Breaking Protocol with Bob Satawake
A lively discussion about politics, religion, money, all those things we were told it was not appropriate to talk about when growing up. We will highlight discussions around current global events that impact your daily life so you will always be up to speed on the latest trending news. Never boring and always insightful, we are great company for your drive to work or if you are lounging poolside with a cocktail!
Episodes
37 episodes
Speaking Out with PFLAG featuring Brian Bond
On this episode my guest is Brian Bond, Executive Director of PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents, families, and a...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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35:22
The Israel Gaza Crises…A Two State Solution? featuring Alan Solow
On this episode Alan Solow a former advisor on Middle East policy to President Obama and the Obama Administration joins me for a dynamic conversation on the current state of affairs in Israel. Mr. Solow is a public affairs consultant, political...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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43:51
Can Vacationing In Punta Cana Save The Planet? featuring Jake Kheel
Jake Kheel joins me to discuss his recent book “Waking The Sleeping Giant, Unlocking The Hidden Power of Business to Save The Planet”. For fifteen years Jake Kheel www.jakekheel.com has confronted social and environmental challenges in the Domi...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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40:32
Covid Relief Success! featuring Congressman Eric Swalwell D-CA
U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell who currently represents California’s 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to Congress in November 2012. His top priorities include national security, intelligence...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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35:37
You Need An Expert When The Lights Go Out featuring Craig McCartney
Texas has gone off the grid…. LITERALLY! The week of February 14, 2021 the electrical grid in the State of Texas, it’s independent in case you didn’t know, virtually shut down completely. My guest Craig McCartney breaks down the tragedy that ca...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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38:50
"Texas Is Changing" featuring Scott Fairchild
WELCOME to Breaking Protocol, on this episode we welcome one of the foremost democratic campaign strategists in the United States with an impressive resume of winning elections. Scott Fairchild serves as the Executive Director of the Democratic...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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28:09
The Theater In A Covid World - featuring Kristin Towers-Rowles
Kristin Towers-Rowles is an award-winning singer, actor, director in a world without an audience. Kristin is a third generation Musical Theatre actress from a very musical family. Her grandmother was the MGM Film actress, Kathryn Gr...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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33:29
Uncle Sam and Mother Russia - A Complicated Relationship featuring U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul
This episode features U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul an international foreign policy expert who has literally spent a lifetime researching, studying, working on and writing about the importance of international government relationships, specifi...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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40:34
The Insurrection! "Here, Right Matters" - featuring Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney
This episode features U.S. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney D-NY who currently represents New York’s 18th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and was first elected to Congress in November 2012. His top priorities include...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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35:34
Returning to "Normal" featuring Craig McCartney
Welcome to Breaking Protocol with Bob Satawake, my guest today is Craig McCartney who has returned for some coffee talk and politics. Craig writes a weekly column entitled “Well, Let Me Say This About That” for He Said Magazine and is joi...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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35:04
Bridging Business and Diplomacy featuring Natalia Brzezinski
Natalia Brzezinski is the former CEO of Brilliant Minds Foundation, an initiative focused on bringing together traditional, long-term business families and major tech founders to debate the convergence of humanity and technology. She also...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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42:06
Surviving A Massacre and Electing A President featuring Brandon Wolf
On this episode I am joined by Brandon Wolf, he is the Development Officer and Media Relations Manager for Equality Florida. Where he supports initiatives to expand equality to all Americans and ensure future generations are free from discrimin...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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43:01
"Presidential Election" SPECIAL EDITION featuring Sonia Van Meter
The final Presidential debate has taken place and one might say it’s all over but the crying, for the loser that is, but before we get to November 3rd there is still a lot of campaigning to take place. We will continue to be bombarded with TV a...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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35:48
"Love Wins" Jumping The Hurdles Of Marriage Equality featuring Jim Obergefell
In 1992 my guest Jim Obergefell met the love of his life John Arthur and fell in love with him while living in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the early 90’s the gay community all over America lived in secrecy because in that not too distant past LGBTQ pe...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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44:15
Listen and Be Kind – featuring “Y’allitics” Political Podcast Hosts Jason Wheeler and Jason Whitely
On this show I host two of the most notable political reporters in the state of Texas! Jason Whitely has been honored with 24 Emmy Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, and two dozen others from the Associated Press in Tennessee, Illinois, and T...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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49:58
Once I Was You featuring Maria Hinojosa - Emmy Award Winning Journalist
Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who has collaborated with the most respected networks and is known for bringing humanity to her reporting. In this beautifully-rendered memoir, she relates the history of US immigration policy that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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42:33
"Notorious RBG" What Now? with Craig McCartney
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed leaving a spirit that will forever remain in the legacy of the United States Supreme Court. There is no replacing her, someone may occupy the seat where she sat but her influence that guided the court over...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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31:49
No Matter Where You Live, YOU CAN VOTE! featuring Ambassador Bruce and Vicki Heyman
In the United States of America voting is the ultimate definition of freedom! Ambassador Bruce Heyman and his wife Vicki Heyman have dedicated themselves to ensure that freedom and democracy live on through advocating that all Americans regardl...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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36:21
"A New Generation Perspective" featuring Kaivan Shroff
Kaivan Shroff is a Democratic political strategist, commentator, and organizer. He serves as Senior Advisor to the Institute for Education, a leading D.C. non-profit, and is a member of the Forbes NY Business Council. Before joining the team at...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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33:01
“Leading Texas Forward” Gina Ortiz Jones - Candidate for U.S. Congress TX23
In 2018, Gina came within 926 votes of defeating Will Hurd in TX-23. A first-generation Filipino American, Gina was raised by a single mother who came to the United States because she believed in the promise of a better future. After graduating...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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23:15
"The Mayor Doesn't Speak In Code" featuring Mayor Alex Morse (D) Candidate For U.S. Congress MA-1
Alex’s story in the 1st congressional district of Massachusetts starts in a Holyoke housing project where his parents met and fell in love. Both his mother and father grew up in poverty. Alex’s parents started a family as teenagers and neither ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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32:26
"There's A New Tucker In Town" featuring Texas State Senate Candidate Clayton Tucker D-TX24
Clayton Tucker is a new generation leader who is running the Texas State Senate in District 24. TuckerForTexas.com From the moment Clayton Tucker could wear his own pair of boots, which was necessary as a 5th generation Texan, his grandfather p...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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34:33
"A New Generation Of Women" featuring Representative-Elect Margaret Croke (D) IL-12
There are approximately forty-five elected state representatives in the United States under the age of thirty and they are a new generation of leader. Margaret Croke won her Illinois State Representative seat on March 17, literally days before ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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32:16
"Florida Inferno – Leading Boldly Through The Fire" featuring Miami Shores Mayor Crystal Wagar
Mayor Crystal Wagar is the first black woman to be elected as the Mayor of Miami Shores in the eighty-seven-year history of the city and she not only got elected but elected by a historical margin and turnout! No one runs for elected office thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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38:10
An Oxford Perspective - Global Business During A Pandemic
In this episode of Breaking Protocol I speak with three leading experts of global industry who possess a keen understanding of globalization and insight on leading in the private sector during a global pandemic. The Right Honourable Ruby McGreg...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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