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A podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic. Each episode we focus on a different solution, including prevention, treatment and harm reduction. Season Two drops October 15th, 2019 with a new episode every Tuesday. A project of InvestigateWest, hosted by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch.
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Hosted by Alfonsine Williams, [a nearshoring evangelist with vast experience in the IT industry when it comes to delivering nearshore development teams globally], Inside Nearshoring is an ambitious effort to shed light on nearshoring as a practice, educating the community about all of the pitfalls and benefits of the industry. All accomplished by highlighting recent trends in the world of offshoring/nearshoring through the prism of video interviews with top level executives, media personalit ...
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Inside Nearshoring: Interview with Anna Ivanchuk Mobilunity Senior Business Development Manager
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Welcome to the Inside Nearshoring! In this episode, we are talking about the nearshoring in a nutshell with Anna Ivanchuk, Senior Business Development Manager at Mobilunity. We’ll dive into the specifics of recruitment on the Japanese market, define the difference between European and North American clients, and share advice to potential remote dev…
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Inside Nearshoring: Interview with Roman Ivanytskyi Mobilunity Front-End Developer
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Hello, guys! This is Inside Nearshoring online show and in our new episode we are talking about professional development, having nonIT past experience as a Software Engineer, and about Ukrainian developers with our guest — Roman Ivanytskyi, Mobilunity Front-End Developer. Timestamps: 00:07-01:36 Welcome to Inside Nearshoring! Please, introduce your…
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Inside Nearshoring: Interview with Kateryna Boiko Mobilunity Marketing Director
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Welcome to the Inside Nearshoring! In this episode, we are talking about the non-technical roles in the nearshoring field with Kateryna Boiko, Mobilunity Marketing Director. We’ll dive into the specifics of recruitment, onboarding, and the working process with Ukrainian-based remote nonIT teams. Timestamps: 00:00-2:18 Welcome to Inside Nearshoring!…
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Inside Nearshoring: Interview with Jakub Ruzicka a Head of Engineering in a Czech Fintech company
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Hello, everybody! This is Inside Nearshoring online show and in our new episode we are talking about 3Rs of nearshoring, driving factors for considering nearshore model and very much more with our guest — Jakub Ruzicka, Head of Engineering, Fintech, Czech. Watch our video to find out more about work with remote developer teams and get some advice f…
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Inside Nearshoring: Software Engineers Motivation
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Welcome to the Inside Nearshoring! In this episode, we investigate software engineers' motivation with our guest Ihor Pysmennyi, Lead Backend Developer, in a Belgium project. We’ll dive into recruitment, onboarding, and the working process itself through the software developer’s eyes and learn what really matters for developers while accepting the …
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Danish Growth Consultant Henrik Pedersen interviews Mobilunity CEO Cyril Samovskiy
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In this episode, we switch roles and take an interview with our (typical) host Cyril Samovskiy, Mobilunity Founder and CEO. We’ll look behind the curtain of Mobilunity, see how the IT nearshoring company works with clients from onboarding to retention, and reveal secrets of making remote development teams happy and engaged. Cyril shares his thought…
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Inside Nearshoring - Interview with Illia Kukharenko, a Hardware Engineer on a Swiss Project
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In this episode, we discover the pitfalls and possibilities of hardware engineering. Today’s special guest Illia Kukharenko, a Hardware Engineer on a Swiss Project, shares his opinion about education, prospects of a career in hardware engineering and gives priceless pieces of advice. We’ll discover the Ukrainian hardware engineering labor market an…
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Interview with Henrik Pedersen, a Mobilunity Regional Manager for Scandinavian markets
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Henrik Pedersen lives for 2 homes - Denmark and Ukraine - and thus, his experience and insights may be of a good value to Danish businesses thinking about Nearshoring. Henrik shares his precious experience working both with Ukrainian and Danish IT markets and describes the differences in business culture, approach, and mentality. We’ll see what con…
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#WomeninTech - Interview with a Female SFCC Front-end Developer Viktoria Volyanskaya
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This episode is dedicated to women in technology and gender equality in IT. With our special guest, Viktoria Volyanskaya, we’re going to dive into a crucial topic of what it’s like being a Woman in Tech and get some insights through Vika’s story. She’s going to tell us about her personal journey of becoming a front-end engineer, sharing her opinion…
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Inside Nearshoring - Interview with David Gilgur, Founding Partner at Blue Lake Accelerator
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In this episode we connect with David Gilgur, Founding Partner at Blue Lake Accelerator and Founder of VimesVC, a UK-based consultancy agency- where we discuss a bunch of hot questions relevant to startup product development, being noticed by VCs, and of course how it all relates to nearshoring. Originally from Ukraine, David shares his insights on…
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Inside Nearshoring - Meet the Joint Chamber of Commerce (Switzerland)
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In this edition of Inside nearshoring, we welcome the Joint Chamber of Commerce (JCC) of Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, & the South Caucasus and explore the many facets of the organization, its take on nearshoring, and the many industries,and regions the JCC represents, with its Managing Director Dorit Sallis. Tune in as we discuss, Swi…
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Inside Nearshoring - Interview with Cyril Samovskiy, Mobilunity CEO
