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"The Laura Flanders Show" (25 minutes)

What does it mean to start a business from scratch? It can be starting a new company around a brilliant idea, throwing out an existing social media campaign and going back to "square one". It can be also tackling an existing industry from a new angle, as well as being a one-person corporation. We have tales of new businesses with humble beginnings that are making it happen on this episode of The Language of Business.

Host Rose Sheehan interviews Dr. Ralph De Amicis, Amicis Tours, about what it takes to successfully start and grow a business.

Host Rose Sheehan interviews Paul Kelley, small business owner, Paul Kelley Architect, and Chair of the Napa City Planning Commission on what it takes to succeed in the business of Architecture.

(1) Despite the influence of Balinese kings, Dutch traders and the modern world, many indigenous Sasak villages on the Indonesian island of Lombok still rely on their traditions producing pottery and weaving. (2) Dane Ngahuka introduces Kapa Haka, a traditional Maori performing art that integrates singing, dancing, facial expressions, and other elements to tell stories. (3) The troubled history of the Virgin Episkepsis, a Byzantine icon of the Virgin Mary, symbolizing a Greek city in Asia Minor and brought to by Greek refugees to Greece in 1924.

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"The Laura Flanders Show" (80.5 minutes)

Three episodes of The Laura Flanders Show are presented:

    (1) "Trumpism, Warfare, and Fixing Fissures in the

Left."  Laura interviews organizers about going beyond Trumpism and

Trump, with Color of Change director, Rashad Robinson; immigrant rights

advocate Kica Thomas, and anti-war activist Medea Benjamin.