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Tom Dorney is a Navy vet who served aboard the USS Enterprise and is the current National Director of Resources and Partnerships for ReGroup Foundation.  His mission is to advocate for Veterans and First Responders effectively and provide them with the programs and resources they need.  Tom also serves as President of the Board of Directors of Adam’s House, a Peer to Peer and Educational support program for grieving children and their families.

From the conversation:
ReGroup Foundation
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Smokin and Jokin Podcast
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SUCCESS... Your WHY Powers Your How with Richard Kaufman
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Convene Collab
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VetUnite.org - Mentoring for Veterans
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Mission22
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Dan Wright, a.k.a. "Gravelthroat", is a working voice actor and one-time vocalist for hardcore and metal bands.  His raspy, gravelly vocal tones can be heard on national commercials for ACE Hardware and hockey broadcasts and promos on ESPN as well as other places in the media and internet universe.  We talk shop about all things VO including breaking down copy, finding the sweet spot in your reads, coaching and gear.  We stray a bit too and get into music-related topics and our past histories.  This episode is something of an experiment as we've talked about starting our own podcast.  Join us, won't you?

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Robin's Hope is a Trauma Recovery Center where people healing from emotional trauma can find support, activities, and group discussions focused on developing resilience skills.  Jennifer Kell is a licensed clinical social worker and Heather Pate brings expertise through lived experience.  

The discussion moves through past experience, inspiration of the name Robin's Hope and even significance of the no drama trauma llama, the official mascot of Robin's Hope.

This is a joint episode between The Good Eye Podcast and the Synapse Hubcast.   Find out more about the Synapse Network of businesses and nonprofit neighbors via their website below. 

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Jason Wells' nonprofit organization Mechanics of Faith works to help folks facing transportation challenges.  Mechanics of Faith provides automotive work free of charge to people who qualify.  They also provide training, hold pop-up events and partner with businesses and other nonprofits in serving their community.

For more info on getting involved, how you can help, donate and to find out more about Mechanics of Faith visit their website at www.mechanicsoffaith.com.

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Today's guest is Andrea Starr, Director of the Forward Foundation, a nonprofit that assists single parents in financial crisis.  The discussion focuses on the 2021 Go Forward Team Ride cycling event on September 18.  The ride starts at Dorey Park in Henrico County outside of Richmond and features three levels of cycling: the 50 Mile Team Ride, the 10 Mile Everyman Ride and the 1 Mile Kids' Ride inside Dorey Park.  There's also a family-friendly and pet-friendly event on-site at Dorey park.  Rebecca Wilde from the Wicker and Wilde morning radio show on Mix 98.1 will be there.  For more info, to sign up or support the Forward Foundation follow the links below.   

ForwardFoundationVa.org https://www.bikesignup.com/Race/VA/Henrico/GoForwardTeamRide

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Event: https://event.auctria.com/91e1b98e-d20d-41c4-a850-a9df06178c19/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0

Thursday Oct 14
12pm start
Hunting Hawk Golf Club in Glen Allen

Benefitting:
Beacon Tree Foundation
Walk To End Alzheimer’s
Soles4Souls
Better2Gether

Sponsors (as of recording time):
EventFull
Steve Peterson and Associates
Padgett Properties
Talking Monkey Media
Old Dominion Asset Management
Icon Realty
RBI Services
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Lunch provided by CHIK-FIL-A

MC: Greg Burton

Can’t attend or sponsor?  Make a contribution or head to the nonprofits page to make a donation directly to your favorite nonprofit.

Purchase tickets for a team of 4 or individual player’s ticket.

Pete Cann the Laughter man is many things including a laughter yoga facilitator, a motivational speaker, an award-winning business owner and podcaster.  He works with individuals, groups, organizations and businesses to guide people through the process of practicing laughter to foster positivity, lower stress and improve focus, productivity and feelings of well-being.  

www.petecann.com

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Lisa Smith knows a lot about helping people with their obstacles.  Whether she approaches helping her clients via a number of methods including hypnotherapy, EFT, spiritual healing, mind training and neurolinguistic programming.  In her own words, “almost always the roots of a given problem are a set of beliefs formed early in life. This process literally un-wires these beliefs for good.”

www.hypnocoachlisa.com
www.thetrainingcenter.com

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In this episode, Jay talks with insurance and financial services advisor Robby Williams about financial planning with purpose.  The conversation touches on subjects such as tax implications and clears up some confusion surrounding equity market versus fixed-income investment, diversification, what to keep in mind when making a long-term plan, and viewing financial planning with a purpose based on what what's important to you both financially and personally.  Robby provides a lot of honest, practical insight into important subjects that are often confusing and intimidating.  

Elizabeth Tollis is a business coach, entrepreneur and podcaster.  As a business coach she helps entrepreneurs build the mission-based business of their dreams.   On her podcast “Full Focus Entrepreneur" she talks to other entrepreneurs and mission-minded people about what makes them go.  Some of the topics in this episode include guesting on podcasts as a means of promotion and networking, simplifying business for entrepreneurs, confidence – what it looks like and how to find it, unique challenges and opportunities faced by women in the world of entrepreneurism, starting a business during a pandemic, ratios of marketing to execution especially when starting out, purpose, broadness versus niche in small business, taking strategic risks and more.

www.elizabethtollis.com

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/full-focus-entrepreneur/id1509743918

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This episode of the Good Eye Podcast is a joint episode with the Synapse Hubcast.  It features Jay speaking with representatives for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Renee Fairchild of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude, and John Tyndall of the St. Jude Young Professionals of Richmond which unites with local leaders of tomorrow to help advance cures for pediatric cancer while providing young professionals an avenue to grow in their philanthropy and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network.  

