Best Sally Fox Podcasts (2024)

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288 Sally Fox: My Most Creative Work Is My Life—Yours Can Be Too 29:04

1d ago29:04

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Sally Jean Fox’s 2023 book, Meeting the Muse After Midlife: A Journey to Meaning, Creativity, and Joy, tells her story of finding joy in being creative after 50, as she explored gardening, clowning, improv theatre, storytelling, and singing. Always keen on writing, Sally took up painting at age 69 and exhibited 30 paintings three years later. Altho…

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362. Renee DiResta: How Public Opinion Forms in a Digital Age 1:02:24

1h ago1:02:24

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“If you make it trend, you make it true.” The cycling of new and buzz-worthy information we face on a daily basis is faster than ever before. As new trends in information, politics, and culture are constantly updating, little time is left for critical analysis before the next headline hits the feed. And when those who hold the power to influence au…

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289 Wendy Green: Boomer Banter--Real Talk About Aging Well 30:02

1h ago30:02

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Wendy Green, founder and host of Hey, Boomer,! knows about personal transformation first-hand and coaches women to “live the meaningful, purposeful life they want to live.” Wendy left the world of corporate training to focus on women’s experiences of growing older—as a coach, podcaster, show host, and blogger. Podcast guests, along with members of …

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361. Rachel Bitecofer: Counterpunch — Winning Democracy's Fight 1:11:52

1d ago1:11:52

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Should Democrats be looking to the other side of the aisle for political strategy? Political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer seeks to explain the intricate dynamics of contemporary politics in her new book, Hit ’Em Where It Hurts. Seeking actionable strategies for Democrats to connect with voters and reclaim the narrative in a pivotal ele…

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360. Juliet Hooker with Megan Ming Francis: The Politics of Loss 54:29

7d ago54:29

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Delve into the complex tapestry of American politics with Juliet Hooker, the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University. Hooker, known for her expertise in racial justice, democracy theories, and Black political thought, will unpack the themes of her latest book, Black Grief / White Grievance and offer a …

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287 Cheri Boublis: Innovative Hospitality for Older Adults-- Living a Vibrant Lifestyle 27:41

4d ago27:41

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Cheri Boublis is Senior Director for Hospitality Services at Plymouth Place in LaGrange Park, Illinois, a model for active community living. Cheri collaborates with the leadership, residents, vendors, and the larger community to offer wide-ranging services for adults who choose a vibrant lifestyle. Choice is the guiding concept for most everything …

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Sally Gillespie - Stormy Weather: Engaging with Climate Change 1:00:35

6d ago1:00:35

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This talk explores ways to engage in climate change conversations to facilitate conscious change. Sally draws on stories from facilitating in depth discussions in a research group, where participants shared their dreams, imaginings, frustrations, grief, hopes, fears and inspirations in relation to climate change. This process enabled participants t…

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Foraging for Natural Foods with Vince Aiello and Meredith Rhodes 30:10

13d ago30:10

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Are you looking for a fun way to get out in nature, get moving, and nourish your body? Experience the natural world in a new way after listening to a recording from an onsite podcast interview and foraging walk at Stewart Lake County Park. Discover the benefits of foraging and what you need to know to get started. Episode Show Notes: fireandforagin…

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Overcoming Addiction with Adi Jaffe, PhD 46:59

10d ago46:59

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About one third of the population in the United States is directly impacted by addiction. Join us as we talk with Dr. Adi Jaffe, a nationally recognized expert on addiction, mental health, relationships, and shame. Dr. Jaffe shares with us why talking about addiction is so important, the barriers people experience in seeking treatment, and the effe…

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286 Beverly Pimsleur's: A Love Affair with Language and Life 29:29

19d ago29:29

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Joy has always been a part of Beverly Pimsleur's life. Her extended family in Louisville KY loved to be together, to dance, sing and have fun. She recognized the importance of language from a young age and started learning French in high school. She met her husband, a French professor, on a blind date in her twenties and changed her plans about liv…

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285 Helen Benjamin: Education Changes the Life Trajectory of Every Person 29:58

18d ago29:58

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As an educational leader and mentor, Dr. Helen Benjamin tells stories about growing up in the segregated South, living and working in two worlds—Black and White, and helping younger Black professionals navigate their CEO roles in community colleges. In semi-retirement, Helen leads HSV Consulting, Inc, works with “dozens of colleges, boards, and CEO…

