Social Advocacy Episodes

Send us a text Sandy Ciaramitaro holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Detroit Mercy and has taught morality, ethics and social justice courses at a private high school in Michigan. In addition to her teaching career, Sandy has taught, developed, and implemented programs and curricula that focused on helping children realize the importance of living altruistic lives centered on love. The Good Eggs series is her contribution to support children as they learn about Virtues, Diversi...

Send us a text Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on infection prevention and control in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Her Phoenix-based practice, IPCWell, is devoted to reducing infections, antibiotic resistance, re-admissions, and death in healthcare settings across the country and around the world. A frequent contributor and interview source for national and trade press concerning infection prevention, control, and mitigation, she has appeared in...

Send us a text On today’s episode I am joined by social media influencer and podcast host Amanda Penny. Amanda originally started social media at the age of 12 where she was discussing her daily life activities on an Instagram account . Amanda is most known as the 17 year old podcast host . Her podcast is called Amanda's World . Amanda is responsible for running, producing, directing, and managing her show and Amanda is completely self-taught . She gained a very big following on Instagram where ...

Send us a text Patrice Badami is a special education teacher and mother of three. she has advocated for families with children who have special needs to ensure that they receive special education services that they require in for them to be appropriately facilitated at their home school district. Patrice created a website to help students as they navigate their way back into the in person educational settings. The website is entitled www.Acorntotree.com and it offers free academic and recreation...

Send us a text Sue Bowles is a survivor turned award-winning author, speaker, and Master Certified Professional Coach. She leads My Step Ahead, an organization committed to breaking the stigma around mental health struggles. "You only have to be a step ahead to help the person behind you" is the bedrock to the value Sue brings. She helps stuck people get unstuck by discovering Hope, journeying together for the next step ahead. Whether speaking on a podcast, stage, or one-on-one, Sue's enthusiasm...

Send us a text On this episode I am joined by artists Sarah Kephart and dale Small. Together they run the Envision Arts program and Gallery and Community Engagement Center based in Wichita Kansas. The envision Arts program provides an accessible way for people who are blind and with developmental disabilities to create art projects just like their sighted counter parts. The Envision Arts Gallery provides a way for the artist to show case their work as well as engage with the community. Dale and ...

Send us a text Dylan Sessler is a mental health coach, professional speaker, podcast host of The Dylan Experience, entrepreneur, combat veteran, and author of the book, Defy the Darkness: A Story of Suicide, Mental Health, and Overcoming Your Hardest Battles. In January of 2020, Dylan began speaking on Tik Tok about mental health and trauma. By 2022, he has accumulated more than half a million followers supporting his daily content centered around having a realistic conversation about things li...

Send us a text Scott DeLuzio is an Army veteran, having served six years with the Army National Guard, including a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. Scott’s brother, Steven, was also deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. Unfortunately, Steven was killed in action on August 22, 2010. After returning home, Scott struggled with coping with the stresses of combat, the loss of his younger brother, and adjusting back to civilian life. In the years following Scott’s deployment, he noticed other veterans de...

Send us a text We as Americans are naturally enraptured by the commitment to community service as seen through the lens of a strong female - I’d love to introduce you to Mildred “Milly” Velez, the founder of the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America. Milly was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 and struggled with her search for answers for years. After years of enduring misguided and prejudiced medical care, she founded the Fibromyalgia Care Society of America in 2015. The Fibromyalgia Care Soci...

Send us a text Lois Hollis, RN, BSN, REV. is a shame guilt educator, counselor, filmmaker, and author. Lois shifts our opinion on one of the most taboo subjects, shame and guilt. As a trailblazer, she helped create one of the first Kidney Hemodialysis Units in the USA in 1966. Today Lois establishes shame guilt as an independent study. Her 50 years’ experience in health, 15 years research, and counseling bring NEW knowledge of these misunderstood conditions to release us from shame guilt blaming...

Send us a text Ruksana Hussain is an award-winning journalist and solopreneur on a mission to help others, especially women, and women of color or minorities, to overcome adversity in their lives to pave a path to overall success. Based on her own experiences as an independent travel journalist, freelancer, digital magazine publisher and solopreneur, she speaks on how to chart a course to achieve your goals. Quoted in outlets such as Sherman’s Travel, CWAtlanta and Smart Business, she has prese...

Send us a text The pandemic has us disconnected, divided, and disgruntled. Social media posts are ending friendships, conspiracy theories are multiplying faster than Covid rabbits, and mask shaming is keeping neighbors fenced in. The beneficiaries of it all- wineries and therapists. Although disease and discord separated us, love will bring us together. And one knows more about love than Kim Sorrelle, The Love Maven. During a year long experiment living out love, looking for its true meaning,...

