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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children by Luma Mufleh

Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children by Luma Mufleh

It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia, something compelled her to join. The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia, Afghanistan, and Sudan, soon welcomed her as coach of their ragtag but fiercely competitive group. Drawn into their lives, Mufleh learned that few of her players, all local public school students, could read a single word. She asks, “Where was the America that took me in? That protected me? How can I get these kids to that America?”

Learning America traces the story of how Mufleh grew a group of kids into a soccer team and then into a nationally acclaimed network of schools for refugee children. The journey is inspiring and hard-won: Fugees schools accept only those most in need; no student passes a grade without earning it; the failure of any student is the responsibility of all. Soccer as a part of every school day is a powerful catalyst to heal trauma, create belonging, and accelerate learning. Finally, this gifted storyteller delivers provocative, indelible portraits of student after student making leaps in learning that aren’t supposed to be possible for children born into trauma–stories that shine powerful light on the path to educational justice for all of America’s most left-behind.

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Powershades Custom Interior & Exterior Motorized Roller Shades Review

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The issue my mother’s house has had was having these cheap hanging blinds on her big sliding glass window on her house. They don’t seal out the sweltering heat of the sun that bakes her house and heats the window to a point of blazing heat in her kitchen during the summer and in winter air drafts through the blinds and large space that doesnt touch the floor. Obviously, year round it makes her house uncomfortable, runs up her energy bill and I’ve had to hear about it for years. So we got a chance to review the new Powershades products and decided the best place to install them was at her house. Normally, Powershades has vendors across the country that I recommend you use to professionally install it but we do reviews all the time and sometimes testing how intuitive or easy the product is designed is a great test.

We choose the interior roller blades that come in three styles: Open Roll, Cassette and Fascia. They have exterior blinds, automated or manual as well. We went with Fascia and choose from a large variety of cloths and colors and ordered it customized to size from them. I’m not a guy who’s good with the tools, but it was a fairly easy install for me, a few screws and it was up. The size was perfectly hanging over moulding, but close enough to seal in the air from the window to stop the cold and hot drafts. Because it was now a one piece blind, it literally acts as a barrier to block out the outside exposure. I can see this will have a direct cost saving effect on her energy bill and you can feel the room temperature in her kitchen is now more stabilized. According to Powershades, it will reduce up to 30% of your bill.

The roll can also go down all the way to the floor and she can set it, open or close with the remote or app with a connection to the internet (optional). It has safety settings to keep from over rolling down or up too far. My mom loves it and it looks so much nicer than her old blinds. It even gives her more added privacy that the hanging slat blinds that sometimes dont always close. I highly recommend the product and have been very impressed with the ease of install and the great customer service from the agents at the company. Its a great investment in your home that will improve your experience and pay for itself in energy savings.

Powershade Versions:
Interior Roller Shades
Exterior Roller Shades
Automated or Manual Roller Shades

Interior Styles:

Open Roll Style
A sleek window treatment that fits nearly any theme. With versatile hardware options in matte plastic or anodized aluminum. Can be concealed with a custom top treatment or left uncovered for a minimalist look.

Cassette Style
Ideal for applications with a more traditional design aesthetic. The fabric-wrapped cassette provides a finished look with a fabric matching front. Perfect for most standard-sized windows.

Fascia Style
Brushed aluminum fascia that conceals the fabric roll, this style provides a clean contemporary aesthetic that is great for spaces that require a modern finish.

Automate repetitive tasks
Using PowerShades’ cloud-based MyDashboard you can set the rhythm of your shades to raise and lower to fit your day with customer schedules and quickly heighten the experience of any occasion with your custom pre-set scenes.

Light Control
Transform your home into the sanctuary you’ve always wanted with perfect lighting. Sleep past sunrise with light-blocking shades. Cast a glow with light-filtering shades. Or set your home to a rhythm by scheduling your shades.

Reduce energy consumption up to 30%

A simple task like closing the shades can result in big savings…as long as you remember to do so. With PowerShades you’ll never have to remember. PowerShades raises and lowers your shades according to your custom schedule which results in effortless, passive savings. Good for the earth and your pocketbook.

