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Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
My next guest is Lauren Harigian, a 32 year old trans athlete. The genesis of her journey really began back in 2010 when she felt she could no longer be honest and live as a man. She has been undergoing hormone therapy for the better part of 5 years and as part of her journey she as also been the subject of a study by Arizona Public Televison and Arizona State University on how hormone therapy affects the body of trans atheletes.
https://azpbs.org/catalyst/2020/12/catalyst-304-body-and-mind/
Lauren can be reached on her (IG) Instagram account at @fastgirlrunner23
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
My guest today is retired Utah State Prison Correction Officer, Jason Gurney.
He spent 24 years inside the prison system. Early in his career as a young 22 year old officer he played a small part in HBO’s documentary, Gladiator Days: Anatomy of A Prison Murder, The story of Troy Kell, now on death row for the murder of a fellow inmate back in 1996.
We talk about the day to day experiences and the challenges of trying to make difference in the lives of our incarcerated brothers in an often thankless job and how he kept his humanity in the process.
#UtahDepartmentOfCorrections #UDC #UtahStatePrison #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #ParrishTheThought #TroyKell #UtahDeathRow #PrisonRespect #PrisonHumanity #DraperPrison #GunnisonPrison #CentralUtahPrison
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Sunday Jan 09, 2022
My next guest is the owner of and life coach of a program called Venture, Chad Brown. It is a 6-month life coaching program for men. He helps them become the best version of their whole selves. As a seasoned entrepreneur and business coach, he knows the challenge of chasing something bigger. He shows men how to achieve an integrated life, so they can be fully present in their work and their family.
He thrives on adventure and risk-taking and also cries watching Disney movies with his kids. ( you, Coco). He loves spending every minute with wife while getting charged being around other men pursuing something bigger than themselves. He is a living contradiction, and so are you. Let’s go on this (ad)venture together.
He and his family live at the foot of the Wasatch Mountain Range. (Utah is the most beautiful place in the world and he’ll fight you on that). We love to spend our days together camping, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, skiing… pretty much anything that can be done in the wild.
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#ChadLBrown #Venture #BetterByDesign #BeingABetterMan #WorkLifeBalance #WorkLifeIntegration #ShowingUp #CoachingMen #LivingContradiction #BetterManByDesign #ParrishPodcast #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #ParrishTheThought
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
One year ago this past September my next guest Kris Kristensen had life changing surgery that took the left side of his pelvis and entire left leg due to stage 4 bone cancer. Had he not had the surgery the cancer would have surely taken his life.
9 months ago I had him on the program to talk about how he was mentally and physically adjusting to his new life. He had just been fitted with a magic leg.
Today he is back to share more of his recovery journey and how he has made friends with the leg but still struggles with some of the collateral damage since the surgery and most importantly some of the huge, ongoing takeaways and life observations.
For regular updates visit Kris' blog at https://kriskristensen.com/blog/
#amputees #amputee #amputeelife #amputeestrong #amplife #prostheticleg #prosthetics #limbloss #amputation #amputeefitness #disabled #oneleg #lifewithoutlimitations #iamadaptive #legamputee #bionic #prosthetic #nolegsnolimits #amputeelifestyle #disabilityawareness #abilitynotdisability #pelvicamputee #ParrishTheThoughPodcast #ParrishTheThough #ServeEveryone #StopBeingBusy #FamilyPriorities #KrisKristensen
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
My guest today is the CEO of Vortechs Management based in Layton, Utah, Paul Burgon.
He and his team of super smarty smart genius types are revolutionizing and putting the back into the recycling industry by making it so simple, even a teen-ager can do it. I mean, like, who wouldn’t want that.
