It’s Our Money – Digits – Better Get Used to Them…… – 03.12.17

As cash transactions continue a downward slide toward obsolescence and perhaps even illegality, a host of replacement media are being lined-up to replace the practice of making tactile exchanges when completing transactions. Everyone is used to using credit and debit cards, those intermediaries that digitize payments and do account reckoning. But what lies beyond those captured private industry providers like Visa and Mastercard is an even more exotic and potentially far safer monetary transaction system called “blockchain.” This week Ellen talks with Jon Underwood, the founder and CEO of a blockchain-based parallel payment system called C-pay, a system capable of creating local monetary systems as well as addressing some of the payment world’s stickiest markets, like the developing cannabis markets of the American West.

iEat Green – Josh Balk Vice President, Humane Society of the United States – 03.30.17

Josh Balk has led efforts to enact animal welfare policies with many of the world’s largest companies, including Walmart, Wendy’s, Kroger, Denny’s and dozens more. These policies have helped shift the food industry’s reliance on veal crates, gestation crates and battery cages. He's also been a leader in creating and supporting start-up animal-friendly companies, including co-founding Hampton Creek, and guiding venture capital firms and high net worth individuals to invest in this space. Prior to coming to HSUS, Balk worked at Compassion Over Killing (COK) where he conducted investigations into factory farm operations and launched one of our nation’s first advertising campaigns on farm animals. Balk’s work has been covered by the Associated Press, Fortune, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and dozens of other outlets.

The Infectious Myth – Rights after Serving Time with Desmond Meade – 03.28.17

David Crowe talks with Desmond Meade about restoring the right of felons in Florida who have completed their sentence (including probation) to vote. But this is not the only right they lose. Desmond served time in his youth for drug and robbery offences, but even after he got his life together, and got a law degree, he cannot practice in the State of Florida. The discussion covers the specifics in Florida, as well as the general situation in the United States where the justice system discourages reintegration into society. For more information on his Florida Rights Restoration Coalition see http://floridarrc.com.

A Bowl of Soul – 03.17.17

A Bowl of Soul Broadcast – 03-17-2017

Running Water – Lauren Faith ft.Banks(Snakehips Remix) – R&B/House – 2013
High Society – Norma Jean Wright – R&B – 1979
Easier To Love – Sister Sledge – R&B – 1979
Right Now and Not Later – The Shangri-Las – R&B – 1965
Don’t Want To Cry – Hortense Ellis – Reggae – 1979
Gotta Be Me – MelSoulTree – R&B – 2005
Jackson Ave – Stephanie Mckay ft.Katalyst – R&B/HipHop – 2008
It’s Like That Y’all – Sweet Tee – HipHop – 1987
Be My Baby Tonight – Debby Dobbins – R&B – 2017
Lifetime – Kia Bennett – R&B – 2012

NDC Savings Club – Destiny Cards – 02.22.17

Destiny Cards system is the original science of the common 52 playing cards. Each birth date of a person is assigned one of the 52 cards called Your Birth Card. Once you know your birth card, you will know who you are and be able to know in advance what will happen in area of love, family, work, finance, health, legal mattes, travel and your spiritual life. The cards will provide you the knowledge and self understanding for making better decisions and opening doors to opportunity. With knowledge from your cards and spiritual understanding, you can then face your fears and doubts to move forward with inner power and confidence.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 02.01.17

My guest Dawn R. Nelson has a PsyD as well as a Masters in Divinity, and comes from a rich background of thoughtfully providing human services. She conducts her private practice based on principles similar to my Guidelines for Empathic Therapy and will inspire other therapists to practice true to themselves and their ideals. She exemplifies a growing consensus that therapists should be genuine and caring, as well as informed about the importance of childhood and nurturing in respect to who we are as adults. She renews my faith in the future of psychotherapy.