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14/04/2022

Social media strategy change: Fierro Consulting updates moving to our Linkedin Page. Writing/speaking new FB author (links below)

12/04/2022

08/04/2022

begins in an hour. We have our guest Yvonne De Vastey. Join us as we discuss Power of Intetion.

Yvonne holds a M.Ed. degree in Education from Antioch University and certification as an Art Therapist from Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. She has worked over 25 years as an administrator of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services and was trained as a Family Therapist by the Child Guidance Center of Philadelphia. She ran a MH/MR Center in Philadelphia and over five years expanded its budget, programs and geographic service area. Since 1998 she has worked with allopathic medical students and physicians in the Philadelphia area Standardized Patient Programs. She has presented Reiki workshops at Lankenau Hospital to their oncology staff, cancer patients and patients’ family members, as well as to various nursing homes, to medical students at Drexel University and to the public at large. For eleven years she has provided an annual Reiki retreat at Cranaleith Spiritual Center in Somerton, PA. For the past seven years, she has sponsored an annual New Years’ Celebration with a Reiki Share/Pot Luck/Healing Circle. This event has gained popularity as a restorative mode of not only celebrating the New Year but of celebrating Life! Currently, Yvonne volunteers Reiki treatments to patients in the Oncology Department of BayHealth Hospital, in Sussex County, Milford, Delaware. Yvonne’s clients receive non invasive touch, hypnotic words and sounds to promote healing at cellular levels, allowing them to experience expanded awareness of their body’s ability to heal itself.

Tune in at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

06/04/2022

. This week we have our guest Yvonne De Vastey. Join us as we discuss Power of Intetion.

Yvonne holds a M.Ed. degree in Education from Antioch University and certification as an Art Therapist from Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. She has worked over 25 years as an administrator of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services and was trained as a Family Therapist by the Child Guidance Center of Philadelphia. She ran a MH/MR Center in Philadelphia and over five years expanded its budget, programs and geographic service area. Since 1998 she has worked with allopathic medical students and physicians in the Philadelphia area Standardized Patient Programs. She has presented Reiki workshops at Lankenau Hospital to their oncology staff, cancer patients and patients’ family members, as well as to various nursing homes, to medical students at Drexel University and to the public at large. For eleven years she has provided an annual Reiki retreat at Cranaleith Spiritual Center in Somerton, PA. For the past seven years, she has sponsored an annual New Years’ Celebration with a Reiki Share/Pot Luck/Healing Circle. This event has gained popularity as a restorative mode of not only celebrating the New Year but of celebrating Life! Currently, Yvonne volunteers Reiki treatments to patients in the Oncology Department of BayHealth Hospital, in Sussex County, Milford, Delaware. Yvonne’s clients receive non invasive touch, hypnotic words and sounds to promote healing at cellular levels, allowing them to experience expanded awareness of their body’s ability to heal itself.

Tune in Friday at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

04/04/2022

"Let me recount an amazing ritual around intentions that a friend recently described. Apparently, in some parts of Africa, when a mother conceives, she writes a song for her child and sings it to the baby in her womb all through the pregnancy. When the child is born, the village comes together to sing the same song for the child. Any time the baby cries, the mother sings that song to comfort him or her." Vineet Nayar

https://hbr.org/2013/02/the-power-of-intent

Good leaders make their motives clear and communicate them well.

31/03/2022

In this episode, Attorney Karla Cruel walks us through the components of the legal system for criminal law and the ways in which these different processes are flawed. "The very fact that we know there are frequent innocent convictions, in and of itself, tells us the system is flawed," she says. She walks us through various stages of bias and misjudgment, and how the are compounded over time.

Our guest, Karla L. Cruel, Esq. is a former educator, now social entrepreneur who launched Legal Empowerment Group to educate and support lower-to-middle income individuals. She worked as staff attorney for Tenant Union Representative Network (TURN), assisting with Philadelphia’s Eviction Prevention Project. Having grown up in West Philadelphia, attending academic programs created to help poor minority children go to college, now she holds three degrees. Throughout her schooling, she has been promoting social equality and racial and religious reconciliation. After living in Japan for 4.5 years, Ms. Cruel returned to the US to have a greater impact on the community in which she was raised. Through the encouragement of her students, Ms. Cruel attended and graduated from Drexel University’s Thomas Kline School of Law. She has practiced law in various areas including criminal law, family law, landlordtenant law, business law, charter school law and other civil transactional and litigation. Karla L. Cruel is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Ms. Cruel also holds a master’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in criminal justice is a mentor, speaker, educator and community advocate.


