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CASSANDRA SPEAKS
When Women Are the Storytellers, The Human Story Changes
By Elizabeth Lesser

Throughout history, most of humankind’s origin stories, hero’s tales, novels, and films have been told by men. Embedded in those stories are morals about men and women, power and war, sex and love, and what it takes to be courageous, gallant, and strong. These stories stick to us, inform our values, and validate or invalidate whole swaths of people.

But what if women had been the storytellers too? What kind of world would women have longed for and led us toward? What story would Eve have told about picking the apple and leaving the garden? What would Pandora have said about opening the box? And what if the populous had listened to Cassandra… and to all the Cassandras throughout the ages who have been cast as fickle, sinful, and untrustworthy? What if women had been given the same moral authority as men? How would that have changed our culture? How will that change our world today? These are the questions that best-selling author Elizabeth Lesser explores in her highly anticipated new book CASSANDRA SPEAKS: When Women Are the Storytellers, The Human Story Changes (Harper Wave; September 15, 2020; ISBN: 9780062887184; 304 pages; $27.99).

Using her great gifts of humor and insight, feminist research, and spiritual introspection, Lesser follows the breadcrumbs from the old stories to newer films and literature, leadership classics, and business books, and adds her own stories of being a mother, wife, cultural observer and organizational leader. She empowers women to trust their instincts, speak their truths, and reclaim their authentic voices from under the weight of thousands of years’ worth of fake news from history. She encourages women and men to reimagine a world together where the stories we tell, the monuments we build, and the language we use value caretaking and communication over vengeance and violence.

The book is brilliantly structured into three distinct parts. In Part One, Lesser gives us a fresh way to consider our deeply embedded Origin tales and examines ancient stories and texts, including:
• The story of Eve: Our guiding origin story is based in misogyny and blame, and womankind bears the scars of her sin instead of the honor of her courage.
• Cassandra’s curse: Our most ancient example of gaslighting. Like Cassandra, women today know the truth of our own experiences, but it’s still “common knowledge” that women’s emotions cloud their vision, that we tend toward hysteria, and therefore are not to be trusted.
• The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea has been painted by artists and interpreted by authors throughout the ages. Modern versions of the myth abound—in plays and films, and on TV and social media. From Eliza Doolittle to Pretty Woman to reality-TV makeover shows—all perpetuate the theme that men, or the culture at large, are the arbiters and molders of acceptable female beauty and behavior. Lesser asks, “Why are we still preoccupied by an arbitrary notion of what makes a woman beautiful, sexually desirable, or worthy of love? Why do we sacrifice our comfort, time, money, authenticity, and even our health to live up to unattainable body images? Why do we curb our emotions, repress our sexuality, quiet our voices, restrict our ambition? Why are we still under the spell of Galatea?”
Part Two looks at the story of power, and encourages women to “do power differently.” Lesser asks, “What would it be like for humanity today if women had contributed to the theories and stories about what it meant to be a powerful person? What if the relational skills women had developed over the centuries had been as revered as the skills of men? It’s time for women to tell their versions of what it means to be fully human.” Delving into texts both ancient and current, from Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to the unquestioned words of business gurus, she encourages women to ask, “What is power anyway? Who gets to have it, use it, define it? Can it be shared? Does it always corrupt? Can a person wield power without violence and domination?”

And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted and to look within and take responsibility for our own shadows. She encourages us to examine: how both women and men are wounded by patriarchy; how we use language—we describe almost everything we do from the major to the mundane, using words of combat (front lines, battle, etc.), which seeps into our consciousness and affects the way we go about our daily lives; how women suffer from the “imposter syndrome,” and ways of overcoming it; how we are going through “a collective rite of passage” and need to support and uplift each other; the importance of a “do no harm and take no shit” philosophy; and how we all can rewrite the hero myth by honoring and telling the stories of women who have inspired us.

Women, men, and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all. “When I dream of a better world,” Lesser writes, “I dream of men fearlessly reclaiming traits that have been coded feminine: feelings, empathy, communication. I dream of women reclaiming traits that have been coded masculine: ambition, confidence, authority. But what I dream of most is women and men mixing it up, blending it all together, tempering power with wisdom, giving muscle and prestige to love and nurture. That’s my dream. I hope this book gives voice to yours and helps you weave the new stories the world is waiting for.”

Elizabeth Lesser’s bestselling books include Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow and Marrow: Love, Loss & What Matters Most. She is the co-founder of Omega Institute, has given two popular TED talks, and is a member of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100.


