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Roswell Program of Path to Shine

March 10, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Roswell Program of Path to Shine

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The Roswell Program of Path To Shine, Inc. (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 619)

North Fulton Business Radio Host John Ray went on the road to visit the children and mentors of the Roswell program of Path to Shine, an after-school mentoring and tutoring program for children at Mimosa Elementary School. John was joined by Judith Windsor, Program Director, who discussed the children they serve, the results which come from their mentorship model, how interested individuals can become a mentor, and more. John also interviewed children in the program, including Javier, Kayden, Karla, Inielka, Lia, Asia, Mia, Candler, Andy, Kathryn, Diego, Jesus, Matthew, and Ross.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Path To Shine, Inc.

Path To Shine®, Inc. is a mentoring and tutoring program for elementary school children in North and Middle Georgia.

Its purpose is to provide academic and social support to encourage children to thrive in school and build self-confidence to achieve their dreams.

PTS’s success stems from its principles to maintain a ratio of no more than one Mentor to two students, to have a flexible structure that adapts to each local community, and to consistently seek collaboration with other organizations.

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North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their bankers’ commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

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Marie Davis, Path To Shine, Inc.

January 13, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Marie Davis, Path To Shine, Inc.

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Marie Davis, Path To Shine, Inc. (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 600)

Marie Davis, Executive Director for Path To Shine, joined host John Ray in the studio on this 600th episode of North Fulton Business Radio. Marie described the children they serve, the mentorship model and the meaningful results they see in the program, how to become a mentor, stories that illustrate their impact, how individuals and businesses can help, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Path To Shine, Inc.

Path To Shine®, Inc. is a mentoring and tutoring program for elementary school children in North and Middle Georgia.

Its purpose is to provide academic and social support to encourage children to thrive in school and build self-confidence to achieve their dreams.

Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook

Marie Davis, Executive Director, Path To Shine, Inc.

Marie Davis is an Atlanta, Georgia native. After obtaining a Social Work degree at The University of Georgia, she served as a foster care coordinator for the State of Georgia, certifying foster parents and working with foster care children.

After obtaining Series 7 and 63 financial licenses, she worked with a private financial firm as Assistant to the President. While raising her two children, Marie worked for a local developer, forming relationships with County and State officials. Moving to Florida for ten years, Marie served as a Targeted Case Manager with Children’s Home Society of Florida and a certified tutor for autistic children.

Marie also served as the Director of Mentoring for Center Point, a non-profit in Hall County Georgia. She recruited and trained mentors for several school systems. She is also a Technical Assistant for www.mentoring.org, the National MENTOR program; through that program, she works with mentor programs across the country to help them with direction and development. Program innovation and designing ways to serve all children through mentorship is what she loves best about her job.

Marie also serves on the Georgia Mentor Provider Council. Currently, Marie is the Program Manager for Georgia Center for Employee Ownership, directing the opening of the Georgia program.

Questions and Topics in this Interview

Tell us about Path To Shine, Inc.
What attracted you to the program?
Your work as a Technical Assistant for MENTOR National…tell us about that and what that means for Path To Shine, Inc.
Now that you have been in the role for a full year, how have you changed things?
How can people help other than mentor?

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Gun Violence

May 26, 2022 by John Ray

Minneapolis St. Paul Studio

How to Talk to Your Kids About Gun Violence

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Gun Violence

In this public service announcement, Dr. George Vergolias, Chief Medical Director of R3 Continuum, offers guidance on how to talk about gun violence with your kids.

TRANSCRIPT

George Vergolias: [00:00:00] Hello. My name is George Vergolias. I’m the Medical Director for R3 Continuum. I am a forensic psychologist and a certified threat manager with 20 years of experience, specializing in workplace violence and school violence. Most importantly, I’m also a father of a 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son.

At R3 Continuum, our primary and passionate mission is to help organizations adjust to, manage and navigate through difficult disruptive events, including violent incidents. Last week, we collectively witnessed the heinous hate crime in Buffalo, New York, with the killing of 10 black community members at the Tops grocery store, most of them elderly. And we barely absorbed that event, until yesterday, once again, we woke up and bore witness to the attack at an elementary school in Texas, resulting in the deaths of two adult teachers and 19 children – second, third and fourth graders.

