Your Lot and Parcel

Benjamin Diaz
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Experience Your Lot and Parcel Podcast, and learn more ways to preserve your home, family and historical landmarks by actional advice from a wide range of qualified professionals.

  1. 1H AGO

    Meeting Suffering with Boundless Love

    In the shadows of Madrid’s most notorious drug slum, an American missionary family takes root among heroin addicts and builds an unlikely church. Shooting Up is Jonathan Tepper’s searing memoir of growing up in San Blas, where playgrounds were strewn with syringes and his closest friends were recovering addicts twice his age. When Elliott and Mary Tepper arrive in 1985 with their four young sons, San Blas is the epicenter of Europe’s heroin epidemic. While other children play soccer, Jonathan befriends bank robbers and former prostitutes. His heroes are not athletes, but men like Raúl and Jambri—charismatic ex-addicts who transform their lives through the revolutionary rehabilitation center the Teppers help to found. What begins as eight men in a cramped apartment becomes Betel, now one of the world’s largest drug rehabilitation networks. Yet this is not a story of institutional triumph. Instead, it is an intimate portrait of radical compassion during the height of the AIDS crisis, told through the eyes of a boy watching his parents choose the outcast over the respectable, witnessing miracles and heartbreak in equal measures. Tepper writes with unflinching honesty about the magnetic pull of the streets, the seductive danger of heroin, and the complicated love that binds broken people healing together. His prose—elegant yet raw—captures both the squalor of addiction and the stubborn persistence of grace. This is a memoir about finding beauty in ruins, forging family among outcasts, and learning that the answer to suffering is always more love. It is a story of love and loss, but also a love letter to friends, family, and the act of learning itself. Part Angela’s Ashes, Shooting Up announces Tepper as a powerful new voice in memoir—one who transforms a harrowing childhood into an unforgettable testament to hope. https://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Up-Memoir-Love-Addiction/dp/1964378133 http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    25 min

  2. 4D AGO

    Outsmarting Cancer by Reducing Risk

    Outsmarting Cancer is a clear, practical guide to preventing cancer by addressing its root causes. Dr. Adam Barsouk examines the biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors behind rising cancer rates, highlighting overlooked risks and health inequities. Drawing on research and clinical experience, he offers evidence-based strategies for reducing cancer risk and urges a shift toward prevention as a public and personal health priority. He is the author of "Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention."  https://www.adambarsouk.com/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    35 min

  3. APR 20

    Get Incredible Discounts on Your Next Rental Home

    Rental Secrets is your guide to unlocking the hidden power you have in the rental process—no matter the market. Searching for a new place to live can feel overwhelming, and most people assume landlords and property managers hold all the cards. After all, they control the roof you need over your head. But the truth is, you have more power than you realize. Most renters never use this power simply because they do not know it exists. Where does it come from? While landlords and property managers are in control, they face their own pressures and challenges in the rental business. Understanding these realities gives you leverage that can help you save hundreds of dollars on your next home. How do you gain this insider knowledge? That is where Rental Secrets comes in. These strategies are available to everyone, regardless of background or experience. They work in big cities and small towns, in expensive markets and affordable ones. Best of all, you can start using them today.  https://rentalsecrets.net/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    47 min

  4. APR 16

    Providing Excellent, Affordable Healthcare for All

    My guest, Dr. Blackstone, brings decades of clinical, organizational, and policy expertise to one of the most pressing challenges of our time: delivering effective, affordable healthcare on scale. Drawing on insights from medicine, technology, and systems design, Dr. Blackstone demonstrates how innovative digital healthcare can restore trust and autonomy to individuals while reducing systemic waste. She shows how intelligent, transparent technology can move healthcare upstream—from reactive emergency care to initiative-taking, preventive health—resulting in better outcomes at significantly lower costs. At its core, Doctor AI reimagines health as the foundation of economic and civic strength. It offers a comprehensive model for direct access to care, empowering individuals, strengthening nations, and redefining health as the organizing principle of modern society—a domain where equity, autonomy, and intelligence come together to drive human progress. She is the author of Doctor AI Reimagining Health Rebuilding Trust Delivering Health 4.0."  https://robinblackstone.com/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    44 min

