What Keeps You Up at Night?

 Karen Kirk of Lydia's House and Lorie Westhoff with Nestle Purina talks with Lynn Schmidt about their partnership in developing and maintaining pet-friendly domestic violence shelters.

https://lydiashouse.org/

https://www.purina.com/purple-leash-project

https://www.thehotline.org/

Retired Marine Corps pilot Garret Biss inspires Lynn Schmidt with his personal story as a veteran and how we all need to "Be the connection."

https://unspokentrauma.vet/

https://thewarriorreset.com/

https://988lifeline.org/

Lynn Schmidt hosts a solo episode to discuss the stress that a majority of Americans are feeling in the run up to the election and shares ways in which the electorate can make it through 

https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2020/07/7-ideas-to-reduce-political-polarization-and-save-america-from-itself?lang=en

Greg Kramer, Vice President of Government Relations at Easterseals Midwest, sits down with Lynn Schmidt to help spread awareness about the challenges people with disabilities face in voting and the need for policy change.

Lynn Schmidt talks with G. William Hoagland from the Bipartisan Policy Center who explains why the federal deficit is out of control and no one, including the two presidential nominees, wants to address it. 

Michael Oberlander sits down with Lynn Schmidt and discusses the year since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, grief and the promise of consolation, and the hope for peace. 

Marine veteran and Democratic U.S. senatorial candidate Lucas Kunce joins Lynn Schmidt to share why he's running for the U.S. Senate, the opioid crisis, and how he would like to reinvest in Missouri communities.

Link: https://lucaskunce.com/

 National security expert Major General Randy Manner shares with Lynn Schmidt the work that he and others are doing to counter growing threats to our democratic institutions, norms, and processes.

Link: https://www.nsl4a.org/

The Chief Development Officer of The Ocean Clean Up, Julian Searle, joins Lynn Schmidt to share the amazing work that The Ocean Clean Up is doing to rid the world's oceans and rivers of plastic and the challenges to funding this work.

https://theoceancleanup.com/

 National security expert Elizabeth Neumann talks with Lynn Schmidt about the drivers of political violence and extremism and how a return to social norms might be the way to heal the nation.