Profound Conversations

US businesses will re-open in a new reality. Social distancing regulations may make it difficult for some establishments to realize profit margins sufficient to support growth and long-term viability. We are likely to see a continued increase in online trans-actions. Some macro strategist suggests that cryptocurrencies will replace the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With Profound Conversationalists Jameel Aalim-Johnson and Yaya J. Fanusie, we explore MLPI’s new visions for equity and inclusion in the development of capital markets, investments, and wealth-building in a post COVID-19 pandemic world.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~Helen Keller

When you look at this country's history, which we're looking at, is taking what should be the most efficient use of capital and you damming it up to cut off some areas and redirecting it.

There's going to have to be a greater focus on cybersecurity and not just for the big companies.

“I’m sure that in the next few months, a lot of jobs are going to be looking for people who know to how to administer webinars who know how to run a zoom call and do all the things with the participants, etc.”

“People will always serve you better if you bring them something that they need.”

The economic stimulus is not dealing with the long term.

It's going to take a whole lot of black banks to get attention of large companies.

“I think most of what you're talking about which creates these inequities is just a basic desire to say ‘I have to make sure that I survive before I concern myself whether you survive.’ “

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Protests that originated in Minneapolis after a white police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, quickly spread around the country. The reality of social inequality create anger and despair that is now playing out on the streets of cities throughout the country. How did we get here and what is the way forward? What are specific health impacts on individual, family and communities from both physical and mental perspectives? What are effective pathways to breakthroughs in enforcement and judicial policies and civic engagement? How do we begin to transform our social contract to include those who have been dehumanized, commoditized and under represented?

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These micro aggressions and victimization that we see our own. These are only symptomatic. It's not just about the police. It's about the system.

So now America is no longer seen as a moral leader.

“Because there's another element here that is going on through these rioting and looting and trying to take over over our movement and our young folks are ‘No, no way. This is about us.’ And I commend them for that.”

World Health Organization conference in 1969 determined that the number one mental health problem in America was racism.

I think it's important that all of us and others be able to help people be able to utilize the moment in time we have.

“This is only profession we have [policing] with the authority to take someone's life.”

How do we change the police force for what it is now in terms of the militarization of it?

One quarter of the police department's nationwide have alcohol problems.

There is a disincentive for officers to be more approachable.

Should there be a movement to have the videos of the killings of victims banned from constant television broadcasts because of the mental health of the community?

Today's host is Linda Howard and the panelists are Muhammad Bashir, Ameedah Rashid, Darnell Blackburn, Diane Bell McKoy, Pastor John Arnold, and Latif Rasheed.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The opioid epidemic refers to the enormous surge in opioid addiction and overdose over the last several decades in the United States. Much of the epidemic has its origins in medical practice. Devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic include increases in opioid misuse and related overdoses, as well as the rising incidence of newborns experiencing withdrawal syndrome due to opioid use and misuse during pregnancy. Opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 deaths in 2016, more than any previous year on record. An estimated 40% of opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription opioid.

Episode VI will explore the less than obvious connections between mental illness and substance abuse. We would like to assert that one, often overlooked foundational connection is, the unhealthy need that leads to the opioid use, which completely destabilizes a Healthy Mental decision-making process. Are we still in an epidemic in 2022? What are harm reduction policies and what have been their outcomes? Which populations are currently most affected? What can individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities actively do to assist in solving this epidemic? What are good Samaritan laws? Are their signs that the tide is changing? What are the Trust factors in need of transforming that will lead to satisfactory resolutions?

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There is a lag between technology and knowledge and the criminal justice system

A physician's background beliefs may influence their decision making

My own efforts have been in getting new technologies into African American and Latino communities.

There's what we call an opiate, and then there's what we call an opioid.

Everyone has a genetic element that dictates what their response is to medications

Are doctors ever held responsible, legally?

What training are doctors getting on proper use of opioids?

We've had great difficulty in changing the dosage requirements, which is set by law in some places, and we find that when people get inadequate medication they may end up using drugs to get by

A lot of a prescriptive practices involve the patient being given responsibility of taking the medication correctly.

There is a huge importance in getting a support system around the patient

There's more training and information needed on the best ways to work with people and making sure you're doing right for that person

This is where health equity comes into play. Because it's not just about making things equitable. It's about what investments would have to go on to raise the value of care.

The number of African American physicians is actually about the same numbers as it was the 1960s. Same as for the Latino community.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Profound Conversations will explore the intersection between cultures of care, the dynamics of loss and grieving, as well as the impact that donation has for families that give and receive the gift of life. Our intent for this episode will be to create new understandings and pathways to wellness within the context of great loss.

Our Profound Conversationalists include Dr. Clive Callender, Ingrid Palacios, Nila Schwab, Joey Boudreaux, and our conductor Joia Jefferson Nuri.

“Over the past year we've been talking about organ donation and how that works. But the one thing we haven't discussed yet, until today, is the grieving process. The world knows more about grieving now then probably did two years ago as we grieve in mass numbers around COVID. “

“My brother wanted to be an organ donor. He wanted to help somebody.”

“If you ever met a donor recipient, they always want to give back. They want to share the story they want to help.“

It's very hard to think when you're in shock, and that's usually what's happening when we approach a family about organ donation.

There are many people who help support families through the organ donation process. What exactly does that "support" look like?

“There are so many different levels of grief. And sometimes it comes back.”

Not everyone is educated to work with different types of grieving, different types of culture.

“We are there to be advocates, we are there to be liaisons, we are there to be those people that will honor those family's wishes.”

“The law requires the deceased persons wishes be followed, whether the family likes it or not. That you if you decided you wanted to be a donor, you will be a donor. And if the family doesn't like it, it is unfortunate, but the donation will proceed.”

There's still a percentage of people who still believe that they need their organs to get into Heaven, that is why more education is needed.

“In the African American community, there is a fear that you will be left to die because your organs are needed, you could keep five people alive. And that the emergency room doctors will not do the best for you, because they want your organs. That's wholeheartedly not true.”

“Grief is ongoing. And someone like me who held it in for quite some time because I didn't know who to say it to, I didn't know if anybody would understand what I was going through. But when I got to LOPA and I tell everyone, my healing began when I began to share my story began to listen to others and and how we can help each other through what we were going through.”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michigan healthcare leaders, Muslim communities to convene on a Building Healthy Communities and life giving donation/transplantation

Profound Conversation Arena be moderated by media personality Joia Jefferson-Nuri

Eversight, the Ann Arbor-based global eye bank network, and Muslim Life Planning Institute (MLPI), a national community-building organization, will host Building Healthy Communities: Michigan Medical & Religious Partnerships | Life giving Donation & Transplantation.

Joia Jefferson Nuri as coached more than 50 C-Suite executives and scheduled, written, and coached twelve TEDx Talks (including her own) with two more to present in Fall 2020. Joia has been on the leadership teams at NBC, CBS, C-SPAN, and BET, working as a senior producer, anchor, reporter, and host.

The online, interactive, Islamically informed discussion among southeast Michigan healthcare professionals, service providers and Muslim individuals and families will explore in session one Michigan Medical & Religious Partnerships featuring:

• Farha Abbasi, MD, Michigan State University, Department of Psychiatry
• Kara Odom Walker, MD, MPH, MSHS, Senior Vice President Nemours Childrens Health System
• Michelle Jesse, PhD, Psychologist, Henry Ford Health System
• Mona Makki, Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research CenterÂ
• Steve Miller Chief Executive Officer, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations