Beat the Big Guys: Recent Episodes
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Do you see a problem in your community or town, but feel there’s nothing you can do? Find out just how much power you have – right now – from Sandy Rosenthal who started out with no special training, stood up to a mammoth federal agency, and won. In every episode, Sandy, author of the best-selling book “Words Whispered in Water” will provide tools that you can use right now to Beat the Big Guys.
On the landmark finale for Beat the Big Guys, Sandy chats with Ken McCarthy (Tivoli, NY) about his latest book How the Web Won which he says "reveals many previously untold details behind the dramatic emergence of the World Wide Web and how it came along just in time to thwart the last step of Bill Gates' plan for permanent domination of all the world's personal computers."
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Sandy has an animated chat with civil engineer Stephen Estopinal (Gonzales, LA) about the Advocate newspaper's insistence on repeating myths that were debunked a decade ago. Specifically, they discuss the unnecessary "levee board reform" which wastes expert time and talent because no one can tell the Army Corps of Engineers what to do.
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Sandy sits down with a guest panel from the Slingshot, consisting of Stuart Lob and Rudy Vorkapic (New Orleans, LA), to discuss the beginning of Trump's second term as President, and the troubling consequences his recent displays of power might have going forward.
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In this episode, Sandy chats with Amy Nelson (Seattle, WA) about her public battle with Amazon after having her life nearly destroyed by Amazon's unfounded heavy-handed legal action against her husband.
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Sandy chats with Kim Kelly (Philadelphia, PA) about her 2022 book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor and about how leaders taking on a cause must focus on the issues at hand; not on themselves or the people who are standing in their way.
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Sandy welcomes back Sherry Loeffler (Charlotte, NC) to discuss her triumph over a heavy-handed Homeowners Association who agreed to a $75,000 settlement.
Professor Leonard Cassuto (New York City) talks about his new book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter. In higher education, research has gained the upper hand at the expense of educating students, and the professor explains how this can change.
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This month, Sandy interviews journalist Jordan Chariton (New York) about the explosive revelations in his book We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis and the Poisoning of 1000,000 Americans. Among many issues, they discuss the frequent unwillingness of the media to cover important stories and what you can do about it.
This month, Sandy chats with Dawn Westmoreland (Asheville, NC) about her journey to blow the whistle on the Veterans Affairs office for illegal hiring and promotion practices.
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Sandy chats with Steve May (Ellicott City, MD) about his whistleblower lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and how he handled the threats of countersuit from Purdue.
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Sandy chats with author Jason Berry (New Orleans, LA) about his book Last of the Red Hot Poppas and how humor can be a great way to expose the Big Guys' bad behavior.
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Sandy chats with Rich Holman (Medellin, Columbia) about his quest to beat Big Pharma and Big Government to alert people about the dangers of sugar and processed foods. Mr. Holman is author of Killing You Softly: How Sugar is Killing Us (Red Thread Publishing, 2023).
This week, Sandy is joined by Harry Shearer (Santa Monica, CA). Best known for his work on both the Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap, he speaks with Sandy about how to make your message appeal to as big an audience as possible to Beat the Big Guys!
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Sandy talks to Brinkley Hutchings (Fairhope, AL) about her activist past and her decision to build a school focused on cultivating the next generation of environmental stewards.
Sandy interviews Rob Lalka (New Orleans, LA) author of The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits into Power. They discuss how it's possible and beneficial to challenge people in power.
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Sandy departs from her usual format to discuss the value of awards and how they reinforce current supporter enthusiasm and also generate more supporters.
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Sandy speaks with Yana Yakushina (Ghent, Belgium) about her focus on establishing a legal framework for recognizing light pollution as an environmental concern.
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Sandy talks to Celia Gonzalez (San Francisco, CA) of Other Avenues Grocery Cooperative, about her experience in local and global grassroots campaigns opposing genetic engineering and corporate consolidation.
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Tessa Hill (Sebastopol, CA) talks to Sandy about her new book At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans. Tessa and her co-author Eric Simons aim to show how scientists' research and indigenous knowledge can be valuable tools in our fight against climate change..
