Martha Lopez-Anderson is member of a club that no one wants to be part of. After the sudden death of her seemingly healthy 10-year-old son from sudden cardiac arrest in 2004 blindsided Martha and her family, she immersed herself in education and training related to the prevention and treatment of SCA in youth. She joined Parent Heart Watch which is made up of parents who tragically lost children from SCA, many of them during a sporting event at school. Martha advocates for prevention strategies like early heart screenings and for lifesaving tools to be available wherever children gather that can be used in the event of a cardiac emergency. Martha could have crawled into a hole and lived in her grief, but instead, she turned her love for her son and her passion for helping other families into her life’s work. You will learn from her experience and be inspired by her courage.

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You may be familiar with a recent movie that just dropped on Netflix called “Woman of the Hour” with Anna Kendrick. It is the fictionalized version of a true story about a serial killer and rapist name Rodney Alcala. He’s known as the “Dating Game Killer.” There have been countless shows, documentaries, and podcasts about his crimes. He was convicted of murdering 7 girls and women and placed on death row until he died of natural causes in 2021. And while he was convicted of some of his crimes, there was always a belief by investigators that he was potentially responsible for 130 more. One of those unsolved crimes involved Niki Rowe Cross. She says Alcala was one of the johns who raped her in an attic in Ohio in 1977 where she was held captive as a teenager along with two other teens for a year. Niki tells her powerful and disturbing story as a way to bring awareness to human sex trafficking and to help others. The show can be watched here on YouTube, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://sites.libsyn.com/490772

If you or someone you know is the victim of human sex trafficking you can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at: 1-888-373-7888 or text them at 233733.

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Marla Bedrosian was on a successful track in corporate America, managing hotels up and down the East coast for a global hospitality company. Along the way, she learned a little bit about wine from the sommeliers at the hotels she oversaw. Eventually, that knowledge and interest fueled the fire beneath her to make a big change. She and her husband decided to become farmers and purchase a boutique winery in California. The confirmed New Yorker is now swimming deep in the entrepreneurial pool, learning as she goes how to make the wine flow and doing it with her family. She makes frequent trips back East to see her adult children and new grandchildren, but she and her husband are determined to make a go of this chapter. You will love her wit, brilliance, and enthusiasm, and will be inspired by her unique journey.

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