When did we as women start trying so desperately to tame our feelings, our bodies, our ambition? In this powerful and beautiful book, Elizabeth Lesser brings us back to the earliest stories that convinced us to silence our voices, and then forward to a place where we trust ourselves to lead our lives -- and the world.
—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of UNTAMED, and founder of Together Rising

Cassandra Speaks is about the power of love instead of the love of power. Elizabeth Lesser speaks to the value of finding your voice in the wilderness of these times, of taking a new kind of hero’s journey—one that replaces violence and domination with deep feeling and courageous communication. What a blessing!
—Iyanla Vanzant, Author, Host, Iyanla Fix My Life (OWN)

Here’s what I learned reading this blazingly wonderful book: All those stories and myths that I unconsciously absorbed? They were wrong. They defined, limited, and contained me.
Now it’s time for women to know the truth and rewrite the tales. Every chapter of this book hit home.
—Sally Field, Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author of In Pieces

Blessed are the truth tellers, and Elizabeth Lesser is one of them. Cassandra Speaks is astute and witty, tender, and soulful. It’s a tapestry of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual fuel that inspires women—and all people left out of history’s storytelling—to reclaim our lineage, to become prophetic alchemists in a world in grave need of healing.
—Jamia Wilson, Executive Director and Publisher of the Feminist Press

Cassandra Speaks is a nod to the power of storytelling in our journey to build a truly equitable society. It lays bare the relationship between gender and power and makes a compelling case for deepening our connections and embracing our collective humanity.
—Tony Porter, CEO of A CALL TO MEN

Elizabeth Lesser is a wise and powerful storyteller. Cassandra Speaks helps us understand the roots of women’s shame and guilt and offers a path forward—by changing our stories, we change our lives.
—Eileen Fisher, founder, EILEEN FISHER, Inc.

An encouraging guide to help women redefine their lives.
—Kirkus Reviews

Readers will find this lucid and detailed presentation of feminist.

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New Survey Shows AdultsAges 50-59 See Value

But Lack Awareness of vaccines

Nearly three quarters(73%) of adults ages 50-59 say it is absolutely essential, extremely important or very important for adults their age to get vaccinated, however, more than one-third of older adults have never heard of or are unfamiliar with the vaccines recommended for their age group. In fact, 36% of adults ages 50-59 think that only high-risk people (e.g., managing chronic conditions, immuno-compromised, etc.) need adult vaccines, when in fact, many vaccines are recommended for most older adults.

Now, more than ever before, it is important to fully utilize the vaccines we have to help prevent the spread of disease.

A new data cut of a national survey of 3,000 US adults ages 50-79 and 300 US primary care physicians, found:

Less than half of adults in the US receive most vaccines recommended for them, in part because awareness is low.
More than three-quarters of older adults (76%) describe their current overall health as excellent or good, with a majority (67%) reporting typically seeing a healthcare provider (HCP) at least once a year, but despite this, they still are lacking on vaccine knowledge and vaccination habits.

Most physicians (80%) say getting recommended vaccines is one of the most important things older adults can do to stay healthy. Further, nearly all (96%) agree that talking with patients about the value of vaccines should be a priority for all healthcare providers.
A recommendation from an HCP is the most important factor in motivating older adults (48%) to get their vaccines.

Adults ages 50 and older may need a number of vaccines, based on their age, underlying medical conditions, lifestyle, prior vaccinations, and other considerations, including flu, shingles, pneumococcal disease, hepatitis, pertussis, and tetanus. For all adults, even those who are more health-conscious, more information and discussions with an HCP could play a critical role in improving vaccination and health outcomes.

Vaccines help protect the moments that matter in our lives and are important to help stop the spreadof disease.

Dr. Len Friedland, Vice President, and Director, Scientific Affairs and Public Health, Vaccines at GSK to learn more about the survey results and resources where your audience can learn more about recommended adult vaccines. He will be joined alternately by shingles patient advocate, Alice, who didn’t think shingles she was at risk for shingles until she contracted it at age 57.

Data on file.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Vaccination Coverage Among Adults in the United States, National HealthInterview Survey, 2016.
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This group gathered togethervirtually to discuss some of the Good News in their lives. Everyone wason the same page with the mission to help others. Here is a littlebackground on each, please look them up and join this Good News Groups outreach, as we plan to promote Operation Warrior Shield - HealingTheir Hidden Wounds

Cindy Marinangel has been an actresssince childhood and loves entertaining an audience, in meaningful ways andprojects. As you know Marlene Dietrich raised more money for the Americantroops than another entertainer in Hollywood. www.dietrichplay.com

David Curtis has had an exemplary a career in the Fire Department saving lives, and now he serves as a councilmanfor the city of Weehawken, where they have the responsibility of keeping theschools safe and the public.

