Soulful, inspiring, and deeply human — this conversation with vocalist Tammy McCann is a masterclass in musical storytelling. 🎶 From her classical roots at Chicago’s Kenwood Academy to her evolution into a powerhouse jazz and gospel artist, Tammy shares how mentorship, faith, and life experience shaped her voice and purpose.

You’ll hear behind-the-scenes stories about performing with Ray Charles, blending gospel with jazz, overcoming stage fear, and discovering the healing power of music. This episode is perfect for fans of jazz vocals, gospel influence, vocal artistry, music education, and anyone who believes music can transform lives.

https://www.tammymccann.com/

✨ Expect heartfelt stories, music history, performance wisdom, and insight into how great artists connect emotionally with audiences.

Topics include: jazz singing, gospel roots, classical vocal training, Ray Charles tour stories, Chicago music legacy, stage presence, storytelling in music, and the spiritual impact of performance.

👉 If you love jazz, soul, and powerful vocal journeys, this episode will move you.

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#SoulfulMusic



In this deep and fascinating conversation, sound healer and vibrational practitioner Adrian Garcia joins the podcast to explore how sound, frequency, and intention can profoundly impact the human body, mind, and spirit. From brainwave states and cortisol reduction to entrainment and the science behind vibration, this interview bridges ancient wisdom and modern research.

You’ll hear real-world stories of transformation, learn how sound healing differs from meditation, and discover how frequency and music may support stress relief, trauma release, relaxation, and self-healing — without the “woo-woo.”

🎧 Topics covered: sound healing science, theta & delta brainwaves, frequency + intention, trauma recovery, meditation, stress reduction, and vibrational wellness.

What happens when healthcare, capitalism, and personal empowerment collide? In this surprising conversation, Steve Ordower and Asia Kuykendall expose the system-level incentives that shape everyday life—from corporate personhood and profit-driven healthcare, to how our money habits quietly shape our identity, values, and health.

Asia introduces the Quantum Wealth Theory, a transformative approach that reframes wealth beyond dollars—and into meaningful currencies like time, attention, health, alignment, and agency. Together they explore how redefining wealth can transform your choices, your health, your relationship with money, and your sense of personal power.

If you’re interested in health, politics, personal growth, or changing your financial story, this episode offers clarity, depth, and a new framework for understanding wealth in modern America.

What you’ll learn

• The psychology behind money and self-worth

• Why “health is wealth” is both literal and political

• How corporate personhood shapes your daily life

• How to align your spending with your values

• Generational wealth mindset shifts

• How to reclaim agency inside systems built for profit

Keywords

quantum wealth theory, financial empowerment, personal development, health and politics, corporate accountability, money psychology, economic systems, mindset shift, generational wealth, personal agency

To find out more about Asia Kuykendall's company and class offerings, check out:

https://acefm.us/

#health #wealth #money #psychology #quantumhealing

In this powerful episode, Congressman Danny K. Davis reflects on his decades of public service, community activism, and the fight for justice, equality, and healthcare access. From his work with Harold Washington to his advocacy for restorative justice and health initiatives, Davis shares personal stories, political insights, and his hopes for America’s future. Tune in for an inspiring conversation on legacy, leadership, and building a more equitable society.

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In this interview, Dr. Christina Rivers explores African American politics, voting rights, redistricting, and the ongoing struggle for fair representation in the United States. From the Voting Rights Act and landmark Supreme Court cases to mass incarceration and civic education for returning citizens, Dr. Rivers offers powerful insights into democracy, equity, and justice. If you’re interested in U.S. history, civil rights, racial justice, or the future of American democracy, this conversation is essential viewing.

#votingrights #africanamericanhistory #democracyinaction #civilrights #politicalhistory #socialjustice #americanpolitics

Today we’re excited to present an interview with Rabbi Allen Secher. Allen marked his 90th birthday earlier this year – he’s a rabbi, civil and human rights activist, radio host, television producer, actor, author and public speaker. He was ordained in the early 1960s, and while serving as rabbi in Massapequa, N.Y., he became one of the Freedom Riders during the civil rights movement. Rabbi Secher joined other clergy members, working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and others to fight segregation in Albany, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida. And in fact, the day after they demonstrated there, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 1991, Rabbi Secher and his wife, Ina Albert, founded Makom Shalom, Chicago's first Jewish Renewal congregation, melding traditional and holistic paths (mysticism, meditation, and gender equality) toward spiritual intimacy. Rabbi Secher is deeply committed to supporting interfaith couples and families, and has officiated and co-officiated more than 2,000 weddings and other interfaith life cycle ceremonies. For many years, he and Father John Cusick served as advisors to The Jewish/Catholic Dialogue Group of Chicago, and in 1993, the organization also founded the Chicago Interfaith Family School, which educates children and their parents in the traditions of Judaism and Christianity. Today Allen continues to serve as one of the rabbis of the Family School. We’ll hear Allen in conversation with David Kovacs. In 2019, David and I produced and directed the documentary Leaps of Faiths, an exploration of interfaith marriage and families.

#religion #religionandfaith #rabbi #jewish #interfaith #interfaithminister #interfaithmarriage

LEAPS OF FAITHS documentary

Today on the show, I sit down with a cybersecurity expert and dear friend, Ivan Clatanoff. His role at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, also known as CME, is Director and Product Manager of Data Governance. We touched on a variety of topics such as the power of Quantum Computing that is a significant and emerging threat to cybersecurity, what you can do to protect yourself in this landscape, and finding the balance between working in this field, which requires a consistent level of suspicion, and trusting those around him in his life.

Ivan Clatanoff can be found on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-clatanoff-43866a/

#cybersecurity #cyber #cyberattack #cyberattackawareness #cyberattackprevention #cyberattacks #computer #quantumcomputing

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The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITICAL)

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Today on the show we welcome Blake Minnerly, who is launching his own podcast show called, "Ambiology" which examines the political left/right spectrum in the United States from a historical perspective. Much of what we think is Left or Right politically actually has shifted over time - and this paradigm has become a significant stumbling block for citizens to view issues on a case-by-case basis that would allow for a substantive understanding of a given issue in a nuanced way. Instead, and consequently, this Left/right divide incentivizes people to lump issues together into a tribal identity, which creates a psychological barrier to useful and empowering insight on important matters. This ubiquitous and insidious paradigm conditions us in the U.S. to view political issues through a powerful filter, which oftentimes has us discount perspectives from the “bad” tribe without fully understanding the perspective in the first place.

This show will investigate the beginnings of Public Relations and propaganda with people such as Edward Bernays (the nephew of Sigmond Freud) who has been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values.

His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954.

And, Ivy “Leadbelly” Lee who preceded Bernays, who many historians credit him with originating modern crisis communications. He was retained by the Rockefellers in 1914, initially to represent Standard Oil, after the bloody repression of the coal mining strike in Colorado known as the Ludlow Massacre.”

Both Bernays and Lee were masters at shaping perspective on behalf of corporations and governments, appealing directly to the subconscious mind, often undetectable to the general public. Ambiology will reflect upon the writings and scholarship of people such as Noam Chomsky, who co-authored the book, “the Manufacturing of consent,” Marshall McLuhan who is known as the father of media studies, and most recently Hyrum and Verlan Lewis who wrote the book, “The myth of left and right: how the political spectrum misleads and harms America”

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