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359. Maxwell Stearns with Mark Smith: Transforming America's Democracy 1:14:45

25d ago1:14:45

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Can a parliamentary democracy end America’s constitutional crisis? It’s starting to feel to some people that American elections aren’t offering us much choice, instead compounding the continued issues of our outdated voting system and showing our lack of capacity to face common issues together. In Parliamentary America, Maxwell L. Stearns argues th…

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284 Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing: No One Should be Isolated 28:58

27d ago28:58

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Do you want to share housing but find the transition scary? We often live in shared housing when we are single: college, roommates in camp, at conferences, during our early careers. Living with housemates as we age is no different. Annamarie Pluhar, 70, is a well-spoken advocate for shared housing and offers valuable ways of thinking to simplify th…

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Vicki Robin—Coming of Aging 50:01

26d ago50:01

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Vicki Robin has been breaking ground throughout her career—now she's challenging how we think about aging with her Coming of Aging writings. We talk about the possibilities and paradoxes of aging. She challenged the stories of our times in 1992 with her seminal book written with Joe Dominguez, Your Money or Your Life, a book that challenged our obs…

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283 Mary Mitchell: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless 29:07

1M ago29:07

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Mary Mitchell, age 74, sheds light on aging and ageism in her occasional column for the Chicago Sun Times, Starting Over. Mary ‘started over’ five years ago when she switched her journalistic authority on race relations in Chicago to concentrate on matters of growing older. She advocates that longevity is a blessing and aging offers an opportunity …

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Preventing Tick Bites and Associated Diseases with Dr. Gregory DeMuri 29:30

1M ago29:30

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It is that wonderful time of year in Wisconsin! Time to get outside and enjoy all the beauty and recreation our state offers during the summer. As we do so, it is also a good idea to review the steps we can take to prevent tick bites and educate ourselves about tick-borne illnesses. Our guest, Dr. Gregory DeMuri, is a pediatric infectious disease d…

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282 Ann Anderson Evans: A Wife’s Unanswered Questions About Transgender and Suicide 38:32

2M ago38:32

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Ann Anderson Evans, age 82, lives in Vermont. She is a writer, linguist, and former professor. Her first memoir, Daring to Date Again (2014), which tells the story of what happened after she started dating at 62, won multiple prizes. Her sequel The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death (Jan. 2024), narrates her attempt to find out w…

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281 Susan Gangsei: Tapestries Reveal the Passages of Women Aging 37:15

2M ago37:15

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Susan Gangsei, a classically trained tapestry artist from Minneapolis, MN, uses her talent to create images of women aging. Her recent series, The Sacred Journey of Aging, features the “beauty, strength, and wisdom of older women.” Susan treats viewers to her tapestries that represent different passages of growing older—feeling invisible, making mi…

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280 Jacynth Bassett: Ageism is Never in Style - 31 year old Activist 32:47

2M ago32:47

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Visionary and disrupter, Jacynth Bassett, is an award-winning, highly sought after consultant and expert in the anti-ageism/ age-inclusive & positive movement. At only 31, she is widely recognized as a leading pioneer and voice, awarded ‘Anti-Ageist Activist’ of 2023, at the inaugural Advantages Of Age Awards 2023. and named one of Evening Standard…

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Make it OK to Talk about Mental Health with Stephanie Kovarik and Sallie Scoville 41:22

2M ago41:22

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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans lives with a mental illness. Join us as we learn more about the Make It OK community campaign to understand and create caring conversations about mental illness. Our guests are Stephanie Kovarik with HealthPartners and Sallie Scovill of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Stephanie has been involved with the program s…

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Claire French - The Goddess Archetype 1:03:57

2M ago1:03:57

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This lecture discusses the loss of feminine representation, including in the changing myths and religious stories, and its impact on society. It explores challenges for women when they feel alienated from their instinctive femininity and for men when they are only able to connect with their femininity in private. There is a strong call to re-person…

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279 Michele Kurlander: Obsessions for Art & Music Icons Fuel Her Life 30:50

3M ago30:50

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LIfe is a constant adventure for Michele Kurlander, 79. She lives in Chicago, yet her heart is in France. A fluent francophile, Michelle spends much of her life traveling between Chicago and Paris. There she has met dear friends who live all across the world. When she becomes interested in an artist, an author, a performer, Michele’s obsession with…

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358. Sasha Issenberg with Austin Jenkins: The Lie Detectives 1:11:27

