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<p>The Best of Us: Being Human in Sarasota features surprising stories and in-depth conversations of strength and resilience in Sarasota and beyond. In each episode, host Bethany Ritz talks with someone leaning into this emerging culture in our region—sometimes on a personal level, other times community-wide—followed by a topical guest offering a wider view of what’s possible. These approaches and systems, some embedded and some emerging, are revolutionizing how we do business and live our best lives.</p><p>Something is happening in Sarasota. It’s radical, it’s surprising, and best of all, it’s here and it’s growing.</p><p>Reach out if you would like to host a similar program for your area.</p><p>Show credits: Host, Bethany Ritz; Music Consultant, Christopher Gillard of <a href="https://shared.outlook.inky.com/link?domain=sound-haus.com&t=h.eJw9jcsOwiAUBX-lYa1cXoW2K3-l8rDEazFQ0kXjvyuLujuZk8wcpGYkU0eWbXuXCaCkurrrMtdCbXoBuXTk2f69YAaMiPHWJk35ATI4b-5ac6V06IUOMwvWa2-CE3aUFrhRkjHDZU_lyAchhubzzYc-rX9To-6snCD-AP98AaS2Ly0.MEUCIQDBgJ8b67LfB5azwRkMujUStwKt5IHfMnmKby_vbzyZNAIgAY8eTcYXxG-utrY1LRs4UbmXXpatuIHENctJpkQGO1M">Sound Haus Audio</a>.</p>
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March 27, 2025
The second episode of The Best of Us: Being Human in Sarasota will aired March 2 2025. The hour-long show explores the mental health risks that can arise in the pursuit of excellence. While Ingram will discuss how the well-being of academics, professionals, and visionaries permeate every aspect of our world, two-star Major General Martin will share how his bipolar disorder was his greatest strength until it became the most dangerous thing in his life.Sunday’s local guest is Dr. Wendy Ingram, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Dragonfly Mental Health, a nonprofit with a mission to cultivate excellent mental health among academics worldwide. She is also a research scientist at Geisinger Health, where she works on biomedical informatics projects aimed at improving healthcare outcomes following surgery and at better understanding patients’ responses to electroconvulsive therapy. She serves as chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Mental Health Informatics Working Group and is a consultant to biomedical technology companies that focus on advancing mental health care.The topic guest of the episode is Dr. Major General Gregg F. Martin, US Army (Retired), a 36-year combat veteran who is a bipolar survivor, thriver, and warrior. An Airborne-Ranger-Engineer qualified soldier and Strategist, he commanded a combat engineer company, battalion, and brigade, and was commanding general of Fort Leonard Wood, commandant of the Army War College, and president of the National Defense University. A graduate of West Point, he holds a PhD and two master’s degrees from MIT, and master’s degrees from both the Army and Naval war colleges. He has lived on the bipolar spectrum his whole life, which mostly helped him, until it went too high, and then it nearly destroyed him. His life’s mission and purpose is sharing his bipolar story to help stop stigma, promote recovery, and save lives. His wife Maggie is an Army brat, Army wife, and Army mom to three sons, two of whom are Army Special Forces veterans, and one an artist. Martin is the author of “BIPOLAR GENERAL: My Forever War with Mental Illness.” For more, see his website at bipolargeneral.com.
March 27, 2025
The first episode of The Best of Us: Being Human in Sarasota aired February 2 2025. The hour-long show explores how the practice of repairing, making, or even viewing artworks is elemental to our human capacity for resilience, proving that the arts run deeper than superficial luxury. While Emily Brown will offer a personal perspective, George Prochnik will offer a history lesson from Vienna.The local guest is Emily Brown Conservator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Before The Ringling, Brown completed a Mellon Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a contract position at The Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and graduate internships at Shelburne Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, and The Walters Art Museum. She is a graduate of the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is a recurring guest lecturer for the Program, teaching First-Year students about the history of glass manufacture. She gave a talk recently at The Ringling’s Wonder Symposium and shared how she was able to regain an experience of wonder in her work after the loss of her husband.The topic guest of the episode is George Prochik, a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of five books of nonfiction including Stranger in a Strange Land, which was a New York Times editors’ choice and was short-listed for the 2018 Wingate Literary Prize in the UK. His previous book, The Impossible Exile, was shortlisted for the 2016 Wingate Literary Prize and won the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir. Prochnik is also the author of In Pursuit of Silence, Putnam Camp, and Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and is editor at large for Cabinet magazine.
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