Were You Still Talking?

Episode #58

Scott Wagnon PA-C

Is the latest fade diet going to work long term? Wondering what diet is for you? Want to find out if you can exercise the weight off? Is plant based the only proven way to have a healthy diet? Do I care?

Those are the questions I ask Scott on this episode.

Scott has been a Physician Assistant since 2005. Currently working in Internal Medicine. In 2012 he had his own health problems despite heavy exercise, and what he felt was a healthy lifestyle. This prompted him to study the science of Nutrition. Once he saw the evidence, he began transitioning to a whole food plant based diet. He got his health back, and then began sharing it with patients. By the end of 2020 he has taught using a food as medicine approach to over 1,500 patients, both in one on one appointments in the clinic, as well as in free classes to his community. He continues to teach and share this vital information, with any and all who are interested in taking control of their own health and wellness.

Free online nutrition info and classes:

https://sites.google.com/view/whole-food-plant-based/home

https://plantbaseddocs.com/places/united-states/or/eugene-1/physician-assistant/scott-wagnon-pa-c/

#HealthandWellness

#PlantBased

#PlantBasedDiet

#FoodAsMedicine

#podcaster

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

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Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode #57

What an honor to have Andrew Ecker on the Podcast. After a proper introduction (by Andrew) I listen to him talk about native American history, traditions, honoring the Earth Mother, growing up in America and learning to heal from a childhood filled with challenges.

From his website: https://thesacredseven.com

Andrew Ecker, author of the 'The Sacred 7' Apache "NDE", Irish and German American. Born into an inheritance of trauma, both his parents were addicted to drugs and died very young. Mom, Kathy Lindsey, died from a cocaine overdose whereas Father, Dale Ecker, from HepC caused from intravenous drug use.

Growing up in the height of the Reagan and Clinton "War on Drugs" policies led Andrew down a path of destruction that included cocaine and heroin abuse until he made a decision to change his life while serving 3.5 years in federal prison for drug charges.

Andrew found healing in his life through the use of ancient technologies including drumming and a ceremonial introduction process of his Native American ancestry he outlines in his book 'The Sacred 7'.

Andrew has been able to, in over 25 years of effort, facilitate over 4000 meaningful wellness with a focus on suicide prevention, substance abuse, individual and community development.

This massive volume of work has allowed Andrew the honor of working with very diverse groups of people including tribal nations, schools, governmental organizations, churches, nonprofits, businesses, festivals, hospitals and drug and alcohol treatment facilities. Some of these groups include The Havasupai Nation, The Navajo Nation, The Hopi Nation, The Pascua Yaqui Nation, The Gila River Indian Community, The Tohono O'odham Nation, Patina Wellness Center, Native American Connections, Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, NACA: Native Americans For Community Action, United States Veterans Administration, City of Phoenix, Maricopa County Public Health, United Health Care, Wellpoint , Buena Vista Recovery , Charles Schwab, Bain Consulting, Exp Realty, Cancer Treatment Centers of American, Credit Union Development and Education and many many more.

Andrew, his fiancé Monica and their companies Wellness Sourcing and Drumming Sounds have focused mostly on working with hospitals and institutions labeled as memory care, behavioral lockdowns, drug rehabilitation, cancer treatment, post-acute rehabilitation, and skilled nursing. These are just some of the populations they work with.

Recognized by the community and through this work, Andrew Ecker has been a speaker presenter at some of the largest and most influential groups in healthcare and wellness: The Arizona Senior Center Association (keynote), The Arizona Therapeutic Recreation Association, (keynote) Arizona Activities Coordinators Association,(keynote) Assisted Living Federation of Arizona, (presenter) The AZTEC awards (keynote), Spinal Cord Injury Association (keynote), National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health (keynote) (keynote) Oklahoma Behavioral Health Conference (keynote).

#Podcasting

#thesacredseven

#transform

#podcaster

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

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Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode #56

This time on the show I have the great pleasure of talking to Trav Bell, The Bucket list Guy. This guy is full of positive energy and we talk about how he became The Bucket list Guy, living life fully, overcoming fears, and even how Covid helped him finish his book!

In his own words:

Someone first called me The Bucket List Guy about eight years ago. It was because of all the crazy and interesting things I'd done in my life up until then.

See, from the age of eighteen – well before Bucket Lists were a 'thing' – I've written a 'To Do Before I Die List'. Today, as a forty (something) year-old guy, thanks to The Bucket List movie and the popularity of the concept, they certainly are now. It's a heavily hashtagged and tweeted global phenomenon.

My Bucket List is my reason why I attack life. It's always been my compass, my motivation. It continues to give me purpose and bring meaning into my life. Ignorantly, I thought everyone had a written list like me… apparently not.

