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Clear Choices Podcast

By: Rob Aigner
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  • Welcome to the Clear Choices podcast! This podcast is designed to guide you to make more conscious and powerful choices and inspire a positive change in your life. The podcast was borne from the emotional history of two holocaust survivors, Eva and Leslie Aigner, as told by their son and your Clear Choices host, Rob. Their harrowing yet inspirational journey provides essential historical context to the experiences of survivors. Also, it gives insight into how some of us make choices that can quite literally change the world. Rob interviews a wide variety of guests who have made the bold choices necessary to elevate their lives and positively impact others. You'll walk away more motivated and inspired by hearing about what these everyday people did to make such changes happen for themselves, as well as how they are impacting other people's lives positively with those decisions!
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  • Ep 54: Frank Brown on Creating a Community of Support for At-Risk Students

    Ep 54: Frank Brown on Creating a Community of Support for At-Risk Students
    Aug 4 2021
    How can we bridge the gap and bring equality to education in America? How has COVID impacted students who live in low income areas? What can we do? My guest today, Frank Brown, heads up an organization that is answering the call for how to help those students who are most at-risk for falling behind and not graduating high school. He is Chief Executive Officer of Communities In Schools of Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta was deemed the income inequality capital two years in a row, prior to Covid. This inequality leads to many more problems, including: housing insecurity, inequality in educational opportunities and lack of appropriate health care. Communities In Schools (CIS) of Atlanta is an award-winning dropout prevention organization that was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1972. What began in the basement of a modest home in the Grant Park community is now the nation’s largest dropout prevention network with a proven track record of positively impacting graduation rates. Their mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Listen in to hear how CIS is making such a positive impact in Atlanta and throughout the country and how we can get involved supporting such an important mission. Notable Quotes: "I tell my team, if we get it right in Atlanta, it’s a blueprint for the rest of the country, the world, on how to deal with some of the poorest people in this country and get them to become full participants in the American dream." "There was a report that came out in Atlanta that said only 3 out of 10 black kids will be proficient in reading and math after Covid, that’s 30%. We are talking about whole generations lost." "Sometimes people look at poverty, and look at people we serve as inanimate objects. They are human beings, they have dreams and aspirations just like you and I and they want to make clear choices, but there's systematic racism and all types of barriers that they’ve been under for years." "These people sacrifice their own personal good to help these children, to get them to the other side. And the thanks is when you see a child walk across the stage and you know they would never have done it without us." "In Atlanta, depending on what zip code you’re born in, you have a 4% chance of getting out of a poor zip code. Go to Vegas with 4% chances, you’ll never win. But, that’s the child that I work with every day and I believe that 4% is better than 0%." In this episode, you will hear: -The history of Communities In Schools of Atlanta (CIS) and their mission -The three-tier model that CIS uses at different schools -Progress and impact of CIS in Atlanta -Frank’s perspective on education from a global standpoint -How CIS is helping parents to lead their children to better choices -Biggest educational challenges and threats for children -CIS Atlanta’s plans and trajectory for the next 5 years Resources and links mentioned during this episode: For donations and more info, visit Communities in Schools of Atlanta Connect with Communities In Schools of Atlanta on Instagram Instagram, Facebook,  LinkedIn and Twitter. Thank you so much for listening! Please subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend. Find me on Instagram @clearchoicespodcast and on Facebook . If you have a guest idea or want to connect with me, please visit my website www.clearchoices.live. I am also available for speaking engagements. Are you ready to start a podcast? Use Libsyn, the podcast hosting, distribution, and monetization platform since 2004 and you can start for just $5 a month. Go to https://libsyn.com/ and enter the code “choices” for more than a month for FREE. Coaching Information: If you would like more information on the Clear Choices business and life coaching program, please e-mail me at rob@robaigner.com or go to our website at https://clearchoices.live/. **This post may contain affiliate links, which means if you click one and decide to make a purchase, we receive a tiny commission at no additional cost to you. We only share products and services we have tested and used ourselves!**
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    40 mins
  • Ep 53: Dr. Linda Tamura on Asian American Racism from World War II until Now

    Ep 53: Dr. Linda Tamura on Asian American Racism from World War II until Now
    Jul 21 2021

    When you hear the word racism do you ever think of Asian Americans and how they are treated? Since the pandemic, the rise in hate crimes and violence to Asian Americans has increased by 164%. That is a staggering number but this is not the first experience with racism that the Asian American community has endured in our country. 

