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Topics:
1) A Post Trial Analysis of the Rittenhouse Case - Why the jury got it right and the media got it wrong
*What the judge, jury and defendant will go through post trial
2) The Non-Event Diplomatic Boycott of the Chinese Hosting the Winter Olympics - China laughs it off - No change in Sponsorship
*Why is Biden doing this other than moral support for those in forced labor in China?
3) Why are some members of the Media blaming the Media for Biden's poor polling numbers?
4) Biden and Putin Speak had Video Conference over rising Ukraine tensions - Biden's credibility on the line as Russia faced nominal problems after it annexed Crimea - Economic Sanctions Warning?
5) White Suburban Women shifting toward Republicans, reversing the trend in Virginia Elections aftermath
6) Just 22% of Voters want Biden to run in 2024 - Harris is at 12%

Mini trucker, former magazine guy, and founder of Flo Airride, Mike Alexander, joins the guys to chat about his company’s recent acquisition by Air Lift and his story of how he went from working at Circuit City to being embraced by the automotive aftermarket. Listen to Mike A. and Holman share stories from their magazine days and hear what’s next for Flo Airride and Air Lift Performance. We’ll also read some listener feedback about a past guest and find out if Holman will ever get his timing down.

Never one to shy away from gracing our podcast (or any others) with his knowledge and opinion, automotive personality and journalist Jonny Lieberman returns to shed light on Toyota’s decision to cancel the Land Cruiser in America, while touching on midsize trucks, Ram’s TRX, Land Rovers, and Portuguese sausages. DECKED breaks their own embargo and announces, to our listeners first, the new product we’ve all been waiting for.

Full Description:

Finding your brand’s DNA is a very important step to nailing your marketing and communicating effectively with your target audience. CEO and Founder of BrandCrudo, Jacqueline Lieberman, calls this DNA your ‘brand North Star’. We also discuss common reasons businesses lose focus as they grow and how Jacqueline takes a psychotherapy approach to analyzing what’s going wrong with the businesses she works with. Then, we chat with Aaron Scott Young, Chief Strategy Officer of The Unshackled Owner, who details his journey from successful business owner to jail and back again. Aaron gives tips on having clarity towards the goals you hope to conquer and how to build a strong team to help you reach the top.

• [00:00:00] Finding Your Brand’s North Star
• [00:05:30] How Businesses Lose Focus as They Grow
• [00:11:30] Jacqueline Lieberman: Brand Therapist 
• [00:18:21] An Unlucky Acquaintance
• [00:25:43] Find the Time to Recharge
• [00:33:21] Have Measurable Outcomes

Ford's horse is finally out of the barn and Jeep drops a 392ci Hemi V-8 right in the thick of things. The guys get together with automotive host and journalist Jonny Lieberman to discuss The Bronco and Wrangler in this special bonus episode.

Maurice joined on RaceConvo to talk about race, racism and health care. We talk about helping people recovery from addiction and live whole lives with HIV.

Ben Stokes joins me on “Everyday Conversations on Race,” to talk about his experience being a person of color adopted by a white family in Australia. He didn’t become aware of racism until his family moved from a small town to a larger city. That was when he would frequently encounter white people who would keep asking him where he was from and look at him in disbelief when the told them he was Australian. Despite having a strong Australian accent, he was often discounted as an Australian because of his brown skin.

After coming to the US, with so many people of color, the questions still persisted from white Americans who couldn’t believe that someone with brown skin could be from Australia.

Ben has lived and worked in the US for over four years. You’ll want to hear his story of how he was harassed by security agents as he re-entered the US from a trip abroad.

His story is unique and not uncommon. Despite his experiences, Ben is the founder of the start-up SocialTable.

SocialTable  brings people together across differences over great food, great conversation and the desire to connect and build community.

Biography

Ben is the CEO and Founder of SocialTable. His personal, academic and professional journey to date is impressive and colourful – to say the least! View Ben’s LinkedIn profile.

Born in Sri Lanka, Ben spent his early years in a rural orphanage before he was adopted by Australian parents who raised him in Tasmania. Ben started his Uni years as a Med student, studying Medicine and then a Masters of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Along the way, he recalls encountering great mentorship by the then CEO of St Vincent’s Hospital. Funnily enough, Ben’s mentorship with the St Vincent’s Hospital CEO actually prompted his realisation that Med was not where he would be most happy. So Ben took some fairly drastic turns and completed a Law degree. The skilled communicator and leader’s story of becoming a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist (having worked on the success of several med-tech products in the US market, as well his own enterprise SocialTable, along with his building projects for his very own orphanage in Sri Lanka) is too long for me to document here but it is full of insights, intelligence and authenticity.

Ben can be contacted through email: ben@socialtable.co or through his LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpstokes/

Why are we obsessed with the thing as we want - only to be bored when we get them? 

Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? 

Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? 

Why are some people, die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? 

Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out? 

The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine.

Dopamine ensured the survival of early man.

Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behavioUrs and cultural ideas—and progress itself. 

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, more surprises.

In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality.

We welcome the author of “The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race.” Daniel Z. Lieberman

More about Daniel here:

http://www.danielzlieberman.com/

In this episode of Everyday Conversations on Race, Selena Wilson and LeRon Barton talk with me about “backhanded compliments,” or compulsions to describe, that are actually racist.

To hear more, download this episode of Everyday Conversations on Race for Everyday People

With social media buzzing about Gina Rodriguez, Cardi B, and what it means to be Black, African American and Latina this episode of Everyday Conversation on Race is timely.

If you’re interested in the topic, have an opinion or want to know more, you’ll love this conversation on race with Cessie and Mercedes.

