Liss’N Kristi

Today's guest is Suzanne Kianpour, an international journalist who seeks a genuine place for women in reporting and negotiating from conflict zones around the world. From her start at Emory University to the BBC, Suzanne understood that more young women needed to be encouraged and supported in journalism reporting, and that women can play a vital role in both informing people and, simultaneously, helping to offer differing perspectives on defusing international conflicts. 

Suzanne has covered issues ranging from the "Mueller Report" on Donald Trump's alleged ties to the Russian authorities, to the current conflicts in the Middle East. 

In this episode with Liss and Kristi, she also navigates the balance between personal and professional ambitions, particularly for women in journalism. Drawing inspiration from pioneering journalists like Barbara Walters and Savannah Guthrie, we discuss the pressures and challenges women face in balancing career aspirations with personal life goals. 

For aspiring Journalism and Reporting students - it's a huge advantage to speak a foreign language (in Suzanne's case, Farsi and others) or to have studied Economics ,or a related practical social science. 

Suzanne's website:- 

https://www.helmettoheels.com/p/about-helmet-to-heels

STORIES:-

00:00 - Start

00:24 - Kristi's social networking capabilities

00:39 - Introducing Suzanne from Cyprus and "Helmets Appeals"

02:10 - "Who said I had a stroke?"

02:26 - When Suzanne came to the ranch - "That Girl"

03:26 - Inspiring young female journalists

05:26 - Suzanne's career

08:10 - Delivering Savannah Guthrie's mail at NBC 

08:45 - "Hey, you're Persian"

09:30 - Sinclair is taking Russian

10:33 - Mike Pompeo comes to talk at Texas A&M

13:10 - "You register them for camp when they come out of utero"

16:20 - Emory "Southern Values" and "Melting Pot"

19:00 - Barbara Walters' memoir

21:25 - I was raised by other people

22:34 - "You guys are good journalists"

26:59 - Supportive Relationships and Ironies 

28:10 - RBG documentary

28:40 - "You had to marry a rich man"

29:57 - The ISIS massacre in Northern Iraq

30:33 - No role for women in these conflicts zones

31:44 -  Women in Diplomatic Negotiations

34:11 - Empowering Voices for Change

40:08 - Power Summit Message 

42:02 - Forgiving Donald Trump

42:49 - Holding memories  

This week, Alissa gives Kristi a full-face makeover, and the rest of us are treated to a makeup tutorial. 

But while we watch, Kristi tells how a routine ENT procedure led to a staph infection, multiple surgeries, and extensive reconstruction on one side of her face. She endured years of surgery and recovery. 

Some people are quick to see a scar or a blemish, without knowing the back story. Characteristically, Kristi describes the emotional and physical toll of endless visits to specialists and surgical procedures, with her unique sense of humor.

STORIES

00:00 - Start 

00:04 - Checking that "vulnerability box"

00:35 - Everybody's so quick to see a blemish

00:58 - Almost 20 years ago, I got an infection, and fought it for 4-5 years

02:20 - I got staph one one side of my face, constantly fighting nose bleeds

03:46 - "The man keeps rubbing on my ears" - where to go if we have to rebuild

04:45 - In Los Angeles, they replaced my cheek

05:55 - You have a two year old girl at home and the infection is growing

06:45 - 13 hours of surgery

08:00 - Bone v Cartilage

08:23 - "I had 2-thousand stitches inside my mouth"

09:35 - Judgment on social media

10:02 - The lip: "It's lumpy and it just lives there"

12:05 - My doctor in California said: "I put people back together"

13:03 - I woke up, and I looked like the Elephant Man

14:03 - Mashed potatoes and broth  

16:47 - Everything they built has become infected

18:05 - I had a picc line every evening for nine months

21:11 - Trust me, fat lips were not fashionable 

22:02 - Were the years of antibiotics a factor in your strokes? 

22:45 - Makeup tips and tricks from Alyssa

25:05 - Foundation

26:09 - Everyone says don't use talc

28:00 - Makeup for the bride

29:00 - Take pics of your feet and make some money

Twenty-five years ago, Kristi was brutally attacked in an ordeal that forever changed her perspective on personal safety. This week, she bravely revisits that horrifying night, when a man feigned familiarity to gain her trust, only to launch a violent assault while she was driving through what she believed to be a safe neighborhood. 

