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Obehi Idiake
"A Place for All Sojourners."
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Enjoy this Christmas bonus sit-down with our host Obehi and producer Troy. Learn how he has trusted the process, how this year and his life has been and what's to come.
This is goodbye until Season 2 drops.
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I sit down with the Police Chief of the city of Lynchburg Ryan Zuidema. This conversation continues our focus on having tough discussions with people, especially with those in power, and having the courage to do it. We hope this conversation encourages you to strive for a more unified community wherever you call home.
We discussed:
Police-Community Relations
Racial Reconciliation * Police Brutality
Policing Today
Aggression & Deescalation
Restorative Justice vs. Retributive Justice
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I sit down with my friend Tyler Bunzey who is a English Ph.D candidate with a focus in Hip-Hop/Rap music at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We discuss these topics and more:
The power of Music
Ye and Jesus is King
The future of CHH
Rap & the Culture
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I sat down with 3 of my friends Gabe, Fred, and Josh to discuss:
Forging your own path
Music
Woke Culture
Politics
Faith
Our Generation
Things we wish we knew in high school
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Hey guys! It's so good to be back! Here's a pod we did about a very controversial case. I shot this with two new guests, one of them being our new producer Troy Burnett.
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Jazer Mauricio is a Entrepreneur, Orator, Politcal Activist and a DREAMER. Find out his story as we dive into DACA, immigration and politics!
Breakdown:
2.46: Introducing Jazer and politics
9.05:Why go back to El Salvador
13.00: Jazer's Immigration story to America
31.15: Barack Obama and 2020 politics
52.00: DACA and Immigration policies
85.22: Jazer talks a little about Capitol Hill
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Treney Tweedy is the Mayor of Lynchburg, VA. It was so much fun to talk to such an important person to the fabric of city. We discussed her rise to becoming the first African-American female in that role in the 230 plus history of the city, local vs. national politics, 2020 election, her vision as the Mayor and more.
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TIME BREAKDOWNS:
2.45: Intro guest
4.00: Trene gives her background
10.50: Local politics
15.30: Lynchburg's poverty rate
29.30: What do you see as being your legacy
34.30: Lynchburg's high taxes
39.00: Treney thoughts on policing at the National level
47:15: 2020 election
49.40: Thoughts of 400th year of slavery anniversary and being a black female mayor
53.25: Useful traits on how Treney has made it where she's at
56.35: Pick one living and in the past whose been influential
59.25: A brief message to Lynchburg citizens
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Sojourners this is a much needed message from our Host to you.
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Dominiques Podcast: Perspectives: 10 Min Talks With Dom is available here:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3iMlIwNtJSwGZb8NMbhnNe?si=m6kdWRxBQ5qWZfOiWCj_Lg
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/perspectives-10-min-talks-with-dom/id1477001718
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Coach Jamie Ridgeway is the owner of Renaissance Academy of Martial Arts. From a divorced home and living a life without purpose, coach Jamie struggled to find his way in this life. Then his faith led him to martial arts.
Find out how he becomes a man with a red belt in Taekwondo and multiple black belts in several disciplines like Karate, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (3rd Degree), his love for Bruce Lee, and his philosophy when it comes to the discipline of martial arts.
Sojourners I think you'll love to learn how the choices we make matter to the life we want to live.
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TIME BREAKDOWN:
0.50: Jamie talks about classes offered
2.45: Obehi introduces Jamie Ridgeway
3.50: Jamie talks martial arts he's studied
15.10: Jamie's viewpoint on UFC
23.30: When Jamie stopped competing
31.00: Back to UFC talk
40.01: What are the cornerstones in martial arts for personal development
45.25: Personal Q&A
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Jason Arbusto is man who rose to the upper echelons of the highly competitive cooking world. I thought of no one better to talk about having grit, the guts to bet on yourself, and humbling yourself to earn your seat at the top.
He didn't have work papers.
He didn't speak French.
He didn't have a wealthy family or a network to help him.
Then how did he rise to running the largest 2 star Michelin restaurant in the world?
Sojourners I know you'll enjoy this podcast!
BREAKDOWN:
2.06: Jason's background.
8.20: How Jason got to Lynchurg boarding school.
23.40: Jason’s journey to Culinary school.
28.15: Time at Culinary institute of America.
34.00: Externship at Ritz-Carlton.
37.45: Jason's story on getting to France.
42.35: Working in France.
