So, if you want to know how a man feels about you, I want you to try this going forward in your dating, mating, or relating experience, okay? Now a lot of you are probably listening to other advice that is more centered on attraction based way of dating, and what I'm going to suggest in a few minutes is more of an intentional way of dating. So most, and there's a saying out there I want to lean into because I think this confuses women in particular, and there's this saying that men find love through sex, and women give love, or women give sex hoping to find love. So men hope to find love through sex, and women hope to give sex to find love. Now why is this so critically important? Because we, for hundreds of thousands of years, physical intimacy is how people kind of entered into relationship that weren't arranged marriages and such like that.  And today's dating is more filled with a, let me, I wrote this down, dating today seems more to do with filling a list and hyper-focuses on attraction, especially since looks play a huge role instead of what I'm about to share right now.  That's my first statement, don't give sex hoping to find love. And I want you to think about sex for men is rather, I don't want to say insignificant because I don't want to say that for all men, but for most men, sex is rather insignificant. Similar to the way kissing is actually insignificant for a lot of men. And let me explain why I'm bringing this up. Did you ever, ever see the movie Pretty Woman? In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts plays a sex worker and she meets Richard Gere at a high end, or on his, on his way to a high end hotel. And they decide to go have physical intimacy with one another. And one of her rules is no kissing, no kissing. She says that's too intimate.  And what I mean to say is while we can operate in a world where sex is free and we can have physical pleasure whenever we want, the challenge is when we're physically intimate with another person, we actually can bond with another person. Or when I say we women tend to bond more so than men, okay? So I wanted to bring this up because what's really more important is what I'm about to share going forward. And I'm going to offer you something different the next time you're actively dating. So what is critically important more than anything else out there? I'm going to say it's a character, character, and I'm going to give you some examples of that in a moment. Character and more importantly, emotional maturity, emotional maturity. And I'm going to read something to you that I think is going to illustrate this. So within character, I know we say the words character, but what does that mean? It means actions matching words consistently and we're, you know, we're humans, we're going to make mistakes, you know, there's going to be times where we say we're going to call and we don't call, but it's consistent. Another facet of character is a generous and kind spirit, a generous and kind spirit. You know, today's dating has more to do with what can I get from another person instead of what can I give? And this is true for you ladies just as much as men. I see women who habitually operate from a what can I get from this experience more so than what can I give? In addition, character means you communicate clearly your, how you feel without having to be right. You know, true emotional maturity, true character is like, look, we all have a point of view, but my point of view isn't the right point of view. It's just a point of view.  In addition, they don't use people. You know, sadly, today's dating environment is people get used unintentionally because we have a significant percentage of unconscious people in the dating marketplace. In addition, they have their act together. They're not using drugs and alcohol as a way to supplement their life. They're not overly partying. That's I believe a person of character. In addition, they've healed from their past relationships and this is critically important for what I'm about to share next. They do introspective work on themselves to grow beyond their limitations. They have a protective and empathetic nature. In other words, a person of true character knows, they know their red flags in the dating marketplace.  In other words, they won't even put themselves out in the dating marketplace. And they believe demonstrating trust is paramount. They believe demonstrating trust is paramount to, to in their life. You know, trust isn't just about fidelity. Trust is, does this person have my best interest at heart? That's the real element of trust. So what I want you to try to do going forward when it comes dating is if you really want to know how a man feels, it starts by asking really good questions before you emotionally get involved with someone. It starts by evaluating and assessing their past. It starts by asking clear questions about what they seek in a romantic relationship. You know, most men are just looky-loos. By the way, you ladies are looky-loos, too. Everybody's just a looky-loo. They're just, let me just go try on this pair of shoes. Let me just try, I'm meeting another person and see if it fits and I'll wear it for a while. And then if I don't like it, I'll return it because we have a Nordstrom's way of dating. Okay. What is the Nordstrom's way of dating? Nordstrom's is a department store where you can buy clothes, try it on, wear it for six months and return it saying you don't like it. We have a Nordstrom, and by the way, I commend the store for offering that level of service, but at the same time, I'm not suggesting most people abuse it, but in today's dating environment, we unintentionally abuse people, meaning we can try something on and return it at our leisure because we don't like it anymore. And that's out of integrity. That's out of character. So if you start to approach the dating process with the following mindset, you're going to lose 90% of people out there. What I mean by lose 90% of the people out there, 90% of people, and I'm being rather generous when I say 90%, aren't that emotionally evolved. So I want to read to you a meme that is from Laura, oh gosh, the meme got cut off. Laura, I don't know who it is, says, when dating, look at how committed someone is to their growth. This will show you how committed they are to be with you in the future. Let me repeat that. When dating, look at how committed someone is to their growth. This will show you how committed they will be to you and the future of your relationship.  When dating, look at how committed someone is to their growth. A person who has committed to growth is more capable of expressing their feelings towards you than someone who hasn't done some level of growth. And it goes on. This is my portion of the meme. It says, whether humans recognize this or not, emotional maturity and good relationship skills are the foundational pieces of all romantic relationships, not height or financial status or seeking a younger model. If someone wants a healthy relationship, it starts by asking a person if a person is truly committed to personal growth and willing to improve communication skills. Most humans are blind to their true emotional intelligence, believing they have superior emotional maturity, and most everyone else is the problem. Looking in the mirror is the first step. And when one could admit that they have work to do, that's a good start. Folks, I'm here to say. You can weed out 90% of the wrong people by merely asking about do they do personal development work, pass them about their past relationships, and listen if they have a negative charge about their past relationships. Ask them, what positive things did you learn about yourself in each experience? How have you healed from your past relationships? What was good about your past relationships and most importantly, what are you most grateful for? Why is this a critically important series of questions to ask? Because a man or woman's capacity to lean into a healthy, happy relationship is all predicated on how they operated in their past relationships. And we like it or not, most humans today have had at least one significant relationship, if not three. Most humans have had three significant relationships and they probably had some skirmish relationships too. I call them skirmishes. I think of their like little trial and error relationships. In other words, that Nordstrom kind of relationship where they're together for three to six months, they tried it on and they sent it back to the department store. See if you really want to dive into emotional connection with another human being, emotional intelligence, it requires determining how healed they are from their past relationships and their capacity to communicate that to someone new. See how they communicate about their past will give you insight into future relationships. Let me give you an example of this. I once went out with a woman some years ago and you'd think I'd know what I'm about to share. This was a gigantic red flag, but I painted it green, okay? So she'd been married before or she'd been married for a decade or so, had some children with him. Then I said, oh, by the way, I noticed I smacked my lips. I guess it's true. I do smack my lips. People have commented on that. I don't realize I'm doing it, but when you're communicating like this, at least it's natural for me to do that. Okay, with that said, gave this woman, in her marriage, I said, what happened in your marriage? She goes, oh, he was a narcissist. I'm