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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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Beyond Boxes is an exploration of labels and identity around gender, race, sexuality, class, disability, relationships and much more. Hosted by Jaï Bristow (previously known as Jaia Bristow), each episode features a new guest who shares their story around the labels they identify with and the ways in which they go beyond socially ascribed boxes.
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5. Beyond Biracial with Imani Jade Powers
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Imani, a mixed race actor & writer, shares her experiences navigating race and otherness as a light-skinned woman. We talk about representation in media, typecasting, how the industry is evolving, what changes Imani would like to see happen, the confusing and complicated aspects of her mixed heritage, struggling with a sense of belonging whilst ack…
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4. Beyond Monogamy with Mel Cassidy
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Your guide to understanding relationship anarchy and the different forms of honest non-monogamy. Mel talks about the many different ways of doing non-mongamy, whether it's an inherent identity or not, how to get started, how to support a loved one who is exploring non-monogamy and what monogamous people can learn and apply to their relationships!…
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3. Beyond Genres with Chris Pierce
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Chris, a gay Black musician talks about the lack of representation of openly gay Black men in the industry, the intersectionality of Blackness and Queerness, his relationship to religion and with his family, dealing with homophobia in Black and religious communities and the pros of social media.Kirjoittanut Jaia Bristow
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2. Beyond Binaries with Meg-John Barker
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An exploration beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, Meg-John talks about intersectionality, inbetweeness, plurality, the pros and cons of labels, the harm in binaries for everyone, whether you fit them or not, how to be a supportive ally to the trans community, why respecting pronouns is important, getting used to "they" as a pronoun and much m…
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1. Beyond Black with Danson Njoka
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Danson shares his experiences of race across continents as a Black man born and raised in Kenya who studied in the US and now lives in the UK who "didn't grow up racialised as Black". He talks about becoming aware of his racial identity when he moved to the the US; his experiences of facing racism for the first time; the impact of colonialism on hi…
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Beyond Boxes with Jaï Bristow (previously known as Jaia Bristow) is a series of conversations exploring labels and identity around gender, race, sexuality, relationships, class and disability. Each episode features a new guest who shares their experiences of social identities and how to be a supportive ally.…
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