ask the question one more time? [00:09:05] Crystal Fincher: Do you oppose a SPOG contract that doesn't remove limitations as to how many of OPA's investigators must be sworn versus civilian? Should there be a cap on civilians? [00:09:19] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:09:21] Crystal Fincher: Do you oppose - yes. These are confusingly led - we're not - these are not intended to be gotcha questions, so I want to totally make sure you understand. And that one's a little kludgy. [00:09:34] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: There should not be a limit on civilians. So yes, I would oppose something that would have a limit. Yes, okay. [00:09:39] Crystal Fincher: Do you oppose a SPOG contract that impedes the ability of the City to move funding to police safety alternatives? [00:09:48] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:09:49] Crystal Fincher: Do you support eliminating in-uniform off-duty work by SPD officers? [00:09:56] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Support eliminating in-uniform work by off-duty? [00:09:59] Crystal Fincher: In-uniform off-duty work, like if they were to work in a security capacity elsewhere. Would you support eliminating them doing that in-uniform? [00:10:08] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:10:09] Crystal Fincher: Will you vote to ensure that trans and non-binary students are allowed to play on the sports teams that fit with their gender identities? [00:10:17] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:10:17] Crystal Fincher: Will you vote to ensure that trans people can use bathrooms and public facilities that match their gender? [00:10:23] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:10:24] Crystal Fincher: Do you agree with the Seattle City Council's decision to implement the JumpStart Tax? [00:10:29] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:10:30] Crystal Fincher: Will you vote to reduce or divert the JumpStart Tax in any way? [00:10:35] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:10:36] Crystal Fincher: Are you happy with Seattle's newly built waterfront? [00:10:41] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: It's all right. [00:10:42] Crystal Fincher: Do you believe return to work mandates, like the one issued by Amazon, are necessary to boost Seattle's economy? [00:10:49] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Absolutely not. [00:10:50] Crystal Fincher: Have you taken transit in the past week? [00:10:53] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:10:54] Crystal Fincher: Have you ridden a bike in the past week? [00:10:58] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I have a disability that doesn't allow me to ride a two-wheeled bike, but I do have a tricycle that I ride sometimes. [00:11:03] Crystal Fincher: Should Pike Place Market allow non-commercial car traffic? [00:11:09] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: No. [00:11:10] Crystal Fincher: Should significant investments be made to speed up the opening of scheduled Sound Transit light rail lines? [00:11:17] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:11:18] Crystal Fincher: Should we accelerate the elimination of the ability to turn right on red lights to improve pedestrian safety? [00:11:26] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yeah. [00:11:27] Crystal Fincher: Have you ever been a member of a union? [00:11:29] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes, SEIU 1199 Northwest. [00:11:31] Crystal Fincher: Will you vote to increase funding and staffing for investigations into labor violations like wage theft and illegal union busting? [00:11:40] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes. [00:11:41] Crystal Fincher: Have you ever walked on a picket line? [00:11:43] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I have. [00:11:44] Crystal Fincher: Have you ever crossed a picket line? [00:11:46] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Absolutely not. [00:11:48] Crystal Fincher: Unlike Drew Barrymore, evidently. Is your campaign unionized? Is your campaign staff unionized? [00:11:56] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I have pushed for that because I use a organization that is in the process of unionizing. [00:12:04] Crystal Fincher: Okay, and so assuming they're unionizing, will you voluntarily recognize their efforts? [00:12:10] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yes, yeah, yes. And my business is a co-op as well. [00:12:16] Crystal Fincher: Awesome. Well, that concludes the lightning round - hopefully pretty painless. Now, back to regular questions. So lots of people look to work that you've done to get a feel for what you prioritize and how qualified you are to lead. Can you describe something you've accomplished or changed in your district, and what impact that has had on your district's residents? [00:12:40] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yeah, so I've lived in District 5 the entire 13 years that I've been here. One of the things that people don't understand about District 5 is it's a lot more diverse than folks believe it is. I think the people who are the loudest seem to be seen as the demographic here - as primarily white, wealthy, middle-class, upper-class, homeowner types, right? But there's a lot of folks here who are people of the global majority, people who are disabled, people who are renters, people who are students. And one of the things that was really great to be able to advocate for was when I was co-chair of the Renters' Commission - at the time with Jessica Westgren, who was my co-chair - the Renters' Commission really advocated and wrote a letter of advocacy to City Council and to other pertinent entities, put out a press release in the news about some different rent stabilization and renter protection pieces that we'd like to see. What was able to come out of that was Councilmember Sawant's office passed the six-month advance notice for any rent increases, which was really significant for me. When I moved here in 2010 as a student, one of our first apartments that me and my mom lived in did have a pretty significant rent increase. I remember it was around the holidays and we only had maybe 30 or 60 days to get out or pay. My mom was on SSDI, I was on SSDI going to school - we did not have that. We were lucky to find another place to live, which eventually did end up getting sold. But there had been several times, either living with my mom or after I got married living with my partner, where if we didn't have that six-month advance notice, that we wouldn't also have had the opportunity to either save money if we could, get assistance if we could. I don't think people understand how quickly and how swiftly being housing unstable or becoming unhoused can really be. It really just takes being in a situation where you are responsible for an extra $200 a month - which means food, which means co-pay, which means transportation. In these cases, I don't know if you call the universe, luck, the ancestors, Buddha, whatever you call it - that was able to help us to find another opportunity for housing, but especially working in direct social services, I knew firsthand that that's not the case all the time. And so, especially as there's increased renters in the city, I think that's really helpful for that. There's other things that come to mind, but I feel like that's one that folks have heard me talk a lot about. [00:16:07] Crystal Fincher: And that is helpful. I wanna talk about the City budget. The City of Seattle is projected to have a revenue shortfall of $224 million, beginning in 2025. Because the City is mandated by the state to pass a balanced budget, the options to address this coming deficit are either to raise revenue, or cut services, or some combination of both. How will you approach the issue of how the City collects and spends money on behalf of its residents? [00:16:35] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: One of the things people hear me say a lot on this campaign trail, which I think I can get into a little bit with this question, is - I say a lot, either getting to the taproot of the issue or finding upstream solutions for effective collective and downstream results, which sounds - I understand it sounds very schmaltzy but let me explain what I mean with this question. There's this both-and situation that's happening with the budget that is really a interconnected effect to some upstream issues. And so there are certain areas of the way that the City gets revenue that are longer-term solutions that we really need to address. For example, we have the most regressive tax structure in the state. Washington State has the most regressive tax structure in the country. When we talk about some of the suggestions from the task force that just put out - the opportunities for progressive revenue task force - there are really promising things in there, like say having an income tax - which I know in Seattle, I'm learning, is a dirty word. This is the seventh state I've lived in, this is the first state I've lived in that did not have an income tax. Now I will say living in Louisville, Kentucky, it went a little bit too far, to be honest - I mean, they had a state tax, a city tax, a borough tax, it felt like a tax tax, they had all kinds of taxes - I'm not saying that. But we don't have an income tax at all in the most regressive tax structure in the country that also has one of the widest income disparities - the top 20% of income earners in the city makes 22 times more than the bottom 20% of income earners - there's a difference between $400,000 and about $18,000. So if we have a state constitutional law that says we can only have equality-based taxes and not equity-based taxes, or flat tax, that's not really gonna help have a progressive tax structure now, is it? So there's long-term pieces that folks have asked me before - Well, what, are you just gonna go off to the state and try to advocate to change the constitution? Yes, I will, if it's causing these issues. Now, in the short-term - we can increase the JumpStart Tax to bring in more funding. We can look at, especially parts of the budget that is going towards criminalization and punishment. And I think to explain a little bit about when I talk about reallocation of funds, community and SPD have both said that there are certain things that they're doing that they feel is outside of their purview and what they actually feel is necessary for them to do. We're in agreement there. And a lot of those sort of lightning questions you had around domestic violence, around violence intervention, around social services, even around parking or events - District 5 has a 7-minute response time in SPD. And a lot of it is because they are going all over the place. I listen to the police scanner - I think it's something I got into after the 2020 protest comms, things I used to do - and there's so many, I would say like one in every four calls, that seemed like it was either like someone's in the elevator or someone's screaming down the street, something like that. If we were to take those services that the community feels like SPD is out of their purview, SPD feels like it's out of SPD's purview - and we reallocate those services to community-based services, not necessarily that they would also have SPD come along. First of all, that'd be against the point in a lot of ways. But we have them go to alternative community services - true alternative community services, preferably nonprofits and organizations that are already doing this work on the ground. You see the average cost that it took for SPD to do those services that we would be reallocating, and we reallocate that part of the budget to those new services, especially if there are upstream pieces that could help - like housing. It would be in our best interest - whether it's for our community, for the folks who are impacted, or for taxpayers - to have money that's going towards, say, sweeps, go towards permanent housing. And so I would really, if elected, love to continue to work on how do we implement those seven or nine suggestions from the Progressive Revenue Task Force, and also continue to look at innovative solutions towards balancing this budget in ways that we can take the burden off of just increasing taxes - on the real estate taxes - in a way that's regressive. I think that we want to do, say, like a capital gains tax - I definitely think we need to do that. We want to do vacancy tax, we want to do land value or land banking taxes - I think that's important. I also feel, I feel really strongly - again, I know this is state - but I feel really strongly that as a city councilperson, it's my - any city councilperson's responsibility to advocate for issues that are impacting their community. And having flat rate taxation and regressive taxation is having a devastating impact on the community. [00:21:48] Crystal Fincher: I also want to talk about public safety and particularly alternative response, because we do - as you said before - need a more comprehensive approach to public safety, and that goes beyond policing. While the council and mayor have definitely taken action to increase the police budget, give retention bonuses, and other incentives to retain and hire more police, we're lagging behind other jurisdictions around the country - and even in our own region and county - with alternative response programs to better support those having behavioral health crises and other issues. Seattle has stalled in implementing what is a very widely-supported idea. So where do you stand on non-police solutions to public safety issues? And what are your thoughts on civilian-led versus co-response models? [00:22:40] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Major part of my platform - I guess now, because folks ask about it a lot - is that I firmly, firmly believe that we need to transition from hyper-relying on the police and having alternative solutions that is 100% civilian-led. I mean, let's look at it this way, like with the example I gave, right? If SPD is saying they're working out of their purview, it's impacting their response times. It's impacting how much their workforce burden is. It is forcing them to redeploy folks out of places like investigations, causing these huge backlogs in the lab, to street patrol. Why then would we require them to be a co-lead with the alternative solutions? We are trying to remove that hyper-reliance and burden off of them completely - like if it's out of their purview, it's out of their purview, and that's all that on that. Now, like I said, a lot of my family lives in Camden, New Jersey, and they had a huge reduction in their crime right before 2020 George Floyd racial reckoning by completely overhauling to community interventions and alternatives. They have some situations where there is a co-lead model, but those are for situations where there's active threats of harm with weapons involved, right? But if it's more so things, like I said - like intimate partner violence, domestic violence, someone needs social services, mental health services - things that wouldn't require police to be there, which is gonna be very few things. It has led to such a significant change in a place where it used to be considered one of the more dangerous cities in the country. So I think what's really important here is I think when folks hear me talk about this, their first thought is like - Ah, this is a Defund the Police, BLM person. I think that that has definitely been something, looking the way that I do and sort of wanting to talk to what's really gonna get to the taproot of the issue, has been part of what folks have considered in terms of my viability, or like how am I going to be when I'm in office - one of those things, right? But the reason why I went through that whole resume in the beginning was not to toot my own horn, so to speak, it was because it shows that I have successfully and continue to successfully sit in spaces where folks are in conflict, folks are scared, folks are confused, folks do not have a lower risk tolerance that is needed for true transformative social change. And I am able to support and move along progress towards goals, especially goals at the organizational level and even the policy and governmental level. It's not as well known because I'm sort of - I am working with the folks who then go off and do the press conference, as opposed to one doing myself, right? But that is what I bring, that is the toolkit that I have built. And that toolkit has worked time and time and time and time again. In terms of SPD and public safety in a lot of ways, like I said - I look at it like if you go into an organization, you have a team or a department that is working outside of their scope, outside of their purview, they're overburdened, their work is suffering - you're sort of in a space of like, do we give them more money to give them more team to do all the things we're asking of them? Or do we do something else? And what I would always say in this case, if it was in the scenario is - you take all of the tasks that is not core and central and imperative to that team or department, and you reallocate it and create a new team or department. And you reallocate the budget that averages what that team and department does for those services - and then you continue to watch for progress. And I am very confident that if we actually diversify what we do to address all of the different multiple pathways towards this shared goal of community safety, we would be in a way better spot than continuing to throw money at a bunch of overworked, overburdened people working out of scope. [00:26:57] Crystal Fincher: Gotcha. I also wanna talk about victims. So many times we're talking about stats and responses and all that, and sometimes we don't focus on people who've been harmed or victimized. And a lot of people speak for victims, but we don't do a good job of listening to people who have been harmed themselves. And usually what they say is that - one, they wanna make sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to them or anyone else again. And they want better support. And that support - not just talking about within the system currently - they call police, there's a response. But even if police respond and come and take a report and do their thing, that person is still left - if it's a property crime, without property, with damage, without money, sometimes having to take off work - and it really does impact lives. How do you propose to better support victims or people who have been harmed? [00:27:55] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: I think one of the biggest upstream solutions we really have to address is - if we are to have services and supports that help folks help victims, we need to make sure that they are resourced to be able to do so, and right now they are not. And when we say resourced - not just a budget for the projects, right, or the services, or the interventions, housing, funding, whatever that is, but the people who would actually work in those positions. We know, like for example, in emergency services or shelter services, folks are so woefully underpaid it's a national crisis. But also the resources to be able to have folks in those positions who are being amplified in their voices and leadership because they are part of those most intersectionally impacted. One of the reasons why - I guess another reason why I'm running for office is, you know - if we want to talk about the knowledge of the policy process, how to put bills forward, things like that - I definitely have that. But there is an additional piece of that - the wisdom of lived experience - that can help to understand how these things happen in the actual reality on the ground, beyond a theoretical philosophical perspective. As a social service worker, as also someone who is not just a survivor - I guess we could say survivor of domestic violence - but continue to live it, especially running for office 'cause everything's public, right? There's a lot of different requirements, structures, pathways in place that it just leaves you to wonder that if there were folks who, whether it was directly making those decisions or through advisory councils, that was able to keep to-date the ways that our policies, our systems, and our structures are gummed up on the ground, in the lived experience, in the actual reality - if we could move some of those things so that they could be more helpful. That has been the biggest barrier I've seen for folks being able to get care, or to get resources, to get supports after they've been harmed - whether it's for their property, whether it's for their life, whether it's for their wellbeing, whether it's for their safety - the money isn't there. The staff is overworked and underpaid, and the attrition rate is so high that it's hard to move through the system at all. And then when you do go through the system, some of the requirements that you have to meet or some of the standards put in place in the framework doesn't get to the core root of what you need. A quick example - I guess I can say it for myself 'cause that's a safe thing, right - is when I first moved here to Seattle, there was a person who came here with me, who I had been involved with. When they came here, they were abusive in very many ways - emotionally, physically, psychologically. It was the physical abuse that finally was able to remove them, to get a no contact order - however, they violated it. They finally left the Seattle area around 2013. But especially running for office, we have found him on the website, on the socials, sort of finding me again after all this time. It's interesting because first of all, there really isn't protection order resources or domestic violence resources across state lines. There really aren't spaces to go where - you can't point to someone states away and say that this person is causing harm because it's on the internet. There was a event that the campaign was gonna go to where there was information that led us to believe that there was a credible threat to my safety. And so the campaign went, but I did not go. And I think when you do something like run for office, there are some folks who are like - Well, you signed up for that - but you don't really, right? And I guess I'm sharing my own story because it's the safest. However, I share this story because the dynamics of it is replicated every day, all day. Sometimes it's not because someone is in different state. Sometimes it's because folks have a different cultural background where they're not able to get like services - say, get emergency shelter, emergency motel, or income. You have to make a written statement that's signed that you are experiencing these things. And if it's family, if there's other sort of cultural pieces people may not feel comfortable doing that. So how do we have folks who have that experience be able to support having a framework in place that's going to be centered in intersectionality and inclusiveness? There's some folks who - this is impacting them financially in ways that are not documented because they're having to take more sick days, or because it is making them more sick, it's increasing their chronic health issues, or their productivity goes down at work. So how do we have supports in place where folks can understand those dynamics so folks are not getting verbal warnings from their boss, folks are not having less hours put on their schedule, folks are not having to then take time off of work to go to the hospital because they're having increased health issues. There are some folks who they do have property damage - when the physical altercation that led to this person finally being removed from my space at that time, they used my laptop in the event. And I was going to school - I didn't have money to buy another laptop. The only recourse would be to try to get this person to pay for it through a legal process - I didn't have money to go through that legal process, that person didn't have money to pay for a new laptop. There really wasn't any resources available to help me get another laptop, even though it was part of this event. A lot of that required other qualifications for me to have that I just didn't have at the time, and a lot of which - because this person wasn't physically living in my home, which definitely doesn't stop these sort of things from happening. So when you do have property damage or property loss, and the only option is to go through a legal process - and you may not have money for that, you may not be able to take time off for that, you might not be able to get child or dependent care for that - what do you do? And so these are the sort of pieces where running for city council, running for office, doing this work is coming at this not just because I want to be on the dais or - yes, there's a policy pieces that's really important - it's because there's this lived experience here, either individually or in my community or in the work that I've done, where I really would love to see a governance system where we are bringing in that actual reality, that grounded reality of how intersectionally we experience the outcomes or the bottlenecks or the gaps in our policy, in our investments, and in our understanding and framing of the issues. [00:35:53] Crystal Fincher: So you alluded to it a little bit before, but I wanna talk about housing and homelessness. And one thing called out by experts as a barrier to the homelessness response is frontline worker wages that don't cover the cost of living. Do you believe our local nonprofits have a responsibility to pay living wages for our area? And how can we make that more likely with how the City bids and contracts for services? [00:36:17] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: You know, I think the really sad thing is that our nonprofits - nonprofits are operating in large part through funding from a larger entity, whether it is the City, whether it's usually the federal government - nonprofits need to be able to pay their staff, not just a living wage or a thriving wage, but a Seattle wage, right? The average person working in emergency or directs housing and social services right now is making between $50,000 and $55,000 a year. But a median one-bedroom apartment - if you were gonna have it as be three times your rent, it's about $1,651 a month. And the National Alliance to End Homelessness just put out a report where they suggested that the staffing component of the Homeless Assistance Grant is increased. But they said that it's a national issue and that in order for across the country, even just direct social service workers and homeless emergency shelter workers to be brought up to being able to pay for the average one-bedroom apartment, it would take 4.8 billion, with the B, dollars to do so. And so by nature of being a nonprofit, where is that gonna come from for a nonprofit? I mean, definitely going back to the task force for progressive revenue, we can look at the wage and equity taxes and see where that is. But really for a nonprofit, that's not gonna be really the case. What we really need is to redistribute - when we talk about reallocating funds, we also need to reallocate the funds in a city with such a high wealth disparity. And so I believe that part of the progressive revenue - we really wanna address, say, ensuring that we have even housing and services for folks so that we can end the crisis of who we could physically see outside, we also have to address what's happening in housing instability, economic injustice, labor injustice of folks who are only one paycheck - if that - away from also physically being outside. And as someone who worked in direct social and housing services, I know that I worked with folks and also experienced situations where folks already were outside - they could not afford their rent and are receiving the same services. My quick story for that that I've been saying is that I remember having to get a conflict of interest waiver 'cause I had to take my client to DSHS. But when I looked at their letter, their DSHS caseworker was the same as mine. And so when we're looking at - oh, where's all the money going? If we only have these like, at minimum, 14,000 people outside, why are we using all this money? Well, because it's not just these 14,000 people who are needing these services, it's even the people who are providing the services that need the services. And so we really need to, as a city, actually not just talk about, but actually put to action economic and labor justice for this and other industries. But we also need to make sure that they are unionized and that they're able to collectively bargain for what they need for the future as well. [00:39:25] Crystal Fincher: Now on almost every measure, we're behind on our 2030 climate goals, while we're experiencing devastating impacts from extreme heat and cold, wildfires, smoke, floods, you name it - it's here. What are your highest priority plans to get us on track to meet those 2030 goals? [00:39:46] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: You know, when people ask this question, I always start off with saying - across living in seven states, that I believe I've experienced every type of natural disaster except for a tsunami, a sinkhole, and a typhoon. And yes, it does also include volcano eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides - all of those different sort of things - I have been through it. I always said I was just unlucky. As I got older, I realized it's because of climate disaster. We know that the climate disaster is human-made. It's based on consumption. We also know that the human-made climate disaster can be concentrated to a very select few people, who are in an owning class of organizations or businesses, or sort of other sort of production means that is contributing to this - whether it's shipping, whether it's fossil fuels, whether it's even folks who rely on that. The airline industry, I saw that Washington State did just pass a law to start to move towards green aviation fuel for planes, so we're not using all the gas, but even then - really in this Green New Deal, there's a couple of things. Number one, we need to really look at the building efficiency and energy performance pieces. We need to make sure that we are having Green buildings, that we're retrofitting for Green buildings - going back to those resources questions, we need to make sure we have the resources to help folks move towards having more Green buildings because we know that not everyone is going to be a multimillionaire or have a corporation where they can fund that on their own. The second piece is that we really do need to divest - in all ways, in all spaces - from fossil fuels. And not just the fossil fuel organizations themselves, but those who are hyper-reliant on fossil fuels. If there is an organization that is resistant to divesting from fossil fuels, then it is in our best interest to consider alternatives to using those services or patroning them. We also - I would really love to see how we address the deforestation of our urban forest, that is the city that we lived in. We have lost so much of our tree canopy that it is causing not only these sort of high heat zones that are really harming folks, but we also see them happening along the lines of segregation and redlining. There is increased impacts of environmental racism and injustices leading to folks, especially during the wildfire season, having to go to the hospital because of exacerbations of their asthma - that is leading to other chronic health issues, that is only going to lead to public health crises down the line. And there's so much more even from there, right - reducing our reliance on individual transit, which means that we have to really invest in our public transit infrastructure so it's reliable, so that the workers and operators are able to get everything they're asking for in their current collective bargaining and they're able to be paid a Seattle wage, and that we are able to make sure it's accessible to all people. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot - we didn't just get to climate disaster in the last couple years, really - this has started since the industrialization period. We know it's really picked up since the 1970s, but that means that we're going to have to really work double time to make sure that we are able to have a sustainable future for life. And that's not being - I mean that literally - like so that we can actually continue to live as humans on the planet, 'cause that's where we're at. [00:43:26] Crystal Fincher: That is where we're at. Now you talked about transit - right now, we are in a world of hurt when it comes to transit, particularly reliability. Some of that is because of shortages of operators or mechanics, but people are having a harder time finding buses that arrive on time or sometimes arrive at all. Understanding that Sound Transit is a regional organization and King County Metro is a county organization, what can the City do? And in your role as a city councilmember, if you're elected, what can you do to stabilize transit reliability? [00:44:03] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Yeah, it goes back to what I was saying earlier - you know, if elected a city councilperson, it's not just my job to do what I can and legislate within my purview. It is also my job to advocate and amplify what is happening in my district and in my city. And so that is the biggest piece of how we can have the multiple pathways towards shared goals in this case. If it's outside of my purview, that doesn't mean like - Oh well, I guess I can't do anything - but no, I'm supposed to go and advocate and say - Yo, what's going on with the 40 bus because it is taking, is like 20 minutes behind, or what's going on with, you know, the light rail and being able to get there, or what's going on with the E line. And I would continue to do that. I mean, advocating to King County Metro in terms of its accessibility and its affordability and its reliability is something I've already done in multiple ways - and it's on record of what I've done. But I definitely think what's really important here is going a little bit back to the climate justice conversation is - if we really truly want to reduce our reliance on vehicles, especially vehicles that are using gas, and we want folks to use more public transit, that's gonna, first of all, require like Complete Streets and making sure we have a pedestrian focus, if not pedestrians and public transit centered streets. But we also have to make sure the public transit is going to be a competitive option to having a car. And as someone who can't have a car because of my disability, I can only have public transit unless my partner drives me - and he works four tens a week, so most of the time I'm taking transit. You know, there has been situations, especially going east to west in District 5, where if I were to be able to drive a car, get an Uber, I can get there in 15 minutes. If I was to take the bus, I have to take two different transfers and get there in 45 minutes - if that. And so if we're in a situation - it's multifaceted with the infrastructure, where it's going, the operators - how much they're getting paid, their labor standards, are they getting breaks? Are they - do they feel safe? Are they getting medical for sitting all day? And is it affordable? You know, I talk a lot about first mile, last mile as a disabled person - can I get to a bus stop within a mile from my house, if I can walk a mile? Can I get to my destination within a mile from my bus stop, if I can walk that mile? What is the multimodal transportation going to look like? We really need to look at all of these different factors and the city councilmember's job is to advocate and amplify that to whatever level is needed and work together to get those solutions for your community as much as possible. [00:46:58] Crystal Fincher: Now I want to talk about the economy. The City of Seattle has a vibrant business community - some of the largest corporations in the world are headquartered here and nearby, but also just a ton of small businesses - lots of entrepreneurs, micro businesses, especially in the district. What can you do to better support small business in District 5? [00:47:22] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Well, I can tell you as a small business owner, too - it's really hard out here, right? Because there's so many different factors looking at, even just from the perspective that I have, with having staff where I have to make sure I have payroll every month and everything like that, right? The first thing I'll say is we know from the state and the city that we have a significant equity issue with public procurement. I am a business that relies on public procurement in a lot of ways. We need to make sure that we are actually putting the actions in place for public procurement and other equity for business owners. We have the Washington Women and Minority Business Enterprise certification that continues to need funding - to provide the grant funding, the infrastructure and supports needed for those businesses and others - that we can advocate to work for at the city and at the state level. Another thing I think is really important for businesses that have brick and mortar is I absolutely 100% believe in density, increasing housing density, increasing the amount of affordable housing that we have - 'cause we don't wanna just be putting housing in for housing sake and then be charging like $3,000 a month and people can't live there. But making sure we have affordable, accessible housing. One of the things that I've seen and folks have been really concerned about is you have these sort of small businesses that their commercial lease is maybe in the $1,000 a month area. Then they say - Hey, we're gonna build a development, but don't worry, we're gonna have retail space for you once the development is done. And if they can survive however long it takes to build this building - because they have to continue to be in operation - but then when the commercial leases or the retail spaces come online, they're in the $3,000 or $4,000 a month - three to four times increase of how much they're able to pay. And so they can't pay that and so those businesses just go away forever. And this is why folks get upset when they go from having a small coffee shop or a small diner or a small bookstore or a small grocery store in their neighborhood, and then the building goes up and now they have a Trader Joe's or they have a non-unionized Starbucks or they have something like that that shows up - someone who can afford those $3,000 to $4,000 rents. And so we need to also have a right-to-return put in place. We need to make sure that businesses, especially the smaller businesses, are able to have the supports they need if they are displaced, similar to like with renters - if there's a displacement where they will not be able to operate their businesses anymore, that they will be able to help. And I wanna be very clear. When - I think a lot of times in the city, and what's really important about this question for me, is when we talk about businesses in Seattle, I think folks are thinking about the big businesses. They're thinking about the Amazons - heck, they're thinking about the restaurants that have multiple chains, right, and they sell different sort of things - that they're not gonna be as impacted, right? They're impacted, sure - 'cause the pandemic is pandemicking and that's impacting everyone. Especially when we're talking about JumpStart Taxes, right - we're talking about businesses that are making $8 million or more a year. And I'm talking about businesses like myself and other folks in District 5 - I'm talking about like $500,000 a year or less, right? Like I'm not talking about the same people. Even if you're thinking about - if you have staff, if you have a commercial lease, stuff like that - even a million dollars a year, which would be - I think I would just feel like I was sort of like, like the "In the Money" song would start playing if I ever hit a million dollars a year gross sales. But that's not common. When I talk about what is needed for small businesses in this district, I'm talking about those folks, right? I'm talking about the people who might be living in, around, above their business, who is - just like you can live paycheck to paycheck for your rent, living paycheck to paycheck for their business to make payroll, that have services or goods that they provide that the pandemic created this huge gap where they were not able to do that anymore, especially if they're a performer and needing stages to perform or something like that, or gallery space. Especially folks who are at the intersection of being, you know, what they call economically disadvantaged businesses, so they don't make a lot of money. Folks who are non-binary, trans, femme of center folks, folks who are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, folks who are disabled, folks who are veterans - especially if they do not have the sort of veterans supports and services that you could get otherwise, especially if they, how service connected they are or what length of service they've had, 'cause that can vary. There's a lot of folks who really need help and that's where really understanding what's happening on the ground can come into play when we're making these investments in these policies to make sure that we are centering folks who are the most intersectionally impacted, and that we are not continuing to center folks who are, you know, in a completely different space and continuing that regressiveness in even the investments that we make. [00:52:48] Crystal Fincher: I also wanna talk about a related issue of childcare. It doesn't just affect parents - it affects businesses, it affects everyone in our community because it impacts people's ability to participate in the economy and just make their bills. We recently got reporting and research that shows that now childcare is more expensive than college on an annual basis. It's many people's number one or number two expense who have families. What can you do to lighten the burden of childcare costs and availability for residents in District 5? [00:53:24] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: What we've seen across the country is that when it's subsidized, either through local governance, state governance, federal governance, or through the employer - and really preferably a mixture of both - it can have an astounding effect on affordability. Really, it's one of those multifaceted issues, right - where we also need folks to be able to do, like to work the childcare. They're another industry that's woefully underpaid, as well as our teachers in our education systems. We need to make sure that we have childcare that's multilingual, multicultural, that is going to have disability justice and universal accessibility standards, that we have dependent care that can also support folks who have dependents who are not children - which is not always considered, whether it's elders or whether those are folks who are adults who may or may not be children, but they still require dependent care - that can make it really hard to go to work if you are unsure how they will be able to move throughout their day without some sort of support, without putting them in somewhere like a group home. Especially for adults, I would love to see what it would look like to have clubhouse-style day programs that are moving towards having that disability justice approach, if it's for disability. Or having it be something cool, like maybe free education and learning about trades, so that we can increase the pipeline of folks going into the trades or just certain things like that. But really when it comes down to affordability and second, it comes down to employer cooperation. We need to make sure that if, say, someone does get sick and you need to take care of your family - really, I know it's a federal law, but FMLA is just not very helpful. Again, one of those actual reality experiences, right - the policy, great intention, impact not so much. And so we can't really rely on things like FMLA or even the Paid Sick and Safe Time - which you can go through very, very quickly, depending on what's happening - to help if there's an emergency, if you can't get childcare that day. Childcare in the United States is going for anywhere between $700 if it's subsidized to about $2,500 a month. That's rent. People can barely afford their rent now, let alone a whole other rent. And so we really need to find ways to subsidize this down to as free as possible, so that is just one area that's not concerning for employees. But again, just like I said with housing, we don't just wanna be building housing for housing sake - we wanna make sure it's actually going towards the taproot of the issue. We don't wanna just be having childcare, independent care for the sake of it. We wanna make sure that the people who are in there is going to be able to have the economic and labor justice, and that's gonna actually meet the intersectional, multilingual, multi-ability, multicultural reality of our district and our neighborhoods. And that's what I would be fighting for. [00:56:33] Crystal Fincher: Now, as we close today with this final question, there are a lot of people trying to consider who they should vote for - between you and your opponent. When you talk to voters who are trying to make that decision, what do you tell them? [00:56:48] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: If you look at my opponent, Cathy - Cathy, again, has one of those resumes that's very out in front and I think it leads a lot of folks to wonder like - Why you? Right they're, you know, they're a former circuit court judge, been sort of in that space for a while. But there's also a piece of that where I ask folks to really consider the archetypes of things - you know, what is really the archetype of what makes a good candidate or a viable candidate? A lot of folks are like - Well, are you knocking the doors? You know, are you a homeowner? Do you have the money? Look, here's the point - I'm a renter, I've had to work 40 hours a week doing this because I don't have money to just take off of work. I come from what they call network impoverishment. Folks have been like - Can you ask your family for support? I'm like - I'm the person they come to that gives support, I don't have that. If I don't work, there is no one's house for me to go couch surf at. I'm a transit rider, I am a multiply disabled person, I understand what it means to have to fight for your Medicare, to have to have $200 copays. A lot of those both-and pieces - yes, I rent a single-family house in Greenwood, but the reason why it's affordable is because it's sinking into this ravine in the backyard - and as I look up in the ceilings, there's cracks in the foundation. You know, there's a lot of these different sort of pieces where if we want to talk policy, right - and I go back to helping, being a part of passing the six-months advance notice on rent increases, co-organizing and passing one of the nation's first bans on sub-minimum wage, working with legislators on fighting for lifting the cap on special education, fighting to make sure that youth continue to use the bus for free, finding out what's a taproot issues, fighting for making sure that we have disability justice implemented throughout our cities, that we are actually holding - not just saying a thing, but doing a thing if we really truly care about race and social justice. We want to talk about policy process, how to move that forward, how to work with people, how to make sure you find multiple pathways towards shared goals, the policy theory and the process - I got that. And me and Cathy can go - you know, we can really match that up. What I bring that's different is that wisdom of lived experience - not just for myself, but in all of the folks I've worked with as a consultant, as a commissioner, as a direct social service worker, as a youth leader across seven different states throughout the nearly 40 years of my life. And I truly believe and have seen success in the toolkits that I bring, that when you bring both the knowledge and the wisdom together - where you are both taking into account how the lived experiences of those most intersectionally impacted can be amplified in voices in leadership, into policy, into solutions, into leadership, into investments, to true equity - you will see progress. And if you focus on that, you don't get caught up by the minutiae, you can move forward. I have seen and worked with a lot of different folks, processes, organizations, piece - in this city - where we get caught up in the minutiae. I've been successful before in being able to move things forward in a smaller way, but you make the white paper and you give the recommendations and you look at it and they put it to the side. This being the next natural step of being able to have that voice, that conduit for my community on the dais is one that I really truly hope to bring to this community in a way I haven't before. And I'm always happy to chat with folks, get coffee, have a Zoom meeting and talk about some of the other things that I've done because as you can tell, there's so many stories and so little time. [01:00:27] Crystal Fincher: There are. Well, thank you so much, ChrisTiana ObeySumner, for taking the time to speak with us today about your candidacy for Seattle City Council District 5. Thank you so much. [01:00:39] ChrisTiana ObeySumner: Thank you. [01:00:40] Crystal Fincher: Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks, which is produced by Shannon Cheng. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on every podcast service and app - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review shows and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you next time.