like, oh, really? Okay. I said, what happened to the last man you dated? Oh, he was a narcissist. I'm like, okay, okay. What about the one before that? Because she had told me she had a few relationships. I think she rattled off five guys that were a narcissist. I'm thinking to myself, well, I'm not a narcissist. I'll be her hero. Okay. We dated for about six weeks. What I realized was we were misaligned in so many areas. We were misaligned in communication. We were misaligned in lifestyle. I just wasn't feeling it after six weeks. I said, I'm moving on and I was a forthright about it. It was a very uncomfortable conversation. I'm moving on. Do you know what happened the next day on social media? She posted, I dated another narcissist and it just hit me. Oh my God. Right at that moment, I was so focused on the fact that I wasn't like her past relationships. I'll be her hero, for lack of a better word, instead of really listening to one narcissist after another after another. I mean, statistically speaking, that's an impossible number. Now that's not to suggest that there isn't a significant percentage of self-centric people, selfish people and whatnot. What I didn't pay attention to was any healing from those past relationships. She had a negative charge about those past relationships. And so that should have been my clue. That was the red flag I didn't pay attention to. I didn't ask deeper questions before I engaged in this relationship. Now here's the thing. For most men out there who genuinely want a significant relationship, they typically don't invest more than 90 days with somebody who's not a fit. I would say our arc, for those that are men that are truly committed to a significant relationship, they don't spend much more than 90 days if they don't feel like there's real potential. They usually exit those relationships quickly. Now what happens for those same men is if they fully engage in a relationship, then they're seeking a partner who's capable of also going all in emotionally as well as physically in the world. See, the reality is today is most people might logistically enter into a relationship from a physical perspective. But the question is, can they really dive in at an emotional perspective? And at first it starts with assessing their past and then going forward, the most important factor to ask is how committed they are to desiring a significant relationship with someone and more importantly, how significant are they, how committed are they to their own individual growth and more importantly, the emotional growth of the relationship. These are some of the early questions that I invite you all to ask before you get intimately involved with someone because intimacy is not, as I said in the beginning of this conversation, physical intimacy is not a great indicator for relationship success. If you don't know who Lewis House is, Lewis House has a podcast called The School of Greatness. He recently got engaged and he publicly talks about the first 90 days of his relationship. They dove into the deep end. I mean, they might have walked in the pool together and they started swimming to the deep end. They had deep conversations before they ever physically got intimate with one another. Why am I shouting? I'm just passionate about this. I can't help myself. I have great respect for Lewis House and the way he operated in this relationship.  Do the work, if you watch my channel, you know, I recommend book after book that's right behind me. There's a list of all the books I recommend. I invite you to operate differently because that's how you're truly going to know how he feels about you by doing this before you enter into a relationship, particularly before you enter into the physical aspects of the relationship because it all is predicated on emotional intimacy. And if you're not familiar with the book, Emotional Intimacy, I highly recommend you read this to learn about it for yourself because when you get aligned to who you are and what you really want from an emotional perspective, you will be able to ferret out those capable and those that are incapable of leaning in to a deeper, healthy, happy relationship. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. If it is, please post a comment below. I'd like to hear your thoughts. Since this video was shot for my group called Midlife Love Mastery, if you'd like to have direct access to me on a regular basis, check out the link below to my VIP group called Midlife Love Mastery. This is a group where you, like I said, you can have direct access to me. I interact with the members on a regular basis and we host a monthly call where you can speak to me live on the phone. If you'd like that access, check out the link below. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this. Oh, by the way, if one of my members are watching, please tell your friends about the group, send them to my website, jonathanasley.com. Have them click the group coaching button so they can join our fantastic group. And we're gonna sign off this video as I always do. I've given myself a big gigantic jonathan bear hug of self love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear pillow, and give Iter them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


Navy Motor Torpedo Boats on patrol in waters off the Panama Canal. Known as PT Boats, they're the fastest warships afloat.  German in North Africa with American P-40 fighter planes form a new Lafayette Eskid Rail, and do little, salute the new unit now to fight for the United Nations. American volunteers form the original Lafayette Eskid Rail to fight for France. Now beneath the stars and stripes, Frenchmen return the compliment as they take arms against the common foe. Water sports, particularly rowing, occupy an important place in athletic education at many American universities. These youngsters on the Pacific Coast are national champions, and this is their first spring training of the season. The watchful eyes of their coach, they bend to the oars. Young Americans building strong bodies for the tasks that lie ahead and return to their base after months of raiding in Japanese waters. Tough bearded crews home to report, their mission a success. Like all true sailormen, they turn first to the job of preparing their ships again for sea. Eight Jap flags painted on the conning tower of one submarine means eight Jap ships sent to the bottom. Allied naval commander in the South Pacific comes to award the distinguished flying cross to Navy flyers, heroes in the action that drove the Japanese from Guadalcanal in the Solomon's. One officer commanded the air squadron that destroyed a carrier, another destroyed a cruiser, while the third sank a Japanese battleship. Congratulations from the Admiral, as the Navy's traditional message flashes through the fleet. Well done. Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway come to dedicate a 51 acre vacation center in the United States for Norwegian merchant seamen. Norwegian sailors form the Guard of Honor as their native flag is raised about Eightfold America. The new Eightfold, named in honor of the community in which the Norwegian Constitution was signed 129 years ago. Tireless workers in behalf of Norway's valiant seamen receive a simple tribute from a stewardess twice torpedoed by axis submarines. Today, two and a half million tons of Norwegian shipping still carries on for the United Nations. French battleship Richelieu arrives in the United States after a stormy 13-day voyage from Dakar. Mightiest of 46 French warships to join the United Nations, the Richelieu will be put in fighting trim at an American Navy yard. In completion, when the Nazis occupied France, the 35,000-ton Richelieu is one of the world's most powerful fighting ships. Naval experts boarded the Richelieu upon her arrival. Within two hours, American equipment and supplies were going aboard. Soon, the Richelieu's mighty guns will roar the defiance of an awakened France, fighting side-by-side with the United Nations.  Patriots from Poland nearing the end of one of the most amazing marches in history. 3,000 weary miles they've walked to find a haven of refuge.  A people who since 1939 have known war as perhaps no other people have known it. A people who have known hunger, starvation. A people ground to helplessness beneath the heel of Nazi oppression. From one little town in Poland, a thousand men, women and children fled from the Nazis into Russia. When the Nazis followed, they pushed on, through mountain and desert, 3,000 miles to Persia, to a haven in Iran on the Caspian Sea. Here they found a promised land. A refugee city of their countrymen deep in the foothills of the Transcaucasian mountains. From British and American Red Cross stations, they receive fresh clothing, shoes to replace those worn ragged beyond recognition or repair. First real home-cooked meal in years. Quickly, schools are formed that Poland's speech may never die. Mothers till the ancient soil of Persia, while father, son and daughter lead to join new armies of the Polish government in exile. It's of Polish women and legions of Polish men now forming to join the United Nations in the fight against the Axis. Prayers of their countrymen go with them. Prayers for their success and prayers for their safe return. In Persia grows as new arrivals swell their numbers. Reunion in Iran for families parted more than three years ago. The courageous people of Poland, staunch allies of the United Nations in the fight for freedom.


