Sonstein Sessions

Shelli Sonstein's Sessions - Schroeder Stribling is the new President & CEO of Mental Health America. Mental health has become one of the biggest challenges during the pandemic.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Although he’s known for his Oscar winning performance in “Mystic River” and the iconic “The Shawshank Redemption”, 40 years ago, Tim Robbins formed a theater company, The Actors’ Gang, which has Zoom performances now through September 4t of the Studs Terkel work “Hard Times”.

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He responded on 9/11 , was shortly thereafter promoted to EMS Lt. Now Vinny Variale is the President of the EMS Officers Union Local 3621. After losing 4 young EMS’ers to suicide during the pandemic and with the nature of their job causing PTSD, Vinny wants confidential mental health therapy for everyone in the FDNY EMS. EMS’ers have been without a contract for 3 years now. They want parity pay & benefits with firefighters and cops. Right now, a NYC EMS’er gets 12 days sick leave. After that, it’s no pay and no medical coverage. So why does anyone join the EMS? Vinny has the intriguing answer.

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How much of a threat is the Delta Variant of Covid to both the vaxxed and unvaxxed? Dr. Waleed Javaid is the director of infection, prevention and control at Mt. Sinai. The situation is fluid

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Marilyn Schlossbach owns several popular restaurants down the shore, including The Langosta Lounge and Pop’s Garage in Asbury Park. The good news is all her eateries have survived the pandemic. The bad news is they’re really not making a profit. Schlossbach was the first to alert locally about staffing issues in restaurants. Months later, it’s SOS. Schlossbach offers some solutions .

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9/11 community lawyers Michael Barasch & Dom Penson reveal we have now lost more people to 9/11 illnesses than we lost on 9/11. We have lost at least 5-thousand people to 9/11 illnesses in the last 19 years. A half-million people are at risk and still don’t know it.

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Q 104.3 listener Louis Henry Mitchell may have the coolest job alive: he designs all the new Muppets, directs all photoshoots & designs the Muppet Macy’s Thanksgiving Day floats and balloons for Sesame Street Workshop. He says he owes it all to his mom, who drove him to live his dreams.

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Richard Montanez’s story is a true rags-to-riches tale. He went from being a farmworker to janitor at Pepsico to creating Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and then promoted to being to a Pepsico exec! The American dream!

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As we near the 20 year commemoration of 9/11, Tunnel 2 Towers Chairman and CEO Frank Siller details their plans and some their latest program to help families with young children, who lost parents due to 9/11 illness.

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“No Ordinary Life” is an amazing Tribeca Festival doc focusing on 5 frontline camerawomen: unsung women who cover wars behind the lens of video cameras. Director Heather O’Neill shares the stories of these brave and groundbreaking women.

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