Since 2013 Victoria has been the assistant coach for the women's golf team at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Prior to that she played four years on the Gonzaga team, winning her very first collegiate tournament as a freshman, and becoming the first Gonzaga player to win the individual West Coast Conference championship, which she did as a junior in 2012. Since then she has won the Washington Women's Mid-Amateur Championship three times (2017, 2018, 2020) and was named the Washington Golf Women's Mid-Amateur Player of the Year three times (2017, 2018, 2020). She has qualified for three U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, two U.S. Women's Amateurs, and two U.S. Women's Mid-Amateurs. Victoria talks with us about her own journey from learning the game as an 8-year-old in Southern California, and how she works with her players in improving their games. She has recently made the decision to enter the PGA Professional program, giving up her amateur status as a player, with the goal of becoming a better coach to her players at Gonzaga. 

Ben and Garrett are back on the mics, continuing their in-depth evaluation of our men's and women's cross-country team rankings! This week, the guys discuss the two most recent Oregon transfers before they go through spots 19-18-17-16-15-14 and break down where they think the floors and ceilings of those teams will be. Be sure to listen, subscribe and review! Oregon Snags Transfers (2:27) Syracuse Men (9:41) Colorado State Women (14:33) Alabama Men (18:53) Georgetown Women (24:09) Harvard Men (27:28) Washington Women (34:16) Portland Men (38:44) Arkansas Women (44:56) Washington Men (50:04) Alabama Women (55:13) Arkansas Men (1:00:44) Ohio State Women (1:06:34)

Angela Zhang of Bellevue, who won her second consecutive Washington Women's Amateur title this past June, talks about what it was like competing at the recent U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach. She was the youngest player in the field of the best women golfers on earth, and the 14-year-old phenom shares some wisdom beyond her years (with a few giggles thrown in).