Green said they could be the best deal on the NBA as far as Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram. I know you worked closely with Zion. You two had an unbreakable bond. What do you see from Zion? What do you see from those two? And also just Zion specifically, he's gotten a lot of shade at different points, but just working with him closely. What can you say about his work habits? I think a lot of times people just come up with their own ideas and thoughts because of what they read and what they don't see. But I know him very well. I know him from a deep place. And he's an incredible young man. He wants to play this game. He wants to be great at this game. He wants to put in the work for this game. And he understands now how to hold yourself accountable for what you want. And when they talk about the best duo in the game, they are by far the best duo in the game. I can actually say that those young men are incredible basketball players. Incredible. They can do some things that is not so often seen or done. And they can be known as the best duo in this game. In my mind, they are.


It is clear that hardening of the arteries inside our brain and cognitive decline travel hand-in-hand, something I've addressed before. However, the independent association of Alzheimer's with multiple atherosclerotic vascular disease risk factors suggests that cholesterol is not the sole culprit in dementia. One of the most consistent findings is elevated levels of blood pressure in mid-life, meaning ages 40 through 60, is associated with elevated risk of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's dementia later in life. In fact, even more so than having the so-called Alzheimer's gene. The normal arterial tree, all the blood vessels in the brain, is designed as both a conduit and cushion. But when the artery walls become stiffened, every time our heart pumps bled up into our brain, the pressure from the pulse can damage small vessels in our brains. This can cause what are called microbleeds in our brain, which are frequently found in people with high blood pressure, even if they were never diagnosed with a stroke. These microbleeds may be one of the important factors that cause cognitive impairments, perhaps not surprisingly, because on autopsy microbleeds may be associated with brain tissue necrosis, meaning brain tissue death. And speaking of tissue death, high blood pressure is also associated with so-called lacuna infarcts, from the Latin word lacuna, meaning whole.  Up to a quarter of the elderly have these little mini-strokes, and most don't even know it, so-called silent infarcts.  This is what they look like.  Although silent infarcts, by definition, lack overt stroke-like symptoms, they're associated with subtle deficits in physical and cognitive function that commonly go unnoticed, and they can double the risk of dementia. That's one of the ways high blood pressure is linked to dementia. So much damage that high blood pressure levels can lead to brain volume reduction, literally a shrinkage of our brain, specifically in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain. This helps explain how high blood pressure can be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease.  The researchers found a significant association between arterial disease and brain shrinkage on MRI. This was a cross-sectional study, just a snapshot in time, so you can't prove cause and effect. What you need is a prospective study following people over time, and so that's what they did. Over a 10-year period, those with signs of arterial disease were twice as likely to suffer a significant loss of brain tissue volume over time.


OK, yes, it's working, technology. So I'm so excited. You have no idea how thrilled I am to be here. This is my, I think, fifth night media forum. And last year, I did a breakout session on diversity. And I facetiously put it out there that we should be on the main stage. And all the years I've been here and I've seen folks on the main stage, I thought, oh my gosh, look at the cool kids. And today, guess what? We're the cool kids. So I am so grateful. And this is such a gratifying moment. I wanted to thank Jennifer Preston, Lashara Bunting, Paul Chung, Karen Runlet, and the journalism team. Because I want, this is about the panel in a sense that we are recognizing the gift of being seen and seeing others. And that is really a gift we should not take for granted as journalists and as funders who support journalism and strengthening communities. So I wanted to thank you, Karen, for just beautifully framing the conversation. I wanted to put a few things out here. So the Night Media Forum has been a critical, convening space around trust. And the declining trust in journalism as a democratic institution. The Night Commission on Trust Media and Democracy last year put forth a set of recommendations on how we can restore trust in journalism. And one of the four recommendations included making sure that our newsrooms were authentically reflecting the communities that we serve. However, we're seeing that we're struggling with this in our newsrooms. This has been tracked by the American Society of News Editors Diversity Survey, which is annual. And we're seeing that from Pew, we're lagging, actually, in diversifying our newsrooms compared to any other sector. So how does this play out in the context of trust and healthy democracy? Well, we're seeing from Norwick Research at the University of Chicago that young, aged 18 to 34, African-American and Latino-Latina audiences are not happy, are highly dissatisfied with how they are being conveyed in mainstream media. And they distrust the news media compared to any other constituent group. We're also seeing that misinformation campaigns that undermine voter engagement target at disproportionate rates African-American communities more than any other community because they're exploiting this trust gap. So what can we do? Amplifying underrepresented communities is an opportunity. We need to reframe this conversation as audiences of opportunity. And how do we recognize cultural competencies by journalists who gets to tell whose story and really do a deep dive on the structural issues that keep perpetuating this newsroom issue, as we've seen, as Karen mentioned, with the Kernar Commission Report over six years ago. So I just want to say one last thing. At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, a lot of young people, we see the next generation of news producers and news consumers. We see these young people come to our school because they love that we promote community-centered journalism and that we promote journalism as a powerful tool for public service, a powerful public service for a healthy democracy where we all can thrive and make healthy civic decisions. But what we're seeing is they learn all of these wonderful skills and they get hired. And what we're hearing now is they're struggling at newsrooms, at their newsrooms and at their jobs. And these journalists of color want to not only lead their jobs but lead journalism altogether. So if we're talking about addressing this decline of trust, that's an issue that we really need to look at structurally. And the second part of that is some of these journalists of color want to become media entrepreneurs of color and start their own news organization to have their own power. But the access to capital is another structural barrier that a lot of media entrepreneurs of color face. So we have three exemplars, and all of us are wearing a lot of different hats to address this issue on multiple levels. So I'm going to start with Maria Inajosa. And I'm going to, sometimes when folks tell the bios, like you forget who the person is, so I want to try to keep it in context. So Maria Inajosa, I wanted to start with you.  