Check out thebucketlistguy.com

https://www.facebook.com/thebucketlistguy

https://twitter.com/travbell

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBucketListGuy2011

#thebucketlistguy

#prospeaker

#bucklistlife

#podcaster

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode #55

Welcome and thanks for listening. On this episode I talk to Michelle E. Dickinson about mental health, growing up with a mother who was bipolar, understanding the challenges of mental health issues in the workplace and the need to normalize the conversation around mental health.

More from Michelle:

1 in 3 Americans are dealing with depression or anxiety due to COVID. The emotional impact of the pandemic is hitting many of us. The United Nations released a policy brief entitled COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health citing the deep toll the crisis has taken due to social isolation, losing a loved one, and the economic turmoil from lost income. Now, more than ever, we need to normalize the mental health conversation.

Return to work anxiety is very real for so many people also. Setting up your home for harmony is also a challenge for many. Invite me to share tips and strategies to help ease anxiety and how to create a home environment and structure that will best support your family.

I've experienced the "trifecta" of mental health.

1. I grew up loving and caring for my bipolar mother.
2. I helped build the largest mental health employee resource group at a fortune 500 company.
3. I experienced depression due to a life event reminding me that nobody is immune to mental illness at any given point in their life.

My book Breaking Into My Life was written to help myself—along with the rest of us—better understand the world of mental illness. My story of perseverance and triumph helps challenge and transform the "suffer in silence" dynamic, and makes mental illness more understood, treated and accepted.

I am out to do my part to eliminate the stigma by normalizing the mental health conversation in workplaces and within the first responder community. I partner with innovative leaders to bring my programs and mental health strategies to help them cultivate cultures of compassion for those living with or caring for those with invisible disabilities. My Resilience webinar has made an impact with empowering hundreds of employees during COVID-19 quarantine. ​

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mdickinson1359/featured?view_as=subscriber

Website: www.michelleedickinson.com.

LinkedIn URL

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-e-dickinson-7882013

Facebook URL

https://www.facebook.com/michelle.dickinson.146?ref=bookmarks

Twitter URL

https://twitter.com/mdickinson13

YouTube URL

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Vt31TIEWh6dW_V2-qmtTQ

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/michelledickinson71/

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

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Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode #54

With me on the Podcast today I have Giles Howe, Producer, Writer, Actor, Singer and creator of the musical Soviet Zion. The concept album for Soviet Zion is out now and can be found at sovietzion.com.

We talk about making a concept album during Covid, working on a project for 11 years, how it all came about and who's that barking in the background?

More form Giles:

Originally from Europe where I worked extensively as a producer of new musical theatre, my talent and close relationship to music has taken me all over the world.

I have worked with many industry leaders and maintain personal relationships with influencers on both sides of the Atlantic having worked globally for international companies including Disney, Easy Theatres, Veritas Entertainment, Royal Caribbean and Aria Entertainment.

As well as a strong track record of creative innovation having produced many UK and World Premieres of new musicals as a co-founder of The A STAGE KINDLY New Musical Theatre Initiative with West End producer Katy Lipson, I am an award-winning vocalist recognized with two prestigious RTN Awards in 2018 after making my New York cabaret debut as a special guest at the Triad Theatre in Manhattan. This diverse experience on both sides of creating theatre affords me a unique approach.

I currently coach private students in vocal performance and stagecraft, myself having performed worldwide featuring in a number of different successful vocal acts including The 12 Tenors, Stars of Opera and Viva Voce and in such legendary venues as The Royal Albert Hall in London, China's Great Hall of the People in Wu Xi, and the Bukanmara Hall in Tokyo performing with icons including Brian May from Queen, Idina Menzel from Frozen, and multiple platinum-selling recording artist Josh Groban on whose Greatest Hits album I can also be heard. Recently, I recorded the vocal hook for a forthcoming trap release!!

I have written two contemporary operas: "Turkish Delight": the macabre tale of a scorned woman's revenge, and "SOVIET ZION": an ambitious historical drama about the mysterious Jewish state in the Far-East of Russia. I make a small cameo as Benjamin on the Original Concept Album that I produced, likewise the accompanying release of Selections in Yiddish on which I also duet - both releases available now on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, and other leading digital platforms.

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode #53

It is my great honor to have Gordon Firemark on the Zoom with me today. We are talking about legal stuff and things you might want to think about if starting or currently producing a podcast. We touch on releases for guests, copywrite, where Gordon went to school (Go Ducks!) and get sidetracked on to all kinds of stuff.

We also talk a little tech and I ask about his new microphone.

