Going in Blind with Zach Tidwell

Jill Chalsty is the Founder of the Overcoming Obstacles life skills curriculum, which she developer to fill critical gaps in education systems around the world, and has now taught over 180 million students worldwide. She’s achieved this while enduring breast cancer and a double mastectomy—all whilst caring for her late husband, who battled Dementia—and subsequently having gone on to persevere through the ensuing lung cancer that followed his passing. She found a singular purpose in those dark years that led her on a beautiful pilgrimage that culminated with the writing of her new memoir, Packets of Hope. Expect to learn how bullying shakes the foundation of people throughout their lives, how cyber bullying is even more dangerous, what unconditional love is like, how Jill navigated the complexities of being the sole caregiver to her husband while he battled Dementia and she battled breast cancer and a double mastectomy, why life skills are so important for kids and adults alike, and how her losses led her to traveling the world, sustaining the purpose that kept her going through her ongoing battle with lung cancer. You can find Jill in the following places: Overcoming Obstacles: overcomingobstacles.org Packets of Hope: packetsofhope.com Zach’s book is on the way it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website. Follow And Support The Show Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends. Website: https://zachtidwell.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388 Instagram: @ZachCTidwell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/ X: @ZachCTidwell Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW YouTube: @ZachCTidwell #GIB #GoingInBlind Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.

Levi and Stephanie Ware founded the Melodic Caring Project in 2010 after they had to bring a live concert to a sick child’s hospital room after an emergency bone marrow transplant prevented her from attending. Now they’ve worked with bands like Cold Play, The Black Eyed Peas, Direks Bentley, and other major names to help these kids see through the darkness. They’ve also extended their services to music therapy, songwriting sessions, and more— pushing through times so tough they lost their home whilst raising three children— just because they saw a need and believed in their mission. You’ll learn how music therapy allows the brain to remap it’s abilities by facilitating neuroplasticity, how running a for-profit business can support you nonprofit, how music is distinctly stored in the brain, the power of music therapy, the hardships faced by families whose children are battling rare cancers, and more. Zach’s book is on the way it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website. Follow And Support The Show Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends. Website: https://zachtidwell.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388 Instagram: @ZachCTidwell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/ X: @ZachCTidwell Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW YouTube: @ZachCTidwell #GIB #GoingInBlind Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.

Dr. Robert Christophor Coppes is a board member of the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and author of "Impressions of Near-Death Experiences”. His work points to consistent afterlife experiences across all cultures and religions, veridical out-of-body projections, and an idea that religions centered around a judgement-dependent afterlife have it all wrong. You can find Bob’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/Impressions-Near-Death-Experiences-Quotations-Experiencers/dp/0997560894 Zach’s book is on the way it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website. Follow And Support The Show Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends. Website: https://zachtidwell.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388 Instagram: @ZachCTidwell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/ X: @ZachCTidwell Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW YouTube: @ZachCTidwell #NearDeathExperience #NDE #Afterlife #Religion #God #GIB #GoingInBlind Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm.

Amie Ichikawa is Executive Director and Founder of Woman II Woman, and a former inmate who started making waves after her years in prison by speaking out against the fraud in our penal system, politicians pushing legislation that opens children to victimization, and men invading women’s prisons. Today, much of her efforts are focused through Woman II Woman , where she’s helping other women navigate post-incarceration life and pushing for legal changes to protect women from men during while they serve their sentences.

From drug abuse, outfitting women’s prisons with condom dispensers and issuing every prisoner with Narcan, to corruption, scandals, and questionable political motives, this episode has it all.

You can find Aime and her work at womaniiwoman.org

Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

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Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

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Dr. Heather R. Spence is a marine bioacoustics expert with a PhD in behavioral neuroscience whose background as a musician and composer led her to focus on how ocean life communicates with sound, the impacts of sound on aquatic environments, and researching the world’s coral reefs. Her groundbreaking the work not only educates the public, but it also bridges the gap between conventional scientists and citizen scientist, and carries broader implications that apply to our terrestrial world.

Interesting Topics Covered:

• Snapping Shrimp Research: How these tiny creatures produce some of the loudest ocean sounds and Dr. Spence's innovative approach to studying them alive rather than preserved
• Sound in Water vs. Air: Why sound travels faster and farther underwater due to water density, making it central to marine life
• Dolphin Communication: The sophistication of dolphin vocalizations and echolocation, plus their use of sound for spatial navigation
• Ocean Noise Pollution: How human-generated sounds (boat motors, wind farms) disrupt marine life communication and behavior
• Ocean World of Sound Initiative: A groundbreaking project using passive acoustic monitoring to collect long-term underwater soundscape data in the Mesoamerican Reef
• Citizen Science: Making ocean sound recordings publicly accessible via YouTube for community engagement and education
• Plants and Sound: How plants produce ultrasonic sounds, respond to acoustic stimuli, and alter soundscapes
• Blindness and Sensory Perception: Personal discussion about echolocation, spatial awareness through sound, and how blind individuals may inadvertently exhibit body language interpreted as deceptive

You can find Dr. Spence on her website at heatherspence.net.

