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Do One Better with Alberto Lidji in Philanthropy, Sustainability and Social EntrepreneurshipRoger Federer Foundation's CEO, Maya Ziswiler, on their New Strategy and Achieving Philanthropic ImpactThis episode explores the work of the Roger Federer Foundation through a conversation with Maya Ziswiler, Chief Executive Officer, focusing on early childhood education, prevention-focused philanthropy, and long-term systems change.
Maya explains how the Foundation works to give children a better start in life through early and foundational learning, with the majority of its work concentrated in Southern Africa and a growing portfolio in Switzerland. In Southern Africa, the Foundation partners closely with governments and locally rooted organisations across six countries to strengthen school readiness and early learning systems. In Switzerland, it is developing an approach that...
2025-12-1528 min
THE GRAIN: AI vs. CreativityPODCAST: AI vs. Dreams—Dr. Maya AckermanSeason 3 of THE GRAIN Podcast kicks off with world-renowned AI researcher and generative AI pioneer Dr. Maya Ackerman. She is the CEO and co-founder of WaveAI, the company behind LyricStudio and MelodyStudio, two groundbreaking tools that use AI to support human creativity, rather than replace it. Dr. Ackerman is also a computer science professor and a leading voice in the global conversation on how humans and machines make art together.Her new book, Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us, coming out October 14, (available for pre-order) is a must-read for any creator curious about how AI collides with creativity...
2025-10-061h 30
maya and fola take over the worldepisode 39: girl fuck you...another hates episode . the girls each share five things they hate. side notes include performative mustaches, black millennial restaurants, pointless destination weddings, and bj novak —————————🥳 100 REVIEW GIVEAWAY 🥳we're giving away a bunch of our favorite things once we hit 100 reviews across spotify and apple podcasts, and we're already 94% of the way there!!! make sure u leave us a review if u haven't already (if you have, thank you!) and make sure to share the pod with any other young, beautiful turnt bitches who love critical thinking and pop culture...
2025-09-061h 24
Talkin' Slayer: A Metal Podcast and Half-@ssed AudiobookTalkin' Slayer, Episode 85: The Great Hanneman Gear Grab, b/w This Is the End... Mostly. Plus What Comes Next.Back. We are talkin' Slayer. This week's topic is the Great Hanneman Gear Grab: What happened to Jeff's guitar collection, mostly, and why, and how? Tune in.And unless you're a Patreon supporter, this is pretty much the end of Talkin' Slayer, Season 2: New Sh*t Has Come To Light. The episode wraps with some details on what's next in coming months.Plus a few words of gratitude and memoriam for friends past and present. Chris McMaster and Walter Novak RIP.DEEZ NOTES, as...
2025-08-0429 min
Double Bagel PodcastEpisode 11 - Bagels in Paris: Our French Open PredictionssummaryIn this conversation, Lew and Finn discuss various aspects of the tennis world, focusing on recent tournaments, player performances, and predictions for the upcoming French Open. They delve into Novak Djokovic's achievement of reaching 100 titles, the implications of pre-Grand Slam tournaments, and the surprising outcomes in Hamburg. The conversation also highlights emerging talents like Maya Joint and the ongoing rivalry between Alcaraz and Sinner. Additionally, they share insights on Iga Swiatek's preparation and make predictions for both the men's and women's draws at the French Open. In this episode, the hosts discuss their support...
2025-05-291h 13
The TennisEp. 300! Mayhem in Madrid, Aussie's lengthy ban, what's next for Novak?It’s been a manic week in Madrid with a mass power outage causing widespread disruptions to play, while Alexander Zverev has drawn attention to a problem with the video technology being used for the electronic line calling. Grand Slam champions Todd Woodbridge and Sam Stosur join Brie Stewart and Matt Trollope to discuss the big news from Madrid, including Maya Joint, Alex de Minaur and Novak Djokovic whose immediate future is under a cloud following his straight sets defeat to Matteo Arnaldi and subsequent withdrawal from Rome. Todd also reacts to Max Purcell’s 18-month ban from the ITIA...
2025-05-0144 min
Piecing It Together PodcastGladiator II LIVE (Featuring Sam Novak, Korey Kilgore & Jake Gonzalez)On the 418th episode of Piecing It Together, we are LIVE from Maya Cinemas in North Las Vegas with guests Sam Novak, Korey Kilgore and Jake Gonzalez to talk about Gladiator II, the long awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning epic! Puzzle pieces include Training Day, Krull, Army of Darkness and Fellini Satyricon.As always, SPOILER ALERT for Gladiator II and the movies we discuss!Written by David ScarpaDirected by Ridley ScottStarring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, fred Hechinger, Connie Nielsen, Denzel WashingtonPa...
2024-11-2543 min
The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakRon Clinton - When Knee Pain is not a Knee ProblemSend us a text44% of knee pain has its origin elsewhere.Do you know anyone with knee pain? It feels like there are so many people who just kind of program themselves for it. It’s ‘part of getting old’ for them. So of course, the body listens.We already know that even when there’s actual, mechanical damage, knee pain is not the guaranteed result. And we also know that even when there is pain, it can be managed and improved with many holistic techniques, so surgery or injections are far from...
2024-06-041h 22The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakJerry Sever - Behind the Scenes of the Supplement IndustrySend us a text“There are very trusted brands whose supplements are very mediocre, to say the least.”If you had asked me a decade ago what I thought about supplements, I’d probably say that they’re unnecessary, because a well-planned diet should provide you with pretty much everything that you need (with perhaps one or two exceptions). I now understand that my thinking was at least a bit idealistic, if not totally wrong. Yes – a perfect diet should provide you with pretty much everything you need. But a perfect diet does...
2024-05-281h 19Piecing It Together PodcastFuriosa LIVE (Featuring Sam Novak, Toni Gonzales & Shahab Zargari)On the 377th episode of Piecing It Together, we are LIVE from Maya Cinemas in Las Vegas with guests Sam Novak, Toni Gonzales and Shahab Zargari to talk about Furiosa! The latest in George Miller's long-running Mad Max series is a spin-off with Anya Taylor-Joy playing the character first introduced by Charlize Theron in the amazing Mad Max Fury Road. Puzzle pieces include 3000 Years Of Longing, Speed, Army of Darkness and Conan The Barbarian.As always, SPOILER ALERT for Furiosa and the movies we discuss!Written by George Miller and Nico LathourisDirected by...
