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Verimour SpeaksS02E28 - Michael Sodini Founder of Walk the Talk America Part TwoDespite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media.
Mission Statement
Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness, and provide solutions to those who choose to own firearms responsibly and the public at large.
Goals
Our goal is to raise awareness and create a change in the misunderstandings regarding mental illness and firearms by bringing together industry leaders to reduce gun violence, negligence, suici...
2019-07-161h 08Verimour SpeaksS02E27 - Michael Sodini Founder of Walk the Talk America Part OneDespite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media.
Mission Statement
Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness, and provide solutions to those who choose to own firearms responsibly and the public at large.
Goals
Our goal is to raise awareness and create a change in the misunderstandings regarding mental illness and firearms by bringing together industry leaders to reduc...
2019-07-131h 00Verimour SpeaksS02E26 - Is There Any Value In Working To Get Your Ex Back?Repurposed content from the relationship segment of the Honestly Dawn podcast. Ahmed and I talk about the trend I was seeing in angst ridden individuals who were posting questions on Reddit and Quora about how to get their exs back. We consider the question from both personal experience as well as practicality.
2019-07-0919 minVerimour SpeaksS02E25 - How To See Yourself As Sexyhttps://medium.com/@verimour/how-to-see-yourself-as-sexy-21ec1c66957a
For as long as I can remember I’ve had what a friend once referred to as “White Woman’s Syndrome”. It’s that inability to step outside our heads and see ourselves in the senuous and sexy way others do. Because of that we are not comfortable in our bodies, so we don’t swing our hips or flaunt our gorgeous selves in the way of the women we idolize as beautiful.
Part of the reason is our culture and “learning” early on in life that sex is bad, ther...
2019-07-0211 minVerimour SpeaksS02E24 - The Past, The Future, Depression and Finding Your PassionA lot has changed in the 23 years since I wrote the paper highlighted in this episode. While I still have challenges, their nature and degree are very different.
2019-06-1817 minVerimour SpeaksS02E23 - Why I Love Mondays and You Can Too
For many years I was like the rest of the world rushing my life from weekend to weekend always trying to savor those precious final Sunday night or holiday hours and dreading the sound of the alarm that signaled a new work week. Even then I remember commenting on the irony of it and how unfortunate it all was given how delicate our existence can be. And when I found myself out of work it got even worse instead of better. I suddenly began to hate every day instead of just Mondays. I saw myself as without pu...
2019-05-2507 minVerimour SpeaksS02E22 - Dr. Ming Wang, Author of From Darkness to Sight: A Journey from Hardship to HealingRepurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Dr. Wang tells of growing up in communist China where no one was allowed to move from one city to another without the governments permission and how his mind and world view shifted completely upon coming to the US.
2019-05-1440 minVerimour SpeaksS02E21 - Boris Boric Part Two TBI, Coma, Death Sentence and the Long Road to RecoveryRepurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Hear Boris tell of his second near death experience where he wakes from a coma to learn he wasn't even supposed to live, much less walk again. And hear what seem like a surprising revelation about his attitude regarding the entire experience.
2019-05-1141 minVerimour SpeaksS02E20 - Boris Boric Part One Child Survivor of the Croatian War of IndependenceRepurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Boris is one of the most inspiring people I have ever met. Having survived not one, but two cataclysmic life events, he now uses what he learned to change lives himself.
In this first part, hear him tell of tripping over dead bodies at the age of 6 after being separated from his family while fleeing to safety. And of spending years in refugee camps where his young mind continued to be faced with the stark realities of that life.
2019-05-0718 minVerimour SpeaksS02E19 - Entrepreneur ConfessionsToday's episode is me hoping to help you through my own raw honesty about the challenges of being an overachieving work in progress and the stupid shit we do that doesn't have to be the end of the world.
The apology is mostly in the confession, that he'll never hear, as I don't ever actually say I'm sorry. But if it's the thought that counts then he should have been feeling a warm glow all day, because my heart is almost always in the right place.
2019-05-0432 minVerimour SpeaksS02E18 - Mustafa How a Muslim Taught Me the Meaning of ChristmasThis interview was recorded Christmas Day 2015 in Austin, Texas. When I say the meaning of Christmas here, I'm referring to the most basic human traits of love, compassion and pain both physical and emotional.
I know that many people still experience a great deal of anger toward the Muslim community. My aim isn't to comment or pass judgment on either side of that equation. What you will hear in this discussion is the story of a young man, through no fault of his own, forced to leave the only home he'd ever known. For the safety of h...
2019-04-301h 06Verimour SpeaksS02E17 - Kerry Cohen Author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of PromiscuityRepurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Kerry is a prolific writer and speaks very candidly about her addictions to sex and alcohol. She has written several other books including:
Lush: A Memoir
Dirty Little Secrets
The Truth of Memoir
Easy
2019-04-2738 minVerimour SpeaksS02E16 - The Secret to Women RevealedIt's an age old cliche the shake our heads moments when we look at the opposite sex and wonder how we can both be the same species. Could it be simpler than we let ourselves believe? A repurposed interview from Honestly Dawn, Ahmed and Dawn explore the possibility that maybe it doesn't have to be so difficult.
