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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

• When assessing potential new team members, choose people who are hungry, humble, and smart.
• We are supposed to breathe primarily through our nose - mouth breathing can be detrimental to our health.
• Teams in great cultures are comfortable with their tasks, they are happy, and they are supported, which patients notice when in dental offices.

Looking for a skilled and experienced dentist in Encinitas, CA? Meet Marisela Sinclair, DDS. With over 17 years of experience in the dental industry, Dr. Sinclair is a Registered Dental Assistant-turned dentist who has worked with some of the top cosmetic dentists in the San Diego region. Her current practice and located at Sinclair Smiles - Encinitas and can be found on Google.

After earning her bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Cal State San Marcos, Dr. Sinclair went on to complete her Doctorate in Dental Surgery from the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, CA. She is a member of the Tau Kappa Omega Honor Society and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Dr. Sinclair is committed to providing the best possible care for her patients. She is a certified Invisalign® provider, a ZOOM teeth whitening provider, a veneer provider, and a certified soft-tissue laser dentistry provider. Dr. Sinclair is also affiliated with several professional dental groups, including the California Dental Association (CDA), the American Dental Association (ADA), the San Diego County Dental Society, the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, SPEAR Education, and the Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Dental Studies (LVI).

At Sinclair Smiles - Encinitas, Dr. Sinclair provides a full range of dental services, including general, cosmetic, and sleep dentistry. Trust Dr. Sinclair and her team to provide you with exceptional dental care in a welcoming and friendly environment. Book your appointment today!

Freethought Friends - Family, and sols new to the community, it is a privilege to share these messages of humanity with you; from the voices of the people.
Politics is a hard lined divisive subject. We have placed it in the hush zone with discussions of money, ethnic relations, & religion! We had the privilege to sit with the current and running politicians in North County San Diego Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson & Cipriano Vargas. What is politics to the citizens, is policy making to the politicians. The fact is whatever they call it, being on the fringes of it and being touched only by the legislated mandates.

Tired of the public charm without the insistence on public service. Both Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson & Cipriano Vargas shed their publicist, lawyer, and speech writers, for a heartfelt, warm, empowering conversation in the Policy of Politics; on a human level.

Pop out your ice tea fan next to the fireside, and join us for a chat. To understand why the hell we even need elected officials to govern a largely loving and caring society. What the different levels of politics mean to the hamlet, town, city, unincorporated, and what the federal level does to state. What ways we can tell the local and city representatives to truly represent our collective constituent votes. How in the hell we hold them accountable, and most importantly how we can invest as citizens and policy makers, in raising up the whole of the community.

Our hope is to see more conversations discussing the Politics of Policymaking take on this mantle. In order for such things to take place you’ve gotta be active in #HumanizingUs all. Fact is, Thoughts are free, revolution takes action; #BeRevolutionary.

*Guest voices: Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson is running for County Supervisor - District 5. Cipriano Vargas is running for Vista City Mayor. Please do your due diligence on the persons you feel would best represent your vote. This was a human conversation about policy making involving the voices of those that can best articulate; tis all!

Thank you to @prmtvsls for the intro to the pod, could use some work; but it’ll do! Asett for the championing art giving the right light to both our guests. Venus Johnson @VenusJohnson for enlightening us: politics is for dummies, policy making is for humanity.

Important thank you to Tiffany Boyd-Hodgson & Cipriano Vargas for braving the public space of conversation and finding the comfortability and safety to speak from the heart, and not the podium.

To the listeners; it is our privilege to offer up the voices of community on this #soapboxnmic If your voice through art or other needs to speak to humanity. We are here. Be blessed, and share some humanity.

-Humbly
Freethought Revolution- Interactive Artistic Pod

“It often takes people a lot of support and really deciding they are going to ask for help, which is a very difficult thing. Most of us don’t want to do that. So when somebody does do that, and they come through our doors and we reach out to them here on the streets of San Marcos…we really want to find out where they are at and help them move forward in the most caring and compassionate and dignified way possible.” - Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services

Greg’s career has been devoted to helping others.  After graduating with a B.A. in political science from University of California, San Diego in 2003, he worked at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego.  In 2006, he joined Interfaith Community Services as the Volunteer Coordinator and Faith Liaison, and went on to serve as the Director of Development for five years.  In 2011, he moved to California State University San Marcos as the Director of Major Gifts, building community support for a regional guaranteed-admission program that provides a path to college for low-income, under-served youth.

Greg returned as Interfaith’s Chief Executive Officer in May 2014, leading an inclusive Strategic Visioning process that returned ownership of Interfaith Community Services to its many stakeholders and produced a clear vision for the future of the organization.  That vision supported the creation of the Hawthorne Veteran and Family Resource Center, a recuperative care program for homeless exiting hospitals; the launch of a new regional system of care for all persons experiencing homelessness, bringing together more than 30 community agencies in partnership; the opening of the Haven House Year-Round Emergency Shelter, North County’s first year-round emergency homeless shelter for both men and women; and the launch of Recovery & Wellness programs to address addiction and mental health issues.

Greg is the Immediate Past Board President of the Alliance for Regional Solutions, Board Member of the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, Co Chair of the North County Live Well Leadership Team, and Immediate Past President of the North County Philanthropy Council.