2024-05-2755 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBruce (BJ) Miller, MD - Life After Amputation and How to Thrive in AdversitySend us a textYou may lose parts of your physical body – but you are still you.Many/most people build their identity around their bodies. That is normal and natural – the body is the physical YOU. But what if you have an accident where the end result means that you lose a limb or two or three? Who are you then? Please know that you may lose parts of your physical body – but you are still you. This is a hard lesson for most people to even think about, even though...
2024-05-211h 00The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakFelicia Yu, MD - Increase Your Energy Flow for Best RecoverySend us a textBalance is always important. Especially when healing. To keep things flowing smoothly it’s important to have balance. Focusing more on one thing and forgetting or ignoring others creates a situation that is not harmonious – and this can cost you greatly further down the road. Balancing energies has been a big area of focus in Eastern medicines for thousands of years. It’s something that isn’t really talked about in our evidence-based Western medicine, but is crucial in, for example, Traditional Chinese Medicine. And when we speak of...
2024-05-141h 05The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - How to Heal Completely From Any Type of InjurySend us a textWe need to be our own best cheerleader. Sure, we all have down moments and sometimes it’s hard to do that. But constantly only relying on others to tell you what to do, how to think, where to go, what to choose, how to do things, can leave you in confusion, fear, and disappointment. I truly believe that each and every one of us already possesses all the answers that we need in any kind of situation and with any kind of challenge. The problem is that many fo...
2024-05-0759 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakJames S. Gordon, MD - How to Turn Trauma Into OpportunitySend us a textWhatever happened to you, you shouldn’t be diminishing your own experience, or downtalking your trauma.Broken ankle, broken back, a tendon tear, those are all very general descriptions of what happens to us, but as with anything, the details are what matters. Comparing one injury to another and then doubting yourself if you’re healing well since someone else is progressing so fast is just not a good thing to do. Comparison can cut your motivation, put your mind into a negative place, let you ride that...
2024-04-3053 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDawson Church, PhD - Think Your Way to Incredible HealingSend us a textCan you really heal with just the power of thoughts?The answer probably depends on how you approach this. If you just think very hard about healing, it probably won’t do much for you (and if you’re focused on your injury, it might even make things worse). But there is definitely power in your thoughts to change your health and your life. We’ve known it for a long time, and science is now slowly catching up to this.That’s why I like hosting people w...
2024-04-2356 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakLana Shlafer - Creating and Manifesting Miracles in HealingSend us a textNothing happens without intention. It was summer 2010, a couple of months before I met my husband, when I was enjoying a long weekend with a bunch of friends on a sailboat on the Adriatic Sea. One of them was reading a book with what I though a weird title: ‘Ask and It Is Given’. Even though it was weird I was intrigued, got the book upon returning home, dove into it, started implementing what I discovered and at the end of summer met the love of my life; even thou...
2024-04-161h 08The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBrad Yates - Simple Technique for Frustration-Free HealingSend us a textTapping should probably be in everyone’s recovery toolbox. If there’s one thing that I’ve heard from injured women and men countless times it’s this: “I’m so frustrated with this!” Whether with lack of progress or not progressing quickly enough, people around them not understanding them, or just being plain angry and frustrated with themselves for getting into this situation. It’s normal to experience a rainbow of emotions on a daily basis, the problem begins when we’re bathing in the negative emotions day in and day out. It...
2024-04-0959 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Alan Goldhamer - How Fasting Can Support Your Recovery and When to Do ItSend us a textFasting can be really helpful when done right... and really bad for you when done wrong.It must have been in my very late teens or early 20s when I did my first fast. It lasted 3 days and as many people would confirm, the first 36 hours are the worst. And then – things got easy, or easier. After three days I kind of had to force myself to start eating again because I completely lost my appetite. If I could go back to that time I’d do things differently, but...
2024-04-0252 minPiecing It Together PodcastGodzilla X Kong LIVE (Featuring Joe Black, Michael Keene & Sam Novak)On the 365th episode of Piecing It Together, we are LIVE from Maya Cinemas in North Las Vegas with guests Joe Black, Michael Keene and Sam Novak to talk about Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire! This follow-up to 2021's Godzilla Vs Kong was one of my most anticipated movies of the year, so it was exciting to do a live episode on it, even if we all had wildly different opinions on it. Puzzle pieces include Justice League, King Kong Lives, Godzilla Vs Megalon and Land of the Lost.As always, SPOILER ALERT for Godzilla X K...
2024-04-0156 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakAbby Wynne - Shamanic Way of Healing in Challenging TimesSend us a textWe all remember 2020, don’t we? How could we forget days that turned into weeks that turned into months and then into years of fear, confusion, anger, mistrust, and doubts. Some people coped better, other people not so well. That situation forced all of us to sit with our feelings, thoughts, and loneliness. To say that it was difficult is an understatement. While I was observing this craziness I couldn’t help but say quite a few times: “All people around the world are experiencing very similar things...
2024-03-261h 02The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakFriedemann Schaub, MD, PhD - Resolving Fear and Anxiety on the Subconscious LevelSend us a textWhat if we all carry some anxiety?What if this is something that all humans have in common with the only difference that the source and level, and the way we deal with it, is different? Yes, some of us are more resilient, and some of us are less – but unexpected life events like injuries can throw anyone off balance, and if you’re not used to listening to your anxiety, it can get a lot worse in such situations. And the sad part is that is can end up v...
2024-03-191h 03The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakJulia Murray - Managing Inflammation and Healing With DietSend us a textIt’s really hard to go wrong by eating more plants. No matter what kind of nutrition research you look into, there’s one thing that most if not all researchers agree on: the more your diet includes whole foods and plants, the better it is for your health and healing. I can agree that my own recovery was definitely a lot better because of the food I was eating. And truth be told, my doctor and physiotherapist couldn’t believe how little swelling I had, an...
2024-03-1256 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Sue Morter - Enhancing Healing With the Energy Codes for Your Amazing Injury RecoverySend us a textYou have a healer inside. I truly believe that each of us knows exactly what we need in order to heal when we get sick or end up with any kind of physical trauma. The problem is that people are either led to believe this is not the case or they overcomplicate things and then they become their own biggest obstacle. We all have an incredible healing potential and there’s a powerful healer within each of us. It’s definitely important to get external help...
