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Both Sides In Cuba Debate Agree: Biden's Engagement With The Island Won't Be Obama's
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When Joe Biden becomes president this week, Florida politics will compel him to engage both sides of the Cuban-American street before he engages Cuba.By Tim Padgett
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Cuba's Fledgling Entrepreneurs Are Determined To Survive The Island's Currency Chaos
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Cuentapropistas, or private Cuban business owners like Marta Deus are under threat but "getting strategic." They're convinced they're the island's economic future.By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#8 Stay faithful , not fearful in 2021 and beyond.
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Today we are welcoming Our new podcaster , Pastor Dee Anne Macomber-Mataitoga of Walking with the Word ministries. Dee Anne will teach on Ablaze once a month. Today Dee Anne shares both an encouraging and an empowering message. Here s more about her. https://walkingwiththeword.org/about/who-we-are/ More podcasts live at https://www.spreaker.com/use…
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Cuba Starts 'Monetary Ordering.' But Will Cubans See More Economic Chaos?
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As Cuba unifies its two currencies, ordinary Cubans brace for skyrocketing prices — with still no structural reform of the island's failed economic system.By Tim Padgett, Christine DiMattei
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Latin America And The Caribbean 2020: From COVID-19 Devastation To Cuban Artist Defiance
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As if the region's coronavirus catastrophe wasn't enough, 2020 heaped human rights crises and historic hurricanes on Latin America and the Caribbean too.By Tim Padgett
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Cuban Artists Are Captivating The World. But Can They Challenge The Regime?
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Artists' sudden, stunning push for free speech and expression in Cuba is resonating with ordinary citizens in ways authorities have rarely seen.By Tim Padgett
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Venezuela's Holding Elections Sunday — Most Of The World's Dismissing Them
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Venezuelan exile journalist Francisco Poleo explains why his country's political opposition — and most of the world — refuse to legitimize this Sunday's vote.By Tim Padgett
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What Eta and Iota Tell Us About The Hurricane Future In Latin America And The Caribbean
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The strongest storms ever to form so late, and so far south, in the Caribbean could force us to revise our expectations about hurricanes in this part of the world.By Tim Padgett, Christine DiMattei
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'Black Superhero': Toussaint Louverture Biography An 'Opening' To Historic Haiti Revolt
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Sudhir Hazareesingh's "Black Spartacus" illuminates the remarkable Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture — and the universal importance of the revolution he led.By Tim Padgett
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Episode 20: S2 E20: Bird Hunting in Northern Michigan with Chris Smith
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It's all about hunting and fall this week as we hang with Chris Smith, local freelance author, illustrator, and waterfowl hunter. We talk dogs in hunting - including e-collars, a passion of Tim's- hunting with kids, Chris' experience illustrating the 2020 duck stamp, and more.By Tim Gillen
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To Reclaim Florida, Democrats Must Reimagine Who Florida Latinos Are
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Joe Biden's decisive defeat in Florida reflected a big underperformance with Latino voters — whom critics say Democrats still take for granted and misread.By Tim Padgett
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"We're always in fundraising mode" Bill Myers and Jon Dreher of Promethient and Thermavance
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We're hanging out this week with two of the founders of Thermavance, climate-controlled technology that revolutionizes heated and cooling wearables and fabrics. You'll have to listen to the episode to hear how this innovative product heats and cools according to YOUR temperature -for maximum comfort at all times, no matter your location or activity…
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Trump And Haitians: He Said He'd Be Their Champ. Many Now Feel Like Chumps.
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Donald Trump won a surprising number of Haitian-American votes in 2016. But since then he's burned a lot of bridges to Little Haiti. Will it burn him next week?By Tim Padgett
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S2 E18: STOP Working at Home Until You Hear This
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Small business owners: you're gonna need to bookmark this one! We're talking all things work at home, including how to migrate to a hybrid office (where half works at home and half comes in, then switch), as well as the setups you NEED in your home office to keep things running safely, smoothly, and consistently. It's not as simple as buying a cons…
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S2 E17: "We put people in a position to succeed"
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This week we caught up with Sean Skarshaug of Traverse Repro and Copy Central in Traverse City. We had a fun convo all about how his company has morphed from doing strictly blueprints in the area to providing printing services of all kinds. Plus, how Sean and his wife Blythe have built a company culture that keeps his staff strong and loyal, as wel…
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Toro Time: Did 'Bidenistas' Take The 'Socialista' Bull By The Horns In Florida?