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Sandy talks to Anita Dhake (Denver, CO) about how she started retirement at the age of 33, how some people disapprove, and how she handles it.
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Sandy chats with Jen Johnson (Bay Area, CA) about the two housing communities she founded where a group of people live and care in one house which provides relief for the housing crisis among many other positive results.
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Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/3bgCJUcUP5M
Producer Landry Bohn sits down with activist Stanford Rosenthal, who worked closely with Sandy on Levees.Org, a grassroots campaign to correct the narrative surrounding the 2005 levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Nearly twenty years later, Mr. Rosenthal has continued to draw on what he learned from this experience in an ongoing fight to Beat the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
Video version can be seen here: https://youtu.be/8IDcxV0y9NM
Sandy talks to Niko Dunkel (San Francisco, CA) about his quest to bring access to solar power to renters who have landlords who may be resistant (for whatever reason) to climate-friendly and energy-efficient choices.
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Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
In our 100th episode of Beat the Big Guys, Dr. Temple Grandin (Fort Collins, CO), Professor of Animal Sciences and autism rights activist talks to Sandy about her achievements in making slaughterhouses more humane and how being very specific and targeted in your goals is critical to success.
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Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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Sandy sits down with Carolyn Pistone (San Francisco Bay Area) to discuss her company's strategy of helping polluters move forward on the environment/social/governance continuum.
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Sandy chats with social entrepreneur and author Kevin F. Adler (San Francisco, CA) about his journey toward understanding and ending homelessness.
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Sandy sits down with Ashoka Finley (San Francisco), a representative of the excellent Hypha Network, to discuss the important role which interconnection plays in a successful social movement.
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Sandy visits with Cherry and Sherry Wilmore aka Everybody's Favorite Twins (Houma, LA) to discuss the importance of branding in their campaign––called CHeriSH Times Two–– to foster self-sufficiency through life transitions.
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Sandy chats with Kristen Tieche (San Francisco, CA) about her quest to educate the American population about the importance of bats to our ecosystem and how videos of unseeable events can help with busting pre-conceived wrong ideas.
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Sandy discusses the value of partnerships with Todd Reynolds and Rami Diaz (New Orleans, LA) both with Groundworks New Orleans.
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Sandy chats with Dee Laninga (Bucksport, ME) about her work with Farm Action Fund, a farmer-led organization fighting corporate monopolies in agriculture with the goal of nutritious and affordable food.
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Sandy talks with filmmaker Michel Shane (Los Angeles, CA) about his quest to make a 21-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway safer.
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Sandy chats with Loretta Boesing (St. Louis, MO) about her quest to abolish forced mail order pharmaceutical delivery due to dangers of medicines overheating.
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In celebration of the $35M settlement awarded to the residents of Gordon Plaza, Beat the Big Guys is proud to present our interview with Wilma Subra (New Orleans, L.A.) as our 90th episode. Subra worked closely with the residents of Gordon Plaza and provided invaluable technical data that aided their efforts.
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Sandy talks to Sherry Loeffler (Charlotte, NC) about her battle with her homeowners' association's (HOA) attorneys who placed a lien on her home after admitting they had made an error.
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Executive producer: Landry Bohn
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Sandy chats with educator, organizer and activist Cheryl Orengo (Ashville, NC) about her efforts to help people who often may not vote for or know how to take action for their own self interests.
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Sandy has a jaw dropping conversation with Jim Abernethy (Palm Beach, FL) about his quest to expose a corrupt system behind the mass poisoning of the plants, animals and even the land, in much of the state of Florida.
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Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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CW: This epsiode's discussion references topics and events which may be triggering, including child abuse and the sexual assault of a minor. Viewer discretion is advised.
Description: In this episode, Sandy chats with Anna Ditchburn (Tampa, FL) about her "mission impossible" success in getting out of Australia during Covid-19 to testify against a pedophile.
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In this enlightening episode, Sandy chats with Kelly Haggerty (Philadelphia, PA) about humans' relationship with trash and the Big Guys she must face off with.