Carla Fowler, MD PhD is the Founder and Managing Director of THAXA, an executive coaching firm that helps people achieve big goals through performance science. Carla graduated from Brown University magna cum laude, earned her MD and PhD at the University of Washington, and completed her internship in general surgery at Stanford University.She founded THAXA to share her passion for performance science, where the fields of strategy, productivity, and psychology intersect.Outside of THAXA, Carla is an angel investor specializing in medtech and biotech with a portfolio of over a dozen investments. She is also an active member of Social Venture Partners, Rotary, Washington Women's Foundation, Alliance of Angels, and Keiretsu.Key Takeaways:Performance Science Definition: Performance science is a multidisciplinary field that explores how human beings achieve their best results in various domains, including athletics, business, and the military.Impact of Clarity: Lack of clarity inhibits success. Creating explicit goals and recognizing achievements motivates teams and helps them understand their roles in the bigger picture.Importance of Taking Time to Think: Setting aside time for reflection and strategic thinking is vital for clarifying objectives and making informed decisions.Creating Space for Clarity: Engaging in activities like journaling, meditation, or walks provides space for creative insights and clarity.Uninterrupted Thinking Time: Allocating quiet and uninterrupted time for thinking allows for focused reflection and strategic planning.Using Prompts for Productive Thinking: Thought-provoking prompts guide the thinking process and prevent stagnation.Embracing Uncertainty: Leaders foster an attitude of embracing uncertainty as an opportunity for growth and learning, enhancing adaptability.Running Good Experiments: Approaching uncertainty with experiments helps teams learn from outcomes and make better decisions.Balanced Problem-Solving Approach: Listing potential solutions, evaluating against criteria, and conducting small tests before committing fully helps in effective decision-making.Impact of Sleep and Nutrition: Adequate sleep and proper nutrition are essential for mental and emotional performance, leading to better decision-making and reduced stress.Top Three Takeaways: Clarity: Ensure clear objectives, focused priorities, and effective communication both upward and downward in the chain of command.Embrace Uncertainty: Foster a culture that embraces uncertainty and trains teams to be comfortable with it. Encourage running good experiments to learn from outcomes and make better decisions.Combat Disengagement: Provide growth opportunities and visibility for both teams and leaders to prevent boredom and stagnation, enhancing overall engagement and performance.For resources discussed in this episode: https://www.thaxa.com/p/corporate-cprHow to Connect with Carla:Website: https://www.thaxa.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-fowler/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrCarlaFowler

1:12 - Never Read the Comments 26:19 - Guest: Andrew Siciliano on a new era in Washington + expectations for the team 40:41 - Women's World Cup Game 2 preview

In this episode, Christine hosts a soulful conversation with Casey Hanisko, a passionate advocate for women's leadership in adventure travel and tourism. Casey is a leadership and business coach and adventure travel marketing and sustainability consultant.As former president of the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and an executive in the private travel industry, Casey has a history of seeking ways to uplift and spotlight women+ leaders in travel. Her endeavors include leading ATTA's women's leadership initiative, organizing women's leadership forums, and mentoring women+ personally and through Camber's Ann Krick Mentorship program. Casey is a member of the International Women's Forum and Washington Women's Foundation and has written and spoken about women+ leadership throughout her career.Casey helps women+ in the adventure and outdoor industries be great leaders and build great businesses. As an advocate for women's advancement in the industry, she collaborates with women+ to support their leadership growth with creativity, empathy, and accountability. Tapping into passion and purpose, she focuses on helping women+ bring their whole selves to work and embrace their natural leadership style, giving it value and a voice.Christine and Casey discuss:Gender equity in tourismLeadership in travel and tourismExperiences with and influences of masculine leadership in adventure travelEntrepreneurship and aligning business with our whole selvesJoin Christine now for this soulful conversation with Casey Hanisko.

Today's episode of The Lead With Trust Show marks part 3 of the Bring Women into Construction series, and as such Sue chats with Kabri Lehrman-Schmid, Project Superintendent at Hensel Phelps. Kabri's 16-year career portfolio showcases her depth of skill as a superintendent across all project phases on highly-phased, active campus projects totaling over $1.9B work in place. She is valued by clients and trade partners as a talented controller of building strategy and an attentive coordinator of construction teams - outcomes rooted in the mutually-beneficial relationships she maintains. Recognized as one of ENR's 2023 Top 20 Under 40 national honorees and Construction Business Owner's 2019 Outstanding Women in Construction, Kabri is also the recipient of AGC of Washington's 2022 inaugural Rising Star award, and Washington Women in Trades' 2019 Workplace Leader Award. She is an experienced public speaker who contributes her industry insights to organizations and publications that prioritize workforce health building strategies, field management training and supporting careers in the skilled trades.During the episode, Sue and Kabri discuss the training curriculum Hnasel Phelps employs for women in the construction industry.Kabri highlights her personal experiences as a woman in the construction industry, including lessons she's learned, insights she's gained and obstacles she has overcome.They also explore the importance of having contingencies in place for the changes that you don't know are going to happen, as well as the ones you do.Join Sue and Kabri for this informative discussion into the value of bringing more women into the industry.If you have any questions or suggestions for Sue, feel free to reach out via email.Enjoy!What You'll Learn in this Show:Kabri's journey into the construction industry and how she got started.The importance of psychological safety in the workplace.The barriers that still exist in the industry and need to be overcome.And so much more...Resources:Hensel Phelps websiteKabri's LinkedInSudyco websiteLead with Trust NewsletterKabri's email: KLehrman-Schmide@henselphelps.comSue's Email: suedyer@sudyco.com