And what I love about the name is it's Futuro. And before we talk about why you started Futuro Media Group, I wanted to talk about you as an anchor and executive producer of Latino USA. Because about a month ago, I want to get the dirt on the episode called Digging into American Dirt. I think on so many levels, it really encapsulates why Latino USA was uniquely positioned to bring much needed context to a very contentious debate, especially around identity and the audiences that you serve and that you are loyal to. So could you talk a little bit more about Digging into American Dirt? I want to know the how of that journalism and some of the decision-making that went into that. Thank you, Jenny. Love the dress. What's up, everybody? Good morning to my fellow panelists. This is great to be back at the forum. So it was interesting because Latino USA, which is produced by Futuro Media, we're trying to drop the group, so Futuro Media, is now the only show on NPR that is growing a substantial audience. We produce it at Futuro Media, which is the nonprofit that I founded 10 years ago. And NPR distributes it. And Latino USA has been around. You may not know this, but it's been around for, well, I started anchoring when I was five. So it's been around for 26 years now. I know it's amazing. I had a really deep voice when I was born. So Latino USA has always been a show that is kind of thought-provoking. It's not really a breaking news show. We're not set up in that way. But interestingly, within our newsroom, we've had to have the conversation about how Latinos and Latinas are actually leading a lot of news. And therefore, we've had to respond, which is a challenge for a small nonprofit newsroom. But I'm going to give you a couple of examples. Over the summer, there was Puerto Rico. Where massive protests, part of our American democracy, led to the forced resignation of the governor. Then there was the El Paso Massacre of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in a targeted hate crime. Right after that, it was the detention and arrest of 700 poultry workers in small towns right side of Jackson, Mississippi, where I was just last week, where we're doing a follow-up. And then our newsroom was like, oh my God, this is so much. And then American dirt happened right at the beginning of the year. And we had to make a decision of, so this is not a massacre. It's not a political protest. It's not, but it is a massive cultural moment in the United States where we're talking about American dirt. If you don't know about it, then just listen to the episode and then you'll understand. You're right, Jenny. And I won't go on for much longer about this. But when you say uniquely positioned, we were. Because we are a small nonprofit, community-based national newsroom, we're based on 125th Street in the heart of Harlem. Come visit us. And because we have this long history of all of these words that just came up just this morning, trust, authenticity, sir Tim, wherever you are, talked about love. Because I was like, do I talk about love on this panel? I don't know. But yeah, he talked about it, so now I can talk about it. The way we approach our journalism, the fact that Futuro was founded by a Mexican-born American citizen who was raised on the south side of Chicago, now lives in Harlem. Our executive director is a black woman from Mississippi, Boston, now based in Harlem. Erica Dilde, who's over there. Our board chair is Deepa Donde, who is of Indian American descent from New Jersey. Where are you guys? Raise your hands over there in the corner. So we are an all-woman-led, multi-ethnic newsroom where it is about bringing your whole self into the newsroom. And that doesn't mean that we don't have editorial battles. We had a lot of battles around American dirt. To finish with that, we just realized we have to do this story. I called Sandra Cisneros. I was like, will you do this? She was like, yes. Called Luis Alberto Rea, who I know, right? Cause we've been reporting on these authors for years. Will you do this? Called Miriam Gurba, who wrote the scathing takedown of American dirt. Would she do this? And Janine Cummins said yes. And what we did was that we did not push our perspective, and by the way, it's very complicated. If you wanna know more about how I feel, listen to In the Thick, which is our politics podcast. But for Latino USA, we let those four interviews stand alone and let these people speak for themselves. And it was just wildly applauded because of the fact that we were not putting a, this is how it must be looked at and we're gonna tell you this and you can't let other people write these stories. No, we let the authors, and in this case, just they're all authors, speak for themselves. And I think that just to end, it's really quite beautiful to realize that a show that's been around for all of these years that frankly, NPR thought would, when we created it 25 years ago, 26 years ago, I think they thought it would be around for maybe five years. We're going gangbusters. How does that happen? It happens, and again, I'm gonna go back to serve, Tim. Because of the passion and love and commitment, writ large for American journalism, writ large, very specifically for the telling of these stories with heart. And we, Erika, myself, Deepa, have created a newsroom where we encourage that, all of that to be brought in and then to be critically dissected and used in a newsroom that is filled with people of different generations, and we go at it as journalists. But what you said, cultural competency is actually where we start. As a media executive, we talk about this a lot with our leadership team. How do we understand, bring cultural competency into our newsroom? And audience opportunity, we know. That's why our numbers are just because we've been saying for the longest time.  Who's gonna be your donors? We've been focused, I've been focused on that for the entirety of my career, and thankfully, it's paying off. That's great. So I wanted to actually have you wear your entrepreneur hat. It's been 10 years since you founded Futuro Media Group, and that's how I'm gonna bring Martin in to the conversation as the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute. So you founded Futuro Media Group as a non-profit news organization. And finding capital and securing philanthropic dollars, as we know, and we have to kind of go there, is difficult for women, hen, folks of color. A stat, the Democracy Fund had done really great research on this and found that from 2013 to 2017 of the $1.1 billion that went into journalism, about 8% of that went to diversity, equity, and inclusion-focused efforts. So how did you find that money to start Futuro, and how's the sustainability problem or a challenge pen for you? Okay, so a quick story. Please don't tweet this out, but it is in my upcoming memoir. Ooh, shameless self-promotion comes out in September. Anyway. It was 10 years ago that I went to have a meeting with 60 Minutes, that's why I don't want you guys to, and I was so thrilled. I should have understood that they asked for the meeting at a Starbucks, so maybe that was a clue.  And I was like, am I laughing, am I crying? I didn't know, I got in the subway, I cried, and I said, what am I gonna do? And so what I'm saying to you is that it was just this kind of like, what am I gonna do, what am I gonna do, how am I gonna figure this out? And I thought about, not other women who had created independent nonprofit newsrooms, I thought about actors, actresses in Hollywood. I was like, what did they do? They created their own, I'm gonna create this, how am I gonna do it? I had learned how to raise money because I was working it now on PBS. And I was very blessed that a woman who had done Reiki on me to heal me from PTSD post 9-11 turned out to be a multi-millionaire philanthropist. I know, and she treated me for free. Okay, it's Fiona Druckenmiller. Some of you may know Fiona, Stanley Druckenmiller.  