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Kirsten is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She received her Master’s degree from The Couple and Family Therapy program at University of Maryland. She is the owner and principal therapist at Kirsten Sidell Therapy LLC, where she provides services to clients in MD and DC. Kirsten specializes in working with couples, using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, which is based on attachment theory. She helps couples to better understand how they get stuck, and find a better way to communicate that leaves them feeling emotionally connected with each other. She is also a new mom, the President and a Founding Member of the professional MFT organization in the DMV, called Metro Marriage and Family Therapists, a nature enthusiast, travel lover, lifetime learner, beginning meditator, nutrition impassioned, and emotionally intelligent community member. All of these aspects are reflective in her roles - whether it’s spending time with family, leading a MetroMFT meeting, or supporting her clients.

Learn more about Kirsten and her work:
https://www.coupleandfamilytherapist.com/

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Facebook - @KirstenLCMFT
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MetroMFT
https://metromft.wildapricot.org/

Postpartum Support International
https://www.postpartum.net/

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Leah Messina is the founder and CEO of Sinuate Media, a marketing technology firm, in 2006 after working at a digital agency in NYC leading accounts for American Express, Sony Music, A&E Television, & others. She is an innovative digital media planner, delivering industry-leading marketing strategies, and is known for guiding clients to use the latest marketing technologies to get a competitive edge. At Sinuate Media, she has led cutting edge campaigns for everything from World Extreme Cagefighting to senatorial races. She is a frequent speaker on digital marketing and an advisor to the startup community. A native New Yorker, she started her business & went to grad school in Baltimore, before settling in New Mexico, where she lives with her husband and 3 kids.

Joe Sutton joined Sinuate Media in 2018. Bringing 10+ years of cross-industry sales and marketing experience, Joe has helped Sinuate sign some of their biggest clients including Spaceport America and Electronic Caregiver. He is a proud husband and father, and a serial hobbyist who spends his spare time learning new interests like home brewing, blogging, disc golfing, and more.

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https://approachpositive.com/
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Rich Del Grande is a full time teacher and part time performer and professional goofball. He got his start in performing competing in the Red Bull Flugtag followed by almost a decade at the Olney Boys and Girls Club's Field of Screams. He previously appeared on and did social media for the “Now Available on Video Cassette” podcast and was a frequent guest on MET Comedy Nights “The Last Hurrah” improvised talk show. He currently co-hosts the annual Baltimore Krampuslauf in Hampden/Peabody Heights.  He has also appeared in music videos for Frederick area bands “Seaknuckle”, “Double Motorcycle”, and “Sunniva”.

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Link to the episode on protecting vulnerable children online
#041 Let's Help in the Fight Against "The Worst Epidemic"

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Kelley Glenn Smith is a YouTuber, podcaster, and political junkie momentarily turned, stay-at-home-mom. Her YouTube show Kindly Kelley offers viewers short helpful mom hacks, Day in the Life (DITL) scheduling videos, cleaning inspiration, meal planning inspiration, Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) for peanut allergy, and sometimes funny videos. She is also the host of the Restoring Regular Order podcast where she speaks with friends, family, business owners, and more focusing on a grassroots approach to solving the divide in our country. Her podcast joins the movement to get conservatives and liberals talking to each other again, working together again, and voting occasionally across the aisles again. Kelley has worked as a political consultant with the likes of Creigh Deeds, Peyton Williams, Mark Sickles, Jonathan Stevens, and Joe Sestak. She is also my lovely wife and the mother to our two girls.

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George Whitehead is emeritus professor of Psychology at Salisbury University. His career at SU spanned 44 years. During those years he taught many excellent students, served as Department Chair and on committees at SU and in the community. He helped start the AmeriCorps program at SU. Working on this program reinforced his belief in the power of service learning. He revised several courses to include service learning and co-authored two books on service learning. He has also co-authored articles on topics that include climate change, social psychology textbooks, and self-presentation. He earned his Ph. D. in Social Psychology from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. During his career he has received a number of awards. These include the Alumni Association’s Faculty Appreciation Award, the USM Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Service, and The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Chairman’s Award. He and his wife have two children and three grandchildren.

