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After getting through a recurrence of lymphoma that damaged the base of my spine, I’m left pondering the concept of survival and how it's not as easy as it seems. In a series of interviews with people who have experienced all kinds of life-changing disease and trauma, I explore what it means to survive and perhaps, at some point, live happily ever after.
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"...As we were headed towards the airport, a large convoy of military personnel in armored vehicles were entering the city. I looked out the side window to my left, looked out to my right, where my wife was sitting, and I said, 'this doesn't look good.'" Dustin Watson and his wife escaped Myanmar on February 20, 2021, the same day that security for…
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The trauma is forgotten, but a single act of warmth and kindness provided a lifetime of giving back. That's how Tomi Holmes lives her life after passing through the foster care system when she was little. She is an inspiration for how to live a life full of love, perhaps her biggest gift of all. Tomi is a volunteer for CASA, Court Assisted Special …
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Multiple Sclerosis has sent Saurabh Chowdhry on several career detours, but he views each experience as a triumph. From medical student to science teacher to scientific writer to inspirational author, he keeps pressing onward and refusing to let MS bend his will. Saurabh has two motivational books--the second one, Step by Step, just came out this m…
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It took Uvi Naidoo, a South African pediatrician, three long years to get through extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. Now, he's working through long-haul COVID symptoms, after contracting the infection twice. But even though he still needs oxygen when he gets around every day, he won't stop talking about TB. Uvi and I met several years ago (th…
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Baseball season this year starts on April Fools Day, which is a perfect metaphor for Mets fans. Seeing as how this episode is launching the same week, my good friend Woo Jin Ho joins me to take a look at what it's like to survive as a fan of the franchise. Woo Jin grew up in Queens, rooting for the Yankees--but then switched allegiances because of …
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In November of 2019, Connie White bought a pair of maternity tights by accident--she wasn't actually pregnant. In trying them on though, she fell down the rabbit hole of tests, cancer diagnosis and treatment. What's worse, most of her journey with ovarian, uterine, and falopian cancer took place in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic. To get through…
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The last time the world freaked out about a global pandemic, it was 2014. The Ebola virus devastated Liberia and two other West African countries, but only about a dozen people were treated in Europe and North America. Ashoka Mukpo was an American journalist who had spent two previous years in Liberia, and returned to Monrovia to cover the pandemic…
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When Dan Powers relocated to Truckee, California, he was not expecting to test out the emergency room at the local hospital so quickly. But when he woke up with chest pain shortly after the winter holidays, he needed medical help. While the incident was a scare and not a life-threatening heart attack, he embraced the lessons it taught him--most imp…
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The start of the COVID-19 pandemic put a new wrinkle into March Madness, the most frenzied month in the college basketball season. Adam Zagoria, a journalist who covers college hoops and other sports, attended a concert one night and the Big East tournament the next, and then the pandemic paused everything. One week later he started feeling sick, a…
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At the end of July, 2017, Paul Tekwsbury wasn't feeling so great. One month later, he learned he had leukemia; one month after that, the chemotherapy that was treating his cancer left him dead of a heart attack--but only for 35 minutes. His personal journey there and back filled him with so much gratitude he wrote and recorded an album's worth of m…
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When Debbie Salamone was bitten by a shark, she had no idea how much it would transform her life. After recovering, she went back to school to get her master's degree and changed her career from journalism to advocacy. She organized a group of like-minded shark attack survivors and pushed for conservation measures to help endangered shark populatio…
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz began advocating for Indigenous rights as a teenager and still hasn't let up, first working to improve the health and welfare of her Kankanaey Igorot community in the Philippines and then for Indigenous communities around the world. We met during an extended collaboration when she was United Nations special rapporteur on the r…
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Peter Dykstra is an accomplished environmental journalist, advocate, and, on a personal level, a dear mentor of mine. In a few short months, from the end of 2016 to early 2017, he lost his eldest son to suicide, the results of the presidential election threatened certain doom for all that he had accomplished in his career, and a freak bacterial inf…
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We're talking to Dan, co-Author of a fantastic book on how are influenced by basic instincts and how to use these instincts for better marketing and sales persuasion From Wily: Appealing to humans' basic instincts to increase influence, buy-in and results Survival of the species comes down to three basic instincts, say behavioral research strategis…
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This episode is a chat from several months back, lost until we started the new series of episodes here on the Warren Whitlock Show. I've known Brian for a few years. Memorable because of the #bacon references. He is host of the Bacon Podcast and author of multiple books. Brian reminds us that "It's not about you" which we know is the key to marketi…
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When I saw that Aurora Gregory descibed herself as a lover of good cake, I have to find out more. And more that that, I learned that she has the reputation of getting people onstage. I know that makes a huge different for any author, thought leader and of course, speakers. Aurora Put it Well.. Public speaking is the fastest way to grow your career,…
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About Stop Boring Me!: How to Create Kick-Ass Marketing Content, Products and Ideas Through the Power of Improv Coming up constantly with a steady stream of marketing content, stories, and ideas that inspire excitement, interest and banish boring can be challenging. Your content-weary audience is saying “Stop Boring Me!” You cannot connect meaningf…
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Barry Feldman is a digital marketing super freak. The principal of Feldman Creative, Barry has written marketing copy and provided digital marketing strategy for thousands of companies and entrepreneurs. LinkedIn, Inc.com, and many others have recognized Barry as a leading content marketer and social media influencer. Barry writes for many of the t…
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