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Welcome to the first pilot episode of online show Inside Nearshoring with Alfonsine Williams. Today we are talking with the CEO of IT company Mobilunity, Cyril Samovskiy, about nearshoring, its importance during pandemic, best country to nearshore, and many more. Watch the full video following the link. Learn more about Mobilunity at https://mobilu…
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S2 EP8 Needle exchanges and harm reduction
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This is the last episode of Season 2. For people addicted to heroin and other drugs, how do we keep them safe and prevent them from overdosing? We look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that hand out clean equipment, the overdose reversal medicine Narcan and other he…
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S2 EP7 Helping family members of people with addiction
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Addiction is a family disease and family members of people with addiction need help, too. Research shows that helping family members helps their loved one who has an addiction. We look at an approach that is more effective than an intervention or Al-anon to get family members into addiction treatment. It’s called CRAFT, or Community Reinforcement a…
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Emergency rooms are the last safety net for the sickest, most marginalized people. People with addiction often end up in emergency departments following an overdose, during withdrawal, or with other health problems. A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment from a hospital emergency department, instead of just sending them o…
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Trauma and pain and addiction are tightly woven together. But, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is treatable and treating the wounds of trauma can help treat pain and addiction, too. We must pay attention to the toxic effects of trauma if we really want to help people stay away from drugs, if we want to really help people with chronic pain. In…
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S2 EP4 Medical Marijuana for Chronic Pain
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Medical marijuana is now legal in dozens of states. Some chronic pain patients now rely on it in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many patients are going it on their own, with informal guidance from their peers. Some experts are not convinced though. They caution against potentially harmful side effects. …
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What's the appropriate role of opioids in treating chronic pain? For years doctors have used opioid painkillers as the go-to solution for all kinds of pain. Now that U.S. society is saturated with these pills and so many people are dying of overdoses, medical consensus and even laws are changing. Doctors are getting the message to cut back. But som…
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SOLUTION: The more opioids you get after surgery, the more likely you are to be dependent on them down the road. And it doesn't take very long to become dependent on opioids – days to weeks. The solution Washington State and others have enacted are tighter guidelines advising doctors how many pills can be dispensed following surgery, getting them t…
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SOLUTION: The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows the more young people are surrounded by risky environments, including stress, poverty, and violence, the more likely they’ll get addicted. But other factors in their environment can protect you…
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Our team is hard at work on Season Two, which drops fall 2019, but in the meantime we wanted to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic? On this bonus episode, we bring you excerpts from interviews producers and co-hosts Anna Boiko-Weyrauch and Kye Norris di…
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For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted to get off the drugs. And then it was the connections that kept her going. A police officer she could depend on. A sister who stayed in touch. A dog who gets her out of the house a few times a day. Shan…
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SOLUTION: Make incarceration an opportunity to get help and start healing. Make detox easier, get people with addiction drug treatment behind bars, and connect them to help as soon as they’re released. STORY: Opioid withdrawal is like the worst flu you’ve ever had. Now, imagine you’re responsible for dozens of people as sick as can be. What do you …
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SOLUTION: Create teams of social workers and police officers who help homeless people with addiction get drug treatment and housing. Break the cycle of drug use, crime, and jail time by reaching out to people on the streets and in the woods, and asking them what help they need. STORY: Marshmallows in Kevlar and a foul-mouthed social worker. Coffee …
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S1 Ep. 3: Valuable lessons from a landslide
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SOLUTION: Get government to work more effectively. Use a disaster response playbook to organize county government around the opioid epidemic. Approach addicted people with compassion, as you’d approach a person with any other medical condition. STORY: Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up c…
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Download instructions on how to recognize the signs of an overdose and administer Narcan to stop it. Drawn by Julia Drachman.
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SOLUTION: Get the overdose reversal drug, naloxone (aka Narcan) into the hands of everyone who needs it, and train them how to use it. Family, friends and people with addiction themselves can play a big role in stopping overdose death. STORY: A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone …
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S1 Ep. 1: Medicine that melts under your tongue
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SOLUTION: Treat addiction using evidence-based medication, like buprenorphine (aka Suboxone). Expand access to treatment through telemedicine. STORY: At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. Do they have a chance? (Yes, and we’ll tell you why.) This season we’re…
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Finding Fixes is the first podcast dedicated to solutions to the opioid epidemic. Each episode we dive into one solution. The first season we're in Snohomish County, Washington, which is treating the opioid epidemic as a state of emergency like a natural disaster. As communities across the country struggle with rampant opioid overdoses, we seek to …
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