Caroline Farrow is back with us as we discuss our way through the big stories this week in the news and across the media. Expect free thinking, free speech and plenty of opinion as Caroline let's us know what she really thinks about the topics this episode including..... - Migrants could be housed on old ferries as the government ends hotel stays. - Unelected PM Rishi Sunak bans media from Conservatives' conference. - Hey Waterstones... stop pushing dangerous gender ideology at children! - #LetWomenSpeak: New Zealand tour explodes into violence as hard left men's rights activists show the world exactly who they are. - Violent male paedophile moved to Washington women's prison. - Uproar as Kent Police is slammed for poster classifying rapes as non-emergency crimes. - Watershed moment in the trans debate, sparked by the landmark decision about female athletes. - Humza Yousaf commits to introducing abortion up to birth and sex-selective abortion in Scotland if he becomes the next First Minister. * CitizenGo Waterstones Petition https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/210382-waterstones-stop-pushing-dangerous-gender-ideology-children In 2010, frustrated by many of the media headlines and negative coverage of Catholicism, Caroline began a blog in defence of Catholic teaching and to reflect on UK current affairs and world events through the lens of a Catholic woman. What began as nothing more than personal musings designed to explain and propose controversial ethics and life issues to those who had struggled with them, or to de-bunk misleading narratives and headlines, soon mushroomed and popular posts would receive more than 30,000 unique visitors a day. Between 2011 and 2017, she was a member of the organisation Catholic Voices, set up to promote the defence of Catholic teaching in the public square and made numerous media interventions on their behalf and quickly became the 'go to' voice for media organisations looking to represent a female conservative Catholic point of view. Since 2013 Caroline has writes a weekly column for the Catholic Universe and has written for and featured in a number of other publications such as the Catholic Herald, the National Catholic Register, the Conservative Woman, Mercatornet, Crisis Magazine, LifeSiteNews and Church Militant. She used to write on Catholic culture at the now defunct Spectator Arts blog and has been featured in the Daily Mail, the Observer and the New Statesman. In 2013, Caroline was included as part of the first cohort of the BBC's '100 women' and she regularly features on BBC News, Sky News, ITV's Good Morning Britain, BBC Sunday Morning Live, the Big Questions and has made multiple appearances on Radio 4's flagship Today programme, Woman's Hour, the Moral Maze and the Sunday programme as well as featuring in one-off documentaries. Caroline also presented the coverage for March for Life UK for EWTN and has contributed to News Nightly and Celtic Connections. She also frequently contributes to Talk Radio, LBC and BBC local radio as well as BBC Radio Ulster, discussing matters pertaining to Catholicism, feminism and the challenges of motherhood and family life. Caroline has an eclectic career background. She began her professional life as a student accountant for a big 5 firm before succumbing to a desire for travel and adventure and became a member of cabin crew working both long and short-haul routes for internationally acclaimed airlines. Having got the travel bug out of her system, she returned to work within investment banking and private equity in the City of London until her first child was born. Caroline is currently the campaign director at CitizenGO, has 5 children of school-age, four girls and one boy and is married to a Catholic priest who converted from Anglicanism, a few years after they were married. Follow and support Caroline at the following links... GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/cf_farrow Twitter: https://twitter.com/CF_Farrow?s=20&t=Je-7QgQaAve5NCKtELcYNg Website: https://www.carolinefarrow.net CitizenGo: https://citizengo.org Originally broadcast live 25.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. 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Migrants https://web.archive.org/web/20230325135434/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/24/migrants-could-housed-old-ferries-rishi-sunak-ends-hotel-stays/ Rishi Sunak https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/24/rishi-sunak-bans-media-conservative-spring-conference Waterstones https://citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/210382-waterstones-stop-pushing-dangerous-gender-ideology-children Kellie-Jay Keen https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11901005/UK-trans-critic-Kellie-Jay-Keen-doused-tomato-juice-protestors-Auckland-New-Zealand-rally.html Posie Parker https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1639480137833140225?s=20 Women's Prison https://reduxx.info/the-worst-one-yet-violent-male-pedophile-moved-to-washington-womens-prison/ victim legal fees https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1639606190769422336?s=20 Kent Police https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11888161/Kent-Police-slammed-poster-classifying-sexual-assaults-non-emergency-crimes.html gender war https://web.archive.org/web/20230325120043/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/week-tide-turned-gender-war/ Yousaf https://righttolife.org.uk/news/humza-yousaf-commits-to-introducing-abortion-up-to-birth-and-sex-selective-abortion-to-scotland  [0:22] So without further ado, Caroline, thank you so much for coming back with us tonight. Always a pleasure, always a pleasure, Peter. Always good to have you. And we are not short of stories, as always. Let, actually, let me, let me just see if I can pull in. Do let me know where you're watching. I'll have the, certainly the GETTR page open for your comments in there. So do let us know where you're watching we'll get to see the international flavour of fuel jumping on. So let's start with the UK and we'll start with immigration. Very hot subject. The title here from the Telegraph is migrants could be housed on old ferries as Rishi Sunak ends hotel stays. People who arrive illegally on small boats will initially be moved into decent but rudimentary accommodation, government said to announce. [1:22] And there was one figure here, Rishi Sunak expected to declare as early as next week, the beginning of the end of asylum hotels which are currently being used to house more than 50,000 migrants at a cost of nearly seven million pounds a day. What are your thoughts on this story that those who come over illegally could be put on boats?   It just shows what a shambolic mess our, immigration system is in. I think it's appalling actually. I mean in some ways I'm sure [1:58] many people would say well it's a deterrent, it will make only those who really have no other choice than to come here, it will make people who are perhaps what they call economic migrants think twice, but it is clearly inhumane, you know, putting people on boats, you know, to live. And it just shows that we really need to have a rethink of our immigration policy, because clearly, the reason that they're going to, well, I say clearly, the reason that this policy has been mooted is because at the moment we're spending £7 million a day housing asylum seekers or refugees. And again, I want to be really careful because when we're talking about these groups of people, we are talking about human beings who do have human rights, who do have human dignity. You know these are these are people wanting to come to Britain to make a better life and I'm not going to slam anybody for wanting to to go to a country to seek a better life for themselves you know that that is you know an inherent an intrinsic human right but equally countries do have the rights to police their borders but we must make sure that we do it justly and fairly. Now if we've got so many people coming to this country that we cannot physically house them, that we have to put them on boats, then we need to have a balanced and grown-up discussion about immigration. [3:27] What our immigration policy should be. We can't clearly just say let's have open borders. It'd be lovely, wouldn't it? It'd be lovely to say everybody who wants to come here can come here and you're guaranteed a welcome and the British people are very tolerant and very hospitable, all of those things are true. It'd be lovely if we could do that, but we are a smallish island, and our infrastructure is already creaking at the seams. So whenever you talk about immigration and whenever you talk about people coming here on boats or people making their way illegally, and you express some concern, you get tarred as a racist or far-right bigot or compared to Hitler's Germany is the latest slur, but there is an issue here. When we have got people that we just don't have, we are spending seven million a day at a time when we are so overstretched economically, when our infrastructure is in chaos, and then we're saying, okay, well, we can't, [4:24] housing people in hotels is not sustainable at seven million a day, just, you know, either in terms of the cost or in terms of how much room we have, so we've got to, you know, put them on boats, then we we need to have some serious policy about numbers, who we can accommodate you know and have and have a procedure for allowing those people who can come here. Who have a legitimate reason to be here, who have ties with this country, and who want to build a new life for themselves and work. We need to facilitate that, but equally [4:58] we can't, much as it would be great to allow every single person to come in, we don't have the infrastructure to do that. And shoving people on boats, I think, is a cruel and inhumane policy. You wouldn't like to live on a boat. We're warned of the dangers of not dehumanising people, but actually when you start putting people on boats or in army barracks, that's exactly what it does. It treats people, not as people, but as a number and a problem. That's not a humane, and I'm a Christian obviously, and that's not a Christian way of dealing with it. So it's a very fraught issue but we need some sensible grown-ups to the table and I think both sides could do with dialling down the rhetoric. So expressing concern about this and saying, you know, okay, what are the numbers we can accommodate? It's not racist. [5:57] Equally, and it's not Nazi Germany either, but equally on the other side of the coin, being really really harsh and firm and calling people names and attacking people isn't the answer either and you know and I do think we we do have to do something to stop people from coming over on these inflatable dinghies and risking their lives you know and it's not good it's not good for political cohesion because it is you know we've seen riots outside hotels which is which is terrible which is not what we want to see and we don't condone you know and And the reason, certainly nobody can condone that, and it must be awful for those people who are inside the hotels when they are subject to those protests, you know, you've got to remember that there are human beings involved. But this is because of the resentment that is building, being built up by these policies, because I think I was reading in the Telegraph, the Red Wall constituencies up north, they are having like 16 times the amount of asylum seekers or refugees that are being housed in the South and the South East. And the other point I want to make, I mean this is a very personal one, [7:14] I'm very open about the fact that my two youngest children have special needs and right now we need to get primary school places for our children and they've been turned down from six local primary schools because there are no places because they're being taken up by Ukrainian children. Now I don't resent Ukrainian children a school place at all and one might argue, well, Caroline, you're middle class, you're educated, you know, it's not as important for your children to have a place as it is the Ukrainian children. And I might agree with you, I might not, but at the end of the day, not everybody's going to have that attitude and be in a position where they think, okay, I'm going to see what I can do to cobble together an education at home. But equally, what it means is you're having to put one child over another, you're having to prioritise children for school places. We've got a crisis in the NHS and there's a crisis in dentistry, so you're having to prioritise one person's need over another. [8:23] So we can't just continue to say, OK, everybody who wants to come here should be able to come here and that's fine, without, you know, some serious thought to the question. No completely and we'll move on but a simple way of fixing it would actually be to, actually process the people probably within weeks and put them back where they came from if they do if they are able to go back but that would be common sense but that would seem to fix the issue. But anyway moving on let's just touch on this subject quickly because I want to go on some of of the others. But I find this interesting and this is Rishi Sunak bans media from Conservative Spring Conference. Press and public barred from attending with party, claiming it is an internal event closed to media. And I know I've been to many UKIP conferences, Caroline I'm sure you've been as citizen go to different political conferences and it is quite essential I think part of the democratic process to for the meditative access to these political conferences. Yeah, I don't think we should gloss over this actually. I think this shows we have a need for a new political settlement. This is almost like something out of Putin's Russia. [9:39] You know, the Conservative Party are, you know, years ago, the Conservative Party have always had amongst, I suppose, politics always been tribal, and the Tory Party have always had a reputation of being the elites and very divorced from the working class. They're not helping themselves with this. In the 80s, Thatcher's Tories were all about, oh yeah, you know, Basildon Man, Wolverhampton Man, you know. I mean, we're in touch with the working man and we're in touch with the working people and we want to help people make better lives for themselves. This just screams we are the elite, we are the elite, we are you know this is this is a party who, [10:23] by the looks of things, are not going to win the next general election, or they might, and this is really unfortunate actually, because the Tory party might win the next general election on the issue of gender ideology, and because Tories can say what is a woman, the Tories are also doing the right thing on sex education lessons, they're not doing enough, we need, I might get onto that later, but we need the review of sex education in classes to be independent. We can't have the Department for Education doing the review or the inquiry because they've been captured for so many years and useless for so many years, you know, they've been captured by Stonewall. But so the Tories are doing the right thing on gender ideology and they're doing the right thing on relationships and sex education, well they're kind of on their way to doing the right thing, whereas Keir Starmer can't even make up his mind what a woman is or what his stance is, and he can see what's happened to Nicola Sturgeon. But actually, the Tories don't deserve to get in. They're going to use this gender ideology and what they've done to suck up some Labour votes, but they don't actually deserve to get in. [11:35] Particularly if they're going to have their conference and they're going to shut off, media and the public and it just smacks of we are the elites and we are deciding, we're in government, we don't actually care about whether or not we get in next time or we're just so complacent we think we're going to get in. And the jargon they're using is like real left-wing Marx, you know, this is a training event, I mean for goodness sake, a training event, when has a conference been an internal training event? Yeah, it smacks of elitism, it's quite. It smacks of authoritarianism as well, you know, Soviet era, you know, group of people over there. No, I think it's very worrying and it speaks of a need, I think, for a new political settlement or a new political party to be more transparent and more in touch. You know, we're just, oh, I'm sick of politicians.   Oh, so am I. So let's move from this story, Let's move on to the work that you're doing in CitizenGo. [12:42] This is Waterstone Stop Pushing Dangerous Gender Ideology at Children, one of your campaigns. And the viewers can see that Waterstone, so yeah, Waterstone's UK's leading high street book retailer has shortlisted the book entitled My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancock, a transgender identified female for its prestigious children's book prize due to be awarded 30th of March and this is aimed at 14 year olds. It's unbelievable that Waterstones would be pushing a book like this for their children's book prize and it's wonderful to see obviously the support to this petition has gained but tell us about this campaign Caroline.   Well okay it's not actually the first time Waterstones have done this so just before I started Citizen Go in 2019, they had another book that was about a boy who wanted to be a mermaid, and that was written by an LGBT. I think he might have been a transgender identified man, I'm not entirely sure, but certainly someone who identified as a member of the LGBT community and It was all about this boy who wants to be a mermaid and a drag queen and they nominated that as well. [13:59] And I think clearly the head of children's is obviously fully on board the woke gender train. Now the reason that this book caught my attention is because it actually has an adult advisory, on the back. So it's been nominated for a children's prize but with an adult warning advisory on the back. And I don't know if you've been into Waterstones but they have their book of their weeks, they have their promos. And being nominated for this book is, for this award is a real honour. It's really prestigious, it's going to make your book sales rocket and it's going to make your profile rocket. Now Waterstones are a high, as you know though, the UK's leading bookseller. They're really trusted, you know, sometimes you want something to read and you go [14:50] into Waterstones and you see what they're recommending and you're like, oh right, okay, I'll have a look. Now these books are being placed on tables where there's a high footfall of children and adolescents as well, so but in that kind of child and adolescence area and you'll see on the table, we recommend this book. Now the thing is, as you know I've got many children, I know exactly what they're like and they will be attracted to a book and they won't see, oh, that's for older readers. So this book has a cartoon on the front. Welcome to Hell, My Trans Teen Misadventure. It's the sort of thing that my 8-year-old son might pick up, because it looks like Horrid Henry or something. Do you know what? It appeals to a younger demographic. He would pick it up, and he wouldn't look at the warning on the back. And then he flicks through, and he sees these cartoons. Now, all children love cartoons. My children are no different. They like the Beano. They like Bunny and Monkey and Dogman. And all children like cartoons. And that's fine. And Waterstones sell these nice cartoon books. So he would see that, or my 10-year-old daughter might see this, and they'd flick through it. [15:59] Then you've got that picture, which I've got illustrating the petition, which is basically the author of this book is projecting her own experience as a woman who wanted to be a man when she was an adolescent. And it's just encouraging teenage girls to just self-hate on their bodies. So breasts are two fatty lumps that need to be gone. [16:23] There's stuff about hairy legs, you know, and then it's, you know, it points to her pubic area and it says, don't go there, an imaginary willy. I mean, no, it's just validating every single hitch from hell. Teen girls, almost every teen girl has some neurosis or anxiety about her body, that's entirely and 100% natural. This book is sowing the seeds of self-doubt, of hatred, and it's validating that and it's saying, oh, the female body is disgusting and something not to be liked. [16:57] And, you know, there's no way that just a 14-year-old would read that. Probably actually, many savvy 14-year-olds would go, oh, that's a comic book. I'm well beyond. They might actually turn their noses up at it because it looks maybe a little bit too babyish. So it is clearly designed to appeal to a younger demographic. But even if you were 14 and older, it's validating teen girls' anxieties about their body. But worse still, Waterstones then came out with, oh, this is one page out of context. No, there's another cartoon where it shows a girl being injected with either puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. And she was going, yeah, yeah, just in time for uni. So it's kind of telling girls, oh, my goodness, you've got to get this done before you go to uni. And then you have the nurse. She's learning something from the experience. And then they mentioned Keira Bell, the detransitioner. And they were saying, oh, yeah, there was this girl. And she really regretted it. And she took them to court and made it much harder for everyone. But fine, it's all been sorted out now. And you can get puberty blockers. [18:08] And this other girl who has a beard and is now allegedly a man says, oh, yeah, this was the best thing I ever did. That's not a balanced discussion at all. That's just pushing gender transition at children. And when we see countries around the world putting the brakes on and saying, actually, there isn't the evidence to show that this is safe. We're quite concerned about the long-term health effects, you know, effects on bone density, on brain development, you know, all those things. As puberty is a time when your body is laying down the foundations for the rest of your life. [18:42] It's a completely natural process and sort of stopping with it has never ever been done before in human history and you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, is the phrase. But certainly there are a lot of concerns, long-term health concerns about puberty blockers. We're seeing young girls now with osteoporosis and arthritis, you know, and you take testosterone as a woman and it's It's very difficult to come back from that. But there's no balanced discussion. It's just propaganda. And what gets me about this, if this was like Asterix, for example, another great cartoon book. So in great literature, it's not cartoons. This is not a book that would be read in a classroom. It wouldn't be studied for GCSE literature. It has absolutely no literary merit whatsoever. Fine, of course, Waterstones are going to sell cartoon books because they sell and they're fine. And we have a phrase in our house, donut books. So certain authors and certain books, they're allowed to, you know, my kids are allowed to read them. Of course they are, but it's like a donut. You know, you don't have too much of it. So David Walliams being one of those, yeah, don't get me started. [19:59] But you know, that's, so the cartoon books are like the donut books. They're not the books that you would study all the time. And certainly, you know, not really about, and yet Waterstones have thought this worthwhile to put on a children's prestigious literature award. [20:20] I suppose Harry Potter came out too late, but you know, everyone would have sneered at Harry Potter, but, and they did, when Harry Potter came out, everybody sneered at it. Oh, it's not great literature, blah, blah, blah. you know, Harry Potter should be on there or, you know, it's not the magician's nephew, is it? [20:37] It's not C.S. Lewis. It's just a very crude cartoon book pushing gender ideology. And actually [20:46]i've been blown away by the success of this petition. This has been the most successful petition I've run, I think, in the past year, you know, and the numbers just exploded. And yeah, I'm going to keep plugging it and we are going to do some offline. What I would like to do is get a decent children's book and see if I can get a decent children's book into schools and libraries because this is a problem. Once this book goes on this list, then schools go, oh yes, it must be very good, mustn't it? Waterstones say, and same with libraries. So actually, I think there's a case for countering their propaganda with some better propaganda. And the other thing, actually, sort of, Peter, while I'm on Waterstones, the other thing is that they appear to have been suppressing two books, one by Helen Joyce called Trans and the other by Hannah Barnes called Time to Watch or Time to Wait. And it's an investigation of the Tavistock gender identity clinic. And lots of people have been going into Waterstones and asking for copies of these books and finding that Waterstones staff have basically hid them out back. And that, you know, they can't get them. I went into Waterstones in Godalming and asked for them. [22:12] You know, and yeah, no, I don't have any of those. No, you'll have to order them. And certainly some of the more woke stores in London, there's been reports of staff hiding them away. So yeah, Actually, Waterstones, you are a leading high street retailer and you enjoy a lot of customer trust. [22:38] Let me, the viewers and listeners can go to citizengo.org and go and have a look at those petitions. Sign it, but also put it on your social media profile, send it on to others. Don't only you go and click on sign up, but make others aware of it as well. And then you'll be passing the word and raising the concern of this and also introduce some people to Citizen Go. So go and do that. When you finish watching this, have a click on it and make use of that. Now, let's go and look at Down Under, New Zealand. Can you call New Zealand Down Under? I think you can. I don't know. I don't want to get into that argument between Aussies and the Kiwis, but UK trans critic, Kelly J Keane, there are a whole load of issues I have even just with the headline, but anyway. [23:30] UK trans critic Kelly J Keane or Posie Parker is doused in tomato sauce and evacuated by cops before she can speak during the latest rally in New Zealand as she considers cancelling the rest of her tour. And the little bullet points here are Kelly J. Keen was doused with tomato juice, said she fears for her life, fears for life in inverted commas, meaning that I don't know why they're trying to take away from that, or and then transphobe may cancel the rest of her tour, again inverted commas, the Daily Mail calling someone who stands up for the rights of women to be women a transphobe, and then puts in men in Nazi clothing also join protests, again the Daily Mail linking her with that which is complete nonsense. But obviously people can go on to Posey's Twitter account can see the violence which she has faced. [24:27] Talk to us about this, Caroline, and I know you've, I think I saw a tweet from you back 2020 when you were voicing support of Posie Parker and what she is trying to do, to stand up for women and to say that men have no right in those spaces and a woman is a woman, full stop. But tell us about this. [24:49] Well, I mean, Posie's been, or Kelly, Kelly J, has been working since sort of 2017, 2018, which was when I first met her. But yeah, she did a, so she does these events around the country called Let Women Speak. Now, these events are amazing, they empower other women. So it's an open mic event, it's a bit like some speaker's corner. So she goes and she, it's not her preaching at people, she allows women to go and take the microphone and tell their story. Now, Posey does not discriminate at all. If you're a woman and you want to have the mic, she doesn't pre-screen you, she doesn't say what are your views on this, that and the other. If you want to talk about female emancipation, well it's not even emancipation, but if you want to talk about your story about why you think men shouldn't be allowed in changing rooms or your daughter's been getting changed in Primark and she's had some man come in, she's all about, or you're a victim of of domestic violence and whatever it might be. She's all about empowering women to tell their stories. And she doesn't tell you what story you should tell. This is about helping women to find a voice. [26:04] And now, of course, a lot of people don't like that because let women speak. They don't want women speaking. And they say it's terribly transphobic. Well, I don't actually know. The first time I was called a transphobe. [26:19] I remember it was in 2011 and I just laughed, I thought this is a made-up word. [26:25] What are you talking about, a transphobe? and it is a made-up word and basically anybody who, stands up for the rights of women to have single-sex spaces and to have single-sex associations gets called a transphobe because you know men who identify as women want to be in our spaces and want to be in our groups because it gives them validation. Yeah, I'm a real woman, I'm using your spaces, I'm in your clubs, you know, it gives them the validation that they want and they need and they require, but at a massive cost to women. So it comes at a cost to religious women. [27:04] You know, particularly Jews and Muslims who, you know, aren't allowed to share those spaces, so it drives religious women out of public life. And it comes at a cost to rape victims or domestic abuse victims, people who've had a really bad experience with male violence, with rape, and they just are very, very traumatized by men and they just don't want men in their spaces. Or just normal, I say normal, but just ordinary women and girls who don't have a history of trauma but just feel very, very uncomfortable. And we're just told, no, no, no. You should accept men in your spaces. You should accept men in your sports. I remember a few years ago doing a radio interview. And I was talking about the fact that my, I think she was about 13 then. My 13-year-old daughter had been made to feel very uncomfortable because she was getting fitted for a bra. and there was men milling about. And somebody said to me, well, what have you done, Caroline, to make your daughter hate men. [28:13] It's like, no, I don't. This isn't about hatred. This is about girls' natural boundaries. And you ask any parent of any ordinary, well-adjusted teenager, when they're little, yes, they will toddle around the house with no clothes or very inhibited. And then they hit sort of 10, and the bathroom door shuts. And they start finding their own privacy, their own boundaries. And they're drawing up their boundaries. And you have to respect that. We all have our own boundaries. But actually, what we are being told is, you must be kind. You must be kind. You must be nice. And you must let your guard down. So if you're getting changed in the gym and you're getting naked, and there's a woman in there with a penis, it's your fault if you've got an issue with that. [29:01] So Posie is just, actually, Posie's just a normal wife and a mom. And Posie's been in the very fortunate position that she was a stay-at-home mom. She didn't have to work. And she got very, and she's always counted herself, actually. This is why it's really strange that she gets called right wing. She always countered herself as a lefty. She was always like, yeah, I'm a left wing woman. I'm a lefty atheist. Again, she gets pilloried because she associates with the likes of me, who doesn't agree with abortions. They're like, I mean, these, and you get this as well. even from the left-wing feminists, trying to tell her, trying to police who she should and should not be friends with, who she should and should not associate with. You know, everybody's sort of trying to tell, take Posie's autonomy from her, tell her, you know, oh, if you want to be a good little feminist, this is what you should do. And Posie, you know, [29:58] Is a marketing genius and all power to her. She's gone out there and she's got the message out there and of course, you know when you're on target because you're getting a lot of flack. So Posie has got a load of flack from the left-wing feminists who've been tarring her as a right-wing Nazi bigot and then of course that's been picked up by the trans activists. literally she's She's been in the position of just, because she didn't have to work, and she got drawn into this debate. But she's put her heart and soul into this. And just being able to put, she thought of putting woman, adult, human, female on billboards and on the t-shirts. And she's gone global. And good luck to her. And I'm not convinced, actually. So in Australia, what happened was she went to Australia, a bunch of neo-Nazis turned up and they were doing Hitler salutes. Now, I'm not sure, I don't know, but I almost wonder if this could be an Antifa... [31:09] Because who does that in this day and age? Who does that? I mean, I didn't even know that that was a thing. People going out, goose-stepping. I shouldn't laugh because the Nazi salute is not funny, it's heinous, it's traumatic and what it's associated with. But this is not, and normally, I mean I don't know, I don't associate, contrary to popular belief, I don't know anyone who identifies as hard right or far right. I don't know any neo-nazis or any fascists. But I kind of think, don't these sorts of people stay in the shadows? Because they know that their beliefs aren't mainstream and aren't going to be accepted. I mean, who does that? It goes out like... [31:59] But Caroline, do you not see it out when your local Sainsbury's or Tesco's and suddenly see 20 Nazis all lined up? Oh no, none of us ever see that. So you're right. The only way I can understand is that its staged , that's the only way it makes sense. It's just so bizarre. And so she got all the flack, you know, for them turning up and she should have, apparently she should have immediately told them to go away. Right, okay, so Posie's five foot one. [32:26] You may have, she's a diminutive. I'm sure she won't mind me saying this. Potted Posie, no, she's a small lady. I'm not tall and she's sort of way below me. You know, so this diminutive little lady has to see a bunch of Nazis doing like a Basil Fawlty salute and tell them to go away. I don't think so. And it wasn't, whoever they were and whatever their motivation, I mean, far right people aren't going to support feminists anyway. They're not aligned with feminists. They have a very misogynistic outlook on life. And I think they were, if they were genuine far-right people, then they were obviously just leveraging, I think what the far-right are trying to do is leverage some of these issues that, you know, conservatives are concerned about, in order to maybe try and legitimize themselves and to try and get conservative support. But, but I'm, yeah, I'm very doubtful that they were genuine because it's, [33:31] As you say, it just doesn't ring true. I mean, who would be saluting to Hitler and why, you know? It's play acting. And one thing, if I can say, that I have admired Posie from afar. We were accused, or she was accused of being part of us, I think, because some of our team went to film an event down in Brighton. I think I have bumped into Posie once and talked to her for maybe 40 seconds. This was years ago, she probably had no idea who I was, and we went to film that thing in Brighton, the stand-up for women, and it was a public park, so we filmed, and suddenly the story is, and it's unbelievable, but yeah, I don't know Posie, Posie doesn't know me, good luck to her, we wish her the best from afar, but it's obviously these, the media, both kind of on the left and and then in the far right, they all try and paint a certain picture that isn't true, just to target their... [34:32] Yeah, and I think what's happened is very frightening to her. It must have been really frightening. Some of the pictures, people with their hands sort of on her throat. It turns out, I think it was security trying to get her away. And she said, you know, if I'd fallen over, I didn't think I was going to get up. And just the sheer naked aggression. And what was she doing, right? What was she doing? She was just saying, women can have a voice, women can speak. We don't want men in our changing rooms. We don't want men in our sports. And of course, we've had a good result with Athletics Federation yesterday as well. I think the tide is, I've said this for years, the tide is beginning to turn. But actually, it feels that there is being a significant shift. But it's awful for her, actually. Awful. and awful for the women of New Zealand to live in. But we'll move on, but just one thing to leave the viewers is the first line, the first sentence, it gives the headlines and then it starts off in the article. This is the Daily Mail. The first word they use in the article is controversial, anti-trans. [35:43] It's controversial standing up for women's rights, women's only spaces? The Daily Mail have lost the plot. If any of you think actually the Daily Mail are on the side of common sense, that is utter nonsense. They're not. They're on the side of whatever is a good story for them and sells papers.   And actually you have to ask as well, when people say transphobe, like you know, they say, what do you mean? I'm not irrationally scared or whatever. You know, [36:08] what rights do you, does the transgender, transsexual community not have that they want? And I guess their answer is, we want everyone to accept that we are women, that we are the sex that we say we are. Now there is an argument, yeah, okay, I'm sure at work, people can use your new name and they can maybe use your new pronoun and people can treat you with dignity and respect. But there needs to be a balancing exercise in terms of common sense. And when somebody is being made to feel like they can't go to the loo all day at work because they feel very uncomfortable, then there needs to be sensible accommodation made. And it shouldn't be a case of, you know, the woman who's feeling uncomfortable because she's got a man in her changing room or whatever, it shouldn't be her that's made, you know, to feel uncomfortable. There needs to be, and none of the activists, a very sensible solution would be, well, let's have a third space, okay? Let's have men, let's have women, and let's have a third gender neutral. But the activists don't want that. [37:27] No, they will not stop. That is the frightening thing. Let's look, because this is one of the outcomes. We've got five minutes to spare, we'll do another four. We've touched on this, and again, sometimes you end up repeating the same stories, but just with different characters in different locations. And this is the worst one yet. Violent male pedophile moved to Washington Women's Prison, And there were some, yeah, here's the figure. So, Jolene Karisma Starr, born Joel Thomas Nicholas, is the latest male transfer to the Washington Correction Center for Women, which currently has approximately one dozen male inmates being housed in the facility. Just there, I can see the problem. A dozen male inmates in a woman's prison. But, Caroline, we see this regularly, probably every other week, another story of different parts of the world where a man, often who has been charged with rape or sexual assault of a woman, ends up with a group of women. There is no way you can describe [38:43] the suffering that then continues and the position that you put women in, putting a man who's doing that in a woman's prison. Yeah, and it's not just the other female, I say other female, it's not just the female inmates that that person is terrorizing, it's also the female prison guards because they have to do intimate searches and all sorts. And so you're not just putting, and of course, every woman, regardless of whether or not she's an inmate, deserves dignity, respect and safety, but it's not just the inmates that are being put at risk, it's also the female prison staff. And the other thing you have to remember that is in women's prisons, most women who are in prison are not there for violent crime. [39:31] Female offending has a very different face to it to male offending. Now I know that there are women in prison for violent crime but I think the proportion, I think it's something like 75 percent, there's a very good website, Keep Prisons Single Sex, and I think it's something like over 75 percent of women who are in prison are not there for, it's for non-violent crime. [39:57] So you've got a very vulnerable demographic as well because most women in prison are disproportionately affected by domestic violence or they've had difficult lives, which is why they have ended up in prison. And we did another campaign this month, you may have seen, for Barbie Kardashian, a very violent 21-year-old who I can't repeat the things that he said about what he wants to do with his mother. He's threatened to rape, torture, and murder his mother. He's got a history of violent assault. He tried to kill a female social worker who was looking after him. And of course, Irish media, you're not allowed to talk about him in Irish media. They got an injunction out. And there's an Irish outlet called Gripped, who'd published a very detailed and telling history. And even though Barbie Kardashian, I mean, even the name just shows, tells you what he thinks of women. I can't remember what his real name is, but everyone knows him as Barbie Kardashian. [41:05] I think it's Alexandro something or other. I think it's Alexandro Gentile. But yeah, he's now known as Barbie, And he's this very, very violent prisoner, when he was jailed the guard I said, we're very worried, he still poses a significant threat to public safety and to women's safety and he's been jailed in women's, in Limerick [41:28] Prison. And when you look at his life, he's had a terrible life. He was brought up with abusive parents and his father co-opted him into domestic abuse of his mother and he's clearly very disturbed, very violent, very dangerous. So yes, you can have a slight bit of sympathy for a very disordered mindset. But it's not safe to put a man like that in close proximity with women who've already, you know, if you're a woman in prison, then you've had, most of the time, you've had a very hard life. [42:05] I'm not going to say that women should never be in prison or anything like that. But you have to accept that you're dealing with a very vulnerable demographic and they're being put at risk and so are the female prison guards. It has to stop. And in fact, if you haven't signed a Barbie Kardashian petition on Citizen Go, please do so. Because actually, every single day that goes past and these men are in our prisons, what's going to happen? What's going to have to happen before people realise the folly of this? Let's just bring up this tweet. We'll see how much you want to admit. This is Graham Linehan. And some good news, at Flying Lawyer 73 has lost another case and owes his latest victim legal fees of £15,000. I believe now he owes between 80 and 100 grand to solicitors from a series of failed cases. Again, why is he allowed to continue doing this? Now you probably have an idea what this is about, but when people can spend this amount of money on nonsense through the legal system. [43:14] It makes you kind of wonder, well, where are our tax money going? Are they paying for it themselves? So, do you want to touch on this before we move on? Briefly. So, Flying Lawyer 73 is Stephanie Hayden. Stephanie Hayden is the transgender-identified male who was responsible for my arrest in October, and he's also been responsible for the arrest of two other women. Kate Scottow, who was arrested, she was a breastfeeding mother, she was arrested in front of her autistic children, and I was arrested in front of my autistic children, and Bronwyn Dickinson, another woman, he got arrested. What Stephanie Hayden does, so Stephanie Hayden is a transgender identified activist who in 2018 came to prominence. [43:59] Basically trying to do a version of lawfare, so would go around trying to get people cancelled, he got people kicked out of their university positions. He tried to sue Mumsnet. It just made an absolute nuisance of himself. And he said, oh, I'm standing up for transgender rights. Now, anytime anybody says anything about Stephanie Hayden that Stephanie Hayden doesn't like, he reports them to the police and he sues them. And he claims when he reports them to the police, he trumps up the charges. So he told the police that I had posted memes about him on a forum. I hadn't. But the police were stupid enough to go, oh, gosh, that's terrible, isn't it? And came and seized my devices looking for evidence. They still haven't found it because I didn't do it. So he uses his transgender status as leverage with the police and gets the police to act as his personal militia. The police forces aren't joined up. So Surrey police were quite surprised when I told them, you know he's had two other women arrested for this. Were like, well Caroline, save it for interview. She said, all right, save that for interview. [45:08] So it's not joined up and what Stephanie Hayden does is a two-pronged approach. So he'll try and have you arrested. He had the police called out to Graham Linehan as well and he will then sue you. He's suing me for the third time. And he sues you because he doesn't have a, to the best of my knowledge, he doesn't have a job. He calls himself a lawyer, but he's not a regulated or qualified or insured barrister, solicitor or legal executive. So he's eligible for the help with fees scheme, which is for people on low income or on certain benefits. So he will take out a claim against you in the high court and he's exempt from court fees. So if you sue somebody, it's typically about 5% of the claim and he sues for unlimited amounts. So he is about a 5,000 pound court fee. And that's in place to act as a barrier to stop vexatious claims. Stephanie does not have that barrier. And because Stephanie has a law degree, they then act as a litigant in person, which they appear to enjoy very much because they go to court and they start calling Barrister as malignant friend and everyone else just cringes and dies with embarrassment for them, honestly. [46:28] So and prior to suing, he's suing my boss at the moment. My boss said, oh, I've made it. You're not anybody in the UK. You're not doing effective work, unless you're, no, joke. He'll probably be transcribing this and saying, oh, they deliberately. So he's suing me for the third time. and he says, oh, you know, she's forcing me to sue her. [46:51] Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's bringing his claim, you know, she's forced me to do this. And so he forces, you rack up a lot of legal fees defending yourself because most people, you know, can't defend themselves in the high court, and it's all about [47:07] do you know the procedure? Anyone who's been through a court case knows it's not necessarily about evidence or rights and wrongs. It's do you know the procedure? And Stephanie Hayden clearly does. And yeah, and his behaviour in litigation, but before, it's quite bad as well. Oh goodness, it's quite shocking. But before he sued all these gender critical people, he was at Birkbeck University studying for law degrees, a mature student, and he sued, you just don't want this bloke in your orbit, because he sued all his fellow students as well and he sued the Students' Union because there was some argument about internal politics, he sued his landlady, he sued his, you know, and he has a history as well as he, if he doesn't pay his rent, then, you know, they obviously then take him to court for the unpaid rent and he sues them back for harassment. So amongst his former claimants are two landlords. And it's just really frustrating because he can just keep going to the court, filing another claim. [48:17] A master, you know, an admin judge will just briefly look at it and just check that it's procedurally right and they stamp it. And this is then, you know, taxpayers' monies, both in terms of the court fees and in terms of court time that's being wasted on these frivolous pursuits. So he sued an organisation called the Family Education Trust because they had retweeted somebody and made a comment which he thought could be about him and it was to do with vexatious litigants wasting money. So they retweeted something, it was up for less than an hour and he sued them for defamation and the court, the judges dismissed it and said that the the claim was fanciful, was devoid of reality and hopeless and he has to pay their legal costs. But he already owes various other people, including Associated Newspapers, who reported on when he got another woman arrested, they reported on the fact that he'd got another woman arrested, and he said, oh, it's defamation and harassment, sued them, lost that one, and he owes them like 30,000. So he owes, you know, for most people, if you owed that amount of money, you wouldn't sleep. [49:32] So I think there's a real issue here. I mean, this isn't just about my particular issues or my vendetta, but there's a real issue with the system that somebody can exploit the court system [49:47] in this fashion and when you can't get legal aid, you know, people are scrabbling for legal aid, and yet, you know, the system wasn't set up or clearly it never envisaged the help with fee schemes that it could be abused in this way. What it's done about it, I don't know, And presumably Peter, all of this, for somebody who really despises me, so Stephanie Hayden [50:13] every time I'm on any media outlet, every time I've been on GB News, he's made a complaint to Ofcom. For somebody who says he's so harassed by me and he's terrified and me saying things, you know, me just telling the truth that this is... [50:27] a dodgy character, puts him at risk of violence and what have you. For someone who claims that I'm harassing him, he follows my every online and mainstream media move. Yeah, so I know that this will probably be played back in court or to the police and I'm not saying it to cause any alarm or distress. I think this is actually a public interest issue, particularly when it's somebody trying to make themselves a media figure. So, you know, yeah, I think, yeah, I think it's public interest and I think something needs to be done. So, yeah, there we are with that one. Yeah. Well, let's finish with this story, which is a good story. This is in the Telegraph. The week has turned in the gender war. There's been a watershed moment in the trans debate sparked with a landmark decision about female athletes, which you mentioned earlier, Caroline, and that's the World Athletics Council, which have ruled that only those born as women can compete in [51:36] women's sports, which did seem quite common sense to most of us, but yeah, they have ruled that common sense will prevail. So it is a positive story, and I think the article talks about that this could actually spread into other areas and bring that, I guess, sense of common sense to the debate in other parts of society?   Yeah, I hope so. And, you know, I think. [52:04] what's been really, this has been quite a grassroots movement right from the start, you know, like we talked about Posie Parker. [52:14] But we can see there a picture of Sharron Davies. And it's just really gratifying that we've had JK Rowling and Sharron Davies. And some of these really big names speak out because someone like me, someone like Posie, we get called right wing bigots, transphobes. [52:37] But you see someone like Sharron Davies, who she feels really or Sharron Davies, isn't it? Sorry, I called her Davies. She feels very strongly about this because she was cheated out of a gold medal her entire career because of women on testosterone, these German athletes who were doped up. So she feels very strongly about fair play for women in sports. And it's very hard to portray Sharron as being a conservative bigot, for want of a better word, or for being right wing. And I think it's incremental. This was always going to be death by 1,000 cuts, because gender ideology had got so big. And it had got captured into every area of society. We said earlier, we've seen it in education. We've seen it very chillingly, as I know and Harry Miller saw and various other people have experienced. We've seen it embedded into the police service. [53:45] We've seen it embedded into every element of society. [53:52] So as a telegraph sort of op-ed made clear, it was either we kind of go along with this and we say, you know, people like Caroline, people like Posie are, you know, outrageous bigots, or actually, you know, we push back, you know, it didn't even say we pushed back, but we had a choice to be made. And I think, finally, we deviated off down the path of madness. And slowly, I think we're coming back. And I think the pendulum is swinging. And I don't, there's always a danger, isn't it? The pendulum goes. I think what we had was, we had the laws of 1957, when homosexuality was criminalized. And we've swung all the way from there, where being gay would get you locked up, and again, [54:48] that was low-hanging fruit. It was much easier for the police to arrest somebody who was cottaging in the public loo. Now, that is an offence to public decency, but it's much easier to get someone doing that than the serious criminals, whereas these days it's much easier to get someone saying the wrong thing online. So we've gone from a position where people were unjustly repressed. For someone who's often called a homophobe, I feel very strongly about the decriminalisation of homosexuality. I believe that it's a private act of morality and what you do in your bedroom, as long as it's, you know, the usual caveats with consenting adult, and doesn't involve children or animals, that's your affair. What you want to get up to in your bedroom is your affair. And as a tolerant liberal, I have no interest in telling people what they should be doing in their bedrooms. Even as an Orthodox Christian, I don't have care of souls. It's not for me to bring people to Jesus by telling them what they should do in bed. So I feel very strongly that homosexuality shouldn't be criminalized. But we've gone from a position where, because we had a section of society who were unjustly repressed, the pendulum has swung all the way over there, [56:16] to the other side. And people have sort of reacted so strongly to the oppression. It's the same with critical race theory as well, in that we've still been acting in 2022, like we're a deeply homophobic or a deeply racist society. And we're not. I think there has been, [56:36] I would say, at least for the last 20, 30 years, there has been a lot more tolerance. And rightly so, people shouldn't be persecuted. But there's still this feeling, oh, there's this terrible persecution. So we have to flood children with all kinds of propaganda and tell them how to wash after sex. And it's kind of been part and parcel of sexual liberalism as a movement, sexual progressivism, sexual libertinism. So we've gone from repression to libertinism and I think we need to sort of [57:12] move somewhere back near to the middle. And you know, I said this on my Twitter feed and I mean it, I think it's been really hard for, there have been very many sensible lesbians and gays out there that have been calling out their own community and that's been, that's courageous really actually to say, hang on a minute, I didn't sign up for this. I didn't sign up for people claiming to be a different sex. I didn't sign up for the grooming of children. You know, this doesn't help. This isn't, you know, this kind of drag queens into primary schools perpetuates every single negative stereotype that they've been trying to counter for years and years. So I'm hoping that it will, I think we're beginning to see a correction, but nobody can sit on their laurels, you know, and certainly as New Zealand shows, there are still countries, [58:11] New Zealand, Australia, America and parts of America still deeply enthralled to this nonsense and we need to really have a think about, you know, we need this independent investigation into sex ed in schools. So, yeah.   Well, let's see if a so-called Conservative government actually get around to doing that, but there's a whole other discussion. Caroline, as always, thank you so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts on those stories.   Oh, always a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me, Peter.   Not at all, and I encourage our viewers and listeners to go and make use of citizengo.org and do look at those petitions, do sign them and do pass them on to your friends and encourage them to do the same. And I think on that, I wish everyone watching a wonderful rest of your Saturday. Have a great Sunday. And we'll be with you on Monday evening for a special that something that we've been working on for the last two years behind the scenes. And I'm so excited that we can finally discuss it. [59:15] And that is tune in Monday 8 p.m. And we'll talk about it then. So look forward to seeing you then 8pm UK or 3pm Eastern or noontime if you're over in the Pacific on the West Coast. So we'll see you on Monday. Thank you so much and good night to you all.