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In recognition of Carey Gillam's consutling work for the 2022 documentary Into the Weeds (dir. Jennifer Baichwal, 2022), Beat the Big Guys presents a remastered edition of Ep. 8, which featured Gillam.
Carey Gillam––originally from Kansas––is author of the recently released "The Monsanto Papers" (Island Press, 2021), chats with Sandy about how useful the Freedom of Information Act can be for the community leader.
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Episode originally produced by Jess Branas
Sandy has a lively chat with Sophie Constantinou (San Francisco, CA) about the enormous value of video to promote civic engagement and improvement to quality of life.
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In this surprising episode, Sandy chats with Brett Davis (New Orleans, LA) about the dark side of the "Greatest Free Show on Earth" - Mardi Gras and what can be done to change it.
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In this surprising episode, Sandy chats with Brett Davis (New Orleans, LA) about the dark side of the "Greatest Free Show on Earth" - Mardi Gras and what can be done to change it.
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Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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Sandy chats with Iris Jamahl Dunkle (Sebastopol, CA) about the troves of valuable documents that are there waiting to be found to Beat the Big Guys. One only has to look.
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Sandy has a lively chat with Madera Rogers-Henry (New Orleans, LA) about combating excess waste through parades, festivals, art markets and crafting stations which celebrate recycled materials as an artistic medium.
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Description: Sandy has a powerful talk with Alex Silva (Portland, OR) about the immeasurable value and power of community in the battle against climate change.
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Sandy talks with Andrea Amico (Portsmouth, NH) about the dangers of PFAS poisoning and why it's necessary to place blame where it belongs.
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Sandy has a conversation with Andreanecia Morris (New Orleans, LA) about the difficult, but highly fixable challenge of ending homelessness.
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Roland Angle (Pocatello, ID) tells Sandy about his organization's quest to expose a different explanation of why three high-rise steel framed buildings collapsed on 9/11 in New York City.
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This week, Sandy speaks with Doreen Downing (Larkspur, CA) on her special program to help people take a deep dive into self-discovery and find their speaking voice.
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In this episode, Sandy talks with Janet Crouch (Columbia, MD) about her successful battle with her Homeowners Association to maintain a pollinator garden in her front yard.
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Sandy talks with Janet Crouch (Columbia, MD) about her successful battle with her Homeowners' Association to maintain a pollinator garden in her front yard.
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In 2021, Sandy interviewed environmental attorney Robert Bilott. Bilott helped lead the first litigation in the country against the 3M Company for PFAS contamination in Minnesota, and worked to raise awareness of the threat to public health and the environment from PFAS “forever chemicals” for over two decades. On June 22, 2023, a settlement valued up to $12.5B was announced with the 3M Company to address contamination of U.S. public drinking water supplies with PFAS. In commemoration of this victory and great effort undertaken by Bilott, Beat the Big Guys will be releasing a remastered version of his interview as our 72nd episode.
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Sandy talks to Donna Seebo (Seattle, WA) host of the Warriors for Peace show which focuses on interviews with veterans and individuals who are dedicated to making this world a more balanced, sustaining environment.
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Sandy chats with Professor Rob Verchick (New Orleans, LA)––one of the nation's leading scholars on climate change––about his new book The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. One of the nation's leading scholars in disaster and climate change law, Professor Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University. He and Sandy discuss the hope we must still have for the future of our planet.
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Sandy chats with Emily Donovan (Wilmington NC) co-founder of Clean Cape Fear about her quest to expose how Dupont had contaminated her community's drinking water supply with PFAS (forever chemicals) for over 40 years.
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Sandy talks with Brett Hoffstadt (Folsom, CA) about fighting the powerful status quo in the aviation and aerospace industries including resistance to innovation and cover-ups of fatal aviation disasters. For listeners looking for professional aid, Mr. Hoffstadt can be reached on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Sandy talks to filmmaker and community organizer Michael Valentine (Salt Lake City) about his battle to bring to justice those who illegally destroyed a magnificent historic theater.
