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Check out our latest podcast interviews (and food suggestions) from all over North America!

Rachael Siddoway: How is a child’s mental health tied to their parent’s mental health? Featured

Rachael Siddoway is an award-winning and best-selling author despite being diagnosed with severe Dyslexia at age eight. Her first book, An Impossible life, is a best seller and an Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Winner. Her second book, An Impossible Wife, is a Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal Winner. Rachael has been interviewed in all 50 states on local and national news, including CBS This Morning and The Tamron Hall Show. Rachael has traveled the country speaking with organizations, mental health advocacy groups, government officials, and media outlets about her family’s personal experiences with mental health struggles and about the stigmas that surround mental illness. She is an author, keynote speaker, and mental health advocate. Rachael graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Art Education. A lover of cats and poetry, she lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Brett and daughter, Indigo. In episode 345 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out what it was like growing up with dyslexia, how Rachael started writing novels at age 12, when she first noticed a problem with her mom’s mental health, how a child’s mental health is tied to their parent’s mental health, how a parent can ensure their child’s....

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Sally Raymond, LMFT: What’s your advice for students who are currently experiencing depression? Featured

Sally Raymond, LMFT, is a practicing, longtime Marriage and Family Therapist in Southern California. She is a speaker, author, and passionate, devoted expert on the topics of life and healthy growth, suicide, and relationships. Since her son Jon’s suicide in 1991 while being licensed as a psychotherapist, Sally has directed the precise psychological insight and skills unavailable any earlier to her as a mother toward ‘reverse engineering’ what in Jon’s life experience culminated in such a tragic last choice. The task has taken her as many years as he lived. Now, her book is out, expressly written to help others thrive at every age and avoid the kind of pitfalls Jon fell prey to. Understanding the new core issue at each stage of development can help children and adults alike better steer towards greater life, wholeness, joy and fulfillment. In episode 344 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Sally wanted to get into Marriage and Family Therapy, more about her eldest son Jon’s childhood and eventual death by suicide at age 23, Sally’s goal in writing the new book “The Son I Knew Too Late: A Guide to Help You Survive and Thrive”, learning about Sally’s volunteer....

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Dr. Chris Whaley: How can we help friends and family when tragedy strikes? Featured

Dr. Chris Whaley is an International Author, Southern Baptist Pastor, former Professional Wrestler, Actor & Motivational Speaker. Chris competed in Florida as a Pro Wrestler using the ring name “The Saint”. Whaley was trained by The Great Malenko. In the 1980s Whaley wrestled professionally in Florida and the southeastern states for 10 years, competing with the Undertaker, the Freebirds, the Ultimate Warrior, “Flamboyant” Eric Embry, “Iceman” King Parsons, and many others. His last three years he wrestled in Texas with Wild West Wrestling, WCCW and independent shows. After retiring from Professional Wrestling, he pastored 3 churches in Florida. His last 5 years he was on staff at the First Baptist Church of Orlando. Drawing on real-life experiences from both wrestling and his career as a pastor he wrote his first novel The Masked Saint. That novel turned into a movie in 2016 and won “Best Picture” at the 2015 International Christian Film Festival. In episode 343 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out how he dealt with bullying as a kid, why he decided on Palm Beach Atlantic University, how he became a professional wrestler under the name “The Saint” for 10 years, whether professional wrestling is fake and....

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Dr. Frank L. Douglas: What’s missing from the current DEI efforts? Featured

Dr. Frank L. Douglas was raised in the small South American country of Guyana. Suffering under the weight of poverty, Douglas faced severe childhood trauma, often questioning his place in his family and yearning for acceptance. Despite these obstacles, Douglas excelled academically, showing great promise at school and winning multiple awards. In his career, Douglas continued to climb the ranks of academia and made significant discoveries in the pharmacology field. He established the Center for Biomedical Innovation at MIT and received the George Beene Foundation Award, GQ Magazine’s Rock Star of Science Award, Black History Maker Award and the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award. He has continued to champion the cause of African American students, having never forgotten his own roots in a poverty-ridden, politically conflicted homeland. The meaning of his name—Frank being Celtic for “free man” and Douglas being Scottish for “from a black stream”—has become his personal banner. In episode 342 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out what it was like for Dr. Douglas to grow up in Guyana, what it was like to be awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and come to America to study Chemistry....

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