Date: March 21, 2023A woman in Washington stole from her own family member, and when trying to make her stellar get-away, she managed to get her car stuck in some freshly laid tar. That's not all, but you'll find out the rest.Follow Nick on Twitter here.Follow Chris on Twitter here.Follow BBP News on Twitter here.News articles here.Read our State of the State articles here.

In her unique journey to executive coach, today's guest started in the medical field. This different experience than most coaches has led her to apply science to leadership, strategy, and high performance. Carla Fowler, MD PhD is the founder and CEO of THAXA, a boutique executive coaching firm that leverages the best ideas from performance science to help leaders around the globe. In our conversation today, Carla explains the intersection between strategy, productivity, and psychology which is an interesting grouping. She beautifully articulates her message to help us understand the thinking and psychology around high performance and more importantly, how to sustain high performance. She lists the principles she has that can help us all perform better and continue on our journey to high performance. What We Talked About in This Episode: Carla's nontraditional journey to executive coaching The intersection between strategy, productivity, and psychology The importance of mental clarity The difficulty of communication without mental clarity Translating lofty priorities Role of clarity in lack of engagement Building a sense of momentum and progress What separates the average performers from the high performers What we accomplish over time How to sustain momentum Brutal Focus Protect your time to think and practice thinking Carla's learning experience and thoughts about value Carla's book recommendation and daily rituals About Our Guest: The Founder and Managing Director of THAXA is Carla Fowler, MD PhD. Carla graduated from Brown University magna cum laude, earned her MD and PhD at the University of Washington, and completed her internship in general surgery at Stanford University. She founded THAXA to share her passion for performance science, where the fields of strategy, productivity, and psychology intersect. Outside of THAXA, Carla is an angel investor specializing in medtech and biotech with a portfolio of over a dozen investments. She is also an active member of Social Venture Partners, Rotary, Washington Women's Foundation, Alliance of Angels, and Keiretsu. Connect with Carla Fowler:  Thaxa Executive Coaching LinkedIn Connect with John Murphy: LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Facebook If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast. Thanks for tuning in!

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Cracked Racquets Editor-in-Chief Alex Gruskin speaks with Washington Head Coach Robin Stephenson ahead of the 2023 ITA Women's National Indoor Championships. The two recap the team's ITA Kickoff Weekend, chat about the team's biggest strengths, and so much more!! Don't forget to give a 5 star review on your favorite podcast app! In addition, add your twitter/instagram handle to the review for a chance to win some FREE CR gear!! This episode brought to you by: Swing Vision SwingVision is the official ball tracking app of Tennis Australia, the UK's Lawn Tennis Association and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The startup's mission is to democratize the Grand Slam experience for tennis players of all levels. Using just a single smartphone, the app automatically tracks your shot trajectory, generates match highlights and provides line challenges, all in real-time on any court in the world. Take advantage of Cracked Racquets' exclusive partnership by using our promo code "cracked20" for a 14-day Pro Trial and a $20 discount. Don't miss out on this exclusive deal, available by clicking here! Tennis Point Discounted Tennis Apparel, Tennis Racquets, Tennis Shoes & Equipment from Nike, adidas, Babolat, Wilson & More! Visit their store today and use the code "CR15" at checkout to save 15% off Sale items. Some Exclusions (MAP Exceptions) apply and code will not work on those items. This code will add 1 FREE CAN of WILSON Balls to the cart at checkout. Tennis Channel Podcast Network Visit https://www.tennis.com/pro-game/podcasts/ to stay current on the latest tennis news and trends and enjoy in-depth analysis and dynamic debates.   Find Cracked Racquets Website: https://www.crackedracquets.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/crackedracquets Twitter: https://twitter.com/crackedracquets Facebook: https://Facebook.com/crackedracquets YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/crackedracquets Email Newsletter: https://crackedracquets.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben and Garrett are back with a two-part episode. The guys break down the biggest performances over the weekend including Addy Wiley and Amina Maatoug's huge mile efforts before debating what times may be necessary to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships. Be sure to listen, subscribe and review! Men's 800 Meters (4:01) Women's 800 Meters (9:29) Women's Mile (15:21) Women's 3k (30:10) Men's 3k (31:15) Washington Women's DMR (32:23) Men's 800 Meter NCAA Qualifying Lines (39:09) Women's 800 Meter NCAA Qualifying Lines (41:55) Men's Mile Qualifying Lines (44:42) Women's Mile Qualifying Lines (50:13) Men's 3k Qualifying Lines (54:49) Women's 3k Qualifying Lines (1:01:39) Men's 5k Qualifying Lines (1:08:05) Women's 5k Qualifying Lines (1:14:37) Men's DMR Qualifying Lines (1:17:41) Women's DMR Qualifying Lines (1:20:34)

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Queen Lili'uokalani's portrait heads to Washington for exhibition; Family resource centers set up in public schools; Women build community and self-acceptance through surf and social media; Opera singer discusses evolution of the art form and gives master class.

The Founder and Managing Director of THAXA is Carla Fowler, MD PhD. Carla graduated from Brown University magna cum laude, earned her MD and PhD at the University of Washington, and completed her internship in general surgery at Stanford University.She founded THAXA to share her passion for performance science, where the fields of strategy, productivity, and psychology intersect.Outside of THAXA, Carla is an angel investor specializing in medtech and biotech with a portfolio of over a dozen investments.She is also an active member of Social Venture Partners, Rotary, Washington Women's Foundation, Alliance of Angels, and Keiretsu.www.thaxa.comwww.livelifedriven.com

Carla is the Managing Director of THAXA, Inc. THAXA works with clients who are pursuing ambitious goals in the business and non-profit sectors achieve greater success through brutal focus. Bringing the best research from performance science to her work with clients, she helps them identify the most critical factors to reaching their goals to maximize their impact.Prior to founding THAXA, Carla attended Brown University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Human Biology. She then completed her MD PhD at the University of Washington, researching cancer immunology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Continually passionate about high performance environments, she chose to complete her intern year in the field of general surgery at Stanford University. Following this, Carla returned to Seattle to found THAXA and apply her science background to conversations about performance to benefit clients.Outside of work, Carla enjoys running, hiking, and skiing the many trails and mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Her community involvement includes being a partner at Social Venture Partners where she has helped launch and moderate a new Jeffersonian dinner series around big ideas and challenges in philanthropyCarla is a member of the Washington Women's Foundation and Seattle Rotary and chairs the Board of Trustees for Bloodworks Northwest.

Ben and Garrett are back after an action-packed weekend. In this week's episode, the guys dive into the Power Five results along with Mountain West and the West Coast Conference to discuss how the races turned out compared to their predictions. Be sure to listen, subscribe and review! NOTE: We incorrectly stated that the Air Force men did not run Ryan Johnson, although that is incorrect. Ryan Johnson did compete this past weekend. Scott Maison is the other varsity runner who did not run that we intended to mention. Michigan State Women (3:49) Ohio State Women (5:00) Michigan Women (6:01) Alabama Men vs Tennessee Men (10:23) Ole Miss Men (12:25) Parker Valby (18:37) Alabama Women (22:54) NC State Women (24:20) Syracuse Women (29:46) Virginia Women (30:20) ACC Men's Recap (32:03) Wake Forest Men (32:35) Notre Dame Men (35:39) Syracuse Men (37:50) NC State Women & Virginia Women (38:37) Wisconsin men (40:37) Michigan Men & Indiana Men (41:03) Stanford Men (41:44) Colorado Men, Washington Men & Oregon Men (46:07) Utah Women (49:44) Colorado Women (51:26) Stanford Women (52:06) Oregon Women & Washington Women (53:09) Oklahoma State Men (54:58) Iowa State Men (57:43) Providence Men (58:40) Georgetown Men & Butler Men (1:00:13) Women's Recap (1:01:19) BYU Men & Gonzaga Men (1:02:17) Mountain West Wrap Up (1:04:19)

Martha Boudreau is AARP's chief communications & marketing officer. She is responsible for setting enterprise brand and communications strategy and unifying AARP's voice throughout the organization's extensive channels: social, digital, earned media and paid media along with AARP's leading publications, AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. She is a leader in the Washington, D.C., communications industry. Before coming to AARP, she served as president of the mid-Atlantic region and Latin America for FleishmanHillard, a leading global communications consulting firm. She served on the company's global management committee and was a key figure in growing the firm's presence in the Middle East and its expansion into Latin America. In addition to her financial and client service responsibilities in the Washington office, she was central to the global coordination of client work and new business efforts. During her tenure as general manager of FleishmanHillard's Washington office, she led the efforts to change its offerings to reflect a rapidly evolving communications landscape. She established the firm's government communications practice, which quickly positioned FleishmanHillard as the largest public relations provider to the U.S. government. For the diplomatic community, she spearheaded a “Digital Diplomacy” team that trained ambassadors and embassy staff on using social media to support their traditional outreach efforts in Washington. She represented FleishmanHillard at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and was an active participant in regional WEF events as well as the forum's Global Gender Parity program. Her teams in Latin America handled media and executive communications for WEF events in Peru and Mexico. Martha Boudreau is a native of Detroit and received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is a member of the International Women's Forum and serves on the Advisory Council for Washington Women in Public Relations. She also has served on the boards of several organizations in Washington, including the National Press Foundation, the American Heart Association's mid-Atlantic affiliate, the American Bird Conservancy and The Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing. Chapters 00:37 - 02:10 - Martha Boudreau on the value of the AARP demographic 02:10 – 13:48 - Martha shares her thoughts on her 18 years at FleischmanHilliard 13:48 - 16:35 - The pace of change in public affairs 19:26 – 19:26 - The missed marketing opportunity of brands 26:30 – 38:34 - Ageism in the workplace 38:34 - 41:15 - How AARP is targeting the African-American and Hispanic communities 41:15 - 43:12 - Martha's thoughts on ageism Recorded content structured by Snackable.AI

Rhythm & News interview with T'Wina Nobles of the Black Future Fund and Maria Kolby-Wolfe with the Washington Women's Fund about the signifcance of Black leadership and philanthropy. Interview by Chris B. Bennett.