Child Safety
PowerShades have no pull-strings or dangling pieces that could be a hazard to children and pets.

Increase Security
Open and close your shades remotely or set them on a schedule to appear home when leaving your home vacant.

5 Year Hardware Warranty

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena: Analysis, Prediction and Management of Human Affairs by Jim Marshall

Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena: Analysis, Prediction and Management of Human Affairs by Jim Marshall

Portions of this book are posted on Septemics.com Isaac Asimov, in his famous Foundation trilogy, imagined a future in which a science of the mind could accurately predict human events.This work is a down payment on that promise. It comprises a revolutionary and elaborate system for accurately analyzing, assessing, predicting and managing the behaviors and characteristics of groups and individuals. It is a textbook about a new philosophical science called Septemics, which consists of thirty-five scales, each of which delineates the exact sequence and patterns in which human beings actually behave and manifest in various contexts. Each of these scales describes an axis upon which individuals, and/or groups, advance or decline. This book would generally fit into the literary category of Psychological Philosophy, although there has never been a book quite like this in human history. One must actually read the book in order to access the power of its contents, because it is not like anything else.

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth by David Sax

The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth by David Sax

An award-winning business writer dismantles the myths of entrepreneurship, replacing them with an essential story about the experience of real business owners in the modern economy.

We’re often told that we’re living amidst a startup boom. Typically, we think of apps built by college kids and funded by venture capital firms, which remake fortunes and economies overnight. But in reality, most new businesses are things like restaurants or hair salons. Entrepreneurs aren’t all millennials — more often, it’s their parents. And those small companies are the fabric of our economy.

The Soul of an Entrepreneur is a business book of a different kind, exploring our work but also our passions and hopes. David Sax reports on the deeply personal questions of entrepreneurship: why an immigrant family risks everything to build a bakery; how a small farmer fights to manage his debt; and what it feels like to rise and fall with a business you built for yourself.

This book is the real story of entrepreneurship. It confronts both success and failure, and shows how they can change a human life. It captures the inherent freedom that entrepreneurship brings, and why it matters.

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury Ph.D.

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury Ph.D.

A brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body–through the murders in which they were used.

As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring―and popular―weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?

In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and true crime, Dr. Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes―some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved―are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.

Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon’s bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a riveting tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive―or don’t.

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Take It Off: Revelations Of A Male Exotic Dancer by Corey Laine Hilton

Take It Off: Revelations Of A Male Exotic Dancer by Corey Laine Hilton

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Richard Schreiber Director, RAS Consulting Services, LLC

Richard Schreiber Director, RAS Consulting Services, LLC

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, Duel Diagnosis Art Exhibit at SXSW 2022 Interview

Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, Duel Diagnosis Art Exhibit at SXSW 2022 Interview

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response by Ellen Vora

The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response by Ellen Vora

From acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind—and what we can do to overcome it.

Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans—a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck-up” problem—that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology—the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body.

In The Anatomy of Anxiety, holistic psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora offers nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of anxiety and mental health, suggesting that anxiety is not simply a brain disorder but a whole-body condition. In her clinical work, Dr. Vora has found time and again that the symptoms of anxiety can often be traced to imbalances in the body. The emotional and physical discomfort we experience—sleeplessness, brain fog, stomach pain, jitters—is a result of the body’s stress response. This physiological state can be triggered by challenging experiences as well as seemingly innocuous factors, such as diet and use of technology.

The good news is that this body-based anxiety, or, as Dr. Vora terms it, “false anxiety,” is easily treated. Once the body’s needs are addressed, Dr. Vora reframes any remaining symptoms not as a disorder but rather as an urgent plea from within. This “true anxiety” is a signal that something else is out of balance—in our lives, in our relationships, in the world. True anxiety serves as our inner compass, helping us recalibrate when we’re feeling lost.

Practical, informative, and deeply hopeful, The Anatomy of Anxiety is the first book to fully explain the origins of anxiety and offer a detailed road map for healing and growth.

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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Konstantina Mahlia of Malia Collection

Konstantina Mahlia of Malia Collection

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