Vortechs Waste to Energy is a startup company that has nine patents pending for a "village scale," hyper-efficient recycling system that can recycle any hydrocarbon--any plastic, used motor oil, shredded tire, coal waste, or the car interior from a recycled car. We recycle where the waste is, rather than shipping hydrocarbon waste hundreds of miles to very large, very expensive facilities (which dramatically increases the carbon footprint). The Vortechs WasteNgine is a village-scale system that can be installed behind a retail distribution center, at an existing landfill, or on any half acre industrial or commercial site. We recycle any hydrocarbon waste profitably, without government subsidies, and without washing, sorting, or shredding waste prior to recycling.
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
My guest today is a young man who, only three short years ago, was depressed, broke, rejected by family and friends. Drudging through dead end jobs, working himself to the bone for a meager $10/hour barely making payments on a Toyota Corolla.
Since then he has risen, literally, to the top of the door to door sales industry ending his 2021 season with over a million dollars in sales and over 1200 accounts sold becoming THE number one sales agent in the industry.
His reward. At age 23 he was able to pay cash for a Lamborghini Gallardo.
He truly is in a league of his own. Please help me in welcoming Austin Pritchard as we take a journey from the dark spaces of the heart and mind to the pinnacle of his existence...at least for now. He is only 23.
#AptiveSales #AustinPritchard #NeverGiveUp #10XYourLife #SalesGoals #ParrishTheThought #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #NumberOneSalesAgent #SpeakItIntoExistence #ThereIsAlwaysMore #NeverEnough #GOAT #BuildYourself #Mentor #VisionBoards #Dreams #YourFirstMillion
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Marvin Pratt is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety at California State University, Chico and has been heavily involved in government for the better part of 30 plus years beginning with his military career shortly after high school. We talk about the myths, realities, efficiencies and inefficiencies that is government. Some say it should be abolished while others say it's the solution to our problems. #ChicoStateUniversity #GovernmentIsTheAnswer #TheBiggerTheGovernmentTheSmallerTheCitizen #GovernmentSucks #GovernmentIsSometimesTheAnswer #BalanceInGovernment #GovernmentBeauracracy #ModelOfInefficiency #ActOfCongress #CSUHealthAndSafety #GovernmentIsNotTheAnswer #GovernementIsTheProblem #GovernmentSolution #ParrishTheThought #ParrishTheThoughPodcast #AnswerIsInTheMiddle #HappyMedium --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/parrishthethought/message
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
My guest today is the Communications Director for the Utah Hazara Association, Ghazanfar Ali.
Until I attended a fund raising event one month ago, I too, knew nothing about the Hazara people nor the tremendous struggle they have endured for generations. Hazaras are Dari-speaking people, thought to be of the Turk-Mongol race and live primarily in the rugged central mountainous core of Afghanistan with an area of approximately 50,000 sq. km.
They, much like the Jews, have been systematically marginalized, persecuted and brutalized for centuries simply because they exist. For whatever reason, because they want to live normal productive lives, like their neighbors, they are deemed a threat in Afghanistan and neighboring countries like Pakistan. Thousands upon thousands have fled for their lives to neighboring countries and, of course to Utah and other cities in the US.
Ghazanfar Ali shares a brief history of his people internationally and how we can help locally as more and more refugees arrive in our community on a weekly basis, especially in the wake of the recent US Troop withdrawl and subsequent mass exodus from Kabul, for a better opportunity.
America and Americans are welcoming, loving, generous and kind. If you're a Christian, the Lord said Love thy neighbor as thyself. These wonderful people ARE our neighbors and need our help.
Also according to Ali, below are several immediate ways you can help these people have the basic freedoms and necessities to start their new lives here in Utah. Contact the Utah Hazara Association directly.
- Humanitarian Visas
- Personally meet them and ask how they are doing and how you can help them.
- They need help building a community center where the can gather, worship and support one another.
Here are some local Utah organizations you can reach out to should you desire to help further.
Many states in the US and countries around the world have their own chapters or associations.
#UtahHazaraAssociation #HazaraLivesMatter #StopHazaraGenocide #HelpTheHazara #OurNeighborsTheHazara #BaFttF #LoveThyNeighbor #KindnessMatters #KindnessAlwaysMatters #DonateAndGive
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