”It’s A Wrap with Rap”
Podcast With a Purpose: The podcast of Overcomers and the podcast of Useful Information to better our lives and mental spirit.
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Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Join host Ron Rapaport in an enlightening conversation with Dr. Laura Gabayan, a renowned expert in emergency medicine and the author of "Common Wisdom: Eight Scientific Elements of a Meaningful Life." Dr. Gabayan shares her personal journey and breakthrough research on the essence of wisdom, elaborating on eight critical elements that define it—resilience, kindness, positivity, spirituality, humility, tolerance, creativity, and curiosity.
Dr. Gabayan discusses how these traits emerged from interviews with wise individuals across North America, shedding light on how these elements contribute to a fulfilling and successful life. Learn about the profound impact her research and book have on understanding and teaching wisdom beyond traditional intelligence.
This episode offers a compelling exploration into how anyone can cultivate wisdom and enrich their lives through intentional practice of these timeless principles. Whether you're familiar with the concept of wisdom or new to it, Dr. Gabayan provides profound insights and inspiration to embark on your journey towards a deeper understanding of life.
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Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Saturday Jan 11, 2025
For Doug Brinker, stories of survival run deep. At the early ages of 8 and 10 he nearly lost his life. Later in life Doug almost lost his life due to two suicide attempts.
Doug is a disabled Iraq veteran who now offers hope to those suffering and is a positive light to crisis recovery.
He discusses with Ron the issues surrounding Veteran suicide, his Beacon 4 Hope project and his new book release.
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Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Meet Maria Pendolino an internationally recognized award-winning voice actor. Her signature voice print has been heard across commercials, documentaries, video games and more.
Maria has lent her voice to campaigns for global brands such as Comcast/Xfinity, Dannon, American Express, Panera and more.
She talks to Ron about her life's work dealing with a disability she contends with namely psoriatic arthritis, her career in musical theatre, comedy, film and television.
Maria alerts us to the realities of having a disability and the many kinds of disability situations people have and the public's lack of understanding them.
Maria inspires us that adversity should not come between our vision for a full, happy and rewarding life.
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Dr Laura Gabayan, author of "Common Wisdom Eight Scientific Elements of a Meaningful Life"
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Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Ron interviews Dr. Joan Ifland who is a processed food addiction specialist. She has broken a lot of ground in the realm of food addiction having released a number of influential books and studies and she is currently working on evidence-based training for health care professionals.
In this episode, Dr Ifland brings to light the shady reality of what goes on behind the scenes of big food companies in the United States.
She discusses what goes on in a person's brain that causes addiction to processed food and how one can begin to reverse the addiction and move in a healthy direction.
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Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Ron talks with Sandy Kirkham who is a voice and advocate in the area of clergy sexual abuse.
She was sexually abused at age16 by her youth pastor in the Protestant church. He was 30, married and had two children. His abuse lasted five years until his actions were discovered. He was given a going away party and moved to the next church and Sandy was called by the elders and told to leave the church because of her behavior.
Sandy remained silent for 27 years until a trigger factor forced her to face the truth. In 2018 she wrote the book
"Let Me PREY Upon You "about the abuse and subsequent 27-year journey of healing.
She talks to us about her story and overcoming her trauma.
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Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Meet charismatic Maureen Manley whose determination and resilience first came to international attention as a world class cyclist. A member of the U.S. cycling team, she won a national championship, set a national record and won a silver medal at the 1990 world championships.
At the height of her career, her dreams came to an abrupt halt. While racing at the 1991 Women's Tour de France her vision blurred, and she crashed later learning it was the result of the onset of multiple sclerosis.
Maureen did not let her physical setback stop her from living the life she desired, and she explains to us how she accomplished that through her application of holistic strategies she developed.
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Monday Oct 21, 2024
Monday Oct 21, 2024
Ron talks with Dr. G Rex Kruhly the founder of Depth Healing. Dr G consults, heals and nurtures clients from all over the globe online using the Quantum Field. Over the decades he has become a master of that ability.
For eight years he has studied the Quantum Field as it relates to the mind and the subconscious, spirit, past lives, disease and pain.
Dr G was taught how to interpret the symptoms of the body as a language so that the cause could be known, found and cleared.
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Sunday Oct 06, 2024
Sunday Oct 06, 2024
Meet Elena Nicole, a certified holistic health, and life mindset coach. Elena specializes
in helping people lose weight and get healthier realistically and sustainably while feeling more empowered, confident and in control of their health and life.
She has learned from her experience the reasons for overeating. She lost more than 30 pounds while gaining control of the emotions that caused her to overeat.
In her one-on-one coaching program, she combines mindset hacks and traditional weight loss strategies to get her clients lasting results.
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Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Meet Alain Pellitier who travels across Canada using a diary to explain bullying to students. He goes through emotion to reach reason. Alain uses his method to reach thousands of young people and teachers every year.
Alain brings emotions to life so strongly that it is not uncommon to see young people in tears listening to him.
As a driving force for change in institutions, Alain has helped bullies realize the impact of their actions.
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Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Meet James Dorsey from Victoria B.C. Canada, author of "Delinquent: A True Story about Homelessness, Foster Care and Addiction" who at age 12 was placed in foster care against his will.
Rather than enter into foster care he chose to run away and live on the streets.
He tells his story to Ron how he became enmeshed in the harsh culture of street life and to discuss his thoughts about how this narrative plays out with so many of our youth.
He expresses his thoughts on how parents and guardians can deal with this issue.
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