Global Views

Bri explores different Easter traditions and celebrations from around the world.

Bri sits down with the founder of Fleece and Thank You- an organization that provides blankets and messages of hope to children in hospitals around Michigan, the US, and the world. From a text message, to a world record, and beyond, Nicholas Kristock shares the story of how Fleece and Thank You came to be what it is today. 

Bri explores some lesser-known and exciting Deaf/deaf/HOH history-makers in celebration of Deaf History Month. From record-breaking stuntwomen, to war heroes, to life-savers, and more!

Bri follows cupid's arrow around the world and explores dating customs, attitudes, and dating blunders across cultures!

Bri and Dawn look back at some of their favorite moments from season 1 of the Global Views podcast, and look forward to what season 2- and 2021- has to offer.

See you all in February!

Bri explores Christmas and winter-season holiday traditions from around the world- including some from Global's own interpreters!

Bri and Dawn give helpful tips on protecting your ear health in the world of Zoom meetings and online listening- and expose the secret behind the Q-Tip warning labels.

Bri reviews 'The Sound of Metal', a movie following a drummer's experience losing his hearing, starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Stone, and Paul Raci.

The Sound of Metal is available for streaming on Amazon Prime 12/4/2020.

11/13 is World Kindness Day 2020. Bri gives us ways to incorporate kindness into our communication, and 15 ways to celebrate World Kindness Day.

Bri explores the origins and histories of Halloween and it's many traditions.

Painting human skulls? Baked goods predicting your future? Light your Jack-O-Lantern, hide your kitchen knives, and find out about the unique Halloween celebrations that happen around the world!

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will help fight brain injuries?  As Global Views explores the link new research suggests between bilingualism and recovery after brain surgery, Dawn opens up about her personal experience in recovery as a bilingual person after an operation to remove a brain tumor.

A continuation of Bri and author Alin Yasin's conversation on his book of poetry titled "Good Grief: Sixty Poems for Sixty Days". Instead of grief, Alin weighs in this week on love, the idea of home, and travel. 

Author, poet, culture specialist, world traveler, and interpreter Alin Yasin sits down with Bri to discuss his collective work of poems from "Good Grief: 60 Days with 60 Poems", written after the passing of his wife. In the first episode of a two-part conversation on the book that contains both the English and Swahili translations of the poems, the two discuss the hard problem of grief, and how language and writing across cultures became an exercise in healing. 

Are English speakers more responsible for spreading coronavirus than other languages? Bri and Dawn explore and discuss studies that say 'maybe'!

Protests for a language? After learning about language death last week, Bri examines two languages that made the news this week and how they are doing in their current battles against extinction. 

What does it mean when a language dies? How does it happen? Should we be worried about it? In this episode, Bri takes a deeper look into language death and the way it has shaped out world today. 

Bri and special guest Dano discuss the origins of Labor Day, and the backseat the holiday's meaning has taken in our cultural consciousness.

Bri and Dawn discuss the Coronavirus Language Access Act that was introduced to Congress in April and has not yet been brought to a vote. Global's office puppy, Finn, makes a guest appearance. 

Bri and Dawn discuss easy ways we can make communication more accessible and inclusive to Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Dawn tells us about growing up with a hard of hearing parent.

Bri and Dawn sit down to discuss the tidal wave of change that has hit the interpreting industry in response to COVID-19. From working in hospitals at the height of the virus, to navigating "The Mask", get an inside scoop on the post-corona interpreting world.

Bri and Ken, an interpreter and former culture and language specialist for the United States Special Forces, discuss the use of language, literature, and more in Khaled Hosseini's book "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

Global Views premieres it's first episode. Bri interviews Global Interpreting Services owner, CEO, and Founder Dawn Flanigan on her experience starting a business, being a Sign Language Interpreter, and working a fax machine.