635. Follow your heart and passion and Jim Stringer proves that with an illustrious musical career for over 55 years.
Release Date: 03/06/2025
646. Hitting Rock Bottom is the perfect place to creating your wonderful life.
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Your charming and humble host David Naster shares his experience and the beauty of hitting rock bottom. It’s an end to what didn’t work to the new beginning that will work. The reason, you’re the writer, creator and star in your life’s movie. You can and will make it a winner.
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645. Dining with the Dog-Ma! Animal lover and Chef Amber DiGiovanni helps people transform their and their dogs lives with powerful canine nutritional information.
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Welcome to Dining with the Dog-Ma! Amber DiGiovanni’s mission is to teach and encourage healthy lifestyles for you and your furry friend. As well as helping dogs in no-kill shelters. Amber believes that feeding your dog should be easy, delicious, and affordable. She provides high quality, canine-friendly spices and herbs to add a touch of flavor to your dog's meals and yours too. Empower your culinary skills, feed your canine companion better and all the while you will be helping dogs in No-Kill shelters find their fur-ever homes! Visit the website to...
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644. Part two with Istvan Javorek. He became a world class weightlifting and conditioning coach that the greatest athletes in the world have used.
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This is Part Two of Istvan Javorek fascinating story. He started his sports career as a violin player. He was a skinny kid in Romania and far away from being the strongest child in his neighborhood. One day coming home from violin practice a bully ambushed him on the street and coerced him to press his violin bow overhead. The bully and his laughed at Istvan’s weakness. That was the turning point of his life. He gave give up his bright violinist future and became an athlete and world class coach of weight training and conditioning. What a story! istvanjavorek.com
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643. Part One with Istvan Javorek that includes his incredible journey including his defection from Romania to America to become one the guiding forces of world-class weightlifting and conditioning.
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In this Part one of Istvan’s story he explains his strength to survive living in a border city of Hungary and Romania. Leaving his wife and daughter he defected to West Germany then on to America. Worry not. There is a happy reunion with his daughter and wife. istvanjavorek.com
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642. Don’t WIMP OUT! Remembering Care Tuk
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Like any battle-hardened warrior, Care Tuk wore her scars like a badge of honor. She's found her life turned upside down as she lived through 14 separate bouts with cancer, a near-death car crash, a brain bleed that left her speechless and nearly immobile. Ravaged by the painful side effects of DES (Diethylstilbestrol) - an experimental drug intended to save her life she kept going. Her body was held together by bolts, screws, titanium plates, and 25-pound mono-filament fishing line. Now ass infertility issues, adoption, and unexpected death of her daughter and...
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641. Thailand Earthquake udate and concern from people who live there.
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With the recent earthquake in Myanmar that effected Bangkok I offer this updated podcast with reports from people who live in Thailand. It's a beautiful country with beautiful people. We pray for the safety and well-being for all affected by this natural disaster. The picture is a picture I took of Bangkok when I was there a week ago.
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640. Sex, Gender and sexuality - the accurate definitions. They are all different.
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Sex is biological and physiological characteristics, such as chromosomes, reproductive organs, and hormones – which are either male or female. Gender refers to socially constructed roles, behaviors, and identities that are influenced by social, cultural, and personal experiences. It may also refer to how society responds to an individual based on their gender presentation Sexuality is different. By definition it’s a person's identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they’re attracted or choose to live as.
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639. Mark Farner explains his latest song, ‘Anymore’ that was just released and the wholistic value of tuning his guitar to 432 Hz.
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Closer to My Home” is the long-awaited, new album from legendary guitarist and singer/songwriter Mark Farner. Bridging past and present, the grit of industry and the calloused hard work of a rural man,“ Closer to My Home” champions Farner’s multi-faceted artistry. “The songs on the Closer to My Home are honest and from my heart,” Farner said. “The collaboration with Jim (Peterik) and Mark (Slaughter) came from a place of trust and that makes the whole experience so much more rewarding as songwriters. The audience can feel that and these...
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638. Is there Laugh after death? Sometimes you DON’T just have to laugh.
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Sometimes things are not funny. I get it. Sometimes you don’t just have to laugh. Sometimes I keep my funny thoughts in my thinking. When people aren’t ready to laugh the last thing they need is for anyone to force what they think is a funny on them. How do you know when to do this? It begins with this. YOU HAVE TO KNOW THEM. Even then it can back-fire. So as the old saying goes, “Know you audience.” This podcast will show how to bring humor and laughter to get through grief. More about You Just Have to LAUGH at: naster.com
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637. “I'm just me and that's enough!” That’s Dr. Chris Celio mantra as he proves the value of laughing at yourself - especially when you stutter.
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Psychologist, Dr. Chris Celio represents the heart of You Just Have To Laugh by laughing at himself. Chris stutters. From the suicidal hotline in Los Angeles to working with suicide and depression patients, Dr. Celio understands the value humor and laughing play in healing. He also understands how you have to know the person before humor is used. Chris also explains the value humor and laughter has with therapist to squeeze out the sponge of the emotions taken on from the client. Chris Celio is a wonderful man who helps people by simply being who he is – stuttering and all. And that is...
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It was 1956. Jim was eight years old. Elvis Presley had recently been featured on Ed Sullivan's and Steve Allen’s television shows. The impression cast was indelible. An unrelenting campaign against his parents finally resulted in a Christmas present. A rough but playable ¾ size guitar. Decorated with a picture of Roy Rogers atop trigger.
Jim remembers playing Red River Valley, She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain. They were in the book that came with the guitar, not exactly the rock and roll he envisioned, but it was his start.
Today, 2025, 69 years later Jim has created an elaborate music career, which has been his sole income for his professional life. We invite you to visit jimstringer.com to learn more about of his illustrious musical life – that is still going.