He left her for dead, and fled before police arrived. He then went on to attack two more women before he was caught, seven months later. Kristi says the ordeal, which is still vivid today, inspired her to launch the hugely successful K9s4COPS, a non-profit which places trained dogs with law enforcement agencies and in schools across the United States.  In this episode we learn about the incredible work K9s4COPS is doing every day, and how we can support it.  

https://www.K9s4COPS.org 

STORIES

00:00 - Start

00:11 - Trigger Warning

00:19 - Kristi's story

00:43 - 24/25  years ago, a man approaches my car 

01:43 - He walks away. In my mind that was closure

01:53 - He comes up again, says he's in a bind, can you give me a ride to my car?

02:29 - Is he going to think I'm a snob? 

02:43 - So I agreed to give him a ride

03:02 - I realized there was nobody around on the unlit county road

03:51 - He hit me with such force it shattered the window. We went down into a ditch.

03:59 - Next thing you know, I was fighting for my life

04:04 - I was thinking: "Of all the stupid choices I could have made".

04:25 - Mentally, I was in my home town

04:40 - He wanted to rape me and kill me

04:56 - His eyes were just the devil. 

05:24 - There's blood everywhere, some from the windscreen

05:43 - I'm fighting for my life

06:15 - Just scream 

06:30 - He had attacked two other women. I can't scream, nobody's going to hear me

07:05 - A woman driving behind calls the police

07:42 - I'm glad I didn't have my gun.

07:55 - I'm not anti-gun, I'm anti-gun in the wrong hands

08:28 - Situational awareness is important

09:33 - I find the door handle

09:55 - I've got to get good scratches in for when they take the DNA when I'm dead

10:20 - I fractured my arm, but I took off running

11:10 - A cop arriving sees a bloody nude woman, and the suspect escaped

12:20 - A girl arrives, she's trying to stop the bleeding

13:04 - When do those dogs get here, who will find him?

13:40 - They caught him 7 months later after he'd attacked two other women

13:53 - If they'd only had a dog? 

14:45 - The legacy of K9s4COPS.org

15:30 - Supplementing our law enforcement agencies

15:56 - The politicians can take the credit

17:03 - God puts you in certain situations, where you don't realize your story can help someone

17:25 - How to connect with Kristi and Alissa at K9s4COPS.org  

After serving on more than a dozen non-profit boards, all overseeing important charitable causes, Kristi became frustrated about the red tape involved in getting funding donations to the sources of the problems. 

Then one night she saw a TV news show about a law enforcement officer in Houston who lost his service dog to violence. 

She devoted much of her subsequent philanthropy to launching a new non-profit: "K9s4COPS" which places working dogs in schools, law enforcement organizations, and local communities. 

In this episode of Liss'N Kristi, she tells Alissa how it all came about, and why it is increasingly important for local communities, and for her legacy. 

00:00 - Start
00:15 - Introducing Kristi's passion: K9s4cops and K9s4kids
01:15 - "14 years ago, sitting on a dozen boards, I didn't feel fulfilled"
02:04 - "everything from the arts, to hospitals, I gave it my all"
02:38 - "Watching TV, I saw this beautiful dog, with his officer"
04:07 - "I'll guess they'll just give him another dog"
05:12 - "He had to go home to his kids without the dog"
06:20 - "I'm sitting on the ballet board"
06:50 - How do you get past all the red tape?
07:14 - Having your name on the side of a building
07:50 - "How does somebody give $20 towards that dog who protects their children?"
10:02 - "This county has been ten years raising the funds for one dog"
10:35 - A dog's nose is 500 times stronger than a person
11:02 - "They don't call in sick"
12:03 - The first fundraiser at Kristi's house: "That dog does tricks" 
13:45 - "That dog can run 35 miles an hour"
14:45 - "Probable Cause"
15:30 - $130-million dollars worth of Fentanol
16:30 - K9s4Cops.org
18:00 - Only funded by private donors
19:20 - https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/
22:01 - "Politicians - I'm still waiting"
22:35 - "You can no longer fund this project on your own"
23:37 - A really amazing phone call - Canines in hospitals
27:05 - Every child deserves a safe place to be:  K9s4KIDS
29:20 - Dogs are quicker 
30:31 - "They get to bathe Lucy that week"
32:10 - Second Amendment Rights - Let's work on an alternative
33:25 - "You want to give a teacher a gun, and you want her to save the day?"
34:45 - European dogs have better hips
37:41 - These officers are so excited to get a dog
39:20 - Our oldest dog working was 14
40:15 - "We want to see the dog retire with its handler"
44:10 - How to give back by funding the dogs