Sandy chats with author and civil engineer Stephen Estopinal (Gonzalez, LA) about this quest, via his historical novels to correct the Black Legend narrative, an 18th century campaign by the British to paint the Spanish as cruel which still persists today.
Sandy speaks with expert Lauren McGough on her art and science as a falconer, and how engaging experts voices like Ms. McGough's can bolster a community's grassroots efforts.
Sandy chats with global drug safety expert Kim Witczak (Minneapolis, MN) about her quest for drug safety reform and her firm belief in the power of making a personal appearance.
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Sandy chats with Danielle Friedman (New York City) author of Let's Get Physical (Putnam 2022) about the long hard battle women have fought against the male general attitude that women should not exercise.
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Sandy chats with Michelle Stiles, author of the newly released One Idea to Rule Them All (Winnie Mae, 2022). Michelle tells us how much of what we see in the media is not news but fabricated campaigns orchestrated by a wealthy minority. But there's hope. Once you recognize the patterns, it's child's play to understand and expose the ruse.
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Sandy chats with expert chemist James Rauh (Akron, OH) on his quest for the Dept of Homeland Security to designate fentanyl as a 'weapon of mass destruction'.
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Sandy interivewed the great Joye Braun on May 16, 2022. Five months later, Ms. Braun, activist and fighter for racial and environmental justice, passed away. In remembrance, Sandy is reissuing her interview with Ms. Braun, posthumous winner of the 2022 Rose Brax Award for Bold Activism.
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Sandy chats with international bestselling author Corban Addison (Virginia) about how a small band of Black homeowners battled the world's largest meat producer and won. This story shows how a group can find and use the leverages in the system to force the Big Guys and their entrenched injustices to change.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Marianne Skolek Perez channeled her grief over losing her daughter to Oxycontin into sounding the alarm that the FDA is the problem, not the pharmaceutical companies.
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Sandy chats with Dan Schneider of the Netflix docuseries "The Pharmacist" which highlights the Oxycontin crisis and "pill mills." Dan (Mandeville, LA) explains how just one person really can make a difference.
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When Ed Bisch's son died in 2001 after taking an OXY at a party, Oxycontin was barely mentioned in major media. With unparalleled moral authority, Ed founded Relatives Against Purdue Pharma to get the story of the addictive drug in the media and in front of every person in America.
Sandy chats with community activist and leader Sade Dumas about her role in reducing the jail population in New Orleans by over 50% and her recent efforts to address and fix the drivers of incarceration.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Sandy chats with Pulitzer Prize finalist Gerald Posner and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books including his latest book, Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America. Among many pieces of great advice, Gerald espouses being a "merciless pit bull" in one's quest to Beat the Big Guys.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Six months after Sandy interviewed guest Sharon Lavigne about her battle to stop a giant plastics plant from getting built in her community, her guest won her battle.
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Producer: Jess Branas
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Sandy chats with Waniya Locke (Standing Rock, SD) about her battle to preserve safe drinking water for her community.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Producer: Jess Branas
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Sandy Rosenthal shares a monologue celebrating her first fifty guests and she also explains why the Big Guys are no different from the bullies from the third-grade playground.
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Producer: Jess Branas
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This week Sandy chats with Lee Donahue (Campbell, WI) about her successful battle to expose PFAS carcinogens in her hometown's drinking water.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Producer: Jess Branas
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Sandy chats with Dr. Ketra Davenport-King (Dallas/Fort Worth) about her experience overcoming abuse from the age of six and the creation of her flagship group Life After.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
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Sandy chats with Phyllis Glazer (Dallas TX) about her all-out battle with the second-largest commercial hazardous waste injection well facility in the country.
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Craig Williams (Berea, KY) chats with Sandy about how it is critical to create a diverse coalition speaking with ONE VOICE to accomplish your mission.