There are few words that can capture the outrage, the emotional reaction, the despair that comes with these events. Although we, at R3, can’t change these events having occurred, we can offer tools to make a positive impact. And towards that goal, I want to offer five tips for speaking with children about gun-related violence.

The first tip is that you should talk to them about their worries and concerns openly. Ask open-ended questions to understand what do they know, what are some misconceptions they have, what do they understand about the event. Express feelings about the event. Get them to open up about that, and express their feelings and thoughts. And then, you should also share your feelings as well. And you want to adjust that to their developmental age.

Secondly, adjust your dialogue to what you think they can handle emotionally. Kids at different age ranges and even kids at the same age range with different maturity levels will react differently to these events. Kids that have been previously traumatized may have a more difficult reaction, and you need to adjust that dialogue and that discussion accordingly.

Number three, reassure them about safety. These attacks are high impact, but they are low probability events. They’re unlikely to occur in any given school or any given school district. It’s also important to remind children about all the wonderful and exceptional measures that schools have taken to develop threat management teams, threat assessment, and reaction protocols and security protocols. In total, schools are a pretty safe place to be for kids and one of the most safe environments for them to be in the aggregate. And it’s important to remind them of that.

Four, reduced exposure to media and social media. This is not the time for information overload, particularly information that may not be accurate or may have been created simply for sensationalistic purposes in order to get clicks or additional views. We want to be cautious of exposing them too much to that. Ideally, you would want to titrate their exposure to those situations and that media over time, so they’re not overwhelmed.

Many of our kids, including my 14-year-old and 12-year-old, have their phones. It may be very difficult to get their phones back from them at this age with how much they’re involved in activity and social media. So, rather than trying to completely take the phone away, what you may want to do is some of the older teens where that might be more difficult, you want to at least check in with them periodically – once a day, twice a day – about what they’re hearing about these events, what they’re seeing online, what they’re being exposed to. And the goal there is to be able to correct any misinformation and give them an avenue to digest the information and talk it through. It’s really important to give them that opportunity.

Five, maintain regular routines and model healthy behavior. This is really important. Our kids will look to us for normalcy, as well as when something is not normal or off. And by maintaining regular habits, that becomes critical because these habits are are behavioral anchors to what is normal, and routine and comfortable in our life. And we want to model that and continue to show that in our daily interactions with them. To the extent possible, we want to continue those as much as we can. We can be sad, we can express outrage, we can express anger. Those are human emotions and they’re very normal in response to these events, but we also want to model a proper and productive way of managing those emotions and coping well through those events. And we want to be able to show our kids how to do that effectively.

This list is not exhaustive, but these are very easy take-and-used tips that you can utilize talking with children, and preteens and teenagers about gun violence, about the recent events in the last few weeks that hopefully can get them to express and open up a dialogue and be productive. Thank you for listening. Take care of yourself and take care of those you love.

About R3 Continuum

R3 Continuum (R3c) is a global leader in workplace behavioral health and security solutions. R3c helps ensure the psychological and physical safety of organizations and their people in today’s ever-changing and often unpredictable world. Through their continuum of tailored solutions, including evaluations, crisis response, executive optimization, protective services, and more, they help organizations maintain and cultivate a workplace of wellbeing so that their people can thrive. Learn more about R3c at www.r3c.com.

R3 Continuum is the underwriter of Workplace MVP, a show which celebrates the everyday heroes–Workplace Most Valuable Professionals–in human resources, risk management, security, business continuity, and the C-suite who resolutely labor for the well-being of employees in their care, readying the workplace for and planning responses to disruption.

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Amy Jolley with The Wellness Collective Women and Children

May 4, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Amy Jolley with The Wellness Collective Women and Children

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Amy Jolley with The Wellness Collective Women and Children

The Wellness Collective Women & Children was created to provide a collective community for women and children to offer support, tools and healing for mental health and well-being.

WCWC offers 1:1 Mental Health & Well-being sessions for women & children. In addition, community classes include yoga for kids & women, Girl’s Circle, Zen Den for Teens, Circle of Friends, Feeling Class for kids, Kindness Circle groups.