Errol Rapaport, as a man for all seasons,has helped so many with his public relations skills. One of his effortshelped put Meningitis on the world stage for a vaccine. Rappaportin Residence - A dream of Passion

CMS (ret) Edward W Schloeman created Operation WarriorShield

HealingTheir Hidden Wounds

Operation Warrior Shield, Inc.provides comprehensive support programs for service members, veterans, firstresponders and their families that are focused on transition, health andwellness, employment, prevention of homelessness, peer engagement, andconnections to community resources. The emphasis is to help heal their hiddenwounds through:


Helping veterans find jobs

Eliminating Veteran homelessness

Teaching Transcendental Meditation

VETWELL – “Community Based Holistic Wellness” program
OperationWarrior Shield is led byCMSgt(ret) Edward Schloeman, John Walsh, WalterPrimoff, and Lt Col. (ret)Patrick Kernan, and Special Advisor Anne Akers.

Over the last 8years, Ed Schloemanand the late Jerry Yellin traveled the country speaking on behalf of thenon-religious modality of Transcendental Meditation –TM. In turn, they becamepartners with many veteran service organizations –Wounded WarriorProject, USO,US Army, USMC, NYC Department of Veterans Services and others.

Today, we have partnered with theDavid Lynch Foundation to bring proven treatments to help“heal the hiddenwounds” and to build resilience to the stresses of life.

Errol’s Mantra

You can make more money, but you can't make more time.

When you give someone yourtime, you are giving them a portion ofyour life.

Your time is your life.

That is why the greatest gift youcan give someone is your time.

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National Country Radio DJ Amy Brown, Shares the Inspiring Stories of America’s Dairy Farmers in New Digital Series That Helps Fight Our Country’s Intensifying Hunger Crisis.

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With the holidays upon us once again, many of us are looking forward to enjoying meals together. But for far too many, just being able to get that food on the table can be a challenge.
 
With hunger intensifying across the country, America’s dairy farmers are working tirelessly to provide food for our families. But, their efforts don’t end there.
 
Through a new online series hosted by national country music radio host Amy Brown, dairy farmers are sharing their personal stories and recipes to help fight hunger. Amy joins us today from her home studio in Nashville, Tennessee to discuss the series and how you can help feed a family!

Program is Donating Meals to Feeding America for Each Comment or Share of “Where Goodness Grows” Episodes

Dairy farmers have been working tirelessly to provide food for our homes, schools and restaurants throughout the pandemic. Now, by sharing their stories in a seven-episode digital series hosted by national country music DJ Amy Brown, their goodness is extending even further to help to fight hunger in the U.S.

In the series “Where Goodness Grows,” Brown (co-host of iHeartRadio’s The Bobby Bones Show) speaks with Land O'Lakes farmer-owners, sharing their inspiring stories and trying some of their home-crafted recipes. It's an upbeat celebration of the work they do and the lives they lead on and off the dairy farm.
 
As part of its ongoing commitment to ending hunger in the U.S., Land O'Lakes is donating one pound of macaroni and cheese for a guaranteed maximum donation of 100,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese (equivalent to 83,000 meals) to Feeding America for every comment on or share of the series’ episodes.
 
Amy will be available for an interview to highlight the new video series and explain how viewers can help feed America simply by engaging. She will discuss:
 
·         How Land O’Lakes is helping to feed America and how viewers can help those efforts with each episode they watch
·         The unique inspiration that comes from dairy farmer-owners who have personified positivity and resilience throughout the pandemic
·         Details of the ‘Where Goodness Grows’ digital series and why she wanted to be involved
·         Most surprising things she’s learned about dairy farmers through hosting the series
·         Her favorite family recipes provided by the farmer-owners themselves
·         Where people can watch.

Attwenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. She lived with her son’ s adoptive mother while she was pregnant and pursued an open adoption.After her son was born, Hope tried to resume her life.

But the difficulty of letting her child go gnawed at Hope. Even though she had it together on the outside—graduating college and excelling in her career—on the inside she was battling a destructive cycle of depression and addiction. When life was at its darkest, Hope managed to find her way back to the light. It’s a journey she continues to this day.

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New York based award-winning author Abigail Esman's
new breakthrough book, " Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism"
Draws a link between domestic abuse &Terrorism.
She educates society on the complex web that ties "Rage: Narcissism,Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism" together.
 
 Esman’s gorgeously written book maps with precision the subterranean corridors between domestic abuse and terrorism. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding—or taming—the darker corners of the human psyche.
 
“There is a direct link between domestic abuse and psychological terror in the home and what we see play out on our streets and across the globe when it comes to terrorists, gangs, racists, and mass shooters,” declares a ward-winning essay ist Abigail R. Esman, the author of Rage.
In the days after 9/11, Esman walked the streets of New York haunted by a feeling that was eerily familiar: the trauma of violence that hovered in the air. Friends, family, and strangers moved, walked, even stood as she her self had done earlier as a victim of domestic battery and abuse at the hands of aman who would later become a White Supremacist. Since then, Esman has studied the connections between domestic abuse and terrorism and the forces that inspire both forms of violence. In her book, Esman brings into focus the complex web that ties them together, illuminating the terrorist psyche and the cultures, both public and familial, that create it.

