So, this podcast is about sharing inspiring stories of people doing meaningful work. The stories of people making a positive difference in the lives of others. And, if you are a regular listener or if you know me personally, you know that I believe that each of us has a story to share. A story that can help others. But you know what’s way more important than what I believe? It’s what you believe. Too many people are stuck and their best self is not showing up each day. Why? Often it’s because that best self is shrouded in ego, fears, limiting beliefs and other delusions. And that is why I am excited to introduce you to today’s guest, Erin Pheil. After a long battle with pain and depression Erin discovered the root cause behind what was holding her back. The self-sabotage that was preventing her from living to her full potential. So she founded The MindFix Group with a simple purpose: to share her journey and to deliver programs that alleviate the self-sabotage our own minds create that hold us back. Erin’s work on instincts and human behavior have been featured in books, magazines, podcasts, webinars and keynote presentations at conferences. If you are engaging in behaviors that don’t serve you or are avoiding behaviors that will benefit you, then this is the episode for you. Connect with Erin: https://www.mindfixgroup.com/ https://www.facebook.com/erinpheil

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Erin Pheil: Discovering the root cause behind what is holding you back.

Today’s guest, Michelle Pagtakhan co-founded You Run This Town Foundation with Fred Noya. "You Run This Town Foundation is committed to developing the next generation of leaders by providing underserved youth with enrichment programs, work-study internships, scholarships and community partner engagement projects." Her passion is to empower youth and provide them with key skills to succeed in life. Michelle is a small business owner with a big heart and a big vision for serving others. Michelle is a great example of how businesses of all sizes can find meaningful ways to enrich others and strengthen the communities for which they are passionate. I’m happy to share her story with you today. Connect with Michelle and You Run This Town Foundation as follows: www.yrttf.org team@yrttf.org https://www.facebook.com/YRTTFLA/ @yrttfla

Empowering teens to become leaders with Michelle Pagtakhan of You Run This Town Foundation.

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. I’ve decided to focus my attention on the positive things happening within the T1D community including important lessons I have learned. In this episode I discuss how the T1D community has taught me that my personal and professional growth is impacted by who I let on my “team”. scottrmorris.com

Team Matters: A Special Episode for National Diabetes Awareness Month

My guest today, Cathy Heying, founded The Lift Garage an affordable, non-profit auto repair service for people of limited means. It's an innovative idea that meets a pressing need. Working with people experiencing homelessness, Cathy repeatedly saw how devastating the prohibitive cost of commercial car repair could be. In a domino effect, people who couldn’t afford to get their cars fixed couldn’t get to work and so lost their jobs. Without jobs, they lacked the money to pay for housing and ended up in shelter or on the streets. It was also evident that many people who could not afford the cost of commercial car repair, felt that they equally could not afford to stop driving some very dangerous vehicles. Too often driving cars without brakes or living in their car without heat. Cathy went back to school to earn a degree in auto technology. In April 2013, with board members, donors, and volunteers to back her, The Lift Garage opened for one day a week with one repair bay and one volunteer mechanic.  Since opening their doors, support from the community has made it possible to greatly expand the services they provide.  In 2018 they moved to their current location and now have 5 repair bays and employ 5 full-time auto technicians. The Lift Garage is a 501c3 nonprofit which aims to move people out of poverty and homelessness by providing low-cost car repair, free pre-purchase car inspections, and honest advice that supports their community on the road to more secure lives. I am excited to introduce you to Cathy and her inspiring story of helping others. Connect with Cathy at: https://www.theliftgarage.org/

Cathy Heying is changing the world one car at a time.

