Only One In The Room

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Robert Kabera right after the show.

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Picture this, you’re five years old and your mom is cooking dinner, like she does every night. Suddenly the air around your home is filled with screams and gunfire.

Robert Kabera, Stanford graduate, co-founder, and COO of Sync Energy A.I., survived the 1994 Rwandan Genocide with his family by hiding in tunnels, evading soldiers, and spending six years in refugee camps. 

But what would you do if after graduating from one of America’s most prestigious universities, you discovered that 90% of Africa is not banked and that many of the people there were living off of the energy grid? Would you decide to ignore the problems of your home continent and focus on the USA? Or would you launch business after business aimed at helping people in various African countries and find yourself on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy sector?

More From Robert Kabera:

Read his Forbes 30-Under-30 Article

Visit: https://robertkabera.com

Finding Robert Kabera:

Facebook: Robert Kabera

Twitter: @rkabera

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Be sure not to miss Scott Talks on Wednesdays, our Sunday release called Sunday Edition & our brand new series On My Nightstand releasing on Fridays by subscribing to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. 

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Parental alienation occurs during a high-conflict divorce in which the child identifies strongly with one parent, usually the custodial parent. The alienating parent programs the child to despise their other parent by criticizing the alienated parent and interfering with their relationship. 

Here to dive into this with us is Dr. Petra Deeter. Dr. Deeter is an award-winning film director and a social impact builder. As a survivor of child abuse and domestic violence, she is passionate about creating social impact to advocate for victims. She is the founder and a parental alienation strategist at the Victim To Hero Institute where she provides resources and support for victims, raises public awareness, and champions system and social changes.

Visit the website: http://VictimToHero.com

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Instagram: @victimtohero, @petradeeter

Twitter: @victimtohero

Tik Tok: @victimtohero 

LinkedIn: Victim To Hero

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On this final Friday of Suicide Prevention Awareness month, we wanted to bring you this powerful piece that my friend, writer, writing coach, speaker, and editor, Lisa Cooper Ellison wrote for Huffpo.

Lisa Cooper Ellison is a speaker, writing coach, and editor with an Ed.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a background in mindfulness. Her life story and essays have appeared on NPR’s With Good Reason and in Hippocampus Literary Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, and The Guardian, among others. She's currently working on a memoir about how traveling with her husband’s heavy metal band into post-Bosnian-War Yugoslavia soon after her brother's suicide led to a promise that ultimately saved her. To learn more, you can check out her website or you can follow her on Twitter @LisaEllisonsPen.

https://www.huffpost.com/section/huffpost-personal

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Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Ever Gonzalez right after the show.

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What if, after crossing the US border with your mother, you joined the Mormon church and began to reject the clichés associated with immigrants, deciding that handouts were not for you and with hard work, anything was possible for anyone.

Ever Gonzalez, podcaster, and founder of Outlier HQ media and events company, found that his morals and principals were better aligned with more traditional values.

But what if one day there was a cultural reckoning and everywhere you looked people were marching and calling for change? Would you stop and question the conservative ideology that was being publicly challenged? Or would you assure yourself that everyone was getting what they deserved.

More From Ever Gonzalez:

Visit Outlier HQ

Read his articles on Medium.com

Finding Ever Gonzalez:

Join the Outlier Podcast Festival Facebook Group

Instagram: @_evergonzalez & @outlierhq

Twitter: @_evergonzalez

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Be sure not to miss Scott Talks on Wednesdays, our Sunday release called Sunday Edition & our brand new series On My Nightstand releasing on Fridays by subscribing to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. 

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In this very special episode we turn the tables with our dear friend and former Only One In The Room guest from Season 1 episode 2 Dr. Troy Byer. Troy interviews hosts Laura Cathcart Robbins and Scott Slaughter (aka Hon) on all things relationships and what it's been like working together in creating this podcast.

More from Troy Byer:

Explore the many titles by Troy Byer here

Check out Mindology Fitness

Visit: https://www.troybyer.com

Finding Troy Byer:

Instagram: @DrTroy_

Twitter: @troybyer

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Tomorrow, September 18, is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, and to honor all those that are living longer and even thriving with a disease that has killed so many of us, I wanted to read this beautiful essay by my friend, author/writer, Melanie Brooks. 

Melanie Brooks is the author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press, 2017). She teaches professional writing at Northeastern University and narrative medicine in the MFA program at Bay Path University in Massachusetts and creative writing at Nashua Community College in New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Psychology Today, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, The Huffington Post, Modern Loss and Solstice Literary Magazine. She is completing a memoir called A Hard Silence about the lasting impact of living with the ten-year secret of her father’s HIV disease before his death in 1995. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, two children, and two Labs.

Read Don't Forget This Happened

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The Only One In The Room is extremely proud to partner with 19-year old poet, Valyn Lyric Turner. From time to time, we will be bringing you her phenomenal spoken word poetry. Scott and Laura feel that today’s presentation, Race In The Classroom: Seeing Color could not have come at a better time in our history. You’ll want to share this episode with the students, parents and educators in your life, and as soon as you hear it, you’ll understand why.

Valyn Lyric Turner is a 19-year-old sophomore at Boston University where she double majors in Theatre Arts and Spanish. Valyn has always found her home on stage performing through theatre, poetry, and songwriting. In April of 2018, she was able to share her passion for literature on the national stage as the representative for the state of Georgia in Poetry Out Loud, a poetry recitation contest through the National Endowment for the Arts. Her mission is to inspire, empower, and serve others through her craft.

Instagram: @valynturner

Twitter: @valynlyric_t

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Imagine if, as a teenager, you saved every journal entry, every voicemail and filmed every moment with your friends, including, smoking weed and doing mushrooms, including epic late-night phone calls, including -- their cries for help?

Actor, director, and writer, Soleil Moon Frye, who began her career at age seven as the iconic Punky Brewster, recently released KID 90, a documentary about her teenage years with her friends. Friends that included celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brian Austin Green, Robin Thicke, Stephen Dorff and David Arquette.

But what would you do if twenty years later you revisited that footage and found yourself not only reliving the good times but also seeing things, things you missed before, with new eyes? Would you put it all back in Tupperware for another twenty years? Or would you courageously use it to make a documentary that showed the world what happens to child actors when the cameras stop rolling?

More From Soleil Moon Frye:

Watch Kid90 on Hulu

Finding Soleil Moon Frye:

Instagram: @moonfrye

Twitter: @moonfrye

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