Nourishing events for Women; Restorative Yoga & Massage, Meditate & Mimosas, Mini-Women’s Retreat, Mindful Mamas Circle, Women’s Wellness events.

Amy Jolley, Yoga teacher, Social-Emotional Learning & Mindfulness Educator, experienced child & family therapist and lover of people and Mother Earth.

She has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She is also a registered Yoga Teacher from Shiva Tree Yoga School and a certified Women’s Gathering Facilitator from The Path of the Sacred She.

Amy has had the opportunity to work in the mental health field in community mental health, private settings, public & charter schools and for non-profit organizations.

She has been a Yogi for as long as she can remember and has had the opportunity to teach yoga classes and hold sacred space at women’s circles on the beautiful island of Hawaii and now in majestic Arizona spaces.

Through her work in schools she has had the opportunity to teach mindfulness and social-emotional learning in counseling groups, classrooms, in yoga classes, at after-school program and to families.

Amy also has had the honor of teaching aspiring undergraduate psychology students in Positive Psychology, Social Psychology & Environmental Psychology.

Her journey continues as she is a constant student in the school of life, always learning through people, relationships, psychology, mindfulness practices and yoga.

She is the proud owner of a community oriented business, The Wellness Collective Women & Children, which supports women & children with mental health and well-being to ‘connect with your calm’ through yoga, mindfulness, art & play.

Education & Certifications
Masters of Arts, M.A. Counseling Psychology, Concentration in Integral Counseling Psychology, 2011
San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Arts, B.A. Concentration in Communication Studies & Women’s Studies, 2005
Kalamazoo, MI

Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 hours, RYT-200, Shiva Tree Yoga School, 2017
Kailua, HI

Certified Kimochis (Social Emotional Learning Curriculum) Trainer, Kimochis, 2020, 2021, 2022, San Rafeal, CA

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Covid-19 and Sports – Episode 41, To Your Health With Dr. Jim Morrow

September 25, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Covid-19 and Sports - Episode 41, To Your Health With Dr. Jim Morrow

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attention deficit disorder — **Dr. Jim Morrow, Morrow Family Medicine, and Host of “To Your Health With Dr. Jim Morrow”**

Covid-19 and Sports – Episode 41, To Your Health With Dr. Jim Morrow

Dr. Morrow discusses various considerations around Covid-19 and sports, questions of safety, and much more. Dr. Morrow also offers an update on the Covid-19 vaccine. “To Your Health” is brought to you by Morrow Family Medicine, which brings the CARE back to healthcare.

About Morrow Family Medicine and Dr. Jim Morrow

Morrow Family Medicine is an award-winning, state-of-the-art family practice with offices in Cumming and Milton, Georgia. The practice combines healthcare information technology with old-fashioned care to provide the type of care that many are in search of today. Two physicians, three physician assistants and two nurse practitioners are supported by a knowledgeable and friendly staff to make your visit to Morrow Family Medicine one that will remind you of the way healthcare should be. At Morrow Family Medicine, we like to say we are “bringing the care back to healthcare!” Morrow Family Medicine has been named the “Best of Forsyth” in Family Medicine in all five years of the award, is a three-time consecutive winner of the “Best of North Atlanta” by readers of Appen Media, and the 2019 winner of “Best of Life” in North Fulton County.

Dr. Jim Morrow, Morrow Family Medicine, and Host of “To Your Health With Dr. Jim Morrow”

Dr. Jim Morrow is the founder and CEO of Morrow Family Medicine. He has been a trailblazer and evangelist in the area of healthcare information technology, was named Physician IT Leader of the Year by HIMSS, a HIMSS Davies Award Winner, the Cumming-Forsyth Chamber of Commerce Steve Bloom Award Winner as Entrepreneur of the Year and he received a Phoenix Award as Community Leader of the Year from the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He is married to Peggie Morrow and together they founded the Forsyth BYOT Benefit, a charity in Forsyth County to support students in need of technology and devices. They have two Goldendoodles, a gaggle of grandchildren and enjoy life on and around Lake Lanier.

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The complete show archive of “To Your Health with Dr. Jim Morrow” addresses a wide range of health and wellness topics, and can be found at www.toyourhealthradio.com.