This week, part two of our adventures with hair and skin products, starring Mackenzie Fultz - a makeup guru, podcaster, and former private investigator. Mackenzie joins Liss'N Kristi again to discuss the popular, the undiscovered, the bargains and the finest products.
(And we're giving away a beauty basket to the value of $1000. So if this episode gets 100 subscribers and 1,000 views in the first five days of Drop, we want you to share it, leave a comment, and if you leave a comment, ONE lucky participant will receive a $1,000 beauty basket containing all our favorite products.) Regular viewers and listeners know Mackenzie was a Private Investigator in Florida for 18 years, before launching the Dating Detectives Podcast, and a direct-to-consumer makeup business. 

Mackenzie:-
https://linktr.ee/freedominbeauty

The Dating Detectives Podcast:-
https://www.thedatingdetectivespodcast.com/

STORIES:
00:00 - Start
00:15 - Non-greasy hair products
01:02 - Being afraid of oils
02:10 - A post-shower trick
04:25 - "The grit is what I like"
05:02 - "You don't have to follow Cosmo magazine"
07:10 - Reagan the Super-Producer gets hairsprayed
10:05 - Face Masks
10:28 - With this face mask, you can do the dishes and sleep on your side
11:18 - Tiffany Masterson and the Drunk Elephant 
14:50 - "If you find it at Marshalls, probably don't buy it"
15:32 - Face cleansers: "Magic in a bottle"
16:40 - Exfoliating pads
19:00 - Leghair, razors, and shaving
21:58 - Chemical 'warfare' on the face
22:50 - Estrogen face cream
23:38 - Eye whitening drops - one in each eye
25:01 - If you only had one product - it's Tatcha
26:11 - Self-tanner and Pasty Girl
27:20 - Hair masks, body lotion
28:50 - Showers and antibacterial soap
30:04 - Face primers

This week, Mackenzie Fultz joins Liss'N Kristi again to discuss the finest hair products and gadgets for all kinds of hair in all kinds of environments. We discuss how hair treatments can change as we grow older, and how to enhance our hair and skin with make-up. 

And we're giving away a beauty basket to the value of $1000. So if this episode gets 100 subscribers and 1,000 views in the first five days of Drop, we want you to share it, leave a comment, and if you leave a comment, ONE lucky participant will receive a $1,000 beauty basket containing all our favorite products.

Regular viewers know Mackenzie was a Private Investigator in Florida for 18 years, before launching the Dating Detectives Podcast, and a direct-to-consumer makeup business.

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Mackenzie:- https://linktr.ee/freedominbeauty The Dating Detectives Podcast:- https://www.thedatingdetectivespodcast.com/


00:00 - Start
00:15 - Best care products, and the giveaway
01:37 - Beauty is my love language
03:14 - The "hair journey" 
04:06 - Curls and Metal Detoxing
07:19 - Hair and Humility
09:02 - "Let it be greasy"
09:38 - Hair extensions and growth
12:01 - Care with silicone products
12:50 - Kristi's curly hair: "I've fought these curls my whole life"
15:10 - "These lips are mine"
16:05 - "If it makes you look prettier"
16:25 - How Alissa became a make-up artist
18:01 - Plumpness and youthfulness
21:25 - Gold joy versus silver joy
22:25 - Women who are intimidated by make-up
25:00 - Living in sunscreen 
27:35 - Kristi's controversial school donation
30:05 - Drying and curling products

This week, international broadcaster Mark McDonald joins Kristi and Alissa to talk about the podcasting revolution. From his own journey as a radio and television producer with the BBC, to launching his own podcasting production and consulting business, Mark guides us through how to launch, sustain and win a wide audience for your podcast, no matter how ambitious or small your targets.
Podcasters are moving in increasing numbers from uploading audio to showcasing both audio and video. And Mark is producing topic-based shows which are also increasing in diversity: from the Liss 'N Kristi podcast to programs about health, careers, workplace issues, sports, politics, and relationships. 
We discuss the challenges of building audiences, the decision of whether to do both video and audio, dubbing recordings into foreign languages, and how artificial intelligence might change podcasting's future. 

