Farm4Profit Podcast
Building Resilience in Farming and Life - A Journey Through Tough Challenges
Mon, 3 Feb 2025
We welcome Nina Sossamon Pogue, a former USA gymnast, Emmy award-winning news anchor, and bestselling author. The conversation centers around the theme of resilience, exploring how individuals can adapt to life's challenges and setbacks. Nina shares her personal journey, emphasizing the importance of understanding resilience as the ability to adapt and grow stronger in the face of adversity. She introduces her framework for resilience, known as THIS, which includes timeline thinking, identifying support systems, isolating challenges, and reframing self-talk. The discussion also touches on the significance of community support and the need to prepare for resilience as a muscle that strengthens over time. The episode concludes with insights on how to help the next generation develop resilience in their own lives. In this conversation, Nina Sossamon-Pogue shares her insights on parenting, resilience, and navigating life's challenges. She emphasizes the importance of allowing children to fail in order to build resilience and discusses her own journey through difficult times, including a career transition and personal struggles. Nina highlights the significance of mental resilience, the need for support systems, and practical strategies for overcoming adversity. She encourages listeners to embrace their journeys and recognize that tough times are part of life, but they can emerge stronger from them. Want Farm4Profit Merch? Custom order your favorite items today!https://farmfocused.com/farm-4profit/ Don’t forget to like the podcast on all platforms and leave a review where ever you listen! Website: www.Farm4Profit.comShareable episode link: https://intro-to-farm4profit.simplecast.comEmail address: [email protected]/Text: 515.207.9640Subscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSR8c1BrCjNDDI_Acku5XqwFollow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@farm4profitConnect with us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Farm4ProfitLLC/
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he realizes that U.S. consumers could be hurt by the steep tariffs he announced yesterday on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China.
We may have short-term little pain, and people understand that, but long-term, the United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. We have deficits with almost every country. Not every country, but almost.
Speaking there, as he arrived back at the White House tonight from his home in Florida, all three countries have vowed to retaliate. Those tariffs are set to take effect on Tuesday. And U.S. business groups aren't happy, and they're pushing back, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
President Trump says he's ordering the tariffs in an effort to curb the flow of illegal drugs and immigration. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says while Trump is right to focus on those problems, tariffs are not the answer. The chamber says taxing imports will only upend supply chains and raise prices for American families.
Trump has ordered a 25% tax on most goods coming from Mexico and Canada, but he called for a smaller 10% tax on Canadian crude oil. in an apparent effort to limit any spike in gasoline prices. The tariff on Chinese imports is also set at 10 percent. All the taxes are set to take effect on Tuesday, leaving a short window for a possible reprieve.
Canada and Mexico have promised to respond to tariffs with taxes of their own on U.S. exports. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
News of the tariffs and retaliation has sent U.S. stock futures sharply lower. Dow futures are down 1.1 percent. Nasdaq futures are down 2.2 percent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off his first trip as Trump's top diplomat with a stop in Panama. And he visited the canal, which Trump wants back. Empire's Michelle Kellerman has more. Secretary, it's Chinese. One question, please.
Secretary Rubio did not answer any questions as he toured the Miraflores Lock at the Panama Canal. He met earlier in the day with Panama's president and, according to a written statement, told him that Trump thinks the status quo is unacceptable. The U.S. has been raising concerns about China's influence and argues that violates a treaty on neutrality.
Panama's president, José Raúl Molino, told reporters that his country has been auditing Chinese businesses, but he says Panama's sovereignty over the canal is not up for discussion. Trade and migration will dominate much of Rubio's trip, which continues in El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Panama City.
After a nearly week-long freeze, the National Science Foundation says it will resume paying researchers who had received grants.
That left hundreds of people unable to access their funds allocated for salaries and research since last Tuesday when the agency froze payments as they reviewed how their grants complied with President Trump's new executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is NPR. A new analysis shows U.S. death row populations are declining to historic lows.
But as George Hale from member station WFIU reports, it's not because more people are being executed.
The Death Penalty Policy Project reviewed 50 years of data and found that U.S. death rows shrank more last year than in any other period in decades. Two mass clemency decisions in 2024, including former President Biden's decision to commute most federal death sentences to life in prison, contributed.
But Project Director Robert Dunham says many more prisoners are coming off death rows after courts overturned their death sentences.
That is the main driver in the decline in capital punishment.
As a result, Dunham says, new death sentences are no longer replenishing death row populations, even as executions, too, are happening less often. The few places where the decline isn't quite as stark include Florida and Alabama, which allow non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences. For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Super Bowl takes place in New Orleans in one week, and security will be tight after a New Year's Day attack when a man drove a truck through crowds on Bourbon Street, killing 14. The state's governor says people don't have to show the inside of their bags at security checkpoints near the stadium, but if they don't, they won't be allowed in. Asian markets are trading sharply lower at this hour.
The Nikkei in Japan down 2.1 percent. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong down 1.8 percent. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.