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Biden and his campaign didn't take the GOP's "socialista" attacks seriously enough. On-the-ground Latino activists did. It may help him win Florida.By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#7 Leaning on Jesus to make decisions by Kathryn Martens
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Kathryn Martens shares how Jesus guides her in every decision through her day. Release coach with an international reach, Kathryn prays into everything every minute of the day. Find out more at https://www.releasecoaching.com/By Breathed Media
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*ENCORE* S2 E6: Marsha Minervini, the Minervini Group
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*Please enjoy this encore presentation of one of our favorite past episodes. We'll be back with a brand new episode next week!* We sat down with Marsha Minervini this week, who is an absolute joy. If you weren't passionate about up north real estate before you listened to this episode, Marsha may just change your mind! We discussed not just what sh…
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Why Are So Many Latinos Obsessed With Demonizing Black Lives Matter? It's Complicated.
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Many Latinos who back President Trump bring the racial — and racist — complexities of Latin America to their attacks on the racial justice movement.By Tim Padgett
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AblazeS#2 ep#6 Dr Michelle Bengtson on healing from depression
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Dr Michelle Bengtson shares her own journey through depression and addressing its root.By Breathed Media
This week, Tim and I caught up with Nathan Griswold, of Inhabitect in Traverse City. Inhabitect designs and builds green roofs, which assist with stormwater drainage and cooling, along with providing the spaces for building inhabitants to use and enjoy. We chat with Nate today about what it’s like to run his green company in an area still embracing…
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Is Colombia Interfering In The U.S. Election In Florida – With Tactics It Exported To Florida?
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Critics say Colombian elected officials are increasingly involved in — and helped create — President Trump's 'socialismo' scare campaign against Joe Biden.By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#5 Tim Winders on his journey to creating SGC.
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Tim Winders is a former engineer who now coaches business leaders, ministers and investors. He tells us how God intervened to lead him to build Seek Go Create. https://seekgocreate.com/By Breathed Media
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S2 E15: Skip Brown, Freedom Builders of America
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We're hanging out this week with a dear friend, Skip Brown of Freedom Builders of America. As you’ll hear in our episode, Freedom Builders helps people on a deeper level than just home repairs, bringing the ministry of God’s love and grace to everyone involved. Skip says he wants the people his foundation touches to know that they matter. He shares…
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Ablaze S#2 ep#4 How COVID 19 propelled us into podcasting by Michelle Watson.
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Michelle Watson and her husband host the Pantry podcast.Michelle explains how God said: » Ditch your plans and get going » regarding their podcasting. The pantry podcast uses the sales of its merch to donate to various ministries , including work to get victims of sex trafficking in safe houses. https://thepantrypodcast.com/…
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S2 E14: Mike Carey, Atlas Space Operations
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We're hanging this week with Mike Carey of Atlas Space Operations. Atlas provides the software and ground control communication services needed by spacecraft companies to run their equipment. Mike chats with us today about the software his company wrote that powers satellites all over the world, the reasons why his company is headquartered in north…
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Venezuelan Medical Workers Dying Of COVID-19 At Alarming Rate. How Can The World Get PPE To Them?
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A third of Venezuela's reported COVID deaths are frontline healthcare workers. Efforts are underway to protect them – but the regime may block the help.By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#3 Leading with integrity by Christa Hutchins
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Christa Hutchins is an engineer, project manager, coach of Do A New Thing and has a senior role in Proverbs 31. Christa unpacks her own journey through each role and how leading with integrity has been her key. https://doanewthing.com/christa-hutchins-christian-coaching/By Breathed Media
This week we're chatting with Baris Atmaca from Socks Kick, located in East Jordan. Baris has such a cool story, as he is originally from Turkey, and came to East Jordan as a Rotary exchange student in the early 2000s. He fell in love with the area and came back years later to run his socks manufacturing company in northern Michigan. We chat today …
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Is The Western Hemisphere's Most Important Development Bank Headed For A Radical Change?
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As the Inter-American Development Bank prepares to help Latin America rebuild post-COVID, will an American take over, breaking one of its core traditions?By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#2 Laura Padgett on Dancing ministry and healing
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Laura Padgett tells us her own healing journey through dance and how her audience experiences healing through dancing bible stories. Find out more about Laura s ministry at https://lauralpadgett.com/By Breathed Media
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S2 E12: Rex Rudolph, Padgett Business Services
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We're hanging out this week with Rex Rudolph of Padgett Business Services in Traverse City. Rex's company is a franchise operation that does accounting and tax services for small businesses, and he's had a crazy year so far with switching to full remote during the coronavirus lockdowns in the middle of tax season. He talks about that switch, the ad…
We had so much packed into our chat with Chris Fredrickson of TC Whiskey Co. in Traverse City that we had to make a bonus episode! Listen in as Chris describes a little more about what it really means to be a “craft” whiskey company in today’s spirits marketplace. Chris also shares a little more details about their new production and tasting room f…
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Supporters of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe want Miami-Dade County to honor him. Critics say it would honor a human rights violator.By Tim Padgett
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Ablaze S#2 ep#1 Dave Ebert on how God uses impro to heal.