We had an insightful, heart-to-heart talk with Maria Kolby-Wolfe.Maria Kolby-Wolfe is President and CEO of Washington Women's Foundation, and a visiting instructor at the University of Washington and Seattle University.  Before her work at the Foundation, Maria served in a variety of development and communication roles. She sits on various boards, including TeamChild, Rainier Valley Food Bank, and the Global Leadership Forum. Maria was raised in Bellingham, WA, graduated from the University of Puget Sound, and achieved doctoral candidacy in American History at Northwestern University. Her passions and beliefs align directly with her work: Food, Art, and Justice for All. ➡️ Find out more about Washington Women's FoundationWebsite: https://wawomensfdn.org/Twitter: @wawomensfdnInstagram: @wawomensfdnLinkedIn: Washington Women's Foundation➡️ Connect with Maria-----------------------------------NON-PROFITS IN PUGET SOUND:Fill out this form to let us know how we can help with your project management efforts: https://pm-volunteers.org/form-projects/PROJECT MANAGERS:Check out our volunteer project manager postings: https://pm-volunteers.org/volunteer/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:@Everything Non-Profit on Apple Podcasts/ Spotify/ Amazon Music/ Radio Public@PugetSoundProjectManagementVolunteers on LinkedInHOSTS:➡️ Carmen➡️ KaylaEmail: puget.Info@pmv.org

#247 Renee Washington - Women in Sports Month --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jaystephenspodcast/message

In this episode of the Belligerent Beavs Podcast, we welcome Benny back from his Mexican vacation, recap Baseball's weekend sweep of the Washington Huskies, restart the Melton Record Watch™ talk, congratulate Women's Golf for finishing 2nd in the Pac-12 Championship, their highest finish of all-time, discuss the tough sweep Softball endured at the hands of UCLA, and shoutout the Women's Track and Field and Women's Rowing teams! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When Sharon Johnston started playing golf in 1975, she went all in, both on and off the course. A natural athlete, she began competing almost immediately. As a member of Fircrest Golf Club, she became involved with the Washington State Women's Golf Association (WSWGA), and in 1984 served as its president. In 1998, she would win the WSWGA Championship, adding her name to a list of prominent champions. She competed in the inaugural Washington Women's Amateur in 1994. She soon became involved with the WSGA (now WA Golf), first as a Club Representative, then as a member of the Board of Directors, and then as a member of the WSGA Executive Committee. She served as the chair of the WSGA Championship Committee from 1997-2007, and was instrumental in the expansion of WA Golf's statewide championships. She had to step down from that role only because she became the first woman president of the WSGA in the fall of 2007, and would carry out those duties for two years. Her other volunteer roles include serving on the WA Golf Course Rating team, as well as the Rules committee. 

“Trying to get better every single day and take every day – one day at a time and it will lead to success” on the Daily Grind, your weekly goal-driven podcast. This episode features Kelly Johnson and special guest Summer Yates. Yates is a senior student-athlete, playing Women's Soccer at the University of Washington. S3 Episode 40: 03/01/2022 Featuring Kelly Johnson with Special Guest Summer Yates Audio Credit Intro: Draw The Line Mastered by Connor Christian Follow Our Podcast: Instagram: @dailygrindpod https://www.instagram.com/dailygrindpod/ Twitter: @dailygrindpod https://www.twitter.com/dailygrindpod Podcast Website: http://www.kjfwi.org/the-daily-grind Shop Our Merch: https://kelly-johnson-foundation.square.site Follow Our Special Guest: Twitter: @Summer10Yates https://twitter.com/Summer10Yates Instagram: @summer10yates https://www.instagram.com/summer10yates/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dailygrindpod/support

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5, A Shady Way to Use Your Skills for Good. Season 2 has been all about our food system and some ways that alternative food systems can help our communities be more self-sufficient and sustainable while growing local, culturally relevant food. We've also discussed lots of ways that you can get involved in these types of projects in your own communities. For our final episode this season, we interviewed GIS (and all around) superstar Tonya Kauhi. We chatted with her about how she volunteered to help her community with her GIS skills. While on the surface, this episode appears to be pretty GIS focused, it's also about thinking outside the volunteer box to identify unique projects where you can share your skills to make your community a better place. We talked to Tonya about how she volunteered her GIS expertise to help Hilltop Urban Gardens in Tacoma. She also shared more about other volunteer activities she is involved with.Tonya KauhiTonya has a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Washington Tacoma and over 20 years of experience with GIS and geospatial analysis. She recently moved from working as the GIS Programs Manager with the Port of Tacoma to becoming a GIS Developer for the City of Tacoma. She also spent many years working with the private consulting group GeoEngineers as the Senior GIS architect, working on a variety of GIS and data analysis projects. When she's not busy working, she is still out there sharing her love of GIS. Tonya manages the Washington Women in GIS and Technology Group, volunteers to teach GIS and has taught girls to code in an after school program. Hilltop Urban GardensHilltop Urban Gardens (HUG) is located in Tacoma, Washington. The gardens are located in the Hilltop neighborhood and their HUG Farm is at South 19th Street and S Ainsworth Avenue. We had hoped to interview someone with Hilltop Urban Gardens, but unfortunately were not able to connect with them. To be honest, we are not sure of HUG's current status. Unfortunately, their last Facebook post was in October, 2020. However, we still wanted to provide a little more information about their organization. The following information was gleaned from their Facebook page:HUG was founded in late 2010 by long-time organizer Dean Jackson. Hilltop Urban Gardens is a community-based urban agriculture, justice, and equity organization. Their mission is to develop systems for food sovereignty and create racial and economic justice. HUG uses an Urban Farm Network to help those most impacted by food insecurity to grow, eat, share and control their food supply. The Urban Farm network consists of a farm owned by HUG, neighbors donating a portion of their yard, and the use of parking strips. HUG builds and manages the gardens, and these garden sites make up an urban farm. In the past, HUG shared the produce through the HUG Grub farm stand. Anyone from the community could come and pick up a bag of HUG produce. They asked that you share something in exchange; that something could be time, treasure or talent. Some of the things that have been exchanged in for HUG produce in the past included work hours at the Farm or at HUG Grub, hosting a HUG garden site, monetary donation, letting neighbors pick blackberries, love for the community, or cooking a nutritious meal for one's family instead of fast food. In 2019, HUG shared over a ton of healthy produce from 12 Urban Farm Network Sites, they served 18 households weekly, engaged over 300 volunteers and held 64 community and service events. Check in with HUG through Messenger for current programs, hours or volunteer opportunities.Using Shady Skills for Good - Performing a GIS Sun/Shade Analysis for the Hilltop Urban GardensIn this episode we learned more about how Tonya Kauhi got involved in volunteering with Hilltop Urban Gardens and how she figured out a way to share her skill sets for good. She helped HUG identify and prioritize garden growing areas, based on the hours of sunlight the yards, parking strips and gardens received each day. She also created maps that shared location information with garden volunteers. If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of a new ESRI solution for sun shade analysis, check out Jen's write-up on that. Tonya shared how her own involvement in her neighborhood community garden is where she first became more interested in community gardens. She originally created simple site maps that showed access, hose bibs, garden beds and plantings and later performed a sun-shade analysis to identify and prioritize areas for planting. If you aren't looking on a neighborhood or city-wide level and don't want to go to the trouble of using GIS software, we found some other resources on the web that may help you determine where the sun shines on your property. SunCalc doesn't provide the shade from buildings and vegetation, but does show the course of the sun over the day and the year.We also found this great permaculture website that helps you plan out how to determine sun/shade on your property. Sun Surveyor and Sun Seeker are apps that use your phone's GPS and compass to display an accurate representation of the sun's path through the sky at your location.How do Hilltop Urban Gardens and Food Sovereignty Tie Together?Being able to grow food in your own community, especially when there is a lack of access to land, is a great way to help develop community and help minimize the environmental impacts of industrialized agriculture. Hilltop Urban Gardens is a great example of food sovereignty. It puts growing, harvesting, and processing fresh produce in the hands of underrepresented residents in this urban area. It keeps decisions about what food to grow locally. It helps build community through gardening. Tonya found a way to contribute her skills, first through the development of simple maps and later with the sun/shade analysis to identify best places to garden from the properties that they had access to.Other Ways to Be CoolIn addition to talking about her volunteer work with Hilltop Urban Gardens, Tonya also talked about other ways she volunteers in her community and shares her love for nerding out…er, um, I mean GIS and technology. And I think one of the most important messages in this episode is finding ways to share your skills to make your community better.Tonya shared how she helped start and currently leads the Washington Women in GIS and Technology group. According to their website, “The Washington Women in GIS and Technology (WWGT) group empowers women to learn, teach, and promote GIS and technology.” They host monthly meetings to network, learn and be social.She also talked about volunteering with Girls Who Code, where she participated in an after school program that taught girls how to code. She even said she was no coding expert at the time, but was able to get the girls excited and engaged. Tonya has also helped teach elementary aged students about GIS. She tells a story about talking to the teacher to try and find a way to connect GIS to what they were currently learning about. Since GIS is very diverse, this typically does not present much of an issue, but in this case the students happened to be studying sound. At first she was a little perplexed, but then found that the National Park Service has a Sound Map Project and that there are noise level monitoring apps that could be used in the classroom and on the playground, so students could collect their own data. She was able to add value to what the students were already learning about and teach them about GIS at the same time. Just another WIN = WIN for Superstar Tonya!All these examples are just to show the variety of ways that Tonya has found to use her skills and knowledge to improve her community, while sharing her love and knowledge of GIS. Hopefully, these ideas will inspire you to find a new and different way to share your skills and knowledge to improve your community.Until Next Time…Thank you so much for joining us this season! We hope you learned more about our food system, food sovereignty, and food insecurity, and how these things impact our communities and our environment. We think the biggest take away from this episode is that we all have skills that can help make our communities better, we just need to identify where to plug in. That makes the last episode of this season a crossover between GIS and community involvement. We believe that all people deserve access to healthy, culturally relevant foods and we hope that some of the ideas shared this season will help us all move towards that goal. We'll be taking a short break and in a couple of months we will return with Season 3, which will include 4 episodes about the Sustainability in Prisons Project based in Washington State.Please don't forget to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts (like Tune In, Castbox, Himalaya, iheartradio, etc). Please let us know what you think in the comments below or on our Facebook page. We have had a great time and can't wait to be back next season. Until then, Will We Make It Out Alive?

We begin the new year with a segment on women in leadership and the challenges they still face getting a seat at the table with C-level executives. Our guest has climbed the organizational ladder and offers a glimpse of the personal and professional challenges many women must navigate to stay at the table once they secure a seat. Follow on Twitter: (AASA?) @LaurenLLawson @JimmyMinichello @AASAHQ @AASADan @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd Lauren Lawson-Zilai is an external communications executive for Goodwill Industries International, North America's leader in workforce training and development, job placement, and other support services for people looking for employment or career advancement. As spokesperson for Goodwill®, she has been quoted frequently in the media including, the Associated Press, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Forbes, MarketWatch Radio, The New York Times, The NonProfit Times, PEOPLE, PR News and USA TODAY. Lawson-Zilai has spent the majority of her career using marketing and communications to drive social change and impact and elevate the brand awareness of mission-driven nonprofit organizations in both a for-profit and pro bono capacity. Lawson-Zilai invests time to share best practices and lessons learned as a speaker, moderator or panelist at various venues from corporations, professional associations, nonprofit organizations and universities including, Capitol Communicator, IABC, Microsoft, the National Digital Roundtable, PR Summit, PR News, PRSA, Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR), University of Maryland, George Mason University and George Washington University, to name a few.

Charles speaks with Olivia Sekany to recap the 2021 season for the University of Washington women's soccer team, including the teams performance, some of the players that are returning home, as well as having a teammate drafted to the OL Reign! Tune in to hear the UW goalkeeper's thoughts on last season, with an eye towards next year!   Check out Olivia!  Instagram: @liv_sekany  Twitter: @liv_sekany  University of Washington Women's soccer: https://gohuskies.com/sports/womens-soccer  Check out the podcast and more interviews!   Check out the website: https://charleshamaker.wixsite.com/csspodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3IDad4tGmXJMRUJE27hPhd?si=AmKrgu4gQFO-ELMjJMv2vQ Anchor: https://anchor.fm/chamaker23Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/circling-seattle-sports/id1495589940 Follow us on Instagram: @Circlingseattlesportspodcast   Follow us on Twitter: @CirclingSports   Reddit: u/CirclingSeattleSport   Thumbnail created by @SOLDesignSOL on Twitter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chamaker23/message

As part of our preview of the 2022 College Tennis season, Robin Stephenson joins the show to preview her team's 2022 season. Coach Stephenson reflects on her team's 2021 results, discusses the strengths of her team's roster entering the new year, offers her thoughts on some of the biggest discussions happening in college tennis, and so much more!!  Check out all the interviews by clicking here. Don't forget to give a 5 star review with your twitter/instagram handle for a chance to win some FREE CR gear!! This episode brought to you by: Tennis Point Discounted Tennis Apparel, Tennis Racquets, Tennis Shoes & Equipment from Nike, adidas, Babolat, Wilson & More! Visit their store today and use the code "CR15" at checkout to save 15% off Sale items. Some Exclusions (MAP Exceptions) apply and code will not work on those items. This code will add 1 FREE CAN of WILSON Balls to the cart at checkout.  Tennis Channel Podcast Network Visit https://www.tennis.com/pro-game/podcasts/ to stay current on the latest tennis news and trends and enjoy in-depth analysis and dynamic debates. Find Cracked Racquets Website: https://www.crackedracquets.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/crackedracquets Twitter: https://twitter.com/crackedracquets Facebook: https://Facebook.com/crackedracquets YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12ZE3jU0n52JkeWV1TB21A Email Newsletter: https://www.crackedracquet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evie Mason and Trevor Mueller recap the Washington Women's Basketball non-conference schedule before the start of conference play against Stanford, the #2 team in the nation.

Dr. Addie McClintock is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She practices at the University of Washington Women's Health Care Center where she also runs the women's health training pathway for the internal medicine residency. Dr. Tyra Fainstad and Dr. Addie McClintock have teamed up to develop a two-prong approach to help us help our learners manage the impact of impostor phenomenon and exploring the interplay of psychological safety. In this second episode Dr. McClintock will be broadening the conversation to describe how we can design the learning environment to create psychological safety and counter impostor phenomenon by creating healthy and functional teams.

Ariel has a robust background working to support arts organizations that uplift cultural expression across diverse communities.  She is the Senior Manager of Impact Communications at The Save the Music Foundation, where she supports the organization in producing content that showcases the impact of the organization's 25-year body of work. When she is not with STM, Ariel volunteers her time supporting The HBCU Jazz Education Initiative as a founding member and Consulting Director. Additionally, she is the co-founder and a current board member of The Arts Administrators of Color Network, an organization she helped establish in 2016. There, she has stewarded programs that provide professional development and networking opportunities for arts leaders. She has served as the Founding Board Chair of the organization and continues to be an active member as Vice-Chair of the Board. Previously, Ariel has supported the establishment of The Lewis Prize for Music, an organization that provides financial support for Creative Youth Development music leaders and organizations across the country, where she led their communications efforts. She also served as Program Manager for the Social Impact department at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she helped manage large-scale projects and events geared towards amplifying the work of artists throughout the performing arts sector on local and national levels. As a consultant for the Los Angeles Fellowship Program with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA, she helped to gather insights and cultivate the project alongside the LA Chamber Orchestra, and the USC Thornton School of Music. This work was funded by the Mellon Foundation. Past professional experiences also include work with National Arts Strategies, The String Queens, The MusicianShip, The Washington Women in Jazz Festival, and Washington Performing Arts. Ariel has served as a guest speaker for organizations including Georgetown University and Chamber Music America and has contributed as a grants panelist for the Department of Education, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Her written work is set to be included in the 2021 publication of A Grassroots Leadership & Arts for Social Change Primer for Educators, Organizers, Activists & Rabble-Rousers.   The volume “highlights authors from around the globe, who have contributed to the ongoing effort to expand the field of leadership from a bottom-up, collective, collaborative, and horizontally-based perspective,” and will be published by the International Leadership Association in October 2021. Ariel's passion for the arts began onstage, as a French Horn player. She has had the opportunity to perform with ensembles across the world, from the Grammy's stage with Lizzo to an international festival in Guadeloupe celebrating the work of composer Chevalier de Saint George. She takes as many opportunities to visit her hometown of Detroit, Michigan as she can, and is a graduate of Howard University, where she obtained her degree in Music Business. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeryelle https://www.instagram.com/aeryelle Aeryelle.com Contact AAMA: Website: https://www.aa-ma.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/african-american-marketing-association/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aamahouston Merchandise: https://marketing-for-the-culture.creator-spring.com/

In the 31st installment of the Seattle Interview Series, Charles interviews University of Washington Women's soccer goalkeeper Olivia Sekany from the new Converge studio! Listen in as they talk about Olivia's transfer to UW, growing up with a professional baseball player father, the 2021 NCAA tournament, and so much more! Tune in NOW! Huge thank you to Omari Salisbury and Salman Albuqayshi for directing and providing the studio space! Check out Converge: https://www.whereweconverge.com/ Check out Olivia! Instagram: @liv_sekany Twitter: @liv_sekany University of Washington Women's soccer: https://gohuskies.com/sports/womens-soccer Check out the podcast and more interviews! Check out the website: https://charleshamaker.wixsite.com/csspodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3IDad4tGmXJMRUJE27hPhd?si=AmKrgu4gQFO-ELMjJMv2vQ Anchor: https://anchor.fm/chamaker23 Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/circling-seattle-sports/id1495589940 Follow us on Instagram: @Circlingseattlesportspodcast Follow us on Twitter: @CirclingSports Reddit: u/CirclingSeattleSport Thumbnail created by @SOLDesignSOL on Twitter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chamaker23/message