Link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/876007/episodes/10253058

22/03/2022

Surrender Practice
Practice Surrender for life
Jump, Feel, Expand
drritawrites.com/day-24-surrender-practice-three-haikus/

Surrender Practice Practice Surrender for life Jump, Feel, Expand Surrender Practice Practice Surrender for life Expect nothing but... Surrender Practice Practice Surrender for life Spirit knows, you don't.

21/03/2022

"Spirit seems to have me in a dance between comfort and discomfort. It's as if every moment I need to be just comfortable enough to have the ground firm to jump from, but not too comfortable to not desire to jump at all."

http://www.drritawrites.com/day-23-courage-muscles/

The printed copy of the book is in the mail. I was notified last night. Publishing this book is the bravest thing I've ever done. In this moment of my life, I am building my courage muscles. It requires all of me. All of my attention. All of my devotion. Spirit seems to have me...

19/03/2022

"Racial healing is an ongoing journey. I think of it as a bridge that requires building both the pillars and the midsections. Pillars are the affinity groups– communities of people with similar experiences. Midsections are the solidarity groups–communities of people with different experiences. This week, a few sister-colleagues and I are offering an inside view on our affinity processes and our personal journeys, in the hope it can support other whites build communities that support reclaiming our humanity, beyond whiteness itself. " - Dr. Rita S. Fierro

https://aea365.org/blog/white-antiracism-racial-healing-turning-the-pointing-finger-around-white-supremacy-in-me-by-rita-sinorita-fierro/

white antiracism & racial healing: turning the pointing finger around: white supremacy in me by Rita Sinorita Fierro 1 Comment / Uncategorized / By Sheila Robinson / March 14, 2021 March 13, 2021 Rita Sinorita Fierro I’m Rita Sinorita Fierro, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Fierro Consulting, LLC. We sp...

18/03/2022

. Tune in we have our guest Richard Wexler. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Child Welfare System

Richard Wexler is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. During that time, he won more than two dozen awards, many of them for stories about child abuse and foster care. He is the author of Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse (Prometheus Books: 1990, 1995). Wexler has testified before Congress and State Legislatures and advised the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families in its 1995 rewrite of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
Wexler’s writing about the child welfare system has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, and he has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Associated Press, USA Today, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, CNN, Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and other media.
Wexler is a graduate of Richmond College of the City University of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the school’s highest honor, a
Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University — Beaver Campus.

Tune in at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

17/03/2022

. Tommorow we have our guest Richard Wexler. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Child Welfare System

Richard Wexler is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. During that time, he won more than two dozen awards, many of them for stories about child abuse and foster care. He is the author of Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse (Prometheus Books: 1990, 1995). Wexler has testified before Congress and State Legislatures and advised the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families in its 1995 rewrite of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
Wexler’s writing about the child welfare system has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, and he has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Associated Press, USA Today, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, CNN, Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and other media.
Wexler is a graduate of Richmond College of the City University of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the school’s highest honor, a
Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University — Beaver Campus.

Tune in tomorrow at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

17/03/2022

A new episode has been published: DataGeek Series: The Music Business Design to Keep Artists in Debt with Andrae Alexander.

In this episode, we take a systems look at the music industry and how it sets up artists and composers to be in constant debt through the lack of fair and transparent contracts and the restrictions in regulations and contract terms. We envision a music industry where artists and composers are more informed about their contracts, their rights, and their fans.

Andrae is a Grammy-Nominated musician and professor who moved to Los Angeles in 2009 from Maryland and is a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music in the Music Industry Department, and is completing a PhD. in Leadership Studies . He is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy Band of Washington, D.C. He is also an Amazon best-selling author of the book, Build Your Music Career from Scratch, which is in its second edition, and has multiple Billboard . An internationally traveled musician and clinician on the subjects of Music Business, Music for Film and Television, and Music Production, Andrae has been to over 40 countries. Andrae holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a Master of Arts in Music Industry Administration.

As a musician, composer, and consultant, Andrae has worked on projects such as Empire, Detroit the movie, and The Birth of a Nation soundtrack. Some of the artists he has worked with include NeYo, BlackBear, George Drakoulias, Swae Lee, Mellissa Ethridge, Allee Willis, Meek Mills, Pusha-T, Kanye West, Jesse J., Rodney Jerkins, Lamont Dozier, No I.D. and more.