2019-04-2320 minVerimour SpeaksS02E15 - Debra Gwartney Author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed LoveImagine your two teenage daughters living on the streets where you can't find them and can only imagine their fate. In this repurposed interview from the Honestly Dawn podcast, author Debra Gwartney talks about the mixed bag of fear, guilt, anger and hurt.
2019-04-2038 minVerimour SpeaksS02E14 - When is a Dick Pick Appropriate?Repurposed content from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, I wasn't sure what to say when Ahmed asked me to talk about this subject, but you can believe I came up with something. Enlightening conversation as always.
2019-04-1619 minVerimour SpeaksS02E13 - Thomas Cook Talks Parenting, Drug Abuse and Life ChangesRepurposed content from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, my friend Thomas talks about growing up in a very dysfunctional home where drugs and alcohol were the norm and what it took to go from drug addict and dealer to respected businessman.
2019-04-1328 minVerimour SpeaksS02E12 - The Secret to goal Setting for Maximum ResultsRepurposed from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, Hector and I share our similar but somewhat different views on the difference between "just do it" and "of course, what else would I do?".
2019-04-0938 minVerimour SpeaksS02E11 - Anthony Venn-Brown Author of A Life of Unlearning - a Preacher's Struggle With His Homosexuality, Church and FaithMore repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcast days. Venn-Brown talks very candidly about growing up gay in an ultra religious Australian family and the inordinate lengths he went to trying to get God to "fix" him, before tragedy helped him find a place of acceptance with his life and his church.
2019-04-0636 minVerimour SpeaksS02E10 - Female Satisfaction in the BedroomAs women are we doing all we can to ensure our wants and needs are met in the bedroom? Do we have any culpability at all in our dissatisfaction or should our partners come to the game fully informed and prepared?
2019-03-2606 minVerimour SpeaksS02E09 - The Social Media Monster, Faithful Friend or Pure Evil?Anyone who knows me well can tell you I have a very dim view of our current social media environment. And my distaste for it has grown exponentially since this episode was recorded in 2016. That year alone, nearly 45,000 Americans took their own lives and there is more than enough anecdotal if not outright causal examples of the role the social media played in those deaths. While this in an interesting conversation, look forward to an updated version in the near future.
2019-03-2328 minVerimour SpeaksS02E08 - Profanity and Loss of ControlAdditional reused content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcast days. Hear Hector and I talk about words, how we use them, the power they give and the power they take away. Hear him tell how language is handled in his home of small children and what ground rules keep things running smoothly in an enormously hectic but loving household.
2019-03-1922 minVerimour SpeaksS02E07 - Confidence, Vanity or NarcicissmRepurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn Podcasts.
The words we use especially in the way of labeling ourselves or others can have an incredibly powerful, long lasting and too often extremely detrimental impact on our lives.
In this episode Hector and I attempt to make a semantic distinction between the labels of Confidence, Vanity and Narcissism. As always these conversations were fun to record, enjoyable to relisten to and hopefully helpful or at least entertaining to our listeners.
2019-03-0924 minVerimour SpeaksS02E06 - FBI Negotiator Gary Noesner Author of Stalling For TimeThis interview is a couple years old, but the information is still relevant and interesting as Gary gives us insight into the troubled minds behind some of our country's most memorable events. Gary was the lead negotiator at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. He also took an advisory roll in the making of the recent mini series recounting that event.
2019-03-0251 minVerimour SpeaksS02E05 - What If You Could Hear Your Lover's Thoughts?Additional content reused from the Honestly Dawn podcast. Communication between partners is so often a large source of frustration. In this episode Ahmed and I consider whether knowing what your partner is thinking would help or hinder your private time.
2019-02-1931 minVerimour SpeaksE02E04 - Special Guest Katie McKenna Chats About ComplimentsAnyone who listened to episode 3 knows how much I love Katie. In an effort to not let some great previous content go to waste, I'm doing minor edits and relaunching select episodes from the honestly dawn/honestly speaking podcast. Please forgive any bleed across shows in production and try to focus on the main content itself. As always Katie is a terrific joy and pleasure to work with.
2019-02-0916 minVerimour SpeaksS02E03 - MLK Holiday and the Confessions of a Closet Non-RacistMy usual launch schedule has been shot to hell recently, but this is a topic I didn't want to pass on and today was a good day to at least open the door to the discussion. What follows is the text version of the blog post I share while recording.
Confessions of closet non-racist - Originally written July 2016
When I was in elementary and middle school I lived in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the years that spanned Kindergarten through 6th grade I only remember one black student. There may have been others, but they didn’t live i...
2019-01-2115 minVerimour SpeaksS02E02 - Sam Tarell, Self Ascribed Feminist, Visionary Thinker and CEO of Hoop BrothersFor many of us, the recent hectic and often disheartening holiday season, had us wondering if humans are unrecoverable as a species. However, today I offer you candid conversation between two dreamers who not only believe there is hope, but each have a plan for how to help.
