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Welcome to Relief Valve! My goal in creating this is to build a virtual square where I can talk with people about what is going on in their worlds to share experiences and ideas that might help all of us get through these unprecedented times.
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Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Taglit is the Hebrew word for 'discovery'.
The Birthright Israel program was initiated in 1994 and is funded by private donors, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli Government. To be eligible you have to have at least one parent of recognized Jewish descent, or who have converted to Judaism through a recognized Jewish movement and be between the ages of 18 and 27.
As of 2022, more than 800,000 participants from 68 countries had participated in a Birthright tour.
A Birthright Israel trip includes airfare from a major gateway city, room, board and transportation associated with touring the country for a ten-day trip.
On today’s show, my guests are Nina Levinson who works in the entertainment industry creating localizations, literally the foreign language versions, of popular TV shows and movies. And Jason Rochlin who is the Lead Features Editor at Game Rant, a popular web blog site covering news and interest stories of the video gaming industry. (And yes, he is my son)
Authors Personal Note:
When I started Relief Valve in August of 2020, it was all about getting through a challenging time during the Covid outbreak. I was looking for work and like most others locked in my house waiting for the first vaccines to come along. I wanted to see how others were coping and while I was at it, learning more about who they were, what they did and how they were dealing with the world. I paused in October of 2021 after 37 interviews, realizing that we were really beginning to move on from Covid, and after a year and a half, I discovered I really miss talking to other people about what they do and how they go there.
So, today, I want to rededicate this podcast to sharing the experiences of others. Hopefully with interesting stories and maybe the occasional inspiration along the way.
Music in this episode is:
Title: Degenerate Blues
Artist: Alexander Nakarada
First release: 24.04.2019
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Jeff Prang was elected in 2014 as the 27th Assessor for the County of Los Angeles and re-elected in 2018.
Raised in Warren, Michigan, Assessor Prang is a graduate of Michigan State University. After graduation, Mr. Prang relocated to California where he served nearly 18 years as a council member for the City of West Hollywood, including four terms as Mayor, among many other positions in his public sector career.
Assessor Prang is a State Board of Equalization licensed appraiser and administers the largest office of its kind in the nation with 1,300 employees that provides the foundation for a property tax system that generates over $17 billion annually.
https://assessor.lacounty.gov/forms
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Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Mitch Ziegler retired last June from a 35 year career in teaching. For 31 of them he was the adviser of the award winning newspaper and yearbook at Redondo Union High School, where he also taught AP English and photography.
The recipient of numerous advising and service awards over the years, Ziegler was named the H.L. Hall National Yearbook Adviser of the Year by the Journalism Education Association.
Ziegler has been married to his wife Julie for 33 years, and he has two adult sons.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has worked on over 80 features since 1989 and won an Emmy for his work on “Behind the Candelabra” in 2013.
He has been working with Film Maker Steven Soderbergh since the beginning with 29 features and three television seasons, plus multiple films from Victor Nuñez, David Gordon Green, and the Duplass Brothers.
He has written extensively on film sound, beginning in 1981 for Recording Engineer/Producer and then in Mix; these writings total over 110 columns and 35 feature articles. Right now, he is working on a book on the digital archiving of motion pictures called “Solving the Digital Dilemma”.
From 2000-2016 he owned Swelltone Labs, a post-production sound facility in New Orleans, where he lives and works.
Learn more about his work on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086626/
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Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Bobak Roshan is a recovering lawyer who opened his first coffee bar 10 years ago in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood.
While that store has closed in the pandemic, his Demitasse cafe continues on Third Street in Santa Monica where he uses unique brewing methods to make fine drinks from his own coffee roastery.
In addition to Demitasse, Bobby now has a cafe and a dessert/mocktail bar called Kindred Spirits in Santa Monica on the Third Street Promenade.
Find him on-line at:
@cafe_demitasse
https://www.eatkindredspirit.com
@eatkindredspirit
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Sunday Aug 08, 2021
Sunday Aug 08, 2021
Hey Listeners. No guest interview on this show. I wanted to take a moment to reflect. See August marks a year since I published the first episode and started down this adventure.
I beg your indulgence for a moment while I share some of my story for perspective…
I’m hoping to pivot this podcast going forward into focusing a bit more on what my guests do, how they do it and how their ambitions are guiding them into the future. I know I have a lot more to learn and I’m looking forward to talking about how the new normal takes shape and what is really important for everyone!
If you have a story to share about your world and how it’s taking shape, reach out! If you are willing to talk about it, I’d love the chance to talk to you! I’m convinced that when we share our experience with each other it give us a chance to grow and encourages us into a brighter shared future.
Thanks for listening! I think of all of you as friends and I hope all this has brought some joy to your lives.
Here’s to hopefully another year of sharing these stories with you!
Our next episode should hit the feed next week, but if you want to learn more about me and this podcast, take a look at https://www.jeffrochlin.com/relief-valve
Please subscribe! If you have a story to share, reach out! I’d love to talk to you about it!
My email is: jrock@jnrprod.com
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Lani Rosales is the Chief Operating Officer at The American Genius , a strong news voice in the entrepreneur and tech world, offering meaningful, concise insight into emerging technologies, the digital economy, best practices, and a shifting business culture.
She has co-authored a book, co-founded BASHH, The Big Ass Social Happy Hour , a monthly networking event offline, and Austin Digital Jobs, a group offering a quarterly mixer, cramming two venues full of the city’s most popular employers, and highly qualified, eager talent.
She is a seasoned business writer and editorialist with a penchant for the irreverent.
You can find all her ventures at:
https://theamericangenius.com/author/lani/
Check out her book:
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Passion-Purpose-Profits-Estate/dp/0615838340/
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Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Kelly Cheatle is a materials and process maven who specializes in visual storytelling and innovation.
She is the Artistic Director of Airigami, a creative firm that specializes in colossal experiential and dimensional illustrative projects built from modeling balloons.
Along with her husband and partner Larry Moss, she leads teams of artists and community volunteers to construct ephemeral installations that enchant diverse audiences of all ages. Their unique fine art and award-winning illustration work has been showcased around the world.
She is also a founding member of Read Along Road, an on-line program supporting the development of family literacy skills by not only providing access to age-appropriate reading materials, but also by modeling how reading aloud is done in fun and welcoming videos.
Find her work here:
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Mike Appel is a Multiple Emmy Award winning Lighting Director/Designer, working on such projects as the Kid’s Choice Awards for Nickelodeon, Unplugged and The Video Music Awards for MTV, The BET Awards, NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center and Democracy Plaza for Election Nights, VH-1’s Storytellers and the I-Heart Radio Festival Amongst many other shows. He has lit performances at The White House and for the broadcast of The NBA Draft.
He has been nominated for 5 Emmy Awards and the winner of 3.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in South Florida with his wife Gwen and his two kids, both world class Ice Skaters on their way to future Olympic Gold!
Learn more about his work at: https://www.madesign.tv
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Dave Dinsmore has never taken a single wine class, but he knows what he likes and best of all, he likes to share.
Originally from Chicago, and currently working remotely from South Carolina, Dave works in IT at a film studio while building his his dream, Ascension Wines with his wife Lisa.
As Master of Quality Control of the company, he’s dedicated to testing every bottle, so only the best wine finds its way into the glass.
Find the product of his labor of love at:
See the Wine Pouring Broadcasts at:
https://www.facebook.com/AscensionCellars
And get the latest anytime on Instagram at:
@ascensioncellars