Link to the episode - https://www.buzzsprout.com/876007/10164994

Andrae Alexander's Fan Page

16/03/2022

. Tommorow we have our guest Richard Wexler. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Child Welfare System

Richard Wexler is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. During that time, he won more than two dozen awards, many of them for stories about child abuse and foster care. He is the author of Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse (Prometheus Books: 1990, 1995). Wexler has testified before Congress and State Legislatures and advised the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families in its 1995 rewrite of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
Wexler’s writing about the child welfare system has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers, and he has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Associated Press, USA Today, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, CNN, Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and other media.
Wexler is a graduate of Richmond College of the City University of New York and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded the school’s highest honor, a
Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University — Beaver Campus.

Tune in Friday at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

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16/03/2022

"There is so much violence in the world. It takes a tremendous amount of courage—every single day to wake up and remember the love, believe in the love, practice the love, that neutralizes fear and violence. It’s a moment by moment choice. I long for the time that humanity will expand our capacity to love that will end the war in Ucraine. But also everywhere else." http://www.drritawrites.com/day-22-which-war-aches-the-most/

Ucraine, I’m sorry. I have a hard time feeling sad and outraged for you. Not because what is happening isn’t awful. But because, there are so many other tragedies I’m still grieving. I’m pi**ed about what violence generates outrage and what is considered “normal.” I ache as to why people...

14/03/2022

"In absence of a common language, it's hard to speak of one, Italian culture. Places are marked by their local languages--called dialects now, but were once the language of smaller nations that made up Italy." http://www.drritawrites.com/day-21-southern-italian-protest-culture/

I asked my music mentor one day, what he believed united us as Italians. I was curious about his answer. I had my own ideas, ideas I still have a tough time putting in writing. Italy is an extremely young nation. We became a nation only in 1861--without Rome as capital. Rome was annexed in...

14/03/2022

I’m starting a free group coaching series on clubhouse tonight-6pm Eastern bring any issue you’re struggling with…:

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Live beyond your fears. Show up to work as your best this week.
Come experience Dr Rita’s coaching once a month (First Monday). Learn as others are coached or experience it personally.

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Monday, March 14 at 6:00pm EDT with DrRita Fierro. Live beyond your fears. Show up to work as your best this week. Come experience Dr Rita’s coaching once a month (First Monday). Learn as others are coached or experience it personally.

14/03/2022

What would Art Sanctuaries to heal whiteness look like? http://www.drritawrites.com/day-20-creating-art-healing-sanctuaries/

Thursday night I went to and open-mic event in Philly. It was raw, it was profound, it was alive. Just the way I love my art. And it was a lot more than that, too. It was a space of ancestral healing. Two poets did more than recite poems: they channeled on stage the physical,...

11/03/2022

! Begins in an hour we have our guest Karla Cruel. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Legal Criminal Justice System.

Karla L. Cruel, Esq., a former educator, now social entrepreneur who launched Legal Empowerment Group to educate and support lower-to-middle income individuals. She worked as staff attorney for Tenant Union Representative Network (TURN), assisting with Philadelphia’s Eviction Prevention Project. Having grown up in West Philadelphia, attending academic programs created to help poor minority children go to college, now she holds three degrees. Throughout her schooling, she has been promoting social equality and racial and religious reconciliation.

After living in Japan for 4.5 years, Ms.Cruel returned to the US to have a greater impact on the community in which she was raised. Through the encouragement of her students, Ms. Cruel attended and graduated from Drexel University’s Thomas Kline School of Law.

She has practiced law in various areas including criminal law, family law, landlord-tenant law, business law, charter school law and other civil transactional and litigation. Karla L. Cruel is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Ms. Cruel also holds a master’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in criminal justice is a mentor, speaker, educator and community advocate.
She is the recipient of the Outstanding Law Student Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Pro Bono Award from Drexel University Law School and First Judicial District in 2019 for her working in Landlord-Tenant court.

Tune in at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

11/03/2022

"My voice has been shifting and changing with my healing sanctuary" http://www.drritawrites.com/day-19-my-voice/

My voice started with a scream. turned soft-toned down by expectations of false femininity of pretended fragility My voice has been shifting and changing with my healing sanctuary My voice is growing stronger. Flowing with more vehemence When before it blocked behind Rocks in my stomach. I am my voi...

10/03/2022

. Tommorow we have our guest Karla Cruel. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Legal Criminal Justice System.

