You Don't Say...

By Drew Zagorski

Stories from the Drew Zagorski Files - Totally True Facts - Alternate facts have caused a lot of unnecessary violence, strife and mischief. So, Totally True Facts are vignettes that offer grains of

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October 05, 2020Ep. 28 – From Interpol’s Most Wanted To Lifting Up Nigeria’s Young Women
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Picture yourself waiting to board a plane. Then, suddenly, you’re being escorted to a cell, informed that you’re wanted by Interpol. That’s exactly what happened to Marek Zmysłowski, a high-tech entrepreneur who was on his way back to Nigeria, where his business was. Marek found himself in the crosshairs of a nasty guy who was an investor in his company. This week, we’ll hear his story about launching businesses, being locked up, and then returning to Nigeria to lift the lives of marginalized young women through the MaYa Foundation.
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Chasing Black Unicorns - How Building the Amazon of Africa Put Me on Interpol's Most Wanted List
Marek Zmysłowski Web Site
Marek Zmysłowski TED Talk - How building Africa`s Amazon made me Interpol most wanted criminal
MaYa Foundation
Feed for Life Foundation
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September 28, 2020Ep. 27 – Stop That Diet… Just Listen To Your Body
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The cavepeople had it right.
Volumetrics, Keto, Paleo, Flexitarian, Raw Food, Intermittent Fasting… there are more fad diets than you can shake a stick at. And every time we turn around somebody is pushing a new “miracle” way to shed pounds. But it’s almost inevitable that after doing one of these diets, we gain back all the pounds, and more often than not, even more. So how do we lose weight? Ditch those diets and just listen to your body. It’s intuitive eating. It’s nothing new and has been around since we first crawled out of the primordial ooze. Marisa Michael a registered dietician and nutritionist is breaking it down for us.
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October 2020 Live Course: Ditch the Diet Cycle with Intuitive Eating
Real Nutrition, LLC
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon
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September 21, 2020Ep. 26 – Finding Hope in Hopeless Times
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Looking at our world today can leave you feeling hopeless… so where can you find hope for the future?
There’s so much out there to make us believe we live in hopeless times. But hope is out there. It really is. We just need to look harder to get past everything that’s happening to see it. For me and my guest, David Fields, our faith informs how we breakthrough to finding hope. And regardless of your faith, or non-faith, the same ideas that we go to for finding hope apply for just about anyone. And that hope lives in and around each one of us. It’s time to take a breath and dial into it.
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September 14, 2020Ep. 25 - Urban Growers Collective Creates an Oasis in a Food Desert
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About 19 million people in the U.S. live more than a mile from a grocery store.
These areas have been called food deserts by the folks who create names for such things. But more recently they’re being referred to as areas of food inequality, and some are beginning to call this condition, food apartheid.
It’s a big problem. Fortunately, there are a lot of organizations out there working to solve it. One of my favorite Netflix shows is Somebody Feed Phil. He highlighted a fantastic program and a remarkable woman from my hometown, Chicago. The Organization is called Urban Growers Collective, and the woman is Erika Allen, its Co-Founder and CEO. And Erika has partnered with a guy named Jason Feldman from Green Era Sustainability to create the Green Era Renewable Energy and Urban Farming Campus, a sustainable project that will yield renewable energy and long-term economic growth for the area it serves.
Urban Growers Collective
Green Era Sustainability, LLC
ChiFresh Kitchen
Trina Davila Community Center
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September 02, 2020Ep. 24 – Red-Blue 2020 : Fact Check
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Here are the facts on the things we heard from both voters…
Mary and Mark had a lot to say, respectively, about Joe Biden and President Trump. In this episode we dig into their comments on all the topics we covered and have presented a fact check on their information.
Whatever your political stripe, I hope that what both guests had to say and the information in this episode will help to inform your vote. And maybe, more importantly, I hope that it allowed you to hear a different perspective than that which we all tend to hear over and over in our own bubbles and social media silos of like-mindedness.
We cannot move our country ahead if we aren’t even willing to hear one another out, and yes, compromise to reach goals that will benefit all of us. Get out there and vote!
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Register to Vote
Trump 2020 Campaign
Biden 2020 Campaign
Fact Check Media Sources
Ratings for the sources below, if available, were collected from Allsides.com for bias / adfontsmedia.com media bias chart analysis and reliability
Wall Street Journal News – Center / High
NPR – Center / High
AP – Center / Very High
Politico – Skews Left – Medium
Business Insider – Center / High
Reuters – Center / Very High
CNN – Skews Left / High
New York Times – Shews Left / High
USA Today – Center / High
Brookings Institution – Center / Very High
Forbes – Center – Medium
ABC News – Skews Left / High
The Atlantic – Skews Left / Medium
The Hill – Center / High
BBC News – Center / Medium
Fortune – Center / High
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August 21, 2020Ep. 23 – Red-Blue 2020 : Joe Biden
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Hear from two fellow citizens on why Joe Biden is wrong and right for our country.
In our last episode, we peeled back the layers on President Trump. Today we’re giving Joe Biden the once over. As in the last episode, we’ll begin with our guest Mark on why he’s not the guy to move our country forward. Then we’ll give the floor to Mary to hear the reasons why Biden is the right person at the right time.
I hope you’ll listen to this and the Trump episode (if you haven’t) in full. There’s a lot there, and from people who are just like you… every day citizens trying to make it through a pandemic while providing for themselves and their families.
In our next episode, I’ll be picking things apart with a fact check on both episodes, so tune in for that…
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Biden 2020 Campaign
Trump 2020 Campaign
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August 20, 2020Ep. 22 - Red-Blue 2020 : President Trump
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Hear from two fellow citizens on why Trump is wrong and right for our country.
We hear it every four years… “this is the most consequential election in our lives/history.” My personal opinion is that the 2020 election might be just that. Our political discourse is more divisive than ever. When people hear beliefs or opinions about politics or social issues counter to their own, they cover their ears and start with the “la-la-la” that you do when your parents talk about their sex lives. Or things devolve into a shouting match/food fight if one side or the other doesn’t just flat-out hang up or walk away because they can’t handle it. And, for most of us, that other person is typically only a butter knife away. We need to start listening to one another, regardless.
In this and the next episode, I’m talking with two people - everyday citizens - about who they’re voting for and why. So my ask is that you listen, in full, to both this and the next episode (we’ll also do a third episode delivering a fact check), and push past how some comments may make you feel – don’t go to the “la-la-la” or hang up. Instead, hang in. Never has it been more important to begin to try and truly hear one another and, at the very least, gain an understanding of where we each are coming from. This week, we’re talking about President Trump. Next week, we’ll cover Vice-President Biden.

