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Dr. P On The Pod#258 The Healthy Communication GLOWTanya Simmons Reid is a visionary leader, communications strategist and mental health advocate. In 2018, she founded Skyrocket Communications, Inc. to help organizations "rise brilliantly" in their ability to serve clients, customers and communities. Under her leadership, Skyrocket Communications also produces signature events and apparel that spark awareness, drive change and foster meaningful conversations.With a distinguished career spanning communications, marketing, business development, branding, sales, donor engagement, media relations and event management, Tanya has built a reputation for delivering innovative solutions that amplify impact and achieve measurable success.Committed to addressing mental health disparities in Black...
2025-10-3027 min
Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your Tech AnxietyTech Anxiety Podcast Offers Practical Solutions for Digital Stress and Wellness in Rapidly Evolving Tech LandscapeCtrl+Alt+Delete Your Tech Anxiety has emerged as a go-to destination for listeners seeking practical guidance on managing digital stress, tech overload, and everyday technology challenges. In recent episodes, the show has tackled the fast-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the uncertain future of social media platforms, and tips for digital resilience, resonating strongly as both personal and global anxieties over technology reach new heights.According to Techdirt, Ctrl+Alt+Speech—a sibling program—recently dedicated an episode to the fine line between free speech and moderation on tech platforms, responding to urgent listener concerns about digital rights and...
2025-09-2003 min
Got Clutter? Get Organized! with JanetEmpowering Minds: Mental Health Advocacy with Tanya Simmons ReidIn this episode, we dive deep into mental health awareness with Tanya, the visionary and executive producer behind the SoundMinds Mental Health Awareness & Solutions Conference. Tanya, a certified Mental Health First Aider and communications expert, discusses the importance of addressing mental health head-on and why we can no longer ignore or make excuses for mental illness. From her own journey of advocacy to practical tips for those feeling overwhelmed, Tanya shares her insights on how we can support ourselves and our loved ones on the path to mental wellness. Plus, she offers guidance on how parents can help their...
2025-01-2033 min
WQMG Community FocusSOUNDMINDS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE WITH TANYA SIMMONS REIDEngaging conversation to help educate our communities about mental health in Black and HIspanic Communities and its impact on families, communities and personal physical health as well as helping to erase stigmas and increase understanding about loved ones dealing with mental health challenges and living with diagnosed mental illnesses.
2024-07-0942 min
SIAchatsSeason 3: Episode 2- Music is My TherapyTune into the second episode of the season as I SIAchat with collective known as SoundMinds and we discuss the impact and benefits music can play in our lives to get us through those difficult and turbulent times. We definitely touch upon some other resonating topics so this is not one you want to miss.
2021-09-241h 22
Relentless PursuitsTanya Simmons Reid - The creator of SoundMinds Mental Health Awareness and Solutions Conference"Mental Health is real - knowledge and acknowledgement is essential!" - Tanya Simmons Reid
In honor of Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (July) take a moment to listen as Tanya Simmons Reid shares her own personal story and advocates for others who are suffering silently with mental illness.
2021-07-2038 min
SoundMinds RadioEccentric Hamstrings, Big Sport and Pioneering Research GroupsMany of us have had a hamstring twinge at one time or another, you know, that big muscle group at the back of the thigh. Well sportspeople are constantly injuring that muscle group at great cost to themselves and the team. David Opar and his team research, collaborate and coordinate the new wave of inquiry into hamstring injury, rehabilitation and management.
2018-05-0300 min
Urban Broadcast Collective28. Female Chinese Australians_USFemale Chinese Australians: A Feminist Tale of Multiculturalism by SoundMinds Radio. Stella Sun is a Chinese Australian woman who was born on Thursday Island in 1931. Stella travelled to mainland Australia when she was 17 years old. Dr Alanna Kamp has been interviewing women like Stella about their experiences of belonging and exclusion as female Chinese Australians during the White Australia Policy era.
The women Alanna is interviewing piece many memories together to tell rich stories about migration, settlement and family. In this episode, Dallas (https://twitter.com/DallasRogers101) talks to Alanna about researching Chinese Australian women during the White Australia period...
2018-03-2815 min
Urban Broadcast Collective21. Antarctica_SMSoundMinds Radio
What the Antarctic teaches us about the science of space exploration
By SoundMinds Radio
It’s 2026 and you are on board the Ares. The largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built. You are on the first colonial voyage to Mars and your crew will be the first hundred Martian colonisers.
