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Positive Blatherings Podcast

Positive Blatherings Podcast

By: ROC Vox Podcast Network
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Summary

 Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.Copyright ROC Vox Podcast Network Spirituality
Episodes
  • Raeanne Lacatena | Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Stops Burnout

    Raeanne Lacatena | Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Stops Burnout
    May 5 2026
    EFT tapping might be the most powerful business tool your competitors have never heard of — and Raeanne Lacatena has been quietly putting it to work with billionaires, burned-out founders, and entrepreneurs who've run out of runway on the grind-and-push model.

    Raeanne Lacatena — licensed clinical social worker, certified professional coach, reiki master, and five-time #1 bestselling author of The Integrated Entrepreneur — joins Fitz at ROC Vox to explain why burned-out entrepreneurs aren't failing because of bad strategy. They're failing because nobody ever taught them how to manage what's happening inside their own nervous system.
    In this episode: what EFT tapping is and why it works, how Raeanne gets skeptical clients — including billionaires — to try it, why stress literally shuts down your best thinking, the Maslow tier most people have never heard of, and what it cost Raeanne personally to put her full story into a book.

    CHAPTERS
    0:00 Cold Open: Tapping in Traffic
    1:17 Raeanne's Path: From Helper to Integrated Coach
    7:50 What Entrepreneurs Struggle With Most
    9:00 EFT Tapping: What It Is and Why It Works
    13:02 Raising Self-Regulating Kids With EFT
    15:26 The Lizard Brain: Why Stress Kills Clear Thinking
    19:37 EFT Meridian Points: Nausea, Anxiety, and Golf
    26:04 Writing the Book: Vulnerability and Bestseller
    28:55 Self-Transcendence: Mission Over Ego
    36:37 Pediatric Palliative Care: Where Reiki Began
    40:50 What Schools Don't Teach: Emotional Intelligence

    CONNECT
    The Integrated Entrepreneur → https://www.theintegratedentrepreneur.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    #EFTTapping #EmotionalFreedomTechnique #Burnout #EntrepreneurMindset #NervousSystemRegulation #SelfTranscendence #PositiveBlatherings #ROCVox #PositivePodcast
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    48 mins
  • Peter Conners | The Deadhead Running the Poetry Press That Put Rochester on the Map

    Peter Conners | The Deadhead Running the Poetry Press That Put Rochester on the Map
    Apr 29 2026
    Before Peter Conners ran one of America's most respected poetry presses, he was following the Grateful Dead across the country in a van.

    Conners is the Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions — a Rochester-based nonprofit that has quietly won Pulitzer Prizes, national awards, and the respect of the entire literary world for 50 years, while most Rochesterians have no idea it exists. He joins Fitz at ROC Vox to talk about how a self-described troublemaker from Sutherland High School ended up running an institution — and why, at its 50th anniversary, losing its federal funding isn't going to stop it.
    In this episode: BOA's controversial first book by a Pulitzer Prize winner no one else would publish, why nonprofit publishers are the only thing standing between the world and the end of new poetry, the brutal economics of audiobooks (sell 1,000 copies, make $100), and what a decade of sobriety taught Peter about what publishing is really for.

    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Welcome to Positive Blatherings
    00:56 Meet Peter Conners and BOA Editions
    02:18 The Founding Story: First Book to First Pulitzer
    07:44 Why Poetry Needs Nonprofit Publishers
    09:09 20 Years of Publishing's Digital Revolution
    13:28 The Hard Truth About Audiobook Economics
    18:28 From Troublemaker to Writer: Peter's Origin Story
    22:00 A Family Defined by Service
    25:20 How Peter Became BOA's Publisher
    31:49 Going Public: Writing His Own Story
    36:38 Sobriety, Recovery, and Giving Back
    42:05 BOA's Future: Surviving the NEA Cut

    CONNECT
    BOA Editions → https://www.boaeditions.org
    Peter Conners → https://www.peterconners.net
    Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead → https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Dead-Hallucinated-Confessions/dp/0306817330
    Merch Table Blues → https://www.amazon.com/Merch-Table-Blues-Peter-Conners/dp/1945665319
    Box of Rain documentary → https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-Box-Rain/dp/B0D19TCPPM
    Writers & Books Rochester → https://wab.org
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    #BOAEditions #Poetry #IndependentPublishing #Rochester #RochesterNY #LiteraryPublishing #PoetryBooks #NonprofitArts #GratefulDead #PeterConners #PositiveBlatherings #ROCVox #Memoir #BookPublishing #IndependentPress #ArtsAdvocacy #SmallPress #WritingLife #AuthorInterview #BookCommunity #LiteraryWorld #ReadMorePoetry #RochesterArts #Deadhead #GratefulDeadCommunity #NEAFunding #PoetryLovers #WritersAndBooks #Sobriety #PublishingIndustry
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    46 mins
  • Keith Greer | The Neuroscience of Motivation and What Leaders Get Wrong

    Keith Greer | The Neuroscience of Motivation and What Leaders Get Wrong
    Apr 28 2026
    Most conversations — at work, across the dinner table, across the political divide — are failing. Executive coach Keith Greer says the reason is simple: we're all addicted to being right.

    Keith Greer, Executive Coach and leadership development specialist, joins Fitz at ROC Vox for a return visit six years in the making. With 40+ years spanning clinical social work, family therapy, and executive coaching, Keith brings the full weight of his career to one question: why do most conversations miss the mark — and what actually works? In this episode you'll hear the neuroscience behind why certain leadership behaviors destroy team trust, how Conversational Intelligence explains what happens in your team's brain during that conference room pitch, and why the single most powerful thing any of us can do right now — in the office, at the Thanksgiving table, or across the political divide — is stop talking and listen.

    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Intro: Keith Returns After Six Years
    01:23 The Grandpa Gig: Love, Fun, and Three Grandsons
    07:50 Building a Coaching Practice on His Own Terms
    10:00 Why Technical Brilliance Doesn't Make a Leader
    14:51 Family Businesses: Where Bloodlines Meet Business
    20:44 Why You Can't Inject Motivation Into Someone
    22:38 Conversational Intelligence and the Neuroscience of Trust
    26:23 The "Addiction to Being Right" Kills Conversations
    33:50 Self-Awareness Is Courageous Work, Not "Touchy-Feely"
    35:04 Shut Up and Listen: The #1 Conversation Strategy
    38:40 Productive Disagreement Across the Political Divide
    46:21 Finding Common Ground Through Shared Humanity

    CONNECT
    Keith Greer Coaching → https://www.keithgreercoaching.com
    ROC Vox → https://www.rocvox.com
    Fresh doses of Positivity every Tuesday and Wednesday.

    #ConversationalIntelligence #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveCoaching #MotivationalInterviewing #LeadershipSkills #FamilyBusiness #SelfAwareness #ActiveListening #NeuroscienceOfLeadership #PositiveBlatherings #ROCVox #Rochester #CommunicationSkills #TeamBuilding #LeadershipCoaching #PersonalDevelopment #MindsetShift #WorkplaceWellness #ProductiveConversations #EmotionalIntelligence
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    1 hr
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