In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother's Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with another one of the living legends of the AAGPBL, Jeneane Lesko. Another one of the amazing trailblazers that I was able to meet and chat with at the Baseball for All Nationals, Jeneane Lesko is truly an amazing individual.  After her playing days in the AAGPBL, she went on to play in the LPGA as well. Her biography, is best described in her own words, on the AAGPBL website, is as follows: I went to Spring Training in Battle Creek, Michigan and was picked up by the Chicks as a left-handed pitcher.  I actually had no pitching experience and had never played organized baseball.  In my home town of Lakeview, Ohio, I had practiced baseball with our school team all through high school, but of course, they would not let me play in the games.  I was also the batgirl for our town team of men and practiced with them and went to all the games.  I loved the game and had a strong arm. In Grand Rapids, my manager, Woody English, let me pitch batting practice, but most of the time he had me running in the outfield.  My coach and friend was “Beansie” Risinger.  She taught me to slow down and believe in myself--two things I really needed to do.  I practiced until about mid-season when I was put in to relieve a pitcher and got my first chance on the mound.  I didn't last too long.  I walked the bases full and Woody pulled me out of the game.  For the rest of the year, I only pitched when we were losing.  Our team won the championship, and I was the “rooting section” on the bench.  I practiced and practiced and finally got some control. The following year, I got my big chance in a close game early in the season against Kalamazoo, Michigan.  I pitched great relief and earned myself a starting position on the team.  I had a wonderful year that season highlighted by a two-hit shutout.  I was really looking forward to 1955. I was in school, a junior at Ohio Northern University, when I received a call early in the spring of '55 from Bill Allington.  He informed me the league was disbanded, but said he was taking a traveling team across the US to play exhibition games against the men and asked if I would like to be on the team.  I was ecstatic.  For two wonderful years I had the honor to play with some of the best players in the league from other teams, and I had a blast. At the end of 1957, I graduated from ONU and signed up to teach Math and Science to dependent children at Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico.  I stayed there for four years and learned to play golf, fly a piper cub airplane, swim and enjoy the beauty of the Islands. In 1962, I felt I had to leave “Paradise."  I felt I needed to see more of the world.  I tried to get a transfer to Europe, but couldn't, so I decided to pay my own way and look for a job when I got to Europe. At the end of the school year, I flew to London, took a boat to France, and a train to Germany to the Dependent Schools headquarters there.  They signed me to teach girls' physical Ed and math in Leon, in northern France.  I was very happy, as my ancestry was partially French.   I spent the rest of the summer riding a motor scooter through Switzerland, Italy, and France before the start of school in September.  In my second year in Europe, I transferred to Chateroux, France, south of Paris.   While in France, I took golf lessons from an English pro who played during Bobby Jones' era.  I also took up skiing and spent most of the winter months on weekends in the Alps.  I managed to break my leg my first year, but recovered and loved it. I had an opportunity to transfer in 1965 to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippine Islands.  I was excited about that because I could play golf all year round.  I played golf every day after school until dark, even during the monsoons. I returned to the US in 1967 and decided I wanted to become a professional golfer.  I spent the summer of 1968 playing golf at a newly opened Club in Grass Valley, California, staying with an aunt who lived there.  I established a four handicap and joined the LPGA.  My first tournament was in Eugene, Oregon where I finished dead last.  I had to go back to teaching that fall, so I took a teaching position in the Bay area, and worked hard on my golf game. I decided if I was going to make it in golf, I needed to spend all my time practicing, so I left California in the fall of 1968 and went to Scottsdale, Arizona.  I found a club that honored my somewhat shakey professional status and allowed me to play and practice at the club. That year I played in the US Open in Minnesota, and an Open in San Diego.  There was another tournament, but I can't recall where we played.  At any rate, I didn't win any tournaments, but I got a lot of good rounds in and was improving. One of the Women money winners suggested I to go to the Los Angeles area and take lessons from a pro she had used and made arrangements for me to work with him.  That is where I met my husband who was also taking golf lessons from this pro.  He was an accountant but wanted to play on the men's tour. After a brief courtship, we were married and off to the women's tour opening in Tampa, Florida. I played in 10 tournaments that year, but my husband injured his hand and had to return to California and our money was gone, so I returned and went back to teaching in San Bernardino, California for a year. I won a pro-Am event and was leading after the second round in the Las Crusas, NM tournament.  However, I felt it was my husband's turn to try to become a pro. He got a job as a teaching pro at a golf course and we started a family. After the birth of our third child, we decided we wanted to move out of the smog in the LA area. That is how we ended up in Seattle, Washington.  I have now lived in Seattle since 1974.  I have been in Real Estate here since 1976.  I have been involved in sports all my life and encouraged all my children to get involved in sports. I have done a lot of basketball, volleyball, and softball officiating.  In 2003, I started the Washington Women's Baseball Association in my state and coached and served on the board for three years. Now I play on a co-ed senior softball team just to keep the old bones moving. I went to my first AAGPBL Players' Association reunion in 1992 in South Bend, Indiana with my middle son Mike who is now a die-hard fan of all the wonderful All-American gals and attends with me whenever he can.  I volunteered to be the editor of the AAGPBL Player's Association Newsletter in November 2001 and served in that capacity for seven years.  The newsletter, TOUCHING BASES is published three times a year to help keep everyone informed as to what is happening in the Association. I served on the Board of Directors for the AAGPBL Players Assoc. from 2002 through 2010.  I am thankful for all the years we have all had together since my involvement in 1992. Thanks for all the memories I have of all the players with whom I played or played against and for all the good times shared with all our Association members, loyal fans, and supporters. I spend much of my time supporting women in sports. I met a young women's baseball enthusiast while attending an AAGPBL-PA Reunion in 2004 and through a set of unique circumstances became close friends with him and his family.  He was from the Chicago area and grew up in Kenosha, WI, home of one of our original four professional teams.  He had not been born when the League began, but as a young boy, he had met one of the players who lived in the area and who watched him grow up and play ball.  As a result, he had a fondness and love for women's baseball and promoted its growth in the US and Australia, where he currently lives.  It was because of that relationship with Rob that he invited me to participate in 2005 and 2006 in the Women's World Series at the Disney World Tournament in Orlando, FL. I was an Honorary Coach for the Australian Women and Girls, U11-15, Baseball Teams, which were known as the Aussie Hearts. In 2007, The Aussie Hearts invited me to go to Australia where I conducted many clinics and showed my power point presentation about the AAGPBL to hundreds of Aussie women ball players.  I also was able to visit two schools, one elementary school in Melbourne, and a Junior High in Sydney.  I visited the drama class in Sydney to congratulate them on a 2006 presentation they performed on the movie "A League of Their Own."  They won 1st in their state and 3rd in the National Australian competition.  They were delighted that I visited them and they performed some of the scenes for me.  They gave me a copy on DVD, but, unfortunately, the DVD does not play in the US.   I was deeply touched by the enthusiasm and vitality of the people in Australia and especially those involved in baseball, which is a minor sport there. Women's baseball has taken off in Australia since the movie, "A League of their Own," and there are hundreds of women playing "for the love of the game."  I spent two weeks there and fell in love with the country and the people. Since then, I was privileged to guest coach for the Aussie Hearts in 2008 at the re-dedication ceremonies of Kenosha, Wisconsin's Simmons Baseball Field where the AAGPBL's Kenosha Comets played.   The Aussie Hearts came to the US-sponsored Women's Baseball Tournament organized by the city of Kenosha to honor the AAGPBL by having a women's Baseball tournament in conjunction with the re-dedication ceremonies at Simmons Field. Over 40 former players of the AAGPBL attended that event. In February, 2009, I was again invited to travel abroad with the Aussies who played in the International Women's Baseball Tournament, the Phoenix Cup, in Hong Kong, China.  There were 10 teams at the event including teams from the US, Australia, Taiwan, Mainland China, and Korea. In 2010, the Aussie Hearts tour returned to Kenosha, WI and played on Simmons Field, home of the Kenosha Comets and in Racine, at Horlick Field, home of the Racine Belles. We made the circuit of MLB parks and were invited to tour Miller Stadium, and enjoyed games at Wrigley Field and a training camp at the Chicago Cubs' training facility.  Later they were able to watch a Cubs game as well.  The tour crossed the border into Canada and played several women's' teams in Toronto and visited Niagara Falls for a day from the Canadian side.  Later in the fall, the Aussie Sparks, the Softball equivalent to the Aussie Hearts, returned to San Francisco and experienced an intensive two-day training session with the coaching staff at San Jose State College and participated in a three-day women's fast pitch softball tournament in the Bay area.  These events were attended by myself, Joyce Westerman Hill, former Racine Belle, and Jackie Baumgart (Mattson), former player for the Kenosha Comets, in support of girls playing baseball and softball all over the world. I am the mother of 3 boys. My youngest son, Matthew, is our website technician.  He took over the maintenance and development of our website in 2002.  I am the coordinator for the AAGPBL website and work closely with Matt to keep our site updated, interesting, and informative. Mike, the middle son, is also in computer gaming. My oldest son Greg, is in the construction business. It has been a great ride! ~Jeanie Lesko (DesCombes)

The first Washington Women's Amateur Championship was held in 1994 at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way. Caroline Speigelberg (now Matelski), who at the time was playing on the University of Washington women's golf team, had set a goal of having her name be the first one engraved on the new trophy – and she came away with a two-shot victory. After college, she played professionally for a couple years, but soon regained her amateur status and, admittedly burned out, eventually stopped playing altogether. In February of this year, she picked up the game again as a way of spending time with her daughter, who was showing interest in the game. Caroline is all-in again, playing in the 2021 Washington Women's Mid-Amateur along with several other tournaments, all with a new attitude and enjoyment for the game. 

Shauna Swerland is the Founder and CEO of Fuel Talent, a Seattle-based boutique recruiting firm. She started the company in 2013 after having been in the search industry for nearly 26 years. Prior to that, she spent two decades living in San Francisco and New York, opening eight offices, hiring, training, and managing over 100 recruiters all while building lasting relationships. When she returned home to Seattle, she realized there was a market need for a high-touch one-stop-shop that could service multiple recruiting needs within one firm. Fuel Talent has since been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies, largest woman-owned companies, and best workplaces in Washington State. In addition to her business, Shauna puts her energy into organizations and people that are helping serve the greater good. She is also an advisor for the University of Washington Women in Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. Outside of work, she loves to travel, spend time with her husband, David, their three beautiful children, and her dog, Marley. In this episode… When running a business, some women tend to avoid taking on big projects because they don't believe that they can get it done in the best way. However, they fail to realize that when executing a project, they don't have to do everything themselves. This is where the power of delegation comes into play; they just need to ensure that they have the best team on board to take care of the different aspects of a given project. Being a great leader, therefore, means that one does not have to do it all. Sometimes taking the first step is all that is needed. You don't have to know how everything will work out, but you have to be bold enough to begin. If you have a strong conviction about your idea, then you must go for it. Once you take that first step towards your goal, you can delegate, support your team, and lead them to success. In this episode of the Lead Like A Woman Show, Andrea Heuston is joined by Shauna Swerland, the Founder and CEO of Fuel Talent, to talk about fierce female leadership and thinking big. Shauna discusses her podcast, building her company's culture, and how she helps other entrepreneurs in their hiring process. Stay tuned.

We sit down with Claudia Longo, a 2x State Champion with the Issaquah Girls Soccer team, the 2019 Wayne Gittinger Inspirational Award Winner, a Gunners G99 Legend and the current University of Washington Women's Soccer Captain. Claudia tells us a bit about her journey through the recruiting process, what motivates her, how she leads on and off the field and a little bit about how to bring your "A" Game.

Cathy Kim was recently named one of Golf Digest's “Best Young Teachers” for 2021-22. She is a dual member of the PGA of America and the LPGA. She attended Skyline High School in Sammamish, Wash. and then received a full-ride scholarship to attend Western Washington University, where she played four years on the women's golf team (2005-2008). During her collegiate years, she played in two Washington Women's Amateurs. She has worked as an instructor at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish and TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, and is currently at the 1757 Golf Club in Dulles, Virginia. In 2018, she was named a “Top 50 Teacher” by U.S. Kids Golf. Visit CathyKimGolf.com for more information. 

Follow the Host:IG:  www.instagram.com/michelebrundidgeFollow the Podcast:IG:  www.instagram.com/5after3More about our Special Guest:Rasheedah Thomas co-founded RC Communications, a DC-based strategic communications firm, in 2014. She advises a diverse group of clients on strategic communications, media relations, and branding strategies.Rasheedah is passionate about women in positions of power, and loves helping women business and government leaders define their brand and raise their profile. She is also a highly sought-after commentator for US and international media where she shares her expertise and analysis of US and international affairs,  women’s issues, and personal and corporate branding. Prior to co-founding RC Communications, Rasheedah worked in fundraising and donor relations at National Public Radio. For over a decade, she raised an average of $2-3M a year and created strategic stewardship plans for NPR’s corporate, foundation, and individual donors. She worked closely with NPR’s CEO and other executive management, as well as with major stations and Trustees of the NPR Foundation. As a board member of the Women’s Congressional Staff Foundation, Rasheedah works to not only increase staff diversity on the Hill, but create a pipeline to foster more diversity in Hill leadership positions. An advocate of more women in elected office, she is a Certified National Trainer for VoteRunLead. She is a member of Washington Women in Public Relations and was selected to join Politico’s Women Rule advisory group as one of its first members. Rasheedah was named to the 2020 list of Influential African American Women on LinkedIn. She is a proud native South Carolinian and alumna of Howard University.Connect with Rasheedah!IG/Twitter: @rasheedah_tLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasheedahthomas/Website: www.rccommsdc.com

Jackie Marks is a sustainability communications professional with a passion for protecting animals and the planet. At the MSC Jackie and her team aim to drive greater consumer awareness of the MSC blue fish label and the important role certified sustainable fisheries play in protecting our ocean. Jackie is the recipient of the Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR) Emerging Leaders Award (June 2019), was a speaker at United Nations World Wildlife Day at UN HQ (February 2019), and has been quoted in Civil Eats, USA Today, and the Associated Press, among others. She holds master’s degrees in International Relations, and Natural Resources & Sustainable Development, and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies.   Join us for our first live event, M.A.S.S. Eco Summit! It will be 3 days of keynotes, panels, and workshops! Receive event notifications or contact us to get involved at http://MASSEcoLive.com.   In this episode Marjorie and Jackie discuss: The role the Marine Stewardship Council plays in making sure shoppers have access to safe, healthy, and sustainable seafood products What exactly makes seafood sustainable or not How a cookbook is helping the MSC with its efforts to promote sustainable seafood and healthy eating habits How to take the first step in getting a job in the physical and environmental sciences   Are you looking to launch or grow your podcast? Sign up for a free 1-on-1 30-minute strategy session with me at https://asustainablemind.com/podcasting!   Resources mentioned in today's episode: DC Eco Women: https://dc.ecowomen.org/ Anthony Bourdain, food hero and producer of the documentary Wasted! The Story of Food Waste: https://superltd.com/films/wasted-the-story-of-food-waste José Andrés, food hero: http://www.joseandres.com/ Gregory Gourdet, food hero: https://www.bravotv.com/people/gregory-gourdet Ayana Elizabeth, marine biologist and founder of Urban Ocean Lab: https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/ The Good Trade Newsletter: https://www.thegoodtrade.com/ Ocean sunfish, aka Mola mola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish Free 30-day trial for Audible audiobooks: http://asmbook.com     Connect with the Marine Stewardship Council: More about the Blue Fish Label: https://www.msc.org/en-us/what-we-are-doing/our-approach/the-blue-fish-label The MSC Cookbook: https://stories.msc.org/en-us/healthy-oceans-cookbook/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/mscbluefish Facebook: www.facebook.com/mscbluefish Twitter: www.twitter.com/mscbluefish     Connect with Marjorie Alexander: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asustainablemind/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SustainableMind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asustainablemind/ Website: http://www.asustainablemind.com

I have known Melissa for awhile now - maybe 3 years and since starting this podcast I knew I wanted her to be a guest on Sisters-in-Service. Listen in as we discuss, military service, veteran status for women, how the Women Veterans Alliance (WVA) started and her 3 tips for women leaving service.

The WeCOACH Podcast presented by Hudl and hosted by Megan Kahn kicks off a new season with Nicole Van Dyke, University of Washington women’s soccer head coach. Nicole shares her inside track on coaching soccer in today’s world. She breaks down some of the important lessons learned throughout her career journey, her emphasis on team culture, and building a staff. She also candidly talks about balancing motherhood and the demands of being a coach.  40' 54" Host: Megan Kahn A co-production between WeCoach & WiSP Sports For complete shows notes and more information, links and resources as well as other conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.

NASA's Artemis mission now includes two women from Washington who could be the first female astronauts to walk on the moon.

France pays tribute to beheaded teacher. Thousands protest Supreme Court pick at Washington Women's March. Twitter blocks tweet from Trump adviser downplaying masks.You can subscribe to Five Minute News on YouTube, with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker, or enable Five Minute News as your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing skill. Subscribe, rate and review at www.fiveminute.news Five Minute News is an independent production, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering unbiased, verified, and truthful world news, daily. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenews)

Since 2013 Victoria Fallgren has been the assistant coach for the women's golf team at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Prior to that she played four years on the Gonzaga team. She has won the Washington Women's Mid-Amateur Championship three times (2017, 2018, 2020) and was twice named the Washington Golf Women's Mid-Amateur Player of the Year (2017, 2018). She has qualified for three U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and two U.S. Women's Amateurs. She talks with us about how she keeps her own game sharp, and how she works with her players in improving their games.