Introducing Sam Tarell, CEO of Hoop Brothers and unabashed big thinker.
For more information on Sam you can follow him @samtarell on most social channels. You can also listen to his interview with Tony McGehee on the Emerging Entrepreneurs Podcast as well as my interview of Tony...
2019-01-0841 minVerimour SpeaksS02E01 - What if it were me? Compassion, humanity, and walking that mile.Shorter than 10 minutes, this episode introduces Tuesday's guest, allows me a little personal introspection and describes some upcoming format changes.
2019-01-0510 minVerimour SpeaksS01E09- Victor Perez and Josh's Benches for AwarenessApproximately 7 months ago, Victor's best friend since childhood committed suicide by gunshot. In this episode, Victor talks about being a twenty something in today's world and shares with us the nonprofit foundation he helped start in honor of his friend.
2018-12-2930 minVerimour SpeaksS01E8 - Silencing the Noise, My Christmas Wish For YouThe holidays can be at the same time both exhilarating and infuriating. All the extra activity and pressure can bring out the best and worst in us. In a traditionally short Saturday episode, I share my insight while giving you a small preview into Tuesday's emotional topic and interview.
heroharbor.org/get-it
verimour.com/get-it
2018-12-2215 min
Emerging EntrepreneursEp. 16: Connecting Authentically with Dawn KeeganDawn Keegan is the Founder and CEO of Verimour, a social networking platform designed to connect you with REAL people, not fake profiles. In this episode, Dawn talks about how from a young age she was very empathetic towards others and would do anything to make them smile, she talks about her time in the Marine Corps and how Verimour helps veterans connect with other veterans after their time in the military. Dawn really has a heart of gold and you can hear how passionate she is about helping others. Be sure to listen to the full interview to...
2018-12-2233 minVerimour SpeaksS01E07 - Kathleen Rothenberger, second generation breast cancer survivorWhat would you do if suddenly diagnosed with the same disease you'd seen your mother suffer with for more than 3 decades? Barely 6 months ago, Kathy was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer and had to answer that very question. Tune in to hear her amazing story and what you might find as her surprising decision.
www.kathleenrothenberger.com
2018-12-1131 minVerimour SpeaksS01E06 - Tony McGehee - Host of Emerging Entrepreneur PodcastIn this episode, Tony talks about what it takes to put a dream in action, serving others as a form of motivation and how he gets his groove back when he finds himself giving into inertia.
@emergingentrepreneurspodcast
https://linktr.ee/emergingentrepreneurspodcast
2018-12-0442 minVerimour SpeaksS01E05 - The Paradox of RegretIn this episode I talk about both my regret and those of my father by relating stories from our military service.
Additionally, I offer listeners a challenge designed to help you turn regret into something helpful.
2018-12-0114 minVerimour SpeaksS01E04 - Dating coach T. Anthony of Online Dating Superpowers in CincinnatiHear coach and I talk about the current state of dating, how apps hurt or help and what Verimour is doing to solve the problem.
https://www.instagram.com/onlinedatingsuperpowers/
2018-11-2755 minVerimour SpeaksS01E03 - Verimour the Dating AppAfter my divorce in 2015, I did what seemed to me the time management savvy thing and took to dating apps. It didn't take long to realize what an awful mess that world is. Personal and intimate relationships have arguably the highest requirement for honest communication and these apps were promoting anything but. And that's not even taking into consideration the very real physical and financial danger risk. I knew there was a better way. Verimour is my solution to that problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1...
2018-11-2412 minVerimour SpeaksS01E02 - Katie McKenna Author of How to Get Run Over by a TruckOnce again I'm pleased to be speaking with this dynamic and empowering woman.
Hear her tell about taking her worst day ever and turning it into a life of amazing joy and abundance.
I've included links to my previous conversation with Katie as well as her guest blog post and all the places you can learn more about her life and work.
http://honestlydawn.com/episode-15-katie-mckenna/
http://honestlydawn.com/scheduling-a-compliment-party-guest-post-by-katie-mckenna/
Instagram: @katiecmckenna
Twitter: @katiecmckenna
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katiecmckenna
Website: www.katiecmckenna.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Run-Over-Truck/dp/1536669431
2018-11-2030 minVerimour SpeaksS01E01 - How Understanding Communication Styles Can Radically Improve Our RelationshipsThe books I reference are listed here:
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships - 2011
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation - 2013
by Deborah Tannen
2018-11-1708 minVerimour SpeaksS01E00 - Verimour Speaks Pilot EpisodeIn the pilot episode of the Verimour Speaks Podcast, your host, Dawn Keegan, provides a brief introduction to our content, philosophy and a short list of upcoming guests including authors:
Katie McKenna - How to Get Run Over By a Truck
Gary Noesner - Stalling for Time
Tim Lefins - Flying Colors
Debra Gwartney - Live Through This
Kerry Cohen - Loose Girl
https://verimour.com
https://twitter.com/Verimour
https://www.facebook.com/verimourapp/
https://heroharbor.org
https://twitt...
2018-11-1006 min