00:00 - Start
00:15 - Discovering Mark
01:23 - Starting a podcast
02:16 - Enabling people to speak to wider audiences
02:51 - Helping podcasters use digital tools
03:55 - Podcasting and Artificial Intelligence
05:47 - The Multi-Faceted Process
06:27 - Confusion around regulations
07:38 - The complicated political atmosphere 
08:26 - The alternate meaning of "BBC"
11:46 - "I'm a Fox News girl"
12:15 - Mark's diversity of podcast clients
14:29 - Be "in it" for the long haul
15:25 - Motivations for podcasting
16:40 - The rise of Video and YouTube in podcasting
17:45 - The future for audio and radio - multi-tasking
18:20 - The effects of sound pollution
19:50 - The challenge of building audience
21:00 - Joe Rogan, Mr. Beast and foreign podcast translations
24:01 - The time, energy and research it takes
25:25 - Advocating for teaching "soft skills"
28:56 - How to reach Mark 

Today Alissa and Kristi swap generational stories about the rise and influence of the internet. Kristi recalls the dial-up modems and floppy discs of the nineties, and continues to figure out AI along with everyone else. 

Alissa tells the painful story of what happens when you make friends with someone online who promises to be the partner of your dreams, putting energy and emotion into that dream, who then turns out to be a total catfishing fake. 

Plus the ladies launch the Shoppable Swag Store. Go to [email protected] for info. 

And let us know how you feel about the show. 
https://www.lissnkristi.com

00:00 - Start

00:37 - The greatest podcast ever

01:05 - Leave a review of the show on YouTube, Apple, Spotify

01:35 - The first "Miss AI America"?

01:48 - AI-created social influencers, creating the perfect digital host

02:35 - Sinclair's digital tools

03:08 - The Lady in the Computer 

03:40 - My Only Fans model

05:40 - Leaving for school is so different 

06:05 - I asked: "what is email?" 

06:48 - What was it like being on the internet in the 90s?

07:55 - Dial-Up modems and floppy discs

08:34 - Appealing to the video gamer audience

09:12 - Re AI - watch the Timber Barker Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks6qOZuejws

10:02 - You're not allowed to show your feet on Twitch

11:20 - Does everything change when you hit forty? I hang out at twelve

12:22 - Feeling the "weight of humanity" 

13:20 - We're in a little rough patch, but there's still opportunity here

15:01 - A lot of social media is basically a trafficking ring

15:29 - Alissa's Catfish story 

17:05 - Jenn - "long drawn-out letters of love"

18:53 - "I was the perfect bait"

20:40 - "This is not a real person"

23:02 - Kristi's "catfisher" - "he followed you on Instagram".

24:25 - All his followers are Bots  

25:05 - The Swag Store

25:46 - Rather than keep and hoard - we're selling our "luxury items" to help our worthy causes -

26:47 - Kristi's list - Things I could've told myself when I was 18. 

26:51 - "Find your passion, and learn to monetize it."

26:58 - "Other people's opinion of you."

27:00 - "Try to travel as much as you can."

27:04 - "Always be grateful and give credit to those who got you there."

27:16 - "You don't do good if you don't have enough sleep."

27:22 - "It will all be OK in the end. And if it's not, it's not the end."

28:10 - Get good stationary and write a good "thank you" note. 

This week, we're joined by our Political Correspondent Sinclair Schiller, to examine the increasingly chaotic terrain of the American election year, as Donald Trump survives an assassin's bullet, and Joe Biden drops out.  

Sinclair gives us the younger perspective as she prepares to go to Emory University. 

