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Exec CapitalPathways to Progress: Crafting Your Personal Development PlanWelcome to Pathways to Progress, the podcast where we explore strategies, tools, and insights to help you navigate your journey to personal and professional success. I’m Adrian Lawrence, your guide on this journey of self-discovery and growth. In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the art and science of creating a Personal Development Plan, or PDP. Whether you're just starting your career, looking to make a change, or seeking to enhance your current path, this episode is for you.Let’s start by addressing a fundamental question: What exactly is a Personal Development Plan? A PDP is a strate...2024-08-1901 min
The Great BattlefieldBuilding Progressive Communications Infrastructure in the States with Anna Scholl of ProgressNowAnna Scholl joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about moving from the state level with Progress Virginia to her role as President of ProgressNow at the national level, where they coordinate with 28 state hubs to build progressive communications infrastructure.2024-08-0953 min
The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsColoradans REALLY Dislike Lauren Boebert (feat. Andrew Baumann)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans have managed to break both chambers of Congress as they refuse to not only accomplish their most basic constitutional obligations, but fail to accomplish even their real bad political objectives. Then, Gabe-ish Evans -- the half-term state representative running for the GOP nomination to lose to Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo in November -- gets Speaker Mike Johnson’s endorsement; no word on whether or not he also got Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s endorsement, but we’re betting against it per...2024-02-121h 11
Freedom UnaffiliatedLet Colorado voters choose to get some of their ransom money backThe former head of the leftist ProgressNow Colorado, who is married to a U.S. congresswoman living in Jefferson County, has donated to the election campaigns of all three of the current Jefferson County commissioners. So, what a coincidence those same Jefferson County commissioners, all Democrats, are now going to pay him $180,000 to help dupe taxpayers out of TABOR refunds. As reported by the news site CompleteColorado.com (a project of Independence Institute, which I run), 7th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s husband, Ian Silverii, has just inked a spec...2024-01-2505 min
AmerikanskaNyhetsanalyserAv1953: USA-uppdatering med Björn Norström, 25 september 2023Ronie Berggren och Björn Norström om det senaste i USA: Biden fortsätter säga fel och upprepa saker felaktigt; ProgressNow försöker göra Biden cool; Mexiko går med på att deportera illegala immigranter tillbaka till Latinamerika; Bud Light fortsätter gå dåligt; Gavin Newsom står upp för föräldrars rätt att vara kritisk till barns könsbyte; Slappa lagar leder till laglöshet; Trump och Biden drar jämt; Biden förlorar domstolsfall om oljeborrning; Gen. Mark Milley går i pension, Trump firar; Invandrad polis i New York City säger att BLM-upp...2023-09-2522 min
Sithty MinutesSith For Democracy - Kayla Frawley and Moms For LibertyWelcome aboard Kyber Squadron! This week, we have ProgressNow Colorado's Legislative Director Kayla Frawley on to talk about building spaces for all families and the white woman equivalent of the Sith Eternal, aka Moms For Liberty. Come for the county politics conversation, stay for the Scuba Diving and TABOR Talk! Follow us: Blue Sky/Hive: @SithtyMinutes(Blue Sky) @SithtyMinutes (Hive) @ProgressNowCO (Twitter) Instagram: @PaulaBear92 @RBW3000 @General_Leia_The_Pup @aaa.photog Show Notes: Midwifery Head Start Universal Pre-K Shortfall for Low-Income Parents Moms F...2023-08-1159 min
KGLP PodcastsSCOTUS repeal of Roe V Wade = NM reproductive health orgs and State legislators respondAfter the June 24, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision (reversing Roe v Wade), removed the constitutional protections of reproductive rights, leaving laws on such rights to each state, New Mexico Reproductive Health and Justice Organizations and Legislators responded to the SCOTUS decision.