She knew my heart, in fact, and I said, I wanna do this. And she was, without Fiona, nothing, this would not exist. So that is strange and crazy and a bit of an opportunity. It's also, as a journalist, I was a journalist, even when I was on the Reiki table, because I was like, who is this woman who's doing this for free? I need to find out, and there you have it. But that luck, part of it, gangbusters, but it is hard. And one of the arguments I made to Fiona, I remember, and this was 10 years ago, I was, I don't know what the statistic was, but it was like, of all the money that is put out there for investment in any news company, media, whatever, the amount given to women is like 1%, and I was like, that's the number that I need you to help me. And that's how it all started. Thank you. Now we're funded by every, well, not by everybody. We, please, come talk to me. So on that, Martin Reynolds, the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute, a training ground for journalists of color, so all of the things that we're talking about. But I wanted to start with you and some of the provocative ideas you had in sustaining, as a nonprofit organization, this effort to support journalists of color, you embarked, you were key to a new strategic planning for the Maynard Institute after Dory's passing, and it was so interesting how the strategic planning process was so ambitious, and I'm thinking you looked up and saw two people to do all that work. So I'm just curious how you've sustained your business operations. Well, you know, people of color, we don't, it doesn't need a lot of us to get a lot done. And everybody that puts in a cuddle knows that. So, I mean, I think what, I mean, we had help, obviously we had help from night, help with the funding of the strategic plan, we had help with, we had friends in the philanthropic community because of the organization's long history. The Maynard Institute's the oldest journalism nonprofit dedicated to help America's newsrooms reflect the diversity of the nation. And we've done that, and some of its founders, it really was born out of the Kerner Commission strife that talked about the lack of diversity in mainstream media. And some of our founders include Bob Maynard, who went on to be the first African-American to own a major metropolitan daily, they all contribute where I was editor-in-chief. And then, of course, Dorothy Gilliam, who just came out with an amazing memoir, Trailblazer, she was the first African-American woman at the Washington Post in 1963. So these people were Trailblazers of their time, and the goal was to train journalists to enter into news organizations and make their way. I'm not only a journalist, but also was a graduate of Maynard Media Academy in 2005. So I believe in its mission, and it helped me go from managing editor to leading my newsroom. But then after Dorothy had passed in 2015, and the organization is really asking the question, should we even exist, right? Because at that time, news organizations were still trying to navigate coming out of the Great Recession. Obviously, the industry had vastly changed, and the primary customers of the Maynard Institute were newspaper companies. And they were going through a lot of struggle, which many are still today. And so we had to ask ourselves, well, I guess we could have waited six more months until after the 2016 election to ask, should a diversity organization still exist? We got that affirmed, yes, we should have, but we also then robustly thought about what are, how do we serve this industry in the 21st century? And one of those programs was Maynard 200. And it was a training program where we were gonna focus on the next generation of journalism entrepreneurs, advanced leaders, and storytellers of color. And the reason we said storytellers is because we ran a program called Oakland Voices in Oakland, California, where we trained residents to be storytellers, started in 2010, before much of this was even happening. And it helped to inform this notion that the people who are contributing to the narrative of community are more than just journalists, right? They are members of community. So we called them storytellers, and thank you. And so the thinking there also was we still wanna train middle managers and advanced leaders, people who are working in organizations and leadership roles at mid-level, but also those who could become CEOs, because the reality is the way change happens in news organization is from the top down. There isn't an Arab spring of diversity that just comes out of the ground and is just gonna happen. It doesn't work that way. If it doesn't happen from the top, it's not gonna happen. And the third was journalism entrepreneurs. Why? Because we cannot in good conscience continue to funnel people of color into legacy news organizations that are inhospitable, unwilling to change, and are not places that are healthy for young people of color in different generations to go. And so that's where, and so this training organization we're now in our third iteration. We've had support from Google News Initiative, from News Integrity, also from Knight, from Ford, and Democracy Fund, and others to help support this effort. But it's under-capitalized and in fact we think it's so essential and to see these people who are creating their own narratives, who have the opportunity to step in and lead organizations and storytellers who are learning skills like around investigative reporting, the love in the room and that training space hopefully helps to give them a cape to walk into these organizations and undertake these incredibly challenging ventures that they're doing across these three areas of learning. The other work that we're doing is we wanna go from having conversations about diversity to creating workplaces that are equitable and inclusive in service of diversity. It's not DEI, it's EID. Because you can have people that are diverse in the newsroom, but if they have no agency and no influence, they leave. So what we wanna do is help organizations do that and so we got a grant from Knight to pilot, thanks to LaShara and Jennifer, to pilot an embed where we are gonna go embed ourselves, burrow in like a tick with two news organizations over the next year and help them create a plan, craft, training, all of the things necessary to actually make transformation. And I think what's really key here is it can't be the moral obligation. The business case hasn't really sunk into y'all either. Even though in 2045, 14 million people alone will be multiracial. Twice that will be Asian, three times that will be black and four times that will be Hispanic. So I wanna do two things. One, let's not saying voices from underrepresented communities. Let's say voices from your future audience. Thank you. And if you want to survive and thrive in the 21st century, we are your audience. And lastly, but not leastly, I also just wanna say that we have to, as we think about how do you address the diversity challenge, it has to be tethered to outcomes, right? The outcome being what is the key to your most prosperous and sustainable future as a news organization? Not simply the moral obligation, because that hasn't worked in the business case, hasn't necessarily worked either. The other part is what you alluded to, which is a notion of trust. The trust project headed by Sally Lerman funded by Craig Newmark and contributed by many news organizations to articulate transparency standards on the web. Two, they have eight core indicators and of the eight, two explicitly speak to diversity. So at a time of great distrust in our society, if you wanna be viewed as trustworthy, incredible, diversity has to be at the center of your strategic plan. So I just encourage folks to think strategically about how does this help you reach new audiences to connect to communities and build subscriber revenue? And the reality is that it takes time to build relationships to communities that you have ignored.  