Karla L. Cruel, Esq., a former educator, now social entrepreneur who launched Legal Empowerment Group to educate and support lower-to-middle income individuals. She worked as staff attorney for Tenant Union Representative Network (TURN), assisting with Philadelphia’s Eviction Prevention Project. Having grown up in West Philadelphia, attending academic programs created to help poor minority children go to college, now she holds three degrees. Throughout her schooling, she has been promoting social equality and racial and religious reconciliation.

After living in Japan for 4.5 years, Ms.Cruel returned to the US to have a greater impact on the community in which she was raised. Through the encouragement of her students, Ms. Cruel attended and graduated from Drexel University’s Thomas Kline School of Law.

She has practiced law in various areas including criminal law, family law, landlord-tenant law, business law, charter school law and other civil transactional and litigation. Karla L. Cruel is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Ms. Cruel also holds a master’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in criminal justice is a mentor, speaker, educator and community advocate.
She is the recipient of the Outstanding Law Student Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Pro Bono Award from Drexel University Law School and First Judicial District in 2019 for her working in Landlord-Tenant court.

Tune in Friday at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

10/03/2022

I want to experience the juiciest life–more everyday. I want to experience more joy than I ever thought possible, more pleasure than I ever thought life could bring me–all at once. I don’t know what life will be life on the other side. I do know one thing though. Bliss cannot be contained by my mind. So I can’t think my way to a blissful life.
http://www.drritawrites.com/day-18-not-thinking-it-through/

One of the words adults used most to describe me as a little girl was giudiziosa--judicious. In other words, I've been think through every decision as long as I remember. At 4, this meant I was protecting everyone I perceived as excluded. At 10, this meant measuring myself continuously in a new cont...

09/03/2022

. This week we have our guest Karla Cruel. Join us as we discuss DataGeek Series: Legal Criminal Justice System.

Karla L. Cruel, Esq., a former educator, now social entrepreneur who launched Legal Empowerment Group to educate and support lower-to-middle income individuals. She worked as staff attorney for Tenant Union Representative Network (TURN), assisting with Philadelphia’s Eviction Prevention Project. Having grown up in West Philadelphia, attending academic programs created to help poor minority children go to college, now she holds three degrees. Throughout her schooling, she has been promoting social equality and racial and religious reconciliation.

After living in Japan for 4.5 years, Ms.Cruel returned to the US to have a greater impact on the community in which she was raised. Through the encouragement of her students, Ms. Cruel attended and graduated from Drexel University’s Thomas Kline School of Law.

She has practiced law in various areas including criminal law, family law, landlord-tenant law, business law, charter school law and other civil transactional and litigation. Karla L. Cruel is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania. Ms. Cruel also holds a master’s degree from Saint Joseph’s University in criminal justice is a mentor, speaker, educator and community advocate.
She is the recipient of the Outstanding Law Student Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Pro Bono Award from Drexel University Law School and First Judicial District in 2019 for her working in Landlord-Tenant court.

Tune in Friday at 8am 92.9 in or online at https://www.collectivepowermedia.com/

08/03/2022

"One of the aspects of my healing process has been accepting my weaknesses instead of fighting them: it’s the way I hold space for myself." http://www.drritawrites.com/day-16-coming-home-hosting-myself/

One of the things I’ve learned about traveling, is that getting back to an empty home in the US is hard for me. It’s the single moment in which being single hurts the most…having to get back to and empty home. For years I tried to just not make it so, trying to be strong...

07/03/2022

"Racism, or discrimination based on race or ethnicity, is a key contributing factor in the onset of disease. It is also responsible for increasing disparities in physical and mental health among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)." - Joanne Lewsley

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/effects-of-racism

Racism, or discrimination based on race or ethnicity, is a key factor in the onset of disease and increasing disparities in the health of people of color.

06/03/2022

"In my family hosting is a philosophy and a way of life. It’s assumed that anyone we love is welcome, always. It’s also assumed that anyone in need is welcomed. More often than not, it’s enough to be at our door to be welcomed." http://www.drritawrites.com/day-15-gifts-of-being-hosted/

When I look back on this trip, I notice sooo many gifts. And they are all connected to hosting. My parents are the best hosts in the world. I know this from every single person I know that has visited their home. When a guest comes, they become an absolute priority. And our guests get...

05/03/2022

"Dinner with a high school friend. Looking back with the wisdom of now—I no longer see myself as a lost little girl finding her way. I see a young writer who had discovered her love of language." http://www.drritawrites.com/day-15-the-gift-of-historical-relationships/

A dinner with a high school friend has me revisit my teenage years with new eyes.