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Arroe Collins

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  1. 8 HR AGO

    Family Secrets Do You Truly Know The Truth Curse Of The Blumenthals From Phyllis Karas

    The Blumenthals are one of millions of Eastern European Jewish families who immigrated to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Settling in Providence, Rhode Island, they grow and prosper. During Prohibition, the Blumenthals become bootleggers—starting their fraught history with alcohol and crime. Once Prohibition is repealed, Barney Blumenthal opens a liquor store in Boston. Life is good—until fate intervenes.In May 1935, a drunk driver took the lives of six Blumenthals, including three children. Horrific photos run in newspapers across the country. Six months later, Ronnie Blumenthal is born: a phoenix rising from the ashes of devastation, a golden child upon whose blond head the family’s hopes and dreams are placed. He grows into a handsome and spoiled teenager, driving a fast convertible and surrounded by beautiful girls. The Blumenthal legacy is resurrected—until one July night in 1954, when he is arrested for murder.The victim is his mother’s seamstress, who was allegedly having an affair with his father. Newspaper and TV coverage is relentless. Ronnie pleads guilty, yet dark questions remain unanswered. Upon Ronnie’s release from prison, his drunken behavior causes the family—who faithfully visited him behind bars—to finally wash their hands of him. At the end of his life, not one family member will contribute to his funeral. The once golden child is buried in a pauper’s grave, etching the Blumenthal curse in stone.A decade later, New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Karas, a Blumenthal cousin, uses her well-honed instincts as a journalist to peel back layers of long-hidden family secrets. Karas sensitively chronicles the generational trauma affecting Phillip and Rose Blumenthal’s six children and their children—the fifteen Blumenthal cousins—who were left to build their lives in the fallout. The Blumenthals’ story proves that, by learning from the past with care and love, curses can be broken. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

    16 min
  2. 14 HR AGO

    How To Disagree Better From Julia Minson Receptiveness Is Essential Plus More

    Disagreements happen everywhere to everyone – in workplaces, in families, and with our countrymates. And these days, the levels of anger and vitriol seem to be skyrocketing. As a result, many of us are either in a constant state of conflict or assiduously avoiding voicing any opinion that might spark debate. Yet, according to Julia Minson, PhD, a psychologist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, disagreeing is both inevitable and essential for everything from navigating decisions at home to running innovative and agile companies to governing democratic societies. Through the years, social scientists have often offered well-meaning but unproven (and not very useful) advice on handling conflict, according to Minson. In HOW TO DISAGREE BETTER (Avery; March 24, 2026), she offers evidence-based insights, based on decades of scientific research to help readers understand why we disagree, and how we can do it constructively and without rancor.Minson defines constructive disagreement as any disagreement that increases the parties' willingness to talk again. Her bedrock concept is "receptiveness to opposing views" - a trait she has studied for years, and that can be measured using a simple survey. However, Minson argues that even more important than cultivating a mental habit of receptiveness, is working on showing the other party that we are receptive to their point of view. Unfortunately, most of us are not naturally gifted at this task (indeed, evidence shows we are quite bad at it). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

    10 min
  3. 1 DAY AGO

    Merry Go Round Broke Down From David Woo World Reality From His Shoes

    David is not only a novelist. He is a former global macro strategist, described by Bloomberg as “one of the most outspoken voices on Wall Street,” with a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia and a career that spanned the IMF, London, and New York. What makes this book unusual and interesting for this moment in time is that it translates decades of economic transformation into human stories we can all recognize. The novel tells the story of globalization through nine interlinked lives that converge during a hostage crisis at the Bull & Bear Bar in New York on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis. From a Chinese factory director to a Wall Street bond salesman, a Japanese media celebrity to a Mexican undocumented worker, the novel shows how decisions made in one part of the world ripple outward in ways no one fully controls. As the former Bank of America Head of Global Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy & Economics Research (2010 – 2020), David’s perspective is unique - he helped interpret and forecast the forces that reshaped trade, finance, geopolitics, and capital flows. Now, through fiction, he opens a window into what those forces did to ordinary lives, how they formed the world we inhabit today, and why so many people feel both enriched and dislocated by it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

    10 min

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