Esman is available to elaborate on the following:

     How domestic abuse at home breeds school shooters, street gangs, White Supremacists, and terrorists.
     The close and growing connections between misogyny andWhite Supremacism.
     What America can do to greatly reduce acts of mass violence and terrorism.
     What must be done to prevent domestic abuse from becoming public abuse?
     How President Trump’s narcissism feeds a national mindset that justifies and promotes violence.
     What the author, an award-winning journalist, discovered while interviewing Islamic jihadists and      
     White Supremacists.
     How promoting women’s rights, furthering the arts, and creating educational programs can combat  
     mass violence.
     How the United States is breeding a culture of terrorism that manifests violence.
 
With this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of pathological narcissism and its roots in shame honor cultures—both familial and sociopolitical—through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including O. J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden, Anders Breivik, and Dylann Roof.
 
“A critical purpose of this book is to create a deeper awareness of domestic abuse and violence against women and children as part of an effort to reduce rates of ‘national violence and militarism’ – and terror,” writes Esman. “That violence exists not only in the desert sands of Islamic State territory and in the mountain villages of Afghanistan but also in American school shootings of Boston, at Christmas parties in San Bernardino, at military recruitment centers in Tennessee, in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, on the sidewalks of New York City; and at a café in Sydney, Australia, a conference in Copenhagen, a restaurant in Paris, on the London Metro, on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam, and far too many more.”
 

About Abigail R. Esman: She is also the author of Radical State: How Jihad IsWinning Over Democracy in the West. An award-winning journalist and essayist, she has contributed to Foreign Policy, Forbes, Salon.com, the New Republic, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, World Policy Review, and other venues. She is a regular contributor to the investigative Project on Terrorism and has spoken widely on the subject, including appearances on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, BBC News, and CNN. For more information, please consult: http://abigailesman.com.

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Steven D. Sladkus is a founding partner of the firm. He zealously represents clients in all facets of real estate-related litigation including on behalf of cooperatives and condominiums. He also regularly handles a wide variety of construction and general commercial and corporate-law cases as well as the defense of discrimination claims, including those against cooperative and condominium boards. https://ssrga.com/attorney/



Mr. Sladkus also provides general counseling to the boards of the firm’s cooperative and condominium clients and also lectures on many of these topics.



His reported cases include Constantiner v. Sovereign Apartments, Inc., et al., granting a protective order prohibiting destructive testing and creating artificial conditions for sound testing in connection with a noise dispute in a cooperative; Weinreb v. 37 Apartments Corp., dismissing shareholders’ cause of action for permanent injunction against directors of residential cooperative corporation where only substantive claim against them had previously been dismissed; 61 W. 62 Owner’s Corp. v. CGM EMP LLC, granting injunction in favor of residential cooperative corporation against nearby bar from causing noise nuisance; Peacock v. Herald Square Loft Corp., dismissing shareholders’ claim for breach of fiduciary duty against board members in their individual capacities; Raimondi v. Board of Managers of Olympic Tower Condominium, granting summary judgement to condominium holding that an agreement between the board and a purchaser as a condition for waiving the board’s right of first refusal was enforceable; Teitelbaum v. Mordowitz, granting summary judgement on personal guaranty for real estate loan; Terk v. 40059 Owners Corp., reversing summary judgement against cooperative where question existed whether tenant waived proprietary lease notice requirement for cooperative’s repairs; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Barney Skanska Construction Company, granting summary judgement to defendant construction company dismissing plaintiff’s claim that defendant was liable for discrimination as a successor-in-interest of company purchases by defendant; and 178 East 80th Street Owners, Inc. v. Jenkins, denial of defendant’s motion to vacate the parties’ freely negotiated settlement agreement.



Mr. Sladkus serves as an arbitrator in the Civil Court of the City of New York, is a member of the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is the co-chairman of the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. He has also been selected to Super Lawyers from 2010 to 2016.



Mr. Sladkus has also been featured in articles concerning cooperatives and condominiums and real estate-related matters in The New York Times, The New York Post, Crain’s, The Daily News, The Real Deal, Habitat Magazine and the Cooperator and is regularly called upon to contribute to The New York Times Real Estate Section’s Q & A.



He is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the United States District Courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.



Mr. Sladkus graduated from Brandeis University (B.A. 1991) and from Brooklyn Law School (J.D. 1994). He received a LL.M. (Masters of Laws) in Taxation degree from New York University School of Law (1995).



Mr. Sladkus is on the Ambassador Board of ConnectOne Bank and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish Metro New York and Western New York.

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