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Something as complicated as starting a medical school is bound to include unanticipated obstacles, but few schools can match the roller coaster ride of the American Canadian School of Medicine in the Commonwealth of Dominica which just welcomed its first class of students. Our Raise the Line guest, Dr. Ramin Ahmadi, along with colleagues from Yale and Penn State medical schools, had worked for years to design an innovative curriculum and train faculty for a new medical school in Kazan, Russia. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Because of the war, we had to pull out. That was the end of the project at that point and we were all very sad,” Ahmadi tells host Shiv Gaglani. Tune in to learn how the project was given new life and how Ahmadi and his team are meeting the needs and preferences of modern students with a flipped-classroom, case-based approach to education. You’ll also hear about ACSOM’s different approach to clinical training, new model for residency programs and other innovations. And be sure to stay tuned to hear about his remarkable experiences in global health and human rights, and gain from his insights on how physicians can protect themselves from burnout.

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Are you spending all your energy trying to stabilize the world around you to create stability in your life?  Trying to "Fix" everything external ... to change an INTERNAL feeling?  Can we just rest in that question for a moment and get REAL?

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ― Marcus Aurelius

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer 

"As a Man Thinks..." How many quotes and philosophies have been pulled from this?  Our realities are truly comprised and created by what we believe and think. Our actions are predicated on how we perceive and think about specific situations.
Is YOUR patoot getting irked in life? 

You Spot it... You've got it. Look for where that's true, then start to work on your end of the thought equation.
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Do you say "Yes" to EVERYTHING?  Is it hard to say, "NO"?  In order to stay true to your own Purpose in life and to be available for the best possible opportunities to live into your best possible life, you will have to set personal "Yes" "No" boundaries.

When you say "Yes" to 1 thing, you are effectively saying "No" to the 101M other possibilities available in that time space.  WHOA!!!

If "No" feels too forceful, have fun easing into your personal discernment with the word "Nope".  It's actually fun to say. 

The "Yes Mentality" is an amazing way to find your starting point and to get moving. It is also very beneficial/necessary within your "Purpose Lane", but don't get sidetracked or derailed by it.

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Dominica, or dom-in-EE-ka as it's pronounced, might seem like every other run-of-the-mill Caribbean island. But it's a little different then the rest. 

First off, they are relatively untouched and some say that if Columbus were to go there today, it wouldn't be too much different than when he first arrived. It also has the highest number of volcanoes per capita at a whopping 10! Okay, that's not a lot but it is for this tiny, little island. 

It's also home to the largest population of ethnic Caribe people AND is one of the only countries with purple in it's flag. 

We go deep on this one, getting into what our own coat-of-arms would be, under what circumstances would we try another human, and even what our own country, CountryBoy Island would be like....*spoiler alert: we all concluded that we would probably end up eating Jason and making a raft out of his hair. Yup.

Have you been to Dominica? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

In this conversation with Attorney Gabriel J. Christian, a national of Dominica, we explored the erosion of democracy and the rule of law in the island nation of Dominica. The resulting political reality, creeping autocracy, is a dangerous trend for Dominica and the Caribbean.

Real Talk with Ambassador Curtis Ward is produced by Larry Sindass / Sindass Productions.

In this episode, Cherelle talks about how she made the decision to  “burn her ship”, quit her full time job, and pursue her passion of sharing her Trinidadian roots through her Caribbean focused dance and fitness company SocaFit. She talks about how imposter syndrome crept in and kept her community smaller. However, once the pandemic hit, she was forced to either go online or close, so she got over her fears and is now serving people internationally. 

Cherelle is a proud Canadian born with deep Trinidadian roots that extend farther than you or I can imagine. Little did she know that important events throughout her upbringing would subconsciously shape her into the professional entertainer and entrepreneur she is today. 

You could say her journey started at a very young age - playing Mas during Cariwest as a baby and growing up playing the steel drums in her father’s band, Trincan Steel Orchestra, for over 10 years. Fast forward to today, now owning her own Caribbean-focused dance and fitness company, SocaFit. Cherelle created SocaFit to allow her to celebrate and share her Trinidadian culture through dance and fitness and to also create programs to enable youth to explore and learn about their own history. What started as her teaching her mother’s friends in a small room has grown to an international audience for both adults and children.

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Keturah has a conversation with Canadian playwright and librettist, Kanika Ambrose.  They discuss her upcoming opera with Ian Cusson, Of The Sea, her work at the Curtis Institute on Anansi and The Great Light, her Caribbean heritage and how it informs her writing, performing in one’s own work, and much much more.

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She documents her challenge on her 100 NEW THINGS TO TRY blog and social media to encourage women who refuse to become another boring adult to TRY MORE THINGS they've never done before, DARE more, and HAVE FUN!

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Schuyler’s journey into her professional career through graduate school in the U.S., her first position at Trinity Washington University, and her move back to Dominica, where she founded Create Caribbean and began working at Dominica State College.
• Using digital humanities as a way to make connections between higher and secondary education.
• The Dominica Liberation Movement and her family’s connection to regional anti-colonialist movements in the 1960's and 1970's as an inspiration for founding Create Caribbean.
• The importance of the THATCamp Caribe, first held in Puerto Rico in 2012.
• The role of high school students in the foundational and ongoing creative work of Create Caribbean.
• The significance of students creating accessible spaces where other students they can learn about their history.
• Schuyler’s process of unlearning the hierarchies and expectations of the traditional culture of the academy.
• The loneliness and isolation of academic work, especially in the Caribbean.
• Globalization and the impact of shifts in higher ed in the U.S. on the Caribbean region, including increasing emphasis on the profit motive and a utilitarian view of academic experience.
• Differences between identity politics in higher ed in the Caribbean and the U.S., including what it’s like to be a black woman in the academy in the U.S. vs. in the Dominica and Antigua.
• The challenge of administrative work that takes you away from creative and fun work of your own but opens up a space for you to create space for more people.
• The importance of conferences like The Caribbean Digital for staying inspired and being energized.
• Schuyler’s driving desire and hope for creating a world where her students will be able to come back home if they want and be able to feel like they can work and make a living and make a life in the Caribbean.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Schuyler Esprit
• Create Caribbean Research Institute at
• THATCamp Caribe 1
• The Caribbean Digital VI

Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.

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