2024-03-051h 03The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDanna Pycher - Healing Your Body with the Power of Your Subconscious MindSend us a textWe often think healing trauma that’s buried deep is hard – but it doesn’t need to be. Sometime in 2011, I had my first experience with hypnotherapy. I was positive that the therapist would hypnotize me to the point of me being kind of unconscious and then after everything was done I’d be cured and I definitely wouldn’t be able to remember anything. How wrong I was. And it was only a couple of years ago, when I was studying to become a clinical hypnotherapist that I realized h...
2024-02-2757 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakElena Bensonoff - Awakening Your Inner Healer for Incredible RecoverySend us a textHealing from within means looking at the whole picture.That doesn’t mean that healing with external help can’t do the same – but it often misses things, and looks at symptoms and specific body parts or organs, rather than the whole body-mind-spirit being that we are. So the best healing with external help will actually mean helping you get to the point where you can heal from within.That’s what Elena Bensonoff, the founder of Wholistic, Inc. does for her clients. Equipped with the know...
2024-02-2056 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDavid Hanscom, MD – Chronic Pain and Solving the ‘Unsolvable’Send us a textWe would be in a lot of trouble without pain. Say that again? Yes, even though this might seem impossible, it’s true. In its acute form, pain can keep us from harm, teach us what (not) to do, and slow us down when we need to heal. But on the other hand, chronic pain is a completely different thing, and it’s really linked more to our brain than it is to any actual damage in the physical body. Dr. David Hans...
2024-02-1347 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakHeidi Armstrong - Engaging the Parasympathetic Nervous System to Enhance Your HealingSend us a textInjury recovery can be even more painful if you’re an active person or athlete.It’s true that no matter the level of activity, every person who is injured suffers. This is because it’s not only our physical body that gets affected but our emotional and mental ones as well. And when it comes to athletes (or just very active people), sometimes we might think “They’re fine,” right? Because they already know how to deal with difficult situations, for example when hitting a ceiling with their p...
2024-02-0647 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakErica Meloe - Discovering the True Source of Your PainSend us a textEven when the source of pain seems obvious, it might not be.When figuring out the physical reasons for pain in the body, it’s easy to fall into the trap of viewing the affected body part separately from the rest. But sometimes, the source can be quite far away – an injured foot, ankle, or even toe can lead to issues with the hips, lower back, and all the way up to the neck and head. And that one is simpler to figure out.In this second conv...
2024-01-301h 06The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakAmy B. Scher - How to Heal Yourself When No One Else CanSend us a textPerfectionism can be painful.We all have an incredible healing potential – the problem is that we very often forget about it. Sometimes that is because we give our power away and just wait for others to tell us what we need to do or not to do, and other times it’s because we get so caught up in our emotional and mental turmoil that it’s hard for us to remember this. When we’re too hard on ourselves and expect too much of the body (especial...
2024-01-231h 01The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakEileen Kopsaftis - The Secrets of Coping With Pain in the Healing ProcessSend us a textPain is often optional.You just have to know how to treat it.Eileen Kopsaftis, a manual therapist who focuses strongly on pain, has made multiple appearances on The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks – there are two other discussions for you to check (Episode 2 and Episode 31). In this interview, we went into detail about things that we can address with proper physical therapy and lifestyle adjustments so we can avoid pain medication, or potentially life-altering procedures or addictions.In this in...
2024-01-161h 23The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakJoel Fuhrman, MD - Recovery Nutrition: Figuring out the How and WhatSend us a textWhen it comes to food, it’s nutrients, not calories that really count. ‘Calories in – calories out’ is the motto of most fitness enthusiasts and those who want to lose weight. But there are things that are way more important than only calories – the nutrients. And not just the ‘macros’ popularized by gym culture, you know, carbs, protein, and fat – it’s micronutrients that matter. When we talk about health and healing it’s important that we focus on those (as well as getting enough calories in so that the body can...
2024-01-0958 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakClaudia Omland - How to Harness Your Sexual Energy to Speed up HealingSend us a textJust like your physical or emotional body, your relationship can also suffer as a result of injury. We like to zoom in on so many things, right? When there’s an injury, doctors zoom in and focus just on that one specific part that is injured and most people play along. When a person is experiencing anxiety after an accident, they zoom in and convince themselves that their anxiety is only a result of their accident. When there’s pain, they zoom in on the injury as well. ...
2024-01-0255 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakMags Clark-Smith - Resolving Chronic and Unexplained PainSend us a textOne thing is absolutely true – and that is that you’re a unique human being. And even though we’re all in one way or another aware of this, we still allow in a way to be crammed into a cookie cutter approach when we’re faced with injuries or chronic pain (or pain that just appears ‘out of nowhere’).Mags Clark-Smith is a pain relief movement specialist, author and university lecturer with a diverse background that spans from psychology and non-verbal communication, to theater and dance. W...
2023-12-261h 24The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakTom Ockler - Eliminating Pain Without Manipulating the BodySend us a textPhysiotherapy, if done wrong, can hurt you.There are people who love physical manipulations done by physiotherapists and chiropractors and believe this is the way to go, and there are those who prefer to avoid it because cracking and popping is just not their thing. I’m in the latter group – mostly because of the things that I’ve learned over decades.There are some methods, especially things like osteopathic and chiropractic manipulations that can cause severe damage.I’ve been aware of this for a long t...
2023-12-191h 24The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakCherie Aimée - Healing Message From the Other SideSend us a text‘Dying’ is probably the absolute worst-case scenario of any health issue.There are those people who believe that nothing happens after death, because it’s the end, and then there are those who believe that we either go to heaven or hell, or some other form of afterlife. Who’s right and what is the truth for each and every one of us is something we’ll only know when we experience it. But no matter what we believe, there are many individuals who died and returned back to li...
2023-12-121h 23The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakMichael Greger, MD - Avoiding Osteoarthritis and Other ComplicationsSend us a textDepending on who you listen to, almost any food can either heal you or make you worse.Food and nutrition might be the most confusing topic of all. There’s so much different information available that it’s very easy to just throw your arms up in the air and go, “I give up. I really don’t know who to believe.” I understand this because sometimes it seems impossible to figure out the facts with so many conflicting views and so much conflicting research on the topic of nutrition...
