Chet Galaska discusses everything you need to know about diabetes from the perspective of those who have it. It’s not as well understood by the general public as you’d think and this can lead to stigmas being placed on those who have the disease.

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Chet Galaska graduated from the University of Hartford with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After working in several industrial operations, he co-founded and was president of a company that produces stainless steel castings for heavy industry.

He has had type 1 diabetes since 1981 and has managed it well. Because of this he was asked to participate in a long term study by the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard University.

Chet isn’t a health care professional. He is simply a person who understands diabetes and sees the disease from the perspective of those who have it. It became clear to him that messaging about the disease underlies misperceptions that have damaging consequences. This is a huge problem in the world of diabetes that doesn’t get recognized, let alone addressed. He realized that people need to know the facts if we’re to motivate diabetics to do the hard things the disease demands. As a first step, he wrote The Diabetes Book: What Everyone Should Know and spoke to many groups about it. He then developed the Challenge Diabetes Program which was presented in participation with college, medical, civic, business, church and other organizations.

In recognition of this work he was presented the Heroes Walking Among Us Award by the Massachusetts Foot and Ankle Society. These are doctors who deal first-hand with the consequences of diabetes ignorance. His purpose is to create an informed and supportive social environment that respects diabetics who fight the beast and encourages those who don’t to take it seriously.

He appears on podcasts to reach as many people as possible.

Canadian Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend Matt Jeneroux chats about the mental health of dads, the life of a travelling MP, and the 2023 Alberta election.

IG: @mattjeneroux

Twitter: @jeneroux

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Matt is the Member of Parliament representing Edmonton Riverbend and currently the Shadow Minister for Supply Chains.

He has been a strong advocate for both compassionate care and mental health supports, even launching a foundation in 2022, Hi Dad Foundation, in support of raising awareness for mental health in young men and dads. This was an extension of his work as founder of Father’s Day on the Hill, an annual event on Parliament Hill.

Matt is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly and the youngest government provincial politician prior to May 2015.

Ever wonder whether our genes can affect the way we digest certain foods or vice versa? This is the field of nutrigenomics and Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy a Professor at the University of Toronto and Founder of Nutrigenomix Inc discusses this exciting field!

Twitter: @elsohemy

IG: @nutrigenomix

https://nutrigenomix.com/

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Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy is a Professor and Associate Chair and held a Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics at the University of Toronto. He is also the founder of Nutrigenomix Inc., and serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer. Dr. El-Sohemy obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. He has published over 200 peer reviewed publications and has given more than 300 invited talks around the world. Dr. El-Sohemy is the recipient of several awards for excellence in research by the American College of Nutrition, the Canadian Society for Nutrition and the American Nutrition Association.

Captain Gary Russell, an Air Canada Pilot with over 25 years of flying experiences chats about the current labour issues within the airline industry, the mystery of MH370, what’s going on airports, the airline’s response to climate change, and the labour/union movement.

Twitter: @garybrussell

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Captain Gary Russell is a Boeing 737 pilot based in Vancouver, and is a former union executive for the Air Canada Pilots Association. Prior to his appointment as the Association’s Chairman, he served two terms as a national board member and has been actively involved in the Association over the past decade, including as a local pilot representative, magazine editor, trustee and Chair of the External Affairs Committee.

Like many pilots in Canada, Captain Russell began his flying career as a flight instructor and later a pilot in Northern Canada and overseas before being hired by Air Canada in 2007.

As Chairman, Captain Russell presided over board meetings and acted as the pilots' principal representative to Air Canada on employment matters, including negotiation and administration of their collective agreement and was the official spokesperson for ACPA.

The Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) currently represents approximately 4,200 commercial pilots, with 600 previously furloughed during the COVID crisis all of whom have now returned to active status. These highly skilled professional pilots fly passengers and cargo across Canada and around the world on Air Canada and Air Canada rouge.

Gary resides on a farm in Comox, BC with his wife, Chantal, and son, Ben.