Learn more about Dr. Whitehead:
The Nabb Center
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Jerome C. Glenn is the CEO of The Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank with 68 Nodes around the world, which for the last 25 years has produced the annual report, The State of the Future. The State of the Future is a comprehensive overview of the present situation and prospects for humanity, integrating forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. He invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, transInstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security, collective Intelligence, and scenarios. He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. More recently he wrote Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions, and lead the American Red Cross Covid-19 Scenarios.

Learn more about Jerome's work at the Millennium Project
https://www.millennium-project.org/

Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence: The Merging of the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (1989)

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Related links to this episode's content

United Nation's Secretary General's Report "Our Common Agenda"
https://www.un.org/en/content/common-agenda-report/

Putin's Palace documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0

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Dr. Carla Messenger Shuman is a licensed clinical psychologist in Arlington Virginia. She is the owner and Director of a private practice, Mindful Solutions, LLC, and she has over 20 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and adults. After earning a PhD from The George Washington University, she completed a post doctoral fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her areas of expertise include anxiety disorders, OCD, and ADHD. She also enjoys helping clients who struggle with a chronic medical condition. Regardless of the clinical issues her clients face, she believes firmly in a resilience focused approach to managing challenges and building upon strengths for a healthier and more meaningful life experience. she believes that while we all face difficulties in life at one time or another, we can grow stronger through them and I can get beyond survival mode to lead life with purpose and joy.

Learn more about Dr. Carla and follow her on social media:
Website http://www.drcarlamessenger.com/
Psychology Today Blog From Trial to Triumph
Linked In @DrCarlaMShuman
Instagram @mindfulsolutionsllc
Twitter @DrCarlaMShuman

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Alex Ribbentrop is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Live Free Psychotherapy, a private practice licensed in Virginia, Maryland, and Florida.  Alex is a Qualified Supervisor, EMDR Trained Clinician, Certified Complex Trauma Profession, and Certified Family Trauma Professional.  He is also a  two time recipient of George Mason University’s, ”Outstanding Master of Social Work Award”. Alex’s clinical career and training has focused on the areas of complex trauma, family systems, personality disorders, and substance use disorders; his approach integrates trauma informed care and existential considerations to support individuals in the development of personal meaning and value for their lives. In addition to clinical practice, Alex works as a consultant and speaker.  He is currently focusing efforts on developing a more comprehensive model and approach to providing family therapy at an outpatient level of care.

Learn more about Alex:
https://live-freepsychotherapy.com
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Rebecca is an art therapist and co-founder of Creative Wellbeing Workshops, LLC which provides individuals and organizations with training and resources for managing stress, preventing burnout, and increasing wellbeing.  She is co-author with her business partner Gioia Chilton of Positive art therapy theory and practice: Integrating positive psychology with art therapy and teaches on the topic at George Washington University.  She is also a practicing artist and illustrator of The Desert Mandalas Coloring Book.  She lives in the desert Southwest with her husband and some cats.

Learn more about Rebecca and Gioia's work:
Creative Wellbeing Workshops

The Desert Mandalas Coloring Book

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Dr. Julie Bindeman graduated from the George Washington University and is the co-owner of Integrative Therapy of Greater Washington in Rockville, Maryland. Her specialty is in the field of Reproductive Psychology, where she actively writes, lectures, and presents.  She is a consultant in training in EMDR through EMDRIA. She has served on several committees within the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and was just elected to its Executive Committee.  She served as a former Board Member of the Maryland Psychological Association for over 10 years. Dr. Bindeman is a member of multiple organizations focused on Maternal and Reproductive Mental Health and was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to serve on the Maternal Mental Health Task Force. She was recently awarded the Karl Heiser Award for her legislative efforts on behalf of psychology. Dr. Bindeman has published several chapters and articles pertaining to Reproductive Psychology.

Learn more about Dr. Julie Bindeman
https://greaterwashingtontherapy.com/courses
https://greaterwashingtontherapy.com/julie-bindeman-psyd/
https://greaterwashingtontherapy.com/understanding-perinatal-mood-issues-when-is-it-a-problem/

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Twitter: @drjulieb @ITGWTherapy
Facebook: @drbindeman @ITGW2007

1st Edition - October 21, 2021

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