Shows
A Hat Tip For Hands#29 Thanks A LOTT to a Wastewater Wizard: Infrastructure Super Friends Part 1 (featuring Ken Butti)Ken Butti, Director of Operations and Facility of LOTT Clean Water Alliance, shares all things wastewater treatment from the bowl to the sea. Ken gives an overview of how this happens, its implications on our environment, and a peek into one of this nation's best treatment facilities right here in the south Puget Sound. Ken's competence, kindness, and care, will have everyone thinking about what happens after the next flush!
2021-07-1746 minA Hat Tip For Hands#28 Bridges Between People: Team Gonzalez Part 2 (featuring Danielle Gonzales)Danielle Gonzalez, a behavioral analyst, talks about her work bridging the gap between those with autism and others. She shares her work with Behavior Bridges, finding ways to help those with autism connect, interpret, understand, and develop life skills to better function in their daily lives. We explore the secret society of having family members with special needs, and the impact her brother, Brandon, has had on her. We talk babies, mixed race family, and about getting it right, rather than being right.
2021-06-2138 minA Hat Tip For Hands#27 Team Gonzalez Part 1, Diaries Of A Co-worker Part 2 (featuring Dr. Eliseo Gonzalez) Dr. Eliseo Gonzalez, chiropractor, joins us to talk about becoming a provider, about our parallel universes as colleagues and having brother’s with special needs and Down’s Syndrome, and shared roots in Yakima, WA. We explore cultural and racial identity and the notion of asking others about their identity preferences. Dr. Eli, as he’s known in our office, shares his experience as a Texano, Yakamanian, Mexican American, Latino, Hispanic, bi-racial, one-quarter French, fellow human.
2021-06-1050 minA Hat Tip For Hands#26 Three Generations of Coastal Custodians: Trash Talk, Part 1 (featuring Bill Irey, Tim Irey, and Grant Irey)Three generations of Irey's, Bill, 84, Tim, 53, and Grant, 18, share their tradition of beach clean up on remote stretches of the Olympic National Park, coastal trail, in Washington State. We talk (coastal) trash, the outdoors, family, and stewardship. Their infectious outlook on taking care of our world will have you carrying a grabber and a box of trash bags everywhere you go!
2021-05-2734 minA Hat Tip For Hands#25 Caring, Connecting, and Contemplating as a Nurse, Immigrant, and Asian American (featuring Toni Ransom)Toni Ransom, shares her perspectives as a nurse over her career and this past year as we commemorate International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, designated by The World Health Organization for 2020. In addition, Toni shares her experience as an immigrant from South Korea, and her life as an Asian American. We talk about the experience of finding a better life, racism, and the challenges of finding a sense of place in the face of attitudes of difference.
2021-05-201h 03A Hat Tip For Hands#24 A Rainforest Super Friend and A Climate Change Champion: Environmental Ambassadors Part 1 (featuring Allie Russell and Peyton Russell)Allie Russell, age 9 1/2, and Peyton Russell, age 12, share their journeys of advocating for the environment. Allie tells us about hosting a Driveway Sale, where she shares a presentation of the Congo, and puts her artistic and baking talents to work to raise resources for the Rainforest Action Network, while her brother, Peyton, puts on a clinic about climate change through his involvement with Earth Club, Stream Team, and Wonder Week projects. These remarkable young leaders' advice to adults will have you on your toes ready to jump into action! Spectacular!
2021-05-1235 minA Hat Tip For Hands#23 Bread Baking Brigade: Food Bank Super Friends Part 2 (featuring Mary Rose)Mary Rose, shares her story of moving to a new state at the beginning of the pandemic to retire. She talks about finding community with neighbors and with volunteers baking bread for the food bank. We discuss the power of the collective, finding new friends, making the world "breader," and solving hunger one loaf at a time.
2021-05-0744 minA Hat Tip For Hands#22 A Brother, A Bus, and Beyond (featuring Steve Tanasse)Steve Tanasse, my oldest brother and a bus driver, tells stories of driving his routes for Seattle Metro and Community Transit in Everett WA. He shares his experiences of working with the public, and the process of losing the work he loves, forced to retire early. We talk about life’s transitions, bringing purpose to our work, and beyond the void that shows up when we no longer work, but still want to.