Cessie Alfonso and Mercedes Martin join me to talk about cultural intersectionality and their own Afro-Latina identities. Spanning generations, geography and sexual orientation, they find that diversity, equity and inclusion are more relevant than ever today as more people identify become aware of their own intersections beyond race and ethnicity.

Topics in this episode include:

• What it means to be Afro-Latina in the United States and accept their own cultural intersectionality
• Afro-Latina identity is complicated and often misunderstood
• Experiences of feeling not being accepted by either culture because it’s impossible to only “choose one” identity
• Response to racism and rejection
• Addressing the claims that someone can’t be Black if they speak Spanish
• Why they can’t separate and only claim one culture since they are mixtures of all of their cultures
• More Afro-Latinas, Afro-LatinX are speaking out about their experiences
• Cessie’s response when people question whether she is Black or Latina, and why she’s speaking Spanish
• How African slaves were brought to the Caribbean Islands even before slavery in the United States
• The difference between race and ethnicity
• Why conversations on race are important and how they are different today than in the 1950’s and 1960’s
• Growing up in New York vs in the California suburbs as Afro-Latinas
• The browning of America in US culture and how that will be reflected as more than Black and White but the multitude of identifications
• How we create space for the multiplicity of backgrounds in our population now and in the future
• Stereotypes and assumptions about Afro-Latina and Afro-LatinX
• How to learn more and engage in conversations on race and ethnicity

Bios:

Mercedes Martin is a Cultural Accessory Designer, Entrepreneur, and Educator. She runs a successful African-Diaspora inspired brand called Tres Mercedes- designing embellished sunglasses, hats with African Fabrics, Ancestor candles, and statement piece earrings & rings. She self- identifies as a natural curl hair spiritual Black Woman, but if she gotta be more specific about ethnicity: Black and Afro-Cuban American. Born in California and raised in Oakland.

Part of the Millennial generation she has had her own small business, Tres Mercedes since 2010.

link: www.tresmercedes.com

Instagram: @TresMercedes

Cecilia "Cessie" Alfonso, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, is a nationally recognized expert in forensic social work, domestic violence and organizational development in the area of cultural competence and valuing diversity.  She is the founder and president of Alfonso Consultants, Inc. For the past 20 years, Alfonso Consultants, Inc. has provided social work and psychosocial assessments to the clients of civil and criminal attorneys throughout the United States, as well as internationally. As a mitigation specialist, she and her associates have conducted over 700 mitigation investigations since she began providing services.

Ms. Alfonso is a bilingual (Spanish speaking), bicultural (Afro-Puerto Rican-Cuban) social worker who has trained attorneys and professionals to appreciate and integrate into their practices and organizations the ethnic diversity and cultural aspects of their clients' lives. She is also a nationally recognized domestic violence/battered woman's expert who has appeared on national television and British Broadcasting Company (BBC) radio and is one of the few African Americans qualified as an expert in domestic violence in the State of New Jersey.  She has conducted training in domestic violence to professionals in the criminal justice system.

Ms. Alfonso has received the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association's (NLADA) Life in the Balance Achievement Award for her pioneering work as a forensic social worker/mitigation specialist. In 2008 she was recognized by Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey as a leading mitigation specialist who significantly contributed to the ultimate abolition of the Death Penalty in the State of New Jersey.

In 1987, Ms. Alfonso, along with her associate, Kathryn Bauer, wrote one of the first articles ever written that details how the social worker skill set can assist criminal attorneys in preparing and presenting the life history of their defendants facing the death penalty.  Ms. Alfonso has been qualified as an expert social worker and has testified in the penalty phase of capital cases in states such as Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Her expertise has contributed to criminal defense attorneys obtaining life sentences for their clients.

Ms. Alfonso's ability to educate attorneys on how to engage and defend individuals who are different from themselves in terms of race, class, gender and/or sexual orientation has enabled attorneys to communicate to the jurors why they should give their clients life as opposed to death.

Cecilia " Cessie" Alfonso has received the following awards:

Recognition Award, First President of National Association of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists (NASAMS), NASAMS 20th Anniversary Conference, March 2013

Life in the Balance Achievement Award - National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, March 2008

Recognition Award, presented by Governor Corzine of New Jersey - Leading mitigation specialist who significantly contributed to the ultimate abolition of the Death Penalty in the State of New Jersey, 2008

Mim George Award - National Association of Sentencing Advocates (founding member 1995), 2005

Outstanding Faculty Member in the Defender Institute Basic Trial Skills Program - New York State Defenders Association, June 2000

Contact info: cessiealf@aol.com

(518) 928-8199

Vincent Garrett joins Simma on Everyday Conversations on Race to talk about race, mass incarceration and creating a “prison to school pipeline.”

A former addict and incarcerated felon, Vince has been clean from drugs for over twenty years.  He shares his experience of being released from prison, finding a mentor, getting his BA from UC Berkeley and being part of Underground Scholars, a program for the formerly incarcerated.

 We talk about race, racism and mass incarceration and the unequal way Black and Brown people and White people are sentenced for the same crimes.

 Vincent and his whole family were caught up in the crack epidemic in Oakland. He saw people around him being arrested and sent to prison for a few rocks of crack, while white people and upper income people in the Oakland Hills using powdered cocaine were ignored by law enforcement.

He is now working towards a master’s degree and is the program outreach and retention specialist for Restoring Our Communities (ROC), at Laney College.

Vincent and ROC are working to advance the “Prison to School Pipeline,” to ensure that formerly incarcerated people get what they need excel in college and in life.

Additional topics are:

• Racial disparities and inequality in our society today
• Images of Black and other people of color in the media and how that contributes to mass incarceration
• Internalizing racism from outside messages
• Repairing the damage of mass incarceration and race