My guest today, Kristyn Stillwell, is the Executive Director of H.O.P.E. Haven. Hope Haven seeks to move people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. Their mission is to help the homeless find a path off the streets and to mentor them throughout their life journey to succeed and thrive as contributing members of their community. Hope Haven builds relationships with individuals on the streets as a means to inspire a sense of purpose that empowers them to achieve stability and change in their lives. They work with each client to create a personalized plan to get off the streets and overcome recurring issues that drive them to homelessness. Kristyn has been working with the homeless as a volunteer for over 20 years. The last 6 years she has been building outreach ministries around Northwest Houston. These ministries have grown to over 1000 volunteers a year and feed over 2000 meals a year. Her passion is to educate the community on homelessness and inspire others to want to “Be the Change” they wish to see in the world. Connect with H.O.P.E. Haven http://hhaven.org/ Connect on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HopeHavenHTX/

Kristyn Stillwell with H.O.P.E. Haven

Do you have a senior friend or perhaps a parent or grandparent that you fear is feeling lonely or isolated? There are serious physiological and psychological components to loneliness and isolation. Studies have found that socially isolated elders are twice as likely to die prematurely, with a mortality rate comparable to smoking. Some studies even show that loneliness is nearly twice as dangerous as obesity. It can wreak havoc with your immune system and increase inflammation, leading to diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and other serious health conditions. My guest today, Jaya Manjunath, is taking action to reduce senior isolation through Seniors with Skills, the charitable organization she was inspired to create. Seniors with Skills is on a mission to create a movement to end social isolation of seniors in the United States. Through their Cards and Knitting Program and their Computer Training Program Seniors with Skills volunteers are helping seniors’ lead impactful lives while improving their cognitive function and overall quality of life. Ensuring that seniors have a source of social connection and a platform for positively impacting others will boost longevity and contribute to mental health and well-being. My interview with Jaya was eye opening and inspired me to examine more closely my relationship with aging loved ones. You can help Jaya and Seniors With Skills in their mission by visiting, https://www.seniorswithskills.org/ 20 facts about senior isolation that will stun you, https://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/10-17-14-facts-about-senior-isolation/ You are not alone: 6 steps to reduce senior isolation, https://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/9-2-14-reduce-senior-isolation/

Seniors With Skills wants to end social isolation of seniors | Jaya Manjunath

As you listen to today’s episode, there are children with life-threatening illnesses sitting alone, in a hospital bed, without a parent or loved one nearby to comfort them. Sadly, many of these parents cannot be fully present for their child at this critical time, often because they are single, working, or have other children to care for as well. Despite the tremendous efforts by nurses and staff at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, there are simply not enough hands to hold these children at a time when they need it most. Babies need human touch and to be held. Especially, as a means of comfort. My guest today, Ciera Granger, knows the importance of this human connection. Ciera and her husband, Dan, faced overwhelming difficulties when their second daughter, Shae, was born with multiple disabilities and life-threatening health issues. Ciera and Dan fought alongside Shae as she clung to life at Children’s Hospital LA for almost six months after she was born in 2006. Their experience caring for their now twelve-year old daughter forever changed their family, and now the Grangers want to help other families at Children’s Hospital LA who are going through similar painful difficulties with their children. That’s why the Grangers are dedicated to helping Children’s Hospital through the Koala Corps. The Koala Corps mission is to provide arms to hold every child in need at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The Grangers want to ensure that every baby is held when their families cannot be there. This mission comes from their firsthand knowledge of how important and great this need is. This mission comes from their desire to spread care, compassion, and cuddles. Learn more about the Grangers: https://koalacorps.com/new-page-1 Koala Corps The Koala Corps is a not-for-profit initiative, focused on raising funds on behalf of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. CHLA is a non-profit hospital that depends on donations to fund projects and initiatives within the hospital. Currently, there is only one staff member that runs all of its social programs. It’s just not enough. A Program Director is needed to manage the countless volunteers who are ready to help. Volunteers must be pre-qualified and trained with utmost care. This includes extensive background checks, shadowing, following hospital procedures and specific training to hold the children. But until we have $257,000 secured, these young children in need cannot get the help they need. In the future, it is our desire to expand this program beyond Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to children in need, worldwide. But for now, we are beginning one child at a time, one hospital at a time. Volunteers are ready, but we need your donations so they can begin. So please, join the Koala Corps. Learn about our story. And most importantly, make your donation today! https://koalacorps.com/take-action Koala Corps on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holdbabies/

Ciera Granger and Koala Corps is spreading care, compassion and cuddles.

