Outside a Bronx Nightclub stands 25-year-old, Aaron Cedres. He’s working as a bouncer. A fight breaks out, and a confusing brawl of more than a dozen people leaves one man ends with a broken jaw and deep cuts to his head and back.
Aaron, who has no prior criminal record, is charged with gang assault. If convicted, he faces a possibility of 25 years in prison.
The prosecutor in the case says tells Aaron that he’s obtained the surveillance footage from outside the club and urges him to take a plea deal of 5 years behind prison.
Aaron is appointed Kristin Bruan, a Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Aide Society, to defend him. He tells a different story. As the bouncer at the club, it’s his job to break up fights. Aaron says he threw one punch between two men who were in physical altercation, and that’s it. He insists the footage with exonerate him.
Unfortunately, in New York state, prosecutors can wait until just before trial to supply the defendant with key evidence such as witness names, statements and video footage.
For Kristin, making life-altering decisions with extraordinarily imperfect information, using her gut and her tenacity to fight for justice, and drawing on passion to keeping moving forward.
Today’s podcast is a story about a real and ongoing, “WTF am I doing with my life?” moment from Kristin, who had to making life-altering decisions with extraordinarily imperfect information. She’ using her gut and her tenacity to fight for justice, and drawing on passion to keeping moving forward.
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This past week, I attended Podcast Movement and had a really tough time on Day 1. Here's what I learned about networking and also about a pitfall many of us can fall into when reaching for our dreams.
Milana Leshinsky moved to the United States 25 years ago as a classical musician with zero knowledge of the business world when she decided to become an entrepreneur. Pretty immediately, she found success with a 6-figure business, but her goal was 7-figures. Years of hard work and long hours, she finally hit that million dollar mark, but it wasn't at all what she expected. And so - she quit and contemplated.
The silence was terrifying yet necessary. Milana began asking herself questions like:
And out of this inquiry, her new business and approach was born--Simplicity Circle. Her company's mission is to take the frustration, stress and anguish out of growing a business by SIMPLIFYING.
She says it's the key to happiness AND profitability.
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Solo Episode mentioned in the intro: What to do when you f*** up
I'm here in Barcelona, Spain. I arrived just hours after the terrorist attack at Las Ramblas. Today I want to talk about moments in humanity that we have the opportunity to bring on a daily basis. It's a small way we can begin to change the world.
Nancy Juetten's mission is to help entrepreneurs and speakers get their message out and also get paid doing it. What she found is that to make her own impact bigger, Nancy had to face one of her own biggest fears: speaking on stage herself! Since then, she's spoken on 43 live and virtual stages in 2016 and on track to beat that in 2017. If you have a mission and you're looking to figure out how to bring it to the masses, this show is for you. Nancy comes on the podcast today to talk about how she overcame those fears and built a business she loves.
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The biggest shift that happened in my marriage is when I shifted my inner search engine from "he doesn't love me" to "he loves me." In this podcast I'll talk about why we tend to look for what's wrong or why not instead of what's possible. We dictate our lives by the questions we put into our search engine. With awareness and intention, we can shift the results and experience of our lives by revising our search.
Here is the blog post I refer to in the podcast: http://www.kristyarnett.com/savingourmarriage/
A healthy lifestyle, at this point, is a no brainer in terms of living a long life with vitality. But why is it that even though we know we're supposed to eat healthy and work out, some of us still don't? The answer: mindset.
JJ Virgin is a celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and author of four NYT Bestsellers including The Virgin Diet and JJ Virgin's Sugar Impact Diet. She comes on the podcast to talk about her latest book, The Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son, & Life's Hardest Lessons.
When her son, Grant, was a victim of a brutal hit-and-run accident, JJ brought forth all her wisdom about positivity and strength to thrive through the difficult time. She shares with us how she applies the lessons learned to teach people to create their own miracle mindset.
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The song featured on this show is "Slow Burn" by Autograf.
Have you been day dreaming about your next trip while snoozing on the life that's right in front of you? That was Antesa Jensen's for most of her life, but particularly during her 12-year career in the investment banking industry. She liked her job, she had a great apartment, a fine life, but she was HUNGRY for something. After a couple particular WTF am I doing with my life? moments, she shifted direction. Antesa began waking up. That's when Adventure Awake was born. Her company is committed to transformational work through coaching and her favorite -- travel. Hear her incredible story and allow her to completely shift your view on travel. It just might be exactly what you need to hear.
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Video from last Trip to Jordan
The song featured on this show is "Slow Burn" by Autograf.