Kabri Lehrman-Schmid is an accomplished controller of building strategy and an attentive coordinator of construction teams. A Superintendent with a 13-year career portfolio of high-risk projects, she's put more $1.5 billion of work in place in the aviation and higher education market sectors across the nation. Recognized as one of Construction Business Owner's 2019 Outstanding Women in Construction and the recipient of Washington Women in Trades' 2019 Workplace Leader Award, she is a champion for careers in construction management and the skilled trades. As a conscious role model for the next generation of female superintendents, she boldly reinforces the rising emphasis on psychological safety – advancing the industry through initiatives that examine bias and challenge the stigma of suicide in construction. She is co-chair of the Washington State-focused Construction Suicide Prevention Task Force (in partnership with UW's Forefront Suicide Prevention Program) and champion of the AGC of Washington's Culture of Care initiative. During our chat, Kabri mentioned the following sites as great resources for those struggling with mental health: https://www.agcwa.com/culture-of-care-initiative/ https://anewaop.org/respect-inclusion-safety-equity/ https://preventconstructionsuicide.com/Integration_Resources If you'd like to hear more about the work Kabri is doing, check out this webinar she recently piloted: https://youtu.be/jzC3VTJ-UzM --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stickaround/support

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with performance coach David Elaimy. In 2016, he worked as a performance consultant with the University of Washington Women’s Golf Team. He discusses how he worked with the team members to apply his performance principles to achieve their goal of winning a national championship. He shares the team’s ups and downs on their journey to winning the national championship against far more experienced competitors.  He talks about how the principles that worked for them can work for anyone trying to improve their life. David Elaimy specializes in training the minds of high level performers in athletics, business and surgery. He is the Sports Performance Consultant for the University of Washington Athletic Department, working with various coaches, athletes and teams. He is also a surgical coach, working with the the neurosurgeons engaged in the Swedish Neuroscience Institute’s Cerebrovascular and Complex Spine Fellowship. David works with individuals and teams to create a powerful vision and trains them to establish the mental skills required to elevate performance while deepening joy. His simple approach helps clients identify and eliminate the interferences that cause suffering and block progress.Pain, Chronic Pain, Healing,

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with performance coach David Elaimy. In 2016, he worked as a performance consultant with the University of Washington Women's Golf Team. He discusses how he worked with the team members to apply his performance principles to achieve their goal of winning a national championship. He shares the team's ups and downs on their journey to winning the national championship against far more experienced competitors.  He talks about how the principles that worked for them can work for anyone trying to improve their life.David Elaimy specializes in training the minds of high level performers in athletics, business and surgery. He is the Sports Performance Consultant for the University of Washington Athletic Department, working with various coaches, athletes and teams. He is also a surgical coach, working with the the neurosurgeons engaged in the Swedish Neuroscience Institute's Cerebrovascular and Complex Spine Fellowship. David works with individuals and teams to create a powerful vision and trains them to establish the mental skills required to elevate performance while deepening joy. His simple approach helps clients identify and eliminate the interferences that cause suffering and block progress.Pain, Chronic Pain, Healing,

Aditi Patil was on her fourth relocation for her spouse's career when she decided there should really be a community to support people in her position. There wasn't an existing group so she took it upon herself to create one, We are Pistachio. The name represents the way she describes relocating spouses: tough, open, happy, global - and just a little bit nutty!  Aditi had a solid career with Citibank, a love for leadership and development, and a recent coaching certification when she first relocated with her husband and two young children. Along the way, she'd face challenges and find opportunities, including an opportunity to volunteer with refugee women as a Leadership & Development coach for the United Nations. Today, she lives in Seattle where she has returned to her own career, founded her new community, and teaches for the University of Washington Women in Entrepreneurial Leadership program. 

(Podcast Coaches Series, Part 1) - Join us for another amazing episode as Host Lewis Shine speaks with University Of Washington Women's Basketball Assistant Coach Paul Reed.

Susan has been in public relations since opening the doors of News Generation in 1997. She is active in a number of public relations associations, including the Public Relations Society of America- National Capital Chapter (PRSA-NCC) and Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR) of which she is currently Treasurer. Apgood is an adjunct professor in the Kogod School of Business at American University. News Generation is an issue-driven media relations services company specializing in using broadcast media techniques — from satellite media tours and radio media tours to audio bite lines and public service announcements — to earn media placements for associations, non-profits, government agencies, and clients of public relations firms. Since 1997, their number one goal is to pitch credible, newsworthy information to stations and networks seeking high quality content. Their award-winning expertise lies in matching the appropriate services to maximize their clients’ exposure on the best possible stations and networks.

D.C. jazz pianist and Washington Women in Jazz Festival founder Amy K. Bormet waxes poetic on Shirley Horn and explains why she sometimes hides her skills as a vocalist. Catch the show on WERA 96.7 Radio Arlington or click here for the full episode.

Women continue to make an impact in Washington winemaking. Kay Simon, Proprietor of Chinook Wines was one of two women in the UC Davis winemaking program in 1976 and has made over 35 vintages in the state. Kerry Shiels earned an engineering degree at UC Davis, but decided to jump into the family wine business at Cote Bonneville. Join Sam Benrubi of The Grape Nation for a lively discussion about women in the wine industry and how the scene is changing. Learn about winemaking in Eastern Washington as these two multi-generational pioneers discuss balancing sustainability, best practices, with regional climatic and geographic variation, and explore elegance and restraint in their wines. We taste a Cote Bonneville '18 Cab Franc Rose and a '17 Chinook Sauvignon Blanc. Heritage Radio Network on Tour is powered by Simplecast.

WIJSF International President Biggi Vinkeloe (sax, flute) will perform with The Howard Trio with Amy Bormet (p) and Tina Raymond (d) at the 9th annual Washington Women in Jazz Festival on March 31, 2019, that features a Young Artist Showcase, business panels/discussions, jam sessions, and a diverse series of concerts celebrating women in jazz. Created by Amy Bormet in 2011, Washington Women in Jazz hosts an annual festival (WWJF) each March to celebrate the women of the DC jazz community. Amy Reed is a visual artist and composer living in Sacramento, CA. She is the founder of Ma, a series that supports creative work by women at Gold Lion Arts, a performance/education space she co-creates with Ross Hammond. She studied extensively with Sarah Flohr. She allows her painting practice and her composing practice to inform her extensive research into performance, video, sound, improvisation, and listening. Recent work: Solo electric guitar, Ione’s 20th Annual Dream Festival; virtual Artists-in-Residence dream duo with ecologist Dr. Leo Polansky, large ensemble work with Phillip Greenlief, and an active duo with Ross Hammond performing original and traditional material. http://www.washingtonwomeninjazz.comhttp://maseriesarts.orghttp://www.wijsf.org

Ty & Maryann chats with pianist, vocalist, composer of Washington Women in Jazz Fest Amy Bormet. Bormet talks about her first time discovering her love of music. She also shares why the Washington Women in Jazz Festival is so important to her, & oh yeah her obsessions with Fannie packs.

(https://www.theh2duo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1074-x-366-podcast-template-6.png) Samantha Villegas, APR is an award-winning communications strategist, committed to using her powers for good. For more than 20 years, Sam has worked to expand recycling, promote water conservation, increase investments in energy efficiency, enhance opportunities for veterans, foster immigrants’ rights to work, support common-sense gun legislation and much more. Throughout her career, Sam has been an active volunteer in the Public Relations Society of America, the largest public relations association in the world, serving more than 20,000 professional members. In 2010, she served as Chair of the Mid-Atlantic District (representing 10 chapters). In 2013, she served as president of the Society’s largest chapter, the National Capital Chapter (1,500 members), where she expanded its volunteer service awards, revived its Hall of Fame award, and created a thought leadership initiative. In 2016, she was elected to the Society’s National Board of Directors, where she helps oversee operations and the Society’s strategic direction. In addition to her service in PRSA, Sam volunteers locally, providing more than $25,000 worth of pro-bono PR counsel and support to social service organizations in Loudoun County, VA where she lives. Sam was a 2017 Washington Women in PR “Woman of the Year” finalist. She holds a Master’s Degree in environmental policy from Johns Hopkins University and is accredited in public relations by PRSA’s Universal Accreditation Board. Top Takeaways: Ethics and public relations go hand in hand. Withholding information prevents your citizens from making informed decisions. Water providers should brand themselves as if their customers have a choice in who they choose for their water service. Employee engagement has to be rooted in reality. It can’t just be a catchy tagline. Truly invest in your employees and then create the campaign around what actually exists. Book: This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062837877/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062837877&linkCode=as2&tag=theh2duo-20&linkId=a3456fdee3453ba4c702b05c78117c0f) by Chrissy Metz Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936661837/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1936661837&linkCode=as2&tag=theh2duo-20&linkId=62f8f010033f3ea17ff2ee76fb2bbe12) by Gino Wickman The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451627068/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451627068&linkCode=as2&tag=theh2duo-20&linkId=20e0dd260022cfeb7372dddc20054db3) by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, and Jim Huling Sponsors: Rocketbook Smart Notebook: Our friend Ryan Beltran got us hooked. It instantly connects and stores all your notes, ideas and doodles in the cloud with a free smart notebook app. Get 10% off your order of the (http://www.getrocketbook.com/?rfsn=1462782.87c60) using the code: FromtheFuture Audible is offering our listeners a free audiobook with a 30-day trial membership. Just go to audibletrial.com/waterinreallife and browse the unmatched selection of audio programs – download a title free and start listening. Please consider rating the podcast with 5 stars and leaving a one- or two-sentence review in iTunes or on Stitcher.  This helps tremendously in bringing the podcast to the attention of others. We give a shoutout to everyone who rates the podcast with 5 stars in future episodes. Give us some love on Twitter by tagging us (https://twitter.com/the_h2duo) or by using the #WaterInRealLifePodcast If you know someone you think would benefit, please spread the word by using the share buttons on this page. Thank you for sharing...

Nikkita is a Seattle-based writer, teaching artist, attorney, and organizer. Her writing has been published in the South Seattle Emerald, Crosscut, the Establishment, Last Real Indians, The Seattle Weekly, and the Stranger. Oliver holds a J.D. and Masters of Education from the University of Washington. She is also the case manager for Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration, and has worked for arts organizations such as Writers in the Schools and Arts Corp. Nikkita is one of the Seattle Mets 2018 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle, and the recipient of the 2018 UW Women's Center Woman of Courage Award, 2018 UW Evan's School of Public Policy NOW (Network of Womxn) Award, 2017 City Arts Artists of the Year, Gender Justice Power Award (2017), Seattle King County NAACP President's Leadership Award (2017), Columbia Legal Services Imagine Justice Visionary of the Year (2017), the University of Washington Women's Law Caucus Outstanding Achievement as a Young Lawyer Award (2017), the Seattle Office of Civil Rights Artist Human Rights Leader Award (2015), and the 2014 Seattle Poetry Slam Grand Champion. She has opened for Cornel West and Chuck D of Public Enemy and performed on The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert. She is also the first political candidate of the Seattle Peoples Party; running for Mayor of Seattle in 2017 where she finished in 3rd (of 21 of candidates).

Today's episode I'm not alone- I'm sharing the mic with two extremely talented, focused and gritty Washington Women. Each woman comes from different financial backgrounds and shares their unique experiences and perspectives on personal finance topics that affect the millennial woman.  Find out how we feel about the relationship between Social Media and Finance, the seemingly unattainable goal of homeownership, and why Fashion Nova won't let me be great. Infinite thanks to my special guests Yasmin Rigney, Legislative Assistant to Senator Kamala Harris, and Charisse Sobers, Senior Treasury Analyst for Park Hotels and Resorts.   Instagram: @stacksnthecity Twitter: @stacksnthecity Music: Bensound.com 

This is episode ten of Public Media Daily from Public Media Fans. Its the final episode for the second week of the program and highlights for Thursday, April 26th include...1) Classical 89 is saved as BYU will keep classical music on 89.1 KBYU-FM while putting BYU Radio on its newly purchased 107.9 KUMT.2) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced Jan Schaffer as its new Ombudsman. She'll serve a three-year term.3) Window to the World Communications, Inc. (WTTW 11 and 98.7 WFMT Chicago) hires Sandra Cordova Micek as its new President and CEO.4) Firing Line is coming back to PBS under new host Margaret Hoover and new production station WNET New York.5) StoryCorps' Dave Isay becomes a Ellis Island Medal of Honor and from the Washington Women in Journalism awards, Audie Cornish is recognized for Broadcast Radio and Amy Walter is recognized for Broadcast Journalism.6) Happy 69th Birthday, 89.1 KMUW Wichita!Subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Castbox or wherever you prefer to listen. Leave us a rating and a review as well. We're just six followers away from 300 now on Twitter and our first birthday is just four days away.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

Jennifer Hill speaks with Executive Coach, Author & Executive Recruiter, Carolyn Thompson about: "What to do when there is no growth opportunity?" Carolyn emphasizes not making a move if you are unhappy or frustrated with your boss, as eventually you will find the same issue somewhere else. Carolyn offers suggestions for how to have conversations with your boss about upward mobility and shares that experience is the key to success. meritogroup.com Carolyn Thompson's passion is to help others by teaching, coaching and motivating them in how to get ahead in their careers and in life. As Principal of the Merito Group, she leads a team that performs executive search, contract labor placement, executive coaching, RPO, and human resources consulting services. A creative entrepreneur and a certified career coach, Carolyn is regularly published on topics relating to job search and executive recruiting in various national magazines, trade journals, and on the Internet. Carolyn is an active member of the International Coaching Federation and has been certified by them, NAPS and ASA in the past as a continuing education provider. She is a frequent speaker and has received rave reviews as an engaging and enthusiastic presenter on a variety of topics as a member of the National Speakers Association. Carolyn is Founding Board Chair of the Washington Women’s Leadership Initiative (WWLI.org) Carolyn is also a member of the prestigious Pinnacle Society and has been an executive recruiter since 1988. An alumnus of Kansas State University, Carolyn is the author of RESUMAZING: TEN EASY STEPS TO A PERFECT RESUME, SEARCHENEERING: TEN STEPS TO FINDING THE PERFECT JOB, and PROMOTICATION: TEN SECRETS TO GETTING PROMOTED available on Amazon.com.

Jennifer Hill speaks with Executive Coach, Author & Executive Recruiter, Carolyn Thompson about: "What to do when there is no growth opportunity?" Carolyn emphasizes not making a move if you are unhappy or frustrated with your boss, as eventually you will find the same issue somewhere else. Carolyn offers suggestions for how to have conversations with your boss about upward mobility and shares that experience is the key to success. meritogroup.com Carolyn Thompson's passion is to help others by teaching, coaching and motivating them in how to get ahead in their careers and in life. As Principal of the Merito Group, she leads a team that performs executive search, contract labor placement, executive coaching, RPO, and human resources consulting services. A creative entrepreneur and a certified career coach, Carolyn is regularly published on topics relating to job search and executive recruiting in various national magazines, trade journals, and on the Internet. Carolyn is an active member of the International Coaching Federation and has been certified by them, NAPS and ASA in the past as a continuing education provider. She is a frequent speaker and has received rave reviews as an engaging and enthusiastic presenter on a variety of topics as a member of the National Speakers Association. Carolyn is Founding Board Chair of the Washington Women’s Leadership Initiative (WWLI.org) Carolyn is also a member of the prestigious Pinnacle Society and has been an executive recruiter since 1988. An alumnus of Kansas State University, Carolyn is the author of RESUMAZING: TEN EASY STEPS TO A PERFECT RESUME, SEARCHENEERING: TEN STEPS TO FINDING THE PERFECT JOB, and PROMOTICATION: TEN SECRETS TO GETTING PROMOTED available on Amazon.com.

In January, Estée joined the thousands of other women protesting at the Women's March in London. A post on Estée's social media of her with a banner saying Nasty Forever gained a lot of positive … and negative attention.In this episode of The Heart of It, Estée meets Nina Donovan, the 19 year old poet behind Ashley Judd's explosive speech Nasty Woman at the Washington Women's March, and explores her own views about protest.https://radiowolfgang.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us this Tuesday on BlogTalkRadio, NHISG Network 101.1, The Peace Within Radio Show at 8PM with your Host Henry Washington as we discuss "Women flirting even though they have a man". Call us at 516-387-1944. Eager to hear what you all have to say about this topic!

This week Allison and guest host Sabrina Nanji talk to Buzzfeed Canada’s Ishmael Doro about how the media is covering Kevin O’Leary. The Ottawa Citizen’s Brian Platt tells us why Ontario’s high hydro rates have become fodder for rap lyrics. Metro News reporter May Warren debriefs her experience at the Washington Women’s March. Sabrina is reading The Blondes by Emily Schultz. Allison is reading the Modern Lovers by Emma Straub. TUNES: Moth to a Flame by Chairlift Swimming in Strange Waters by The Wooden Sky Kill V. Main by Grimes Viceroy by Mac DeMarco

The NSCAA is proud to bring its membership a new podcast, talking all levels of the game. The first four NSCAA podcasts will be focused on the 2017 NSCAA Convention in Los Angeles. Hosted by Dean Linke, these next four shows will highlight special Convention presenters from every corner of the sport. Featured in today's first of four podcasts are the following guests (in order as they appear on the show): 1 - Former U.S. International and English Premier League goalkeeper Brad Friedel, who is now a U.S. Soccer staff coach and Fox Sports analyst. 2 - NSCAA Director of Coaching Ian Barker. 3 - U.S. Youth Soccer Technical Director Sam Snow. 4 - 23-year University of Washington Women's Soccer Coach Lesle Gallimore, who will be the NSCAA president in 2018. 5 - Major League Soccer Vice President of Competition Jeff Agoos, who is part of a convention panel discussion about the use of analytics and data in soccer.

In this episode of the Jazz Spotlight podcast pianist, singer and festival director Amy Bormet gives us a special behind-the-scenes look at the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. She also gives tips to artists looking for festivals and venues to perform at, and to festival organizers looking for performers for their events.

The Social Network Show welcomes Susan Matthews Apgood, President and Co-founder of News Generation, Inc. Listen to the show to hear Susan give a definition of "public relations"; why this field is appealing to women; why women are good at it; why they dominate the field but are not in the top positions. Hear her explain how social media has changed public relations, and why the traditional press release is dead. Finally, hear Susan explain what the core goal of a Public Relations Department is and the type of work they do at News Generation. Susan Matthews Apgood is the President and Co-Founder of News Generation, Inc., a public relations services company specializing in using broadcast media techniques to earn media placements for non-profits, government and other companies. Susan has been in public relations for nearly 20 years and is active in a number of public relations associations including the Public Relations Society of America and Washington Women in Public Relations (WWPR).  In 2012 and 2013, she was co-chair of the Professional Development Committee for PRSA-NCC. In the Fall of 2012, she helped earn News Generation the award of Catholic Business Network of Montgomery County's Business/School Partnership Award for her work with Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Bethesda. In 2011, she chaired the PRSA-NCC Thoth Gala and her work was honored with the Diamond Service Award for outstanding service to the chapter. Ms. Apgood frequently guest speaks in undergraduate and graduate classes at George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and American University and in 2013 moderated a media relations-related panel at PRSA's Health Academy Conference. Susan earned her MBA in finance from American University and BA in economics from George Washington University.                

Tune in for a fascinating discussion with Sarah Temple, Senior Vice President of Social Marketing at Ogilvy Public Relations. Sarah explains how social marketing campaigns can tackle important social issues, and presents some best practices from Ogilvy's illustrious work in this area. Sarah was recently honored as a nominee for Washington PR Woman of the Year by Washington Women in Public Relations. Produced by Mary Fletcher Jones and David Hyson for Conversations in Public Relations.