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🎙️ Exciting news! In our latest episode of Responder Resilience, we have the incredible Samantha Hawkins as our guest. As a PSAP Professional and Trainer with Moetivations, Inc., Samantha is dedicated to equipping emergency telecommunicators with the skills and mindset for a fulfilling career. We dive into the common challenges faced in the industry, from staffing shortages to burnout, and discuss the importance of teaching resiliency for long-term retention. Don't miss out on this insightful conversation!
Dr. Lawrence Rubin, Podiatrist & Founder/Director of LEAP, (Lower Extremity Amputation Alliance) returns along with Dr. David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery & Director of SALSA (Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance). Then, it’s 'The Sport Doctor is In' with your questions and emails!
Holiday riddle: What do aluminum foil, 55% of stressed out people, and a six-year-old have in common? Tune-in to the Financial Fitness Holiday Show and de-stress your holidays – you’ll be glad you did!
🎙️ David and guest co-host Laura G. Hanson are joined by Clee Tilman, Podcast Host of Black & Blue and Law Enforcement Officer, who dives into the unique challenges faced by first responders in relationships. Clee shares insights on how high-stress jobs and irregular schedules can strain marriages. Tune in to discover tips for a healthy relationship, the emotional complexities of separation and divorce, and the impact on mental health. Don't miss this eye-opening episode!
With Guests, David Horowitz and Dr. Brian Joondeph
Why do people find so many excuses NOT to be their very best? Answer, they don't think they can.
Mother Earth provides us with every thing we need!
The self and the collective self
Transitioning to the New Earth
The Earth is going through some mighty changes. She is shifting. Are you ready?
Freestyle artist
ZACH PUCHTEL
Zach Puchtel is a freestyle artist, a lively spirit temporarily residing in physical form, and likes to spend his energy in creation, play and remembering what it feels like to be a part of the Oneness. He hosts a weekly improvisational music circle in Los Angeles, as well as medicinal musical ceremonies.
Fran Bailey is a gifted dancer, author, extraordinary energy healer, teacher, and guide. Her work involves an Innovative Self-Healing Technique; an Ancient Healing System
Author, Columnist
Scott S. Powell, has been an entrepreneur for 30+ years, founding two companies. He has been a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and is currently senior fellow at Discovery Institute. Having been a frequent guest on national radio and TV, he has also published 250 articles in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Financial, New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union, Florida Sun Sentinel, USA Today and some two dozen other newspapers and journals in the U.S., Japan and Europe. He has been called on twice to provide expert witness testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
His background has been shaped by the school of hard knocks. After working and saving, Scott took a leave of absence from undergraduate studies, back-packing around the world for several years to some 48 countries—chronicling poverty, oppression and dysfunction. After returning, he graduated from the University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A.) and received his Ph.D. from Boston University. This is his third book.
cartoonist, storyteller, songwriter, composer, producer
Monte Schulz
The late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, son Monte pens his new novel, which he filled with robust characters, an unraveling mystery, mayhem, innocence and moral disintegration, Metropolis (Fantagraphics, August 23,2022) by Monte Schulz is a coming-of-age novel with a moral puzzle at its core. This dystopian tome is narrated by college senior Julian Brehm, who lives in a war-ravaged world perverted by eugenics where those who were deemed mentally, morally, or physically unfit were banished to desolate Provinces far from where he lives his uneventful life. Thrust into facing a broader reality by the woman he falls in love with, a bohemian revolutionary, Julian, and ultimately Monte, pushes readers to question ideals while giving them the hope of love.
Monte, who is the eldest son of the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang and the owner of and teacher at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference,
Monte Schulz received his M.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He published his first novel, Down by the River, in 1990 and spent the next twelve years writing a novel about the Jazz Age. Monte is also a composer, songwriter, and producer whose most recent album is titled “Seraphonium.” In 2010. Monte, is the eldest son of the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang and the owner of and teacher at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference,
Retired Detective | Health and Wellness Manager | Podcast Host
Wendy Hummell is a seasoned law enforcement officer with nearly 25 years of experience. She retired at the rank of Detective from the Wichita Police Department where she spent a majority of her career working Persons Crimes Investigations.
Wendy’s area of expertise is officer wellness, peer support, yoga, and resiliency. She currently works as the Health and Wellness Manager for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office and has helped to implement a holistic wellness program at the agency. She is passionate about sharing the tools of peer support, mindfulness, yoga, and resiliency, as well as the importance of relationships, exercise, sleep, and nutrition to enhance well-being and job performance. Wendy speaks to these topics from the perspective of direct experience and through the lens of a law enforcement spouse. Wendy’s exposure to secondary trauma, high levels of toxic and chronic stress, and disrupted sleep wreaked havoc on her nervous system. After learning the tools that helped her recover, her purpose became clear: support first responders with the resources they need to not only survive a career on the front lines, but to thrive well into retirement.
Wendy holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice. She is a certifiedyoga instructor and Yoga for First Responders (YFFR) Ambassador. Wendy has several articles published with Police1 on topics of trauma, wellness, and female resiliency. She is the host of the Guns and Yoga Podcast, where she has interesting conversations with those working in the area of first responder wellness, and is a resilience health coach.
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Ashe Epp is an activist in the USA and correspondent for AltNewsMedia
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Owner of BRD Sport, a company dedicated to health, fitness and lifestyle.
CEO, Speaker, Bestselling Author, Executive Film Producer
Lynda Sunshine West is the Founder and CEO of Action Takers Publishing, a Speaker, 22-Time #1 International Bestselling and Award-Winning Author, Contributing Writer at Entrepreneur Magazine and Brainz Magazine, Executive Film Producer of the movie Wish Man, and Red Carpet Interviewer.
"I ran away at 5 years old and was gone an entire week, came home riddled with fears and, in turn, became a people-pleaser. At age 51, I decided to break through one fear every day for a year and, in doing so, gained an exorbitant amount of confidence."
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