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Picking Teams: A Playbook for ParentsDouble Vision with Coach Tommy ValentiniToday's Play: Gustavus Adolphus head coach Tommy Valentini shares the powerful story behind his team’s NCAA doubles national championship—one rooted in culture, gratitude, and perspective. Tommy highlights how his players prioritized team values, even in the highest-pressure moments, and honored a lost classmate in a deeply meaningful way. He offers insight into how true freedom in sport comes from knowing your worth isn’t defined by wins or losses—a mindset built over years, starting in youth sports. Tommy also reflects on the enduring legacy of his mentor, Steve Wilkinson, whose “double vision” approach—seeing people both as...2025-07-2821 min
The Pitch with Amy SummersEncore Episode 610 - Don’t Let Labels Limit LearningIsabel Wilkerson frames her findings in caste to make the uncomfortable more relatable. Learn how to stop resisting words that don’t resonate with you to expand knowledge and empathy. #ThePitch #INICIVOX #VirtualMentorship
2025-07-0402 minThe Pitch with Amy SummersEncore Episode 610 - Don’t Let Labels Limit LearningIsabel Wilkerson frames her findings in caste to make the uncomfortable more relatable. Learn how to stop resisting words that don’t resonate with you to expand knowledge and empathy. #ThePitch #INICIVOX #VirtualMentorship
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Empowered CommunicationIs Coaching Toxic or Healthy? With Coach Amy LattaIn Episode 25, Meredith talks with leadership coach Amy Latta about the principles of coaching. Both Amy and Meredith have had experiences of coaching being incredibly powerful and even life-saving, but also seen coaching weaponized. Is coaching toxic or healthy? Anti-Racism resources mentioned:Caste, by Isabella WilkersonWhite Feminism, by Koa BeckSo you want to talk about race, by Ijeoma OluoGet involved with the NAACP here.Anti-racism educators:WeezeTrudy LeBronRachel Cargle2025-05-2256 min
Due SouthNC food banks brace for funding cuts; State Treasurer Brad Briner; Durham Chefs Melanie Wilkerson and Sicily SierraNorth Carolina food banks brace for funding cuts Local schools, food banks, and farmers in North Carolina are expected to be impacted by the Trump administration’s cuts to federal programs through the USDA. These programs allow schools and food banks to buy fresh produce and meat from NC farmers. We’ll talk with the head of one of the state’s largest food banks about the potential impact. Amy Beros, President & CEO of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North CarolinaDue South sits down with North Carolina’s new State Treasurer Brad BrinerNorth Ca...2025-03-2450 min
Book GangHow Sarah Harman's Debut Took Publishing By a StormSarah Harman shares the journey behind All the Other Mothers Hate Me, from journalism to fiction, a fierce book auction, and its upcoming FX adaptation.You'll know immediately if this book is for you from the opening line: "The missing boy is ten-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."That audacious beginning sets the tone for All the Other Mothers Hate Me, a compulsively readable thriller perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and Finlay Donovan.Sarah Harman's journey to publication is just as gripping as...2025-03-2136 min
Book GangHow a Cozy Family Drama Made This Writer Fall in Love With His CraftJinwoo Chong celebrates food, family, & finding love in his cozy novel, I Leave It Up To You. Learn how this project helped him fall in love with writing again.What if you fell asleep in 2019 and woke up in 2021? That's the reality for Jack Jr., who emerges from a two-year coma to find his life unrecognizable. His job is gone, his apartment is lost, and his partner has moved on. But in his return to his childhood home and his family's struggling restaurant, he begins to rebuild—rekindling relationships, rediscovering love, and redefining what home truly means....2025-03-1438 min
Book BumbleJourneys - Season 3, Episode 21Send us a textIn this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of Journeys. Our characters are taking both physical and emotional journeys, and we'll also share a Book In Hand. Let’s get started on our own trek!Featured Books: All My Mothers by Joanna Glen (LH) The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye (LH) Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (LP) More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova (LP)Book In Hand:The F...2025-03-1238 min
Book GangEowyn Ivey Returns to Magical RealismEowyn Ivey joins us from Alaska to discuss her latest magical realism novel, Black Woods Blue Sky. Prepare to be transported by one of my favorite storytellers!The queen of magical realism, Eowyn Ivey, joins us to share intriguing insights into her third novel, Black Woods Blue Sky, and how her deep connection to Alaska continues to shape her storytelling.She also discusses the challenges of writing through a difficult personal season, the impact of reuniting with her longtime editorial team, and the immersive research that took her to a remote hunting camp on Kodiak...2025-03-0737 min
The James PerspectiveTJP FULL EPISODE 1317 Technology Thursday with The Fearsome and Mattie TRO SCOTUS_mixdownOn todays Show The Fearsome Threesome and Mattie talk about, Supreme Court, TRO, preliminary injunction, Amy Coney Barrett, legal authorities, Trump administration, NGOs, fraud investigation, bond requirement, equity court, separation of powers, judicial system, legal proceedings, probationary employees, State of the Union., Trump speech, Democratic reactions, illegal immigrants, Secret Service badge, cancer survivor, military recognition, NGO payments, government shutdown, Supreme Court, fentanyl crisis, tariffs, Zelensky, midterm elections, caffeine during Lent, PJs coffee. Don't Miss IT!