2M ago1:11:27

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As we head into another presidential election year, few issues feel as pressing as the spread of political misinformation. How can political campaigns fight back against the barrage of lies and disinformation? As time, tension, and technology all progress in our world, we’re not always prepared for the acceleration and its impact on the political c…

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357. Susannah Fox with Sally James: Rebel Health 56:14

2M ago56:14

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Anyone who has fallen off the conveyor belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land. Where is the infrastructure, the information, the guidance? What should you do next? In her new book, Rebel Health, Susannah Fox draws on twenty years of tracking the expert networks of patients, survi…

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278 Pamela Meyer: Staying Innovative in the Game of Life 33:00

2M ago33:00

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Dr. Pamela Meyer is a prolific author, international consultant and keynote speaker, and college teacher whose areas of focus are leadership agility, organizational change, and adult learning. In her most recent book, Staying in the Game: Leading and Learning with Agility for a Dynamic Future, Pamela draws on her experiences as an amateur, gold med…

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CJ Miller The Spiritual Artist 44:38

2M ago44:38

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Chris Miller (CJ) is an entrepreneur, artist, writer, and speaker. He’s a lifelong Spiritual learner who has spent the last 20 years examining the creative process and its relationship to spirituality. He’s the author of the book, The Spiritual Artist and produces a podcast by the same name in which he interviews artists and spiritual thought leade…

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277 Shelia Solomon: Helping Your Neighbor Understand About Your Neighbor: The Role of Civic Journalism 32:35

3M ago32:35

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Sheila Solomon’s career in mass media arts spans 50 years. She was among the first African American women to work in the newsrooms of regional and national newspapers. Sheila became a dedicated advocate for affirmative action—bringing people of color into the news business and reporting on race issues in professions outside of journalism. While wor…

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276 David Stewart: A Leading Authority on the Mindset and Aspirations that Drive the Over 50 Demographic. 32:35

3M ago32:35

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As the founder of AGEIST Magazine and Super Ager podcast, David Stewart is a passionate champion of the modern 50+ lifestyle. While interviewing David is a departure from interviewing women 70-110+, we feel that what he has to say contributes to our mission of aging reimagined. Women are the ones who are changing things. Men never experienced ageis…

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275 Sandy Gordon: A True Advocate Lives for the Causes She Believes In 32:35

3M ago32:35

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When Sandy Gordon retired at 70, from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, Illinois as Director of Public Relations, a colleague gave her a toast. It said in part: “Sandy has the kind of talent that startles people. Really. Her co-workers and colleagues often sit around wondering how she comes up with her ideas. Ideas that seem t…

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356. Dr. Rajiv Shah with Eric Liu: Charting a Course for Change 1:16:34

3M ago1:16:34

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Ever wondered how a leader orchestrates large-scale change on a global scale? In his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens, Rajiv J. Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of USAID unveils his model for driving large-scale change. Drawing on his experiences, from vaccinating 900 million children w…

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Michael Williams: Storytelling as a Healing Practice 48:16

4M ago48:16

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Dr. Michael Williams is a Canadian-born storyteller who spent three decades living in Scotland, where he honed his skills as an oral storyteller. We talk about our mutual love of storytelling as we trace Michael's history as a contemporary bard, in Europe and Canada and his recent work with elders and hospice patients.…

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Tim Falkiner: The Zone of the Pokies Addict 59:33

3M ago59:33

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This lecture discusses electronic gambling machines known as “pokies” in Australia, “slot machines” in the United States of America and “fruit machines” in the United Kingdom. It explores their use of symbols, how players may be entranced by the promise of spiritual connection and let down by the lack of revelation. Regulations surrounding electron…

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274:Coleen T. Murphy, Ph.D: Cognitive Aging: The Science of Longevity 29:33

3M ago29:33

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Coleen T. Murphy, Ph.D is Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, and LSI Genomics, Princeton University. She is also Director, Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research at Princeton and Director of Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging…

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355. Barbara McQuade with Jenny Durkan: In Search of Truth 1:06:51

4M ago1:06:51

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The subject of disinformation is a well-known part of political rhetoric, but it has implications even outside of the sphere of democracy. From the electoral system to schools; from the workplace to hospitals, the consequences of it are far-reaching and dire. A legal analyst at MSNBC and former U.S. Attorney, Barbara McQuade’s decades of experience…

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354. Michael J. Gerhardt: The Law of Presidential Impeachment 57:09

