Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Josh Spodek (episode 110)

Joshua Spodek PhD MBA hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, is a four-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, professor at NYU, published in the New Yorker, and leadership coach.
 
He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite (having emerged from some of Philadelphia’s most dangerous neighborhoods). He left academia to found a venture to market an invention that showed animated images to subway riders between stations.
 
He teaches and coaches leadership and entrepreneurship at NYU and Columbia Business School. He has spoken at Harvard, Princeton, West Point, Google, IBM, The New York Academy of Science, Children’s Aid Society, and other renowned institutions.
 
He has been published in The New Yorker, TIME, Inc., Quartz, and Psychology Today. Featured in pieces every major network, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and more, he has been called “best and brightest” in Esquire’s Genius issue, “astrophysicist turned new media whiz” by NBC, and “rocket scientist” by Forbes.
 
He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River twice, has done burpees daily since 2011 (195,000 and counting), takes 3 years to produce one load of garbage, hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016, is in his second year with his refrigerator unplugged and sixth month with his apartment unplugged from the electric grid, and his carbon footprint is about 1 ton per year. He blogs daily at joshuaspodek.com.
 
His social media tools: twitter and facebook.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Elise Johnstone and Frann Yeatts (episode 109). The 11th 100 mile walk.

Episode 109 was recorded at the West Seattle food bank, so the quality of the recording is below. our normal standard, we hope you will still enjoy the conversation we had with Frann Yeatts, the executive director of the West Seattle Food Bank and Elise Johnstone, Rector of St. John's The Baptist Episcopal Church. Elise joined St. John's in August of 2021. Prior to joining St. John's, she served as the Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, in Kentucky, where she had served since 2014. Prior to that call, she served as Priest in Charge of Holy Trinity, Georgetown, KY, and the Assistant Rector of Good Shepherd, Lexington, KY. She has a Bachelor’s in Classics from the University of Georgia, a Master of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and a Doctor of Ministry in Liturgy from the University of the South School of Theology in Sewanee, TN. Fran Yeatts, was hired as Executive Director of the West Seattle Food Bank June of 2001.Prior to joining this agency Fran had managed vocational services at Highline West Seattle Mental Health (now called Navos) for 10 years and worked with at risk youth for two years. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and enjoys hiking, skiing and traveling in her spare time.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  The 11th 100 mile walk campaign will continue until the summer, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Patrick Walker (episode 108).The 11th 100 mile walk.

Talking with guests about CROP Hunger Walks, Hunger in the US, volunteerism… it can’t be done without inviting former CWS staff member Patrick Walker. Patrick is for me the embodiment of what the CROP Hunger Walk is all about.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 27 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Jeff and Sharon Kenyon (episode 107). The 11th 100 mile walk.

Jeff and Sharon Kenyon are the Renton CROP Hunger Walk coordinators for close to 40 years now, they share how it started with their daughter and how their walk is now part of the top 100 CROP Hunger Walks in the US. We also talked about both the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Inner Development Goals. Last but not least, they invite those living in Renton to their upcoming walk on April 31, 2023. Like all CROP Hunger Walk this walk support hunger activities globally through Church World Service.  Locally it supports the work of Salvation Army Renton Rotary Food Bank, South King County Shelter Program (previously ARISE), Margie Williams Helping Hands Center, Society of St Vincent De Paul Food Program, REACH Center of Hope and REACH Meal Coalition. For now, I invite you to support the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place in the Seattle area and surroundings from March 27 - April 1, 2023. For more info go to 100mile.org
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 27 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with David Myers (episode 106). The 11th 100 mile walk!

