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Positive Blatherings Podcast

Positive Blatherings Podcast

著者： ROC Vox Podcast Network
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Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.Copyright ROC Vox Podcast Network スピリチュアリティ
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  • Debra Ross | Mobilizing for Totality: How an Eclipse Built a Community

    Debra Ross | Mobilizing for Totality: How an Eclipse Built a Community
    2026/06/02
    (00:00:00) Cold Open: What is the Eclipse Effect?
    (00:00:45) Welcome Back and the Non-Conformist Oath
    (00:03:47) Ella's Five-Year Plan and the 2017 Missouri Eclipse
    (00:06:00) Building Rochester's Eclipse Task force: 750 Volunteers, No Budget
    (00:12:00) Co-Chairing the National Eclipse Task Force
    (00:14:27) The Dreadful Lack of Agency and What To Do About It
    (00:17:21) Bonding vs. Bridging: The Two Kinds of Social Capital
    (00:21:09) The Network Graph: Making Invisible Connections Visible
    (00:28:51) Stories From the National Eclipse Effort
    (00:39:09) On Failure, Grade, and Raising Kids Outside the System

    Deborah Ross watched the 2017 solar eclipse from a field in Kimmswick, Missouri and came home convinced of two things: Rochester needed to be ready for 2024, and it was going to be her job to make that happen. What she built with 750 volunteers, no budget, and six years of monthly meetings became both a defining moment for this region and the foundation of a book.

    In this episode, she breaks down how an eclipse becomes a community organizing tool, what servant leadership actually looks like when you're asking hundreds of people to work for free, and why the principles behind The Eclipse Effect apply to any catalyst, a natural disaster, a federal funding cut, or the Olympics coming to your town.

    CONNECT
    The Eclipse Effect → https://theeclipseeffect.com
    Kids Out and About → https://kidsoutandabout.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Pittsford, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com
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    45 分
  • Melissa Suchodolski | Firing Bad Clients and Building Great People

    Melissa Suchodolski | Firing Bad Clients and Building Great People
    2026/05/19
    Melissa Suchodolski told someone once that getting into construction was "absurd." That was 25 years ago. Today, she runs USC Builds, a 140-person Rochester contracting firm, and a workforce development nonprofit that Governor Hochul wants to replicate across New York State.


    In this episode, she gets into what it actually looks like to build a company culture most firms won't even try, what it cost to fire a client who represented a third of her annual revenue, and why the construction industry's labor crisis is a competitive advantage for anyone who started this work early.


    CHAPTERS
    00:12 Welcome and the Non-Conformist Oath
    01:09 How Fitz and Melissa Met at the Jewish Home of Rochester
    11:25 Why More Americans Should Travel Abroad
    12:23 Meet USC Builds: 25 Years Building People Through Construction
    13:31 From History Major to Construction President
    16:26 Why a Skilled Trade Can Never Be Taken Away
    19:33 What a Trauma-Informed Workplace Looks Like in Construction
    27:43 Why She Fired Her Second-Biggest Client Over Racism on the Job Site
    30:42 The Construction Labor Crisis and Who's Already Positioned to Win
    34:39 Ascend Workforce Solutions and the Governor's Attention
    41:20 Trauma as a Superpower
    42:51 This or That


    CONNECT
    USC Builds → https://uscbuilds.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com


    New episodes every Tuesday.


    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Pittsford, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com.
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    51 分
  • Chad Marks | He Wrote The Argument That Freed Thousands From His Cell

    Chad Marks | He Wrote The Argument That Freed Thousands From His Cell
    2026/05/12
    Chad Marks was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison at 24 years old — and from his cell, he wrote the legal argument that freed thousands.

    Chad Marks — Rochester native, published author, paralegal, and founder of Blood on the Razor Wire — joins Fitz at ROC Vox to tell the full story: growing up poor on Lyle Avenue, the drug dealing, the 40-year federal sentence, the First Step Act argument that no attorney believed in, and what he's built since walking out — a paralegal practice, a sober living house, a YouTube channel, a book, and a possible Netflix series.

    In this episode: how federal prison actually works, what a 40-year sentence does to your psychology, 14 months in solitary, the PTSD nobody talks about, what's most broken in the system, and why your worst day on the outside still beats your best day in there.

    CHAPTERS
    0:00 Cold Open and Introduction
    2:10 Growing Up Poor in Rochester: How It Started
    3:19 The First Step Act and the Argument That Freed Thousands
    6:26 The Reality of Federal Prison: Big Sandy and the Violence
    10:18 The 40-Year Sentence and Judge Larimer
    15:49 Life After Release: Giving Back to the Community
    19:01 Writing Motions From His Cell and Getting 20 Out
    24:40 The Mission: Blood on the Razor Wire
    28:11 What's Most Broken in the Prison System
    34:24 Misconceptions: What Prison Actually Does to You
    35:14 PTSD, Counseling, and Relearning Normal Life
    43:49 The SHU: 14 Months in Solitary

    CONNECT
    Blood on the Razor Wire (book) → https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Razor-Wire-journey-through/dp/B08N9DP62B
    Blood on the Razor Wire TV → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2BfsAN7eb-76zlPmVbetgQ
    Freedom Fighters PC → https://www.freedomfighterspc.com
    The First Step Act ruling → https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2020/may/15/federal-judge-issues-order-reducing-40-year-stacked-924c-sentence-based-first-step-act-changes-compassionate-release/
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    #BloodOnTheRazorWire #FirstStepAct #FederalPrison #PrisonReform #JailhouseLawyer #CriminalJusticeReform #PositiveBlatherings #ROCVox #PositivePodcast
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    55 分
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