This is how Kim Stanley Robinson opens his award-winning science fiction Mars trilogy – a set of three books about the colonial settlement of Mars. For Associate Professor Juan Francisco Salazar, this science fiction series opens up some important philosophical questions about what we think were doing as we colonise Antarctica and...
2018-03-1415 min
Urban Broadcast Collective11. The Green Bans and Gentrification_SMRThe Green Bans and Gentrification by SoundMinds Radio
In this episode, we take to the streets of Sydney. We meet public housing resident Barney Gardner at his house in the suburb of Millers Point, which is just under Sydney Harbour Bridge. I’ve spent a bit of time with Barney over the last couple of years, interviewing him for various research projects on inner city gentrification. Barney was born in Millers Point and has lived there all his life. In 2014, he was told he had to move out of his house and the neighbourhood. The public housing he was living in...
2018-02-2815 min
SoundMinds RadioGambling's Social Influences & Sex as a Natural HypnoticAlex Russell researches gambling … and today he discusses … Social Influences on Problem Gamblers.
Michele Lastella has been actively involved in sleep research for some years and he discusses the marriage of sleep and sex in his talk … Are You Getting Enough? Sex as a Natural Hypnotic.
2018-01-2200 min
SoundMinds RadioConcussion in Sport & A Hard Days NightThe force of a tackle is like hitting a car travelling 40kph. Dr Piovesana is working to create protocols and tools sensitive enough to capture the cognitive and psychological effects of concussion.
Shift workers are often time poor, have disruptive patterns and find it hard to fit in physical activity. Dr Kolbe-Alexander looks at ways to bring physical activity to shift workers.
2018-01-2200 min
SoundMinds RadioCan Nemo Get Home & Childbirth StoriesCoral bleaching events could spell disaster for anemonefishes and their hosts, so Anna Scott asks the question, "Does Bleaching Mean Nemo Cannot Find His Home?"
The lived experience of African women in childbirth can create lifelong health and social challenges. Glory Gatwiri informs us about "Childbirth Injuries and Leaking Bodies: Stories from Kenyan Women".
2018-01-1600 min
SoundMinds RadioStronger after Stroke & Square eyes or all lies? Children's exposure to screens.Strokes are the major cause of disability in our adult population. What if you could be stronger after a stroke? This is the research focus of Dr Simone Dorsh.
Kids and screens. Too much, all bad, or is there more to it than meets the eyes. Dr Taren Sanders talk says it all - Square eyes or all lies? Understanding children's exposure to screens.
2018-01-0400 min
SoundMinds RadioFalling Over & Egyptian Tents"Falling injuries are preventable, and 1 in 3 older people have a fall each year. Kristy Robson challenges the way we approach assessment and rehabilitation in her 5 minute presentation: Addressing falls risk in regional Australia – rethinking our approach.
Then, Sam Bowker presents the fascinating story of the meanings of design in Egyptian tents for the last 1,000 years. Again all in 5 minutes, from the finals of the 5 Minute Research Pitch Challenge 2017."
2017-12-2700 min
SoundMinds RadioFlavonoids & Memory, Law & Climate ChangeFlavonoids, the pigments in cherries and plums are under investigation for their potential in cognitive repair, specifically memory loss in dementia. Katherine Kent, with a background in Nutrition and Public Health will tell you all about it in 5 minutes.
Then, Kerryn Brent will shed light on International Law and it's potential to facilitate negative emissions to offset climate change. Again all in 5 minutes, from the finals of the 5 Minute Research Pitch Challenge 2017.
2017-12-2000 min
SoundMinds RadioSports Talent & The Silent GameTalented sportspeople need to be identified, so how is this achieved? Paul Larkin considers the methods used and how they can be improved, in his talk, “Right Place, Right Time, with the Right Eye Watching”
Fiona McLachlan started exploring the historical and social perspectives of a sport that has one of the highest participation rates across all sports, netball. She found the historical records limited, and decided to do something about it in her talk, "Giving Voice to the Silent Game".
2017-12-1300 min
SoundMinds RadioArsenic vs Water: A bigger problem that you drinkAta Nosrati grew up in a village in Iran, where the water was safe to drink. He is now turning his chemical engineering knowledge and understanding of water contamination to work to develop a safe, low cost, easy to use method for removing Arsenic from drinking water. Many nations including Bangladesh, Vietnam and even the United States have dangerous levels of Arsenic in their water supplies, sometimes 300 times the safe limit.