We're so happy to have you. It's not gonna work like that. It's gonna take time and it's incremental. It's relationship by relationship, person by person and to all the community foundations in the room, I would say this and then I'll stop, is that this is an opportunity for you to get behind narrative change work in your respective communities and to collaborate with libraries and people in communities because libraries are heavily trusted. Community foundations was often focused on workforce development and economic development. The reality is a community cannot be healthy. It cannot be prosperous if local journalism is not supported. So there's a number of foundations that do this like the California Endowment and others, but the opportunity is great. You just need to go grab it. And lucky for us, we have a community foundation CEO, right next to you. This is Jeff Faroda, CEO of Community Foundation, Boulder County. And I really appreciated you looking at the 150 community social and health indicators of the Boulder County region and putting forth this intentionality around utilizing an equity lens in your funding. So Jeff, you've heard Maria and Martin just kind of throw the gauntlet and as a community foundation, I'm curious what using an equity lens looks like and would love to hear some of the community listening tours and cultural brokers that you've talked about to strengthen your community. So note to self, never follow Maria and Martin, especially if you're not a cool kid. But with regard to the equity lens, and by equity we mean creating systems where all can thrive. And it really boils down to three core principles for us. The first is prioritizing those most impacted by inequity. The second is something we call do nothing about us without us, which is simply trusting the wisdom and agency of the people with lived experience to know their own issues and to create and implement their own solutions. And the third is not to do anything on our own, that we can create more change by working together in partnership. And the form that that's taken has been through the work that we've done as a community foundation that has begun to fold into an intersect with journalism. I can think back to the School Readiness Initiative where Richard Garcia, a trustee at the time asked two key questions of us. Who are we really talking about and who's not here? And who we were talking about were Latinx kids who were experiencing the largest school achievement gap with their Anglo peers of any county in the state. And who wasn't there were their parents, which led to a movement of School Readiness Coordinators, principally Latina moms going from house to house, providing resources, recruiting leaders which led to 50 such coordinators, 250 cafecitos and 1,900 Latino families that were reached and demonstrable results in School Readiness as well as a burgeoning movement of community organizing that changed, for example, the school lunch principles with regard to Latino kids. And then through the Knight Community Information Lab we began to learn more about human center design and cultural brokers and how they could create structural change. This sort of dovetailed with open listening sessions that we were doing throughout the community where we just asked three questions of people in your lived experience, how are you feeling about your community? What are the most important issues to you and what should we do about them together? And when we got to 15 people, we just opened up another one. But we came to realize pretty early on that there were some people who would never come to an open listening session and that we needed to go to them, again with trusted relationships and cultural brokers to where they gathered, section eight housing, LGBTQ support groups, and one particularly memorable listening session with simultaneous translation with Promo Torres who were working and living in mobile home parks organizing for clean water and human rights. And when we asked them the last question, what can we do together? They said, tell our story to the powerful people, which was heartbreaking because we knew no one could tell their story better than they could themselves, that they were powerful and compelling and that we needed to find a way to help them do that. So that empowerment was not conferring power but recognizing power and agency. This led to sort of a question about the community indicators report that you mentioned. This is it, this is trends. It comes out every other year.  And we began to ask how might a community foundation act at the intersection of journalism and community action? We're fortunate in that Chris Barge who is the managing editor of this report is also a former newspaper reporter with the Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder Daily Camera and I worked at the ABC affiliate for about five years. And Lily Weinberg helped connect us to Lindsey Green-Barber who helped write a concept paper and research a concept paper on how we might work at this intersection which led to something we're calling the equity reporting initiative which is a big title for something we're just trying. The first aspect of it is to respond to the community request to expand trends to a year-round dynamic storytelling resource. And so we launched a podcast in conjunction with KGNU, the public radio station in our community and hired a Latina bilingual cultural broker as its first reporter who's already a trusted voice. The first story was indeed the story of the promotores. And then we are now telling stories of census outreach and combining them with community foundation resources and solutions that way. And that's been supported by both Knight and Karen Runlett and the Jacques and Littlefield Foundation. The second aspect of the equity reporting initiative is something we call the Solutions Fund which is when these stories surge up from community storytellers. One of the frustrations that Chris and I had as former journalists is we would tell these stories and then we kind of have to leave them at the water's edge hoping that somebody would pick them up and act upon them. And we thought, could we not do that as a community foundation? Is that now what we're supposed to be doing when we learn these stories to act as a catalyst for the solutions? And then the third aspect, which you're way ahead on, in fact, I sort of buttonholed Barton yesterday on an equity reporting lab which would be a cohort of equity fellows, emerging storytellers and journalists as well as seasoned journalists who have been sidelined with the hollowing out of local news in our community and the acquisition of the Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera and the Longmont Observer, Times Call rather, all acquired by Alden Global Capital. And despite the heroic efforts of these journalists, really a need for a new and diverse ecosystem of local news. So that cohort bringing people together and providing resources of learning as well as stipends for their reporting. These are things that we're trying with the lessons of resident leadership, community organizing, cultural brokers pointing toward this North Star of Equity. We're very much in the beginning stages and we hope that if we walk this road with some humility, we'll be granted some grace as we stumble our way through learning and we're very inspired and honored to be with all of you who have been doing this work for a while now, learning from you and your support. So I just wanted to ask all of you a couple of