Dr Durrs Living In The Sweet Spot, March 1, 2023
Dr. Durr's Living In The Sweet Spot with Dr. Balin A. Durr, M.D.
S1 E3, Fatherhood and Storytelling's Antidote to Invisibility with John W. Fountain
Guest, John W. Fountain, an award-winning columnist, journalist, full tenured professor of journalism, publisher and author of five books including “True Vine: A Young Black Man’s Journey of Faith, Hope and Clarity” (Public Affairs, 2003), and “Dear Dad: Reflections on Fatherhood” (WestSide Press, 2011) discusses the importance of fatherhood, exploring our family’s history to reframe our experience of absent fathers and facilitate our healing, winning the 2021-22 Fulbright Scholarship and subsequent trip to Ghana to teach and do research, and the importance of writing to tell our stories.
His latest book is “Soul Cries: In Black & White and Shades of Gray” (WestSide Press, 2019). He is a frequent guest commentator on radio and television and often shares his inspirational story of going from poverty and the urban mean streets of Chicago’s West Side to the top of his profession. Fountain is founder of WestSide Press Publishing and FountainWorks NFP, a not-for-profit focused on telling the untold stories of marginalized or underrepresented people in print, digital and other forms.
Dr Durrs Living In The Sweet Spot
Show Description
Dr. Durr’s Living in the Sweet Spot is a weekly show that educates about the essential role of brain health to create fulfillment and the greatest demonstration of purpose and potential. Practical tools and solutions are offered to our audience from the intersection of mind-body medicine, science, and spiritual well-being to live out their Infinite Potential—to live Life in the sweet spot!
If unhappy moods, self-doubt, or fears of failure and uncertainty have hi-jacked your Infinite Potential, this is the show for you! If you want to learn how to utilize your brain health and transformative thinking to create happiness and the fulfillment of your potential, this is the show for you!
Mission
To create a world-class show that educates and empowers our audience through the intersection of mind-body medicine, science, and spiritual well-being about the critical importance of brain health as the gateway to live out their Infinite Potential—to live Life in the sweet spot!
How We Do It
Unique, innovative guests share their thought-provoking insights, experience, and out-of-the-box thinking in the areas of brain health, medicine, business, spirituality, music, art, and wellness. Break free of fear and conformity with practical tools and solutions that inspire, educate, and empower YOU to use your healthy brain and extraordinary, Infinite Potential to live the Life you’ve always longed for.
The audience includes thought leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and innovative professionals with interests in brain health, transformative thinking, spirituality, wellness, science, business and the arts.