2023-12-0531 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Jeffrey Thompson - Using the Power of Sound to RecoverSend us a textIf everything has its frequency, is there a frequency for healing different parts of the body?The way we perceive our reality is as if every object or person is a solid thing. How could it not be? If it weren’t we wouldn’t be able to tear a piece of paper, or cut down a tree and even injuries wouldn’t be possible, right? But when we start breaking down the tissues, cells, the cells’ organelles, and we get down to atoms and subatomic matter we realize that mos...
2023-11-281h 07The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBrad Yates - Simple Technique for Frustration-Free HealingSend us a textTapping feels like one of those things that shouldn’t work, but do.Of course, a lot of the things that are covered on this podcast fall in that category. But I remember first learning about it and not being quite sure how or why this would work. But it does, and it can be an invaluable tool when you’re healing.If you’re a long-time listener, you’ve heard Brad Yates on Episode 6 as well. The fact is, I really enjoy talking to him, and...
2023-11-211h 13The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBrandy Gillmore - Healing Your Body Through the Power of Your MindSend us a textImagine every doctor you see telling you, “We can’t help you. You’ll never get better.” I remember lying in the hospital back in 2012 when I received my diagnosis and prognosis. Neither of these two looked promising and by the words of my doctors I should have said goodbye to the life I had known thus far. It takes courage to follow that tiny voice within yourself when people around you are not optimistic about your outcome.It takes a special kind of resili...
2023-11-141h 00The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakNathalie Kelly - How to Heal With the Power of Mind When Your Brain Is BrokenSend us a textBrain injuries are scary for most people. And the sad part is that they are often undiagnosed and unrecognized so more people (not just the injured ones but their families as well) suffer for way longer. Every injury is challenging in its own way. I know that many people have the tendency to compare their physical traumas or downtalk them and say “Well, I shouldn’t be complaining since so and so has it worse.” There will always be someone who has it worse but that doesn’t mean t...
2023-11-071h 04The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - Creating Incredible Healing With EaseSend us a textThere are many things people believe about healing. Some beliefs help you get better. And some, even though they are incredibly common, can actually prevent you from doing so. In this solo episode with yours truly, I’m sharing some of the things that made the biggest difference in my recovery (although, as you should know by now... no magic pills. #sorry ) In this episode, you’ll also discover: How I managed to go beyond everyone’s expectations with my recovery and how you can do it...
2023-10-311h 02The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakAmy B. Scher - A Powerful Technique for Overcoming AnxietySend us a textAnxiety is not necessarily fear.Over the years, talking with hundreds of injured people around the world – one thing became very clear to me. A lot of injured women and men who are experiencing anxiety that started after they sustained their injury are sure that their recent physical trauma is the cause of this.In my experience, for a majority of people that’s not the case because anxiety is the result of previous, different kinds of trauma, that just weren’t dealt with. This is jus...
2023-10-2436 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakErica Meloe - Solve the Pain Puzzle and Discover the True Source of Your PainSend us a textWhat’s better – knowing what to do, or knowing what not to do? I’m still amazed when I hear stories from people whose doctors don’t even prescribe physiotherapy after an injury, because when it comes to recovery, there’s an enormous amount of value in knowing what to do – and also knowing what to avoid doing. Of course, physiotherapy goes beyond that, especially when you’re working with a good therapist. In this talk with Erica Meloe, a board-certified physiotherapist and author of the book Why D...
2023-10-1755 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakPamela Fergusson, PhD - Supplements and Post-Injury NutritionSend us a textPopping pills isn’t always a bad thing. I’m a huge fan of getting your nutrients from whole food. But there are many reasons why that isn’t always ideal; the quality of food you can get (which can vary depending on location, time of year, etc.), the diversity, and of course, your body’s needs, which can vary based on your own makeup and conditions such as injuries. So nutritional supplements are often a valuable tool for maintaining (or regaining) your health. But the question remains...
2023-10-101h 07The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakJanine Shepherd - How to Thrive in the Face of AdversitySend us a textWe often have a tendency to view the body as an opponent. Or we even hate it when we think it’s preventing us from doing the things we want to be doing. And especially if we’re used to moving and enjoying what the body can do. So there can be a lot of frustration and anger after an injury, when all of that gets taken away – and that, too, even if sometimes difficult to understand at first, is an opportunity to grow. Janine Shepherd went...
2023-10-0352 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakArianna Gray - Outsmarting the Lizard Brain: How to Not Get Stuck in Anxiety and DepressionSend us a textLooking very simplistically, your brain has only one job, and that is to keep you alive. Fear, as much as we don’t enjoy it, performs that function as well. It helps us remove ourselves from dangerous situations or not put ourselves into danger in the first place. But often (especially in our modern world) being afraid, or feeling anxious or depressed has nothing to do with dangerous situations. And in these instances, when we’re going through something difficult, it’s so important that we surround ourselves with people...
2023-09-261h 14The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakEileen Kopsaftis - How to Cope with Pain and Prevent OsteoarthritisSend us a textPain is something that way too many people are resigned to live with. Or at best, live with while treating it with not very effective methods like anti-inflammatory drugs. Most information that you can find on osteoarthritis says it can't be reversed because cartilage cannot regrow and thicken, and the treatment involves taking medication to help relieve the symptoms. This is the conventional medical view. I thought that was true as well but then probably five, six years ago I first came across information and research that...
2023-09-191h 15The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakLissa Rankin, MD - The Importance of Following Your Inner Light to RecoverySend us a textIt takes courage and confidence to trust your intuition when it’s telling you to quit a career you spent years building. And it takes wisdom to know what that inner voice is trying to tell you when it’s time to heal so you can choose the right path.You might have noticed that I love talking to medical professionals who effortlessly bridge the gap between science-based modern medicine, and non-conventional and traditional approaches to healing. Dr. Lissa Rankin is a great exam...
2023-09-121h 07The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakKoya Webb - The 3 R’s That Will Help You Speed up the Recovery ProcessSend us a textSometimes, it’s the simple things that are the hardest. And also most effective.For many of us, that split second, when we sustained our injuries, changed everything. But change, even though we many times prefer not to experience it, is not always bad. Sometimes we discover things, get into practices, and start listening to ourselves better because of that moment. And it’s true that the simple things that are the hardest are also most effective. Love and gratitude, as simple as they sound, are often so h...