2021-04-2934 minA Hat Tip For Hands#21 Good Happens Behind Fences Part 1 (featuring Joe Burr)Joe Burr, English Professor at Centralia College, shows us a day in the life of class at Green Hill School, a juvenile rehabilitation facility. He helps us see a spirit of hope, help, and healing within its confines, and shares stories, insights, and experience as a visiting faculty teaching college level writing to students ready to learn. Go Joe, and go Green Hill!
2021-04-2254 minA Hat Tip For Hands#20 Bread, Jam, and a Pandemic, with Frances (featuring Frances Tanasse)Frances Tanasse, my 17 year-old daughter, shares her experience and perspectives as a senior in high school during a pandemic. She tells us about growing up before you're ready, about FOMO (fear of missing out), about going PRO, and about problem solving during a year of challenges.
2021-04-0140 minA Hat Tip For Hands#19 GED? Great Educational Direction! (featuring Nadine Tussey) Nadine Tussey shows us what’s possible after dropping out of school at age 17 due to life's circumstances, and returning to complete a GED program, followed by a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. She shares her tales and perspectives as a life long learner and teacher of a program for students seeking a GED. Right on Nadine!
2021-03-2745 minA Hat Tip For Hands#18 Ski With Dee....and More (featuring Dee Doiron)Dee Doiron, age 83, talks about fun with friends, 50 years running a ski bus, volunteering with Americorps, grieving the loss of loved ones, and about showing up. Dee shares stories of living through highs and lows, and provides her advice on navigating life and setting one's self up for success.
2021-03-1834 minA Hat Tip For HandsEpisode #17 Celebrating International Women's Day (featuring Mary Mayorquin)In the spirit of International Women's Day, Mary Mayorquin, takes us on a ride through her journey as a young adult working with girls in Nicaragua, through the challenges her family faced this past year as a bi-racial family, and through breakthroughs and wins she’s experienced as a woman working at Starbuck’s. As developer of its core coffee, Siren’s Blend, which elevates women’s leadership and sustainable farming practices, and honors the innovations of women, from farmer, to roaster to barista, Mary shines a light on progress for women in the work place, and in the coffee sp
2021-03-1158 minA Hat Tip For Hands#16 Romania Mania! Diaries of Co-worker (featuring Alexandra Rogers)Alex Rogers, a beloved co-worker and friend, shares her experiences growing up in Romania in the 80's and 90's during a time of personal and national transition, and of how she found her way to a new life in the United States. We talk fabulous family, satisfying work, ongoing personal growth, and remarkable relationships. Alex is a gem!
2021-03-0438 minA Hat Tip For Hands#15 The Evergreen State College: Starting a School Born To Be Different (featuring Kenneth Winkley)Ken Winkley, age 85, joins us to talk history, and about the challenges of opening a new college in the late 60”s. Ken, a founding member of The Evergreen State College, invigorates a renaissance to ensure that the opportunity of collaborative, integrative, inclusive learning cements its place in higher educational offerings for future students. He takes us on a journey of looking back to provide valuable clues for moving forward.
2021-02-2440 minA Hat Tip For Hands#14 Sisters Rock! Part 1 (featuring Julia Pribic)Julia Pribic, one of my dear sisters, shares her heartwarming story of her journey of trying to have children in the face of fertility challenges, and finding transition as her children near adulthood, determining what’s next as a person, a citizen, and as a mom of twins, triplets, and a child with special needs. She shows us that when the universe calls us to action in ways that move us, mountains can be moved!
2021-02-1741 minA Hat Tip For Hands#13 Great Friends and a Garden Cart (Featuring Leo Stoll and Nicholas Ohlson-Kiehn)Leo and Nicholas, 12, show us how to move and shake through a pandemic by building great friendships, and by building a garden cart business to benefit the food bank while building community! These spectacular citizens and generous spirits share their story of what two kind, capable, and connected kids can accomplish while working with each other, their families, and their community. Fantastic!
2021-02-1133 minA Hat Tip For Hands#12 Pawsome! Pets and Pro-Tips (featuring Alison Fisher)Alison Fisher, a professional pet sitter, pet care provider, and pet charmer, shares pet tales, pet wisdom, pro-tips, and more. The Mary Poppins of pets, Alison talks about pet manners, grieving pet loss, and pets and reducing anxiety during this time period. It's always fun to talk pets....especially with a pro!
2021-02-0340 minA Hat Tip For Hands#11 Passing With Compassion (featuring Carly Samish L.Ac.)Carly Samish L.Ac., gives us a look into her work with Hospice and the world of caring for those with terminal illness. Along the way, we explore the broader context of death and dying. We all head that direction, we might as well talk about it! Carly, a magnificent human being, shares fresh perspectives that inspire a sense of peace around end of life realities. She takes us on a surprisingly uplifting ride!