questions. It's on everyone's mind and Maria you touched upon this and Jeff in your work, census and elections 2020. How does all of your work kind of inform how you're going to reach your audiences to inspire folks to get counted, folks to engage and feel that sense of efficacy which is the strongest driver for civic engagement, efficacy meaning I actually have the agency to make a difference if I do this thing for my community. So anyone can take a stab at it? You know, I think when I think back to a decade ago when I was imagining Futuro, I, it was a very visceral understanding that by giving representation and voice, we are also acknowledging their power and in telling the story, my dream vision has always been that in telling your stories, you begin to recognize your own power and then you act on that power. I would say that in the decade of Futuro Media, we, and I actually now I'm like, how would we prove that? Like what would be the data? Like how would we get that? And I'm sure that we could. But I think what we're doing now, it's not so much cause we're a nonprofit newsroom where we put out four podcasts every week, just weekly. So it's not like we're doing a, you know, this is the census and partake, no, it's not that way. It is much more understanding. So for example, we just got back from Mississippi. We're outside of Jackson. There was this raid of 700 people, the largest raid ever in this country's history of a poultry plant of workers. And the census actually says that the population in these towns of Latinos and Latinas is miniscule. But on the ground, if you're there, I was there for four days, for three days. I didn't see any white people at all in these towns that I was at. And yet the census says that they are, I don't remember the exact number, but maybe 5%, 7%, Latinx. What's the, when actually it feels like much more, like more like 25%, 30%, maybe more is actually on the ground. So I hope that in doing the deep, deep reporting that we're doing by spending all of these days by giving voice that then we are able to kind of, again, push people to say, we need to be counted. We need to be seen. There's another problem though, which goes to your question of trust. We have a real issue of trust now. While all of this is happening and there are presidential debates happening and people are looking at Nevada and South Carolina, I'm getting texts from people across the country, including in New York City, frantic texts from people who are saying, ice is everywhere. Ice is everywhere because you may have seen the headline that said that, it was a couple of weeks ago that said that the administration was gonna be sending out tactical teams of ice in high profile, whatever, just kind of massive presence in the community. It was a big story. Most people forgot about it, but right now that is happening in these communities. How do you tell them to answer a census or open the door for a census counter when everything that they're hearing is, you don't open the door to anyone, ever? Sadly, saying to people, don't open the door to the police unless you absolutely see a warrant because also ice agents misrepresent themselves as police. We know this, right? They wear uniforms that say police everywhere and ice in smaller letters. This is a central tension in that we're trying to say, we're giving you voice, we're giving you recognition, we're giving you power by reporting on you, telling your stories authentically with love and respect, but at the same time, people are saying, if this administration is re-elected and DACA is not re-upped, the government has the data of all of these tens of thousands of people who signed up for DACA. And they're, the knock on the door is real. We're doing this, but the knocks on the doors happened this morning right here. At five o'clock in the morning, ice went out because that's when they go, five, six o'clock in the morning when everybody's asleep, that's when they're taking people. That's happening at the same time that the census is happening. Yeah, I mean, so looking at this from the perspective of how to talk to new journalism organizations about their role in local communities. And when the whole newspaper business was collapsing, I had to sort of reinvent and I got to be a community engagement editor in 2009, or excuse me, 2011, and I had no staff and no budget, so that was fun. And, but it gave me a real glimpse into how to rethink the role of a journalist in community. And last year and then this year, the Institute held a convening, one with community activists and journalists talk about what can activists teach journalists about rebuilding trust. And then we doubled that up again this year and had a collaboration with our friends at Free Press and Alicia Bell who put on this fantastic training about sort of mapping your community with community organizers to talk about what organizing principles journalists need to use to reconnect to community. And I think this is really important because this notion of trust that Maria just mentioned is real, the lack of trust. And one of the things that the activists and organizers said is that they're a lot more journalistic than we give them credit for and we're a lot more activist than journalists would like to admit. And what we activate around is news and information, right? And so we are seeking to transform our cells in many cases from ad-based revenue to subscriber-based revenue and how are you gonna build relationships with community, with folks who don't know you, trust you, and in service of informing them about what is happening in community. And so I think that there's all this conversation about engagement and it's so often data-driven. And the reality is engagement is person to person. And I think we need to go from having simply engagement editors that are looking at screens and analytics to organizing editors that work in news organizations to build trust in relationships with community. And to think about what that would mean, the way in which, and I also think when you look back on sort of the role that advertising has played in news organizations, imagine if from the very beginning, particularly mainstream news organizations, the relationship, not the advertiser, the relationship to community, how different our approach to people would be. And now here we are in 2020, so many organizations are seeking to pivot from advertising, some are non-profit and so on and so forth, but those in mainstream pivot from advertising to subscriber-based models. So we want people to support us when we have mischaracterized them. And the other part is that, are we gonna recommit the original sin of journalism? So who is getting money now to invest in these new ventures? And are they explicitly being asked, what is your plan to connect with community? What are the benchmarks and deliverables? We sure get a bunch of deliverables from foundations to do this and do that. But where are theirs? And who gets the tens of millions of dollars to start ventures, and here's what I'm gonna say, and I'm just gonna be real. If you want to recommit the original sin of mainstream journalism, which is to disenfranchise whole swaths of community, I suggest that they go by the way of the pterodactyl. And that we then redirect those resources in the philanthropic community to institutions and organizations that have a commitment and see the value of the audiences of the future. That would be my suggestion, my hope, and my belief that is necessary.