Monthly Archives: August 2025

Dan Alperin -493

August 25, 2025EpisodesDan Thibeault

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Meet a man who is on the run, helping to make the world a better place. Dan Alperin is a radio executive who took p running several years back and is now an accomplished marathoner, often raising money for charity. There’s a lot to learn from this running man’s perspective about the rigors of the sport, the physical and mental benefits it provides and the inner drive to keep pushing onward. What makes Dan’s story even more inspiring is that he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Instead of letting PD slow him down, Dan has enhanced his training, staying several steps ahead of the disease, ready to continue his marathoning around the globe!

Rabbi Daniel Sher -492

August 17, 2025EpisodesDan Thibeault

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The devastating Southern California wildfires in early 2025 destroyed hundreds of residences and businesses. Lives were upended with the rebuilding for some still underway. Today’s guest is Rabbi Daniel Sher, who along with his fellow clergy and congregants at Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades saw his family destroyed by the flames. Miraculously, the synagogue was spared any damage and has served as an oasis for those in need, both materially and spiritually. Rabbi Sher shares with us the impact of traumatic loss and how resilience and hope is helping his family and so many others cope.

Carl Stevens -491

August 4, 2025EpisodesDan Thibeault

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Carl Stevens is an award winning radio journalist and a colleague of mine at WBZ, Boston’s top rated news station. Carl has covered stories small and large, local and international and always with professionalism, integrity and empathy. Carl is also a talented poet whose works are frequently part of his broadcasts, poems that are witty, moving and always in perfect rhyme scheme. Meet a veteran radio personality, a true man of letters, who ranks as one of my favorite storytellers!