2023-09-0558 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBrooke Goldner, MD - How to Reverse Inflammation to Enhance HealingSend us a textThe saying ‘Let food be thy medicine’ may be old... but it’s also true.One of the most common statements that many doctors say to their patients is “Your diet doesn’t play a role in this,” or “No, you don’t have to change your diet because of your condition.” Nutrition plays a huge role in healing and food played a significant role in my own recovery from my ankle fracture as well. I know for a fact that it can help supercharge your healing powers when you’re...
2023-08-291h 14The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBahram Jam, PhD - Paradox Effect: Why Fighting Pain Doesn’t WorkSend us a textFighting pain away may not work, but thinking it away might.We’re always fighting so many things, aren’t we? We fight climate change, we fight diseases, and naturally we fight pain as well. But this is one of the reasons why so many people struggle for so long with it. Because fighting doesn’t work and pain is not something you need to conquer. But that’s exactly how most people approach it, even though there are better ways...A lot of healing modalities not complete...
2023-08-221h 15The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakMartin Rossman, MD - Guiding the Body to Healing Through Guided ImagerySend us a textYour body is always, always observing what’s happening in your mind.You can fool others but you cannot fool yourself or your body. Your mind affects your physical body and your body is always, always observing what’s happening in your mind. And it’s not just visualization that can greatly improve any recovery. At a more basic level, every thought you have can affect your physical body in either a positive, or, unfortunately, negative way. And that’s especially important when healing injuries or disease states.D...
2023-08-151h 06The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakCheri Clampett - Evoking The Mind Towards HealingSend us a textKindness. It’s true that most people are much better at being kind to others than they are at being kind to themselves.Sometimes we think that we’re kind to ourselves, but when things get hard, or we don’t do something right, or we gain a bit of weight, when we stand in front of the mirror or sitting with our thoughts, we perhaps notice that we’re kind but only to a degree. Sometimes it’s hard to put what we know we should be doing into pract...
2023-08-081h 09The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBruce H. Lipton, PhD - The Biological Effects of Fear on Your Ability to HealSend us a textYour mind (conscious and subconscious) controls your actions. What if it controls your healing, too?At any moment during the day, you probably have dozens of subconscious processes that are running as much as 95% of your actions. But what if that goes even deeper than your actions? Your beliefs and your subconscious programming don’t just affect the way you act, but also the way you heal (or stay sick or in pain). And Dr. Bruce Lipton is probably one of the best-known authorities on th...
2023-08-011h 15The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakClinton T. Rubin, PhD - Improving Bone Growth and Density with Mechanical StimulationSend us a textDifferent types of vibration can be healing, but they can also be detrimental to your health.If you saw a device with a note attached that read: “Using this can (among other things) cause irreversible back pain, disc rupture and/or detached retina,” would you use it?Probably not! And you’d make a very wise decision. However, countless people use such devices every single day without knowing how harmful they can be.That’s why I think it’s very important to listen to the interv...
2023-07-2552 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - Navigating the Healing Process with 4 SpacesSend us a textThere were times, many years ago, when I didn’t completely understand why some injured people struggle and others don’t. I was wondering why sometimes the healing process feels like torture and other times as something that is completely doable. I became really curious how to help people by understanding the state they were in in those moments.So throughout my years as a healing coach, as I tuned in and listened to countless women and men with physical trauma, I began identifying behavioral patterns that held people back in thei...
2023-05-3036 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDavid Schechter, MD - Exploring the Mind-Body Syndrome and Neuroplastic PainSend us a textFor most people, the go-to method for dealing with pain is taking pain medication. There’s nothing wrong with this approach and sometimes it’s very necessary to take some kind of medicine to ease the suffering. I mean, I’m still very grateful for the morphine that I got after my ankle surgery where they put 2 screws into my talus bone back in 2012. However, pain can be treated with many different approaches and before we automatically reach for painkillers it might be a good idea to consider other option...
2023-05-2356 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakShort and Vulnerable with Dr. Maya – This Too is HealingSend us a textToday I’m sharing another vulnerable episode with you.At the end of March, I did my first Short and Vulnerable episode. If you tuned into that lucky number 13, you’ll remember how anxious I was about publishing it.It’s never easy to ‘offer’ my heart on a plate for the whole world to see it with the awareness that it can be crushed. My heart was pounding so fast and loud when pressing that publish button.I thought “This could be one and done, or at least man...
2023-05-1626 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakZuzka Light - How to Adjust Your Mind and Identity to Be Pain-FreeSend us a textYou have to change from the inside out to see the results that you desire.Many years ago, I came across a type of workout that gave me really fast results in a short period of time.It was in 2009 when I found Zuzka Light on YouTube (this platform was barely 4 years old and very few people even knew about HIIT.)And although my own training and ways of movement changed a lot over time (I still do HIIT from time to time, though), I...
2023-05-091h 23The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Esly Carvalho - Exploring the EMDR Method for Healing TraumaSend us a textHave you ever come across something so simple and so effective that you couldn’t believe it?That’s what happened to me many years ago when a friend suggested EMDR to help me deal with some of my past trauma. I tried it and it was mind-boggling to me. It was simple and yet whenever I played with it, I experienced a shift in how I perceived my reality.That’s why I couldn’t wait to share this episode with you today!EMDR (Eye Movement Desensit...
2023-05-021h 01The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - Remedies for Healing the Body After an InjurySend us a textWe can support the physical body in different ways.I often talk about and guide my clients through the jungle of emotional and mental turmoil that comes with physical trauma. Together we release emotional blockages, deal with unhelpful thoughts, install empowering beliefs, etc.Even though this is my calling and something that I’m really good at, I never disregard the physical things that we can do in order to help the body.So in this week’s episode, we look into a few different remedies. You’ll dis...
2023-04-2523 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Tamara Turner - Dealing with Trauma Through Music and MovementSend us a textIt’s a fact that different cultures deal with trauma differently.How do you deal with it?A lot of people in the Western world try to run away from suffering that was caused by any kind of traumatic experience - accidents and injuries included. We try to forget, we put a brave face on, but good-intentional sentences from people around us such as “Just hang in there,” or “It’s gonna get better,” don’t really help, don’t they?But perhaps instead of running away from this or act...
