Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting

In Episode 33 of Breaking Walls we sit down with Enterprise IT Buyer Donald Thompson as he offers tips by the common man, for the common man, for better financial literacy.

Highlights:

• The Importance of "naming" your money

• Why you don't need to be "Joe Science" to have financial literacy

• How Donny has learned these lessons

• Why he does his own taxes

• Advice on accountants

• The large difference between having a good or bad financial attitude

• Why his experiences as an IT buyer for the NY/NJ Port Authority are scalable to everyday life

• Life Lessons he's learned growing up in New York City

• How better consciousness and better financial literacy go hand-in-hand

• What's new financial lessons Donny is hoping to learn in 2016 and Beyond

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In Episode 32 of Breaking Walls, we sit down with Bronx-based artist Stephanie Guzman for a conversation about things she's learned in life that can help relieve stress in the new year.

Highlights:

• Fact vs. Myth on growing up in the South Bronx

• The Dangers of being afraid to come out of our shell

• What is Momentum? How it helped Stephanie

• How Stephanie has learned to trust her creativity

• The importance of forgiving other people’s transgressions against you for your own happiness

• What are essentials oils? What are their Benefits? Where can we get them?

• Why we all have the tools ingrained to succeed in our DNA and how we can unlock these gifts

• How far down the road Stephanie looks and what’s next for her

Contact Information for Stephanie’s art and DoTerra Essential Oils:

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.guzman.338

DoTerra: http://www.mydoterra.com/stephaniedg/#/

Momentum Education: https://www.momentumeducation.com

Happy New Year!

This brief message is one of thanks and announcements. We also tease our guest for Breaking Walls EP32, who stops by to say hello. Breaking Walls EP32 will be released on Friday 1.8.2016.

Part 2 of our interview with author David Shields about his pictorial novel War is Beautiful in which David looked at over 2000 New York Times front-page war photos between 1991 and 2014. What David found after reviewing the common themes and constructs of these photographs made him stop reading The Times. The pictorial guide is available for purchase here: www.amazon.com/War-Is-Beautiful-…ict/dp/1576877590. It’s a must-see!

Highlights:

• How a childhood stutter taught David to listen for subtext

• How The Times’ need to sell papers has dictated its art direction

• Why The Times is wrong to claim its centrist views

• Why The Times and the US government have an unsaid collusion with each other

• Why we should all look beneath the surface about things in life

Why we shouldn’t trust someone who claims to have no agenda

• David’s reaction to the recent front-page imagery of the Paris Bombing aftermath

• How we can learn to view things with a more skeptical-eye

• Why David feels war photography should have a more hard-earned beauty

Part 1 of our interview with author David Shields about his pictorial novel War is Beautiful in which David looked at over 2000 New York Times front-page war photos between 1991 and 2014. What David found after reviewing the common themes and constructs of these photographs made him stop reading The Times. The pictorial guide is available for purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/War-Is-Beautiful-Pictorial-Conflict/dp/1576877590. It’s a must-see! Part 2 will be available beginning 12.10.205.

Highlights:

• How a childhood stutter taught David to listen for subtext

• How The Times’ need to sell papers has dictated its art direction

• Why The Times is wrong to claim its centrist views

• Why The Times and the US government have an unsaid collusion with each other

• Why we should all look beneath the surface about things in life

Why we shouldn’t trust someone who claims to have no agenda

• David’s reaction to the recent front-page imagery of the Paris Bombing aftermath

• How we can learn to view things with a more skeptical-eye

• Why David feels war photography should have a more hard-earned beauty

In Episode 28 of Breaking Walls, we sit down with two-time published author Pamela J. Campbell to talk about her experiences growing up in an abusive household, foster care, how it shaped her for the better, and how she's become both a writer and a community leader. Pamela is currently in the process of publishing a memoir of her experiences thus far in life. It's due out in 2016 and called "A World Apart: From Foster Care to Freedom."

Highlights

• Pamela's childhood in her own words

• How she finally escaped the abuse of her father

• The secret her father hid about her mother

• Her experience in foster care

• Why and for how long was she carrying around anger and hurt stemming from her childhood

• How she began to break free, mentally and spiritually, from her hurt

• How working for Hillary Clinton forever shaped her

• Her experiences as a social worker

• What being a featured writer in two novels taught her

• Why she decided to write a memoir at a young age

• What is Momentum Education? How Can it Help?