Dr. Morrow’s Show Notes

Covid-19 and Sports

To date, limited data are available on COVID-19 and its effects on children and adolescents.
- We know that those with severe presentations
  - (hypotension, arrhythmias, requiring intubation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation [ECMO] support, kidney or cardiac failure)
  - or with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
  - must be treated as though they have myocarditis
  - and restricted from exercise and participation for a duration of 3 to 6 months.
  - These athletes must be cleared to resume participation by their primary care physician
    - and appropriate pediatric medical subspecialist, preferably in consultation with a pediatric cardiologist.
    - Cardiac testing (EKG, echocardiogram, 24-hour Holter monitor, exercise stress test, and if warranted, cardiac resonance imaging) must have returned to normal, before return to activity.
  - Those with moderate symptoms must be asymptomatic for at least 14 days
    - and obtain clearance from their primary care physician before return to exercise and competition.
    - Any individual who has current or a history of positive cardiac symptoms,
      - who has concerning findings on their examination,
      - or who had moderate symptoms of COVID-19, including prolonged fever,
      - should have an EKG performed and potentially be referred to a pediatric cardiologist for further assessment and clearance.

The question still remains about what to do with others infected with SARS-CoV-2
- or who had close contact with an individual with COVID-19.
- Because of the growing literature about the relationship between COVID-19 and myocarditis,
  - all children and adolescents with exposure to SARS-CoV-2, regardless of symptoms,
    - require a minimum 14-day resting period
    - and must be asymptomatic for >14 days before returning to exercise and/or competition.
    - Because of the limited information on COVID-19 and exercise, the AAP strongly encourages that all patients with COVID-19 be cleared for participation by their primary care physician.
    - The focus of their return to participation screening should be for cardiac symptoms,
      - including but not limited to chest pain,
      - shortness of breath,
      - fatigue,
      - palpitations,
      - or syncope.
    - All individuals with a history of a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 should have a gradual return to physical activity.
      - If primary care physicians have any questions regarding their patients’ readiness to return to competition,
        they should not hesitate to consult with and refer individuals to the appropriate pediatric medical subspecialist.

What Could Happen?

There are complications that will stay with a Covid-19 patient for the rest of their lives.
- The severe complications are
  - pulmonary fibrosis
  - and myocarditis.
  - The likelihood is that in order to develop these complications,
    - a patient will likely have to be moderately ill,
    - that is, having been hospitalized
    - and likely to have required supplemental oxygen therapy.
  - But there is still not a lot of data about this.
- What is obvious now, that was not obvious at all obvious early on, is that young people are at risk.
  - They are at risk of contracting the virus
  - and they are at risk of having a moderate or severe case.
  - We have already had one football player, in California, die from complications caused by Covid-19.
    - There could be many more.
  - Because of these possibilities,
    - two conferences in the Power 5 decided not to play football this year.
    - They felt that it might be safer in the Spring of 2021.
    - I am not sure what they thought was going to change by then.
  - Recently, the Big Ten conference has reversed their position and decided to play.
    - The main reason cited is advances in availability of testing.

Testing, Covid-19 and Sports

The ACC is conducting coronavirus testing three times per week
The updated Medical Advisory Group report requires all team members to be tested
- within three days of game day.
- one test must be performed the day before kickoff, and must be conducted by a third party the ACC office selects.
- another test must be done 48 hours after the game.
- In addition, every student-athlete who tests positive for COVID-19 will undergo a cardiac evaluation that includes an
  - electrocardiogram,
  - a troponin test
  - and an echocardiogram before a phased return to exercise.
  - Many ACC schools already had procedures in place to screen for any possible heart issues.

Should parents and other spectators attend their children’s sports practices and games?

Parents/guardians should follow current local regulations for social distancing and use of cloth face coverings when considering game attendance.
- Attending outdoor events may bear less risk than indoor events with less space and ventilation.
  - No one should attend any sports function as a spectator if they are exhibiting signs or symptoms of COVID-19.
  - Parents and other spectators with high-risk health conditions should strongly consider not attending indoor events or events held outdoors where appropriate social distancing cannot be maintained.
  - Live streaming or recording of athletic events, when available, may allow individuals who are unable to attend to participate in viewing events.