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August 21, 2022

Jenna Reid, psychic medium on The John Krol Podcast

She was three years old when she realized that she had a gift, and as she evolved in her own life, so did her realization that she was meant to provide support and guidance to others. Through work with clients, workshops at venues like Kripalu, and mentoring others who have their own gifts, Jenna Reid is dedicated to helping people find their truth using her remarkable psychic gifts. “Every time you don’t listen to your gut, it’s a problem,” says Jenna who decided to go all-in on her truth after going through a tumultuous time in her life. It was a lesson learned that not living your truth will likely lead to rough roads ahead. In this episode, we delve into her process and our energetic world, including trusting your intuition and validation, human connectedness and consciousness, finding peace, remote viewing, psychometry, stigmas surrounding psychic mediumship, growth through breakups and divorce, love and money, vibration, dealing with grief, grounding, staying in touch with nature, crystals, being a Mom of teenagers, protecting your energy, gratitude as the only path out of victim mode, karma, moving on, truth and authenticity and much more. I hope you’ll enjoy my conversation with Jenna Reid.

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July 28, 2022

Podcast: Charles Harrigan, personal trainer

The “absolute favorite thing in the world” for Charles Harrigan to do is make people stronger, as he tells us on The John Krol Podcast. And at 5 a.m. every weekday morning, he shows his commitment by holding boot campers accountable to doing just that – making them stronger. And he has many loyal athletes who have been doing it for years with him finding their fittest selves. It all started for Charles after a back injury made it impossible for him to go back to his career in construction, and instead, he went back to school to become a certified Personal Fitness Trainer in 2009. Or, maybe his tenacity was forged even earlier when he spent some years of his childhood in third world living conditions in the British Virgin Islands, saying he has “good memories of being broke.” Charles is a father, a motivator and a positive force in our community. In this episode, we cover his approach to personal training, the benefits and drawbacks of particular sports and activities, his Instagram handle “acidjester,” playing Xbox, how he never ended up with a.desk job, his love of Pittsfield and more. I hope you’ll enjoy my conversation with Charles Harrigan. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-krol/support

July 2, 2022

#36 – Ty Allan Jackson, author, motivational speaker, financial literacy advocate, powerhouse

Inspiration personified. Ty Allan Jackson’s relentless optimism and grit was molded into his soul growing up in the Bronx, during an electric era of scary excitement. “I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything in the world,” Ty says about his youth in the Bronx, when hip-hop was conceived, the Yankees were rock stars, and he followed his loving mother’s footsteps (and bookshelf) as a “ferocious reader.” It would be decades later when he found his true calling when he discovered that there was no published book to adequately support his son’s entrepreneurial spirit. This, following an auspicious opening of his lemonade stand at the corner of Dexter and Elm Street.

Just as the Bronx forged his core, he credits the Berkshires and Pittsfield for facilitating his success as an author, calling it a “magical” place. “What you do here makes a difference.”

We cover a lot of territory in this conversation, including: Ty’s professional career before becoming an author, working in sales, the early days of hip-hop culture in the Bronx, the world champion Bronx Bombers (Ty can still name the starting lineup of the ’77 squad), his early reading, beginning with Native Son by Richard Wright, getting rejected by every single publishing company and then self-publishing, the remarkable lack of financial literacy in U.S. public schools (and how is this possible?), Read or Else, Noelle Santos and The Lit. Bar, organic reach with Instagram Reels, effectively utilizing social media to convert volume to sales, creating the mindset needed to consistently create content, receiving a doctorate from Mass. College of Liberal Arts, taking the leap from a stable corporate job to an independent author, and much more.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Ty Allan Jackson.

May 31, 2022

#33 – Dan Joslyn – outgoing Program Director, Boys & Girls Club, Pittsfield, MA

How do you measure the impact one person has made. You may not ever be able to truly measure that now, or even in years to come. Dan “The Man” Joslyn has dedicated his career to being a mentor, a teacher, a safe haven to so many young people in their most impressionable years – instilling values, accountability and equipping with the invaluable tools needed to live one’s best life. As an adopted son and growing up in a household with 15 brothers and sisters, Dan’s understanding of being there for one another was innate. He has had incredible challenges and lessons, after a serious car accident left him with a traumatic brain injury and other serious injuries from the crash, Dan persevered through physical and occupational therapy to, ultimately, fully recover. And then, the unthinkable, his big brother, Ben, was killed in a car accident. In our conversation, we talk about how these experiences have shaped him as a man, and how Ben is still with him as he continues to learn lessons in life. As Dan moves onto his next adventure in eastern Massachusetts, we discuss his time as the program director at the Boys and Girls Club and more, including: instilling accountability in young people, providing a safe haven particularly during the pandemic and the lockdown, the power of small changes that lead to completely new paths in life, being present, outside validation on social media vs. self-awareness, understanding your true friends and a trusted inner circle, listening to listen vs. listening to respond, how just one coach and/or mentor can make all the difference, coaching AAU, the joys of T-Ball and Coaches Pitch baseball, the disproportionately large number of young people the Pittsfield Boys and Girls Club serves every single day compared to other clubs around the country, the trend of specialization in youth sports and how we ought to rethink that to provide more well-rounded athletic experiences for kids, taking a chance like the Boys & Girls Club took a chance on him. I hope you’ll enjoy my conversation with Dan “The Man” Joslyn. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-krol/support