A coalition of New Mexico reproductive health and justice organizations that advocated for passage of the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act (also known as SB10, the abortion ban repeal) hosted a press conference regarding the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v. Jackson, and gave context to how this ruling will affect the New Mexico landscape...2022-06-2552 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Get More Smarter Podcast: Episode 100!Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we made it into triple digits! Meanwhile, gas prices are up, so are profits for Big Oil. Could these things possibly be related? We ask Oak Creek Colorado bar owner, AAA Colorado Spokesperson, and enormous Deadhead Skyler McKinley what’s driving the increase in gas prices, and it ain’t Joe Biden. The Colorado Governor’s race gets sillier as presumptive nominee Heidi Ganahl currently trails one of her primary contenders who believes among other things that we should let wolves murder people for being...2022-03-151h 19The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBoebert, Somehow, Found a New Low (ft. Sara Loflin)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the worst statewide campaign we’ve possibly ever seen in Colorado somehow got worse. The saga of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Tina Peters continues to get even weirder, bringing in our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado who is a racist bigot, and some Colorado Republicans want you to think it’s sexist to point that out. Finally, we interview Sara Loflin, the new Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado. We ask why she continues to make Ethan produce this podcast, thank her for her gene...2021-12-0653 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsConspiracy Candidates (ft. Erik Maulbetsch)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, election results, polls, conspiracy theories, Congressional InSAINEity, lots to talk about and not a ton of time to talk about it in AND we interview with Erik Maulbetch, political reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder, about the complete and total red-pilling of the Colorado Republican Party.Colorado Republican Statehouse Candidate Promotes Numerous Conspiracy Theories (Colorado Times Recorder, 10/29/21)Read the latest edition of The Rocky Mountaineer, a quarterly poll from ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group.---...2021-11-0555 min
City Cast DenverEXTRA: Get 'More Smarter' on RedistrictingRedistricting is important. We swear. Every ten years, our elected officials fight over how and who will elect them next time -- or not. Which groups will be overrepresented? Or underrepresented? Who knows! Fortunately, we're doing a feed-swap this week with the Get More Smarter podcast, which is hosted by a couple of guys who have been around Colorado politics for a long time: Ian Silverii, formerly of ProgressNow Colorado, and Jason Bain, of ColoradoPols.com. They talk about Lauren Boebert and the state GOP primary to take on Michael Bennet, then go deep on redistricting with Evan Wyloge...2021-10-091h 27The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsTherapy's Cheaper Than Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Rocky Mountaineer is back! We dig into the latest poll from Global Strategy Group and ProgressNow Colorado to see how much Democrats in the legislature overreached this session, and how much the voters really really liked it. The failed attempt by right-wing goons to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a violent insurrection turns six-months old this week and we discuss the Russian dolls of alternative reality Republicans have put themselves in since then. We have some preliminary redistricting and reapportionment maps...2021-07-131h 13The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsWe Tried To Warn You About BoebertSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, welcome to 2021! Things aren’t any better! The legislature is not convening this week due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. We bring to you our latest edition of the Boebert Report entitled “We Tried To Warn You.” We continue to ask ourselves a recurring question, What The Buck?! as the Colorado Republican Party Chairman continues his descent into madness and we talk accountability, consequences, and silver linings from the nearly successful overthrow of the US Government.Sign ProgressNow's petition calling for Lauren Boebert...2021-01-2048 min
Campaign SeasonEp. 23 – Immediate Advancement Co.
ProgressNow Colorado Executive Director Ian Silverii joins Matt to talk about his organization’s work on the ground in the Centennial State, commiserate about the condition of our national politics, and explain why he tries not to do too much explaining.