2021-01-2731 minA Hat Tip For Hands#10 A Homelessness Hero (featuring Jerry Coffee)Jerry Coffee, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and director of Honolulu Institute for Human Services, shares his experience running a Covid quarantine and a respite transitional home for the homeless population of Hawaii, where an estimated 5000 homeless individuals reside. Smart, funny, kind, and compassionate, Jerry brings out the best in everyone he meets. He's an impeccable human being caring for our most vulnerable citizens during this precarious time. Thank you Jerry!
2021-01-2041 minA Hat Tip For Hands#9 A Detour to Purpose (featuring Mitch Erickson)Mitch Erickson owns and operates a group home for adults with special needs, including my younger brother Joe T, who has down syndrome (from episode #1). Mitch shares his journey of overcoming trauma that left him paralyzed as a young adult, and finding a new way forward to discover a satisfying life filled with meaning as a caregiver.
2021-01-1330 minA Hat Tip For Hands#8 A Writing Spa: Cucumbers Optional (featuring Anne Hansen)Anne Hansen, of the Writing Spa, has been teaching and helping to take the fear out of writing since 1972 for kids of every grade and adults of all ages. She inspires this episode of a clean slate to start the new year learning something new, or improving something familiar, or taking a risk to reach just beyond a comfort zone for a satisfying life.
2021-01-0640 minA Hat Tip For Hands#7 2020 Intersections and Reflections from a First Responder (featuring Dr. Monti Sorem)Dr. Monti Sorem, a chiropractor turned firefighter and paramedic, shares his experiences of the pandemic, reflects on a year of social unrest related to the death of George Floyd, as a father of a child of color, and lets us in on his transition from a career as a chiropractor to first responder. Happy New Year!
2020-12-3050 minA Hat Tip For Hands#6 A Five Thousand Lumen Friend (featuring Denise Desimone)Denise Desimone, author of From Stage Four to Center Stage, and the podcast, "So Much More Than Cancer," lifts us to the tree tops for perspective on living with vigor, purpose, and a voice. A shining light, Denise inspires by demonstrating what a redesign following a cancer diagnosis, or any challenge, can look like. Extraordinary!
2020-12-2332 minA Hat Tip For Hands#5 Let's Taco Bout Taco Trucks (featuring Eric Guitirez)Eric Guitirez, co owner of Taqueria La Esquinita talks about his journey looking for a better life for himself and his family, and starting and operating a restaurant and food trucks in the Olympia area. His story of resilience, perseverance, and generosity of spirit will keep you coming back for more tacos!
2020-12-1636 minA Hat Tip For Hands#4 Enterprise for Equity (Featuring Lisa Smith)Lisa Smith, Co-founder of Enterprise for Equity, shows us how to build vibrant communities by providing opportunities and removing barriers for those with limited income and limited access to resources. She and her team move and shake at a time when our communities need all the help they can get in the current global and local economic climate to provide income for themselves and their families, while building community.
2020-12-0933 minA Hat Tip For Hands#3 3D Help In a 4D Time (featuring Kevin Warner)Kevin Warner, born out of the maker movement, a pacific northwest version of Adam Savage and our own local myth buster and maker extraordinaire, can really get down and solve problems both fun and those of more serious consequence. Kevin put his ginormous brain and high tech toys to work solving PPE supply shortages all of our local front line workers confronted. Kevin was like a genie at a time when we all needed a genie the most. A Hat Tip For Hands podcast show notes: www.aHatTipForHands.com
2020-11-2229 minA Hat Tip For Hands#2 Preschool Zoom? Teacher Kaylene to the Rescue! (featuring Kaylene Smith)Kaylene Smith, a modern day Mary Poppins, determined to pivot her preschoolers to a meaningful experience during this pandemic, shows us how 4 and 5 year-olds can thrive in an online learning environment. A Hat Tip For Hands show notes: www.aHatTipForHands.com
2020-11-2133 minA Hat Tip For Hands#1 A Superhero Without a Leotard, Joe TanasseJoe Tanasse, a superhero without a leotard, opens A Hat Tip For Hands podcast series as the first guest telling us about his life. Joe has Down syndrome, magic hands, great birthdays, and a big heart. Joe makes the world a better place! Enjoy. A Hat Tip For Hands Podcast Notes: www.ahattipforhands.com
2020-11-2118 min