FOR SOME KIDS, BIRTHDAYS ARE OFTEN OVERLOOKED. Imagine that. No presents. No birthday cake. No candles to blow out. No well wishes. No celebration. That didn’t sit well with Jaime Lehman so she decided to take action. Jaime founded For Goodness Cakes, a non-profit organization that matches volunteers to make and hand-deliver birthday cakes to foster children and at-risk youth on their special day. The mission at For Goodness Cakes is to give individual youth at least one special moment that is about them. By providing a child a treat made especially for them, it gives them some much needed time to not feel the increasing pressure of their socioeconomic situation, but rather help nurture optimism and confidence at a critical age. I am sure you will find the story of Jamie’s mission to spread love, joy and frosting just as inspiring as I did. To connect with For Goodness Cakes visit www.forgoodnesscakes.org Follow Amanda at gothandglitterpastries, https://www.instagram.com/gothandglitterpastries/?igshid=wp43hrj7i33l Learn more about Stepping Forward LA, https://www.steppingforwardla.org/ Learn more about Extraordinary Families, http://extraordinaryfamilies.org/

For Goodness Cakes

Change4Children’s was never a grand plan—just a simple idea that is growing bigger and more impactful by the day. It is the brainchild of three families, all of whom have had kids treated at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. When Jeff Kreshek’s son Eli was there for back surgery, Jeff spent four nights with him. He was always at the cafeteria getting a cup of coffee or something to eat. At the end of each day, he would throw his change in his overnight bag. “I have always been a bit of a hoarder of change and always donated it to some sort of charity,” says Jeff. “On the way home from our stay, it hit me—change for Children’s!” Jeff immediately contacted two other dads he knew, Ryan Stromsborg and Andrew Apfelberg, whose children had been helped through various illnesses and who all shared the desire to give back to the hospital. It was just mid-January of this year when the guys met and decided, “Let’s do it.” The campaign was launched in March with this simple idea: collect people’s spare change and donate it to the hospital to buy items that would improve the quality of life for the young patients. Jeff literally started by going to his local Smart & Final. There he bought two cases of Mason jars and some paint pens. His family decorated the jars and took them to an Encino Little League game, where his son was playing ball. Throughout the eight-week baseball season, they gave out some 170 jars, asking people to just fill them with change and send an email when the jar was full. They would come pick them up. Since then, the project has grown to involve Bank of America. Now you can take jars there, and the money will automatically be put in the Change4Children’s account. The hope is, after emptying the jar, donors take it home and fill it up again. Jeff points out how people get inundated with solicitations for charities by mail and how easy it is to throw those away. “Either I have no connection, I donated once but am not tied to that cause any longer or simply have other priorities at the time,” he explains. “That said, I cannot think of a day when I do not do something that involves changes. You have to do something with the change.” Now Jeff, Ryan and Andrew are hoping their project will give others an easy way to donate their change to make a difference. The three families generously cover all the administrative costs of the project, so 100% of money collected goes to the hospital. When it comes time to decide what to buy for the children, Jeff says that’s the easy part. “It’s not terribly unlike Christmas. We get to play Santa Claus.” The hospital has a wish list and the two parties discuss the various options. So far, the group has purchased electric cars the patients can drive to get from room to room. They’ve also donated to Project GO Kart, which supplies portable video games to the kids. As you can imagine, both items are big hits. While Change4Children’s is still in its early stages, the three men envision that one day it could become a national charity, given how transportable the premise is. “It can work anywhere, and the logistics are not terribly difficult,” says Jeff. More importantly, he points out that the mission is very clear. “We’re not curing disease, funding research or building a wing of a hospital (maybe one day). We are just taking a difficult time in a family’s life, when they are often most vulnerable, and making it a little better.” Get a jar. Fill it up. Change a life. What could be better and easier than that? Become involved with this worthy organization: www.Change4childrens.org Connect of Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Connect with Jeff: jeff@change4childrens.org

Change4Children's - Get a jar. Fill it up. Change a life.

