WTNT, AM 570 Interview
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Hour interview focused on:
Part I: Diagnosis
Part II: How this impacted professional lives
Part III: Brain tumor art, and
Part IV: General brain cancer awareness
Brain cancer awareness coming to radio
John McCullough invited several people to be guests on his radio program this Saturday morning (10/21/06). The Washington, DC radio station is WTNT, AM 570, and it is geared towards executives in the business community. John invited Doug Rutherford (co-founder, Rivermine), Rosemary Feit Covey (artist, "Brain Tumor Series"), and me (co-founder, Rivermine) to appear on his radio talkshow on 10/21/06 from 8-9 AM (ET).
What does this have to do with brain cancer? Excellent question. Well, John has creatively asked the high-level question of what happens to the management team of a quickly-growing software company when a member of this team is suddenly diagnosed with a major illness. How does the team react? What actions are taken? What happens to day-to-day operations? Who takes over what and when? These types of questions -- questions that could face any company at any time, especially given the fickle finger of fate (and lack of MRI's during annual physical exams).
Rosemary is a great choice of guests, as well, because she has been a significant part of this journey, seeing events from an artistic perspective and helping to create a new language from it all.
What will come from this event?
It is really hard to say what will be the outcome from this radio interview or how the conversation will develop. After all, it will be a live interview. Plus, John McCullough is incredibly sharp and can pull things out of people with his insights and candor.
All that said, I wonder if it will give the audience pause. After all, executives in the business community are so hard-charging. There are pressures from all sides to perform and get things done. Often, it is hard to make time for a single vacation during a fiscal year, let alone have time for something like...oh...brain cancer. When something like this happens, what the hell is done? Does it illicit the best or worst in us? The series of questions can go on, ad nauseam.
In the end, it will be interesting to explore, and I hope that this can be a well-grounded data point in the world of brain cancer awareness -- something I now care about very much. So, tune in; I believe you can do so online via the WTNT Home Page link provided above. We can all see how things develop on Saturday morning, no coffee needed.
Source: WTNT, AM 570
