Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear

Hosted by Rodney Lear, this weekly show examines pertinent issues facing Cincinnati with open and honest discussion. Hear interviews with national celebrities, local leaders, authors, doctors, and experts on a wide range of topics.

Society & Culture
Education
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Major Ed Pulido and Amy Schimitz_5-26-19
Major Ed Pulido, U.S. Army (Ret.). Sr. VP Co-Founding member of Folds of Honor and Founder of Warriors for Freedom. On August 17th, 2004, Major Pulido was hit by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) or road side bomb in Baquobah, Iraq...
14 min
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Mom Call_Rose Rock_Segment #1_5-12-19
Rose Rock—child advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rock—shares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parenting Uber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children. She did it...
12 min
403
Summerfair 2019
Jayne Utter, Managing Director, Summerfair 2019 Friday, May 31st Saturday, June 1st Sunday, June 2nd Each year the weekend after Memorial Day Summerfair returns to Cincinnati’s historic Coney Island. This, the 52nd year, the Fair...
9 min
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Danielle Hamilton, Planet Fitness (6-2-19)
Danielle Hamilton, Planet Fitness. The Planet Fitness Teen Summer Challenge welcomes high school teens ages 15 - 18 to work out at any of its more than 1,800 locations throughout the United States and Canada for free all summer long as...
6 min
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Laura Mitchell, Superintendent, Cincinnati Publ...
Laura Mitchell, Superintendent, Cincinnati Public Schools. While on-air Superintendent Laura Mitchell spoke about her vision for Cincinnati Public School district. She explained how CPS teachers are evaluated. She discussed bullying and...
33 min
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Emily Arnold McCully_She Did It_Seg #3 (3-31-19)
Emily Arnold McCully, Author, She Did It: 21 Women Who Changed the Way We Think. Meet the bold women who dared to make a difference. This remarkable collection arrives as women and girls make fresh demands for equality. SHE DID IT! recounts...
18 min
407
Andy Blust, Kroger Pharmacy's Lifestyle Change ...
Andy Blust, Kroger Pharmacy’s Lifestyle Change Program. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 3 Americans has prediabetes and 90% of them don’t know they have it. However, prediabetes can often be reversed...
5 min
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Jack and Ashley_People with Disabilities Doing ...
Jack, 8-year-old, Ballet Dancer, Cincinnati Ballet; Ashley, Jack’s mom. Jack is truly breaking barriers. At the age of 7-years-old, he became the first dancer with Down syndrome to perform with the Cincinnati Ballet.
11 min
409
Grant Sabatier_2/24/19
Grant Sabatier, Author, Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need. While on-air, Mr. Sabatier explained that at the age of 24-years-old, he lost his job, moved back in with his parents and only had $2.26 in the...
10 min
410
Nick, Cincinnati Dragons_People with Disabiliti...
Nick, The Cincinnati Dragons, Wheelchair Basketball League; Jennifer, Nick’s Mom. For this special edition of the show we highlighted those with disabilities who are doing amazing things. While on the show, 17-year-old Nick spoke about...
9 min
411
Bonner Paddock Rinn_People with Disabilities Do...
Bonner Paddock Rinn. Bonner Paddock, who joined the show via telephone, says he was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at the age of 11-years-old. In 2008, Bonner became the first person with Cerebral Palsy to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro...
13 min
412
Ginger Zee (2/24/19)
Ginger Zee ABC News Chief Meteorologist and author of Chasing Helicity
15 min
413
Melissa Stockwell_People with Disabilities Doin...
Melissa Stockwell, Former U.S. Army Officer and Paralympian. In 2004, while serving in Iraq, Melissa lost a leg to a roadside bomb. For her service, Stockwell was award a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal. She joined the show to discuss...
9 min
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Lex Gillette_People with Disabilities Doing Ama...
Lex Gillette, Paralympic Champion. For this edition of Sunday Morning Magazine, we celebrated people with disabilities who are doing amazing things. While on the air, Lex explained that he lost his sight when he was 8-years-old. He shared...
15 min
415
KJ Dell’Antonia_Segment #1 (2-17-19)
KJ Dell’Antonia, Author, How To Be A Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute. As a mom of four and a beloved parenting writer at the New York Times, KJ Dell’Antonia found herself asking the question...
11 min
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Ellen Liston_Segment #3-2-10-19
Ellen Liston, The Dollywood Company. Ms. Liston explained why Dollywood provides a unique opportunity for families to bond. Liston also spoke about some of the new attractions planned for the park for 2019.
11 min
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Scott Cohn_Segment #1_2-10-19
Scott Cohn, Senior Correspondent, CNBC. As millions of American families struggle to cope with college costs that are rising at twice the rate of inflation, CNBC investigates a system that encourages widespread borrowing—often with little...
8 min
418
Laurie Nommsen-Rivers_Segment #2_2-10-19
Laurie Nommsen-Rivers, PhD, Registered Dietitian and Associate Professor of nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health Sciences. Laurie joined the show to discuss breastfeeding....
23 min
419
Lauren Lyons Cole_Segment #2 (2-17-19)
Lauren Lyons Cole, International Business Times Personal Finance Editor, How Much House Can You Really Afford?: Homeownership is often seen as an important generator of wealth in the United States. According to the most recent Survey of...
12 min
420
Kenneth C. Davis_Segment #3 (2-17-19)
Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don’t Know Much About® History, which spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and gave rise to the Don’t Know Much About® series, which has a combined in-print total...
13 min
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Marilyn Singer_Segment #4 (2-17-19)
Have You Heard About Lady Bird?: Poems About Our First Ladies by Marilyn Singer; illustrated by Nancy Carpenter The role of First Lady has been defined differently by each woman who’s held it, but all of them left an impact on our nation...
20 min
422
Women Heart Disease Panel, Women and Heart Dise...
Tracey, Heart Attack Survivor; Beverly, Diagnosed with Heart Disease; Phylise, Once diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure; Golda, Diagnosed with Heart Disease. February is Heart Health Month. We devoted this edition of the show to women...
30 min
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Todd Sledge and Kelly Field, Cincinnati VA Medi...
The Cincinnati VA Medical Center is a two-division campus located in Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Thomas, Kentucky serving fifteen counties in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana with six Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Bellevue, KY;...
17 min
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Tara Sullivan, Author, The Bitter Side of Sweet...
Tara Sullivan, Author, The Bitter Side of Sweet. Mrs. Sullivan is garnering a reputation for writing powerful stories for young adults with a human rights angle. She joined the show to talk about her latest book which looks at modern-day...
8 min
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Peggy Caruso, Kid Prenuers, Segment #1 (1-13-19)
Peggy Caruso, Personal Development Coach, Author, Revolutionize Your Child’s Life: A Simple Guide to Health, Wealth and Welfare of Your Child. For this edition of Sunday Morning Magazine we focused on young people that are becoming captains...
15 min