132: The Courage to Fight for Our Freedom with Kate Nielson, Robin Kagan, and Jim Case

by | Nov 1, 2020 | Podcast

Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster - Episode 132: The Courage to Fight for Our Freedom with Kate Nielson, Robin Kagan, and Jim Case

Today we discuss releasing old unnecessary beliefs, stuck-ness, and resistance, and creating equal opportunity for all human beings to thrive.

 

My first guests, Kate Nielson, the American Association of University Women’s top policy advisor and counsel, and Robin Kagan, former Program Co-Chair, Membership Co-Chair, and now Co-President of the Whatcom Branch of AAUW, join me today to discuss embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion and creating equal opportunities, equal rewards, and economic self-sufficiency for girls and women inside and outside of the workforce by removing gender-based barriers and biases that persist in our educational system.

My next guest, James Case, is the author of “Fear Is A Choice: Unravelling the Illusion of Our Separation From Love,” and is the host of the Livecast and podcast, “Adventures in Truth.” He joins me today to discuss how fear works and integrates into our experience, how radically our lives can change when fear is no longer a factor, and how to identify our fear story and be fully present in the now, where all of our true power and greatest joy live.

 

We Discuss:

  • How the American Association of University Women helps to empower women and girls
  • The greatest challenge women face today both at home and in the workplace
  • Why pay equity and the pay gap is even still an issue today and what we can do about it
  • How the AAUW is working to make education more accessible and affordable to women
  • Why many women gravitate toward college majors that prepare them for lower-paying fields
  • Specific policy measures AAUW supports for all women to achieve economic self-sufficiency
  • How fear is used to manipulate, influence, and control much of what we think, feel, and do
  • Why fear is a choice and we have the ability to choose how we react or respond in life
  • Exploring how radically our lives can change when fear is no longer a controlling factor
  • How fear works and integrates into our experience and how to identify our fear story
  • Learning to move from a fear-based experience to an opportunity-based experience
  • The impact of resistance and the importance of understanding it and surrendering to it
  • Busting the illusions about meditation and developing an effective daily practice

 

“I think a lot of people are really intimidated by the notion of being an advocate. And while I understand that, everyone can be and is an advocate. It can be as simple as talking to your friends about the issues that you’re passionate about to spread education, it can be picking up the phone and calling your elected officials, it can be a bake sale to let folks know what’s going on in your community. Having your voice heard and making your mark is the most important thing.”  – Kate Nielson

 

About Kate:
Image of Kate Nielson - Director of Public Policy & Legal Advocacy for AAUW (the American Association of University Women) - on Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster

As the American Association of University Women‘s top policy advisor and counsel, Kate Nielson drives the organization’s advocacy and legal work.

She leads AAUW’s policy and government relations work at the federal, state, and local levels, devises AAUW’s grassroots field strategy, oversees the organization’s national voter education and Get Out the Vote campaigns, and manages the AAUW’s Legal Advocacy Fund.

Kate has appeared in the Washington Post, BBC, Miami Herald, WGN, and other outlets talking about issues impacting women and girls in education and the workplace.

Before joining AAUW, Kate worked on education policy with the National Governors Association, as a legal fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, and as an organizer at the Feminist Majority Foundation.

Kate holds a law degree and a master’s of public policy from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College. She is a member of the Maryland State Bar.

 

About Robin:
Image of Robin Lynn Kagan, the American Association of University Women's Program Co-Chair, Membership Co-Chair, and now as Co-President for 2020-2021 - on Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster

Robin Lynn Kagan earned her B.A. from the University of Washington in English/with a writing emphasis, worked in marketing and advertising for 10+ years, and spent the last 22 years in Long-Term Care insurance and also as a fully licensed Financial & Investment Advisor.

She has spent the last 8 or so years with the American Association of Univerity Women (AAUW), and has been on the board as Program Co-Chair, Membership Co-Chair, and now as Co-President for 2020-2021 of the Whatcom Branch of AAUW.

Robin is married to Ralph Smallwood, a retired Director of a school for at-risk teenagers, and they have two daughters and one grandson.

She is a health nut, loves to sing jazz standards, plays piano and mandolin, and paints. Robin also loves a good game of tennis!

 

About James:
Image of James Case, author of, "Fear is a Choice: Unraveling the Illusion of Our Separation from Love" - on Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster

Jim Case is the author of “Fear Is A Choice: Unravelling the Illusion of Our Separation From Love,” and is Host of the Livecast and podcast, “Adventures in Truth.”

He served, for close to a decade, as the Director of Aliveness for a natural residential Healing Center in AZ, conducting transformational seminars and one-on-one coaching, and aliveness therapy for people confronting terminal and non-terminal disease processes.

He continues to work with clients around the country, and around the world with his program, “The Science of Transformation.”

His passion is assisting people to achieve the transformation and growth they desire, and has worked for over three decades impacting the spiritual and growth communities.

 

Fear Is a Choice: Unraveling the Illusion of Our Separation from Love - book by James Case

 

“We didn’t come in afraid. Fear is trained, fear is something we learned in the process. It’s a choice that has been trained into our experience. When you change your relationship with fear, it changes everything about your life.”  – James Case

 

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