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The Waco Shepherd's Heart Podcast

The Shepherd's Heart Food Pantry and The Waco Community

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Good news is best told from a first-person perspective. So many great stories don’t get told to the right audience. We want Wacoans to hear the great stories that we hear, told by the pillars in our community who care about meeting needs in the community here in Waco Texas.
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YTexas CEO Insider

YTexas CEO Insider

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Welcome to The CEO Insider brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance Company. YTexas CEO Ed Curtis hosts key players in Texas business to bring you insider perspectives on the Texas economy and up-to-the-minute news from the corporate relocation rumor mill.
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Charity Champions Podcast

TFNB Charity Champions

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Charity Champions are nonprofit organizations working to make a positive impact in our community. Each fall, our employees chose six nonprofits from nominations that are made on our website. Anyone can submit a nomination, and nominations are carried forward each year. The benefits selection as a Charity Champions are leadership development training and increased awareness, both of which are usually cost-prohibitive for these organizations. It's TFNB Your Bank For Life's way of giving back t ...
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What is an invisible Icon? This is a person that if not for their borderline genius, or tireless work, or magnetic presence the most well-known artists on the planet would not be known as such. This series sets out to unblur the obscurity behind one such invisible Icon named Tom Wilson.
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Hello! My name is Lynn Lester and the purpose of my podcast is to celebrate the dreamers, the fighters and the underdogs who despite coming from ordinary backgrounds, went on to achieve extraordinary success. It is my mission to help inspire people, no matter where they stand in society, to keep thinking big and to never give up. As Jim Kerr of Simple Minds told me ”Sometimes your disadvantages are actually forming advantages that you find a way to use later in life”.
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In my podcast you will hear talk about life values and sports and entertainment and politics and what’s going on in today’s world so a little bit of everything so thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy
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Podcast covering West Virginia Mountaineers football, basketball and more in the most entertaining way possible. Writer for Blue Gold Sports; find articles on bluegoldsports.com. West Virginia Mountaineer for life. All-around college sports fan. All content, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are that of Layne Sheppard.
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Haunted Tourism

Cierra Moore & Timmii Pinto

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We are a paranormal true crime podcast, exploring the dark and haunting history of the world. We break down the history of the places, their most notable haunts and most notable crimes and even how you can visit them. We are your virtual tour guides to Haunted Tourism!
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Midnight Vespers, weekly Podcast Creator playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Techno, Industrial, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic Music. New Episodes Every Friday Morning at 6AM. All the Music we play is purchased, please support the artist by going to their pages and buying their music. I also discuss concerts, events, new music, old music, life experiences, record stores, clothing stores and general happenings in the scene.
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Wesley ter Haar, the visionary founder behind a global media powerhouse, shares his inspiring journey from growing up in Amsterdam as a working-class kid to becoming a young entrepreneur. Discover how he transformed his passion and creativity into a business that has become the envy of the media world.…
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During WWI in Waco, the puttering, sputtering sounds of biplanes filled the skies. The area around today's Extraco Events Center had been converted into an airfield to serve as a military training facility, and by the time the war ended, Rich Field had graduated some 400 flyers, many of whom served in France. Lee Lockwood, the son of a Waco banker,…
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Pete is on the road talking to Andy Greenstone about His Amazing Memories and Collectables from the 8th Wonder of the World, The Astrodome in Houston Texas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Texas Sports Hall of Fame
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Numerous expressions exist about how much the devil loves to take advantage of the idle hands and minds of mortals. But while some people find trouble in their free time, or simply waste it, others use it in positive ways. Frank Curre of Waco ended up with some downtime in June of 1945, when the escort carrier he was serving on was sent to the dock…
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As the war in Europe was winding down in the spring of 1945, exhausted troops probably thought they were immune to being shocked. But knowledge of the atrocities committed in Nazi concentration camps was on the horizon. Nothing could have prepared them for that. Hank Josephs of Corpus Christi served in Intelligence & Reconnaissance during the war a…
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Jason Robicheau is the official artist of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Some of his impressive commissions: Official Artist of the 2023 Texas Sports Hall of Fame Official Artist of the 2011 MLB All Star Game Commissioned by the NFL to do the signature painting for Super Bowl 50 which was unveiled at the NFL Honors Banquet Commissioned by the Houst…
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During cold weather, most people want to huddle inside around heat sources, but some jobs force people to brave the elements. Waco businessman and historian Roger Conger delivered groceries for J. C. Crippen & Sons as a teenager in the 1920s. He recalls a winter delivery to Waco High English teacher Marie Leslie that can only be described as a lear…
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Many memories from our youth are intertwined with those of school, the place where we were making friends and developing interests. Waco native Helen Geltemeyer shares a treasured memory from her schooldays: "My earliest memories of Bell's Hill is going to school, walking every morning and with our dog, Tex, following my sister and I and maybe my b…
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Broadcasting veteran Brad Sham has been the “Voice of the Cowboys” for four incredible decades. Debuting in 1976 as a color analyst alongside legendary play-by-play Verne Lundquist, Sham started his pivotal career on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. Within eight short years, Sham would take the play-by-play helm and launch one of the team’s most c…
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Longtime sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle, John McClain spent the last 40 years covering the NFL. Before his time in Houston, the Waco native graduated from Baylor in 1975, and worked at the Waco Tribune-Herald from 1973 - 1976. In addition to being an inductee in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the former president of the Pro Football Wri…
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Pawnbroking—or lending money on portable security—is one of the world's oldest professions. It can be traced back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire in the West and to China three thousand years ago in the East. Hank Josephs of Corpus Christi remembers he got the idea to change his family's dry goods store into a pawn shop during WWII: "Our ser…
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Some of the clearest memories from our youth usually include times we got in trouble. Victor Newman of Waco grew up amidst cowboys in West Texas. In 1923, at the age of ten, he came to live at the recently opened Waco State Home. Newman explains how the home reacted to his cowboy ways: "Well, every time I turned around, well, somebody would grab me…
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