In this episode of Dreaming of Cooperstown I share the greatest lesson I have learned thus far from my guests, the importance of grit. Listen to discover: What is grit? How grit and resilience differ. Why we need grit. Is grit available to everyone? Four keys to developing grit. The importance of our community and how it relates to grit. Grit begins with awareness and choice. More on Angela Duckworth and her book can be found at, https://angeladuckworth.com/

Grit Matters

My guest today is Amberly Lago an expert in the field of resilience, transformation, and health and wellness. She’s the author of True Grit and Grace which tells her inspiring story of how she turned a tragedy into triumph. Amberly is a former professional dancer, athlete, and fitness trainer whose life was turned upside down in 2010 when she was hit by an SUV while riding her motorcycle. Her multiple injuries included nearly shattering her right leg and severing the femoral artery. Amberly’s doctors informed her she had about a 1% chance of saving her leg and amputation was something she needed to prepare for. Amberly chose instead to fight and endured 34 surgeries to save her leg. In the process, however, she was diagnosed with CRPS, Complex Regional Pain syndrome (or what is sometimes referred to as the suicide disease because the chronic pain is so intense). Not surprisingly, she spiraled into depression. Amberly tried anything and everything to deal with her pain and depression but nothing seemed to work until she discovered and embraced the one thing that she credits with turning her life around: resilience. And while resilience does not get rid of her pain or make her challenges disappear she has discovered that resilience and grit is the superpower that will get her through any obstacle. Through her best-selling book, keynote speeches, workshops, and podcast Amberly is teaching and empowering others to tap into, nurture and flex their “grit muscle” to persevere through any challenge. And, in today’s episode she shares the five tools that each of us can use to thrive through our struggles and live life to the fullest.  Other important lessons that Amberly learned during her transformation from a near death experience to living the fullest life she could have ever imagined today:  Each of us can thrive despite our circumstances. RESILIENCE isn’t related to one single event that we experience.  It’s a way of approaching life, day in and day out.  Courage is contagious—so is fear.  Surround yourself with courageous, fierce people. Fortunately, perfection is not a requirement, only progress. Happiness is a choice and so is despair....choose wisely. Gratitude turns denial into acceptance, makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates hope for tomorrow. God will never let what you lost be the best you ever had.  Your best is yet to come!  If you want to read more about her personal battle and the courage to work through tragedy and transform it into triumph, you can grab a copy of her book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733809007?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Amberly’s website, https://amberlylago.com/ Amberly's TEDTalk, https://youtu.be/V3gEfdAcO_8 Follow Amberly on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/amberlylagomotivation/

Amberly Lago on using resilience to turn tragedy into triumph.

I never met Nick Fagnano but I’ll always remember the day, in 2015, when I met his father Jay. I was attending a pre-season meeting for the parents of Notre Dame High School’s baseball players. It was a baseball meeting like many I had attended before, until suddenly it wasn’t. After the usual announcements and requests for volunteers, Tom Dill, Notre Dame’s head coach, introduced Jay who, coach Dill informed us, had an announcement. Everyone in attendance grew quiet as Jay stepped to the front of the room. I think most if not everyone in the room that night were familiar with the story of Nick Fagnano, the former Notre Dame Student and baseball player, who the previous summer had tragically lost his life when a lightning storm struck Venice Beach. The lightning strike claimed 13 victims. Nick was the only fatality. Jay fought back tears as he told us of his plans for the upcoming baseball season. He would use his passion and background in food service to transform the Notre Dame Baseball Stadium concession stand into a venue offering restaurant-quality food. As Jay continued, it became clear his vision wasn’t just about delivering delicious food; it was about reconnecting with the Notre Dame community and, in particular, the baseball team. And, most of all, I believe, it was about connecting with Nick. Jay and his wife Mary know that no greater heartbreak exists than the loss of a child. Yet, in spite of their pain, they have found the strength and courage to share Nick’s story through Thrive in Joy the Nick Fagnano Foundation (TJNFF). What they have achieved in a short time is impressive and inspiring. Today is Mother’s Day and I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce you to Nick’s mom, Mary Fagnano, as she shares Nick’s story. No, I never met Nick Fagnano but through Mary and Jay’s charitable mission I feel like I know Nick and that he has touched my soul. I am sure that if you listen to today’s episode and choose to follow and support Thrive in Joy Nick will touch yours as well. There are many ways to support Mary and Jay in sharing Nick’s story. Visit www.thriveinjoy.org to learn how you can help. And, be sure to check out the NDHS/TJNFF Baseball Extravaganza on June 15, 2019. Connect with Thrive in Joy on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TJNFF/ VisionTrust International - www.visiontrust.org Multiplying Good - www.multiplyinggood.org/what-we-do/jefferson-awards Neal Petersen - http://nealpetersen.com Consider participating in one of Mary and Jay’s mission trips to the Dominican Republic. Watch this 2 1/2 minute Video about their March 2019 DR Trip with USC students: https://vimeo.com/327205474