49.10: Getting to Monaco.
59.22: Jason begins work in Paris.
60.02: Being a head chef.
64.00: Jason Executive chefing Vegas.
73.15: Jason opens his first restaurant.
78.10: Getting back to Lynchburg, coming back to Lynchburg.
79.50: Obehi asks questions.
80.20: Discussing food culture in Lynchburg.
93.50: Closing remarks.
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I believe that friendship is a very important part of human experience. I also believe in having a diverse group of friends from different political, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. This is why I decided to invite some of my friends to come on the pod to discuss a myriad of topics from the NBA, African-American history, racism, slavery, politics, the black family and more.
Shomari, Chad, and Damani are three articulate, funny, and highly intelligent men that I respect even though we don't agree on a lot of issues.
Friction is okay.
Discussion is okay, even if it gets a little passionate
We must be willing to challenge our perspective and listen to others. I hope this podcast encourages you to do the same.
Breakdown:
7:00 - Discussion On NBA Commissioner Adam Silver moving the league from using the term Owners to Governors
19:10 - Discussion on #BLEXIT, Candace Owens, and Voting
29:00 - Voting, Politics and the African American Community
33:00 - Barack Obama, Criticisms from African American Community, Black Pain
39:30 - Thoughts of 2020, The Democratic Party debates, Higher Education
58:00 - How do we fix America?, America & the history of nations, Criticizing America
1:09:00 - The black family, Criticisms of the black community
1:33:00 - Is whiteness a myth?, Trans-racialism, Divestment from whiteness
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Rachael Smith is a Lynchburg native and a reporter for The News & Advance. Siobhan McGirl is a New Yorker currently living in Lynchburg and a reporter for WDBJ7, CBS Affiliate, covering Lynchburg and Bedford County.
We sit down to discuss our experience through Citizens Academy, their journey into journalism, fake news and more.
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Tommy Tran is a husband, father, writer, photographer, and small business owner. You can support Tommy's company The Next Nomads on social media at:
Facebook: The Next Nomads
Instagram: @thenextnomads
You can also follow Tommy on Instagram: @tommytranpro
On the podcasts Tommy asked me my 5 favorite books that influenced me. Here is a list of my Top 5 so far in my short life in no particular order:
-The Bible
-Wealth, Poverty, Politics by Thomas Sowell
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
-Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
-The Screwtape Letters or The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
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Dr. Anderson is a family medicine physician. He drops into sojourn studios to discuss health care, mental health, direct primary care, Obamacare and more.
Here are some helpful resources mentioned in the podcast for all sojourners:
1) https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-rise-healthcare-administrator
- TLDR: "The number of physicians in the United States grew 150 percent between 1975 and 2010, roughly in keeping with population growth, while the number of healthcare administrators increased 3,200 percent for the same time period."
2) https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/26/physicians-not-burning-out-they-are-suffering-moral-injury/
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TLDR: In the following article written by Simon G. Talbot, M.D., a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, on physician burn-out
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He explains that "physicians are smart, tough, durable, resourceful people. If there was a way to MacGyver themselves out of this situation by working harder, smarter, or differently, they would have done it already." (This also talks about physician suicide rates being twice as high as active military...and why)
3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/
- TLDR: 17.4 minutes, the time a family doctor usually spends on each patient.
4) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593724/
- TLDR: This is the study done in conjunction with the American Medical Association about doctor spending nearly half of their 11.4 hours per day plugging in information into the computer.
5) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/how-many-patients-is-too-many-study-debunks-industry-standard.html
- TLDR: "But could physicians feasibly take on more patients to reach the "standard" 2,500-patient panel? According to the analysis, no. The researchers suggested it would be nearly impossible to handle a panel size of 2,500 patients — a physician would have to work 21.7 hours per day to deliver comprehensive, quality care to a panel of that size."
6) https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com/
- Find a DPC near you
**7) boonsborodirectprimarycare.com
- Find a DPC office in Lynchburg, VA**
8) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/letters/doctors-burnout.html
- TLDR: "With mergers and streamlining, it has pushed the productivity numbers about as far as they can go. But one resource that seems endless — and free — is the professional ethic of medical staff members. This ethic holds the entire enterprise together. If doctors and nurses clocked out when their paid hours were finished, the effect on patients would be calamitous. Doctors and nurses know this, which is why they don’t shirk. The system knows it, too, and takes advantage."
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