2023-04-181h 14The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakOvercoming Skepticism and Doubts Around Holistic Injury Recovery with Jerry SeverSend us a textSometimes we can only learn through pain.That’s what my husband Jerry says sometimes when looking back on all the injuries he sustained over his lifetime. There were a lot of ankle and knee sprains, as well as more serious injuries such as broken back and collarbone.Today his body is as if almost nothing ever happened, which in a part is due to his optimistic outlook on life, and in part to the things I taught him (his words). Although between you and me – a lot of the...
2023-04-111h 02The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakCarina Raisman - Yoga Therapy for Pain and Healing the BodySend us a textMindful movement is very healing for the body, mind, and soul.Yoga has been in my life for about 2 decades. Although truth be told, for a large part of this time I wasn’t actively practicing it because I just didn’t ‘feel it’.In my more than two-year recovery process after my rock-climbing accident, I was doing quite a lot of ‘hot yoga’ and it was really helpful (besides all the other ankle exercises that I was doing) in getting back the flexibility and mobility of my ankle. Then we lost...
2023-04-041h 18The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakShort and Vulnerable with Dr. Maya – This Too is HealingSend us a textThis episode is different! When I was wrapping up the last few things yesterday for the episode to be ready and to be published today, I was still debating with myself if I should do it or not.This week I didn’t have (the planned) episode ready, because I got sick 10 days ago and I was feeling terrible for most of last week with fever, coughing, sneezing, and all the goodies that come with whatever I had.So while I was lying in bed, I was contemplating on wh...
2023-03-2819 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakAmy B Scher - A Shortcut to Emotional Release and Better HealingSend us a textAny traumas that you experienced and old emotions that you didn’t process in a healthy way and let go of suppress the immune system, and the full healing capability of the body.In an ideal world, we would learn how to process any adversity in a healthy manner in our childhood. That would equip us for life and the journey would be easier. Unfortunately, most of us were raised by parents who had their own wounds and now as adults, it’s on us to help ourselves live better....
2023-03-2150 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - The One Healing Plan That Works for Any InjurySend us a textWhen it comes to healing any kind of physical trauma we don’t really need a plan for that specific injury, what we need is a plan that works for ANY kind of injury.The challenge that people very often have with this suggestion is that they are coming from the point of view that different kinds of injuries need different kinds of approaches and specialists. And it is true in a way. Knee surgery is way better performed by an orthopedic surgeon than a cardiac surgeon, right?But be...
2023-03-1426 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDavid Butler - How Your Brain Shapes the Experience of PainSend us a textWhen it comes to pain (whether acute or chronic) perception matters greatly. What you learned about it during your life and how those neural pathways were established give an insight into how we experience pain.David Butler is a world-renown expert on the topic of pain, so don’t be surprised if your physiotherapist, osteopath, chiropractic, or any other medical professional nods when you mention his name.If you’ve ever wondered about the exact steps that are needed to access the brain’s capacity for ne...
2023-03-071h 04The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakElena Bensonoff - Healing the Body with Quantum MedicineSend us a textCurrently there’s a (big) gap between allopathic medicine and what is needed in the world of healing physical trauma.We are more than just a bunch of cells and in the same way, as we need to take care of our body, we do need to take care of our mind and soul. Elena Bensonoff is a pioneer in the field of functional, regenerative, and quantum medicine, and she’s been sharing her gift of healing for over 20 years.The health care professionals that I sp...
2023-02-281h 05The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakHelané Wahbeh, ND, MCR - How Connecting with Yourself Helps You Heal BetterSend us a textThe way we live and perceive life is very much connected to how we see health and healing. You’ll probably agree that materialism is (still) at the core of our culture – something shiny on the outside that we keep searching for, working for, waiting for, striving for. So it’s actually no wonder that our current medical system is designed around the idea that all the answers we need are outside of us.But luckily this is shifting and one of the amazing researchers and doctors who is...
2023-02-2156 minThe Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakLes Aria, PhD - Neuroplasticity and Training Your Brain for Pain RecoverySend us a textIt takes real mastery to develop effective and simple solutions to complex problems like chronic pain.That’s why I enjoyed sitting down with Les Aria, PhD so much – he’s worked with over 50.000 patients through the course of his career, and the way he explains the pain process and recovery is at the same time incredibly deep, and so easy to understand, as well as implement. In our age of growing opioid crisis, and conventional medicine that often still tries to fix human bodies like they were ma...
2023-02-141h 12The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakBrad Yates - Overcoming Emotional Distress with EFT When Healing an InjurySend us a textDid you know there’s a form of self-acupuncture that you can do at home? In fact, you can try it as you’re listening to this episode.There’s a life force flowing throughout your body and it’s known to many cultures and religious traditions. In Chinese medicine it is called ‘qi’ (chi), in Japan ‘ki,’ and in India, ‘prana’.This life energy is transported in your body through meridians which are energy channels. Modern science and Western medicine denied the existence of these BUT in...
2023-02-071h 04The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Jeffrey Thompson - Vibrational Medicine and The Power of Sound in HealingSend us a textImagine having all sorts of symptoms and then, after being exposed to certain sounds, all of this is a thing of the past. It might sound too good to be true, right?Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is a brainwave entrainment expert who’s been pioneering the field of vibrational medicine and sound healing since the early 80s.It all kind of started when he made a chiropractic adjustment of his ex-wife’s back with the help of sound. She suffered with back pain and after being exposed to sound for 2 minu...
2023-01-311h 24The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakAngel Evans - The Right Detox Plan for Optimizing Injury RecoverySend us a textThere’s a lot of controversy when it comes to detox. Our bodies are equipped with organs that take care of this process (liver, kidneys, lungs…) but is this truly enough in the environment that we live in and the food and drink we put into our bodies?I sat down with Angel Evans who is a detox specialist and we talked about all things related to detox. We went even further and discussed not only physical detox, but mental and emotional detox as well.As you might know, ever...
2023-01-241h 40The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDavid Hanscom, MD - A Holistic Approach to Dealing with Pain and AnxietySend us a textIf you needed to decide on a surgery would you expect its success rate to be very high? What about if it was well below 50% – would you still take your chance?Dr. David Hanscom was a top orthopedic spine surgeon for 15 years. Then he quit – because the stress and pressure of perfection he demanded of himself wore him down, but more importantly, because he discovered that the overall success rate of spine surgeries was far below 50%, and the suffering caused by failures far greater than the upsides.He t...