Thrive in Joy the Nick Fagnano Foundation - Through Tragedy Comes Purpose with guest Mary Fagnano.

Tom Bagamane is a social entrepreneur, philanthropist and educator with an impressive track record of successes in both the for-profit and nonprofit spaces. Tom founded the Giving Spirit in 1999. Twice each year the Giving Spirit delivers acute aide to our Los Angeles homeless population in the form of backpacks that contain essential items to survival. Since their founding over 15,000 volunteers have joined Tom and The Giving Spirit in their mission making it one of our nation’s largest all-volunteer organizations and together they have helped well over 50,000 souls. Tom and The Giving Spirit emphasize education and learning experiences as important pathways to making a meaningful impact. In 2016, he launched an educational platform grounded in understanding, acknowledgement and perspective – to provide insight around the process of confronting the community crisis that is homelessness in America. This is an opportunity to empower dialogue and learning for a long-term solution while continuing to provide essential survival aid to those in desperate need - right now. But Tom didn’t stop there…………. Tom is also the Managing Director of Profitable Good Group, a consulting firm that focuses on working with companies to impact and empower the communities they serve as an extension of their business strategy. Profitable Good Group was founded in 2015 to assist CEOs and business owners in identifying & leveraging a profitable Shared Values strategy while crafting a sustainable model for revenue growth & powerful social impact. By taking an entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy Tom believes that companies can do well while doing good. Meaning build a profitable business while remaining socially conscious and pursuing social impact initiatives that inspire customers, employees and the communities they serve. Register now for The Giving Spirit’s Summer Outreach 2019 taking place May 31st – June 2nd.  This is an opportunity for you and your family and friends to make a difference by providing aid and a human connection to our homeless neighbors. https://www.thegivingspirit.org/ There are other ways for you to be a part of the solution and make a difference in the lives of others,https://www.thegivingspirit.org/donate If you (or someone you know is) are experiencing homelessness, a victim of domestic violence, a runaway, or in need of information on other services, please visit the LA Homeless Services Authority Emergency Response Team website for emergency services including 24 hour telephone helplines. https://www.lahsa.org/  Need help creating a vision and creating strategies to build social purpose into your business? Tom can help!https://www.profitablegood.com/ Follow The Giving Spirit on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/TheGivingSpirit/

Tom Bagamane is changing lives on our streets and in our boardrooms.

