This week Pedram Shojai joins us to talk about what it takes to improve ones self in the modern world using ancient techniques handed down through generations. Pedram is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and a Qi Gong master who’s studied Kung Fu and Tai Chi for decades.

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Shannon Doleac returns to ATBS with a major update. Shannon is a former member of the USA gymnastics and a 9 time NCAA gymnastics all american. She holds a bachelors degree in exercise and sports science, psychology, and a masters degree in nutritional bio-chemistry and metabolism.

Today we discover what it takes to uproot your Family and start a farm on 200+ acres of land in Montana.

Follow along on their journey at https://www.primalpeak.com where they will be documenting successes and trials along the way.

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This week we sit down with Caitlin Kelly. She is a caretaker for the Marcy Dam area of the Adirondack park, a back country ski patroller, and a feminist. Today we discuss what it takes to live in the Adirondack park, the strong women present in the area, as well as a discussion on the systemic inequality present in our society.

You can find Caitlin Kelly on instagram @womxnoftheadks

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This week we sit down with Kirk Souder, Leadership for Impact Coach at enso. Kirk is co-founder at enso, creating positive impact at scale with visionary brands. Kirk’s background is distinct from most leadership coaches with vast business experience prior to deep education and training in leadership coaching. Kirk’s business and entrepreneurial leadership spans 25 years of successful enterprises. He’s held roles as Chief Creative Officer, Partner, and President/CEO of 400+ people agencies, and been founder of vanguard creative shops. He’s built award-winning creative cultures in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Shanghai, with clients like Nike, Disney, Virgin, Visa, Google, The White House, and Obama for America.

Kirk coaches high-impact leaders to find their greatest possibility in authentic leadership, purpose, and impact. Kirk is a pioneer in purpose mindset workshop design and facilitation. It was in the midst of his own arc toward purpose, seeing he could have exponentially more impact by coaching other leaders toward that northstar, Kirk went to grad school in 2004 for a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology, and added extensive professional coaching training in technologies like Three Principles, Soul Centered Coaching, and Success Intelligence. Kirk is also a certified graduate of the University of Santa Monica’s Soul Centered Coaching Program. This combination of real world business experience and graduate level coaching education creates an integrated skill set rare in today’s leadership coaches and uniquely suited for today’s purpose-oriented organizations.

Contact Kirk at: kirk@enso.co

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Show Notes:

Introduction and early wonderings

Kirk, what’s new and good?

Are we waking up?

Howard Thurman quote.

Our internal compass. True North, Magnetic North, various interferences.

Kirk’s Terminal Cancer diagnosis at 18. How that impacted his internal Compass

Amanda Gorman

The Ghagavad Gita

Could it all be about Connection/Connecting! 

Creation/CoCreation, Attention and Intention

Every day is a blank page.

The Divine Unknowing...

References/Websites etc…

Freedom to Choose - https://freedomtochooseproject.org/

Books:

The better Nature of our Angels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature

Bhagavad Gita - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita

People:

Kirk Souder - https://www.enso.co/

Kirk’s leadership services - https://www.enso.co/leadershipforimpact

Howard Thurman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman

Joseph Campbell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

Kim Culmone - https://www.toyassociation.org/PressRoom2/News/2019-news/spotlight-on-diversity-kim-culmone-of-mattel.aspx

Amanda Gorman - https://www.theamandagorman.com/

Lorraine Duval - https://www.atbsthepodcast.com/ Episode #42

Today we sit down with Lorriane Duvall, a true Adirondack Woman. Lorraine Duvall became a lover of the Adirondacks early in life through a Girl Scout canoe-camping trip on Upper Saranac Lake. As an adult, she vacationed in the southern Adirondacks. Her longtime dream of living in the Adirondacks was realized after she purchased land in Keene in 1995, built a house, and moved there as a retiree. Soon she made friends with others who loved to paddle their canoes on the waters of the Adirondacks.

Since moving to the mountains, Duvall’s varied civic and environmental endeavors have helped her to understand and respect the different perspectives of those who live in and visit the Adirondacks. As a board member of Protect the Adirondacks (and its predecessor organization, the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks), she devotes her efforts to environmental issues. She has also served on the Keene Planning Board, the board of the Ausable River Association, the board of the Saranac Lake Community Store, the executive committee of the Hurricane Mountain Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and the Community Services Board of Essex County.

Duvall holds a BS degree in Mathematics, an MS in Operations Research, and a PhD from Syracuse University in Information Studies. She spent her professional career as a software engineer and director of research. After retiring to the Adirondacks, Duv

all wrote And I Know Too Much To Pretend, which won the 2014 Best Memoir Award from the Adirondack Center for Writing.

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This week we look to the night skies with Theoretical Astronomer Ben Bromley. Ben is a professor at the University of Utah working in theoretical and computational astrophysics, with focus on planet formation, galactic dynamics, as well as some relativistic astrophysics Today we discuss the unknown aspects of our universe including our local solar system, dark matter, and dark energy.

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Program Notes:

0:00 Intro and background

2:00 Ben begins about 100 years ago - What did we know?

What are the fuzz balls ? Galaxies are getting further & further apart. We live in a sea of galaxies which is expanding in space and time. What?

Big Bang.

12:00 Three Pillars of Cosmology 

18:00 More on the hot big bang

25:00 Fritz Zwicky - Dark Matter

34:00 The Bullet Cluster

38:00 Dark Energy

47:00 We don’t know, what we don’t know.

References:

Ben Bromley - https://faculty.utah.edu/u0095165-Ben_Bromley/hm/index.hml

Hubble - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

Margaret Geller - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Geller

Large Scale Structures - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Large-scale_structure

Fritz Zwicky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky

Vera Rubin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

Bullet Cluster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

Dark Energy - https://earthsky.org/space/definition-what-is-dark-energy#:~:text=Dark%20energy%20is%20the%20name,learned%20the%20universe%20is%20expanding.

NASA Imiges - https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

Nasa’s Cassini Mission (Images) - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/images/index.html

Pluto Charon Binary - https://www.space.com/32032-charon.html

Dark Energy Survey - https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/overview/

This week we explore how to achieve your goals with Holly Austin. Holly is the front woman of Ready Set Row an organization dedicated to teaching young women how to improve their skills in rowing and in life. In this episode you will learn how to push through the barriers in front of you and achieve success.

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This week we sit down with legendary rock climber Lynn Hill. She was the first person to free climb The Nose on El Capitan in a 23 hours in 1994. Today we discuss how to overcome the obstacles we face in life, even if they are 2,900 ft tall.

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Program Notes:

Lynn’s background, youth, family, intro to climbing

Female athlete (today) vrs Tom Boy (past)

Evolution of our species

The 2021 Inauguration (Discussion)

“Climbing Free” one of Lynn’s books

Lynn discusses some of her incredible accomplishments

“First person to free climb the “Nose”on El Capitan in a day (23 hours)

The feat was not repeated for more than 10 years!

Size Matters!

Lynn discusses her “The Climbing Workshop” project

Lynn, “What have you learned?”

Where to find Lynn?

References:

https://www.LynnHillClimbing.com

Valley Uprising documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86TpaSBcWw

The Climbing Workshop - Lynn’s current project likely to be accessed via

https://www.LynnHillClimbing.com