Today’s interview with Emi Gennis concerns her online comic Owlex. In it we talk about writing, drawing and producing a comic in an online forum. Emi’s main character, a ghost owl named Owlex, is based on a friend who committed suicide. Despite that Owlex, the comic, is more funny than tragic. The story follows Emi [...]
Jeffery Colman represented four men at Guantanamo Bay. In this, the second part of a two part interview, Jeff talks about his clients, and being an American lawyer working with the detainees in Guantanamo.
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This is my second interview with a lawyer working at Guantanamo, the first was with Candace [...]
Are Leaders Born or Made?
An age-old question! Certainly, leadership comes more naturally to some people, but leadership is definitely something we can learn. Great leaders are often great learners, and cultivate an aptitude for learning around them. Life often presents us with unexpected opportunity to take on a leadership role, in an emergency, for example. [...]
Gentle reader, you are at a crime scene. I usually like to post interviews on Wednesday, but when I tried to log in Yesterday I was unable to enter my website.
I was Victim of an Online Attack
Someone or something got access to the back end of this website.
The site never went down. They didn’t vandalize [...]
In this second part of my interview with Josh Hanagarne we talk about Josh’s Blog, bending steel and being in control of ones body.
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This is the second part of my interview with Josh Hanagarne. The first, longer installment is available here. Josh talks about how he is not [...]
Josh Hanagarne has a blog, bends steal, and works as a librarian, but most importantly (to me) Josh writes about all of these things in a passionate, simple, and immediate way.
I couldn’t wait to interview Josh there was way too much good material. So, I broke the interview in to two sections by subject. This [...]
A few years ago my cousin Alex decided to quit his high school football team and I was relieved. I wanted him to pursue athletics, he is one of the few in the Brazeal family who had any talent for it, and I was proud of his success, but from the minute I knew he [...]
In this interview Elias Cepeda argues that Mixed Martial Arts is unique in sport, because it more accurately simulates combat than any other form of fight sport. For years, he argues, students of fighting styles like kickboxing, boxing, and jujitsu have competed only against other students in their own disciplines. What is exciting about Mixed [...]
1. What is CSR and why does it matter?
CSR stands for corporate social responsibility and stems from the idea that corporations and businesses have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and not just maximize profits for shareholders. CSR includes environmental stewardship, community investment, employee engagement, and other areas. In general, my brand of CSR [...]
This is the second part of my interview with Candace Gorman civil rights lawyer for two of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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Part one of this podcast is available here
Photo Credit: Tim Pearce