    Today’s guest, Linda Tamura, who is a Sansei (third generation Japanese American) and daughter of a World War II veteran, is talking to us about the racism that Asian Americans experienced in the 1940’s when Japanese Americans were incarcerated in camps because of the war. She is the author of two books on the subject Nisei Soldiers Break their Silence and Hood River Issei. We also discuss the recent rise in hate crimes to the Asian American community and her ideas on what we can do to make things better.

    A Professor Emerita of Education, Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, she is very involved in projects, exhibits, and organizations educating and celebrating the history of Japanese Americans and inclusion in Oregon. As a former elementary school teacher and university professor, Dr. Linda Tamura is a teacher of teachers and an educational leader.

     

    Notable Quotes:

    “I think that would be what I try to do as a teacher and what I try to continue to do now and that is simply to be a positive role model and a positive ally to others.”

    “What can we do to make life better for ourselves but mostly for other people too?”

     

    In this episode, you will hear:

    - Linda’s history and how she became an advocate for educating and helping Asian Americans

    - Why she made the choice to write her books

    - What we can do to make things better for Asian Americans and all people

     

    Resources and links mentioned in this episode:

    https://lindatamura.weebly.com/linda.html

    https://www.voanews.com/usa/anti-asian-hate-us-predates-pandemic

    https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/12/countering-stereotypes

    http://niseistamp.org/ 

     

    Thank you so much for listening! Please subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend.

    Find me on Instagram @clearchoicespodcast and on Facebook . 

    If you have a guest idea or want to connect with me, please visit my website www.clearchoices.live. I am also available for speaking engagements.

     

    Are you ready to start a podcast? Use Libsyn, the podcast hosting, distribution, and monetization platform since 2004 and you can start for just $5 a month. Go to https://libsyn.com/ and enter the code “choices” for more than a month for FREE.

     

    Coaching Information:

    If you would like more information on the Clear Choices business and life coaching program, please e-mail me at rob@robaigner.com or go to our website at https://clearchoices.live/.

     

    **This post may contain affiliate links, which means if you click one and decide to make a purchase, we receive a tiny commission at no additional cost to you. We only share products and services we have tested and used ourselves!**
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    30 mins
  • Ep 52: Rick Barde on Surviving and Recovering from COVID-19

    Ep 52: Rick Barde on Surviving and Recovering from COVID-19
    Jul 7 2021

    Over the past two years, we all probably know someone who had a mild case of COVID but how about someone who barely survived it? My guest today, Rick Barde, joins us to tell us about his experience surviving and recovering from COVID-19. Rick is a recently retired school teacher who spent nearly two months in the hospital battling this disease. His case was so severe, he was placed on ECMO (advanced life support equipment called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) where 40% do not make it off and was placed in an induced coma to rest his lungs. He is truly thankful to be alive. He credits his recovery to all of the support he received from his wife, his school community, and the amazing nurses and doctors.

    You will hear about his experience through the worst parts of this disease, his recovery that he is still dealing with today, how this has changed him, and what he wants others to learn from his experience.

    Notable Quotes:

    “When I know how many hundreds of thousands of people have died, and I didn’t, and mine was such a bad case, I am fortunate, I am thankful, I am grateful to anybody and everybody who has been a part of my recovery.”

    “If I can impact one person to make a choice to better the world by taking the vaccine or wearing a mask or whatever it may be, then I feel I am doing my job. We have to have more people out there who are making a clear choice to wear a mask and get vaccinated. It’s the only way we are going to get through this. I have hope that we’ll get there.”

    “It’s changed me in that I am much more grateful for life. I get emotional about how close I was to not making it.”

    “If people are thinking about getting vaccinated, I say ‘ I had COVID and you do not want to get what I got.’ ”

    In this episode, you will hear:

    - What Rick went through and what he remembers while battling COVID

    - His recovery and the symptoms he still deals with today

    - How COVID has changed him

    - What he wants others to learn from his experience

    Thank you so much for listening! Please subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend.

    Find me on Instagram @clearchoicespodcast and on Facebook . 

    If you have a guest idea or want to connect with me, please visit my website www.clearchoices.live. I am also available for speaking engagements.

     

    Are you ready to start a podcast? Use Libsyn, the podcast hosting, distribution, and monetization platform since 2004 and you can start for just $5 a month. Go to https://libsyn.com/ and enter the code “choices” for more than a month for FREE.

     

    Coaching Information:

    If you would like more information on the Clear Choices business and life coaching program, please e-mail me at rob@robaigner.com or go to our website at https://clearchoices.live/.

    **This post may contain affiliate links, which means if you click one and decide to make a purchase, we receive a tiny commission at no additional cost to you. We only share products and services we have tested and used ourselves!**
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    23 mins
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