There is always

blue sky above

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sometimes you just have to get your head above the clouds to see it.

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  • Mike Goodwin, Blue Sky Podcast Guest

    Ep. 110

    The Comedian's Mindset: Mike Goodwin on Laughter, Optimism, and Resilience, a Special Encore Presentation

    Comedian, speaker, and humor coach Mike Goodwin joins Bill Burke for this special summer encore presentation of a classic Blue Sky episode. Mike shares how a difficult, sometimes volatile childhood in Camden, South Carolina sparked his lifelong instinct to use humor to ease tension - a skill that carried him through four years in the U.S. Army, a career in higher education and college counseling, and eventually onto stages with America's Got Talent, DryBar Comedy, Lifetime, BET, and Amazon Prime… More

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  • Ep. 73

    Look for the Glimmers, a Special Encore Presentation

    In this Blue Sky conversation, host Bill Burke sits down with Melissa Connelly, CEO of One Goal, a national organization working to ensure every young person can pursue education beyond high school. Melissa's path to this work started long before her career in education. Raised by a single mother on the south and southwest sides of Chicago, she missed more than 60 days of school in eighth grade and landed in her high school's truancy program, a labeling experience that nearly derailed her future… More

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  • Theodore (Ted) R. Johnson

    Ep. 70

    "I'm the Product of Optimism" — Race, Democracy, and the Courage to Believe in America

    Ted Johnson's life reads like several careers stitched into one: raised in a mostly white Raleigh suburb while attending a Black church several times a week, a Hampton University graduate, a 20-year Navy officer who became a White House Fellow under President Obama and later a speech writer for two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff… More

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  • Lee Woodruff on Her Family’s Extraordinary Story of Optimism and Resilience in the Face of Tragedy

    Ep. 69

    Lee Woodruff on Her Family’s Extraordinary Story of Optimism and Resilience in the Face of Tragedy

    Lee Woodruff's life reads like fiction — a college meet-not-quite-cute with her future husband Bob, a front-row seat to the Tiananmen Square crackdown that redirected Bob's entire career, his meteoric rise to co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, and then, just weeks into that dream job, a roadside bomb in Iraq that nearly killed him… More

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