Season 3 of Finding Joy with Kara is now Season 1 of Record Scratch.

When something unexpected happens in our lives, just like in the movies, everyone and everything seems to freeze, and the soundtrack playing in the background stops abruptly with the sound of a needle across vinyl.

A record scratch.

This podcast focuses on the courage and resiliency it takes to move through disruptive moments.

My guests share their transformational record scratch moments and offer tools to help us heal our wounds. We address varying topics including generational trauma, grief, PTSD, and what we can do to heal and be better humans.

Please subscribe to my Record Scratch podcast and follow me on social media: @karakavensky on IG, TikTok, FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Maureen Monte builds winning teams. She brings a Moneyball approach to the inside game so that individuals and teams can harness the talent within and reach their full potential.

She has leveraged CliftonStrengths® as a competitive advantage accelerator since 2006. She focuses on highly motivated teams, including over 1,500 athletes and coaches at the middle/high school, college, and Olympic levels, and hundreds of global corporate teams on all the continents but the cold ones!

She is a Gallup® certified strengths coach, has a BS/MS in Engineering, and an MS in Leadership, was engineer of the year for IBM, and an instructor for Cornell’s online leadership development programs for tech execs.

She is the author of the book Destination Unstoppable: The Journey of No Teammate Left Behind, and a soon-to-be-released book, The Win Like a Girl Project: a courage, confidence, and self-leadership program for female athletes to become champions at the game of life.

website: maureenmonte.com

Twitter: @maureenemonte

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Music by Adam Gibson of Adam Gibson Design Mixing by The Brassy Broadcasting Company

There are so many fascinating people in this world — and one of them, an angel named James “Jimmy Mack” McDowell walked into my life and showed me that I should look forward to getting older. Forever young at 90 when I met him, he remained evergreen until he passed away earlier this year, which was a few months after his 99th birthday.

Jimmy was a big band singer during WWII, and subsequently experienced an amazing life filled with fun and entertainment. Jimmy was a renowned broadcaster, both on radio and tv, then became a professional DJ, photographer, and videographer. He built his life around music and kept a pulse on Central Indiana entertainment.

Jimmy and the woman who would become his wife, Peggy, wrote thousands of pages of letters during their engagement while Jimmy was stationed overseas during WWII.

Part of the reason he was a prolific typist, is that he took (4) semesters of typing to graduate from HS in Lincoln, NE. After being drafted, he was stationed at Camp Atterbury. Typing was a highly coveted skill in the Army and Jimmy was stationed with a medical unit, where he would triage incoming patients. He was stationed within the 8th Air Corps in England.

Listen as Jimmy’s daughters, Bonnie McDowell Hinkle and Robin McDowell, and I reminisce about their dad and growing up with “showbiz” parents.

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Music by Adam Gibson of Adam Gibson Design Mixing by The Brassy Broadcasting Company