  5. APR 13

    Unlocking Potential by Nurturing Literacy

    Their mission is to support at-risk schools by providing every kindergartner, first grader, and second grader with books, activities, and videos designed to build character and foster a strong belief system through the power of literacy. Their vision is a world where literacy and shared values are restored in both classrooms and homes, helping to develop strong character traits and break the cycle of poverty. “We have an educational crisis on our hands,” he says. Two-thirds of U.S. students are not reading at grade level. Strong character traits and core values are often not taught at home, making teaching even more challenging. More than 60% of U.S. teachers leave the profession within their first five years. Many at-risk children have no books at home. Does their program help reverse these alarming trends? Just ask their educators!  https://maxrhymesfoundation.org/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    38 min

  6. APR 9

    Skills To Practice Self-Therapy

    Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a groundbreaking approach that is revolutionizing emotional health care and the treatment of chronic diseases. EBT empowers individuals to directly change the brain circuits responsible for issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, obesity, addiction, relationship stress, and other chronic conditions. Dr. Laurel Mellin, the creator of EBT, is dedicated to launching an “emotional fitness revolution” by equipping people with the skills to become their own therapists and achieve lasting emotional health. Dr. Mellin is a New York Times bestselling author, having written twelve books on EBT. She is an internationally recognized expert in optimal health through rewiring the unconscious mind. As an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, Dr. Mellin developed EBT and has appeared on Oprah three times. Her mission is to make emotional health accessible to all.  https://www.ebtconnect.net/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    38 min

  7. APR 6

    Valuing Every Unique Background

    In higher education over the past two centuries. He explores how the diversity principle—the belief that people with varied backgrounds, experiences, identities, and perspectives produce better outcomes by working together—first took root in the world’s first modern research university, founded in Germany in 1810. This principle inspired John Stuart Mill’s on Liberty, a cornerstone of academic freedom, and shaped Charles Eliot’s transformation of Harvard in the late nineteenth century to encourage the “clash of ideas.” It also underpinned the twentieth-century equality efforts of figures like Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Pauli Murray. By recounting the history of diversity through the lives and work of these and other influential thinkers, Oppenheimer makes a compelling case for embracing diversity as a central value in education and a vital ingredient for a vibrant intellectual and political culture. As contemporary backlash challenges diversity initiatives in government, business, and education, Oppenheimer—hailed by The New Yorker as America’s “diversity detective”—reminds us that understanding the rich, two-hundred-year history of this idea is more important than ever. He is the author of “The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea."  https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Principle-Story-Transformative-Idea/dp/0300279892 http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    44 min

  8. APR 2

    Steps To Safeguard Your Home

    Over the next decade, more than 120 million people—one in every three Americans—will live in homes at risk from wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, insurance costs are rising rapidly. By 2035, strengthening homes against disasters could reduce annual losses by $30 billion. The Visionary AI Engine™ uses continuous training and deep learning to analyze, recommend, and update your home’s risk profile using real-world property data from the insurance industry. For insurers, this technology enables writing more policies in higher-risk areas. For homeowners, it offers a cost-effective way to improve your property, protect your belongings, and lower insurance expenses. With the Magic Window tool, you can discover your community’s risk score due to extreme weather. You’ll also learn about potential actions you can take to qualify for insurance discounts, grants, tax credits, and other programs aimed at protecting at-risk homes. Future Proof is the only company developing a platform that combines disaster risk scores, virtual home inspections, and up-to-code remodeling plans. Their solutions include weather-resilient construction technologies such as fireproofing sprays, wind-resistant roofs, and flood protection systems—all designed to help future-proof your home.  https://futureproof.org/ http://www.yourlotandparcel.org

    39 min
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Experience Your Lot and Parcel Podcast, and learn more ways to preserve your home, family and historical landmarks by actional advice from a wide range of qualified professionals.

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  • Creator
    Benjamin Diaz
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    489
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Your Lot and Parcel
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