2023-01-171h 06The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakEileen Kopsaftis - Retraining the Body and the Mind to Eliminate PainSend us a textYou’re more than just that one body part that has been injured and you deserve to be treated as a whole.Many times people don’t see beneficial results in their progress because many times medical professionals zoom in and focus just on one area of the body – where the pain persists.The decades of Eileen Kopsaftis’ experience show a different kind of story. Everything’s connected to everything else.This and much more is today’s topic with Eileen who is a pain and chronic...
2023-01-171h 24The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya NovakDr. Maya Novak - Welcome To The Mindful Injury Recovery TalksSend us a textThe conventional medical approach to treating physical trauma is simply not enough!This is the reason Dr. Maya created The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks. This show focuses on healing physical trauma holistically.The episodes are released on a weekly basis.Tune in 🎧 + Share 💛For accessing show notes, links, transcript, and video, please visit https://www.mayanovak.com/podcast/episode1-maya-novak/---💝 Do you enjoy listening to these healing episodes? You can support Dr. Maya's work by sending her a gif...
2023-01-1707 min
Minoritea Report154: MLK Day, Drag Race Recap, AYA: They Ain't Jack'dVisit MinoriteaReport.com for Merch! Happy MLK DAY! Jerrell is alive and well after getting the BDay Variant. How is your significat other stored in your phone and do you still have old trade numbers? Cheer season 2 is out now! Yo Aunteas will be recapping Season 14 of Drag Race, so, watch along with us and let us know your thoughts! This week's Ask Yo Aunteas question asks how do we remind ourselves that we are strong, beautiful, and desirable in a world and community which often fails to encourage us or advocate for us? Maya Angelou is...
2022-01-171h 36
Fitness Business Asia PodcastAvrum Elmakis of CLMBR on building the next billion dollar fitness technology companyAvrum Elmakis, co-founder of CLMBR, a beautiful and powerful piece of equipment and technology that elevates one of the purest and most underrated forms of movement - climbing. The story of CLMBR is a truly inspiring one and has helped the company attract superstar investors such as Jay-Z and Novak Djokovic. PARTNERS SUPPORTING THE SHOW MyZoneIndustry-leading heart rate monitor and online social platform for gyms and studios⮕ https://www.myzone.org/ ClassPassThe app for all things fitness, spa & beauty⮕ https://classpass.com/partners
2021-12-2749 min
Edo ve Zazo - the Kanarya BrosGöle Maya ÇaldıkFenerbahçe 2-0 Y Malatyaspor Goller Novak, Pelkas İlk yarıda 32 puan Antrenör Göle'nin ilk galibiyeti Mert Hakan asiste rağmen neden ıslıklanıyor Yönetim İstifa sesleri
2021-12-2656 min
OBSCENEVoting in 2020: Absentee Ballot vs. Vote-by-MailHost Maya Contreras discuss voting by Absentee Ballot, Vote-by-Mail, what the difference is, and how difficult it will be to obtain, mail, and have your vote counted.
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2020-08-0647 min
Conservation CastCONSERVATION CAST E. 18 with Ben NovakDuring this episode of the Conservation Cast, Maya spoke with Dr. Ben Novak, a De-extinction biologist. Novak is the team leader of the passenger pigeon de-extinction project which commenced in 2012. Novak explained the important role Revive Restore plays in the conservation space as the world's only conservation organization dedicated to advancing and innovating biotechnology. The duo also discussed Ben's research, other projects Revive Restore is working on; current limitations and challenges genetic technology must overcome to be a viable technique to aid in conservation efforts in the future.
Revive Restore
Maya’s community raised $1622 for Re...
2020-07-151h 58OBSCENERecapping the 2020 South Carolina Primary, and what comes next.Maya Contreras interviews political wonk Stephen Robinson. Stephan is a writer and social kibbitzer based in Portland, Oregon. He's on the board of the Portland Playhouse theater and writes for the immersive theater Cafe Nordo in Seattle. "Wonkette is an American online magazine of topical satire and political gossip, established in 2004 by Gawker Media and founding editor Ana Marie Cox. The editor since 2012 is Rebecca Schoenkopf, formerly of OC Weekly. Wonkette covers U.S. politics from Washington, D.C. to local schoolboards. Taking a sarcastic tone, the site focuses heavily on humorous breaking news, rumors, and the downfall of the...
2020-03-011h 43
Women of Substance Music Podcast#1038 Music by Olivia Frances, Jess Novak, Halie Loren, Amalie Skriver, Laurie Swyers, SEAY, Susan Marie Gallion, Maya Rogers, Carrie Beehan, Tracy NewmanTo get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Olivia Frances - Flowers for Myself Jess Novak - Ripper Halie Loren - I Can't Land Amalie Skriver - Nothing To Say Laurie Swyers - Old Black Creek SEAY - We Are One FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY Susan Marie Gallion - This Isn't Me Maya Rogers - Pain Signals Carrie Beehan - Bloody Haircuts Tracy Newman - Nothing Better Than You For Music Biz Resources Visit Visit our Sponsor Louis Antony DeLise at: Visit our Sponsor Bandzoogle at:
2020-01-2046 min
Women of Substance Music Podcast#1026 Music by Emily Perry, Josee Allard, Carlene Thissen, Emily Nyman, Erin Harpe, Ed & Carol Nicodemi, Joy Zimmerman, Maya Rogers, Jill Detroit, Jess Novak, Erica DiCeglie, Kerry Barnes, Donna Cristy, Barbara Diab & The Smoked Meat BandTo get live links to the music we play and resources we offer, visit This show includes the following songs: Emily Perry - Jingle Jingle Josee Allard - Harmony Carlene Thissen - Our Lady of Guadalupe Emily Nyman - Mary Did You Know Erin Harpe - Jingle Bell Blues Ed & Carol Nicodemi - Just Like Christmastime Joy Zimmerman - One Simple Wreath Maya Rogers - Love Is Everywhere Jill Detroit - What Child Is This Jess Novak - You Are My Dream Erica DiCeglie - Without the Snow Kerry Barnes - Christmas Is The Time Donna Cristy - I Wish E...
2019-12-1158 minOBSCENE2020 Democratic Candidates Policies on Children's Education and PovertyHello, I’m your host Maya Contreras and welcome to a new season of obscene. This is a special holiday episode, the official new season of Obscene will start the first week of January 2020 were I’ll be talking to candidates running for office, voting rights, and policy issues you should be on the lookout for at the ballot box and so much more.
