Episod #39: Facing the Worst. Preparing for the Best
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
Release Date: 10/15/2018
Episode #50. Adoption: An Odyssey
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel episode 50 examines core issues associated with adoption. Our guest, John Longbottom, shares his experiences as an adopted child, his ups and downs, and his takeaways regarding adoption. He helps us examine the triad of adoption: The Adoptee, The Adopted Parents, and the Birth Parents.
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Surviving the Death of a Child: Moving Forward, But Not On
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
Dive into the subject of how a parent deals with the death of a child. Does one ever "deal" with it? If so, how? If not, why not?
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Episode #48: Connecting Community Resilience with Sustainable Home Ownership
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
This episode on The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel explores the connection between a community’s vitality and access to sustainable homeownership.
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Episode #47: Leaders of the Band (v. 2.0!)
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
This episode on The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel explores the DNA of bands—from the perspective of the women in the band. Beyond the musical talent, what is the "x" factor that keeps the bands together, making music, and connecting with their audiences. In short, what is the "It" of successful bands. And, are there gender dynamics that bands need to content with during formation, rehearsal, and performance. Seasoned musicians and band members/leaders Lauren Fincham, Tamara Colonna, and Sarah “Mama Blue” Sanders break it down for us. Topics covered include musical...
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Episode #46: The Leaders of the Band
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
This episode on The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel explores the DNA of bands. Beyond the musical talent, what is the "x" factor that keeps the bands together, making music, and connecting with their audiences. In short, what is the "It" of successful bands. Seasoned musicians and band members/leaders Brother John Mortensen, The Legendary Roy Peak, and Crucial Eddy Cotton break it down for us in this riveting conversation. Topics covered include basic business principles all bands need to address, dressing for the gig, band names, recording and technology, the importance of...
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Episode #45: Someone Has to be the Grownup in the Room!
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
Community transformation does not just appear. It requires vision, thought, communication, respect, difficult questioning, and attentive listening. Transformational leaders help orchestrate that communal dance. They recognize that establishing a “shared vision” requires tough conversations. Everyone around the table typically sees his or her agenda item as the most important. They struggle to understand what “community” means beyond their narrow framework. Intentions may be good, but attention may not stray far from an individual agenda. The bigger picture can get lost in collective...
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Episode #44: Mentors for Music, Hope, and Rainbows
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
This episode explores how a beach community (Atlantic Beach, Florida) came together to create a venue for musical dreams that in turn helps create pathways for other rainbows. And when that happens, hope lives. When people take time to listen to and give gratitude for the gifts of others, community strengthens. As Izzy sings in one of her original compositions (at the end of the podcast), “You’re my friend, and I love you.” For more on this event and community building and sustainability see the book "Community as a Safe Place to Land" by Steve Piscitelli (Atlantic Beach, FL: The Growth...
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Episode #43: Trust as a Core Value
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
Episode #43: Trust as a Core Value takes us inside The Clara White Mission (www.theclarawhitemission.org) in Jacksonville, Florida. Today the Clara White Mission feeds, houses, educates, and ministers to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the homeless and low-income. Regardless of the service provided, the goal is to provide relevant training and support for long-term self-sufficiency. CEO and President of the Clara White Mission, Ms. Ju’ Coby Pittman, understands that each client arrives at the front door “broken, with a laundry bag of challenges,” and in need of someone...
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Bonus Episode: Community as a Safe Place to Land (Compilation episode)
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
This SPECIAL podcast episode complements my latest book "Community as a Safe Place to Land." The book builds on 7 core values for purpose and growth—7 core values that can help communities grow: relationships, relevance, resources, rainbows, responsibility, reflection, and resilience. They all inter-connect and support one another. As followers of this podcast channel know from previous episodes, each of the book’s 7 sections opens with a transformational story about community. During the writing of the book I had the opportunity and honor to visit with the amazing people who make up those...
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Episode # 42: Helping a Village Find Its Voice (New Town Success Zone)
The Growth and Resilience Network® with Steve Piscitelli
Episode #42 looks at one community's challenges and hope. When people move toward their collective rainbows—their dreams—the community can see all manner of hope and possibility. Whether they seem impossibly distant or close at hand, they need to marshal strength, energy, and resources to move forward. The community members step up and take responsibility for vision and actions. We have heard that the village raises up a child. But what can be done if the village itself needs to be raised up? What do we do, for instance, if the village has inadequate infrastructure, health disparities,...
info_outlineEpisode #39 of The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel explores the interconnections of community, resilience, relationships, and breast cancer. You will hear from two Jacksonville, Florida community activists who have been voices for the countless women facing a breast cancer diagnosis. One as a survivor, and one as an organizer for survivors. Both helped those diagnosed with breast cancer develop their own voice.
Bobbi de Cordova-Hanks was enjoying life as a bass guitar player, magazine editor, and newlywed, when she got the news in 1986 that she had breast cancer. In 1988 she formed the support group “Bosom Buddies.”
Jeannie Blaylock, co-anchor of the evening news for First Coast News (Channel 12) in Jacksonville, Florida, was not a cancer survivor. Nor was she living with a diagnosis. She was grappling, however, with the sudden and tragic death of her twenty-nine-year-old friend to breast cancer. In 1993, Jeannie used her visibility as a news reporter to shed light on the topic. She initiated “Buddy Check 12,” encouraging women to connect and remind one another, on the 12th of each month, to conduct a breast self-exam. With her persistence the station aired segments showing actual models conducting breast exams in the shower, lying down, and sitting up. This was unheard of for the time and market. And most definitely needed. The first night, the station received 234 calls from women.
Thanks to these two forces of nature, a door had been opened and once the conversation started, no one was going to stop it.
Music (“T2D”) by ©Billy Bowers. Used with permission. www.billybowersjax.com
©Steve Piscitelli. 2018
The Growth and Resilience Network®
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