Send us a text Valerie Anderson is a group facilitator, arts advocate, and social justice educator. She has over 25 years of experience as a Masters level Social Worker and is certified as a facilitator for the Power of Positive Parenting (Triple P Program). As an independent contractor for the past 7 years she works with several nonprofit organizations providing parenting support, educational and art-based workshops for a variety of populations in a variety of settings throughout the city of Ph...

Send us a text Lauren Nelson is a mother of two and the wife of a pastor. She has a Religion degree from Pacific Lutheran University and 20+ years of ministry experience with children, teens, and adults. Lauren authored a children's book entitled, SHEROES of the Bible, and is passionate about sharing the stories of these heroic women to inspire young and old with the faith that overcame their fears. “Mom, I have a question: Does God think boys are more important than girls, because all we ever l...

Send us a text John Giordano Addiction, Trauma and Recovery Expert - MAC, DHL, CAP, Certified Hypnotherapist, Author, Entrepreneur It was by no accident that John Giordano chose addiction treatment as his life’s work. Growing up the son of a heroin dealer and trying to cope with the trauma of being molested as a young boy, he fell hard into drugs and alcohol. Over thirty-five years ago, at the urging of his family, John entered rehab. He emerged a changed man - committed to helping others affli...

Send us a text Jordan Skopp is a realtor, philanthropist and life-time baseball fan from Brooklyn, New York. Jordan is leading the fight to enact legislation to eliminate the Baseball Rule, adopted decades ago by courts and a handful of state legislatures, which holds that fans injured by high-speed foul balls cannot receive compensation in court, no matter how badly they are hurt, so long as the home team has taken minimal steps to protect spectators. Jordan is the Founder of www.foulballsafet...

Send us a text Marcia writes, speaks, teaches, and preaches about the need for progressive Christians to speak faithfully in public for social justice. The Rev. Dr. Marcia Ledford’s ministry has been in Southwest Detroit’s Latinx population—an international port with an aggressive regional ICE director. Dr. Ledford is a civil rights attorney representing society’s most marginalized. An Episcopal priest, she holds a Master of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She earned her...

Send us a text Milagros Phillips author, speaker, and racial equity coach. Milagros has been facilitating programs on racial healing for more than 30 years and is a teacher of a course in Miracles. She also is the creator of race demystified and does this work because she has a different voice to add to the conversation. One that is centered on a compassionate aproach to healing our racial conditioning.

Send us a text I believe in amazing storytelling being the key to creating change in people's lives. I believe that I am an amazing storyteller. Michael was born to a hyper-abusive drug addict mother who cut his finger off at 4 years old, a step-father you pray you never have, and a racist grandmother that pushed him into an identity crisis. By the time he was 9, his family was in poverty and often homeless all while being members of the Mormon Church. At twelve, he was adopted by his grandmothe...

Send us a text Lloyd Chapman is the President and founder of the American Small Business League (ASBL) For over 30 years, Mr. Chapman has fought the rampant fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs. He is hailed as the nation's most vocal opponent of the federal governments policy, which involves fabricating compliance of the 23% small business contracting goal. Mr. Chapman has won 110 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) legal battles, which is more than anyone in the histo...

Send us a text On todays show I am joined by author and founder of phenomenally autistic Ayanna davis. Being autistic herself Ayanna discusses how she feels black women do not get the treatment she feels they deserve from the medical community. She also discusses diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry. Ayanna also talks about being a former choreographer who has trained over 100 students and what it was like to have her work seen on platforms such as BET, ABC family, Maury Povich ...

Send us a text Sam Mitchell, a teenager living with autism, brings you Autism Rocks and Rolls. Although Sam has had obstacles in the past and still has daily struggles, he is using this platform to take away the stigma off of autism and other conditions that many think are disabilities. He often brings guests into the conversation, whether it be family members, friends, celebrities or others involved in the world of autism. He wants to prove that he is not broken and does not need to be fixed. S...

Send us a text In todays episode I am joined by missionary Matthew Karchner. Matt discusses how he went from being a member of the gay community living a gay lifestyle to giving his life to Christ for the second time. Matt also discusses his book series as well as the missionary work him and his wife are doing in Cambodia. Check out Matthews website at www.exgaywitness.com

Send us a text Today I am joined by divorce lawyer, empowerment trainer, and author Sonia Frontera. We discuss her experience with a psychologically abusive marriage, and we also discuss how to spot the signs of an psychologically abusive relationship. Sonia also gives out a website to help those who may be in an abusive situation. Visit Sonia on the web at www.soniafrontera.com.