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreak.com. We just sold out Jaspy's Holiday Mystery Crate, random hit number two guys. And again, this is another one of those mixer badness holiday promo break spots. So again, obviously, instead of doing a mixer, we kind of did a mystery crate instead, where you're guaranteed a hit by buying in. And so it does count as a promo. So it's a break, the break number 18 on the list. Meaning that we only could sell two more. One more normal mixer from any sport and then the last 20 than final one is gonna be a big football mixer, which that one is gonna count as three entries into the promo. Meaning that we're gonna triple your names up for buying into that one. So that one might be a little bit more pricier, but again, by buying into all of these mixers or promo breaks, you get a chance to win back up to $10,000 in prizes. Six box case of choice draft, which has gone up a lot in price. Breakers Deli, Bowman U football. You know, if you need to select draft picks case, thousand bucks in break credit, $500 in break credit through five through 10. So, you know, 10 winners of some nice stuff guys. So again guys, mystery crate though. Let's talk about this. This is a guaranteed hit guys. Meaning that no matter what, you're guaranteed something. Now it can be as little as $150 to $200 for $550 or it can be as high as $1,400, which is about triple. Now eight spots guys, what we're gonna do is we're gonna open up the crate, showcase the eight hits, which could be cards, boxes, it could be packs, cases, anything guys. And then of course then we're gonna randomize the eight hits and the eight customer names, whatever card you match up with, whatever hit you match up with is what you get. And you guys got some previews there on the side. So here are the customer names. Michael, Ryan with two each, Matt got the last three and then Matt wanted through the filler. And then of course, here we go guys, here's the crate. So, again, physical crate right there. I'm gonna open it up, excuse me. I'm gonna open it up and we're gonna go one by one through the hits. So the first one guys is a PSA 10. And how about a little 2020 Bowman University Refractor, Victor Wembenyama. That's a very nice one right there. Now Wembenyama's be going crazy. So that's one of the hits right there. Next one, we should be NFL MVP. Maybe Lamar Jackson deserves a little bit more now, but about a little Christian McCaffrey. It's a orange Christian McCaffrey Raider rookie PSA 10, number to 199. Nice little CMC right there, back when he was on the Panthers. Okay, next one, rookie Phenoms. This was a redemption here guys. He's been banged up this year, man, but still obviously still one of the better quarterbacks from the 2021 draft class. Here's about a little rookie patch autograph to 99 Trevor Lawrence. Remember that it's from a Panini seal, meaning that we got that as a redemption so it has not been opened up. Now the man could be a little scratched up. I'm not sure where we got it from, but a little jersey and autograph to 99 from Donner's football. So there you go, that's the third hit there. Let's go to the fourth hit. You guys seen this one as a preview. How about a 9510 from the Mint, 10 Griffey Jr. Beautiful autograph, 9510 out of 40, 23 out of 40, one off the jersey number. Very, very nice hit right there. Next one, again, you guys also seen it as a preview. From 2020 national treasures, how about a little Jordan Love. Two color patch here, piece of the pigs again, out of 25, On-Card, Jay Hart, PSA 9. There you go. Very nice one. And then of course, how about a Bowman's first, little Vladdy Jr. True Gem, all nine fives as well. PSA, ah, sorry, BGS 9510. Again, card is just fine. The Graded card could be a little scratched up, but you can always clean that. And like I said, a very, very nice first there, Vladdy. All right, two more hits to go, guys. This one here, guys, is an awesome one. This one's a 9-5 as well, 10. Well, a little Ja Marantz. From 1920 premium hoops, Shimmer. And again, he's back. They haven't lost since he got back. I know he's had his off-the-court problems, but man, On-the-court, he's such a dominant player, game changer, and good to have him back in the NBA, and a good, good hit to have in your collection there, or if you wanna sell it.  First off, we're gonna give you guys, someone's gonna win, $500 back in break credit. Pretty nice, almost pays for your spot back. But on top of that, you're getting a box of 2022 prism football hobby, which if I'm not correct, this is close to maybe 900 bucks, or $1,000 a box still, 2022. So again, that's probably the biggest hit I'd assume, the combo spot right there for like a $1400 plus. So I believe these boxes were like 900 to 1,000, so you add that with $500 in break credit back. Now again, it's for jaskyscasebreaks.com, so meaning that you can use it on whatever you want on our website. Whoever matches up with that combo, gets themselves about $1,000 bucks, and then $500 in break credit to spend more on our website. So that's a combo right there. So again, just in that order right there, Ladi, the J-Heart, CMC, or sorry, not J-Heart, but Kangriffy, Chilaw, CMC, Victor Uemagnano. There you guys go. All right. And then again guys, it's gonna take me a few minutes, so for people that are watching on YouTube, I'm gonna pause the video, then I'll type in the names, or the hits I should say, and then we'll come back and we'll un-pause the video and we'll see what you guys match up with, guys. Thank you. Alrighty guys, so on YouTube, welcome back. I finished typing in the hits. Of course we already had the names typed in, so you don't have to worry about that. But there you go, guys. So the Victor Uemagnano, the Christian McCaffrey, Turbo Lawrence, Kangriffy Jr., Jordan Love, Ladi McGrath Jr., John Morant, and the Prison Football Hobby Box, plus $500 in break credit combo. So there you guys go, and good luck everybody. Let's roll it, and we got ourselves a, two out of five, seven times, good luck. Two out of five, seven times, here we go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So we got two out of five, Michael Johnson down to Ryan. All right, so seven times, seven times here. One, two, three, four, five, six, and of course it was a seven, seven times. Boom, Kangriffy Jr., Mint autograph at the top, down to the Ladi Jr., Bowman's first autograph at the bottom. Here we go, that's how you match up with your guys. So Michael, congrats buddy. You got the Kangriffy Jr., Mint auto out of 40, BGS nine, five, 10. Matt, last Balmoja baby, love that John Morant. That's a Hoops premium stock, shimmer rookie autograph, nine, five, 10, which is a nice one. You also got the Victor Uemagnano, Bowman, uni, best refractor PSA 10. Of course, Michael, congrats buddy. Michael Johnson got the 2022 Prism football hobby box sealed plus $500 back in break credit. So I'm gonna add that credit to your account that way you can reuse it on whatever you guys like. So Matt, congratulations, it's a nice one there too. Jordan Love NFL Game Gear patch autograph to 25 PSA nine.  And then of course Matt, you're also gonna get the Christian McCaffrey or Android rookie to 199 PSA 10.  And of course the Vladimir Gero Jr., Bowman's first autograph, BGS nine, five, 10. Nice, very nice one here guys. Some solid, solid hits popping out of here guys. Appreciate it. So like I said, Michael, if you're listening, if you want me to rip this box for you and you're watching, I can at some point later tonight or whatever. If not, it's gonna go ship sealed to you so it doesn't really matter. But either way, do whatever you want with that box and then rip it or like I said, you can sell it, get back a thousand bucks. But you basically almost got back your investment with that spot there. So not too shabby at all. So I appreciate you guys. And again, obviously you guys are now part of the mixer or sorry, the mixer madness promo. And it's not a mixer, but still part of it. And like I said, you just gotta sell two more breaks out to unlock this and look out for those to be posted tomorrow guys. Appreciate it guys, jaspyscasebreaks.com.