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The Ex-Good Girl PodcastEpisode 99 - Breaking Down Patriarchy with Amy McPhie AllebestSend us a textIn this episode, you’ll hear my conversation with Amy McPhie Allebest, a writer, teacher, and feminist historian whose work has helped shape my understanding of patriarchy and expand my worldview. In her podcast, Breaking Down Patriarchy, Amy offers thought-provoking insights that inspire continued learning about the roots of patriarchy in society. Today, she shares some of those powerful ideas and personal stories, which I hope you find valuable as I have. Here’s what we cover:How “good girl” programming contributes to white feminism and upholding patriarchyWhy feelings of fear, guilt, and sham...2025-01-2957 min
Raising Boys & GirlsEp 226: Reimagining Family Life with Disability with Amy Julia BeckerWe have been waiting for this conversation for so long. We have multiple friends who have told us how much they adore Amy Julia Becker for years and it was a delight to get to sit down with her recently. She shares so much wisdom and hope on what it looks like to reimagine family life with disability. You’re going to want to listen, share, and take notes on this episode.Reimagining the Good Life Podcast How to Become a Worry-Free Parent with Sissy GoffIG: @am...2024-11-2136 min
Courageous WordsmithTroublesome Themes Close to HomeFrom Amy: Terry Newby and I met in the spring of 2023 and found resonance between our writing that led us to trade books. We wanted to explore what it was to write about real people related to us, Terry in historical fiction and plays, me in creative nonfiction, specifically memoir. This is the third and final episode that resulted from that conversation. While Terry and I write different genres, the fact remains that we're writing around similar troublesome themes in American history, a history that is very much still playing out in modern-day patterns. We simply come to our...2024-09-2633 min
Ask a BooksellerMinnesota booksellers talk recommendations, BookTok and how Gen Z is saving bookstoresSummer is winding down, but that doesn’t mean the causal beach read is going anywhere. MPR News host and newscaster Emily Bright spoke with three booksellers from Minnesota about current trends and their favorite reads during a live conversation at the Minnesota State Fair.Pallas Erdrich, co-manager of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis; Char Klimek, owner of Hearthside Books in Watertown; and Amy Erickson, owner of Bluebird Books in Detroit Lakes, discussed romantasy, BookTok and how Gen Z is saving bookstores.Click the audio player above to listen to their full discussion and ch...2024-09-0358 min
Red Fern Book Review by Amy TylerThe New York Times Top 100 Books of the 21st CenturySend us a textThe New York Times has released their Top 100 Books of the 21st Century so far. I discuss. Book discussed:Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshuguroThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead2666 by Roberto BolanoThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Known World by Edward P. JonesWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Warm of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteStation E...2024-07-2630 min
Power To The People PleasersBreak the Chain of ExpectationsIn this episode of Power To The People Pleasers with Amy Ballantyne, Executive Coach, and Asha Wilkerson, Healer, Life Coach, and Educator they discuss how to break the chain of expectations.
Asha Wilkerson channels her passion into life coaching for BIPOC women, helping them break free from societal expectations and embrace a life of freedom. Whether it's freedom from expectations or the freedom to live their dream life, Asha's coaching empowers women to live in power, light, and love.
Connect with Asha Online:
Website: www.ashawilkerson.com
Instagram: @ashawilkersonesq
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Prosecco N Prose | A Book ClubBlack Cake by Charmaine WilkersonSend us a textWendy and Amy discuss the sweeping family drama Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. They talk characters, ghastly and golden, secrets, love, and of course, about a black cake. Pop a cork to traditions that hold together, and sometimes even heal, a family! Book: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Bubbly: Gancia Prosecco This episode has a SPOILER SUMMARY. Character SketchesAmy: Clarence Henry Little ManWendy: Byron Bennett 2024-04-031h 01