Mini Bio:

Gordon Firemark has practiced media and entertainment law since 1992. He is often referred to as The Podcast Lawyer™, and is himself a podcaster, producing and hosting the Entertainment Law Update podcast (since 2009), and the More, Better, Faster podcast which offers insights and advice to creative professionals and businesses who want to achieve more, better, faster. Gordon is the author of the Podcast, Blog & New Media Producer's Legal Survival Guide and creator of several online courses for creatives.

His undergraduate degree in radio, television and film and experience in live theatre production informs his thinking about all things legal. In addition to his busy law practice, he teaches Entertainment Law at Columbia College Hollywood, Intellectual Property and Media Law at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and Contract law at Pepperdine Law School.

Find him online at gordonfiremark.com and on Facebook, twitter, and instagram.

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode 52

On this episode of Were You Still Talking? I have George Siegal, with over 35 years of experience in television and film production. We talk about his new film The Last House Standing from Move the World Films (movetheworldfilms.org) and what everyone needs to know about preparing for disasters, buying and building better homes, and what it takes to make a documentary film. We also talk about insurance, FEMA, getting help after major disasters and what you need to do and know before a disaster strikes.

George is a former weatherman and TV reporter who covered countless stories about people who lost everything in disasters. In his current documentary film The Last House Standing he explores the fact that most people think catastrophic destruction will never happen to them. And they have no idea if their insurance will actually get them whole again.

Movetheworldfilms.org for more info.

Disclaimer: I say on the podcast I do all my own work on my home, I do some of my own home repair, far from all.

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

#resilientbuilding

#thelasthousestanding

Episode 51

On today's episode I have the great pleasure of talking to April & Cindy from The Travel Collective! World explorers, passionate travelers and content creators from Southern California who enjoy talking about travel almost as much as they enjoy traveling. Their YouTube channel and podcast is dedicated to curating travel stories from real people, providing tips and hacks to improve your travel experience and inspiring you to travel to new places. They cover a broad range of travel styles and budgets, everything from building your own boat to cruise through Europe to couchsurfing and hiking your way through a new place.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8jFfZI2IWGEAgcSZ_lJEiQ

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Link to book we talked about: https://amzn.to/35goqhh

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Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode 50!

This Episode is from a live Facebook celebration of making it to the 50th episode with my amazing friend and co-host for this one Jon Griffin. We have a merry old time thanking all the guests I have had on, all the different episodes so far, announcements about what is to come and the times we are living in. We also talk a little about the streaming software, answer questions from FB and I talk too much.

Also asking people to weigh in on a few things as we have a little nip and talk for a couple of hours.

Jon not only was the first guest and has been on the show for 4 episodes now, but he also did the music for the show.

50 shows

42 guests

1000's of downloads

Much more to come…

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

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Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht

Episode 49

Justin Alcala is back for a second time. We talk history, Dracula (the book and movies), Jaws and why it's so good, older movies vs new, dark side of Christmas and Christmas history and then we remember to talk about his upcoming book A Dead End Job.

We also talk about news of the day a bit and eventually get on to Star Wars and The Mandalorian and important stuff like that.

Justin is a novelist, nerdologist and Speculative Literature Foundation Award Finalist. He's the author of three novels, including Consumed, (BLK Dog Publishing) The Devil in the Wide City (Solstice Publishing) and Dim Fairy Tales (AllThingsThatMatterPress). His short stories have been featured in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including It Snows Here (Power Loss Anthology), The Offering (Rogue Planet Press Magazine) and The Lantern Quietly Screams (Castabout Literature). When he's not burning out his retinas in front of a computer, Justin is a tabletop gamer, blogger, folklore enthusiast and time traveler. He is an avid quester of anything righteous, from fighting dragons to acquiring magical breakfast eggs from the impregnable grocery fortress.

Most of Justin's tales and characters take place in The Plenty Dreadful universe, a deranged supernatural version of the modern world. When writing, Justin immerses himself in subject matter, from stuffy research to overseas travel. Much to the chagrin of his family, he often locks himself away in his office-dungeon, playing themed music over, and over, and over again. Justin currently resides with his dark queen, Mallory, their malevolent daughter, Lily, changeling son, Ronan, hellcat, Misery and hound of Ragnarök, Fenrir. Where his mind might be though is anyone's guess.

Justin's Website: https://www.justincalcala.com/

Twitter: @justinalcala

Music for all episodes by Jon Griffin.

My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugOLERePPuD4nwtZO-Zwnw?view_as=subscriber

My Instagram: @joelyshmoley and @slideswithjohn

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/wereyoustilltalking/

Twitter: @JoelAAlbrecht