Career Source/ August-National Minority Donor Awareness Month

We began our morning promoting career resources with Tadar Muhammad. He encouraged the importance of helping people identify and build a career. As the Chief Operating Officer at CareerSource Central Florida, the nonprofit program curates local talent for high demand industries through job placement, training, and further education. They emphasize giving second chances to “the underestimated” and have even launched a new initiative called FORTE for Opioid recovery as an example. https://www.careersourcecentralflorida.com/ August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month, and in the second hour of our show, we gave insight into the “unknown” of organ donation, an amazing way to personally save lives. We were joined by Kia Blair-Malone, Manager of Multi-Cultural Affairs & Partnerships at Our Legacy (the organ donation partner at AdventHealth, and guests Dr. Parikh (nephrologist/Medical Director for Our Legacy and Charlyce Simmons (kidney transplant patient). Regarding organ donation, our guests emphasized that it is an amazing way to save a life and should be encouraged with proper knowledge. Dr. Parikh of Premier Cardiology states that the most important part of being an ideal organ donor is having a healthy body. Despite the myth, being declared an organ donor does not affect the treatment received within a hospital by professional doctors. https://www.ourlegacyfl.org/mission https://www.donatelifeflorida.org/