Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
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Welcome to the minds of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie, and the start of the new year!Today's podcast is an excerpt from Honor's upcoming book "Sovran at War," the long awaited sequel to "Kingslayer." Enjoy!https://www.facebook.com/honor.raconteurΑπό τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the minds of Honor Raconteur and her editor, Katie, as they answer fan questions about her newest release The Void Mage.There's also some news about the 2018 book lineup!www.honorraconteur.comwww.facebook.com/honor.raconteurΑπό τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur in all it's glory as she reads the prologue to her upcoming book The Void Mage, sequel to The Human Familiar.Take a listen!www,honorraconteur.comΑπό τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the minds of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they delve into fan questions.A lovely fan asked us about map creation, and we also have Holiday news to share.Take a listen!www,honorraconteur.comΑπό τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the minds of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling little questions about being an author.We welcome today's guest Indie author Trevor H. Cooley! Honor and Trevor answer questions from their fans about their different writing processes, and offer some advice for newbie authors. www.honorraconteur.comtrevo…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and the voice of Katie Griffin, as in today's podcast Katie reads an excerpt from Honor's newest release, The Human Familiar.By nature, it is a spoiler, so if you haven't read the book and don't want to know what happens, we suggest waiting until after you've read the book. If you don't mind the spoiler, liste…
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Welcome to the minds of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer those burning need to know questions!Today we answer questions about the upcoming book "The Human Familiar." No worries though, no big spoilers here! We tried to remain as spoiler free as possible. Though if you want everything about the familiars to be a surprise then we r…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.Today Honor answers a variety of questions about her writing process, starting with the worst piece of writing advice she ever received.Our lovely new theme song is by Jeff Washburn! You can see his page in the lin…
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Welcome! We proudly introduce an excerpt of Honor's upcoming book The Human Familiar, read by Kirk Griffin.Enjoy!www.honorraconteur.comHonor Raconteur @ https://www.facebook.com/honor.raconteurKirk @ https://www.facebook.com/griffin.kirk43Από τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.Today we discuss how Honor's writing process developed and changed over the years after the publication of her first book Jaunten.Our lovely new theme song is by Jeff Washburn! You can see his page in the links bel…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.In today's podcast we answered the question: how difficult is it to write from the opposite sex's pov? The answer might surprise you.Our lovely new theme song is by Jeff Washburn! You can see his page in the links …
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.In today's podcast we discuss the creation of languages: it's curse words, it's honorifics, and the culture that determines the language and it's use. Feel free to leave us comments and questions, and we hope you e…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.In today's podcast we discuss what goes into writing battle scenes, the aspects that must be considered, and what type of resources Honor uses.Feel free to leave us comments and questions, and we hope you enjoy!www…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.In today's podcast we venture into the world of Deepwoods to talk about it's characters and the new arc.We hope you enjoy!www.honorraconteur.comΑπό τον Honor Raconteur and Katie Griffin
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night.Today's podcast goes behind the scenes on how Honor creates her different magic systems, why she chooses to create each one differently, and the purpose of doing so.We hope you enjoy!www.honorraconteur.com…
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Welcome to the mind of Honor Raconteur and her editor Katie as they answer all those niggling questions that keep fans up late at night. Today's podcast is all about the Advent Mage world, ranging in questions about characters, the world, and just the books in general.We hope you enjoy!www.honorraconteur.comwww.raconteurhouse.com…
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