Name: Gather Round / Snap Judgment, "Campfire Tales II" by Snap Judgment
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: Last year Snap dropped the scariest stories right in your lap just in time for vacation, and this year...it's baaaaaack. Snap Judgment proudly presents "Campfire Tales II."

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works about women who defy the status quo and might therefore be perceived as “dangerous.”  In Margaret Atwood’s “Unpopular Gals,” fairy-tale archetypes reclaim their power. The reader is Ann Harada.  A boisterous and brilliant student threatens to upend the order of her high school in Shanteka Sigers’ “A Way with Bea,” performed by Pascale Armand.  And a Victorian-era wife fights for her sanity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic “The Yellow Wallpaper,” performed by Carrie Coon.  The show also includes commentary by the Egyptian-American journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy.

Dangerous Women

In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities. <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2022/06/09/life-is-getting-harder-for-gay-people-in-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The opposite is true</a> in China, where authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community. Bangladesh is suffering its worst flooding in living memory, but with a surprisingly low death toll (so far). And which city topped the EIU’s annual <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/22/the-worlds-most-liveable-cities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Liveability Index</a>. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Pride and prejudice: China’s LGBT crackdown

Hints are turning to hard data: economic slowdowns are coming. We ask about the threat of recessions in different regions and about <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/06/02/a-recession-in-america-by-2024-looks-likely?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the effects</a> they may have. The <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2022/06/09/the-hotheads-who-could-start-a-cold-war?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reckless behaviour</a> of China’s fighter pilots is just one reflection of the country’s distrust of the West. And a haircut gone wrong leads to a lesson that <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/06/16/the-price-of-a-haircut-in-dakar-challenges-a-tenet-of-economics?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">challenges</a> textbook economics. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Pressure gauged: the road to recessions

In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss Twitter suing Elon Musk after he pulls out of the deal due to bot information not being disclosed, a hundred thousand protestors storming the President's house in Sri Lanka, and the disturbing information/ images found on Hunter Biden's iCloud.

332. Andy & DJ CTI: Twitter To Sue Elon Musk, Protestors Storm President's House In Sri Lanka & Hunter Biden's iCloud Hacked

There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day.
           
When David and his siblings should be in elementary school, they are instead walking the streets seeking shelter while their mother is battling mental illness. They rest in train stations, 24-hour diners, anywhere that’s warm and dry; they bathe in public restrooms and steal food to quell their hunger. When David is placed in foster care, at first it feels like salvation but soon proves to be just as unsafe. He’s moved from home to home and, in all but one placement, he’s abused. His burgeoning homosexuality makes him an easy target for other’s cruelty.      
          
David finds hope and opportunities in libraries, schools, and the occasional kind-hearted adult; he harnesses an inner grit to escape the all-too-familiar outcome for a kid like him. Through hard work and unwavering resolve, he is able to get a scholarship to Vassar College, his first significant step out of poverty. He later graduates from UCLA Law with a vision of using his degree to change the laws that affect children in poverty. 

Told with lyricism and sparkling with warmth, A Place Called Home depicts childhood poverty and homelessness as it is experienced by so many young people who have been systematically overlooked and unprotected.  It’s at once a gripping personal account of deprivation—how one boy survived it, and ultimately thrived—and a resounding call for readers to move from empathy to action.

Available September 13, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Legacy Lit. 

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A Place Called Home by David Ambroz Read by David Ambroz - Audiobook Excerpt

Murph & Mac Podcast

Bruce Fraser - KNBR 680am/104.5FM (8/26/23)

When it comes to making behavior change around diet and exercise, it's no secret that many people fail in their efforts. My guest would say that's because too often we only concentrate on the things that drive us towards that change — whether willpower, or motivation, or the rewards that turn behaviors into habits — and that we need to think more about the obstacles keeping us from making the decisions we desire.

Her name is Michelle Segar and she's a behavioral science researcher and health coach, as well as the author of The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise. Today on the show, Michelle explains why exercise and eating aren't conducive to becoming habits — at least of the automatic variety — and why it's more helpful to think of these behaviors in terms of "life space" and "choice points." She makes the case for why we shouldn't just focus on what drives behaviors, but also understand what disrupts them, and unpacks four of these disruptors: temptation, rebellion, accommodation, and perfection. Michelle then offers a three-step decision tool for dealing with these disruptors, and explains how to develop the flexibility to choose the perfect imperfect option that keeps you consistent and even celebrate and enjoy the decision to do something instead of nothing.

#797: Overcome the Decision Traps Around Diet and Exercise

Steve Kerr - 95.7 The GAME (9/8/22)

Last year Snap dropped the scariest stories right in your lap just in time for vacation, and this year...it's baaaaaack. Snap Judgment proudly presents "Campfire Tales II."

Gather Round / Snap Judgment, "Campfire Tales II"

Brendon Burchard, the world's leading high performance coach and a #1 New York Times best-selling author, whose books include The Motivation Manifesto, The Charge, The Millionaire Messenger, and Life's Golden Ticket. 

Brendon's pioneering research with the High Performance Institute led to Amazon's Top 3 Business & Leadership Book of 2017, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way. With a research team of psychologists and academics, he conducted the world's largest study of high performers and the habits that make them successful.

According to Forbes and Success magazines, Brendon is also one of the most watched, quoted, and followed personal development trainers online. His training videos have been viewed more than 200 million times, and over 2 million students have taken his online courses or video series. His brands have over 10 million fans on social media. For these results, Oprah.com named him "one of the most successful online trainers in history."

Brendon has been on the cover of Success magazine, and three of his podcasts--including The Brendon Show--debuted at #1 across all categories on iTunes. He is the most respected productivity and high performance trainer in the world today.

Brendon Burchard - How To Take Control Of Your Life

An exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love, My Policeman is soon to be adapted into film by Amazon Prime with Harry Styles (Don't Worry Darling) and Emma Corrin (The Crown) attached to the cast.

It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.

A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.

Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts, read by Emma Powell and Piers Hampton (Audiobook extract)

Snap Judgment is a weekly storytelling radio show and podcast, hosted by Glynn Washington. Snap mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a BEAT!!  Snap first aired on NPR stations nationwide in July 2010. Snap Judgment is now aired on over 400 public radio stations.

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