2017-05-2400 min
SoundMinds RadioPigments, plums & pulses: The search for cardioprotective natural productsCardiovascular disease is treatable, but the long term health of patients can suffer as a consequence of the prescriptions. From a medical family, Dr Abishek Santhakumar watched the treatments provided for his mother help and hinder her health. He thought there must be a better way, and his research trajectory has led him though pigments, plums and pulses in a search for cardioprotective natural products.
2017-05-0900 min
SoundMinds RadioFit 4 Two : Pregnancy, Fitness & Entrepreneurial ResearchResearch is not a business. Think again, Dr Melanie Hayman has taken an entrepreneurial approach to researching fitness during pregnancy. It involves marketing strategies, a seven foot tall, hot pink, pregnant cardboard woman called Sophia and an innovative online program delivered via your GP or midwife.
2017-05-0400 min
Speaking with...Speaking with: Nicole Cook on union ‘green bans’, housing affordability and the Sirius buildingThe former state secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Jack Mundey, in front of the Sirius building. Dean Lewins/AAPSydney’s iconic Sirius building was scheduled for demolition by the New South Wales government in 2015. The building – a prominent Australian example of brutalist architecture – contains 79 apartments for public housing tenants, and residents are furious that they are being moved on to make way for 250 luxury apartments at the gateway of the city.
But this isn’t the first time a NSW government has targeted the Millers Point and Rocks areas for redevelopment. When the Askin government proposed...
2017-01-2516 minSpeaking with...Speaking with: Ilan Wiesel and Ray Forrest about the impact of the super rich on our citiesThe super rich are a symbol of growing wealth inequality. ShutterstockThe “1%” – the super elite who hold a disproportionate amount of global wealth – have been the subject of reality TV, protests, media speculation and best-selling books in recent years.
Private jets, multi-million-dollar apartments and cars worth the value of most people’s homes: these are the symbols we associate with them, but is there really a defining culture of the super rich?
And are the extremely wealthy to blame for growing inequality? Or do our own aspirations make us complicit in their dominance of politics and commer...
2016-09-2715 minSpeaking with...Speaking with: Juan Francisco Salazar about colonising Antarctica and MarsWhat can life on Antarctica tell us about future colonies on Mars or other planets? www.shutterstock.comLast month, a team of scientists emerged from a year-long experiment to test what survival might look like for the first colonists on Mars.
But while setting up a human colony on Mars seems like a journey into the unknown, the research community in the Antarctic is already encountering – and in some cases solving – many of the same problems we might face on new worlds. And those problems are not all environmental.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Western Sydn...
2016-09-0614 minSpeaking with...Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy careRecent studies have revealed an emerging understanding of the benefits of birthing relationships through the childbearing process. ShutterstockRecent studies have revealed an emerging understanding of the benefits of birthing relationships through the childbearing process. Creating a healthy mental state through pregnancy, birth and postnatal care can have an important and tangible effect on the health of both child and mother.
Midwifery, one of the oldest professions in the world, has been increasingly overshadowed by technological development and obstetricians. But the benefits a midwife can provide through comfort, empowerment and understanding are something that can’t (yet) be...
2016-07-2615 minSpeaking with...Speaking with: Rhonda Itaoui on navigating the city as a young MuslimRTR I MJ The terror attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, changed the way we think about politics, society and safety as the world entered the 21st century.
But as the world learned the identities of the attackers, the response affected one community much more acutely: Muslims.
The media coverage of the 2001 attack and other subsequent incidents in our region, including the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney’s Martin Place in December 2014, increased the feeling among many in the Muslim community that they are not welcome or safe in the Australian cities that th...
2016-04-0514 minSpeaking with...Speaking with: Shanthi Robertson and Ien Ang on migrants, refugees and Australia’s place in AsiaAustralia's policies on asylum seekers have been criticised by many countries at the UN's Human Rights Council. Department of ImmigrationAustralia’s refugee and border protection policies have been in the spotlight again this week as riots broke out at the Christmas Island detention centre following the unexplained death of an escaped asylum seeker.
The incident happened just prior to a review of Australia’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council. Many countries criticised Australia’s tough stance on asylum seekers, and called on the government to end its policy of boat turnbacks, mandatory detent...
2015-11-1225 min