Birth2Work Radio Show

Hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens explore the process of growing thoughtful, engaged, and capable children to be ready for work in the 21st century. In-depth interviews reveal the network of support necessary to accomplish this extraordinary task.

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Bob Dickman is an executive coach who teaches narrative strategies as they relate to corporate communication, product design, and branding through FirstVoice, a consulting firm specializing in media awareness training for business. www.Birth2Work.org

Giving babies regular time on their stomachs while they are awake and supervised is critical for developing their motor skills, like gripping and grasping, holding up the neck and head and developing shoulders and core strength. www.Birth2Work.org

Birth2Work and Emergent Success share a passion for a system’s approach to working on tough, complex issues because there’s no such thing as a single solution to any of today’s prominent problems. www.Birth2Work.org

Our guest, Lucia Cape, was the first person to be named Vice President for Workforce at the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County, AL in 2006. We get to touch on some of the challenges she has faced, and discuss the personal side of her work.

Vermilion County leaders took on the challenge of rebuilding a future for their county after some devastating economic losses. Follow the thread of business involvement in local education in the last 25 years that's now rendering capable citizens.

A good story is something treasured, certainly in novels, movies, or film. By “good” I don’t mean upbeat or positive, but coherent, thorough, and with an original voice. Where fiction is involved, we hold story creators to a high standard of origina

Once prosperous from industry, globalization forced massive closures, threatening to leave Vermilion County as a dying part of the "Rust Belt." Refusing to let the county die, the county's Chamber merged with the Economic Dev Corp, and began to transform.

Soaring medical costs present one of the greatest threats—not just to the well-being of our families—but to the very foundation of our national economy. As citizens and as stakeholders - for our own economic well being - we must make critical changes

Central to Birth2Work stakeholder leadership development is our commitment to helping others come to know the value and importance of community alignment around values and vision to get results when progress may seem slow and difficult. One way we do that

It’s easy, and quite common, in today's popular media roundtables and forum discussions to sit in judgment of how other leaders and professionals perform their work. But how often do we look inward to evaluate our own work? On today’s program I tal

Co-host Rick Stephens and I bring our listeners conversations with stakeholder leaders, digging deeper and deeper into the challenges and opportunities in developing the pipelines that supply the workforce for our nation’s future.

As the November 4 election day edges closer, I’m certain Birth2Work Radio listeners are engulfed, as I am, in the sea of words gushing from every electronic device ever created. Unfortunately, I’m finding little comfort in most of them. Long term, sys

According to the US Senate’s website, “the (US President's ) swearing-in ceremony represents both national renewal and continuity of leadership. As each president has offered a vision for America’s future, we reflect on the heritage of Inaugurations

The driving point behind every Birth2Work Radio show is the story of the featured stakeholder. Period. Not their accomplishments, position, or status alone. It’s the story of each person’s thoughtful action in his or her community, business, and/or se

Crisis (noun) – a situation or period in which things are very uncertain, difficult, or painful, especially a time when action must be taken to avoid complete disaster or breakdown. So, the question is, if the crisis is foreseeable and inevitable, h

Who is accountable for the accuracy of stories told in a world where the voices delivering them are most likely from people we have never met, who are financially motivated to encourage us to think and believe certain things? Who will face the consequence

TV Writer, Producer, and Author Dee LaDuke is committed to using what she has learned about writing stories for TV to influence new writers coming into the field. She has written two books on the topic, Making Great Television: Four Essential Ingredients,

In this Birth2Work program, co-host and US Marine Corps veteran Rick Stephens and I, sit down with Texas Army National Guardsman Mike Neu. Deployed for a one year tour in Iraq, he returned this summer a changed young man.