• What's next for Pamela

Pamela's Links:

The Art of Activation

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Activation-Thrive-Prosper-ebook/dp/B00O1LX7RC

Women Rising: Vol 2

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Rising-Volume-Embrace-Story/dp/150300824X

https://twitter.com/pjcampbell03

https://instagram.com/pamelajcampbell/

Momentum Education

https://www.momentumeducation.com/programs/basic-workshop/new-york.html

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We change up the format in Episode 27 of Breaking Walls. While interviewing BWEP 09 Guest Spencer Johnson, he and I took a walking tour of Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn and recorded our conversation. Greenwood was the last place Spencer visited before leaving NYC in 2014 to move to Florida. Hear him talk about the fears he faced when making the decision to leave a place he lived for his entire adult life.

Highlights

• When to know you need a change

• What Spencer thinks of Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg

• How Greenwood Cemetery was founded

• What's the significance of Battle Hill

• When Spencer feels wearing a mask can be a good thing

• The exact spot the Statue of Liberty Faces inside Greenwood

• Why Halloween is Spencer's favorite holiday

• Why we shouldn't fear death

The Rural Cemetery Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Cemetery_Act

Spencer's latest IOS game Fillip's Feast

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fillips-feast/id926100130?mt=8

You can find more about Infinite Cortex Creations' goings on at: blog.infinitecortex.com

You can tweet to Spencer here: twitter.com/maroonfacelift

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In episode 26 of Breaking Walls we sit down with Brodie Jaymz (@brodiejaymz) in anticipation for the release of his debut album "Dark Side of the Starz." In this conversation, which also showcases the return of BW EP01 Guest RebRandt (@itsrebrandt) and Jason Adams (@jason_adams), we talk about the many things Brodie's gone through to get him to this point.

Highlights:

• Is there a stigma towards Staten Island in the hip hop world?

• What are the things that Brodie has pulled his inspiration from?

• How these Staten Island hip hop heads got together and stared making music

• Why more artists are going Indie than ever before

• The power of good music

• How losing both his parents has caused Brodie to grow from a young age

• What's missing from today's hip hop

• Where the beat selection for this album came from. It's got a very NYC late night, cruisin' around sound

• Thoughts behind Dark Side of the Starz' production

• Being authentic

• What's next for Brodie

Brodie's Social Media:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Brodie-Jaymz-175389032504594/timeline/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brodiejaymz

IG https://instagram.com/brodiejaymz/

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/brodie-jaymz/id838953789

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/brodiejaymz

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/3YZwfy7rIdsLdIqZzpy2d5

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For our one year anniversary, we go back and revisit important moments with all our prior interviewees. First time listeners can also hear bits of each prior episode. Our guests include: Reb Randt,​ Lina Gonzalez,​ Brett Affrunti,​ Tom Mauriello,​ Steven Attanasio,​ Chelsea Bonosky,​ Spencer Johnson,​ Javan Ivey,​ Monica Lo,​ Eric Scott,​ Susan Doyle,​ Mike Freiheit,​ Olga Lysenko,​ Fer Sanabria,​ John N Wlaysewski​, Olive Hui, Kieron Anthony Lewis,​ Eric Gorges,​ Ian Russell,​ and Matt Weckel.

This special episode contains clips broken down into five categories:

On Business

On Human Connection

On Inspiration

On Patience

On Trusting Yourself

And we also introduce October's monthly topic: "Fear and Masquerade," which comes from Halloween.

For each prior guest's contact information, please go to their episode.

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In Episode 24 of Breaking Walls, we sit down with WallBreakers co-founder Matt Weckel about all the places his life has taken him and the things he's learned as parenthood approaches for the first time. It's a great chat between a couple of Brooklyn natives who are long-time friends.

Highlights

• Was Brooklyn an angry place to grow up living in? If so, Why?

• How Matt's parents instilled a progressive culture in his life

• What is Siricos and why is it important?

• Where Matt's need to leave NYC came from

• The many ways in which losing his mom deeply affected Matt

• How his creativity began to take off

• Why his first year of marriage has been so good

• Why he's not afraid of being a first-time parent

• Lessons his parents taught him that he wants to pass down

• Is he ready?