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Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy chats with Dr. Ruth Gotian (New York, NY) about her new book The Success Factor. Dr. Gotian shares those behaviors that the world's biggest achievers do that can help all of us be better leaders.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week Sandy chats with Joye Braun (Eagle Butte, SD), member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe about her efforts to stop not one, but two oil pipelines from going through her native lands.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Howard Prager (Chicago, IL) author of Make Someone's Day about the value of being an upstander. He also discusses the VIP Model (V=view, I=identify, P=plan) in leading your cause.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Lavinia Masters (Lewisville, TX) about the Lavinia Masters Act, recently signed into law in Texas, which seeks to tackle the backlog of sexual assault forensic exams (rape kits). The act is named after Ms. Masters, a crime survivor whose exam sat on a shelf for over 21 years.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy has a conversation with Neil Carman (Iowa City, IA) about the power of speaking up. Too often the burden is on oppressed communities to prove harm, but speaking up is intensely powerful to Beat the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Dr. Michelle Johnston (New Orleans, LA) about her new book The Seismic Shift in Leadership and about how good leadership skills are important––and also accessible––to beat the big guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Wilma Subra (Baldwin, LA) about her role as a technical advisor to a community group in winning a battle against an oil waste incinerator that started using hazardous waste as fuel.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with her podcast producer Jess Branas (Philadelphia, PA) on how you can use your current platform to educate others to beat the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy has a conversation with Milann Guckian (New Braunfels, TX) about her successful battle to keep a massive stone quarry away from her forever home and her community deep in the hill country of Texas.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Councilperson Kim Coates (Pontchatoula, LA) chats with Sandy about how––after she stood up against a battery-making factory in her community––experts came forward to offer useful advice.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Susana Almanza (Austin, TX) about the value of a low-tech health survey. These are easy and inexpensive to collect from residents and are highly effective in Beating the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Pennie Opal Plant (Richmond, CA) about how, when leading the charge to improve your community, there really are no human enemies.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Marsha Jackson (Dallas, TX) about her leadership in literally moving a mountain and how that coveted "silver bullet" could be information right there that is publicly available online.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy has a conversation with Dr. Emma Osong (Elkridage, MD) about an ongoing humanitarian crisis in her home country of Cameroon.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sharon Lavigne (St. James, LA) talks to Sandy about how special training or experience is not necessary to Beat the Big Guys, even when everything is declared a "done deal" by the State Governor.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Lois Gibbs (Falls Church, VA) chats with Sandy about her efforts fighting for relocation of her community away from a toxic dump site which resulted in the creation of the EPA Superfund.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Dr. Laura Hunt (Midlothian, TX) speaks with Sandy about how speaking out against the Big Guys can increase your power exponentially because it can connect you with like-minded powerful people and groups.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Michelle Bowdler (Sudbury, MA) was gang-raped in a home invasion. When she learned her rape kit was lost, she began her journey to change law enforcement's standard procedure of doubting the victim's story. Bowdler is the author of Is Rape a Crime? (Flatiron Books, 2020).
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Mary Zack (Chicago, IL) about her ongoing efforts to expose decades-long illegal dumping of toxins in her small hometown after rare cancers started showing up.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Chris Oliver, a professor at Tulane University, talks to Sandy about his work with citizens' groups in Gorden Plaza and his efforts to hold the government accountable.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy talks with twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner (Wallace, LA) about their work with The Descendants Project and how all successes, no matter how big or small, are valuable.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Aaron Mair (Schenectady, NY), 57th president of the Sierra Club, chats with Sandy about how critical it is to identify those friendly to your cause and make them your allies.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Jim Schermbeck, director of Downwinders at Risk (Dallas Fort Worth) chats with Sandy about the importance of writing a good press release to get the attention of the media.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Physician and author, Mark Cucuzzella (Shepherdstown, WV), talks to Sandy about his quest to remove sugary sodas and high carb food from WVU Medical Center and his success.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Author, humorist, motivational speaker, athlete Alexandra Allred (Dallas, TX) talks with Sandy about the value of using humor in your visuals and photo ops. And how having a celebrity spokesperson isn't critically necessary, but you should line one up if you can get one.
