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What's going on as we enter 2022. Sharing my personal experience and thoughts about the upcoming year and Covid.

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Kathy Shaw:
In 1982 (erroneously said 1984 during the episode), she was Abducted, Tortured, Raped, and Escaped her Captor who is likely a Serial Killer still on the loose. She is still on her quest to find the Evil Doer and closure. 

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Looking back at the year 2021 - Pandemic, Guests, Lessons learned, etc,

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Reflections on Christmas 2020 to Christmas 2021. Where we are now.

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Update: One year later:

In many ways, I believe I am just like any of the billions of people existing on this planet. ​I have reinvented myself frequently over my professional career. After I graduated from college at The Citadel (where I played NCAA Division I basketball), I was employed in the Marketing Department at the corporate headquarters of Wendy’s International in Dublin, Ohio. From there, I worked in hospital administration for Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. After getting married and moving to California for my wife's job, I became the Customer Service Manager for an academic publishing company in Santa Barbara. After our daughter was born and we moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, I became a police officer with the Cincinnati Police Department, where I was a SWAT Hostage Negotiator. Following a family relocation to Texas, I started a school security consulting business and coached high school girls' basketball in Houston. Each time I took on a new job, I had to develop new skills and faced different challenges. There was always a significant learning curve with every new position. But my greatest challenge began in early 2012 when I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Acral Lentiginous Melanoma, which presented on the bottom of my foot. By the time the melanoma was detected, it had metastasized to a lymph node in my groin. Because my cancer is so rare (only about 6,500 people are diagnosed with this form of malignancy in the U.S. each year), I was treated at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center. I had two surgeries to remove the tumors, and after I healed, I was put on a weekly injection of the drug, Interferon, to help keep the disease from coming back. I took those weekly injections for four years and seven months before the Interferon became so toxic to my body that I ended up in the Intensive Care Unit with a fever of 108 degrees. Fortunately, expert medical care saved my life. The Interferon gave me severe flu-like symptoms for two to three days after each injection. I lost fifty pounds during my therapy, was constantly nauseous, fatigued, and chilled, my ability to taste food significantly diminished, and my body constantly ached. This misery went on for over 1,660 days! One thing I learned during all my pain and suffering is that you have two choices. You can succumb to the debilitating discomfort and misery, or you can learn to embrace it and use it to make you a stronger and better human being. I chose the latter. 

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Host Julian Perry shares some personal heartfelt thoughts and perspectives.

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Some people seem to attract success and thrive in all circumstances, while others seem to only navigate from one failing relationship or business venture to the next. The difference between triumph and loss is simple and revealed in the heralded book, ‘Releasing My Trauma: The Root of Self-Sabotage’ by LaJune Singleton, MPH.

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
– Charles Kingsleigh

Singleton is a board-certified health coach, nutritional lifestyle coach, advanced personal trainer, mindset strategist, podcaster, and author. For more than 10 years of experience, she has continued to help busy career women in areas of obesity, chronic illnesses,
physical health, injury recovery, trauma, and behavioral change to live a more successful and
healthy life. Singleton’s passion for educating, advocating, and helping individuals transcends
beyond her own experience and breakthrough formula applied by the most successful of
entrepreneurs.

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Website: www.lajunesingleton.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamlajunesingleton
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lajune-singleton
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lajunesingleton & https://www.facebook.com/LStarlitt
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht-nKxWyFt-lnVRiL69T1g
& https://bit.ly/2UOBurP

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Discussing Kyle Rittenhouse, Ahmaud Arbery, Covid, Politics. Student Loans and more!!

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Leah identifies as Two-Skinned, having a Blackfoot mother and an Appalachian white father. Her early childhood experiences gave her insight into the privilege provided by the white skin she wears. That same early experience and trauma made clear the connection of the historical trauma of her Native heritage. With that early lived experience of white privilege and seeing the disparities across race, gender, and class, she recognized her unique position to be able to speak and teach the tools necessary to engage in deeper conversations in the forever process of mitigating the impacts of systemic oppression. That’s where With Respect LLC was born. Through her business, she does diversity differently, finding that by teaching tools of respect and belonging, the consequential behavior changes lead to dignity and respect across all the -isms. 

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Heidi Webb, CFRE is hard-wired for nonprofit work.  She has always been cause-driven, entrepreneurial, and community-focused – from her early days helping companies get their 8(a) minority status and land multi-million dollar contracts to her work in nonprofit which includes five successful capital campaigns. Heidi launched GreenKite Fundraising in 2018 and even as CEO of this boutique firm she still thrives in a hands-on setting. Annually, she picks 1-2 nonprofits to personally serve as their “Interim Development Director”. She says this keeps her on the front line and in tune with nonprofit sector trends. Though highly committed to GreenKite’s success as a company, Heidi believes that it is just as important to commit to service to others. She serves as an Advisor for the Unfunded List and is an Assistant Governor for Rotary International. She even finds the time to foster rescued dogs and a former racehorse named Artie.

www.greenkitefundraising.com

https://www.facebook.com/GreenKiteAdventures/

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