Every one of us has walked by someone who is experiencing homelessness at one time or another and looked away. Why? Because the problem of homelessness is so big and complicated. We don’t know what to do or how to help. So we keep walking. But the problem of homelessness in our communities isn’t going away. In fact, it’s getting worse. Ending homelessness won’t be easy. It will take all of us — as well as courage, passion, and a well-thought-out plan. The Rev. Andy Bales has a plan. Meet Rev. Andy Bales The Rev. Andy Bales still remembers the man who turned him into an advocate for the homeless more than 30 years ago. Bales, then a teacher at a Christian school in Des Moines, had just taught his students a lesson about Matthew 25:40: Whatever you do to the least fortunate, it’s as if you do it to God. At his part-time job minding a parking lot a few nights later, a stranger knocked on his window. The man had a dirty beard and was missing teeth. He asked for Bales’ sandwich. “Sorry, sir, I need my sandwich,” Bales replied, and the man shuffled away into the night. That’s when an epiphany struck. “I realized I didn’t practice what I had preached,” Bales recalls. Through a stroke of luck, Bales found that man on the street later on and fed him dinner – and has parlayed that meal into millions more over the years as CEO of L.A.’s Union Rescue Mission. Since 2005, Bales has led the comprehensive emergency shelter organization and personally overseen the distribution of food, water, medical services and shelter beds to men, women and children in need. “My goals are to regionalize services throughout L.A. County and really end Skid Row as we know it,” Bales says. “I want to have services in as many neighborhoods as I can so that when somebody loses their home, they can access services in their own neighborhood.” Skid Row is an “intractable” problem with a variety of forces keeping the sprawling homeless encampment in place, he says. Union Rescue Mission offers homeless clients a bed, three meals per day, donated clothing, showers and hygiene supplies, medical care and counseling. The shelter’s hospitality center also helps guests prepare for jobs by providing a mailing address, phone number and banking services.  The inhumane conditions on Skid Row hit home for Bales two years ago, when he lost his leg after contracting an infection while walking the streets. Shocked public officials declared they would tackle the issue afresh as news of Bales’ amputation spread. “‘If Andy Bales can’t walk down the street and preach the gospel we have to do something,’” he recalls city councilman Gil Cedillo stating at the time. Now confined to a wheelchair, Bales still canvasses the sidewalks downtown, reaching out to L.A.’s most desperate denizens. “I’m encouraged that at least the loss of my leg prompted action,” he says. “I’d actually offer up my other leg if we could solve homelessness in Los Angeles.” Bales has a personal stake in the crisis. His grandfather, a WWI veteran who likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, was homeless for most of his life. “He would just pack up the family and they would jump a freight train from Des Moines to L.A.,” Bales says, looking for work, opportunities – anything. “He was thinking they’d find green grass on the other side of the fence.” From age four to 17, Bales’ father traveled via freight car with his family. “His last week on earth, all my dad could talk about was the pain and shame of homelessness when he was a teenager. Everyone knew about it when he went to school.” When tackling homelessness, urgency is key, Bales believes. Long-term housing is essential, but until it’s built, “precious human beings” suffer. “The longer you allow people to be devastated by homelessness, they are forever impacted mentally, physically, spiritually, vocationally.” Bales wants to see 60 Sprung structures erected throughout the city to give people emergency shelter and case management. The plan would immediately take some 13,000 people off the streets. One such structure – for women, who face special dangers while homeless – is already planned for the Union Rescue Mission parking lot. For Bales, it’s another chance to make good on his teaching: “God has been faithful to me to allow me to practice what I have preached.” Join Rev. Bales and make a difference in the lives of others: https://urm.org/get-involved/  We need to understand homelessness in order to create meaningful change. Here are some FAQ: https://urm.org/about/faqs/people-experiencing-homelessness/ Stories from Skid Row: https://urm.org/stories-from-skid-row-video/

Rev. Andy Bales - The CEO of the Union Rescue Mission is changing lives as he advocates on behalf of LA’s homeless population.