Social psychologist David Myers is a communicator of psychological science to college students and the general public. His scientific writings, supported by National Science Foundation fellowships and grants, appeared in three dozen academic periodicals, including Science, the American Scientist, the American Psychologist, and Psychological Science. David has digested psychological research for the public through articles in four dozen magazines, from Scientific American to Christian Century, and through seventeen books, including general interest books and textbooks. His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Prize, by an “honored scientist” award from the Federation of Associations in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences, by the Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Personality-Social Psychology, and by three honorary doctorates. For David’s most cited research visit Google Scholar. For information on his textbook audiences, visit here and here (from the Columbia University-related Open Syllabus project, which has harvested information from online syllabi representing ”around 5-6%” of all U.S. college courses). In recognition of his collaborative efforts to transform the way America provides assistive listening for people with hearing loss (see hearingloop.org), he received “the 2011 American Academy of Audiology Presidential Award,” the Walter T. Ridder Award from the Hearing Loss Association of America, and Oticon’s 2013 hearing Advocacy Award. From 2013 to 2017 he represented Americans with hearing loss on the Advisory Council of NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders.
 
He is a Seattle native and an all-weather bicyclist. David and Carol Myers married while undergraduates at Whitworth College and are parents of three adult children, sons Peter (married to Danielle) and Andrew (married to Melinda), a daughter, Laura, and one grandchild, Allie (right). Carol is the creator and host of a world class website offering information and resources related to the real Santa Claus, St. Nicholas.
 
David and Carol also manage a family foundation, which receives all David’s royalties from his introductory psychology textbooks and his general audience trade books.
 
David is on twitter and LinkedIn.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 27 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Jim and Linda Rufenacht (episode 105) - The 11th 100 mile walk!

Jim Rufenacht is a board member of Growing Hope Globally. He is married with Linda and they have two sons Cory and Jason. Their son Cory and his wife, Kylie, have three sons, Titus, Jarett and JT, and one daughter, Liza. Jim and Linda’s son Jason and his wife, Shay, have thee sons, Grayden, Callen and Landon plus two daughters Railey and Aydrie. Jim started farming in the 1970s together with his brother Cork Rufenacht, and now the farm also includes the three sons, Cory, Brian and Jason. The farm in Fulton and Henry counties used for production of corn, soybeans and wheat. The farm also feeds out dairy beef steers.
 
Conservation practices include cover crops, filter strips, drainage water management and conservation tillage.
 
I talked with Jim and Linda among others about a recent visit to Guatemala we did together to see GHG supported CWS projects, their motivation to start Growing Projects, their volunteer work at the US-Mexican border, why they help others and want to end hunger in this world.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 26 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Brenda Barnes (episode 104) - The 11th 100 mile walk!

Episode 104 is the first of hopefully a couple of talks I will have with people who are directly or indirectly involved with the upcoming 11th 100 mile walk that will take place in Seattle area in Washington, USA. Brenda Barnes lives in Kent, WA and is a member of Kent First Christian Church and supports her pastor and many other church members. She is also a major force behind the Kent CROP Hunger, a walk started by Dave (he passed away already) and Nancy Turner close to 31 years ago. The walk supports not only the work of CWS around the world but also local entities like the Kent Community Supper and the Kent Local Food Bank. Brenda loves her children and grandchildren (her 4 year old grandson Donovan is also part of this episode!) and you will hear that she is full of energy and light. Looking forward meeting her in person at the end of March.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 26 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Eric Mitchell (episode 103)

Eric Mitchell is the Executive Director of the Alliance to End Hunger. In his role, he leads the Alliance’s strategic direction, including expanding and mobilizing its network of companies, nonprofit organizations, universities, foundations, and individuals. Prior to the Alliance, Eric served as Director of Global Government Relations for Adtalem Global Education, where he partnered with local government officials, businesses, and civic organizations in the United States and the Caribbean. He also served for six years as the Director of Government Relations at Bread for the World. Eric began his political career on Capitol Hill, serving as Policy Advisor to civil rights icon, U.S. Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA). Eric was included in The Root 100 most influential African Americans under the age of 40. He was also recognized as a “Top Lobbyist” from 2014-2019 by The Hill newspaper. Eric talked about the Farmbill and here is a link explaining more about this Bill.
 
You can follow the The Alliance to End Hunger on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Eric is also on Twitter.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. We would love to hear from you.
 
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow mauricebloem on twitter and instagram.  Or check us out on our website 100mile.org.  We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.  Stay tuned for the 11th 100 mile walk that will take place from March 26 - April 1, 2023 in Seattle, WA area, find more info via de 100mile.org website. Or go straight to our fundraising page.