Organizer, writer, and speaker Cherri Foytlin (Tierra Amarilla, NM) talks with Sandy about her Calls to Action after the BP Deep Water Drilling Disaster, and how courage creates even more courage in other people.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy Rosenthal changes the routine this week with a monologue so important it needs an entire episode - the trick question which Big Guys use to push the civic leader off-topic.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
In this episode, Sandy chats with investigative journalist Karen Savage (New York, NY) who relates her experience being threatened with arrest for the 'crime' of her photography and how this threat is an intimidation tactic by the big guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Naomi Yoder (New Orleans, LA), a science team member with Healthy Gulf uses their background in holding Big Energy accountable in their chat with Sandy about the value of including faith-based support in your fight to Beat the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Kayne Darrell (Castle Hayne, NC) chats with Sandy about her role in a community opposition to ––and triumph against––Titan Cement in the county of New Hanover, NC.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Dr. Samantha Montano (Bourne, MA), author of Disasterology: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis, about why emergency management reform in the US is needed and the steps that communities can take to get it passed in Congress.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Al Norman (Greenfield, MA), founder of Sprawl-Busters - a clearinghouse on big box sprawl issues - talks about how to take on companies as large as Wal-Mart and Amazon, and win.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Robert Bilott (Cincinnati, OH), author of Poisoned Water––also the subject of the major motion picture Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo––talks with Sandy about his battle to expose Dupont's contamination of drinking water in West Virginia and its attempts to cover it up.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Nina Teicholz (New York, NY) , author of The Big Fat Surprise, shares her experience with Sandy about when she challenged the entrenched American Medical Association about saturated fat.
Sandy talks with Kimberly Terrell (New Orleans, LA), Research Scientist & Director of Community Engagement at Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic about how asking the right questions can be the key to winning.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Peter Jung (Hudson, NY) , was instrumental in stopping a massive cement plant from ever getting built in New York state, talks with Sandy about how to react when the big guys make big mistakes.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Ken McCarthy (Tivoli, NY), one of the foremost pioneers of the movement to commercialize the Internet in the early 1990s, chats with Sandy and lays out a crystal clear strategy to Beat the Big Guys.
Sandy talks with Lisa Jordan (New Orleans, LA), the Director of Tulane Environmental Law Clinic about the power of regular folks even if up against an army of attorneys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with Darryl Malek-Wiley (New Orleans, LA), Environmental Justice Organizer at Sierra Club, about the power a regular citizen wields by doing something as simple as learning the facts.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Carey Gillam––originally from Kansas––is author of the recently released "The Monsanto Papers" (Island Press, 2021), chats with Sandy about how useful the Freedom of Information Act can be for the community leader.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
JP Morrell (New Orleans, LA) chats with Sandy about the power of the community group while recalling his experience representing a group of residents who fought for laws to address lead poisoning in their neighborhood.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy provides a recap of secrets to help her podcast followers make their own communities better.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
Sandy chats with biologist Edward Bodker (Pontchatoula, LA) who exposed a dangerous process being touted as a panacea by Big Business. Tune in to learn how to Beat the Big Guys!
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy is joined by two incredible women. Ariella Steinhorn and Amber Scorah (New York, NY) came together to create Lioness where they help individuals bring their stories to the world through the media. They have worked with whistleblowers, former employees, and other storytellers speaking truth to power and now they are here to show how to use your story to Beat the Big Guys!
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy is joined by Sam Pratt (Taghkanic, NY). This writer, designer, consultant, and activist has led several successful against-the-odds grassroots battles, most notably the nearly seven-year fight against the massive, coal-fired St. Lawrence Cement proposal in Columbia County. In this episode, they focus on how to start and grow your supporters to Beat the Big Guys!
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
This week, Sandy is joined by Harry Shearer (Santa Monica, CA). Best known for his work on both the Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap, he speaks with Sandy about how to make your message appeal to as big an audience as possible to Beat the Big Guys!
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
You don't have to be an expert to speak up. This week, Lt Gen Russel Honore (Baton Rouge, LA) most widely known for leading the task force to review security after the Capitol insurrection, speaks with Sandy about what skills you need, and don't need, to Beat the Big Guys.
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com