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Website: zachtidwell.com

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

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Dr. Mario Duarte is President and CEO of Project Dynamo—a group conducting international, on-the-ground operations across the world to free human trafficking victims, remove American citizens stranded in conflict zones and natural disasters, and reunite separated families when governments fail to do so. And he had some chilling information to share about child trafficking in the United States— involving alleged deliberate deliveries of migrant children to sex trafficking rings and how most of these children are used in organ harvesting operations after their abusers have decided their usefulness has come to an end or they simply don’t survive the hells they were subjected to. Make no mistake: Mario is speaking from his experience combating such horrors, not speculation.

This team is leveraging their combined experience in intelligence and special operations to exact justice and do the necessary dirty work required to save lives in some of the most severe situations possible. Duarte himself is a seasoned intelligence officer whose experience spans more than 20 years, including the technology industry, Risk and Security Manager for the Houston Airport Authority, Intelligence and Security Consulting for a U.S. Defense contractor, and work in strategic initiatives, in addition to his time in the Army.

Other topics covered include the Afghanistan pullout, Project Dynamo’s work extracting Americans and allies from conflict zones like Afghanistan, Jordan, Israel, Ukraine, humanitarian aid missions in North Carolina, Jamaica, and Haiti, how families or family friends turned abusers become traffickers, and more.

You can contact Project Dynamo and it’s Archangel team at projectdynamo.net.

Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

#GIB #GoingInBlind

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Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

#GIB #GoingInBlind

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Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

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Ron Hardman is a software engineer turned master blacksmith, which led him to founding Kilroy’s Workshop—an American skilled trades school and shared workspace where creators of all kinds can learn everything from blacksmithing and blade smithing, to CNC machining, welding, additive design and manufacturing(3d-printing), and everything in between. Kilroy’s Workshop now has locations in multiple states, and Eli Timm, shop manager of their Colorado Springs location, joined Ron and Zach. It all started with an airplane hangar and a dream, and now Kilroy’s serves over 5,000 creators each year. And Eli climbed the ranks of the organization, having begun as one of Ron’s students as a teenager.

Discover how this unique organization is breaking barriers by making trades education accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities, ADHD, and autism, while partnering with programs like Wounded Warrior Project to serve veterans alongside everyone else.

Other topics include:

7-week welding certifications that lead to $70K+ careers to addressing America's critical skilled labor shortage, America’s manufacturing vulnerabilities, starting over in an entirely new career, shortcomings in our education system, what makes a great teacher, how Ron’s philosophy has enabled him to open doors for so many others, what it takes to build a booming business in a niche, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the spirit of creation.

You can learn more about Kilroy's Workshop at kilroysworkshop.com.

You can learn more about Kilroy's Workshop at kilroysworkshop.com.

Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GIB_Pod

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Mark Steven Porro is a multi-talented creative professional who has lived a remarkably diverse life. His parents lived through the Great Depression, and his career began in industrial design of all places— before rapidly expanding into Hollywood, where he spent 28 years building a career as an actor, writer, and director, appearing in shows like Hill Street Blues, Castaway with Tom Hanks, and even Seinfeld alongside his father. Beyond all of this, he . Also co-founded a snack food company with his brother to honor their father's 1963 invention, achieving national distribution.

But his most profound achievement came when he returned to New Jersey to care for his mother during her final three and a half years, an experience he chronicled in his award-winning memoir "A Cup of Tea on the Commode.”.

You can find Mark and all his work at ACupOfTeaOnTheCommode.com.

Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

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Alexis Arralynn was born into a fundamentalist Christian doomsday cult. She was groomed and abused throughout her childhood, manipulated by her mother, father, and eventual husband, and only escaped the life after an attempted kidnapping of her children in her thirties. It’s a harrowing tale filled with self-discovery and reinvention. She’s also an entrepreneur and podcaster.

You can find Alexis’ podcast here: https://wtbbpod.buzzsprout.com/

Zach’s book is on the way

it’s officially in the hands of an editor, and on the final path to publishing! If your new to the show and haven’t heard his incredible story, go back and listen to the show’s trailer, or visit Zach’s website at zachtidwell.com. To get the big news when it’s going to print, join his email list on the website.

Follow And Support The Show

Follow, rate, and review the show wherever you listen. And if that happens to be on YouTube, like this video too before sharing the episode with family and friends.

Website: https://zachtidwell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556533676388

Instagram: @ZachCTidwell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-tidwell-9076852ab/

X: @ZachCTidwell

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-in-blind-with-zach-tidwell/id1787306128

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/51IxT43v95otwaXDkyr6FW

YouTube: @ZachCTidwell

#GIB #GoingInBlind

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