Latest Fixing america Podcast Episodes
Episode 24 - a Brave New World
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - November 06, 2020 19:00 - 22 minutesWell, here we are! It looks like a narrow contested Biden victory. We have three tumultuous months until the “swearing in” on January 20th 2021. What have we learned ? That, we are still a sharply divided nation that has voted for divided government. Feels like Americans are looking for middle g...
Episode 23 - Raising up Disadvantaged Kids with Crossover Mission
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - October 28, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutesA few years ago when my son was looking for a summer league basketball team to join, he came across a local AAU team that was really outstanding. He wondered if he was good enough even to make the team. When he inquired, he was introduced to Coach Antoine Jennings who gave him the low down on th...
Episode 22 - with Reverend David Johnson
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - October 22, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutesI have always found it ironic how spirituality is usually low on the list of priorities when times are good but when times become difficult, people turn to God for hope and solace. Who hasn’t said a prayer when something bad happens that goes something like this? “Dear God, if you just help me g...
Episode 21 - The Politics of COVID
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - October 15, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutesIn April of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled “Coronapocalypse.” Back then, I suspected that the Corona virus pandemic was overblown reasoning that politicians, scientists and the media didn’t have enough data and were being super cautious with policy. Six months later, the data indicate ...
Episode 20 - with Baggett and Bailey
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - October 09, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourThis one is an exciting deep dive into the future of work, the raging Cyberwar, Big Tech friend or foe and game planning for the outcome of the 2020 election. Join me as I dig in with two really smart and successful guys. Serial tech entrepreneur Dave Baggett and S&P 500 C-suite executive and L...
Episode 19 - with Whitney Tilson and Guests
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 30, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutesAs promised, I had Whitney back to talk about a mutual passion we have: Public Education Reform. But before we get to that, we talk about what the betting odds are for the November 3 elections and how to plan your investments for that outcome. Jim and Whitney are joined in a lively Q& A, by se...
Episode 18 - The Notorious RBG, American Icon
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 22, 2020 22:00 - 21 minutesIn this epic time in our history when the country seems so divided, we all need to take a deep breath and recognize a great American life. She was born Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, NY in 1933 of a Russian Jewish emigrant father and a Jewish mother from Brooklyn. Her first taste of hardship came earl...
Episode 17 - American Pulp Fiction
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 10, 2020 04:00 - 47 minutesI love movies that start at the end and work their way back. One of my favorites, Pulp Fiction, is Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus. It’s a black comedy based around the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. It weaves several stories together and presents them in a non-linear story arc. The openin...
Episode 16 - Let's Fix How We Vote
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - September 02, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutesAs is the case with several topics in my book, voting is proving to be an issue that is front and center in our politics right now. Our country is divided, and elections are close. The difference between winning and losing a Presidential election often comes down to a few thousand votes in a r...
Episode 15 - with legendary investor Whitney Tilson
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - August 25, 2020 20:00 - 55 minutesWhitney Tilson is the founder and CEO of Empire Financial Research, which provides advice, commentary and in-depth research and analysis to help people become better investors. He is a Harvard alumnus both as an undergrad and as an MBA. Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tils...
Episode 14 - Closing Argument for Scott Caine, Congressional Candidate
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - August 13, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutesToday my guest is Retired Colonel Scott Caine who is running for the Florida 8th Congressional seat. As a fighter pilot, Scott’s stellar military career included more than 3,400 flying hours, and culminated with his final post as Vice commander of the 9th Air Force, where he led more than 29,000...
Episode 13 - Locally Grown is Antifragile
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - August 08, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutesIn June, I did my annual salmon impersonation and swam upstream from FL to my spawning grounds of New England. During my visit, I spent some time with dear friends in Peterborough, NH and discovered a new book in “the throne room” that their son was reading. It was Anti Fragile by Nassem Taleb....
Episode 12 - Interview with David Hunter US Diplomat
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 31, 2020 04:00 - 22 minutesI thought I’d take a break from our focus on rebuilding America through more powerful state and Local Government and talk about US Foreign Policy. Foreign policy is one of the few enumerated powers our Constitution gives to the federal government. After WW2, The United States emerged as THE pre...
Episode 11- with Tim Zorc, Indian River County Commissioner
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 23, 2020 05:00 - 24 minutesToday I am continuing my string of interviews with local leaders with Tim Zorc who is currently serving his second term as a commissioner for Indian River County Florida. Tim continues what his family started over 100 years ago as a Realtor, Consultant, Builder/Developer and Elected Official. F...
Episode 9 - Interview with Scott Caine, candidate for Congress FL 8th District
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 17, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutesColonel (Retired) Scott Caine is a 30-year veteran of the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot, and culminated as Vice commander of the 9th Air Force, where he led over 29,000 men and women. His service included deployments to Europe, Asia and the Middle East which shaped his understanding...
Episode 10 - Interview with Brian Barefoot; Business Exec, Educator, candidate for School Committe
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 17, 2020 00:00 - 25 minutesWe are so pleased to have our guest Brian Barefoot with us today. Brian has one of the most distinguished careers I've seen in a long time. Not too many folks graduate from college, have an incredibly successful business career, then return to their alma mater as President. Brian did exactly thi...
Episode 8 - Locally Grown Principles 2
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - July 01, 2020 15:00 - 26 minutesToday I am finishing a 2-part series on the principles I believe should drive good government policy that I discuss in my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government. Last week we talked about two main principles that act as the limits or boundaries within which everything else happen...
United We Stand 7 - Locally Grown Principles
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 24, 2020 19:00 - 21 minutesToday I talk about the principles that underpin the concept of Locally Grown Government. The first two are the most important because they act as the limits or boundaries within which everything else happens. They are Sustainability and Adherence to the US Constitution. I think the structure of...
United We Stand 6 - with George Bailey and Ken Brown
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 17, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutesJim brings in two of his smart buddies from different sides of the aisle, for a civil discussion about the charges of systemic racism within our nation’s entire police force. We dive into an analysis of the recent civil unrest to determine whether the root cause is actually systemic racism or po...
Episode 5 - What does Local mean ?
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 11, 2020 02:00 - 21 minutesHow do you think about your status as a citizen of your hometown, your state and the United States? So how do you think about your “Local?” I think for most folks, this is a new question. But our Constitution requires that we think about it because it spreads power among those three levels o...
United We Stand 4 - The American Turning Point
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 09, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutesLike many Americans this past couple weeks, I watched in horror as protests and looting spread across America after the brutal police killing of a black man that was captured on video—shocking images that have come alongside a once-in-a-century pandemic and a Depression-like economic slide. But...
United We Stand 3 - Fixing Public Education
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 09, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutesEducation is one of the most important aspects of the “Common Good” because it invests in our future generations. Appropriately, it is the third highest spending category at nearly $1 trillion dollars across all levels of government, with 88 percent of that funded and spent at the state and loca...
United We Stand 2 - CoronApocalypse
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 09, 2020 20:00 - 16 minutesI marvel at the hubris of humans who think that we can design perfect societies and control nature. And then nature comes along and teaches us yet again that it is in charge and can change the world overnight. We went from the best economy in decades to a global Coronavirus pandemic that is thr...
United We Stand with Jim Fini - Episode 1
Locally Grown with Jim Fini - June 09, 2020 20:00 - 17 minutesIn my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, I talk about how our country's bottom up design of 20,000 zip codes, 50 states and 1 Federal government, brilliantly distributes power within that bottom-up infrastructure. Our Founders intended most governance to be done locally. And...
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