He received his M.A. degree in Leadership and Non-Profit Management from University of San Diego in 2009.  He lives in Escondido with his wife and two daughters, and when not at Interfaith, he can usually be found playing in a park with his kids or trying not to burn food in his kitchen.

Mentioned in this episode:

Interfaith Community Services

Homeless in San Diego Podcast 

Interfaith's new Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center

Are you a San Marcos resident or know someone who has hit a rough patch due to COVID and needs help? Call the San Marcos Rent Hotline: (760) 670-5980

Become a volunteer at the Interfaith

Consider making a donation or an in-kind contribution to Interfaith: food, personal hygiene items, backpacks, school supplies can be donated

Are you a business owner in need of staffing support? Reach out to Interfaith with job opportunities. Interfaith works with 70 organizations in North County to share employment opportunities and needs to help support and grow the economy and recover from COVID.

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A resident of San Marcos for more than 20 years, Randy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California San Diego and a law degree from California Western School of Law. He is also a member of the California Bar. 

Randy has been an active volunteer in the community for more than a decade, working with organizations such as San Marcos Youth Baseball, San Marcos High School Surf Team, Valley of Discovery Education Foundation, and the Ridgeline Protection Taskforce. He is also a founder and board member of The San Marcos Promise, a non-profit that provides guidance and support to San Marcos students on their journeys to college and career.  Recently, The San Marcos Promise, elected Randy a board member Emeritus.

Prior to serving on the San Marcos City Council, Randy served as a governing board member of the San Marcos Unified School District for ten years and led the Proposition K school bond measure, that passed and allowed the district to rebuild San Marcos High School and improve several other campuses. Randy hopes to use his experience on the school board to foster a good working relationship with SMUSD to help ensure San Marcos schools continue to be top rated in North County.

Mentioned:

City of San Marcos

Randy Walton Bio

Walton Law Firm

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There’s a pretty good chance that you or someone you know was born at Tri-City Medical Center. For 60 years Tri-City Medical Center has been serving the needs of North County residents. Aaron Byzak, Chief External Affairs Officer, discusses what makes Tri-City standout in the health care industry. Aaron shares his career path and how he continues to give back through mentoring and the holistic program he developed to help people create a career path to success.

Aaron is responsible for the healthcare district’s marketing, communications, government affairs, and community engagement activities.

For more than two decades, Aaron has served in positions of progressive leadership in Emergency Medical Services, health policy, healthcare management, and consulting. Recently, Aaron and his team were honored with 18 awards from the Health Care Communicators of Southern California for community outreach and its public engagement efforts.

Mentioned:

Tri-City Medical Center

18 Communicator Awards

Medical Services

Strategic Career Planning

Today’s Guest: Dr. Ross Colt, Medical Director for Gary and Mary West PACE

“I think that the world will never return to normal. It’s like that famous quote, ‘the mind, once expanded, will never shrink back to its original proportions.’…so even as our world turns to a new normal, people recognize that we have additional tools in our kit bag that we can use just to increase the level of care that we are providing.” 

Dr. Ross Colt has been the Medical Director at Gary and Mary West PACE since opening in San Marcos nearly three years ago. Dr. Colt is a decorate war veteran, who served two combat tours in Iraq and retired after 24 years as an Army Colonel. He is a family physician with more than two decades of full spectrum clinical practice experience, including a deep background in academic medicine and leadership in managed care environments at the regional and national level.

Mentioned:

Vaccinations

PACE Senior Care Services

PACE stands for Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly

Today’s Guest: Amy Ventetuolo, Vice President of Marketing and Development, TrueCare

Amy Ventetuolo is proud to serve as the Vice President of Marketing & Development at TrueCare. With over 17 years of experience creating award-winning communications and marketing campaigns, as well as uniting philanthropic passions with organizational missions, Amy serves as a key facilitator to create lasting relationships by fostering community and trust, with donors, patients, community partners and businesses.

With experience in non-profit, healthcare and local government sectors, she has created and implemented strategies to propel key areas of business including designing new media and digital experience programs, advancing donor engagement and recognition programs, and federal legislation communications. As a North County native, Amy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from California State University, San Marcos with graduate studies in Strategic Communication from Liberty Baptist University. She also is a graduate of Leadership North County and holds multiple certifications in crisis communication Incident Command Structure training.

Mentioned:

TrueCare

Wellness Services

How To Get Involved with TrueCare

Palomar College’s main campus is located in San Marcos, which helps make San Marcos the Education Hub of North County. Palomar College enrolls approximately 30,000 full-time and part-time students. At Palomar, students may choose from over 200 associate degree and certificate programs, complete the first two years of a bachelor’s degree, or enjoy personal enrichment classes for lifelong learning.

Mentioned:

Palomar College

Military Leadership Assistance Program

Drone Technology Certificate and Degree Programs

Bond refunding to save taxpayers $21.2 million

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Carol Farrar is an entrepreneur who specializes in helping people with Residential Real Estate in the North County communities of San Diego. Being a native of the area, Carol is an invaluable resource of information & shares her passion through platforms like Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram. She is also on the North San Diego County Association of REALTORS board of directors, President for the 2018 term, as well as a director for California Association of REALTORS.

Carol, along with her husband Erik, owns 1850 Realty. In today’s episode find out why it’s called 1850 Realty.

Discussion Topics:

1850 Realty

North County Association of Realtors

Why is the business named 1850 Realty?

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