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August 10, 2020Ep. 21 – 5 Steps to Heal Our Country
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In difficult times, the simplest steps can feel like the hardest steps.
There’s no questioning the fact that we live in divisive times. People are becoming increasingly hard-wired to reject ideas that run contrary to their own. So much so, that even beginning a dialogue can feel next to impossible. But once you make a habit of opening yourself up to and studying contrary ideas you’ll be better able to engage with others on them and creating the change you desire. Nicole Vick, an adjunct professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, and a public health specialist in the city of Los Angeles, shares her thoughts on how we can open ourselves up, and the five steps we can all take to help heal our country.
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Pushing Through: Finding the Light in Every Lesson Paperback, by Nicole D Vick
Author Nicole Vick: 5 Steps That Each of Us Can Take To Proactively Help Heal Our Country, medium.com
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation, John Lews, New York Times Opinion, July 30, 2020
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August 05, 2020Ep. 20 – The Lessons of a Pandemic
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The risks in beginning the 2020 fall term aren’t limited to contracting COVID.
As schools start the fall 2020 semester during a pandemic there’s no consistent plan on how to get the year rolling without risk to both teachers and students. And that’s not just in terms of contracting COVID-19. Younger students will certainly suffer in terms of their ongoing education, but also from the psychological impact that comes with being separated from classmates and social interaction. Teachers, who already work tirelessly, will need to up their game to keep students on track. Tracy Stedry, with a background in psychology and a recently retired 20-year veteran of elementary school classrooms, shares her insights about what might and might not work so well, the impact on child development, and the inequities and shortcomings of remote learning.
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The great broadband divide: Living without high-speed internet access
Kids' mental health can struggle during online school. Here's how teachers are planning ahead.
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August 03, 2020Ep. 19 – Take It From Plants… You’ve Got a Lot to Learn
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In a stressful world, any advice on how to find some calm is a welcome thing. So where to turn to for that advice? Plants, of course! That’s right. When we tune into plants, their music – yes, they are musical - and connectedness can help us find our center and get our feet back on the ground. Tigrilla Gardenia (Masters in Futuro Vegetale, Univ. of Florence) explains how plants connect, communicate, thrive under the harshest conditions and how we can listen to and learn from them.
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Tigrilla Gardenia Website
Tigrilla Gardenia on Soundcloud
Futuro Vegetale
Shining Light on the Impossible, by Dayna Baumeister
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