Shame and guilt are such primitive human emotions, and Lois Hollis discusses how shame guilt and its associate behavior can be so damaging.

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Lois Hollis shifts our opinion on the taboo subject, shame guilt. She is a shame guilt educator, counselor, filmmaker, author who coined the word shame guilt. Lois has always been a trailblazer as she helped develop one of the first Kidney

Hemodialysis Units in the USA at Thomas Jefferson University in 1966.

Today Lois not only shows us why shame guilt has led us to believe we are victims

incapable of stellar lives but also HOW to make friends with our inner critic and

kick shame guilt out of our lives.

What are the impacts of deforestation in the Amazon on climate, Indigenous Peoples, and overall quality of the rainforest? How can the Amazon be restored?

Dr. Patricia Pinho, Deputy Science Director of IPAM Amazonia, and an IPCC Author is here to discuss what is happening on the ground of the Amazon. What’s the political situation like in Brazil and are things feeling more optimistic?

Email: [email protected]

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Dr. Patricia Pinho is interested in understanding the ways people's lives are affected by the impacts of climate change and how they respond to these challenges through adaptation. She investigates under what ways some people (of color, indigenous, women, children, elderly, and across geographies) are more vulnerable, addressing inequalities and loss and damage (residual risks) through justice.

Patricia also has experience in researching the relationship on ecosystem services, human wellbeing and livelihoods sustainability with special focus on Amazonia. I’m passionate about the critical role of Amazonia Ecosystem(s) in delivering services for local livelihoods, regional economy, and climate resilience in Brazil, South America, and the world.

Sheri Doyle is the owner of Digital Owl Communications—a consulting business that works with boards, non-profits, crown corporations, elected officials and businesses on award-winning, cross-platform communications and storytelling.

With over 15 years of experience in the public sector, she has developed communications strategies for wildfire response, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Premier of Alberta, provincial budgets, and national marketing campaigns.

She is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for her communications work and has perviously served as Director of Marketing and Communications for LitFest, Associate Producer of YEGPodfest, and as board director for Digital Alberta.

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Dr. Nita Farahany, a foremost scholar in the social, legal, and ethical implications of emerging technologies, discusses her critically acclaimed book The Battle For Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. Nita believes this is a critical moment for the global society to act for the right to ‘cognitive liberty’, which is the right to self-determination, the right to mental privacy, and the right to freedom of thought.

Twitter: @NitaFarahany

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitafarahany

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Dr. Nita Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar on the ethics of emerging technologies and frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide. From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society, ELSI advisor to the NIH Brain Initiative and to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, member of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders and the Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and National Security Needs for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum. She is the Reporter for the Drafting Committee on updating the Uniform Determination of Death Committee for the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), as well as a ULC Commissioner. Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.

Brendan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of SiTration Inc., chats about his company’s focus on improving the battery recycling process, starting a clean tech company, being a student athlete, and the influence of where he grew up.

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Brendan Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO of SiTration, Inc., an advanced materials startup that aims to drastically reduce cost and resource consumption of important industrial separations on a global scale. Spun out of MIT in 2020, the company is developing their core technology, a patented ultra-durable filtration membrane, to impact societally critical applications such as recovering lithium from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Brendan earned a Ph.D. in materials science & engineering from MIT and a B.S. in nanotechnology engineering from the University of Waterloo, where he was also a captain of the varsity basketball team. He is generally passionate about developing new materials to address big societal challenges. Outside of work Brendan loves spending time with his family and being outdoors in the ocean or the mountains.

Cathy Nesbitt (aka 'The Worm Woman') is a Health and Wellness Advocate. Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters (est 2002), Cathy’s Sprouters and Cathy’s Laughter Club. She is a multi award-winning environmental innovator who uses workshops and inspirational speaking to motivate people to live a more sustainable life. Cathy is a certified Laughter Yoga Teacher. Appointed Laughter Ambassador in 2017 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga.

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