3M ago57:09

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Have you ever wondered how impeachment really works? As a witness and consultant in the impeachment trials of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, legal scholar Michael J. Gerhardt has collected a lifetime of scholarly research and firsthand experience. But despite his proximity to such high-profile cases, Gerhardt doesn’t advocate for or against the imp…

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Finding Forgiveness and Resolving Conflicts with Dr. Robert Enright 48:25

3M ago48:25

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To forgive or not to forgive…are you asking yourself this question and wondering if it is time to start the process of forgiving another or yourself? Our podcast guest for this episode is Dr. Robert Enright, a founding board member of the International Forgiveness Institute, who is often described as the “father of forgiveness research” because of …

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273 Dr. Tracey Gendron: Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Bias and How to End It 26:18

3M ago26:18

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Dr. Tracey Gendron is an internationally recognized gerontologist with almost 30 years of experience as a grant-funded researcher. She speaks to audiences globally about the real world impact of age bias. She is determined to change people’s negative views about aging. “Ageism, she says, is complicated - more nuanced than most people think it is. A…

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353. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Redefining the Borders — How to Shape Inclusive and Just Immigration Practices 1:13:15

3M ago1:13:15

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Is it possible to reshape immigration practices to align with the values of inclusivity, justice, and the historical promise of the United States as a welcoming haven for all? Law professor and immigration lawyer César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández presents a powerful case for divorcing immigration law from criminal law in his book, Welcome the Wretc…

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352. Boldt at 50 1:20:50

4M ago1:20:50

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Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision, a pivotal moment in civil rights history and tribal sovereignty. Centered around Charles Wilkinson’s posthumously acclaimed work, Treaty Justice, a panel will discuss the significance of the Boldt Decision and its enduring impact on the tribal sovereignty movement in the Pacific Northwest and …

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272 Carol Stitzer: Art is the Tapestry of Her Life - Zippers and Bees Abound 35:32

4M ago35:32

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Carol Stitzer, 80, lives life in the moment. All you have to do is listen to her and you immediately understand that she is positive, talented, energetic and happy. From early childhood education to development professional, fundraiser, artist and volunteer, Carol never lacks for the next big thing. She fine-tuned her skills at the Center for Ameri…

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Dr. Clarissa-Castillo Ramsey: Living and Leading Artfully 34:23

4M ago34:23

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Dr. Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey brings artfulness together with leadership and helping people grow. She is an organizational psychologist, artist, coach, and author of the book: Painting Your Path: 21 Interviews with Extraordinary Women.By Sally Jean Fox

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271 Nancy Hanson: Following in My Mother’s Footsteps: Fighting for Systemic Change 29:57

4M ago29:57

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A life of social service requires a deep commitment to reaching out, helping out and finding those paths that have meaning to you. Throughout Nancy Hanson’s entire life, she has been doing just that. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Nancy knows no other way of being. Early on, she joined the League of Women Voters and in each of the cities…

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351. Ijeoma Oluo with Michele Storms: Be a Revolution 1:28:07

5M ago1:28:07

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Ijeoma Oluo’s #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race (book tour event at Town Hall in 2019), offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed how white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, a…

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270 Kate Saccany: Battling Long Covid while Running Marathons 32:35

4M ago32:35

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Catherine (Kate) Saccany was born to run. She took up jogging and ran barefoot for her first 30 months because there were no running shoes for women. A career banker, Kate joined LaSalle Bank. Coincidentally, LaSalle sponsored the Chicago marathon. She bought her first pair of running shoes, qualified for the marathon and has not stopped since. Yes…

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Raising Awareness for Colorectal Cancer with Kim Angelo 27:00

5M ago27:00

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Colorectal Cancer Resources: Colorectal Cancer Alliance Exact Sciences Cologuard WebMD Health Coaching: Visit www.webmdhealth.com/wellwisconsin to send a message to a coach or schedule a call OR Call a coach today at 800-821-6591 The information in this podcast does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It should not be used as a subs…

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269 Eme McAnam: Senior Romance - People Live Who They Are Until Their Last Breath 32:51

4M ago32:51

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Joy, love, compassion - the foundation of Eme’s life and her stories. Eme McAnam was a singer-songwriter who charted in the top 100 in Country Music. Her career has taken many turns: Singer/songwriter, novelist, art photographer. Her newest novel, Freefalling: A Novel of Senior Romance, is based on a topic she knows well from her 91/2 years serving…

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