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Dave Ebert is a pastor, speaker and improvisation artist. God uses all his gifts for healing through mixing improvisation and pastoring. Find out more about Dave at Gifts for Glory ministries https://gifts4glory.wixsite.com/gifts4gloryBy Breathed Media
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S2 E11: Chris Fredrickson, Traverse City Whiskey Company
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This week, we're hanging out for a bit with Chris Fredrickson, one of the owners of the award-winning, hugely popular Traverse City Whiskey Company. Chris spoke about how he and his team come together collaboratively to solve problems that pop up, how they lean on their community for ideas and support, what it was like in the early days of the pand…
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Calling Colombians: With Florida In Play, Trump And Biden Reach Out To A Latino 'Sleeping Elephant'
Florida's large Colombian community never got much attention from U.S. presidential candidates. Until now.By Tim Padgett
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S2 E10: Debbie Craig, Craig Wealth Advisors
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This week, we're hanging out with Debbie Craig of Craig Wealth Advisors. She’s a passionate advocate for her customers when it comes to managing their money, and she also understands how technology helps make that all happen. She shares why she thinks the financial field is so male-dominated, and how to bring more women and minorities into the fold…
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The White House created a rule that denies pandemic economic relief to U.S. citizens married to non-citizens. They're now hoping Sen. Marco Rubio can break it.By Tim Padgett
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S2 E9: Al Koester & Gary Tujague, Great Lakes Trim
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This week's we're chatting with Al and Gary from Great Lakes Trim, a tier 1 supplier for the Big 3 auto manufacturers in Detroit as well as other manufacturers like John Deere. Al and Gary talk about staffing issues, traffic affecting their supply chains and trucking routes, innovative changes coming in the auto industry, and more.…
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*BONUS SEGMENTS* Kim White, Cherryland Accounting
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We enjoyed our conversation with Kim White so much that we couldn't fit it all into the half-hour show! In this bonus episode we chat more in-depth about the consistency of expertise and collaboration she follows with her clients, the safety measures she takes both for her own business as well as what she does for her customers, how she connects to…
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Controversial coronavirus deaths like Carlos Henríquez's in El Salvador leave Latin American relatives in the U.S. feeling increasingly helpless.By Tim Padgett
Tim and Ruthy sit down with Kim White of Cherryland Accounting, in Traverse City, to talk about how safe online practices are important not just in your personal life but as a professional as well (including VPNs on vacation- stay off the hotel wifi, guys!) as well as how Kim connects to her customers on a personal level to be a better accountant.…
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Venezuela's Health System Was Already Destroyed. Now Comes The COVID Calamity?
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(This story was updated July 28 at 3:30 pm)By Tim Padgett
We sat down with Marsha Minervini this week, who is an absolute joy. If you weren't passionate about up north real estate before you listened to this episode, Marsha may just change your mind! We discussed not just what she loves (and finds difficult about) running her real estate and development business here in northern Michigan, but also how she…
This week Ruthy and Tim hang out with Shawn Zipser of Zeez Management in Traverse City. Zeez has multiple businesses under its umbrella: Arby's franchises, Harley Davidson stores, tax and attorney services. We chat with Shawn about dealing with different municipalities, how it's like working in a family business (something we know a little about ou…
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S2 E4: John Zimmerman, Brightstar Care of Northern Michigan
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Our guest this week is John Zimmerman of Brightstar Care, who has run his in-home healthcare and medical staffing franchise since the mid-2000s. Today he joins us to talk about things like staffing issues, policy changes in the medical field, the things he loves about up north living, how his company’s technology set-up has propelled his business f…
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S2 E3: Mike Drilling, Windborne Photographic Studios
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Our guest this week is Mike Drilling, from Windborne Photographic Studios and Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realty. Mike's been running his studio for over 4 decades, and he's established himself as an innovative, creative, and adaptive business owner- and now brings that same creativity to realty. After our chat, Ruthy and Tim delve into the topic of ba…
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*BONUS SEGMENTS* Tim Brick, Brick Wheels in Traverse City
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We had such a good time chatting with Tim Brick of Brick Wheels, and we talked for over an hour! We can only fit 30 minutes of content into our official show episodes, so we put all the bonus extras in this episode. Enjoy!By Tim Gillen