Among the topics: How could the Secret Service let this happen? Is 250 years enough for a dynasty? Why does Kristi have a thing for JD Vance? And what happened when she met Bill Clinton? Many updates to come, as we figure out which is the real anti-democracy party, and social media invents ever more crazy conspiracies. 

00:00 - Start

00:21 - Our introducing our new "political correspondent"

01:55 - The "No Religion, No Politics" rule never existed around my table

02:20 - "Trump came down the elevator. This should be good for ratings. Wait, he was elected?"

03:13 - "You can't buy the kind of advertising he provides himself"

03:33 - Sinclair predicts Biden's withdrawal from the race, on the weekend!

03:45 - Kristi crushing on JD Vance, and Hillbilly Elegy

05:13 - "I'm still not a Trump fan, but when you put Biden and Trump next to each other"

05:48 - Kristi in defense of Joe Biden

07:10 - JD's book was a reminder of my upbringing

08:15 - If Trump had been assassinated, we might have seen an RFK sweep

08:55 - Trump has a lot of issues with taped phone calls

09:24 - JD Vance's wife is brilliant, pretty

11:10 - The most surprising election you've ever watched

12:05 - When Trump won, I didn't realize we were in "that place"

13:29 - There should be an age cap for the presidency

14:28 - The attempted assassination: "They go through and rip out your flower beds"

16:05 - The roof was sloped

16:25 - Elon gives $45-million a month to Trump

17:05 - Why were there no Secret Service dogs? 

19:50 - He turns his head 15 degrees

20:01 - Somebody put the My Pillow meme under Trump's ear bandage

20:35 - The average span of an empire is 250 years

21:57 - The "debate" was "elder abuse"

23:15 - "You're looking at a man in denial"

25:15 - The deep state became a self-fulfilling prophecy

26:20 - Georgia turned blue in the middle of the night

27:32 - Most Americans agree on major things

28:15 - When Kristi met Bill Clinton

31:40 - A large portion of the internet said: "Is this staged?"

32:02 - You should treat with suspicion any major news that breaks"

34:48 - People are detached from politics because it's "so insane"

37:05 - We need a Department of Technology

37:50 - Sinclair leaves for Emory University, Georgia

39:25 - Gun Reform - it should be tougher than getting a Drivers' License

40:00 - There are guns designed to kill people, and there's no reason to have them in your home

Landon Bryant was amazed when his daily TikTok and Instagram musings on southern culture started accumulating millions of internet hits. Landon - an art teacher from the down-home town of Laurel, Mississippi, is now about to launch a book tour and a stand-up comedy show based on his funny and historic observations on southern life.  

In this episode, he tells Liss'NKristi about his childhood, his family, and how he is reviving southern culture with a new generation via their mobile phones, and reinforcing southern heritage and identity.  

His nostalgia for kinder and more authentic times, he says, is more than welcome in today's confusing world. 

Instagram:-

@Landontalks

https://www.instagram.com/landontalks/

Other Links:-
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Email:- 

[email protected]

STORIES

00:00 - Start

00:11 - The importance of Duke's Mayonnaise

01:30 - Introduction to Landon

02:10 - Upbringing: "Go outside and don 't come back until dark"

03:00 - How "Landon Talks" for started - the story of "Walmart" High School

04:42 - "8th Grade was in the baby section"

07:12 - Landon's life as an art teacher 

07:47 - The cookie container and the dishes

09:22 - Cleaning the cast-iron skillet

10:20 - Topic ideas from Landon's followers

11:58 - The best southern grandma nicknames

13:54 - Landon's family, the "city" v "country" folk

16:00 - HGTV's Erin and Ben Napier renovating the town 

17:37 - TV and Book Deals: "All Things Southern"

18:20 - Kristi's arrest in Best Buy - cops came from every direction

22:20 - Mishaps in Oxford, Mississippi

25:29 - How the book happened - publishers just showed up

28:25 - Footnotes in the book for Southern references

29:13 - Kristi's daughter Kimball SInclair and her favorite uncle's name 

30:25 - Doing stand-up, the book tour and the handler

32:13 - "It's literally me and my iphone" 

34:10 - "People like the authenticity"

35:10 - The importance of kindness in culture 

38:35 - Where to find Landon