Before I get into the interview today I first want to bring your attention to an article published last month by StoryBench, a news division of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. It’s an article that I th...
2019-12-0351 minOBSCENEA 'Question' Finally Answered: The 2020 Census and GerrymanderingExcept from the Episode: "Hello everyone! It’s me, Maya Contreras, host of Obscene podcast! On the last episode, you heard an excerpt of my interview with Ben Williams of the Princeton Gerrymandering project.
Here is the full episode. I hope you’ll enjoy it. On June 27th, The Supreme Court essentially blocked the citizenship question from being added to the Census. On July 3rd, it was determined that the Census would be printed without it. I wanted to post this episode about Gerrymandering and the Census, shortly after that, but just as I went to post it, the citizenship question...
2019-07-1952 minOBSCENEAsk About Abortion: The Importance of Discussing Abortion in Public Spaces and on Film & TV.On Episode 11 of Obscene, Host Maya Contreras interviews Reproductive Justice Advocate, Renee Bracey Sherman on the importance of Abortion Storytelling, Abortion Funds, and Abortion Access.
"Renee Bracey Sherman is a Chicago-born, Midwest-raised activist, writer and reproductive justice activist committed to the visibility and representation of people who have had abortions in media and pop culture. She is among the most vital voices in the United States elevating the conversation about abortion experiences, and using creative and innovative strategies to shift the conversation centering people of color and other marginalized identities. Her work is so influential that the right-wing website Twitchy...
2019-05-281h 06OBSCENEReproductive Justice: The Intersectional Movement We All Need NowEpisode 11 is with Jalessah Jackson.
What is Reproductive Justice? Host Maya Contreras takes a deep dive on this subject with Jalessah Jackson, Georgia Coordinator at SisterSong.
"Jalessah Jackson is a mother, womanist, and interdisciplinary scholar of training whose research explores the connections between popular culture and critical theories of race, gender, sexualities, and social inequity. She is the Georgia Coordinator at SisterSong, and in this role, Jalessah marries her lived experiences with her education background to advance reproductive justice work in the state of Georgia. In addition to her role at SisterSong, she has been an educator in both community-based a...
2019-05-2843 minOBSCENESexism, Stereotypes, and Negativity in the Media’s Coverage of Female Presidential CandidatesFrom Obscene podcast host Maya Contreras:
"In this episode, I want to talk about the impact the media is having when they are missing the frames to see the big picture of women in politics and women in power. For the interview today, I speak with Dr. Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Dr. Sperling teaches a variety of courses in comparative politics, including Russian politics; revolution and political violence; globalization and democracy; and introduction to women’s studies. Her research interests include globalization and accountability, social movements, and gender politics."
Articled Referenced in this episode:
"Women on...
2019-04-1057 minOBSCENEReplaced: The Media and Entertainment Industries' Fear of InclusionOn March 31st OBSCENE podcast will air the first of a three-part series about inclusion or lack there of in the entertainment and media industries.
It's clear there are many leading actors and producers worried about being 'replaced' by actors of color and more inclusive stories. Take a look at what Pat Sajak said about it:
I remember a time when you could enjoy - or not enjoy - a movie based on its merits. Now we have to worry about the social implications of the film and even the validity of the reviewing process. The joy is being sucked...
2019-03-1702 min
Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Romance, ModernUnforgettable You by Brenda NovakPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unforgettable You Series: #5 of Silver Springs Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Veronica Worthington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can’t find a way to fix it. Jada Brooks couldn’t have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richardson back in high school. She could...
2019-02-2605 min
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenUnforgettable You by Brenda NovakPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/361120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unforgettable You Series: #5 of Silver Springs Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Veronica Worthington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can’t find a way to fix it. Jada Brooks couldn’t have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richardson back in high school. She c...
2019-02-2605 minOBSCENEWhy Are Black Women Disproportionately Dying During Childbirth?On the last episode of Obscene my guests and I touched upon a policy that could have assist generations of Americans in poverty. That vetoed policy was the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971, was designed to establish a comprehensive domestic system of child care.
In this episode we discuss why Black women are 3.4 times more likely to die during childbirth, and their children are 2 times more likely to die during child birth then white women and their children retrospectively.
OBSCENE podcast host Maya Contreras interviews Dr. Jessica Young, Dr. Hazel Levy and Christine Platt, JD about why black women and...
2019-02-0350 minOBSCENEWhy Nixon Killed A Childcare Policy That Could Have Upended Poverty In AmericaOBSCENE Host Maya Contreras talks about childcare and poverty with the following experts:
DR. JILL QUADAGNO (F.S.U.)
SHIMICA GASKINS (CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND)
SUKI GRAVES M.Ed.
DR. JESSICA YOUNG (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
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2019-01-2745 minOBSCENEHow Mythology Infused Discriminatory Domestic PolicyA short excerpt from Episode One premiering January 20, 2019
Episode One (excerpt): Pandora to Yoko: Mythology and Contempt
Maya Contreras reading:
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies.
But in battalions!” - Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V.
(Press conference with Yoko Ono)
That was Yoko Ono in 1971 speaking in front of small group of reporters. She was in the middle of a stressful custody battle with her ex-husband, facing possible deportation due to drug charges leveled against current her husband,
and to make matters worse - she was solely being blamed -by the world - for breaking up the most successf...
2019-01-0602 minOBSCENEAn Ode to Advocates, Happy Holidays!Hi It's Maya Contreras, your host of Obscene. Since it’s about to be a holiday weekend I thought instead of my regular weekly preview I would dedicate this weekly spot to all of the activists and advocates that never seem to have a day off. "‘Twas a few nights before Christmas, through many cities and townsMany advocates were quietly workingSurviving on coffee grounds When not marching or wheeling though streets They’re educating others telling bigots to have several seats You see the life of an advocate is not glamorousBut without them our country would be quite calamitous Each day they wake w...
2018-12-2101 minOBSCENEChristineObscene podcast host Maya Contreras (Brewed In NY, PBS) speaks with Christine Platt in this preview clip.
Christine A. Platt, JD is a historian and storyteller of the African diaspora. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida, M.A. in African Studies from The Ohio State University and received her J.D. from Stetson University College of Law. Her debut novel, The Truth About Awiti, was published under the penname CP Patrick and won the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction. The Truth About Awiti is currently used in high s...
2018-12-0905 min