Welcome to episode #8 of the Dreaming of Cooperstown Podcast with my guest Eric Tozer. ERIC MADE HISTORY, BECOMING THE FIRST PERSON WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES (T1D) TO COMPLETE THE WORLD MARATHON CHALLENGE, RUNNING 7 MARATHONS ON 7 CONTINENTS IN 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS. Eric Tozer is an endurance athlete and a diabetes ambassador who inspires the community through sports and utilizes his athletic accomplishments as a platform to be a role model in the diabetes community. Eric was diagnosed with T1D in 2006, while traveling in Europe. He had the classic symptoms of diabetes including constant thirst, increased appetite, frequent urination, blurred vision, lethargy and weight loss. Eric had always lived a very active and healthy lifestyle, so the sudden 20-pound weight loss made him aware that something was seriously wrong. Upon returning home, a visit to his doctor revealed the devastating and life changing news of his diagnosis. Eric’s life was quickly turned upside down: checking his blood sugar levels up to 10 times a day, calculating carbohydrate intake and taking varying units of insulin shots with every meal. But Eric wasn’t going to let diabetes control his life and decided to take charge. Soon after his diagnosis, he completed his first half Ironman and hasn’t stopped since. He co-founded non-profit organization, Diabetes Sports Project, comprised of hundreds of T1D athletes around the globe, demonstrating how through proper diet, exercise, a positive outlook and effective blood glucose management, dreams can be achieved.  Eric’s Athletic Accomplishments: World Marathon Challenge 2019 (7 Marathons, 7 Continents, 7 Days)  Run Across America (3,000+ mile run across USA in 15 days with ten T1Ds) 6 mile Ironman distance triathlons 3 mile Half-Ironman distance triathlons Olympic and Sprint distance triathlons 2 mile Marathons 1 mile Half-Marathons NCAA Men's Soccer Final Four All-Tournament Team (2004) Diabetes Sports Project Diabetes Sports Project (DSP) was co-founded by fellow T1Ds and friends, Eric Tozer and Casey Boren. DSP is comprised of the world’s elite diabetic athlete ambassadors who inspire and educate the diabetes community to achieve their goals and aspirations. These ambassadors demonstrate how through proper diet, exercise, a positive outlook and effective blood glucose management dreams can be achieved. The DSP ambassadors are directly engaged in community events within the diabetes and healthcare industry around the world. They participate in diabetes camps, JDRF & ADA events, industry conferences and trade shows, hospital visits, patient support groups, medical professional events and much more. Additionally, their athletes compete at the highest levels of sports to demonstrate that goals can be achieved with diabetes. DSP is dedicated to empowering the nearly 26 million affected by type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the United States. Through inspirational and educational community engagement along with competition in the biggest sporting events in the world, DSP will inspire and educate millions of people affected by diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.  Their vision is a world without type 1 diabetes. Their mission is improving lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent and treat T1D and its complications. Type 1 diabetes Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that strikes both children and adults suddenly. It has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle. There is nothing you can do to prevent it. And, at present, there is no cure. In T1D, your pancreas stops producing insulin—a hormone the body needs to get energy from food. This means a process your body does naturally and automatically becomes something that now requires your daily attention and manual intervention. If you have T1D, you must constantly monitor your blood-sugar level, inject or infuse insulin through a pump, and carefully balance these insulin doses with your eating and activity throughout the day and night. However, insulin is not a cure for diabetes. Even with the most vigilant disease management, a significant portion of your day will be spent with either high or low blood-sugar levels. These fluctuations place people with T1D at risk for potentially life-threatening hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes as well as devastating long-term complications such as kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, blindness and amputation. Connect with Eric http://www.erictozer.com/http://www.diabetessportsproject.com/ Connect with JDRFhttps://www.jdrf.org/ JDRF Ride-to-Cure Diabeteshttps://www2.jdrf.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=ride_homepage

Eric Tozer - An inspiring journey in support of JDRF.

Dreaming of Cooperstown with Scott Morris is where we share the stories that matter. Dreaming of Cooperstown is a metaphor for achievement and learning to lead a meaningful life. Join us as we share the stories of the dreamers, the action takers, the achievers, and the impact makers who are making a positive difference in their homes, schools, work places, communities, and in the world. We will unpack the important lessons these stories offer and discover how we can apply them to our own life. How we can write a better story for ourselves. A story that helps others. That inspires others. This is Dreaming of Cooperstown and these are the stories that matter. For additional resources, visit scottrmorris.com.

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