Sponsors of the Future: Supporting Neurodivergent Communities
Release Date: 03/24/2025
Douglas Lynam - Using the Enneagram to Blend Spiritual Wisdom and Money Mastery
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Douglas Lynam, author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram, helps identify their financial traps, heal money wounds, and cultivate abundance with tailored strategies. The Enneagram is a personality system that outlines nine types, each with unique motivations, fears, and desires, to support self-awareness, growth, and better relationships, and Douglas Lyman explains how each Enneagram type has a "money monster" and behaviors that harm financial health. He will speak about spirituality and wealth, proving that financial success and...
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Holiday Special Rebroadcast - Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, has been a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure. Inner Excellence is the life guide that has empowered...
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Andre Norman - Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Andre Norman, author of Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life, speaks about the choices that led him to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, along with the epiphany where he chose find a way out and to seek success through education. Andre will speak of his remarkable journey of overturning an over 105-year prison sentence to educating some of the brightest minds at Harvard University brings a unique perspective to his engagements. His collaborations with prestigious institutions like London Business School...
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Daniel Miller - THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Daniel Miller, author of THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, and bestselling author of The Gifts of Acceptance (a Library Journal Best Wellness Book of the Year), will focus on helping people leading a healthier, more peaceful life. In THE WAY OF THE WAVE, Miller shares insights and practices from his nearly forty-year journey—marked with both success and failure—of trying to “Go with the Wave” in all aspects of life. His version of “the flow,” the Wave represents the mysterious rhythm or energy force that surrounds and...
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Michelle Blood - Manifestation Through The Power Of Mysticism
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Michele Blood, author of the video book Manifestation Through the Power of Mysticism, will discuss how to achieve success and wellness through the process of affirmation. With this World's First Video Book, the mind absorbs the knowledge very fast and the person is captivated and entertained simultaneously. After a near-fatal car accident, Michele began composing positive Affirmation Songs that not only healed her body but sparked a worldwide movement. These songs were designed to activate both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and send empowering messages...
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Paula Marshall - Finding the Soul of Big Business
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Paula Marshall, Author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. In her book, she speaks about the lessons and distinctions she has learned and applied to her intentions as a CEO. With recognition of each employee, vendor and customer's own journeys and the collective steps to become the journey of Bama Companies, Inc. Paula is the founder of Paula Marshall...
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Diana McLain Smith: Working Together for a Better Future
The Patricia Raskin Show
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:Diana McLain Smith is the author of the new book, Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All. She has spent the past 35+ years as a renowned thought leader and systems change expert helping organizations transform conflict into a constructive force for change. Every day, the news delivers the same story: as a nation, we are so divided, we spend more time picking fights than solving our most urgent problems. It's exhausting and exasperating. In Remaking the Space Between Us, Smith invites us to see what lies...
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Shawn Quirk: From Filmmaker to Festival Director
The Patricia Raskin Show
Rhode Island International Film Festival Shawn Quirk, executive director of the 2025 Rhode Island International Film Festival, joins us to discuss missions of the festival, as well as what the festival has to offer. Now in its 28th year, the FLICKERS' RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL celebrates the independent spirit in film and has become a haven for independent filmmakers from throughout the world. In 2024, the Festival presented 350 films representing works that were shot and produced in 106 countries. There were 94 World Premieres and US/North American Premieres. Expanding the...
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Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, has been a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure. Inner Excellence is the life guide that has empowered...
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Ilene Dillon - Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System
The Patricia Raskin Show
DESCRIPTION: Ilene Dillon, author of Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System, and six-time Amazon best-selling author for various other books, will discuss realigning with emotions (including Anger Mastery), solving life problems in ways that last, and parenting consciously. Emotions in Motion explains a new way of working with emotions that allows you to move yourself into mastery over emotions, rather than allowing them to dominate your life, and includes stories to illustrate the point about how to work with 12 different emotions. She believes that we're all...
info_outlineSponsors of the Future, a nonprofit organization incorporated in EG, Rhode Island, is dedicated to facilitating strong connections between local communities and businesses to create a more significant impact in neurodivergent communities. Suzy and Janice from SoF will discuss how they create community programs for everyone with the mission to connect the different stakeholders to form ecosystems that support the neurodivergent community and others, through education, advocacy, and inclusion. Their mission is to connect different stakeholders to form ecosystems that support the neurodivergent community, through education, advocacy, and inclusion for a brighter, more independent future.
ABOUT:
Suzy Im is the co-founder and managing partner of Sponsors of the Future. As an educator and author of two books, including youth leadership communication and life skills, she is passionate about developing programs that meet the needs of neurodivergent kids. Suzy has taken it upon herself to take on a key gap that current healthcare systems fail to address. In co-founding SoF, Suzy’s vision is to create an ecosystem that families can rely on to help children with disabilities accomplish what others say is impossible.
Janice Dru-Bennett, head of philanthropy and advocacy at SOF, is committed to helping to make the world a better place. With a degree in politics and a Visual Arts certificate from Princeton University, she taps into extensive networks and groups, actively fundraising and supporting community initiatives. She has served on multiple non-profit boards, including as former Board Chair of the Center for Election Science. She also started an initiative called "Hearts and Minds Connect" when she was in high school to integrate students of all backgrounds and abilities in an after school program. As a mother and community member, her mission is to help others thrive on health and wellbeing, advance sustainability, and champion diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and allyship.
https://www.sponsorsofthefuture.org/
