Breaking Protocol with Bob Satawake

On this episode my guest is Brian Bond, Executive Director of PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents, families, and allies. With over 400 chapters and 200,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, Brian leads PFLAG providing support and initiatives to ensure the equality o...

On this episode Alan Solow a former advisor on Middle East policy to President Obama and the Obama Administration joins me for a dynamic conversation on the current state of affairs in Israel. Mr. Solow is a public affairs consultant, political advisor and notable leader in the U.S. Jewish community. He is the former Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations having met with the leaders of multiple countries around the world. In addition, he served as Chai...

Jake Kheel joins me to discuss his recent book “Waking The Sleeping Giant, Unlocking The Hidden Power of Business to Save The Planet”. For fifteen years Jake Kheel www.jakekheel.com has confronted social and environmental challenges in the Dominican Republic as Vice President of the Grupo Puntacana Foundation and Vice President of Sustainability for Grupo Puntacana. Under his leadership, the company’s sustainability programs have been recognized with numerous prominent international awards. J...

U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell who currently represents California’s 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to Congress in November 2012. His top priorities include national security, intelligence, criminal justice reform, voting rights, LGBT equality, comprehensive immigration reform, and protecting a woman's right to make her own health care decisions and responsible gun registration. His father, a police officer and his mother an administrati...

Texas has gone off the grid…. LITERALLY! The week of February 14, 2021 the electrical grid in the State of Texas, it’s independent in case you didn’t know, virtually shut down completely. My guest Craig McCartney breaks down the tragedy that caused millions of Texans to remain without power for days causing people to lose the ability to heat their homes. People died of hypothermia, water pipes busted causing billions in damage, the sewer backed up in the streets, grocery store shelves w...

WELCOME to Breaking Protocol, on this episode we welcome one of the foremost democratic campaign strategists in the United States with an impressive resume of winning elections. Scott Fairchild serves as the Executive Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. I met Scott Fairchild in 2010 when he arrived in Chicago to run the successful mayoral campaign of Rahm Emmanuel. In addition, Scott has served in the position of Chief of Staff in the U.S. Congress and successfully ran t...

Kristin Towers-Rowles is an award-winning singer, actor, director in a world without an audience. Kristin is a third generation Musical Theatre actress from a very musical family. Her grandmother was the MGM Film actress, Kathryn Grayson. Her grandfather was musician, film actor and Broadway leading man, Johnny Johnston. Her mother Patricia Towers, was a stage actress and singer and her father, Robert Towers, is a Film/TV/Stage/Radio veteran of almost 65 years! In this episode we ...

This episode features U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul an international foreign policy expert who has literally spent a lifetime researching, studying, working on and writing about the importance of international government relationships, specifically the relationship between the United States and Russia. He is the author of several books, most recently the New York Times bestseller From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia. His current research interests includ...

This episode features U.S. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney D-NY who currently represents New York’s 18th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to Congress in November 2012. His top priorities include national security, protecting our environment, ensuring our veterans get the benefits they earned, and combating the heroin and opioid epidemic. Congressman Maloney was on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives inside the U.S. Capitol when a mo...

Welcome to Breaking Protocol with Bob Satawake, my guest today is Craig McCartney who has returned for some coffee talk and politics. Craig writes a weekly column entitled “Well, Let Me Say This About That” for He Said Magazine and is joining me today to share some of his colloquial insight on our current state of affairs. The election has taken place and to the chagrin of Donald Trump, Joe Biden IS the "President-Elect of the United States" winning by a landslide victory exceedin...