The conversation revolves around St. Jude's mission to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment, and also around the first St. Jude Cycle Challenge hosted by the Young Professionals of Richmond in which Jay is participating. 

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Find out more about St. Jude and get involved.

In this conversation, Jay Smack speaks with Jane M Powers about their Podcast Speaks event on April 29 and 30.  They discuss Jane M Powers' CORE Sales Program involving personality types and methods of communication, the need for what Jane calls your INTROmercial, the importance of listening, interview techniques, podcasting as a lead generation tool, podcasting as a means of deep-diving into what your business' message and mission is in order to communicate that to customers, partners and collaborators, podcasting as a content generator, podcast as a super-powered SEO tool, what many podcasts for business are missing, deciding what subjects to address in podcasts, and much more.  It's a positive, energetic conversation that just scratches the surface of the potential that podcasts hold as a tool for business, especially small business and entrepreneurs.  

James Burk is a the IT Director for and a member of The Mars Society. 

The website states: "The Mars Society is the world’s largest and most influential space advocacy organization dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. Established by Dr. Robert Zubrin and others in 1998, the group works to educate the public, the media and the government on the benefits of exploring Mars and creating a permanent human presence on the Red Planet."

We talk about a number of Mars and space-related subjects including:
-recent launches by and goals of Space X and other space travel and space tourism companies.  
-Dr. Rubert Zubrin's book "The Case For Mars"
-some of the various goals and plans for getting to Mars, setting up infrastructure for human inhabitance and the possibility of terra-forming Mars and making it conducive to human survival in conditions similar to Earth.
-the effect the movie "The Martian" had on The Mars Society's efforts and public opinion.
-how far in the future we should be looking to expect regular travel to Mars from Earth

The Mars Society

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Laurie Hedges is a filmmaker, photographer, conservationist and biologist.  He produces films for wildlife and environmental conservation causes, working with NGO’s, organizations, companies and practitioners across the globe.  We talk about his travels, production gear and some of the causes, indigenous peoples and animals he works to defend.

Laurie Hedges' website

Laurie on Instagram

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Ryan Kent is a published poet, writer and former vocalist for the band Gritter.  His poetry collections include "Hit Me When I'm Pretty", "This Is Why I Am Insane" and "Poems For Dead People" and "Tomorrow Ruined Today" - a collaboration with his Dead Books Publishing co-owner Brett Lloyd.  Gritter releases on which he is lead vocalist include "Welcome To The Sinkhole", "Nobody Cares"  and a self-titled EP when they were known as "Rube".  He's currently working on several projects performing spoken word readings of his work with musical accompaniment. 

Ryan Kent on Instagram

Gritter on Bandcamp

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Soles4Souls turns unwanted shoes and clothing into opportunity, by keeping them from going to waste and putting them to good use – providing relief, creating jobs and empowering people to break the cycle of poverty.  Stephanie Hathaway is Operations Director in the Richmond, Va location of Souls4Soles.

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Tom Leahy started the Beacon Tree Foundation as a result of his own family's challenges presented by mental illness in the form of clinical depression. Beacon Tree's mission is to be an advocate for families who have children struggling with mental illness by focusing on education, access to services, and the ability to pay for those services.

Shannon Ross is the president of The Community, which he started as a personal development newsletter to provide information to the incarcerated community in 2014 while serving a seventeen year prison sentence in Wisconsin. He was released in September, when he began (the first day out) a graduate degree program at UW-Milwaukee for which he had been offered a scholarship. He is also a community fellow for a new partnership between UWM, Marquette, and the Milwaukee School of Engineering to facilitate collaboration among and access to all of the anti-mass incarceration efforts and resources in Wisconsin.

Ramiah Whiteside was also incarcerated for over 2 decades.  Now free, he has dedicated himself to raising awareness about the cause of anti-mass incarceration and promoting personal development and education among the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated.

The Community

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Sara Daves, Intuitive Purpose Coach, has put together a virtual event that features speakers talking about how after a (to say the least) tumultuous 2020 we can begin to "shift our focus toward healing the relationships with ourselves and others, and with our planet. We can act from a place of belonging, connection and hope."  Sara talks about the summit, the featured speakers and their messages.  The summit begins Monday December 21, with talks delivered to your inbox.

Anchoring the Consciousness of Oneness World Summit 2020

Sara Daves

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Rik Surly is industrious, entrepreneurial, metal and has a green thumb.  After spending years in the restaurant industry and years playing and touring in bands.  Then he created a musical entity he could drive himself: Thunderchief.  He has also created some of the best hot sauce you've ever experienced: the Thunderchief Sauce of Doom.  It's all natural, uses no vinegar and he grows all the chilis himself.  He also ships the sauces or delivers them himself.  He talks about the process from ground preparation to sauce delivery on this episode of the Good Eye Podcast.

Thunderchief

The Official Hot Sauce of Doom

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