2021-01-1653 min
No More NormalCOVID-19 Response: How Are You Doing?In episode 82, we discuss how the question “How are you?” is part of documenting changing people and a changing globe. The answer reveals a lot about us. Are we good? We hear from a high school athlete who is worried about going back to a crowded campus, a woman who lost her mother to COVID-19, an anti-police brutality activist who sees focused protesters demanding positive local change, a community organizer whose family was torn apart after their activism, and an advocate who networks community groups to pay people to make masks. We know everyone out there is working hard in o...2020-06-2728 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsProtests and Police Violence (ft. Jason Bane of Richmond, VA)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...Coronavirus is not our first topic today as protests about police violence take over headlines...Colorado Republican lawmakers do the worst thing they could have done...we find our second favorite U.S. Senator, Cory Gardner, in a really bad place...and we talk to another person named Jason Bane.* Producer's note: This episode was recorded on Monday, June 1st. Because current events move so quickly, our discussion on the Black Lives Matter protests in Denver and around the country are slightly...2020-06-0759 min
Climate Bridges001: Liliana Flanigan & Denis HayesThis is the first In a series of conversations between emerging climate leaders and veteran climate activists. In this conversation Denis Hayes, the organizer of the first Earth Day, speaks with Liliana Flanigan, a youth climate activist and high school senior from Grand Junction, Colorado. This interview was recorded on April 6, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode was produced by The Alliance Center and edited by ProgressNow Colorado. Special thanks to Molly Ross who helped us bring Lily and Denis together. You can find more information on our website, www.thealliancecenter.org.2020-04-2046 min
Plant ProphetsCannabis PrestigeCannabis Prestige with Michael Huttner, CEO of Powerplant Strategies; Managing Director, Investment Banking at Young America Capital. Michael is a corporate and political strategist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur. He has helped launch over 40 different political organizations and has led communications ‘war-rooms’ for political and private clients. Michael also is the Founder of ProgressNow, a network of state-based communications organizations that moves people to action through communications and digital media. They have more than 3.4 million members in 23 states. Prior to his private practice, he worked as Policy Advisor to Former Colorado Governor Roy Romer and clerked at the Clinton White House for...2020-02-1236 min
InevitableEp 71: Stephen Fenberg, State Senator for Colorado's 18th DistrictToday's guest is Senator Stephen Fenberg, a Democrat who serves as state Senator in the 18th District in Colorado where he's served since 2017. He also serves as the Senate Majority Leader.A few years after graduating from CU, Senator Fenberg founded New Era Colorado, a nonprofit organization dedicated engaging, educating, and training young people in the political process. The organization has registered hundreds of thousands of young people to vote in Colorado and successfully passed several pieces of legislation related to election reform, student debt, and climate.He has also served on the Board of...2020-01-131h 10The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsIf You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!Send us a message! Really!Impeachment enters a new phase with Colorado connections, state lawmakers say more gun safety legislation is coming, and Cory Gardner’s BLM move gets even worser. Alan Franklin (ProgressNow Colorado political director) subs in for Ian Silverii, who's out teaching orphan goats how to recycle.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.2019-12-0350 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRecall-A-LagoSend us a message! Really!This week, Recall-A-Lago comes to a sad and anticlimactic end as Colorado Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the wreckage, Cory Gardner whiffs yet another chance to say out loud that it’s wrong to solicit foreign interference in an election (26:26), and a new poll finds him badly, badly underwater (12:40). The US Senate Democrats in a primary to take on Gardner in 2020 report their latest fundraising numbers and our friend Manny plays the worst game in Colorado, Duke or Donald (50:55).------Get spooky with Indivisible Front Range Resistance, ProgressNow Co...2019-10-2259 min
Book Talk RadioBook Talk Radio: 50 Ways to Help Obama Change America with Mike HuttnerIn our inaugural episode, Mike Lux, veteran of the 1994 Clinton health care war room, interviews activist and author Mike Huttner about his new book, 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America.Join us for a unique conversation about the current policy battles and what YOU can do to influence the outcome.Our Guests:Mike Huttner is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ProgressNow a cutting-edge web-based advocacy organization with affiliates in California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. Huttner started ProgressNow with his...2009-10-1330 min